Another weekend, another 20 million awful stories about Donald Trump. Before I get into Trump’s deplorable shenanigans, let me just spend a moment on Rush Limbaugh, because I honestly think Rush made some comments that will end up defining this election in a really horrible way. Last week, Rush was bloviating in his usual way about liberal conspiracies when he hit upon a new conspiracy: consent. As in, liberals believe that whatever happens between consenting adults is fine. Rush pointed that out like it’s a bad thing, like “consent” is a dirty word, that “consent” is ruining Trump’s chances. That’s how far down the rabbit hole we are at this point: conservative thinkers believe that the concept and reality of consent in sexual relations is a negative thing. Think about that. Think about what that says about rape culture that 40% of the population buys that. As for Trump… here are the most deplorable stories.

Donald Trump was not impressed with HRC. As Trump flails around at rallies, he’s been going off-Teleprompter and he’s been saying some truly and profoundly disturbing things. He returned to Hillary’s performance at the second debate, the same debate where he literally stalked Hillary around the dais, and this is what he said: “I’m standing at my podium and she walks in front of me, right. She walks in front of me, you know. And when she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn’t impressed.” As in, Donald Trump doesn’t like the way Hillary Clinton looks. Because that’s the worst insult he can lodge at her, because he’s a f—king child.

Speaking of objectifying women. Trump has also been flailing around as he tries to say something incriminating about the multiple women accusing him of sexual harassment and assault. On Friday, we discussed how Trump had dismissed People journalist Natasha Stoynoff’s claims of assault by saying “look at her, I don’t think so.” As in, Trump is so classy, he only harasses and assaults beautiful women. Well, he said something similar about Jessica Leeds, the woman who claims Trump assaulted her on a plane. Trump told his audience: “Yeah, I’m going to go after her. Believe me, she would not be my first choice. That I can tell you. You don’t know, that would not be my first choice.” THAT. Not her. THAT. Remind you of the P-ssy tape, when he referred to an actress as “it”?

Sniffles McSnorts-a-lot wants Hillary to take a drug test. Again, the conversation has never been about Hillary seeming like she’s on drugs. Trump is the one who can’t get through a 90 minute debate without sniffling like a cokehead. But Trump still wants Hillary to take a drug test, saying: “At the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped at the beginning, but at the end she was all ‘take me down.’ She could barely reach her car. I think we should take a drug test. Anyway, I’m willing to do it.” Good. Take a drug test, Sniffles.

What else? Many media outlets are struggling to keep ongoing and updated lists of all of the women coming out with sexual assault and harassment stories – Vox is keeping a detailed list, which you can read here. Politico has also been trying to report (with a straight face) how unhinged Trump has been sounding over the past few days especially. And I haven’t even spent any time discussing Trump’s dog-whistle anti-Semitism. Ugh…

So let’s end this on a nice note? Our lovely neighbors to the north understand that we here in the US need a little pep talk. And since Canadians are the sweetest and most polite people in the world, they made us a little video to tell us how much they love us. Thank you, Canada! We don’t even deserve to have such nice neighbors.

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