An October Surprise ?

[kentuck]

It's looking more and more like there may an "October surprise" in this upcoming election. Who knows if the NYTimes or the Washington Post are sitting on a story and waiting for the appropriate time to drop it? There are still outstanding questions on both candidates.

Will there be a new bombshell in the Clinton emails? Or is there a smoking gun in the files of the Clinton Global Initiative?

Or are there more questions about Donald Trump's tax returns? Or his connections to Chinese and Russian banks? Does he owe them hundreds of millions of dollars?

I will not be surprised to see an "October surprise".

[NightWatcher]

1. Clinton Email Surprise- she was receiving emails from a Nigerian Prince about assisting him

in moving his wealth out of the country.

[misterhighwasted]

2. You omitted the full context of the story.

Why the damning statement without the full context?
A link would be helpful. Otherwise your post sounds like a serious attack on the Dem Candidate here in DU.
Thanks

[demmiblue]

6. .

It was a joke (Nigerian scammers).

[misterhighwasted]

9. Then maybe add the sarcasm gif.

[demmiblue]

10. It is not needed. n/t

[misterhighwasted]

15. Well apparantly it was needed.

[rock]

23. In speaking

We usually have a snarky tone to go with an ironic remark (the visual equivalent is the SARCASM icon). But not always. Sometimes we deliver a sarcastic statement deadpan (when, for example, it's really, really obvious).

[cwydro]

22. I got it.

No sarcasm emoji needed.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Nigerian 419 scams are such common knowledge that no marker is needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_(novel)

419 Eater: The largest Scam-baiting community: http://www.419eater.com/
419 Eater Hall of Shame: http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame.htm

[misterhighwasted]

33. Why are you continuing this conversation? An error in reading a post with no identification as to it

..being a "joke" was made.
Its a non issue with no reason to continue .
So why the need to discuss a non issue. ?

There are far greater subjects to discuss today. Like the well deserved beating Cannova is about to take in Fl.
The usurper will lose for running a crappy campaign based on spite & revenge.
Even Sen Sanders couldn't find a reason to campaign for him.
Says it all.
Have fun!

[Frank Cannon]

8. You're kidding, right?

This election has been so full of Poe 's Law WTFs, that it's impossible to tell when someone's joking.

[misterhighwasted]

11. Correct. It is impossible to tell when someone's joking.

Include the sarcasm gif or A few LOLs.

[Frank Cannon]

12. A joke THAT obvious probably didn't need one, though.

Most of us are familiar with Nigerian e-mail scams. I thought it was pretty funny. It was you I was concerned about.

[misterhighwasted]

17. Ya we've all heard the joke, but considering all the damning "jokes"

posted here & intentionally made towards her, its become hard to tell the difference.
Use a gif or a quick LOL.
otherwise it may indeed be taken serious.

I would have appreciated that. Rather than be mocked with a "fool joke gif".
Holy fuck..

[phylny]

24. Nigerian Prince pretty much tags it as a joke. n/t

[PatSeg]

25. Very funny

I don't understand the overreaction, unless that is also a joke.

[LanternWaste]

34. Then a sarcasm gif to the OP may be in order...

Then a sarcasm gif to the OP may be in order... as a Trump October surprise is little more than a joke itself.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. It's a common scam

A nigerian prince has money for you if you would only give him your checking account number, social security number, and ship him your first born child via UPS.

Believe it or not - people fall for it.

Although - I think about a week/week and a half ago one of the worst offenders got taken down.

https://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/get-consumer-help/articles/the-nigerian-prince-old-scam-new-twist

http://gizmodo.com/we-found-the-best-nigerian-prince-email-scam-in-the-gal-1758786973

[brush]

4. Lololololol! Welcome to the club, Hillary.

[Stuckinthebush]

13. Winner

Well, played!

[Happyhippychick]

16. Seriously. And because of her my $5,000,000,000,000,000 from him won't be here until next week.

That's it, not voting for her.

Here's the obligatory tag lest someone think I'm really not voting for her.

[JustAnotherGen]

20. And she responded

With the Queen of England's address! I normally do!

[edbermac]

28. Alerted on.

I left it. Alerter obviously not aware of Nigerian scammers.

[brooklynite]

3. ...and the reason they would hold off on running the story NOW would be...what?

Please tell me this isn't a lazy conspiracy theory about how their "in the tank" for Trump.

[kentuck]

14. Then it wouldn't be an "October surprise".

It's just that there are so many loose stories out there and somebody is probably investigating as we speak. Sometimes it just takes longer to put it together?

Sometimes conspiracy theories are true.

[brooklynite]

18. Except that you suggested that they were "sitting on a story".

[kentuck]

21. Yes, I did ask if they were sitting on a story?

You can call it a conspiracy theory if you like.

Are you suggesting they would never sit on a story?

(on edit) Another suggestion I would make is to look out for what might come out from FBI Director Comey?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. I believe that the NYT sat on the warantless wiretapping story in 2004

which helped Bush. I have little doubt that the MSM might be sitting on a potentially explosive Hillary story but OTOH why wait?

[HereSince1628]

5. whatever we know in last days of August, it won't be much surprise in Oct

I suppose what we don't know in August, could surprise us in Oct.

And I suppose there is a need to have a discussion of what we know we don't know, so that we can know how we should act when we find out we know.

But even knowing that, it seems that a surprise would require us to not know what we will know until we know it.

Ya, know?

[brush]

7. The repugs will try something. In 2012 it was the "Muhammed" . . .

video funded by shady characters here (Gellar comes to mind) and Romney was waiting in the wings to exploit it.

It didn't work as the Benghazi incident which happened almost simultaneously, overshadowed it.

The repugs have milked that cow though forever.

I hope the Dems are holding something in reserve too to spring on Trump and his sleazy staff. They're not the only ones who can play that game. And there's so much on Trump it doesn't have to be concocted, made-up stuff like what the repugs traffic in.

[PatSeg]

27. With Trump

there are enough scandals for 100 "October surprises". I can't believe the media isn't covering them more.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Putin might make a geopolitical move in October to frighten the Grumpy Old Paranoids & wobbly folk

Assange threatens a WikiLeaks October surprise.

[Coyotl]

31. Another "Who knows if" fear-monger post? Really?

What about a tomorrow surprise, or a Thursday surprise? Maybe a Sunday surprise? Maybe a November surprise?

Will there be a surprise? One of the reasons candidates do op research is to do the surprise. So, there usually are a few of them. Will they be game changing bombshells?NO, emphatically. Game changers are dropped earlier so they have time to take effect.

[NCTraveler]

32. Nothing from Clintons emails will be a surprise.

Republicans fucked themselves on this one with the drip....drip...drip.

People see it for what it is. What are they going to do? Look.... We have the smoking gun this time. No. Really.

I love the email brigade.

[Lee-Lee]

35. Trumps ties to organized crime

He had lots going back to his big real estate days.