Seth takes a closer look at President Trump whining about the media’s coverage of COVID-19 and signaling his intent to steal the election through the Supreme Court.
FT, GOTV, WE WIN IF WE VOTE. Here’s to the end of trumpland.
And now here’s some cuteness to brighten your night.
Every dog deserves their very own Happy-Ever-After
Every - single - dog
1-pound puppy left in a box on the curb is so loved now — and learning to growl! ❤️️❤️️❤️️ pic.twitter.com/H0O4jMXUAk— Al 🅖🅓🅐🅓➊ Criswell (@Gdad1) October 29, 2020
Biden’s new AG Hillary Clinton will be looking into his funny loans too. What about his $90k credit card debt? Hillary will find out.
Sounds like he didn’t want to pay extra for the briefcase-handcuffed-to-henchman tier of service. https://t.co/xozPwkxAjH
— J. Elvis Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) October 29, 2020
Eye of Zeta now halfway through Mississippi. It’ll be on the east coast by tomorrow.
Louisiana has had a record 5 hurricanes hit it his season.
And, long range models are throwing up scaring scenarios of another hurricane forming in the Caribbean late next week.
What is happening
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) October 29, 2020
OMG please please take this off the Internet this is horrifying
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) October 29, 2020
This is cyber bullying
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) October 29, 2020
re: #3 bratwurst
Sounds like he didn’t want to pay extra for the briefcase-handcuffed-to-henchman tier of service.
You never use a bicycle messenger if they won’t pee in the bottle.
re: #5 gocart mozart
They are having way too much fun and I am here for it. We need light-hearted optimism in these dangerous times.
re: #2 BigPapa
Biden’s new AG Hillary Clinton will be looking into his funny loans too. What about his $90k credit card debt? Hillary will find out.
I mean if we are going to go petty with the AG appointment, isn’t Obama the play?
Sure would be nice if we had a President who held Russia accountable https://t.co/cdar8fWbRu
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) October 29, 2020
“…In the past, ransomware infections at hospitals have downed patient record-keeping databases, which critically store up-to-date medical information, affecting hospitals’ ability to provide healthcare.
Two of the three consultants familiar with the attacks said the cyber criminals were commonly using a type of ransomware known as “Ryuk,” which locks up a victim’s computer until a payment is received.
The teleconference call participant said government officials disclosed that the attackers used Ryuk and another trojan, known as Trickbot, against the hospitals.”
re: #8 KGxvi
I mean if we are going to go petty with the AG appointment, isn’t Obama the play?
No. He’s too nice. I want a fucking pitbull.
We disagree with Tucker Carlson on the issues, but no one should ever lose their mail. Joe will make sure the USPS receives the funding it needs to prevent this from happening, and end Trump and DeJoy’s efforts to sabotage it so that people like Tucker can get their mail on time.
— Biden | Harris War Room (Text JOE to 30330) (@BidenWarRoom) October 29, 2020
re: #8 KGxvi
I mean if we are going to go petty with the AG appointment, isn’t Obama the play?
Maybe Michelle, but I don’t think Barack can server anywhere in the line of succession.
re: #11 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
No. He’s too nice. I want a fucking pitbull.
Attorney General Preet Bharara!
re: #13 danarchy
Maybe Michelle, but I don’t think Barack can server anywhere in the line of succession.
Yes, he can. The only office he couldn’t hold would be VP, because that is it’s job, to be ready to be president. All other positions can be skipped over if the person isn’t qualified.
Trump: “Kamala. Kamala. You know, if you don’t pronounce her name exactly right, she gets very angry at you.” (No.) “And then she starts - you know what she does when she gets angry? She starts laughing. Like she did on 60 Minutes. Uncontrollable laughs. That means she’s angry.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 29, 2020
She’s living in his head. Laughing at the wide open spaces.
Explore the Orion Constellation in Astounding Detail with This 2.5 Gigapixel Image That Took Five Years to Complete, This is Colossal
For the past five years, Chattanooga-based astrophotographer Matt Harbison has poured more than 500 hours into capturing the minute details of the Orion constellation, an immense undertaking that’s culminated in a stunning 2.5 gigapixel image. In its entirety, “Project Orion” is composed of 2,508 individual shots meticulously stitched together into a fiery, star-studded mosaic.
Glorious!
Oh I want this ass arrested!
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller claimed Wednesday, without evidence, that a Biden administration would “incentivize child smuggling and child trafficking on an epic, global scale.”
He made the inflammatory accusations “in his personal capacity as a campaign adviser” on a Trump campaign call with reporters.
What. The. CENSORED.
re: #5 gocart mozart
That had me laughing out loud.
re: #12 jaunte
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World-Grandmaster-level trolling, there: that’s the talent I like to see in a President……
re: #17 jaunte
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She’s living in his head. Laughing at the wide open spaces.
That’s the self-serving false narrative of a narcissist. Has anyone mentioned this man may be a narcissist?
re: #17 jaunte
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Also complaining about someone else complaining when you mispronounce their name (over and over again) is the height of Whitey McWhiterson bullshit.
re: #24 Jack Burton
Also complaining about someone else complaining when you mispronounce their name (over and over again) is the height of Whitey McWhiterson bullshit.
Racist douchebag gonna racist douchebag.
Side note. It still to this day makes my ass twitch that apparently no one in the United States (who isn’t me or Iranian) can pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s name correctly.
when someone you trust finally touches you and you realize youve been starved for physical affection all your life pic.twitter.com/UUbzA1IrDk
— Akki (@akkitwts) October 29, 2020
re: #26 Jack Burton
Side note. It still to this day makes my ass twitch that apparently no one in the United States (who isn’t me or Iranian) can pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s name correctly.
Is it close to “Mahkh-mood Ahkh-ma-di-neh-jahd”?
re: #29 A Three Hour Tour
Is it close to “Mahkh-mood Ahkh-ma-di-neh-jahd”?
More like Mach-mood (with a nice phlegmy soft “ch” on the first syllable)
re: #13 danarchy
Maybe Michelle, but I don’t think Barack can server anywhere in the line of succession.
Actually, I think the Constitution (22nd Amendment) is ambiguous about the issue: it explicitly states that no one can be elected President more than twice (or once if serving more than half of someone else’s term): the issue of whether or not a former POTUS might succeed to the office again isn’t addressed. And, so far, has never even come up close enough to be tested.
re: #30 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
More like Mach-mood (with a nice phlegmy soft “ch” on the first syllable)
My “kh” was supposed to represent an aspirated “k” sound, like the “ch” in “Mach” or “Bach.”
Don’t get me started on Brits who insist on pronouncing Mach and Bach like “mack” and “back.”
re: #29 A Three Hour Tour
Is it close to “Mahkh-mood Ahkh-ma-di-neh-jahd”?
ARGGGH there’s no damn K sound anywhere in it. It’s “kind of but barely” a ch-ish sound that’s the best description. A really lazy listening of it might lead people to think that at first. That probably explains European-versions of native and asian place and peoples names though.
I thought Limbaugh and Hannity were doing it to be asshats… then I heard *everyone* else doing it to.
It’s like nails on Chalkboard to me MAKKKKKMOOOD ACKKKKMEDINNEJAD!
re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Funny: very nice pic:
but I also saw this bit just posted tonite on Balloon Juice
I like this story better.
It doesn’t even OCCUR to Gidley that she’s referring to putting the residents at risk. JHC
— Laura Winig (@lwinig) October 28, 2020
re: #33 Jack Burton
ARGGGH there’s no damn K sound anywhere in it. It’s “kind of but barely” a ch-ish sound that’s the best description. A really lazy listening of it might lead people to think that at first. That probably explains European-versions of native and asian place and peoples names though.
I though Limbaugh and Hannity were doing it to be asshats… then I heard *everyone* else doing it to.
It’s like nails on Chalkboard to me MAKKKKKMOOOD ACKKKKMEDINNEJAD!
It sounds like you’re describing a sound that falls somewhere between a “sh” and a “ch.”
re: #33 Jack Burton
ARGGGH there’s no damn K sound anywhere in it. It’s “kind of but barely” a ch-ish sound that’s the best description. A really lazy listening of it might lead people to think that at first. That probably explains European-versions of native and asian place and peoples names though.
I thought Limbaugh and Hannity were doing it to be asshats… then I heard *everyone* else doing it to.
It’s like nails on Chalkboard to me MAKKKKKMOOOD ACKKKKMEDINNEJAD!
Well there is the “khet” ח sound in Hebrew which is the hard, back-of-the-throat KHHHHHH and then there is the aspirated “ch” which is softer, like Russian “X” or German “ch”
This sound, the hard & the soft, doesn’t exist in English but Scots comes close to it with words like “loch”
re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron
That’s a dead-eyed sociopath.
re: #37 A Three Hour Tour
It sounds like you’re describing a sound that falls somewhere between a “sh” and a “ch.”
It’s like trying to make the ch sound in “Bach” and also leaving the C silent at the same time. I’m sure there’s a word for this in linguistics, but I don’t know it. It’s just different enough from a full ch or kh to stand out like a sore thumb to me when I hear it.
So, here’s Mike Lee comparing Donald Trump to Captain Moroni (a hero in the Book of Mormon) and then modifying a verse of LDS scripture to include the words “fake news.” https://t.co/iLzoQaAcm3
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) October 29, 2020
“Does not seek the praise of the world.”
