The nation may survive, but the wound to hope and order will never fully heal - US elections 2016: the october surprises

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i liked the sputnik inclusion for it's WTFness and if 2016 has been anything (other than a massive and continuous bummer of death and neverending election lows) it's WTF

the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 06:06 (seven years ago) link

it's the name of a news service

j., Tuesday, 11 October 2016 07:23 (seven years ago) link

Ah, that makes more sense. But i was hoping.

i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link

Noah McCormack ‏@noahmccormack 11m11 minutes ago
@MBGlenn where were you when the GOP was attacking people who aren't white?

someday you will find me, caught beneat the landsli-i-de
in a champagne super-

more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 09:08 (seven years ago) link

I, for one, am deeply shocked that someone in the Trump team has a Google News Alert set up for "Benghazi". Obviously shows incredible ineptitude in checking sources, both from Sputnik and particularly from Trump, but it doesn't seem any more mysterious than any of the other badly-sourced info he gets from dodgy news sites - particularly given that it was picked up all over Trump-fan Twitter prior to him mentioning it.

Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 09:29 (seven years ago) link

http://pussygrabber.com/

the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 09:35 (seven years ago) link

Well now that's a prodigy beat in my head

the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link

when morbz goes low, we go high

fat fingered algorithm (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:42 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOD3sN2Ik3Y

ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:44 (seven years ago) link

Morning!

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 11:15 (seven years ago) link

each time i see mccain denounce trump i just think of this, which lives in the memory as one of the most strange and angry outbursts by a public figure i've ever seen reported:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/07/report-mccains-profane-ti_n_95429.html

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 11:34 (seven years ago) link

a trollop!

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 11:39 (seven years ago) link

imagine saying that to your wife...

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link

you guys always keepin me honest by insisting i solve all the problems your candidates worsen. tough love!

sad!

iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 32 min.32 minutter siden Vis oversættelse
Desite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!

Awwww... But who's Desite?

Frederik B, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link

lol

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link

ok that newsweek article is wild

jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link

yeah for reals tough. He is on stage reading straight from a bunk article that was only published by a russian agency and soon taken down.

(•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link

Chris Christie is cristicizing Trump. Trump is a goner.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:26 (seven years ago) link

xp lol, Sputnik is published in English, has 140k Twitter followers - many of them Trump fans - and the story was all over right-wing Twitter in the hours after it was published. There are pretty much three possibilities:

1. Trump has people on his team who scan the news / Twitter for any negative stuff about Benghazi and have zero standards as to what they'll signal boost.

2. Trump has people on his team who read the original Wikileaks stuff and made the same mistake as Sputnik in where the quote came from.

3. Trump, Wikileaks and Russian intelligence are working together to plant and then immediately retract fake stories about Clinton.

Two of those options are more likely to me than the other one but ymmv.

Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link

lol? http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635🔗

I just read this and I can confirm: lol

¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link

well he does believe anything tweeted at him by literal Nazis so

frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:48 (seven years ago) link

Exactly!

Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link

but yeah that story is insane - it's legit concerning how little Trump and his supporters care about even the most basic of facts. I keep thinking about that lady who was interviewed after the birther stunt - "if Trump says it, then it's true"

frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link

so is Trump convinced he won in a landslide cos he read a Drudge instapoll?

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link

re: the Blumenthal piece, he's not a piece of human garbage. he's a piece of subhuman garbage at this point

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link

(every poll)

frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link

re: the Blumenthal piece, he's not a piece of human garbage. he's a piece of subhuman garbage at this point

― Neanderthal,

so is Trump.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:11 (seven years ago) link

http://imgur.com/a/f7nWW yep xp

(•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link

lol that's who I meant

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link

like w/ Mitt Romney, I thought he was a douche and I hated his politics, but I'm going to hate any GOP politics in 2016. I could at least shake the guy's hand if I met him while thinking he's a dickhole in my head.

I'd have a hard time doing anything but spitting in The Donald's dead-capybara-fused-with-a-brillo-pad afro

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link

Desite winning the second debate (wrong.) in a landslide (wrong!) (every poll) (WRONG)

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link

wow things are not going well if you can only get 70% on Drudge

frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏@realDonaldTrump
Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link

also this makes me wonder - is Trump intentionally lying about the debate polls or are his staffers are too afraid to give him any bad news?

frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link

First Trump, and now Paul Ryan is shaking his members at people?

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link

i just tweeted back four or five times at Trump (for no good reason) and it was only after the fifth that I realized I was using my secondary joke Twitter handle, "Buttface"

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏@realDonaldTrump
Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.

LOL he is such a cretin.

(SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link

xxp he's going by what the Breitbart people tell him, and they're lying to him

GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link

i just tweeted back four or five times at Trump (for no good reason) and it was only after the fifth that I realized I was using my secondary joke Twitter handle, "Buttface"

― Neanderthal

so you're the reason i had to be content with "buttface103" on twitter

fat fingered algorithm (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link

What does he think he can gain from going after Paul Ryan? He's just giving Ryan more justification to rescind his endorsement.

jmm, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link

he can't beat hillary clinton. he _can_ beat paul ryan.

fat fingered algorithm (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link

Trump would love to have Ryan and McConnell's unendorsements. Stabbed-in-the-back defeat narrative.

duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link

he's going by what the Breitbart people tell him, and they're lying to him

Leading one to speculate whether Breitbart is better off if Trump wins the election or loses it. If he wins, they can declare victory... but they have no contingency plan for how to operate in the resulting world. If he loses, they remain in the gadfly space, which is their comfort zone.

go get your winebox (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link

I wish we could all beat Paul Ryan.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link

Huh, of the two tweets about Ryan, one is from android and one is from iphone. Perhaps Bannon has gotten the phone from Conway?

Frederik B, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 2m2 minutes ago
It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.

excited

iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link

All this time he's been holding back

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link

i'm told that's an iphone tweet, so it's official

mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link

o shit how am i supposed to get any work done today now

Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link


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