THE END TIMES

It helps to stand back from time to time to see the forest for the daily trees. This year's election features a classic demagogue whose support is fueled by pseudo-populist anger, suspicion, fear, resentment, and hate. He has incited violence at his rallies, whipped up crowds against the "crooked media," and promised to imprison his opponent if he wins. He lies constantly, extravagantly, shamelessly, and without fear of correction. He dismisses polls when they show him losing, and praises them when they show him doing well. 

To the very thin extent that he has built his campaign on any policies, they are deceptive, ill-informed, and impossible to implement. Instead, his candidacy is the ne plus ultra of a cult of personality: it is always about him, his ego, his need to win, his craving for attention and the cheers at his rallies, his promises that "only he" can fix the problems the country faces, his need to dominate and punish any who question or oppose him. His comments and behavior toward women would have been disgusting even decades ago, let alone now when we are supposed to know better. When challenged, he doesn't apologize or admit mistakes, but attacks his accusers in further misogynistic terms. 

He has brought the racist and antisemitic alt-right and rabid Hillary haters into the political mainstream, turned his campaign management over to them, and has embraced their support at every stage, giving vent to the very worst elements of American society (really, "deplorables" is an understatement). He has constantly accused the system of being "rigged" (if he loses) and has hinted that he might not concede, no matter how decisive the result or how much damage that does to the democratic process. His campaign has been assisted with illegally obtained documents, channelled through the Russian intelligence services and WikiLeaks, buttressed now with additional leaks from the FBI, including the Director himself. 

Any ONE of these things should be a howling argument for disqualification. Yet here we are.

In giving Trump hours of free air time by televising his events, by featuring his paid surrogates as "analysts" on panels as if their lies and distortions were just other comments within the space of legitimate political discourse, and by trumpeting every poll that might show the race "tightening," the media has helped normalize this far-from-normal candidate. In the closing days we see the usual electoral maps, "battleground states," and "paths to victory" -- tilted toward uncertainty and suspense because this grabs viewership and because the media doesn't want to be blamed for saying the simple truth: the man is a menace who cannot be allowed to lead this nation. 

Well, it's almost over, and he won't win. Believe me

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/04/1591276/-No-I-don-t-think-Donald-Trump-will-win-because-the-polls-show-he-s-losing
No, I don't think Donald Trump will win, because the polls show he's losing

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/05/early-voters-give-hillary-clinton-much-needed-firewall-in-swing-states.html
Early Voters Give Hillary Clinton Much Needed Firewall in Swing States

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/04/1591326/-This-is-awesome-Women-voting-at-higher-rates-than-men-relative-to-2012-in-EVERY-STATE
Women voting at higher rates than men relative to 2012 in EVERY STATE 

Latinos could be the difference in some key states 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/05/1591653/-They-waited-in-line-for-hours-If-you-re-not-inspired-by-the-candidates-be-inspired-by-them
They waited in line for hours. If you're not inspired by the candidates, be inspired by them. 

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/latinos-nevada-and-florida-are-building

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/5/13533864/nevada-trump-clinton-early-voting-polls
Nevada politics expert: “Trump is dead” in the state 

I'm fine with this

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/5/13453638/bernie-sanders-election-day
Bernie Sanders's old fans are voting for Clinton now — so they can pressure her later

New Hillary Clinton ad: Roar!

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/hillarys-closing-argument-ad-roar

More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hillary-clinton-campaign-announces-election-eve-national-tv-ad
The Hillary Clinton campaign signaled Saturday some of its plans for the closing round of televisions ads ahead of Tuesday's election. A buy was made for a two-minute national TV ad, which according to a campaign official, will express a "positive and unifying message" to air during primetime network program Monday evening. The campaign said the ads, slated for NBC's The Voice and CBS's Kevin Can Wait, will have a combined audience of 20 million people . . .