So it’s insanely unbelievable lying that’s going to work?
re: #33 Jack Burton
ARGGGH there’s no damn K sound anywhere in it. It’s “kind of but barely” a ch-ish sound that’s the best description. A really lazy listening of it might lead people to think that at first. That probably explains European-versions of native and asian place and peoples names though.
I thought Limbaugh and Hannity were doing it to be asshats… then I heard *everyone* else doing it to.
It’s like nails on Chalkboard to me MAKKKKKMOOOD ACKKKKMEDINNEJAD!
I occasionally catch my kids, two of three are in college, saying a word they’ve read but never heard. I don’t know about Limbaugh and Hannity, but I guarantee you that > 90% of the people I know have never heard someone say Ahmadinejad’s name.
Who could forget when Joseph Smith found the golden plates of fake news?
re: #40 Jack Burton
It’s like trying to make the ch sound in “Bach” and also leaving the C silent at the same time. I’m sure there’s a word for this in linguistics, but I don’t know it. It’s just different enough from a full ch or kh to stand out like a sore thumb to me when I hear it.
Okay, that barely-there c sound I actually CAN imitate. Now, I have an idea of what you’re looking for.
Justice Department is no longer an independent entity….same with the CDC. All corrupted and influenced by this administration.
— Fate (@DoctahTruth) October 29, 2020
re: #41 jaunte
Captain Moron maybe.
re: #41 jaunte
“Does not seek the praise of the world.”
So it’s insanely unbelievable lying that’s going to work?
Funny how God always sounds exactly like their internal monologue.
Minuteman III missile launch from Vandenberg delayed by weather. When will it blast off?
An unarmed Minuteman III missile’s departure from Vandenberg Air Force Base will wait at least 24 hours after a weather-related liftoff delay on Wednesday.
Blastoff from an underground silo on the northern segment of the base near Lompoc now is planned between 12:27 and 6:27 a.m. Thursday.
The team initially targeted liftoff for early Wednesday morning, but military officials blamed adverse weather conditions at the target area downrange for the postponement.
Justice Kennedy’s retirement in good health is looking curiouser and curiouser with every new Deutschebank revelation from the tax returns Trump tried so hard to hide. https://t.co/g26cAq5VYB
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 29, 2020
re: #49 jaunte
“Excuse, excuse me. This golf course I’m going to built in, excuse me, going to build in the middle of North Dakota is going to be the biggest money maker you have ever seen. Believe me.”
re: #43 jaunte
Who could forget when Joseph Smith found the golden plates of fake news?
They were only gold-plated? And only 14K??
re: #51 Jay C
An early example of Tucker Carlson’s disappearing evidence.
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
Well there is the “khet” ח sound in Hebrew which is the hard, back-of-the-throat KHHHHHH and then there is the aspirated “ch” which is softer, like Russian “X” or German “ch”
This sound, the hard & the soft, doesn’t exist in English but Scots comes close to it with words like “loch”
Which doesn’t rhyme with Lock.
Gen. David Thompson, the Space Force’s vice chief of space operations, is self-quarantining and working from home after testing positive for COVID-19, officials confirmed tonight https://t.co/WcZWOBY8OW
— Axios (@axios) October 29, 2020
re: #53 Belafon
“It’s either you or your son.”
Yup. That’s what I just said to Wonkette.
It was done in an underhanded way (read illegal or borderline illegal) and there was blackmail involved, like “Go now or we ruin your kids life”.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) October 29, 2020
Fark headline:
Tucker: The dog ate my kompromat
I went skiing today! Wolf Creek won the first ski area to open in Colorado contest. It was bony on steeper sections, what with a two foot base, that’s what rock skis are for. Beautiful blue skies and some powder turns!
1 Wolf Creek pic.twitter.com/EoSDoF7Etu
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 28, 2020
My happy place! pic.twitter.com/Pb2BBijS1Q
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 28, 2020
re: #58 teleskiguy
glad that you could go and find some respite from everything political….
Ossoff stuck the shiv into Perdue and showed no mercy!
🔥BLISTERING SPEECH. @ossoff completely destroys Perdue in Georgia senate debate—for Perdue dismissing #COVID19 pandemic as nothing but the flu, for ignoring health warnings, & voting 4 times to deny protections for pre-existing conditions. #GASenateDebate pic.twitter.com/CKV0aY5fjL
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 29, 2020
re: #58 teleskiguy
I went skiing today! Wolf Creek won the first ski area to open in Colorado contest. It was bony on steeper sections, what with a two foot base, that’s what rock skis are for. Beautiful blue skies and some powder turns!
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Why did there need to be a nefarious reason for Kennedy to retire? He was freaking 82 years old. Maybe he just thought it was a good time to retire and get a replacement of his choosing basically.
The average age of retirement from the supreme court until very recently was something like 78. Sandra Day O’Connor retired at 76. Maybe he just didn’t want to work until he died.
Trump is doubling down on his insistence that he can make the coronavirus pandemic disappear simply by taking credit for “ending” it. But cases are up 39%, hospitalizations are up 46% and 500,000 people got it this past week. https://t.co/cqxpKbL4OT
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) October 28, 2020
Trump started his presidency by lying — and making underlings lie — about his inauguration crowd size. He is now ending his first (and hopefully only) term lying — and making underlings lie — about a deadly pandemic that’s killed 227,000 people. pic.twitter.com/F9QeUuFFCy
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) October 28, 2020
Many politicians have staked their reputations on herd immunity. What if it isn’t possible? @Salon https://t.co/y73TXh1Je5
— Matthew Rozsa (@MatthewRozsa) October 28, 2020
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), in the final Maine Senate debate with Sara Gideon, is given 30 seconds to discuss whether systemic racism exists in her state.
Collins gives a five-second answer: “I do not believe systemic racism is a problem in the state of Maine.” pic.twitter.com/UPnCAIuAHd— The Recount (@therecount) October 29, 2020
re: #65 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #66 Patricia Kayden
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Well it is Maine, the second whitest state in the nation, so there just aren’t that many opportunities…
re: #56 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yup. That’s what I just said to Wonkette.
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IF Biden is elected and IF we get a Democratic Senate, maybe we don’t have to expand SCOTUS quite yet. The Democratic AG explores Kavanaugh’s mysterious vanishing debt — and he’s forced to resign or face prosecution. One seat restored. There doesn’t seem to be any way to dislodge Gorsuch or Aunt Lydia as yet. But maybe there can be some conflict of interest that could persuade Thomas to depart — playing hardball. Then no court packing for now.
What we learned in 2020. Racism and pandemics can not be ended by whishful thinking.
re: #63 Patricia Kayden
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This is really not a good look for Tucker Carlson. His narrative paints him in one of two ways - either as a baldfaced liar (the documents never actually existed) or as a simpleminded buffoon (what would be election-changing information and you *MAIL* it instead of having a courier, or at the very least send with end-to-end tracking?)
Actual journalists should crucify him over this.
re: #72 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
This is really not a good look for Tucker Carlson. His narrative paints him in one of two ways - either as a baldfaced liar (the documents never actually existed) or as a simpleminded buffoon (what would be election-changing information and you *MAIL* it instead of having a courier, or at the very least send with end-to-end tracking?)
Why the dichotomy between “ liar” and “ buffoon”? It’s Tucker Carlson: he can very easily handle both!
re: #62 danarchy
Why did there need to be a nefarious reason for Kennedy to retire? He was freaking 82 years old. Maybe he just thought it was a good time to retire and get a replacement of his choosing basically.
The average age of retirement from the supreme court until very recently was something like 78. Sandra Day O’Connor retired at 76. Maybe he just didn’t want to work until he died.
I read that he had hired his clerks for the next year when he suddenly up and retired. This raises questions.
re: #70 Hecuba’s daughter
IF Biden is elected and IF we get a Democratic Senate, maybe we don’t have to expand SCOTUS quite yet. The Democratic AG explores Kavanaugh’s mysterious vanishing debt — and he’s forced to resign or face prosecution. One seat restored. There doesn’t seem to be any way to dislodge Gorsuch or Aunt Lydia as yet. But maybe there can be some conflict of interest that could persuade Thomas to depart — playing hardball. Then no court packing for now.
No, we’ll still have to.
or the next time R’s are in power, they’ll do it because D’s talked about it.
genie’s out of the bottle. toothpaste is out of the tube. can open, worms everywhere.
re: #72 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
This is really not a good look for Tucker Carlson. His narrative paints him in one of two ways - either as a baldfaced liar (the documents never actually existed) or as a simpleminded buffoon (what would be election-changing information and you *MAIL* it instead of having a courier, or at the very least send with end-to-end tracking?)
Actual journalists should crucify him over this.
But he’s not a journalist — he’s an entertainer. As a judge recently ruled, Fox News “persuasively argues” that “given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statements he makes.”
re: #70 Hecuba’s daughter
IF Biden is elected and IF we get a Democratic Senate, maybe we don’t have to expand SCOTUS quite yet. The Democratic AG explores Kavanaugh’s mysterious vanishing debt — and he’s forced to resign or face prosecution. One seat restored. There doesn’t seem to be any way to dislodge Gorsuch or Aunt Lydia as yet. But maybe there can be some conflict of interest that could persuade Thomas to depart — playing hardball. Then no court packing for now.
The more I think a out it, the more I think it’s time to expand the courts. We’ve outgrown the current setup.
re: #72 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
This is really not a good look for Tucker Carlson….
Actual journalists should crucify him over this.
He’s not trying to convince other journalists. He’s only trying to persuade one person that the ‘documents were lost’.
