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

On an amusement level

http://deadspin.com/tom-brady-probably-gets-owned-by-donald-trump-when-they-1787930641

And meantime

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/788813848656568320

And yes, now this is a thing.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/buzzfeed-ceo-i-heard-ivanka-trump-talk-about-mulatto-cocks

Trump back at the hotel, getting the most out of his pay per view.

Nah. If anything, Hillary's popular vote margin is gonna be even wider than expected, because of people who've been in favor of her all along but who haven't wanted to put up with a bunch of bullshit from all the other candidates' asshole supporters.

I totally think this will be the case rather than the other way around. I know a lot of Republicans who say they are just going to vote the downticket races, each of whom know how irresponsible it would be to put Trump in the white house - they dislike him as much as the Dems do. I imagine a lot of them will hold their nose and vote Hillary.

i think even with the supreme court bullshit a lot of them are betting that republicans will be able to stonewall, or at least they'd rather bet that than vote trump.

I had no idea that Chris Wallace is a registered Democrat.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/buzzfeed-ceo-i-heard-ivanka-trump-talk-about-mulatto-cocks?utm_term=.ktJ6QxkaN#.uo15E243O

i hate the trump family but still, i don't think i would ever leak some "lewd" comment a person made once. if she used the word "mulatto" in the context of, "i hate mulattos," or "i grab them by the dick without consent" then i would. i think this story risks making people think trump's comments on the video were only bad because they were "lewd."

If anything, Hillary's popular vote margin is gonna be even wider than expected, because of people who've been in favor of her all along but who haven't wanted to put up with a bunch of bullshit from all the other candidates' asshole supporters their husbands.

(agree)

@HallieJackson
So: Trump source tells me @SarahPalinUSA is an invited guest to tonight's #debate.

and we care....?

Does she know she doesn't get a microphone?

the idea that hillary will be shaken by any of these stunts is laughable

is mulatto even a racist word? antiquated yes, but racist?

The etymology of the term is usually believed to derive from the Spanish and Portuguese mulato, which comes from mula (old Galician-Portuguese, from the Latin mūlus), meaning mule, the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey.[8][9][10]

Some dictionaries and scholarly works trace the word's origins to the Arabic term muwallad, which means "a person of mixed ancestry".[11] Muwallad literally means "born, begotten, produced, generated; brought up", with the implication of being born and raised among Arabs, but not of Arab blood. Muwallad is derived from the root word WaLaD (Arabic: ولد direct Arabic transliteration: waw, lam, dal), and colloquial Arabic pronunciation can vary greatly. Walad means, "descendant, offspring, scion; child; son; boy; young animal, young one".

Trump source tells me @SarahPalinUSA is an invited guest to tonight's #debate.

I totally misread this as tonight's #debacle.

I'd like to see a mulatto cock, an albino cock, a mosquito cock. . .

I don't care if you're cock is black, white, red, yellow, green, purple...I don't see color I just see cocks

It would be lovely if Clinton just didn't acknowledge Trump's presence at all tonight. Speak about him in the third person if it's warranted but otherwise don't respond to him, don't speak to him, speak unabatedly when he interrupts, look out into the audience while he blathers. She's done pretty well on that front thus far but it should be a total freeze-out tonight.

Chapo Trap House is really good, thanks to this thread for the recommend!

From Pareene's article

However you apportion the blame, by Monday, everyone had moved on to the next thing, before the tape actually had a chance to settle in with an electorate that takes more than two (weekend) days to process campaign-changing news.

This is not a thing that happened though: every story I've seen about the allegations has mentioned the tape, but the press are (probably rightly) more interested in testimony that he did something than him talking about doing it.

is mulatto even a racist word? antiquated yes, but racist?

yeah, it is, as are all antiquated terms used for racial classification

Oh hell yeah:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/788867085891887104

Chuck Tingle – ‏@ChuckTingle

i will be on twitter representing THE BUCKAROO PARTY later as we discuss don trumps ways of the void please join me

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvKeZgyVYAEEU9e.jpg
3:19 PM - 19 Oct 2016

the true hero of this election

chuck tingle is wonderful and a v good twitter follow

Great recent Chapo eps:

-Most recent one with Matthew Karp about how weird Antebellum racial science ideas ring thru to the modern alt-right scumfucks

-James Adomian from a couple weeks ago, doing Žižek teach sex and others

i get slightly worried about chuck tingle sometimes but he always seems to come through. an inspiration.

Trump seems to be really into "Drain the Swamp" as a line.

i'm now envisioning trump in a one man staging of 1776

'Drain the swamp' deflects attention away from his own shortcomings and ugliness and directs it toward the anger some voters feel about the federal government. Which seems smart, because he doesn't want voters to think very hard about what they are voting for when they vote for him.

a friend of mine is at the debate! her father in law (rip) used to do sound for the debates and they were nice enough to invite her and her husband in his memory

"You'll be able to hear it all, crystal clear!"

"...thanks."

Assuming there's no way HRC will carry Utah, it'd be cool for some Dems to vote for McMullin to deprive Trump of those EVs.

― nickn, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 5:16 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tactical voting is/was the one good thing about uk politics. a real pleasure to do.

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Whut

I think a large part if not even the majority of trump's twitter followers are liberals waiting in earnest for him to say something stupid

As I understand it, the good people of San Francisco, CA generally object to the rather ugly coinage "Frisco" to denominate their fair city. It is normally used by clueless outsiders. This graph means that 199 clueless SF outsiders on Twitter used the word in their bios. Their relevance to Trump/Clinton is in the eye of the beholder.

Maybe they just like the gene wilder flick

"frisco" seems about as quaint as calling someone a "yankee"

http://i.imgur.com/8pZfPtT.jpg

Frisco is a city located in Collin and Denton counties in Texas. It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and is located approximately 25 miles from both Dallas Love Field and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

As I understand it, the good people of San Francisco, CA generally object to the rather ugly coinage "Frisco" to denominate their fair city. It is normally used by clueless outsiders. This graph means that 199 clueless SF outsiders on Twitter used the word in their bios. Their relevance to Trump/Clinton is in the eye of the beholder.

Not so fast there.

Frisco, Texas was the fastest-growing city in the United States in 2009, and also the fastest-growing city in the nation from 2000 to 2009.

MTV, please send Kaleb to Frisco for a feature.

Not so fast there.

My world is crumbling around me.

St. Louis has a popular frozen custard purveyor called Ted Drewes. They have, or used to have, a shake-like concoction called The Frisco; it included pineapple chunks and walnuts and I forget what else. Someone told me they call it a Frisco "because of all the fruits and nuts in it."

Been trying to decide what to drink tonight. There's beer, obviously, but that seems pretty boring. I can always go for bourbon, but a little goes a long way. Aged rum for sipping ... still not convinced of that. A good anjeo tequila could do it, but it seems too festive. Feeling too lazy to mix a drink ... though come to think of it, an Old Fashioned is easy enough and might hit all the right bases. Yeah, I think that's the right course. Or dose, as the case may be.

I had three Mike's Hard Lemonades left. Drank one. Two remain to get me through this thing. (Yes, I know, I'm a lightweight.)

I think that would give me heartburn.

yeah unlike bourbon or tequila