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

Em goes in for over seven minutes on the track

no thank you!#!!!

In response, Trump has commissioned Skrewdriver for his campaign song

man I've been on a couple friends' FB threads and their conservative relatives are going apeshit over the O'Keefe sting.

the magic of editing

"this guy who fakes things made another totally amazing thing that I'm sure this time is 100% accurate and real!"

O'Keefe is a walking fecalith

It's no "Deceptacon (DFA remix)", but I'll take what I can get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLGFyxAP0QE

Oops, already posted. Sorry folks....

Completely nothing story anyway: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/4536212/james-okeefe-project-veritas-video-democrats/%3fsource=dam

o'keefe captures dnc operatives allegedly doing the sort of thing trump personally encourages his supporters to do, ok.

wow that le tigre thing is awful

Couldn't happen to nicer people!

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/roger-ailes-donald-trump-no-longer-speak

“Ailes’s camp said Ailes learned that Trump couldn’t focus—surprise, surprise—and that advising him was a waste of time,” Sherman said. “These debate prep sessions weren’t going anywhere.”

lel

I knew that Eric Metaxas guy was a clown but he just went full Godwin's Law

https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/status/788744710252818432

Captures people that claim to be DNC operatives and either aren't actually on their payroll, or are misrepresenting their role, more like.

The other thing O'Keefe does is try to convince the target to agree to doing illegal shit for 15 minutes, have them repeatedly say "no, that's illegal", and then seize on parts of a response that don't strongly condemn the action or cut in mid-sentence to exclude important words and go "SEE HE'S TALKING ABOUT DOING ILLEGAL SHIT."

No, actually you were James

Xxxpost

It's no "Deceptacon (DFA remix)", but I'll take what I can get

you will?

Em goes in for over seven minutes on the track

Do they mean "goes off"?

Per @KatyTurNBC — some more Trump debate guests: Amb. Chris Stevens' fiance Lydie Denier, 'Lone Survivor' Marcus Luttrell, 4 'Angel Moms'

Apparently this "fiance" [sic] was briefly engaged to Stevens 21 years ago but they never married.

does Trump know that Malik Obama is apparently pro-Hamas? kind of a weird strategic move.

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/788798304129802240

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvJfh0UWIAAYXZA.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvJfVsfWYAE7fOM.jpg

Hari & Kamau posted a podcast interview with S.E. Cupp, and its an alternately interesting and infuriating look at the mental circumlocutions of an Anti-Trump talking head who's still a gung-ho GOP supporter on everything else.

hint: she very quickly associates the rise of trump support with "political correctness", college students & safe spaces, and "the liberal media's attack on Christianity."

They also talk about the Mets.

Do they mean "goes off"?

no, they mean "goes in"

@SimonMaloy
oh god I just realized how many campaign 2020 slogans will be eyesight puns

I doubt Trump knows anything more than he is Obama's half-brother, and even then, I doubt he knows what to do with that.

Trump: You might have noticed, I've brought Obama's half-brother.
Moderator: ... Um, OK. Secretary Clinton? Would you like to respond?
Clinton: To what?
Trump: I've brought Obama's half-brother.
Clinton: Um, OK.
Trump: Perhaps you didn't hear me. I said, I've brought Obama's half-brother!
Moderator: Mr. Trump, I honestly don't know what bearing that has on anything.
Trump: Sad! Loser! Rigged! Ugly!
Clinton: Who, Obama's half-brother?
Trump: No, you! And Chris Wallace! And the whole world! They're all out to get me! Everyone is out to get me!
http://wheresthejump.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-4.jpg

Two questions:

1. What time is the debate tonight?
2. Is it time for a final election thread?

The one thing I will congratulate Trump on is his consistency in frustrating every dumbshit who thought he could somehow be molded or controlled or who figured he'd start believing differently once the gravity of his position had sunken in or who believed he was anything more than the ochre sack of nihilistic volatility that he so obviously is.

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/189/p189_p_v8_aa.jpg

Is it time for a final election thread?

i say we have a "final stretch" thread after tonight's debate maybe? there'll inevitably be at least one election day thread though.

In preparing to interview any Trump supporter/Clinton detractor, I'd establish ground rules for phrases and words that were off-limits, e.g. 'political correctness' or 'crooked'. I'm curious if anyone in that camp is capable of actually voicing an opinion rather than just parroting right-wing media buzzwords.

Quid pro quo. Rigged. Locker room talk.

That Metaxas guy fully thru in with the Breetbort types and Pro-Trump Evangelicas some time ago.

He also was on Kirk Cameron's Dominionist thing with Ben Carson last night.

Trump: You might have noticed, I've brought Obama's half-brother.

In his mind it plays out something like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FeMvQR-0VA

Hoping Malik gets an onstage shout out "look at my African over here!"

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/788788951133761537

loving those "Only Trump Will Beat ISIS" signs the day after Iraqi troops decimated ISIS positions.

Pareene's piece at Deadspin reads like someone who needs a vacation. Then again I imagine that always a true statement for Hamilton Nolan's boss.

Nice, jmm. Trump to Melania: "It's between the brothers, Melania...well, the brother and the half-brother."

http://i.imgur.com/2q9gHhi.png

I feel sad for Malik Obama who I'm guessing? doesn't understand how the chess piece that he represents to Trump is being played.

trump is inviting pat stevens (mother of chris stevens); I didn't hear about malik obama. either way, who fucking cares?

I feel sad for Malik Obama who I'm guessing? doesn't understand how the chess piece that he represents to Trump is being played.

― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Wednesday, October 19, 2016 2:38 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Neither does Trump

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said the Manhattan billionaire invited President Barack Obama’s half-brother, a Trump supporter, to the third presidential debate because the Trump campaign is “very inclusive.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-half-brother-debate-2016-229983

waht

I assume a future trump administration will be staffed entirely with liberty university grads - kinda like the iraqi provisional authority under bush

I feel sad for Malik Obama who I'm guessing? doesn't understand how the chess piece that he represents to Trump is being played.

― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Wednesday, October 19, 2016 2:38 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously?

"Tonight I've brought Malik Obama, Hillary's half-brother, and he is voting for me!"

(aide whispers to Trump that Malik Obama is Barack's half-brother)

"Sorry, I meant Barack's half-brother. My mic must have been rigged to say Hillary. Anyway, he is voting for me because of my strong stance on terror. I will bring down groups such as Hamas".

(Malik Trump gasps, flips off Trump, walks out of room).

"He's so excited he's leaving to go vote for me now!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/your-questions-for-the-candidates-answered.html

btw Trump is retweeting articles from the Washington Examiner now. he's not even trying anymore. dude is just googling "Donald Trump awesome" and finding whatever articles pop up and linking them.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvJdnZJUEAAWm-o.jpg

Ivanka and Anita Hill discussing ... probably shoes or something. Best fwends.

Nice try there, Zuckerberg

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-memo-about-peter-thiel-and-donald-trump-2016-10