And that person happens to be the President of the USA.
The simplest explanation of how stupid his behaviour is that:
* he told Trump he had some documents coming or he was being pressured into publicising docs.
* he either never had them or changed his mind about releasing them.
* he came up with ‘they got lost’ as an explanation that would satisfy Trump.
Yeah, it’s not going to stand up to ridicule, other than to a guy who might lie in a similar way, but it’s good enough to prevent Trump from blaming Carlson.
re: #75 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
I read that he had hired his clerks for the next year when he suddenly up and retired. This raises questions.
And O’Connor’s retirement wasn’t because of her age, it was because of her husband’s ill health. And because he died just a few months later, she regretted it.
re: #75 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
I read that he had hired his clerks for the next year when he suddenly up and retired. This raises questions.
That’s my recollection as well.
re: #80 sagehen
And O’Connor’s retirement wasn’t because of her age, it was because of her husband’s ill health. And because he died just a few months later, she regretted it.
O’Connor instead of Alito. Sigh. I didn’t always agree with her but Alito is both a hack and asshole.
Elsewhere, someone said:
Trump will die without ever having faced meaningful consequences for his actions.
s/meaningful/satisfying/
Unless there is a huge amount of tampering with the election, Trump is going to be rejected by the voters next week.
He’s then going to have to spend the time between the results of the election being obvious, and when the next administration is sworn in, being a loser, that everyone who is looking at because they lost.
Honestly, I think he might fear that more than any possibility of a jail term.
All of that makes me wonder, I am in Donald Trump’s version of hell?
I see Trump pulled his patented I’m never coming back here if you don’t vote for me. I mean Iowa’s not high on my places to go either but I don’t get why Trump thinks trashing states is witty.
re: #85 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I see Trump pulled his patented I’m never coming back here if you don’t vote for me. I mean Iowa’s not high on my places to go either but I don’t get why Trump thinks trashing states is witty.
It’s how he treats his family.
re: #84 Danack
Elsewhere, someone said:
s/meaningful/satisfying/
Unless there is a huge amount of tampering with the election, Trump is going to be rejected by the voters next week.
He’s then going to have to spend the time between the results of the election being obvious, and when the next administration is sworn in, being a loser, that everyone who is looking at because they lost.
Honestly, I think he might fear that more than any possibility of a jail term.
All of that makes me wonder, I am in Donald Trump’s version of hell?
Imagine if he loses Texas. No Republican has lost Texas since Jerry Ford who was going up against a Southern Democratic Governor after Watergate. I’m glad he’s not showing signs of Covid impacting him. I want him to know the electorate rejected him the most soundly of any incumbent since Hoover.
Charles, make sure Stinky changes the oil and filters in your servers for next Tuesday. I’ve waited 4 years for this.
re: #88 BigPapa
Charles, make sure Stinky changes the oil and filters in your servers for next Tuesday. I’ve waited 4 years for this.
I wish we could all be in a pub to celebrate this. It’s been a long four years. I don’t think I would have made it with y’all. I’m hopeful for beating Trump and a better world.
re: #88 BigPapa
Charles, make sure Stinky changes the oil and filters in your servers for next Tuesday. I’ve waited 4 years for this.
Just got next week’s work schedule and found out I have Election Day and the day after off. And I already voted early, so I have the whole day to catch up on sleep before the polls close.
Time to go invest in popcorn.
re: #91 Targetpractice
Just got next week’s work schedule and found out I have Election Day and the day after off. And I already voted early, so I have the whole day to catch up on sleep before the polls close.
Time to go invest in popcorn.
I feel like trolling his supporters on Twitter so bad and the Trumpers in my TL. I won’t do that but man I’m tempted.
So the guy who I’ve had a number of arguments with over Covid-19 came to me earlier this week and said “I know why we wear masks.” One of our customers caught the virus at a wedding he attended up in New York, and it took five days before he developed symptoms. My coworker was astonished at that fact, but I told him that’s what we had been hearing since this began. Now that it’s close to him, he suddenly “understands.”
Also about my work. They are determined to keep us at work if possible. Now, with cases rising, management will be roaming looking for people who aren’t wearing their masks properly and you can end up being reported. There’s also a rumor going around that a VP got fired because he tested positive and went to work anyway. The company is too big to verify this, so I don’t know if it’s true.
This place is my speakeasy on the interwebs. Better for my liver tho.
And got dam it, the fact that I can hyperlink with CTRL-L for ‘link’ here at LGF as opposed to K in Chrome… sniffle. My feels.
re: #92 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I feel like trolling his supporters on Twitter so bad and the Trumpers in my TL. I won’t do that but man I’m tempted.
I dont want to remind anyone around me who might vote for Trump that the election is Tuesday.
Lre: #95 Belafon
I dont want to remind anyone around me who might vote for Trump that the election is Tuesday.
I meant after the fact. But yeah I can’t remember the last time I said something political on my FB TL.
re: #84 Danack
Elsewhere, someone said:
s/meaningful/satisfying/
Unless there is a huge amount of tampering with the election, Trump is going to be rejected by the voters next week.
He’s then going to have to spend the time between the results of the election being obvious, and when the next administration is sworn in, being a loser, that everyone who is looking at because they lost.
Honestly, I think he might fear that more than any possibility of a jail term.
All of that makes me wonder, I am in Donald Trump’s version of hell?
If Trump does indeed crash and burn next Tuesday (knock on wood), I’d be quite tempted to send him one tweet each and every day until 20 January 2021.
And that tweet would simply say, “You’re a loser”.
re: #94 BigPapa
This place is my speakeasy on the interwebs. Better for my liver tho.
And got dam it, the fact that I can hyperlink with CTRL-L for ‘link’ here at LGF as opposed to K in Chrome… sniffle. My feels.
I’m trying to think what song I want to play. I guess being a Celtophile, A Nation Once Again would be fitting.my emotions are gonna be mixed up. Happy because it’ll be one step closer to being over. Apprehensive because this is not going to be a graceful transfer of power. Sad for all those we’ve lost not just the Covid victims but friends and family like OA, CL, & my Grandma who I wish could be here to see Trump go down.
re: #92 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I feel like trolling his supporters on Twitter so bad and the Trumpers in my TL. I won’t do that but man I’m tempted.
I’ll be unblocking many people on the FakeBook to gloat for a week or so. Maybe just post victory photos of Joe and Kamala throughout the day. Every day. Them I’m bouncing off that crap site. It’s going to be fun. :)
re: #95 Belafon
I dont want to remind anyone around me who might vote for Trump that the election is Tuesday.
That’s the only negative reality for me next week: Listening to my dad bitch about Trump losing.
re: #99 GlutenFreeJesus
I’ll be unblocking many people on the FakeBook to gloat for a week or so. Maybe just post victory photos of Joe and Kamala throughout the day. Every day. Them I’m bouncing off that crap site. It’s going to be fun. :)
Some friends and I are planning a Zoom party for Friday regardless of result. I hope it’s a good night.
re: #96 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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I meant after the fact. But yeah I can’t remember the last time I said something political on my FB TL.
I have two Facebook accounts at the moment. How long that will be the case is up in the air now. I never say anything remotely about politics on the original one. In fact I’ve had completely non-political things get turned into politics a few times on that account and I’ve just deleted the post, made some vague remark about it and moved on. It was always, done by someone right of center. If they can find a hidden asinine bullshit message between the cracks of any innocuous statement or picture, they will. If they can complain or pearl-clutch or play victim in any way about anything, they will jump at the chance.
re: #93 Belafon
The evil too big to fail employer announced yesterday that we would remain in the status quo (most people working outside of an office setting) until January 1. Even then, that doesn’t mean people will be going back to work then. I also get emails informing me of cases that have popped up at the operations center (where I would work), and while their number is few, there has been a slight uptick in the last few weeks.
This leads me to believe we’re not going back to the office until there’s a vaccine, because while there is required masking and social distancing at the office, people are still getting sick because of what they’re doing outside of the office.
That said, I am getting tired, very tired, of every day being told at the morning call not to go into the office because there’s no reason to go to the office. I know that and everyone else knows that. It’s just droning for the sake of droning at this point.
This is possibly a factor that will push the election from close, to blowout.
It’s almost comical how badly Trump misplayed this opening at Mitch McConnell’s behest. It serves McConnell’s interest to fill the seat while they can, before Trump seems likely to lose the election. It doesn’t serve Trump’s interest at all. There are voters who love Trump all the more for filling this seat now before the election, but they’re the sort of voters who were going to vote for Trump no matter what. But there are almost certainly an electorally significant number of conservative-leaning voters who care about the makeup of the Supreme Court who might have held their noses and voted (again) for Trump even though they dislike him - maybe really dislike him - just on this issue alone, who will now feel free to vote for Joe Biden because conservatives on the Court now hold a 6-3 majority. If a conservative Supreme Court majority is your top issue as a voter, you’ve already got it. You’re free to move on to your next issues, like, say, having someone you respect in the White House. Or someone who believes in science.
“””re: #102 Jack Burton
I have two Facebook accounts at the moment. How long that will be the case is up in the air now. I never say anything remotely about politics on the original one. In fact I’ve had completely non-political things get turned into politics a few times on that account and I’ve just deleted the post, made some vague remark about it and moved on. It was always, done by someone right of center. If they can find a hidden asinine bullshit message between the cracks of any innocuous statement or picture, they will. If they can complain or pearl-clutch or play victim in any way about anything, they will jump at the chance.
