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

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

xp and no friends

Get ready, because here it comes: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-supporter-armed-protest-dem

Two Donald Trump supporters openly carrying firearms sat outside the campaign office of a Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia for nearly 12 hours on Thursday, according to CBS affiliate Newsplex in Charlottesville.

One of the protesters, Daniel Parks, told Newsplex that he held the protest to support Trump.

"I'm just trying to provide a voice for someone who might be closet supporters of Trump. Other people that are a little worried to speak out because of possible persecution," he said.

I like how that guy's professed justifications for his behavior are complete non-sequiturs

"I'm just trying to provide a voice...

I guess his gun does all his talking for him.

xpost you talking about trump, pence, carson, giuliani, or

well I guess it could apply to the whole basket

There needs to be more effort put toward dispelling these bloody fantasies Trump is pushing about a revolution against the "globalists." Obama sort of addressed it by making fun of alex jones but I think it needs to go further. Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment need to have their feet held to the fire until they categorically condemn white nationalism, to the point of admitting that Trump's campaign is more "dangerous" to Republican goals than Hillary's. If they're unwilling to do this they should get tarred with this vicious radicalism. The issue right now goes beyond Trump's personal depravity -- which others in the party could always distance themselves from -- it's the ideological basis of his campaign

categorically condemn white nationalism

so not gonna happen

if they did, they would lose the only voters they currently have

It's important for people to see both how toxic these ideas are and how the republcian party has enabled their growth over the past five decades

This is the chance to make the GOP answer for the far right

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

― Mordy

hahahaha, yeah, just calling John Gregg "Democrat" is about right.

i am actually going to vote for Bayh even though he's a ruthless amoral scumbag, worse than Clinton, for strategic reasons, even as I'm backing away from the concept of "strategic voting". it's important to me that the democrats retake the senate because i have no confidence that republicans will ever confirm any of clinton's supreme court nominees.

Tbf, I'm pretty sure those dudes carry guns all the time. Were they supposed to take them off before menacing that political office? That's like admitting defeat before the war's even begun. Maybe if the shooting starts they'll lay down arms and prove some other vague point.

in a lot of ways this election could be a referendum on the gop party vanguard that tacitly accepts bigotry via non-condemnation but the more likely outcome seems to be that some of the more "moderate " Republicans will simply lose their jobs and the husk of the party will, if anything, further embrace the trumpist ideology (such as it is) xps

In what way is Trump really different from the ignorant and incoherent Tea Party bs that started some years back? He's just an amplified extension.

more blatantly bigoted, larger following, not bankrolled by the kochs

really splitting hairs on most of that though

he's only different in his insistence on using a megaphone instead of dogwhistles

trump is essentially conservative talk radio in human form

He says the loud part loud AND the quiet part loud.

Everything louder than everything else.

inevitable conclusion of the loudness wars. i blame oasis.

hey all right we can all move on

https://twitter.com/CharlieCookDC/status/786744777173786624

Take a close look at the new Fox News poll released tonight. This race is OVER.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2016/10/13/fox-news-poll-october-13-2016/

yeah but have you heard the death magnetic guitar hero multitracks???