10 Thoughts on Donald for October 13, 2016

Truly, Donald has opened the floodgates to Hell, that not a single day goes by without at least a handful of events blowing up in his face.

1. NYT Lawsuit: Donald threatened the NYT with a libel lawsuit. That's all it is, a threat. He can't go there because going there would give the NYT the room to get testimony from people involved with The Apprentice and use it to serve as the underpinning for a subpoena for their videos. Those videos establish a pattern of Donald's state of mind through the years, through his own words and actions. If he files that lawsuit, his brand is dead. The NYT is taunting him. His fans are clueless about what will happen if he sues the NYT. 
2. Falwell Backlash: Jerry Falwell Jr.'s getting some heavy backlash from students at his Liberty University, and for good reason. Among the many things he's done is to elevate himself to the position of God Almighty, telling everyone that he knows who is and isn't redeemable. That's blasphemy and dangerous theology. But also, he's casually accepted Donald's faults as a sexual predator, leaving many people incredulous.
3. Utah Mormons: Utah, overwhelmingly Mormon, is an extremely conservative state. On the surface, it seems surprising that Hillary is locked in a tight race here, but it's not because she's popular. Utah is splitting its overwhelming majority of conservative votes three ways between Donald, Evan McMullin, and Gary Johnson. McMullin, a Mormon himself, could pull more votes than Donald, and doing so would deliver Utah to Hillary. Every revelation of Donald's improprieties brings this possibility to reality.
4. Creepy Donald: Despite the recent video and outpouring of women alleging sexual assault, the two stories that carry the most weight right now are the rape allegations of a 13-year old girl, and the audio of Donald talking to a little girl about how he'll end up dating her in 10 years. Overlay the words contained in Jane Doe's lawsuit with this audio and you have something that will creep out everyone far more than anything else, because no one will vote for a pedophile.
5. Unshackled: It wasn't a question of "if" but "when" Donald would unshackle his inner demons. The only people who want Donald shackled are Establishment Republicans. Everyone else wants to see the unhinged Donald. His supporters need the red meat he offers; Democrats use his own words against him.
6. Wikileaks: Julian Assange and Wikileaks are now actively interfering in US elections, helping elect Donald. As the heat on Donald has been turned up, Wikileaks has responded with additional dumps. Last Tuesday they promised weekly dumps; instead, we've gotten dumps every other day, all because of the sudden turn of events last Friday. The press has caught on, choosing to either ignore them or carefully examine and confirm the contents before reporting on them...well, except Breitbart of course. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop ignoring you, right?
7. YOTW: Yes people, it is, truly, finally, the  Year of the Woman. The only proof you need is to see the audience of Hillary's rallies and the voices we're hearing. Therefore, you could not possibly imagine a greater contrast to powerful women than Donald the Groper. Donald is the perfect literary foil -- the antagonist -- for the YOTW, where a strong woman conquers the weak, little man.
8. Zero Endorsements: Not a single daily newspaper in the entire nation has endorsed Donald for President -- I'm not making this up. There is one weekly -- the Las Vegas Tribune -- who offered up an endorsement, but the paper is a moribund publication run out of a house that was converted to an office space, whose FB page hasn't been updated in a year. By contrast, in 2012 Romney had dozens of endorsements from daily newspapers.
9. Zero RNC TV Ad Spending: How much has the RNC spent on TV ads for Donald? Zero. You read that right, zilch. Perhaps, even the RNC realizes that Donald is an outlier? The folly here is that Donald seemingly refuses to spend copious amounts of money on his own campaign, despite previously claiming that he would self-fund it.
10. Bill is Donald's Krypton: Attacking Bill increases sympathy for Hillary -- so says years of evidence from Republican strategists -- which is why Democrats aren't trying to stop Donald from engaging his delusions. You know who is trying to stop Donald? Republicans. Humorously, Donald believes there is hypocrisy in how people treat him compared to Bill, apparently having forgotten what Bill went through in the late-90s including that impeachment trial.