I sometimes go political but I really don’t like my TL turning into a debate zone.
Hello everyone. Just checking in.
The family and I have survived Zeta. Our power is out so I am typing this by candlelight on my iPhone. The house seems to have made it through okay but the yard is a complete mess.
Of course, we won’t get a good look at everything outside until tomorrow morning but so far, so good.
Llre: #106 Eclectic Cyborg
Hello everyone. Just checking in.
The family and I have survived Zeta. Our power is out so I am typing this by candlelight on my iPhone. The house seems to have made it through okay but the yard is a complete mess.
Of course, we won’t get a good look at everything outside until tomorrow morning but so far, so good.
Stay safe.
re: #106 Eclectic Cyborg
Hello everyone. Just checking in.
The family and I have survived Zeta. Our power is out so I am typing this by candlelight on my iPhone. The house seems to have made it through okay but the yard is a complete mess.
Of course, we won’t get a good look at everything outside until tomorrow morning but so far, so good.
I’ll echo the call for ya’ll to stay safe. We need you here to help us celebrate Trump crashing and burning next week.
re: #96 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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I meant after the fact. But yeah I can’t remember the last time I said something political on my FB TL.
I have a very large bubble on Facebook that have scared away most of the Trump loving folks (I have a handful of conservative friends hanging on, but that’s different).
I often paste comments from here to there. Hm. Might be a correlation there….
re: #109 gwangung
I have a very large bubble on Facebook that have scared away most of the Trump loving folks (I have a handful of conservative friends hanging on, but that’s different).
I often paste comments from here to there. Hm. Might be a correlation there….
I think my friend group is mostly Democratic leaning but I have some Republican relatives. It’s tough to reconcile that. I’m just relieved that my relatives who are part of my life including my parents and godfather/uncle are on Team Joe. In fact, I even remember sharing my positive impression of Senator Harris with my uncle last summer when I last saw him. One of my other uncles said Joe reminds him of my grandfather whom I never knew. And that gives me comfort.
re: #104 Danack
This is possibly a factor that will push the election from close, to blowout.
There was no real “winner-take-all” scenario in the cards for Mitch, so he went with the one that (at the time) carried the least risk. And that was ramming through the nominee (any nominee) before Election Day. Yeah, Donny’s ass is cooked and the Senate Repub caucus might be about to disintegrate, but Mitch got the seat filled while he could still count on votes like Collins and Murkowski.
re: #111 Targetpractice
There was no real “winner-take-all” scenario in the cards for Mitch, so he went with the one that (at the time) carried the least risk. And that was ramming through the nominee (any nominee) before Election Day. Yeah, Donny’s ass is cooked and the Senate Repub caucus might be about to disintegrate, but Mitch got the seat filled while he could still count on votes like Collins and Murkowski.
I really think Mitch is overhyped as a tactician. He’s a good blocker and rubber stamper of judges. Remember he couldn’t get the ACA repeal. I obviously want McGrath to win but I’d enjoy Mitch as a powerless Minority Leader watching the judiciary he attempted to create swing back to the center.
I think the floor is +8 Biden in the PV. The EC is hard call because of rural advantage to the GOP.
I don’t see Trump getting much more voters than last time. If there’s a surge in turnout, and it appears there is, the vast majority goes to Biden. The COVID factor is just to hard to call. Trump has exploited hate and fear from a well that’s always been here. His problem is after 4 years he’s caused so much hate and fear against him. Hate and fear are great motivators but that cuts both ways.
re: #113 BigPapa
I think the floor is +8 Biden in the PV. The EC is hard call because of rural advantage to the GOP.
I don’t see Trump getting much more voters than last time. If there’s a surge in turnout, and it appears there is, the vast majority goes to Biden. The COVID factor is just to hard to call. Trump has exploited hate and fear from a well that’s always been here. His problem is after 4 years he’s caused so much hate and fear against him. Hate and fear are great motivators but that cuts both ways.
I agree. I think he matches Obama ‘08 at a minimum and could easily go over 10 points. You’re right. Covid is something that he can’t escape. As for the rural areas, he’ll win them but not at the rate he did four years ago.
re: #112 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really think Mitch is overhyped as a tactician. He’s a good blocker and rubber stamper of judges. Remember he couldn’t get the ACA repeal. I obviously want McGrath to win but I’d enjoy Mitch as a powerless Minority Leader watching the judiciary he attempted to create swing back to the center.
One doesn’t have to be a brilliant tactician in order to organize a banzai charge. And this was essentially the political equiv of such: Rushing headlong into the guns, screaming “LONG LIVE TRUMP!!!,” with the expectation that enough would get through the withering fire to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.
Did any of you all see the HBO documentary about cyberwarfare? Funnily enough my youngest brother just switched majors from Econ to Cybersecurity as a major. I think that’s the new warfare for our age. I’m hoping we can hit back Putin’s government for all the shit they’ve done to us and our allies.
re: #84 Danack
Elsewhere, someone said:
s/meaningful/satisfying/
Unless there is a huge amount of tampering with the election, Trump is going to be rejected by the voters next week.
He’s then going to have to spend the time between the results of the election being obvious, and when the next administration is sworn in, being a loser, that everyone who is looking at because they lost.Honestly, I think he might fear that more than any possibility of a jail term.a
All of that makes me wonder, I am in Donald Trump’s version of hell?
There already is courtesy of the DeJoy sabotage of the USPS. And people unfamiliar with mail-in balloting doing it incorrectly. Plus my lack of belief in the accuracy of the polls — there is no longer a good way to get a valid unbiased sample of the voting population.
The fact that Trump still inspires devout loyalty despite his criminal negligence in handling the pandemic is astounding — that so many educated people are so delusional is terrifying. Recall that in 2016, the Republican establishment believed he was headed to a loss and it wasn’t until election night that they were amazed to see that, courtesy of the EC, he eked out a victory. And the EC could do it again. After all, he can lose Wisconsin and Michigan and he will win if he retains the other states.
This is why I refuse to watch the returns Tuesday night. I am a nervous wreck.
re: #113 BigPapa
I sit back and try to remember who does Trump appeal to….
essentially he appeals to racists and bullies… pretty much that’s it…
after being openly racist and a bully in 2016, how many racists and bullies sat home thinking that they STILL really needed a reason to come out and get registered to vote for him in 2020… Millions?
whereas he’s done his level best to purge his former coalition of seniors, college men, suburban woman and young people. Folks who were sitting on the sidelines before are getting into the game and I would be greatly surprised to find out that a majority of them would end up on his side of the ledger…
now does this mean we won’t see voter suppression and other shenanigans… yes, we will. Based on the early votes already banked, do they have a chance… looks doubtful to me, but we have to play the string out and see…
re: #116 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I thought Agents of Chaos was a restrained examination of the tactics used and didn’t come right out and say what it thought, it let you connect those dots.. so perhaps it may have been too subtle for people looking for a specific answer… Did it make me want to issue a drone strike on Putin and GRU headquarters… yes… but I feel that the targets should include the GOP which essentially coordinated with them to use their weaponry so effectively.
re: #101 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Some friends and I are planning a Zoom party for Friday regardless of result. I hope it’s a good night.
My weekly Monday night Zoom group decided to add a session on Wednesday, at which time we may know the results — or not — as the case may be.
Lllre: #118 piratedan
I sit back and try to remember who does Trump appeal to….
essentially he appeals to racists and bullies… pretty much that’s it…
after being openly racist and a bully in 2016, how many racists and bullies sat home thinking that they STILL really needed a reason to come out and get registered to vote for him in 2020… Millions?whereas he’s done his level best to purge his former coalition of seniors, college men, suburban woman and young people. Folks who were sitting on the sidelines before are getting into the game and I would be greatly surprised to find out that a majority of them would end up on his side of the ledger…
now does this mean we won’t see voter suppression and other shenanigans… yes, we will. Based on the early votes already banked, do they have a chance… looks doubtful to me, but we have to play the string out and see…
There’s gonna be shenanigans. There’s always gonna be but if we vote in large numbers, the courts will have a difficult time justifying granting his wish to let Republican controlled state legislatures seat electors. What made 2000 possible was how tight Florida was. If Biden wins big and I’m bullish on that, I don’t think Trump can get away with that and I have some trust in the courts too. I can’t despair. I know the worst has already happened so that’s why I try to stay half full but I’m also looking at what’s happening and what has happened.
re: #120 Hecuba’s daughter
My weekly Monday night Zoom group decided to add a session on Wednesday, at which time we may know the results — or not — as the case may be.
I hope we will.
The GOP scum in Texas want to force voters to choose between protecting their lives or voting, under the pretext that they want to protect voters from the “burden” of wearing a mask to vote.
In emergency motion, AG Ken Paxton asks 5th Circuit Court to block the ruling on mandatory face coverings in polling places, saying it will force voters to choose between wearing a mask or losing their right to vote: pic.twitter.com/TunOnJP3eR
— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) October 28, 2020
re: #112 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really think Mitch is overhyped as a tactician. He’s a good blocker and rubber stamper of judges. Remember he couldn’t get the ACA repeal. I obviously want McGrath to win but I’d enjoy Mitch as a powerless Minority Leader watching the judiciary he attempted to create swing back to the center.
That depends on if the Democrats have the balls to reform the filibuster. If they don’t, Mitch will still be the most powerful man in the Senate as minority leader.
re: #123 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The GOP scum in Texas want to force voters to choose between protecting their lives or voting, under the pretext that they want to protect voters from the “burden” of wearing a mask to vote.
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Here’s hoping that the blatant efforts by Repubs next week to suppress voters is so blatant that this is the last election where a statistically significant fraction of them still insist on standing in line on Election Day rather than voting by mail or early voting.
re: #123 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The GOP scum in Texas want to force voters to choose between protecting their lives or voting, under the pretext that they want to protect voters from the “burden” of wearing a mask to vote.
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GOP delenda est! These voters may not want to wear a mask — but this is a ridiculous argument — this isn’t a burden on anyone. They are all whiny little snowflakes and bullies who take joy in harming others. This is a choice they are making— and it’s not as though it is a matter of conscience or religious freedom.
re: #123 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The GOP scum in Texas want to force voters to choose between protecting their lives or voting, under the pretext that they want to protect voters from the “burden” of wearing a mask to vote.
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The shit the Republicans in Texas are doing is unbelievable. One early vote location per county? Really the entire GOP has contempt for participatory democracy. I saw it with my own eyes when they opposed a precinct on my college campus and I’ve seen it when they require IDs for voting but then close down the DMV. This is Roberts’ legacy. He’s up there with Taney for Dred Scott and the court in Plessy v Ferguson. His bullshit on the VRA and feigned outrage at how the VRA was unfair to Southern states is why I can’t wait to see him out of the CJ’s office at some point. We haven’t had a Democratic appointed CJ since Fred Vinson. And I understand completely if most of you don’t know who he was because he was appointed 74 years ago and died right before Ike became President. Warren being as liberal as he was was a fortunate happenstance of history.
re: #124 NO SMOCKING GUN!
That depends on if the Democrats have the balls to reform the filibuster. If they don’t, Mitch will still be the most powerful man in the Senate as minority leader.
I think they will. They’ve seen Mitch block the House’s legislation repeatedly the past two years.
re: #128 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think what pisses off the Dems more than anything else is that the House passes legislation and McConnell never gives it a hearing, no discussion, no arguments… sure he has the votes to shoot it down… if he keeps all the cats herded, but the American people never get to see that, never get to know what’s been proposed because it never gets discussed and the McConnell goes out on TV and lies unabashedly that the Dems aren’t doing anything because he’s openly stated that he will not allow anything to come to the floor unless he knows Trump will sign it.
and the Media lets him get away with this shit for months on end.
Translation: white power https://t.co/VL8J0PB6wN
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) October 29, 2020
re: #128 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think they will. They’ve seen Mitch block the House’s legislation repeatedly the past two years.
Electoral-Vote and other prediction sites are starting to settle on Senate Dems holding a 54+ vote majority in the 117th Congress. Zod willing, there will be too much public pressure on Schumer next January to get things done for him to back away from abolishing the filibuster. He had a front row seat to the way that a Senate Repub minority acted the last go around, and no doubt had a lot of very uncomfortable discussion with Reid behind closed doors about legislation faltering and failing due to the “Party of No,” to put up with Mitch’s bullshit for another 2-4 years.
re: #128 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think they will. They’ve seen Mitch block the House’s legislation repeatedly the past two years.
Hope you are right. I wouldn’t mind if there was a limited filibuster which guaranteed the minority x number of hours of debate before the majority can vote on a bill. But giving 41 Senators the power to block almost everything is ludicrous.
re: #127 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The shit the Republicans in Texas are doing is unbelievable. One early vote location per county? Really the entire GOP has contempt for participatory democracy…….
It’s one drop box per county. There are multiple early voting sites within at least the more populated counties.
re: #129 piratedan
I think what pisses off the Dems more than anything else is that the House passes legislation and McConnell never gives it a hearing, no discussion, no arguments… sure he has the votes to shoot it down… if he keeps all the cats herded, but the American people never get to see that, never get to know what’s been proposed because it never gets discussed and the McConnell goes out on TV and lies unabashedly that the Dems aren’t doing anything because he’s openly stated that he will not allow anything to come to the floor unless he knows Trump will sign it.
and the Media lets him get away with this shit for months on end.
Seriously the House has passed a ton and McConnell doesn’t give any of it the time of day. But Mitch loves rubber stamping his judges. I really don’t want to hear these smug right wing lawyers and their bastardized interpretation of the Constitution. Barrett and Thomas especially piss me off with their takes since according to their view of the Constitution, they themselves wouldn’t be able to rule on it. Their philosophy is just a judicial version of religious fundamentalism.
I can’t wait to say ‘elections have consequences’ Nov 4.
I give 0 fucks about Banana Republican opinions or bullshit.
re: #133 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s one drop box per county. There are multiple early voting sites within at least the more populated counties.
My bad. The point still stands though.
re: #135 BigPapa
I can’t wait to say ‘elections have consequences’ Nov 4.
I give 0 fucks about Banana Republican opinions or bullshit.
Get ready for every MAGAt you meet to insist, after 4 years of “He’s your president!”, that Biden doesn’t represent them and thus they don’t recognize him as the “legitimate” president.
re: #135 BigPapa
I can’t wait to say ‘elections have consequences’ Nov 4.
I give 0 fucks about Banana Republican opinions or bullshit.
I don’t want to hear these assholes who wanted to let Trump build a wall bitch about the debt when Biden decides we need to invest in education, health care, & infrastructure. And I’m sick of hearing about socialism from people who pretty much bribed farmers to mitigate their failed tariff policies.
re: #137 Targetpractice
at that point we should ask them to self-deport to Russia….. ////
Just like the Obama years, every wingnut in America’s gonna whine “He’s not my president because I didn’t vote for him!”
re: #135 BigPapa
I can’t wait to say ‘elections have consequences’ Nov 4.
I give 0 fucks about Banana Republican opinions or bullshit.
The punditry will be demanding the Democrats “work across the aisle”, “meet the Republicans halfway”, respect Senate traditions, and not be “divisive.” The Democrats should ignore those motherfuckers.
re: #137 Targetpractice
Get ready for every MAGAt you meet to insist, after 4 years of “He’s your president!”, that Biden doesn’t represent them and thus they don’t recognize him as the “legitimate” president.
Yep. We already saw that under Obama. My problem with conservatives is how full of shit and self righteous bullshit about what they are. They’re not for limited government. They’re for a government that coddles powerful interests and doesn’t respect minority rights.
re: #141 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The punditry will be demanding the Democrats “work across the aisle”, “meet the Republicans halfway”, respect Senate traditions, and not be “divisive.” The Democrats should ignore those motherfuckers.
After four years of applauding how Trump is “not a normal politician” and thus can shit on all the traditions and expectations of a president, they’re gonna be back to insisting on Marquess of Queensberry rules.
re: #143 Targetpractice
After four years of applauding how Trump is “not a normal politician” and thus can shit on all the traditions and expectations of a president, they’re gonna be back to insisting on Marquess of Queensberry rules.
They’re not gonna coddle Biden the way they do Trump. I look forward to the outrage when Biden wears a Phillies hat to a Nationals game just like how Obama got shit for wearing a White Sox jacket.
re: #136 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
My bad. The point still stands though.
Yes - your point stands. The one drop box per county is ridiculous and clear designed to impede voting. But at least there may be sufficient sites for early voting though, unfortunately, the pandemic has forced long lines to comply with social distancing rules.
And your point about Justice Roberts is spot on. The GOP goal is to restrict minority voting and Roberts is totally on board with that disgraceful policy, as are the other GOP justices. And there is no doubt in my mind that Aunt Lydia shares that view.
re: #144 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They’re not gonna coddle Biden the way they do Trump. I look forward to the outrage when Biden wears a Phillies hat to a Nationals game just like how Obama got shit for wearing a White Sox jacket.
Remember how pundits used to justify their BS talking points against Obama by insisting that he “must be held to a higher standard”? Yeah, look forward to 2-4 years of that.
re: #143 Targetpractice
After four years of applauding how Trump is “not a normal politician” and thus can shit on all the traditions and expectations of a president, they’re gonna be back to insisting on Marquess of Queensberry rules.
And the Democratic response should be, en masse, and you can quote me on that, “After four years of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican Party trashing every norm, standard, and traditions of responsible governance and collegiality, fuck that shit. Seriously, get the fuck out of our faces with that bullshit.”
re: #146 Targetpractice
Remember how pundits used to justify their BS talking points against Obama by insisting that he “must be held to a higher standard”? Yeah, look forward to 2-4 years of that.
I really have come to hate the pundit class not just for their double standards but how intellectually lazy they are.
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
try it with jalapenoes instead…… trust me….
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
Pickled jalapenos are better than pickles in a grilled cheese.
re: #148 A Three Hour Tour
And the Democratic response should be, en masse, and you can quote me on that, “After four years of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the Republican Party trashing every norm, standard, and traditions of responsible governance and collegiality, fuck that shit. Seriously, get the fuck out of our faces with that bullshit.”
I mean we’re about to finish the administration of a man who has made light of an attempted kidnapping of a Democratic Governor. That’s what separates Trump from even awful Republicans in the past. It’s the difference between a 0 and a F. And Trump is a 0.
re: #150 piratedan
try it with jalapenoes instead…… trust me….
That sounds good. I really don’t like pickles on sandwiches outside Cubanos.
re: #149 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really have come to hate the pundit class not just for their double standards but how intellectually lazy they are.
WORD UP
re: #155 The Ghost of a Flea
WORD UP
I did some journalism in college. Nothing significant mind you but the state of modern journalism and political analysis frustrates me to no end.
CBC has a drama/fantasy series called Trickster about First Nation people and the supernatural. It’s very good if you can find it. I just watched episode 4.
re: #149 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really have come to hate the pundit class not just for their double standards but how intellectually lazy they are.
Good Zod, I can already imagine the excuse-making and insane troll logic that is going to go into arguing that the Biden admin is meaner to the press than Trump ever was.
I imagine it will start the moment that outlets like OANN and the various far-right bloggers that Trump insisted get press passes to act as his fluffers suddenly find said passes denied/revoked by the Biden press office.
And it’s inevitable that one or more of the wingnut journalists who do make it in will deliberately refuse to wear a mask if only to make a “Biden violating freedom of the press!!!” story happen when they are either refused entry or escorted out.
re: #158 Targetpractice
Good Zod, I can already imagine the excuse-making and insane troll logic that is going to go into arguing that the Biden admin is meaner to the press than Trump ever was.
I imagine it will start the moment that outlets like OANN and the various far-right bloggers that Trump insisted get press passes to act as his fluffers suddenly find said passes denied/revoked by the Biden press office.
And it’s inevitable that one or more of the wingnut journalists who do make it in will deliberately refuse to wear a mask if only to make a “Biden violating freedom of the press!!!” story happen when they are either refused entry or escorted out.
Yeah I’m not looking forward to it at all. Biden’s press secretary will get frustrated once and they’ll treat it like an outrage and ignore that Trump has called them enemies of the people. I’m frustrated with a lot of journalism but it provides a function. I just wish modern journalists cared more about facts than their clicks. When I wrote, I didn’t care how many people read what I wrote. I liked attending sporting events and conversing with the athletes. One baseball player I talked a couple times too even made it to the majors.
The pundit class are rhetoricians who ultimately have to (1) maintain access, (2) not alienate a bloc of their audience by saying something difficult. Most of them aren’t even journalists, and can’t fucking research: they’re performance artists and ad men, and they (respectively) treat politics as a show and a pitch session. As a consequence, most of them have absolutely no interest in reality, just treating politics as a game of language in which bad faith just yet another tactic.
And to once again invoke the unhealthy marriage metaphor…pundits are people too close to the destructive relationship who have convinced themselves that it couldn’t possibly be that one party is to blame…because if it was one person being the abuser of everyone else’s good faith, then every social connection derived from the assumption that person was also acting in good faith has a broken keel. It’s easier to construct a false synthesis—it’s always like this, they’re both to blame, etc—that maintains the status quo.
The fucked up thing is…this particular self-deception has been maintained for at least a century. The bad faith actors are the oligarchs that have consistently tried to disenfranchise people (mostly nonwhite, mostly poor) and gain personal advantage through office. The oligarchs keep doing their thing…trying to come up with different configurations of law to grant themselves as much license as possible, but also binding everyone else with the law as much as possible. And right now the Republican party is the party of the oligarchs root and branch…not that the Democrats don’t have cronies, they’re just not defined at a basic level by a belief in the right to rule of the high-caste.
re: #160 The Ghost of a Flea
The pundit class are rhetoricians who ultimately have to (1) maintain access, (2) not alienate a bloc of their audience by saying something difficult. Most of them aren’t even journalists, and can’t fucking research: they’re performance artists and ad men, and they (respectively) treat politics as a show and a pitch session. As a consequence, most of them have absolutely no interest in reality, just treating politics as a game of language in which bad faith just yet another tactic.
And to once again invoke the unhealthy marriage metaphor…pundits are people too close to the destructive relationship who have convinced themselves that it couldn’t possibly be that one party is to blame…because if it was one person being the abuser of everyone else’s good faith, then every social connection derived from the assumption that person was also acting in good faith has a broken keel. It’s easier to construct a false synthesis—it’s always like this, they’re both to blame, etc—that maintains the status quo.
The fucked up thing is…this particular self-deception has been maintained for at least a century. The bad faith actors are the oligarchs that have consistently tried to disenfranchise people (mostly nonwhite, mostly poor) and gain personal advantage through office. The oligarchs keep doing their thing…trying to come up with different configurations of law to grant themselves as much license as possible, but also binding everyone else with the law as much as possible. And right now the Republican party is the party of the oligarchs root and branch…not that the Democrats don’t have cronies, they’re just not defined at a basic level by a belief in the right to rule of the high-caste.
How someone like Chris Cillizza ends up at CNN just astounds me. These pundits treat politics like sports. I love sports and I enjoy following politics but one is a game and the other are real issues that impact our country and planet.
I have a liberal bias because I think my reality gives me one.
re: #88 BigPapa
Charles, make sure Stinky changes the oil and filters in your servers for next Tuesday. I’ve waited 4 years for this.
Both WD-40 AND KY lube!
re: #146 Targetpractice
Remember how pundits used to justify their BS talking points against Obama by insisting that he “must be held to a higher standard”? Yeah, look forward to 2-4 years of that.
And the reply is, “You spent the last twelve years violating every rule and every norm the Congress possessed, and you think you have something to say about standards? Time to STFD and STFU.”
Said with great peals of hearty laughter at their presumption.
(And on that note, time for me to go to bed. Later…)
re: #157 Dread Pirate Ron
CBC has a drama/fantasy series called Trickster about First Nation people and the supernatural. It’s very good if you can find it. I just watched episode 4.
It’s available on Amazon Prime.
re: #167 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
It’s available on Amazon Prime.
No, that’s not it. It’s a 2020 Canadian series.
Today I stopped by our beloved community health center Plaza Del Sol (@Urbanhealthplan) to get my flu shot!
How do flu shots help COVID response? 🦠
Lower flu cases ➡️ fewer flu-related hospitalizations ➡️ more free beds for COVID treatment.
If you can, get your flu shot! pic.twitter.com/rgFIn4y1yC— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 28, 2020
Men over 30 wearing skinny jeans. 😂 pic.twitter.com/8HrFgxbDHy
— You Had One Job! (@_youhadonejob1) October 28, 2020
This years costume. He’s a turtle. 😂 pic.twitter.com/JGF7Zm0vaC
— You Had One Job! (@_youhadonejob1) October 29, 2020
Who? I want to know who buys this. Because I have a grade school aged child and she can come up with a better lie than this when her homework isn’t done on time. Professional wrestling has more verisimilitude than this. Nigerian emails sound more sincere.
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) October 29, 2020
Presidential. pic.twitter.com/M5BV14UFzV
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 29, 2020
re: #173 Ace-o-aces
Fixed it:pic.twitter.com/lxszAbPYzD
— ActionMovieDad (@ActionMovieKid) October 29, 2020
re: #176 Dread Pirate Ron
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Exactly. Tucker’s bullshitting. He had nothing and this is a convenient way to explain away that nothing. It’s a more eloquent “the dog ate my homework”.
re: #176 Dread Pirate Ron
And BTW, the reason I’m 100% sure Tucker is bullshitting is because he didn’t say the carrier’s name, but said it was one frequently used by Americans. He didn’t name the carrier so as to not to get his ass sued into oblivion.
re: #173 Ace-o-aces
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Who?
The sort of people who believe that the DNC had Seth Rich murdered and the crime ruled a mugging by corrupt federal and local LEO in order to bury the truth that he gave Wikileaks the contents of their server.
The people who believe that two adulterous FBI agents conspired together to lead Mike Flynn into a perjury trap in order to provide the basis for a massive federal investigation into a non-existent conspiracy between Kremlin agents and the Trump campaign to steal the 2016 election.
The people who believe that the Clintons are part of a massive Satanic pedophilia ring run out of the basement of D.C. pizza parlor, where children are murdered in a state of pure terror in order to harvest chemicals from their bodies that supposedly grant the ultimate high.
Or, in short, the sort of people who watch Faux religiously and think Tucker Carlson is a purveyor of truth and justice who has absolutely no reason to make up such a transparent lie as “The bombshell evidence that would destroy Joe Biden’s candidacy was stolen en-route to us in such a shadowy and yet blatant fashion that we know it was stolen but not by who!”
re: #180 Targetpractice
These are the sort of people targeted by e-mail and phishing scammers - usually, to great success.
re: #180 Targetpractice
People that already know what they want to do—deny franchise to lots of people and enjoy the cruelty of a system required to do that—and are looking for an excuse.
That’s the single most common intellectual thread for these people: work backwards from the desired end to find the belief that lets you do what you want.
I really hate to sound this intense, but:
This is not about credulousness or stupidity, it’s about contempt for the idea that there exists ideas, or ideals, that are anything but a power struggle to win by any method.
To make up a story, believe it, and force the world to echo that belief is the ultimate display of power, and they have no use for any other epistemology.
I’m watching Good Morning, Veronica on Netflix. It’s about domestic abuse and made in Brazil. It’s so intense I can only watch one episode at a time and I can binge watch most anything.
re: #32 A Three Hour Tour
My “kh” was supposed to represent an aspirated “k” sound, like the “ch” in “Mach” or “Bach.”
Don’t get me started on Brits who insist on pronouncing Mach and Bach like “mack” and “back.”
Their word for a cheap white German wine is a “Hock”, which comes from the name of Queen Victoria’s own private German vineyard in Hochheim.
And their word for a cheap French white is “plonk”, derived from “vin blanc”.
re: #65 Dread Pirate Ron
Many politicians have staked their reputations on herd immunity. What if it isn’t possible?
Herd Immunity was pushed because it would cause the least economic damage and interruption. But we don’t know enough about the long-term effects of the virus to assume that it would be the most effective approach.
The thing I learned about conspiracy theorists ages ago is that once you are invested in the belief in said conspiracy, then anything that would call that belief into question or should provoke skepticism instead becomes further evidence of the existence of the conspiracy.
There are several elements to Tucker’s story that each would invite questions on their own, but together make it unbelievable:
- Carlson and an exec producer in LA went into prepping a witness without having the evidence they needed on-hand.
- Instead of having the evidence scanned/recorded electronically and transmitted as such, they had the physical copies mailed by a commercial carrier
- At some point in transit, an unknown person intercepted this package at one of the carrier’s facilities out of hundreds to thousands of packages in-route at that time
- They took the package off the line and moved it to another area of the building without ever being caught on video camera or a tracking computer alerting that the package had checked in but not checked out
- Instead of taking the entire package out of the building or destroying it on the premises in some fashion, the person removed the contents but left the package out in plain sight
- This package was so vitally important to this story that it had to be sent to Carlson in LA but not so important that somebody was keeping track of it to make sure it was still in-route
- Carlson and/or his producer did not realize that the package was missing until after it had failed to arrive as scheduled
- Despite finding the package sans contents, the carrier did not involve the authorities in order to investigate physical evidence (fingerprints, DNA, etc) but instead questioned its employees and (coming up empty) has declared that nothing like this has ever happened
To anybody with the common sense God gave the average house cat, this doesn’t begin to pass the smell test. But if you’re so committed to the conspiracy theory that the “Deep State” is doing everything in its power to remove Trump in a “coup” and install Biden as a puppet of the Chinese government, it not only makes total sense but is only further proof of the conspiracy itself.
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Many politicians have staked their reputations on herd immunity. What if it isn’t possible?
Herd Immunity was pushed because it would cause the least economic damage and interruption. But we don’t know enough about the long-term effects of the virus to assume that it would be the most effective approach.
That and the fact that antibody levels fall off in a few months, which doesn’t preclude the innate immunity system of antiviral response to be ineffective as opposed to the acquired immunity response system from antibodies, which is becoming more in doubt as data is collected. My conclusion is we’re fucked till some effective vaccine is created.
re: #48 Dread Pirate Ron
Minuteman III missile launch from Vandenberg delayed by weather. When will it blast off?
So that’s a scenario for the 3rd world war I never thought of — cancelled due to bad weather.
After checking on both Twitter and looking in on the Freepers, I decided to listen to Tucker’s bit again. And it makes even less sense upon closer inspection:
- At no time does Carlson say that what was sent were copies or that there exists copies of these election-changing documents, which would make the whole “simply vanished” bit pointless
- He first says that the producer called the carrier when the package failed to arrive, but then says that an employee discovered the empty package as though these were separate and distinct events, rather than the latter following the former as a result of the supposed “massive search.”
- Biggest WTF moment: He says the producer provided photos of the package’s contents in order for them to know what they were looking for in this supposed massive snipe hunt that involved the plane and truck the package was carried on, the Faux news offices in NY, and the carrier’s sorting facility where the package supposedly was found. So they thought to take photos of the contents accurate enough to identify them, but not clear enough to use in-lieu of said contents.
It’s a shame Robert Stack has been gone for so long, this might have been more believable if he’d told it us.
re: #44 A Three Hour Tour
Okay, that barely-there c sound I actually CAN imitate. Now, I have an idea of what you’re looking for.
It’s probably similar to the voiceless velar fricative which I grew up with and don’t have any problems using — Scots words like “loch” end with it. No, it’s not pronounced “lock”.
This newly released photo was taken moments before Tucker Carlson’s package disappeared. pic.twitter.com/5LsmdthkvO
— KnowSOmething (@KnowS0mething) October 29, 2020
WTI crude is down another $1.10 to $36.30 a bbl.and DOW stock futures are up $175. I wonder who will win out.
re: #54 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Which doesn’t rhyme with Lock.
Oh my goodness, that reminds me of when Madonna married the film director Guy Ritchie, and they held their wedding in and around the small Scottish village of Dornoch, and you had all these reporters mispronouncing the name of the village as “door-knock”.
re: #102 Jack Burton
I have two Facebook accounts at the moment. How long that will be the case is up in the air now. I never say anything remotely about politics on the original one. In fact I’ve had completely non-political things get turned into politics a few times on that account and I’ve just deleted the post, made some vague remark about it and moved on. It was always, done by someone right of center. If they can find a hidden asinine bullshit message between the cracks of any innocuous statement or picture, they will. If they can complain or pearl-clutch or play victim in any way about anything, they will jump at the chance.
I belong to a private closed FB group that discusses politics, but as a rule, I do not post anything political or comment on political posts, in fact, I generally delete them and block people who get too carried away.
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
pickles with grilled cheese is a fave of mine, but not on. Ditto with hamburgers…
re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
pickles with grilled cheese is a fave of mine, but not on. Ditto with hamburgers…
I’ve always hated dill pickles. Dill (and anise) are horrible overpowering tastes.
re: #188 Dread Pirate Ron
My conclusion is we’re fucked till some effective vaccine is created.
and then convincing enough people that it is nor swarming with 5G Bill Gates nanotracking particles. that will take a lot more work than developing and distributing it…
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and then convincing enough people that it is nor swarming with 5G Bill Gates nanotracking particles. that will take a lot more work than developing and distributing it…
Maybe we can just shoot those people. ///
re: #198 Dread Pirate Ron
I’ve always hated dill pickles. Dill (and anise) are horrible overpowering tastes.
Pickles I will agree with you on, but I’ll admit to having a soft spot for anise/black licorice. Mrs. Fish found a cheap anise-flavored liquor (I will not do real absinthe a disservice by referring to it as such) that I could drink by the bottle, if I had no concern for my liver or consciousness.
So, a quick report from the field here in Ostrava.
Tuesday, the government announced further restrictions; namely, supermarkets and all shops will be closed on Sundays in order to maximize social distancing and all shops must close by 20:00 local time as well. Today, I walked down to my local Albert supermarket to pick up a couple things.
It was absolutely wall-to-wall packed with shoppers. Normally, on a Thursday morning (around 11:00 CET) it’d be pretty much dead with only a handful of shoppers. Picked up what I needed and out of curiosity, walked up to Hruška, another supermarket close to my home. It too was packed, and like Albert, normally it’d be pretty quiet this time of day.
Unfortunately, this is what I figured was going to happen. People are now out and about in larger-than-normal numbers and they’re packing the supermarkets to get what they need before everything closes on Sunday. While the measure was well-intended, it’s likely going to end up being counter-productive and achieving the polar opposite of what it was intended to do.
Tomorrow, I’m going to run out to my local Tesco hypermarket and I suspect that’s going to be an absolute freakin’ zoo. I’m lucky that my work schedule allows me to stay home and chill out on the weekends - but a lot of other people don’t have the luxury.
re: #202 Dr Lizardo
I also hear there has been another big run on TP and hand sanitizer around here
herd mentality meets herd immunity
re: #202 Dr Lizardo
Ugh, that absolutely sucks. Like you, I understand the intent, but sometimes the powers-that-be just don’t think these things through. In fact, often, it seems like they don’t think at all. (Case in point: My country is run by a man who paints himself orange.)
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I also hear there has been another big run on TP and hand sanitizer around here
herd mentality meets herd immunity
I saw a lot of toilet paper hoarding today at both supermarkets. I was unaware that COVID-19 attacks the bunghole.
re: #204 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Ugh, that absolutely sucks. Like you, I understand the intent, but sometimes the powers-that-be just don’t think these things through. In fact, often, it seems like they don’t think at all. (Case in point: My country is run by a man who paints himself orange.)
The problem in this case is that these regulations were made by a gentleman who, by his own admission, hasn’t done his own shopping in well over two decades.
re: #205 Dr Lizardo
I saw a lot of toilet paper hoarding today at both supermarkets. I was unaware that COVID-19 attacks the bunghole.
Local supermarket had a sign up limiting purchases of said items.
Here it was mostly hoarding, in the ‘States I am convinced that people were buying it up in bulk with an eye on reselling it at a profit.
Blimey, just found out Bobby Ball, of long-time UK comedy duo Cannon and Ball, has died, apparently of Covid-19. (He’s the one with the moustache on the left of this picture.)
Bobby Ball: Cannon & Ball star dies aged 76 after testing positive for COVID-19 https://t.co/2i5MlbqSbn
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) October 29, 2020
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Local supermarket had a sign up limiting purchases of said items.
Here it was mostly hoarding, in the ‘States I am convinced that people were buying it up in bulk with an eye on reselling it at a profit.
They need to do that here.
And yeah, here it’s also just hoarding behavior, no one would seriously think about selling TP for a massive profit. It could also be a memory to the time in the 1980s when the one and only toilet paper factory in communist Czechoslovakia burned down and people were forced to use Rudé Právo (the Communist Party newspaper) as a substitute.
Looks like there’s been an incident in Nice, France.
Suspected assailant detained after carrying out attack, in which at least three people were killed, according to officials.
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Local supermarket had a sign up limiting purchases of said items.
Here it was mostly hoarding, in the ‘States I am convinced that people were buying it up in bulk with an eye on reselling it at a profit.
