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

Some wags have already noted that Weiner's continued existence is proof that she doesn't have people killed.

The Fox News audience is shrinking and buoyed by a small core of people who watch it 24/7. Trump TV can't count on millennial racists to do that. Maybe an online thing could work but that's already Breitbart and not big enough for The Donald.

His 2020 third-party run is going to be sweet, though.

oh man the only thing better than that would be a Cruz GOP nom (which will never ever happen :-/) to go along with it

Seems like a big selling point for FNN to court advertisers is the fact the channel is default programming in so many restaurants, motel lobbies, lounges etc...and no matter how hard they try, Trump's venture will never have that accessibility.

...claiming that John Podesta helped have Antonin Scalia murdered.

What do you talk about on the radio when the bottom has fallen out and there's still three weeks to go? This--the guy out of Buffalo went on for a full hour (and quite possibly for four) about Podesta, Wikileaks, and the murder of Scalia. The smoking gun is some e-mail reference from Podesta to "wet works," a term I'd never heard till today. Delirium.

http://jezebel.com/donald-trump-called-deaf-apprentice-contestant-marlee-m-1787775999

Nobody messes with Marlee.

NOBODY.

At this point I have to think even Roy Cohn would be profoundly embarrassed to have Trump be seen as his protégée.

re: Trump News, I hear Roger Ailes is available!

Nobody messes with Marlee.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, October 13, 2016 9:47 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOBODY.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, October 13, 2016

sung in the voice of Keith Sweat

Roy Cohn had the good sense to be dead for this election season.

re: Trump News, I hear Roger Ailes is available!

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.)

wait, doesn't ailes have a noncompete or something?

He's done.

i'm guessing ivanka/mr. ivanka are thinking hard about what they might be able to do with 35-40% of voters

certainly marine le pen has carved out a niche for herself

...claiming that John Podesta helped have Antonin Scalia murdered.

What do you talk about on the radio when the bottom has fallen out and there's still three weeks to go? This--the guy out of Buffalo went on for a full hour (and quite possibly for four) about Podesta, Wikileaks, and the murder of Scalia. The smoking gun is some e-mail reference from Podesta to "wet works," a term I'd never heard till today. Delirium.

― clemenza, Thursday, October 13, 2016 9:46 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the alternate universe thing is just so astonishing

I've never ordered the murder of a SCOTUS justice, but even I know strategizing about it via email is pretty dumb. BURNER PHONES!

I've never ordered the murder of a SCOTUS justice, but even I know strategizing about it via email is pretty dumb. BURNER PHONES!

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

to be fair, you probably don't click on every email that gets sent to your inbox, which john podesta obviously does.

Nobody messes with Marlee.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, October 13, 2016 9:47 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOBODY.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, October 13, 2016

sung in the voice of Keith Sweat

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 13, 2016 9:16 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmbo

Has anyone considered that maybe *Trump* had Scalia murdered, so that he could run for president, win, and pick his replacement? Think about it, it all makes perfect sense.

"wet works," a term I'd never heard

"wet work" is indeed a term for black ops - specifically close-quarters combat and assassination-type shit - but something tells me that's not what john podesta meant

no, it was more risotto advice

he's into sploshing

Maybe he's a Whilce Portacio fan?

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ew

Good morning!

I like that the code address thing looks like it says 'cult shit'

Solid LOL, Yglesias, well done.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/786917903945924609

Seems like a constant drumbeat of ever more extreme trump scandals is the only thing that keeps the polls from immediately trending back his way. Kind of depressing

it's kinda funny that the General Election essentially has gone for Trump as expected - inability to handle the pressure of one-on-one debate, or people digging into his past, or the ad campaigns.

the Hillary health bout was an unexpected wrinkle but....politics as usual

hard to believe that exactly a month people worried about Hillary's pneumonia and in another month we'll be free or living in a nuclear winter

oh Hillary's using nukes too. just on a specific set of surgical addresses. at specific zip codes. in the US

just to protect rabbits though

wow Ben Carson is a piece of shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMPCAazFa4

Trump Comes Full Circle, Finds a Mexican to Blame For His Own Sexual Assault Allegations

OOF:

Julie de Azevedo Hanks, a psychotherapist with a blog that is widely read in the Mormon community, is an independent who voted for Mitt Romney four years ago. She planned to keep her preference for Hillary Clinton quiet until she saw the 2005 video of the Republican nominee boasting to Billy Bush about pursuing married women and using his celebrity to make unwanted advances.

“That tape put the final nail in the coffin,” Hanks said. “A year ago, I never would have thought I’d be voting for her. I know she’s not flawless. I don’t idolize her. I don’t have rose-colored glasses. … We may not get everything we value with Hillary, but she aligns more closely with what we do value than Trump.”

Hanks posted on her blog about how dangerous she thinks Trump would be as president. She said her husband, a rock-ribbed Republican, may just not vote at all now. Last night, she was one of nearly 70 volunteers who showed up to phone bank at Clinton’s Utah headquarters, on the outskirts of the capital of one of the country’s reddest states.

The parking lot overflowed. Volunteers – many who identify as independent or even Republican – parked down nearby residential streets and walked. They ate Little Caesar’s Pizza as they made the case on cell phones to their Utah neighbors to back a Democrat for president for the first time since 1964.

The Clinton team has a full-time staffer on the ground to organize the phone banks and canvassing. They’ve even launched a Mormons for Hillary effort.

Sort of surprised it took this long to bring Carlos Slim into it. Mexican billionaire co-owner of the NYT and known Clinton supporter is a pretty good trifecta.

Wish Carlos Slim were running instead, he's an actual billionaire.

And his name is Carlos Slim.

hell i'd take iceberg slim over trump.

i'd take iceberg lettuce

Root Boy Slim and the Sex Allegation Band

rock-ribbed Republican

didn't know mormons wore condoms

the dictionary definition actually uses republican as the example

rock-ribbed
adjectiveNORTH AMERICAN
resolute or uncompromising, especially with respect to political allegiance.
"a rock-ribbed Republican"

I rock ribs
You Roc fellas

rock-ribbed for your electoral pleasure

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At the low end

Amber @AmberBinGA
Are we still waiting on the two really bad stories to drop, @TheRickWilson

What does "at the low end" mean?

"at least two"

in that case I'm glad so many GOP'ers are still endorsing him, it'll be fun to watch them squirm