When this election is over, there needs to be a reckoning over at the FBI

http://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/5/13525698/fbi-clinton-trump-leaks-server-email-scandal
“There’s a longstanding policy of not doing anything that could influence an election,” George J. Terwilliger III, a deputy attorney general under President George Bush, told the New York Times. “Those guidelines exist for a reason. Sometimes, that makes for hard decisions. But bypassing them has consequences.” . . . [read on]

More: http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/5/13533838/history-fbi-meddling-politics-comey

More on Rudy's lies. Look, I don't believe a word out of his mouth, so I also doubt his claim that he only "heard" about the upcoming FBI disclosures but didn't have anything to do with them

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/giuliani-tells-wolf-blitzer-no-he-wasnt

Chris Christie has gone into hiding after the Bridgegate verdict

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/christie-nixes-trump-campaign-stops-after-bridgegate-verdict.html

Here's how you know Trumpy is frustrated and desperate -- his lies and accusations toward Clinton just get wilder and wilder

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/on-the-brink--3
This has been going on for so long a lot of it starts to seem normal. Like a child or a spouse living in an abusive household, your perception of what's normal, tolerable and okay becomes deformed by the impact of the abuse. Some of it though is simply not having listened - listened closely - to Trump for a while and what he actually says. . . .Trump's speeches are chaotic torrents of flat-out lies, evidence-less assertions that are almost certainly false and wild conspiracy theories usually whipping up into various forms of racist or xenophobic incitement.  

More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-campaign-trail-normalization
I just had a chance to listen to most of Trump's speech in Tampa this morning. It was the first time in weeks that I had heard an extended stretch of a Trump rally. Usually it's snippets amid a thousand small interruptions. Somehow in my mind Trump had been toning things down. But wow that's not really true at all. We've just become numbed to some of this rhetoric, with all the dangers of normalization that go with it. . . .

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-approaches-the-finish-line-as-unhinged-as-ever
With three days to go, at a rally in Tampa Saturday morning, Trump teetered right off the edge of reality and into the conspiratorial tone that has been the hallmark of his campaign.  “Can you imagine Anthony Weiner has probably every classified email ever sent," Trump said, drawing attention early and often to Clinton's email scandal that has plagued her campaign. “Probably studied every single one.” . . . Trump's been happy to volunteer answers to questions left in its murky wake. Trump said that Weiner's computer included "brand new emails" that were "likely including some very, very classified information" even as it is unclear if and what the FBI is looking at. . . .The attacks pivoted to the more personal ones that Trump has lobbed against his adversaries all election cycle. "If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. If she ever got into the Oval Office, Hillary and her special interests and her donors would rob this country blind," Trump said. . . .

Trumpy's latest conspiracy-laden ad has anti-semitic undertones

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-rolls-out-anti-semitic-closing-ad

More: http://www.vox.com/presidential-election/2016/11/5/13534192/trump-ad-new-world-order-conspiracy-theory-neo-nazis

Deadspin makes a delicious cross-edit of what Obama said about the protester at his rally, and Trumpy's lies about it

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/deadspin-asks-you-make-call

More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/05/trump-calls-obama-s-protester-reaction-a-disgrace.html

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/5/13533468/trump-obama-protester
Among the things Trump has said in front of his thousands of supporters:     

• Calling on a black activist to be hurt at one of his rallies: “Maybe he should have been roughed up.”
• A few months later, as authorities escorted out one rally-goer, saying protesters aren’t treated with “consequences” anymore: “They’re being politically correct the way they take them out. Protesters, they realize there are no consequences to protesting anymore. There used to be consequences. There are none anymore.”
• At one rally, Trump promised to pay the legal fees of someone who assaulted a protester: “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.”
• Threatening himself to get in on the violence against protesters: “I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell ya,” Trump said.
• Defending a supporter for punching a protester in the face: “The next time we see him, we might have to kill him.”

