"Women Will Be The Reason" (And Robert DeNiro Unloads On Trump)

The Clinton campaign jumps on the Category 5 Trumpicane:



BONUS:  Tell what you really think about Trump, Robert DeNiro --

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Some of our favorites (so far - stay tuned for rolling updates):

"What is it going to take for Republicans to discover even the barest modicum of decency and respect?" - Harry Reid on GOP standing by Trump

— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) October 8, 2016

You apparently can say whatever you want about Mexicans, Hispanics & Black people, but the Republican Party draws the line on white women.

— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) October 8, 2016

Happening already: press treating this as pearl-clutching over “vulgarity” instead of anger at an assdouche who doesn’t see women as human.

— emily nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) October 7, 2016

2016 GOP autopsy: unqualified nominee who said a lot of racist stuff worked better than you'd think, but sexual assault jokes sunk us.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 8, 2016

It’s too bad for GOP elected officials that there was literally no way they could have known before today that Trump was a gross misogynist.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 8, 2016

This @realDonaldTrump video statement is about the most unconvincing piece of video by anyone not in an orange jumpsuit.

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 8, 2016

Who will be the first to produce the hat "Make America Grope Again?"

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 8, 2016

Trump's a racist. Bigot. Misogynist. Boasts of grabbing a woman's pussy. What the hell else do GOP leaders need to renounce this guy? What??

— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) October 8, 2016

I know everyone is going to jump on Donald Trump for admitting to serial sexual battery on tape, but try to remember Hillary once had a cold

— Daniel Roberts (@DRobertsIMG) October 7, 2016

If Trump thought being a reality show star gave him licence to grab women's genitalia, what will being president allow him to do?

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 7, 2016

remember that this is the sack of shit insisting we can't let immigrant men in because they'll assault women

— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) October 7, 2016

Trump spoiler alert: There's worse stuff out there.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) October 8, 2016

The Category 5 Trumpicane

The burgeoning crisis enveloping the campaign of neo-fascist misogynist Donald "Rump" Trump over obscene comment he made about women -- the attempted adultery, the predatory sexual assault / groping, the vulgar language used -- has potentially done the damage that countless offensive statements in the past haven't. If there were any wavering "independents" or Rethugs on the fence, this development will give them a reason to withdraw their support from Rump. It won't have an impact on his hard-core supporters, the delusional "deplorables" who have brushed away every past offense he's committed. We're also awaiting self-righteous statements from right-wing "evangelicals" that support him, excusing their man's obscene remarks (expect a "hate the sin, not the sinner" tact from these outrageous hypocrites).

It's also enveloped the Rethuglican / New Confederate / Stupid / Shooters Party, as elected officials from Sen. Mitch "Missy" McConnell and Speaker Paul "Lyin'" Ryan, to fossil Sen. John "McNasty" McCain and ever-thirsty Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio condemned Rump and tried to distance themselves from his vile language. Few if any Rethug politicians are going to want to appear on stage with this sick buffoon. Down ballot Rethugs in contested states like North Carolina, New Hampshire, Arizona and Missouri are running away from the orange sexual predator in order to save themselves, but with four weeks left before the election, it may be too late.

Yesterday, Rump issued an "if anyone was offended"- type statement, before being forced to issue a cursory and defiant video "apology" early this morning. In a hint of what might come in tomorrow's debate, he immediately turned to a cheap attack on Secretary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton's sexual peccadillos. If he thinks that's a smart strategy -- attack a woman for her husband's infidelity -- he's going to have a very bad night. He's going down.

UPDATE: While the major collateral damage over this scandal will be to the Rethuglicans, it's also going to affect the career of celebrity brown-noser Billy Bush, child of the Bush political family and Dumbya's cousin. He was egging Rump on and supplying some vulgar lines of his own.  He's issued an apology, but whether it will keep him on as co-host of the Today Show remains to be seen (also, is NBC a full-employment company for Bushes, e.g. Billy, Jenna?). Maybe a Bush will ultimately have a hand in Rump's downfall after all. Bwahahaha.