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[smirk]

Dems have a better-than-50% chance of taking the Senate, I think, or at least getting to 50 senators (49 plus Maine's(?) independent) which is enough to prevent gridlock and get a scotus nominee through.  Not at all guaranteed though.

[Frumple]

Go orbital bombardment or go home, I guess.

[Max™]

https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/788506808918810624

[nenjin]

you have got to be kidding me.

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/17/498328520/sen-mccain-says-republicans-will-block-all-court-nominations-if-clinton-wins

meanwhile trump goes around proclaiming he will stuff the court with the most conservative conservatives. i hate republicans and their massive bigotry.

It's just the Establishment Republicans buckling down for what some are viewing as the inevitable loss of the elections. They're trying to let their base know that they will continue to legislate 100% on the basis of partisan obstructionism, in the hopes they'll save their Senate seats.

Personally I'd take it as a good sign for the election, if the Republican Establishment is effectively already talking past it.

[mainiac]

Maybe it would be better for Democrats if Trump won. Then the DNC could get the dead wood burned out and Trump would run the country into the ground enough to remind people what Republicans are best at. You'd think having the model of the south to look at would help, but hey.

God no.  Look at what happened after 2010.  We went from partisanship to outright collapse in basic government.  Everytime we give republicans more power they abuse it.  Electing a manchild isn't going to fix that.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Go orbital bombardment or go home, I guess.

Ficus for President 2016!

[Cheeetar]

I think this is the beginning of at least two long, terribly dysfunctional years. And it'll all be blamed on Clinton.

Maybe it would be better for Democrats if Trump won. Then the DNC could get the dead wood burned out and Trump would run the country into the ground enough to remind people what Republicans are best at. You'd think having the model of the south to look at would help, but hey.

People suggested Tony Abbott being prime minister in Australia would be good for Labour. It was not.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Don't ignore the spirited support for First Citizen Obama Invictus or instituting demarchy, they're just as important as the astral vision of the Giant Meteor/Kos, Or Some Say Kosm ticket.

[mainiac]

People suggested Tony Abbott being prime minister in Australia would be good for Labour. It was not.

And let's not forget the prediction that Hitler winning in 1932 would bring about communist revolution.  Well I suppose one could say that in 1946 they became half right.

[Max™]

Incidentally it looks like Ecuador told Assange "Hey, can you quit doing stupid shit like not redacting credit/social and other such info, cause it kinda makes us complicit in harboring a criminal" and he was like "yeah ok..." and kept doing it. Finally they were approached and told that Assange was fucking around trying to influence the election here, they probably asked him "hey, can you stop doing that shit, we don't know about you, but we don't want to get on the shitlist of multiple powerful nations" and he was like "yeah ok..." and kept doing it, so they cut off his wifi.

[mainiac]

It's less epic when you put it that way.

[smjjames]

you have got to be kidding me.

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/17/498328520/sen-mccain-says-republicans-will-block-all-court-nominations-if-clinton-wins

meanwhile trump goes around proclaiming he will stuff the court with the most conservative conservatives. i hate republicans and their massive bigotry.

Are they even fucking serious? Though it's just McCain saying that. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me.

On Ecuador, yeah, looks like they independently made the decision to do that with pulling the plug on Assanage.

I wonder how long before they say 'ENOUGH! You are no longer welcome here!'? Even an embassys hospitality to an asylum seeker can only go so far.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

They would basically need for Assange to be implicated in a major act of terrorism in a western country to throw him out. Anything less, and the damage to their ability to guarantee asylum outweighs any annoyances he causes.

[Rolan7]

And then he'll live out remaining years in the Pirate Bay, podcasting through a microphone secretly just attached to a black box.  Recording, for future generations, the madness of our time.

[smjjames]

Good point I guess.

Trump is bringing Obama's Kenyan born half-brother Malik as one of his guests to the debate. I actually saw it earlier with https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/oct/18/donald-trump-campaign-election-news-hillary-clinton-live?page=with:block-5806a03be4b005f21833ad44#block-5806a03be4b005f21833ad44 , but it was a tweet through a secondary source (and I couldn't find the origional tweet), so I decided to wait and see whether anybody else reported. By doing that, Trump is ripping the birther controversey back out of the ground and back to life after supposedly burying it. At least that's how I see it.