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

xpost -- I can guess any number of reasons.

Trump was behind Balloon Boy

Trump's staff seems to not be prepared for any of this, so if worse things are around the corner there's no reason to tip them off.

Funny thing is, if HRC's oppo staff came up with anything, they seem to be holding their cards and letting the free market of ideas do its thing.

Trump reacts! (World laughs.)

https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/786422653988896768

why would journalists not covering the story break it before the journalists who actually have all the facts?

they just have friends in the industry telling them things - they don't actually have the videotape/transcripts/witnesses/etc

That sounds like a fake law firm.

Funny thing is, if HRC's oppo staff came up with anything, they seem to be holding their cards and letting the free market of ideas do its thing.

they probably figure that at this point, there would be more to lose (via depressed voter turnout) than gain by joining in the revelations offensive.

Or perhaps they are handing off material to the media

still wracking my brain to think what would be worse than the assaults. further details on the rape of his first wife? documented connections to organized crime with some violent outcome directly traceable back to him? more concrete evidence on the rape of the 13 year old (this is the only one I can see really being explosive)

some speculation that makes sense to me: maybe a sex tape? terrible racist comments? i was thinking some anti-semitic tirade would totally destroy him.

Saw this posted on FB, with the comment "This is A+ pandering to the Vegas population. And I'm pretty pumped about it."

http://m.reviewjournal.com/politics/election-2016/presidential-nominee-hillary-clinton-draws-contrast-trump-during-las-vegas

On her way to the rally, Clinton stopped at Tacos El Gordo at 1724 E. Charleston Blvd., surprising customers.

.@HillaryClinton stops at Tacos El Gordo in #Vegas.#RJnow pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

— Ben Botkin (@BenBotkin1) October 13, 2016

pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

Saw this posted on FB, with the comment "This is A+ pandering to the Vegas population. And I'm pretty pumped about it."

http://m.reviewjournal.com/politics/election-2016/presidential-nominee-hillary-clinton-draws-contrast-trump-during-las-vegas

On her way to the rally, Clinton stopped at Tacos El Gordo at 1724 E. Charleston Blvd., surprising customers.

.@HillaryClinton stops at Tacos El Gordo in #Vegas.#RJnow pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

— Ben Botkin (@BenBotkin1) October 13, 2016

http://pic.twitter.com/jd08zZhlwV

Dammit. Can somebody fix that?

Anonymous claiming to have a tape of clinton with a 13 year old girl from epstein.

https://mobile.twitter.com/matthewjxmalady/status/786423186850283520

in reply to @mckaycoppins
matthew j.x. malady
@matthewjxmalady

@mckaycoppins @fmanjoo check out the spaces are after those periods. looks like it may be three, four? wtf.

Oct 12, 2016, 9:27 PM

xp lol sure they do

oh my god please let there be a Trump sex tape, it's the ending we all deserve

stop with the threats

Lots of journalists on twitter implying the big dump is coming tomorrow.

Trump ain't winning. 0%, nochance NOHOW. Not if Hil shacks up tomorrow with Huma, or a family of yaks. I will speak in 'vocal fry' the rest of my days like a friggin' choreographer if he does.

that's some post dude

rick wilson's twitter responses to his detractors are pretty classic

somehow i'm still seeing new disgusting revelations
https://twitter.com/TheRealKamie/status/786353787615281152

like

"DNC members don't really represent constituents anyway"

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5423#efmAshA2F

ok first of all this is a comment made by mark siegel and then passed along to hillary's campaign by luzzatto. second of all it is a self-evidently true observation. DNC members don't have constituents because they aren't elected.

i don't know why u make me explain these things

@mckaycoppins @fmanjoo check out the spaces are after those periods. looks like it may be three, four? wtf.

those aren't spaces, the text has been justified.

full-service law firm

those aren't spaces, the text has been justified.

