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

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

dish the dirt or shut the fuck up, Rick

xpost I guess I'm used to the phrase "on the low end," vs. "at," but I suppose they both work. I was also wondering if "low end" was referring to odds that the stories will break, or maybe that they would break at the very end - "the low end" - of the campaign. But I got it now, thanks.

God knows, we've been hovering at a low point for months.

I get the impression he is privy to info but not able to release it, perhaps for legal reasons? That's the only excuse to be so fucking coy, because every day there's another Trump embarrassment of such magnitude that I keep thinking, is this it? And then he and that other person are all, no, this is good, but it's not the big one.

sorry Rick this campaign has me very tense

it has been annoying to keep reading all his leading tweets for what seems like weeks now. is there a reason to believe he's not full of shit, aside from the obvious fact that there must be worse shit out there because trump is a repellant being?

Obama is speaking to a rally of about 500-600 people at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, right across from my office. I heard the crowd roar even from the 15th floor of my building as he loudly yelled, "Hey there, Ohio!" into the microphone.

it has been annoying to keep reading all his leading tweets for what seems like weeks now. is there a reason to believe he's not full of shit, aside from the obvious fact that there must be worse shit out there because trump is a repellant being?

― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Friday, October 14, 2016 11:12 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya seriously, kind of worried this is some empty promises like the wikileaks people have been doing for weeks

(for trump supporters)

Obama is speaking to a rally of about 500-600 people at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, right across from my office. I heard the crowd roar even from the 15th floor of my building as he loudly yelled, "Hey there, Ohio!" into the microphone.

― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Friday, October 14, 2016 11:13 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh cool didn't know he was in town! drove by this morning on the way to work

Sitting on big stories seems fairly pointless now. I mean yeah, wait to inflict maximum damage but when Trump is already Old Yeller on his last legs at this point just do it. Not for his sake, for ours. So we can point and LOL

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 1m1 minute ago Manhattan, NY
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN’S ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTRY:
http://bit.ly/2dcbtvkCrooked

you just know he's been dying to use caps lock for fukkin months

i feel like he's gonna go full Carrie

http://media.giphy.com/media/10PsvjMuuzKaXe/giphy-downsized-large.gif

Xpost well, we ARE all gonna laugh at him

been hearing the "two big stories are about to drop" from a number of sources w/ inside info, not just Rick

the part that's unclear is whether one/both of those are from the Apprentice tapes which may not be released after all

i would suspect the delay is more about timing, if there is anything?

last debate is on Wednesday so maybe they're saving it for Monday?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/14/another-trump-accuser-set-come-out-friday/

A town crier is going to come running into the building with the news mid-debate

Is this the first victim with legal representation?

Presence of Gloria Allred not at all a good sign for Trump. That means she'll be making the media rounds for days/weeks to come.

this is becoming like a fucked up political version of new music friday

Cmon, it's Noon east coast time; somebody make with today's release of idiocy so we can get on with it

At least with new records, you can automatically access, say, the new Jeff Rosenstock album on Spotify before you even get into work

while we wait:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/14/ken-bone-s-disturbing-reddit-history-shows-he-s-not-nearly-as-adorable-as-we-thought.html

yeah no shit, why can we not leave people alone

Ken Bone not running for president

I kinda already assumed that he was the chosen form for Reddit when it achieved self-awareness.

Laura Ingraham self-clowning and getting sonned on Twitter:

Laura Ingraham
‏@IngrahamAngle
N.Minaj met w/Obama…her lyrics? “Real country-ass n*gga, let me play w/ his rifle
P***y put his *ss to sleep…” http://www.metrolyrics.com/anaconda-lyrics-nicki-minaj.html …

raandy ‏@randygdub 27m27 minutes ago
@willmenaker @IngrahamAngle the obamas met with TLC and it says here they called men [puts on tiny reading glasses] 'scrubs'

Will 🐋 Menaker ‏@willmenaker 24m24 minutes ago
@randygdub @IngrahamAngle Tim Kaine went on a "hip hop" radio station in NC & said "They call me Kaine bc I cook that caine" where is media?

Alex Yablon ‏@AlexYablon 15m15 minutes ago
@willmenaker @randygdub @IngrahamAngle SHOCKED #Podesta suggested Dr. Octagon's "Girl Let Me Touch You" as millenial female outreach theme

Just Phin ‏@Just_Phintastic 1h1 hour ago
@IngrahamAngle Holy shit. This is like the Watergate tapes, Iran-Contra and Crystal Pepsi all rolled into one!!!

Olivia Nuzzi ‏@Olivianuzzi 10m10 minutes ago
.@IngrahamAngle excuse me by leaving out "now he's calling me NyQuil" you're really selling her short.

I would go to a rally if they played dr octagon but im no millennial so ..

Meanwhile Obama back in full IDGAF mode

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10/14/obama-protester-go-to-own-rally.cnn

lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/woman-says-trump-reached-under-her-skirt-and-groped-her-in-early-1990s/2016/10/14/67e8ff5e-917d-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html

seems likely that there is enough of this stuff that there won't be a day free from 'new revelations' up until election day

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nyc-audit-finds-donald-trump-donations-911-months/story?id=42801444

The New York City Comptroller’s Office has found no evidence that Donald Trump donated to 9/11 charities in the months after the attacks, the agency said.

Trump had promised weeks after the 2001 attack to donate $10,000 to the Twin Towers Fund as part of a charity effort by “The Howard Stern Show.”

“My office has reviewed the donations made in the nearly 12 months following the attacks – and we didn’t find evidence that he contributed a single cent to the victims, our first responders, and to our city through the Twin Towers Fund,” New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, a Democrat, said in a statement to ABC News today.

“In the wake of 9/11, New Yorkers came together, healed, and rebuilt. If Donald Trump claimed to donate and didn’t, if he claimed to support New Yorkers in a time of crisis and refused, then that would be just plain wrong.”

It’s possible that the Republican presidential nominee donated after the two audit periods reviewed by Stringer’s office. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.

some good news about indiana:
http://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_IN_101416/

Trump stiffing Howard directly seems like a new thing that the show would make something out of

I don't understand how one person can be terrible in so many different ways.

practice

Howard doesn't want the aggravation of Trump coming after him, so he's relatively been coy about Trump for the past several months. Trump hasn't dissed Howard yet so there's a bit of a detente on both sides. He's said several times he's voting for Hillary, has given money to her campaign etc, and Trump hasn't been on the show since a phoner in August 2015. Here's a bit from a recent show where they talk about all the recent coverage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C24shdl1Pc

Pence is confused

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/mike-pence-michelle-obama-trump-sexual-harassment-229785

trump literally acts like a spoiled child, i mean i think he's clearly a product of shitty parenting and having everything handed to him. and i think the co-author of his book talked about how he has zero intellectual curiosity and thoughtfulness and a seeming lack of inner life. it's a nice mix!

My hometown paper:

Let’s make clear what the 2016 presidential election isn’t about:

It is not about choosing between a bad candidate and a worse one. The narrative that Hillary Clinton is the lesser of two evils is patently wrong. Ms. Clinton is a pragmatic, tough-minded woman of accomplishment and political conviction with a demonstrated mastery of policy. She is politically flawed. However, Donald Trump is a damaged human being.

It’s not about an entertaining, shoot-from-the-hip renegade outsider taking on a mainstay of the entrenched political elite. That was Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden back in 2008. No, Mr. Trump is the elite, one who has managed to talk a good game to fire up frustrated and frightened mostly white Americans with a campaign of hate and xenophobia.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article108145747.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article108145747.html

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