The "assassination attempt". . .  that wasn't

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/06/1591917/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-Last-stop-before-election

More: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/trump-not-assassins-target

Trump: NOT normal

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/06/why-donald-trump-scares-you-so-much-and-why-it-matters/

Hillary hatred and misogyny

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/05/is-misogyny-alive-and-well-here-is-what-will-really-behind-the-hillary-hatred_partner/

Bonus item: Funniest moments from the 2016 campaign

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/05/watch-2016s-top-unscripted-moments/

Extra bonus item: "You've Got to Vote" (NSFW)

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/blog-post_5.html

Double extra bonus item: SNL's last parody of Trump and Clinton

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/even-snls-donald-trump-and-hillary-clinton

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CAUGHT IN A SERIES OF LIES

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/rudy-giuliani-brags-about-ties-at-the-fbi-and-don-lemon-just-pointed-the-finger-at-him/
“I think he’s got a surprise or two you’re going to hear about in the next two days,” Giuliani said. “I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.”  “I heard you say that this morning. What do you mean?” the Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt asked.  “You’ll see,” Giuliani replied. “We’re not going to go down and we’re certainly not going to stop fighting. We’ve got a couple things up our sleeve that should turn this thing around.” 
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rudy-guiliani-backpedals-fbi-emails_us_581d0397e4b0aac624848977
Hours after saying he had advance knowledge of the FBI’s plans to review additional emails tied to Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani backpedaled on Friday, claiming he knew nothing about leaks from the bureau. . . . He said “surprises” he had referred to in his earlier interview didn’t include the FBI’s email disclosure, but instead meant to hint at a last-minute advertising blitz by Trump’s campaign. 

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/rudy-giuliani-admits-fbi-leaked
Rudy Giuliani, gleefully admitted to the Fox and Friends co-hosts today that he knew all about James Comey's letter to Congress before Comey ever sent it and said, "I did nothing to get it out, I had no role in it, did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it, and I can’t even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents." 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-hillary-clinton-email-fbi/ 
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani now denies that he was told by former FBI agents that the bureau was reviewing newly discovered emails potentially related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private server before the review was publicly revealed. Giuliani, a top Donald Trump surrogate and adviser, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" Friday that the FBI's announcement "came as a complete surprise, except to the extent that maybe it wasn't as much of a surprise."  . . . "I got it all from former FBI agents. . ." "In my case, it's real simple: I've talked to no FBI agent, I've talked to no Justice Department official. I have no idea about who's leaking information." The former mayor added that everyone he does talk to in the FBI is a former agent. Blitzer reminded Giuliani that in an October 28 interview on "The Lars Larson Show," the former mayor said he was in contact with former agents "and a few active agents, who obviously don't want to identify themselves." 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/03/meet-donald-trump-s-top-fbi-fanboy.html
Hours after Comey’s letter about the renewed probe was leaked on Friday, Giuliani went on a radio show . . . “The other rumor that I get is that there’s a kind of revolution going on inside the FBI about the original conclusion [not to charge Clinton] being completely unjustified and almost a slap in the face to the FBI’s integrity,” said Giuliani. “I know that from former agents. I know that even from a few active agents.” 

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/did-rudy-guiliani-take-selfie-house-he-was
Did Rudy Guiliani Take A Selfie At The House He Was Robbing?

http://beta.hotair.com/archives/2016/11/04/misdirection-giuliani-know-know/
What did Giuliani know, and when did he know it?

Who investigates the investigators? 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/04/what-if-fbi-rogues-subvert-the-election.html
What if FBI Rogues Subvert the Election?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there-s-a-problem-at-the-fbi
There's A Problem at the FBI 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/04/investigate-fbi-leaks-to-rudy-giuliani-top-democrats-tell-justice-department.html
Investigate FBI Leaks to Rudy Giuliani, Top Democrats Tell Justice Department 

Fox News has withdrawn their erroneous report that Clinton will be indicted -- but of course Trumpy keeps quoting it

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-cites-likely-indictment-fox-news

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/no-chuck-todd-all-murdoch-media-alike-and
CHUCK TODD: First of all, what is the status of the FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation?
PETE WILLIAMS: There really isn't one, few want to call it an investigation. That's a term of art in the FBI. There was an initial inquiry that was opened a couple months ago based largely on media reports and a book called "Clinton Cash."  

Kellyanne Conway is really getting on my nerves

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/conway-on-fox-clinton-indictment-story-the-damage-is-done.html
“The damage is done to Hillary Clinton,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC’s Pete Williams on Friday.  In a fleeting moment of delusional naïveté, one might have thought that Conway was expressing her dismay at the pernicious effect reckless journalism can have on a campaign — sure, she wants to defeat Clinton, but she wants to do so fair and square.  But Conway hastened to explain that the “damage” here was very good damage, because the inaccurate story helped the American people understand the truth about Hillary Clinton.  “No matter how it’s being termed, the voters are hearing it for what it is — a culture of corruption,” Conway explained.