Oh I don't think anybody could justify that text

amazing: http://www.mtv.com/news/2941818/the-story-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-debate/

― esempiu (crüt)

You are the same as the others.
You build monuments to yourself, monuments that fall.
You seek power over man and so you seek followers, though they also fall.
You pretend any man is separate from any other man, though this is foolish.
You thirst in desperation for money, though it follows no one to the grave.
You attack and you yell and you lash out with your tongue and you lie.
You tell so many lies.

SO GREAT

yeah, that mtv piece is amazing

So I guess whatever bombshell is allegedly imminent must be getting vetted or otherwise checked out legally, right? That's the only reason I can think of people knowing it's coming (if it is) but being so coy about it. Meanwhile, I presume the explosion of groping (or worse) accusations will continue. What's he up to on Twitter?

He hasn't tweeted for 13 hours. Some record surely>

Calm before the storm.

And indeed:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/786551712228208640

More telling:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/rnc-donald-trump-ad-spending-229711

Some very interesting meat at the end of that:

The RNC says that its joint get-out-the-vote program with the Trump campaign had more than 1,000 staffers in the field last month, as compared to fewer than 900 working for Romney in October 2012.

Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital director, said the campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort with the RNC is “outperforming 2012 numbers in nearly every battleground state.” And he praised the RNC for providing “vital ground game infrastructure, data research and modeling, financial partnership and have staff integrated throughout our teams.”

But a handful of veteran GOP field organizers have privately questioned the strength of the RNC’s field program in recent interviews. Republicans trail Democrats organizationally in numerous swing states, with far fewer field staffers and canvassers to turn out votes for Trump.

And some Republicans suspect the abdication of the air war may stem less from a strategic shift to ground operations and more from the RNC’s financial position. Through the end of August, the committee had raised $231 million over the course of the election cycle, far short of the $356 million it had raised at the same point in the 2012 campaign.

OK, so help me out here. Pretend for the sake of argument that Trump ever had a clear path to election. Then pretend he wasn't likely about to get trounced. Then pretend that the RNC *did* want to replace him, whether or not there is a ticking time bomb disclosure set to go off. I've had this argument with two friends now, folks who wince every time something worse happens to Trump, because they think Pence or Ryan still have a shot at topping the ticket (and, goes their argument, winning). But that train has long left the station, right? Not even in terms of bylaws and other basic bureaucratic things, but in terms of the Constitution. Voting has already begun in earnest, absentee, overseas and early, so even assuming (for the sake of this exercise) that the RNC wanted to make a change, they really can't, can they, not without a Constitutional challenge on the basis that all those aforementioned early voters would be disenfranchised. Right? Even assuming they wanted to make a change, that would likely take the greatest state by state (and Federal level too) legal challenge this country has ever seen, which would take forever, which they/we don't have (except when it comes to the Supreme Court, ha ha).

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, even if it comes up that Trump fondled a toddler and fucked an underage dog on video, he's stuck on the ticket, right?

THose people aren't voting for Trump but for people who say they will vote for him in the Electoral College

Is that the argument?

but if those electors turn around and assign those Trump votes to, say, Pence, you're gonna have several million (in this case, actually justifiably) angry unhinged deplorables to contend with.

also, I feel pretty confident that the number of people you could conceivably sway from not voting/voting 3rd party/voting Hillary to voting Pence is far far outweighed by the number of people who are Trump or Bust.

There is no way to remove Trump from the ballot. There is no argument that would hold any water in court that he could be replaced by another candidate. Your friends are weird.

There is some provision in GOP rules to replace the nominee, but it would require picking and gathering the same number of delegates that voted at the convention and having them re-vote for someone else. Not gonna happen in 27 days. And hell would break loose. If Trump voluntarily dropped off the votes already cast for him would go to the person picked to replace him since the electors probably wouldn't change.

and there are people voting in states already

That Trump tweet is deleted.

That Trump tweet is deleted.

Headline on Nov. 9

That's interesting. He's more of a double-downer than a deleter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector