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https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/08/22/place-your-bets-whats-trumps-october-surprise/... List of past surprises ...
First three of many:
conjures Nikki Haley replacing Pence in early October.
What's your favorite POS that the orange turd and friends will pull?
dchill
(38,324 posts)Upside down Bible courses.
erronis
(14,955 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Kill & debilitate at many Americans as possible.
Also, some new sort of bs about Kamala.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)Who has been the ace in the hole for Trump all along. They have been saving him for last.
davekriss
(4,608 posts)Itll be the Comeyfication of the 2020 election. Indictments coming!, theyll scream. More investigations! Then, after frightening enough low-information voters into the Republican camp, there will be a quiet little reversal of their claims, admissions that there was nothing there at all. But thatll come too late for us, Trump will have stolen a second election.
At least these are my thoughts on my darkest days. We (the nation) cant be that dumb to allow it to happen again, right? ...Right?
mucifer
(23,374 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)Siwsan
(26,177 posts)I'm actually wondering if he might run out of October Surprises, well before October.
Well, that and his leaky administration anonymously tipping off reporters.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Siwsan
(26,177 posts)I first time saw the movie on one of those Friday night spooky movie shows - I think it was 'The Ghoul', out of Detroit. The second time was on MST3K.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)I dont think any/all will have much impact. The only thing that will move the needle significantly is if case/death rate drops dramatically, and if economy/employment improves dramatically.
In addition, if Trump waits until October for his surprises, half of Americans will have already voted.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)I think day of or day after Joes speech. I first saw it teased on a QAnon site on twitter.
Turned out to be doctors opining on Joes cognitive decline. That kind of fizzled after he knocked it out of the park, ha.
malaise
(267,824 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,491 posts)Biden has run for VP twice. He has been vetted 6 ways Sunday. Because of the 24 hour news cycle, I don't see how there could be anything that explosive. Unless it's Trump's tax returns that show he doesn't really have that much money.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)It'll have to be something incomprehensibly huge to get him re-elected.
But, I'm hoping for a resignation, followed by a quick blanket pardon from Prez Pence, for all past, present, and future federal crimes. Then it will seem like just a normal day in the Reptilian Party.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Caravan gonna get ya!!