I'm sure they'll get right on it -- expect leaked info right away

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mother-jones-report-dnc-headquarters-maybe-bugged
Report: DNC Told FBI Its Headquarters May Have Been Bugged

All of that is pretty outrageous, threatening the very foundations of democracy; but somehow I think THIS is what people will be talking about all weekend

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/donald-trump-once-again-target-malicious-gossip-haters-and-losers  
[WSJ] The company that owns the National Enquirer, a backer of Donald Trump, agreed to pay $150,000 to a former Playboy centerfold model for her story of an affair a decade ago with the Republican presidential nominee, but then didn’t publish it, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter. The tabloid-newspaper publisher reached an agreement in early August with Karen McDougal, the 1998 Playmate of the Year....Ms. McDougal expected her story about Mr. Trump to be published, people familiar with the matter said....A contract reviewed by the Journal gave American Media exclusive rights to Ms. McDougal’s story forever, but didn’t obligate the company to publish it and allowed the company to transfer those rights. It barred her from telling her story elsewhere.


Remember when Trumpy accepted a Purple Heart from a wounded vet -- a medal he doesn't deserve to TOUCH, let alone take from the guy who earned it? Well, he's at it again

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-purple-heart-226565
[August] 'I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-medal-of-honor-recepients-im-financially-brave
[Thursday] Donald Trump told a group of Medal of Honor recipients sitting on stage behind him at a Thursday night rally that he was “brave in other ways” than they had been. Acknowledging the war heroes sitting on stage behind him in Selma, North Carolina, Trump said “They’re so much more brave than me, I wouldn’t have done what they did." "I'm brave in other ways," he continued. "I'm brave -- I'm financially brave. Big deal, right? These are real brave."

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/04/1591077/-Trump-does-his-mind-reading-act-again-this-time-on-military-leaders
Trump does his mind-reading act again, this time on military leaders

Trumpy famously said about a protester at his event, "I'd like to punch him in the face." Watch how Obama deals with a protester at HIS rally, and then read how Trumpy mischaracterizes it

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-damaged-stupid-man 

Sex jokes at the latest Trump rally

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-sununu-bob-smith-mock-clinton-affairs 

Trumpy asks supporters what issues he should talk about

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/05/1590680/-Donald-Trump-s-Final-Case-for-America-is-like-the-candidate-himself-shallow-and-silly
Donald Trump's 'Final Case for America' is, like the candidate himself, shallow and silly

Jobs up, wages up, unemployment down. The Trump campaign calls this a "disastrous" jobs report. And it is -- for them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/04/u-s-economy-added-161000-jobs-in-october-as-unemployment-rate-dipped-to-4-9-percent/

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/04/us-employers-add-solid-161k-jobs-wages-up-by-most-since-09/

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/chart-day-net-new-jobs-october 

More: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-campaign-calls-jobs-report-disastrous-while-twitter-users-send-him-a-different-message-2016-11-04
Trump campaign calls jobs report ‘disastrous’ — while Twitter users send him a different message
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/04/the-economy-is-better-under-democratic-presidents/?utm_source=rss_plum-line
The economy is better under Democratic presidents 

You knew this was coming: Melania Trump worked illegally in this country under a temporary visitor visa

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/melania-trump-worked-in-us-illegally-without-a-work-visa

Could be more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/might-be-more-to-the-melania-story 

Melania Trump says that social media has gotten too mean. The obvious question is, What about your husband? Here is Kellyanne Conway's ridiculous attempt to deny the obvious

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/anderson-cooper-kellyanne-conway-trump-twitter-insults 

Fox World blows the lid off the dirtiest secret of the Clinton campaign: its satanic sympathies

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/04/drudge-and-the-alt-right-cite-wikileaks-to-claim-clinton-campaign-worships-satan.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/spirit-cooking-explained-satanic-ritual-or-fun-dinner.html

More: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/spirit-cooking-explained-non-insane
Apparently conservatives have lost whatever few marbles they had left.

