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

Do *not* fuck with Mormons (i.e. don't be a profane, adulterous prick) if you need Idaho and Utah. The rationale for McMullin's candidacy should be crystal clear by now, I hope.

Those twitpics don't surprise me one bit.

my catholic friends are apparently feeling mcmullin fever now too

always fuck with mormons

Yuck/LOL: http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/10/hillary-clintons-locker-room-talk.html

Ned, good looking out.

Told ya.

Well, fortunately for Trump I guess, McMullin is only on the ballot in two of the states where Mormons make up over 5% of the population: Utah, 68.10% and Idaho, 26.41%.

(of the remainder, he is eligible as a write-in in Arizona, 6.14%; Nevadan, Wyomingite and Hawaiian LDS members will have to figure out another option, perhaps even one that favors LGBTQ rights).

No he's on the ballot in a number of states, not just those two. He is aiming at write-ins in a lot of others, true.

Full breakdown here:

https://www.evanmcmullin.com/vote

On ballot in 11 total, write-ins in most of the remaining, 7 states unsure.

(Ah wait I get your point, re Mormons in particular. Anyway.)

What a year.

The drug test comment...that's the first thing he's said in a while that actually surprised me by being more ott than his usual petulalant outbursts. This is a legitimately crazy person.

I overheard CNN at the airport today and it sounds like he's resorted to full-on screaming at his rallies now. The tantrums are fucking scary when an adult-sized baby is denied something for the first time in 70 years.

I could see McMullin rising to the top of the GOP in 4 years if he does well enough in this election (which basically means, winning Utah). I don't agree with like, half his views on things but at least he's someone who doesn't fill me with disgust.

Also, tangential but I can't get this sketch out of my mind lately. I don't know if it was intentional (although I doubt it was because he didn't act like such a bizarre, brain-damaged cartoon twenty years ago), but the body language reminds me so much of Trump, particularly after watching Donnie hold his mic like a doofus on Sunday every time he prepared to interrupt Clinton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AhgyXtZQgU

Donald Trump just dumped Ohio GOP chief Matt Borges
(No Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio)

2. Trump listened to Borges.

*switches from building wall to building library of babel*

It's like the last days of a regime over there.

Was it covered that Nate Silver is officially done, and is straight trolling now?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-watch-new-hampshire-for-signs-of-a-trump-comeback/

Well, he does have to keep himself *somehow* entertained in these last few weeks

where by "comeback" nate obviously means "loses by a somewhat less spectacular margin, but loses overwhelmingly anyway"

https://twitter.com/ArifCRafiq/status/787425879492296704

this whole event is really something

xpost Silver makes it clear this is mostly just idle horserace speculation, and most of the discussion is about why the level of uncertainty is significant when considering polling numbers. Maybe not quite a direct body-blow aimed at Clinton's campaign, on Silver's part.

Now going after "rigged" Saturday Night Live

Time to retire the boring and unfunny show.

First sensible thing he's said in a long time

Omg thx for this

re:

https://twitter.com/ArifCRafiq/status/787425879492296704

this whole event is really something

The Republican Hindu Trump coalition might be the only good thing to have come out of this.

It might be funny to us but violent hindu nationalists are an actual dangerous thing in India. It's sad to see two groups of xenophobes reinforcing each other.

^ this

(I'm very aware of that btw.)

Yeah, but the dance number to Born in the USA

OTM. I was just happy to see a synthesis of Trump's ideology with Bollywood aesthetics, my two favourite things in the world. I don't know what the appropriate response would be. Weeping over the Republican Hindu Coalition's Michael Jackson impersonator?

NBC's Hallie Jackson: Donald Trump will no longer try to persuade undecided voters; he will instead depress turnout of Clinton voters.

Hasnt that always been his "strategy"

Example #245 of his stupidity. This statement is exactly the motivation that blacks and Hispanics need to stand in line -- for hours if necessary.

lol how does he plan to do that exactly - oh right, stepping right up to the line of inciting violence at urban polling places, I guess

If you can't laugh at well choreographed fights between MJ impersonators, Jedi terrorists and SEALS that culminate in a dance routine set to disco Springsteen in service of Trump you literally can't laugh at anything. The world is shitty whether or not you find it funny.

True enough

https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/787657982486142976

Telling, this mindset. (Also, I'd love to see exactly what this guy's wife does eventually do votingwise.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-party-breakup-trump_us_58025048e4b0162c043c558c

It’s a dynamic perfectly personified by one top Republican fundraiser who is backing the nominee. Watching an interview Trump gave with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly this past week, this fundraiser said he was practically dumbfounded.

“O’Reilly interviewed him and threw him 15 softballs that he should have hit out of the park and what does he do? He sits there and stares and denounces Ryan and McCain. I was watching with interest and my wife turned to me and said: ‘I don’t know if I could vote for him.’ I said, ‘You’re voting for him!’ But it went through my mind: What if Putin insults him? Does he drop a bomb on Moscow or something? I’m not sure he is stable.”

“I’m voting against her because I can’t stand the woman,” he explained, when asked how he could possibly vote for someone he thought might not be stable. “But I think he is a jackass and I don’t think he’s mentally balanced.”

i hope she votes for divorce, personally

i think there's a real chance that donald trump, a mentally unbalanced jackass, could preemptively start a war with a nuclear power BUT i really dislike hillary clinton. so obviously i'm voting trump.

i don't want to sound hyperbolic but if every person who votes for donald trump were to simply vanish off the face of the earth in some twilight zone rapture scenario we'd all be a lot better off

that would be a 'fix' I could live with

That is infuriating. Vote on whatever dumbass basis you want, but don't command your wife to do the same.

households voting for Trump v much giving too much weight to the "obey" portion of vows

Lol Shakey did you just Indian-splain the implications of Hindu nationalism to a Canadian of Indian descent?

No, he was aiming at JiC

Oh I see. I didn't see that JiC post. Bitchiness retracted; sorry Shakey.