Clinton on Trumpy's camo hat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/clinton-mocks-trumps-camo-hat/2016/11/04/921df142-a2d7-11e6-8864-6f892cad0865_video.html

Clinton ad: Trump's first year in the White House

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/04/hillary-clintons-terrifying-final-pitch-imagine-president-trumps-first-year-in-the-white-house/

The real Clinton email scandal -- the fact that there isn't one, and we keep being told there is (a MUST read!)

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13500018/clinton-email-scandal-bullshit 
In total, network newscasts have, remarkably, dedicated more airtime to coverage of Clinton’s emails than to all policy issues combined. . . . [read on]

The polls: take a deep breath

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/weekly-poll-update-slight-tightening-clinton-still-comfortably-ahead

One way to suppress the vote: fewer polling places

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13501120/vote-polling-places-election-2016

More: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13516462/north-carolina-republicans-voter-suppression
North Carolina Republicans are using one shameful trick after another to keep Democrats from voting 

Good that we still have courts

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/judge-to-issue-restraining-order-against-trump-camp-in-oh-voter-initimdation-case
A federal judge presiding over a voter intimidation lawsuit that the Ohio Democratic Party brought against Republicans said in a hearing in the case Friday that he intended to issue a restraining order against the Donald Trump campaign and former Trump adviser Roger Stone, Cleveland.com reported. . . . 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/north-carolina-naacp-voter-registration/
North Carolina counties must restore voters to rolls, judge rules 

African-American voting is down, but Latino voting is way up

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13521854/black-early-voting-enthusiasm-down
The simple reason black early voting is down, and why it shouldn’t worry Democrats too much

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-could-be-the-story-of-the-election
Across the country we're seeing huge run-ups in Hispanic early voting. That doesn't necessarily mean growth in the Hispanic vote overall - in theory, it can simply mean election day voters moving to early voting. But it's a strong indication that the overall turnout is going up when the numbers are at this level. It's up 100% in Florida, 60% in North Carolina and 25% in Colorado and Nevada. . . .

In other news . . . 

Why hasn't Christie been destroyed by Bridgegate? 

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13522608/bridgegate-convictions-christie-trump
2 ex-Christie aides were just convicted in Bridgegate. Christie is still running Trump’s transition.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/bridgegate-would-have-destroyed-a-normal-candidacy.html
Bridgegate Would Have Destroyed a Normal Candidacy

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/4/13529838/vox-sentences-bridgegate-trial-chris-christie
The Bridgegate trial made Chris Christie look even worse than people thought
 
More: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/christie-aides-guilty-bridgegate-christie-himself-still-large
"Though Ms. Kelly and Mr. Baroni were the only ones charged in the scandal, the trial suggested that Mr. Christie, who has maintained that he knew nothing about the scheme until after it had ended, was deeply involved. A top ally and key prosecution witness testified that Mr. Christie was told of the lane closings as they were occurring and Ms. Kelly said she discussed the shutdown with the governor before it happened."

Donald Trump agrees that Christie was involved. Here's what he said last year:      

"The GW Bridge, he knew about it,” Trump said during a speech in Mount Pleasant, S.C., of Christie’s involvement in the scandal, which has been dubbed “Bridgegate.”      “How do you have breakfast with people everyday of your lives. … They’re closing up the largest bridge in the world … they’re with them all the time,” Trump continued. “They never said ‘Hey boss, we’re closing up the George Washington Bridge.’ No, they’re talking about the weather right? So he knew about it. … He totally knew about it.”

Wow -- rumors that Paul Ryan might quit (already)

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/04/capitol-hill-rumor-mill-paul-ryan-may-resign-as-speaker-of-the-house/

Obamacare'a successes

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/05/1590797/-CDC-Uninsured-rate-at-an-all-time-low
Uninsured rate at an all-time low

Bonus item: A few great political cartoons

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/cutting-to-chase.html

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CONSPIRACY THEORIES

I want to know more about Giuliani, the NY office of the FBI, and the unauthorized Clinton leaks

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/03/1590544/-FBI-needs-to-investigate-why-the-FBI-is-suddenly-so-leaky
FBI needs to investigate why the FBI is suddenly so leaky

More: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-report-raises-fresh-doubts-about-the-fbi
New report raises fresh doubts about the FBI

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/rogue-fbi-agents-are-latest-victims-cds
Rogue FBI Agents

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/republican-partisans-fbi-arent-even-afraid
FBI agents can leak damaging information about Clinton with impunity in part because a Republican Congress is never going to investigate or push back on partisan law-enforcement interventions on their behalf, even if they’re wildly inappropriate. . . .

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/fbi-leaks-hillary-clinton-james-comey-donald-trump
'The FBI is Trumpland' 

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/04/fbis-clinton-smear-campaign-is-no-surprise-and-has-weird-echoes-of-the-90s/
FBI’s Clinton smear campaign is no surprise — and has weird echoes of the ’90s
 
https://thinkprogress.org/fbi-launches-internal-investigation-into-its-own-twitter-account-8d5fc2a81fdc#.mu0v7n4sx
FBI launches internal investigation into its own Twitter account

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fbi-leaks-idUSKBN12Y2QD
FBI Director James Comey was driven in part by a fear of leaks from within his agency when he decided to tell Congress the FBI was investigating newly discovered emails related to Hillary Clinton, law enforcement sources said on Thursday. . . .  

Fox News says, without evidence, that a Clinton indictment is "likely," fitting Trump's false narrative

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/surprise-bret-baier-has-walk-back-clinton
Here is Bret Baier on Fox News this morning, in the light of day, explaining why he now has to walk back his breathless nighttime report about "possible indictments" connected to the Clinton Foundation. 

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/11/03/trump-runs-unsubstantiated-fox-news-report-smear-clinton/214273
Trump Runs With Unsubstantiated Fox News Report To Smear Clinton

More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lotta-bs-in-that-clinton-fdn-fbi-story
Lotta BS in That Clinton Fdn FBI Story

Three names you never expected to hear together

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501710/putin-assange-comey-clinton-email-server-scandal-donald-trump
Putin, Assange, and Comey are doing Donald Trump’s work for him
 
As election day nears, the rhetoric against Clinton gets absurd

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/homeland-security-chairman-says-hillary-clinton-committed-treason
GOP Homeland Security Chairman: Hillary Clinton Committed 'Treason'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/north-carolina-gop-leader-pulls-out-handcuffs-for-clinton-on-national-tv
North Carolina GOP Leader Pulls Out Handcuffs For Clinton On National TV

A moment of sanity (!??) from Darrell Issa: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/issa-clinton-impeachment-calm-down
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who is locked in a tight re-election race, on Wednesday told Republicans already threatening to impeach Hillary Clinton before she is even elected to "calm down" because it will never happen. . .

The Republicans promise total war if Clinton wins. They think that might scare people from voting for her. I think that's exactly backwards

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/03/republicans-are-now-vowing-total-war-and-the-consequences-could-be-immense/?utm_source=rss_plum-line
 
In a different world this would be major news. My guess is you never even heard about it

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-income-revenue-personal-financial-disclosure
NY Times: Docs Don't Back Up Income Trump Reported In Financial Disclosures

Melania Trump brutally calls out her husband Donald in her campaign speech. Go Melania!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/melania-trump-warns-about-dangers-of-social-media-in-campaign-speech-191805544.html
One of her top priorities, she said, would be to curb cyberbullying . . .“As we know, now social media is a centerpiece of our lives. It can be a useful tool for connection and communication . . .Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough . . .” she added. . . “We have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other.”

More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/03/melania-trump-wife-of-a-bully-promises-she-d-be-tough-on-bullying-as-flotus.html

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13512088/melania-trump-social-media-cyberbullying 

In case you had any doubts that Trumpy is being coached not to say what he thinks and wants to say

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-pensacola-stay-on-track-donald
“We’ve gotta be nice and cool,” Trump said to himself after predicting an Election Day victory. “Nice and cool. All right? Stay on point, Donald. Stay on point. No sidetracks, Donald. Nice and easy. Niiiiice.” 

And he said this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-temperament_us_581b75d3e4b0b8e11a135eac
“I’m also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has,” Trump said.

Watch: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-11-03/hillary-clinton-mocks-donald-trump-s-greatest-temperament
Hillary Clinton Mocks Donald Trump’s ‘Greatest Temperament’ 

New Trump ad makes the insane connection that Hillary's emails ended up "on a pervert's computer"

http://beta.hotair.com/archives/2016/11/03/new-trump-ad-hillarys-emails-found-perverts-laptop-know/

A pervert, huh? http://crooksandliars.com/2016/10/trump-busted-miss-teen-usa-dressing-rooms
Trump Busted In On Miss Teen USA Dressing Rooms To Ogle 15 Year Olds 

In case anyone ever believed Trump's phony claims to religion

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/trump-decides-bible-isnt-quite-as-good-as-his-own-two-books.html
Trump Decides the Bible Isn’t Quite As Good As Two of His Own Books 

File this under "the kind of people they are"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/violent-people
Eric Trump told a Denver radio station that David Duke "deserves a bullet."

Trumpy continues his attacks on the media, calling out one reporter by name (and inciting an angry crowd against her). Kellyanne Conway tries to do damage control

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/kellyanne-conway-refuses-address-trumps 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/03/in-the-end-trumps-bullying-and-misogyny-may-seal-his-doom/?utm_source=rss_plum-line
 
Katy Tur responds: http://www.salon.com/2016/11/03/watch-journalist-katy-tur-responds-after-donald-trump-bullies-her-in-front-of-4000-people  [Watch!]

Coming: Trump TV?

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/03/fox-news-obtains-casting-notice-for-up-and-coming-conservative-media-network-fears-its-trump-tv/

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/keith-olbermann-portrays-scary-trump-tv

The Founders were very suspicious of the rise of political parties. Now we see why

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/03/three-charts-make-painfully-simple-how-american-politics-became-so-messed-up/

The case for Clinton

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13318750/hillary-clinton-vision-government

"Vote trading"

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13478042/third-party-clinton-vote-trading

Partisan voter suppression is a FACT

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/more-gop-emails-emerge-that-urged-nc-elections-officials-to-limit-early-voting
More GOP Emails Emerge That Urged NC Elections Officials To Limit Early Voting

More: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/dems-goper-s-mention-of-rnc-in-poll-training-call-shows-they-violated-decree
In legal action claiming that the Republican National Committee was illegally engaged in ballot security activities, Democrats are pointing to a conference call in which a Republican operative mentioned that certain GOP ballot security initiatives in Virginia were being handled by the RNC, before quickly walking the comment back. . . . 

Trump and company are circulating ridiculous "election polls"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/03/this-new-map-from-donald-trumps-campaign-is-unnecessarily-ridiculous/

More: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/where-are-all-fake-docs-coming
Trump leads Clinton 77-19

In other news . . . 

Black church burned in Mississippi, "Vote Trump" painted on the side. The Trump campaign condemns it, but Trump supporter David Duke thinks it's pretty cool

http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/33592564/church-in-greenville-burned-and-spray-painted-vote-trump

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/03/1590394/-Trump-supporter-David-Duke-gets-a-good-laugh-out-of-destroyed-black-church

Chances of a Democratic Senate looking good

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/03/1590469/-Daily-Kos-Elections-2016-forecast-Dems-Senate-chances-are-peaking-at-the-right-time

Nine women: http://www.emilyslist.org/candidates/gallery/senate  

ISIS on the run? (But, but, but. . . Trumpy told us they were WINNING)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/03/1590569/-Iraqi-forces-enter-Mosul-engage-ISIS-evacuate-civilians-and-ruin-Trump-s-talking-points

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/11/03/quick-takes-from-inside-the-battle-to-retake-mosul

Brexit may not happen

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/high-court-throws-spanner-brexit-works

The other shoe drops, Megyn Kelly says Roger Ailes sexually harassed her too

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/megyn-kelly-roger-ailes-harrasment

Bonus item: Seth Meyers compares the Trump and Clinton scandals

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/3/13507626/seth-meyers-trump-clinton-scandals

Extra bonus item: If the Republican Congress was your co-worker

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/gop-tantrums-starring-chris-pine.html

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