When there was panic buying back in March, nearly all the supermarkets over here in Scotland implemented a similar policy for things like toilet paper and bottled water. As it happened, supermarkets were one of the few places that stayed open during the lockdown, so the panic buying subsided over time. In addition, local newsagents and grocery shops were also open and were quick to sell items that supermarkets had run out of.
re: #162 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I have a liberal bias because I think
myreality gives me one.
re: #211 Alephnaught
When there was panic buying back in March, nearly all the supermarkets over here in Scotland implemented a similar policy for things like toilet paper and bottled water. As it happened, supermarkets were one of the few places that stayed open during the lockdown, so the panic buying subsided over time. In addition, local newsagents and grocery shops were also open and were quick to sell items that supermarkets had run out of.
I recall hearing about the lockdown on March 14th and immediately went to the local town grocery shop and bought the last two packages of TP, one of which I gave to my GF.
(Is that not a sign of true love?)
They lasted me until things calmed down again.
As it is, I am fucked, my final tours and gigs of the season are now cancelled and I have to try to make up for it with translation/proofreading work.
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I have a liberal bias because I think my reality gives me one.
My mom was a widow and could not afford to join the white flight to the suburbs in the late 60’s, so I grew up the only non-black or Latino kid on the block and one of about two dozen white kids in our entire school.
It taught me a lot about races and racism, especially coming from people who grew up in all-white neighborhoods.
re: #85 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I see Trump pulled his patented I’m never coming back here if you don’t vote for me. I mean Iowa’s not high on my places to go either but I don’t get why Trump thinks trashing states is witty.
He’s made the weirdest comments lately. I mean not just weird but demeaning his audience, laments on his shitty life. These were pulled from a CNN article that spanned multiple states.
“It wasn’t even going to be like we had an election, I probably wouldn’t be standing out here in the freezing rain with you, I’d be home in the White House, doing whatever the hell I was doing. I wouldn’t be out here.”
“We win Wisconsin, we win the whole ballgame, What the hell do you think I’m doing here on a freezing night with 45-degree winds? Do you think I’m doing this for my health? I’m not doing this for my health.”
“I may never have to come back here again if I don’t get Iowa, I’ll never be back.”
“By the way, nice trucks, You think I could hop into one of them and drive it away? I’d love to just drive the hell out of here. Just get the hell out of this, I had such a good life. My life was great.”
re: #215 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s made the weirdest comments lately. I mean not just weird but demeaning his audience, laments on his shitty life. These were pulled from a CNN article that spanned multiple states.
his audiences only listen to his attitude and tone of voice, and ignore the “substance”
re: #215 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Because Trump is an ugly person, his view of others is demeaning.
Trump despises his marks. That should be obvious to everyone… but his marks.
re: #215 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s made the weirdest comments lately. I mean not just weird but demeaning his audience, laments on his shitty life. These were pulled from a CNN article that spanned multiple states.
He despises his supporters and the places they live. For a New York City fancy boy like Trump, Iowa or Nebraska or Ohio might as well be another planet - one he would never visit under any circumstances unless he had to.
re: #178 Dread Pirate Ron
Mexico is not doing well with Covid19. Their death rate is around 10%
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The deaths are accellerating in the Nebraska Panhandle as well.
Total positive: 2,188 (+50), active 812, October 27 was revised to +99
Deaths: 14 (+4 since yesterday), 3 Dawes County (seat Chadron), 1 Sioux County (seat Harrison)
Cumulative positivity rate since April 1: 11.3%
Weekly positivity rate: 41.4%
County contact tracers are becoming overwhelmed; they are asking people to self-report to the county if they are exposed to someone with Covid-19 to ease their work
re: #201 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Pickles I will agree with you on, but I’ll admit to having a soft spot for anise/black licorice. Mrs. Fish found a cheap anise-flavored liquor (I will not do real absinthe a disservice by referring to it as such) that I could drink by the bottle, if I had no concern for my liver or consciousness.
Just be careful with licorice. Too much can kill you apparently.
You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.
re: #205 Dr Lizardo
I saw a lot of toilet paper hoarding today at both supermarkets. I was unaware that COVID-19 attacks the bunghole.
Actually digestive upsets are, in my experience, a possible symptom.
(Although that might have just been my poor cooking skills).
Looks like there’s just been another incident in France, this time in Avignon. In this case, the perp was shot dead by police.
Waiting for an English-language source.
re: #220 Axolotl
I’ve never liked black licorice.
Now, the anise flavor is ok in small doses. For example, I used to like root beer when I was young and though I’ve not had any in a few years it is still good to me.
But anise can be harvested from other plants than licorice root.
re: #205 Dr Lizardo
I saw a lot of toilet paper hoarding today at both supermarkets. I was unaware that COVID-19 attacks the bunghole.
Can I offer you some sugar-free gummy bears?
Texas to Deploy National Guard Troops to 5 Major Cities For Nov. 3 Election
Texas will send 1,000 Army National Guard troops to five major cities in the state to coincide with the November 3 General Election, a spokesman for the Texas Guard said on Monday. The five cities are Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio. The troops will likely start hitting those cities beginning this weekend.
Although a formal announcement is expected from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott later this week, Guard commander Maj. Gen. Tracy Norris had already been directed to draft contingency plans for the cities in case there was trouble, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
Guard spokesman Brandon Jones didn’t give detailed plans of the operation, but said the troops could be sent this weekend—just days ahead of the presidential election.
Abbott is expecting some kind of trouble and doesn’t want to talk about it.
re: #226 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The question is this: Is Abbott trying to suppress election day voting?
Or, does even Abbott realize that right-wing gun whackos are a real threat to decent Americans?
re: #226 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Texas to Deploy National Guard Troops to 5 Major Cities For Nov. 3 Election
Abbott is expecting some kind of trouble and doesn’t want to talk about it.
At least they are preparing for what is inevitable, regardless of the outcome of the voting, like any major city when one of their teams is in the playoffs or championships…
re: #225 Shropshire Slasher
Can I offer you some sugar-free gummy bears?
LOL that’s one of the best reviews I’ve ever read.
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
Looks like there’s just been another incident in France, this time in Avignon. In this case, the perp was shot dead by police.
Europe 1 says he tried to attack some cops, was shot dead.
Libé says that it’s been confirmed by the ministry of the interior.
re: #230 John Hughes
Europe 1 says he tried to attack some cops, was shot dead.
Libé says that it’s been confirmed by the ministry of the interior.
Yeah, just saw that. Looks like France is hopping today.
re: #225 Shropshire Slasher
Many “sugar free” products contain sugar alcohols which are not absorbed (and thus are calorie free), which means said products (like xylitol) sit in the intestines but have to get out … only one way out.
re: #232 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Many “sugar free” products contain sugar alcohols which are not absorbed (and thus are calorie free), which means said products (like xylitol) sit in the intestines but have to get out … only one way out.
I discovered that the hard way, with velamints. Ate a whole pack and I thought I was going to die.
State Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon said Wednesday he was shocked when he saw the burned buildings and broken windows in Lincoln after protests turned destructive in May.Under his proposed “Law Enforcement Protection Act,” criminal penalties would be increased for obstruction of a roadway, “mob violence” against law enforcement officers, and causing property damage when six or more people assemble. There are also provisions to prevent “defunding” police agencies.
Two Nebraska senators propose bill to crack down on violent protests (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Two Nebraska senators propose bill to crack down on violent protests)
Gordon is the town which had the rancher with Nazi flags flying from the gate.
Agree or disagree, posted because of a reference to past works here:
With the emergence of the web browser in the early 1990s, the internet shattered the hierarchy that once dominated American journalism. A world in which the transmission of information had been the province of a wire service, three networks, two newsmagazines and a few powerful newspapers seemed gone forever.
New voices found a new way to be heard. Lone bloggers armed with nothing more than laptops took down the Senate majority leader (for suggesting a racist colleague’s values were ones we needed) and the nation’s most famous anchorman (for promoting a forged document).
Then, in 2007, came Twitter. And something very curious happened as it quickly became a bulletin board, gathering place and loose-knit private club for US journalists.
It became a peerless vehicle for the enforcement of mainstream media groupthink.
Twitter was the place where you could establish informal relationships with others in your field with whom you had never worked but whose attention you very much craved.
And you could quickly tell what subjects were of particular concern to those same fellow journalists by the way their tweets echoed each other’s. If a news development appeared 20 times in your latest 30 tweets, you would know it was the topic of the day or the week.
Twitter boss lies to Senate that his company lifted ban on Post exposé
More important, if a subject violates the sensibilities of the Twitter journalism community, you sure know that too. Immediately. Offense is taken. Fingers are wagged. Instantaneously, the idea that something is a “bad take” becomes universally understood.Reputations and careers are on the line — as is the possibility of enhancing your reputation and/or career by joining in the groupthink.
Before the social-media age, the groupthink of the old-media oligopoly was transmitted relatively slowly. The network newscasts and the New York Times were released once a day, after all. So the orthodox take on things might take a few days to reach everybody, and in that time, some other reporting, some other opinions, some other takes might break through.
Now all reporting is instantaneous — and the only “correct” way to look at a news story follows with similar instantaneity.
One of the correct ways to look at things, it appears, is to quash them if and when they are politically and ideologically inconvenient.
It was members of the mainstream media who demanded their fellow journalists refuse to follow up on The Post’s initial story about the revelations on the Hunter Biden laptop — and used Twitter to attack some journalists who dared to retweet The Post story even if they were criticizing it.
George Orwell once referred to the “smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.” That is how Twitter operates. That is what Twitter is — the home of and transmission point for the smelly little orthodoxies of our time.
I look at Twitter and Facebook as you get what you pay for, and should be treated as such.
The Keystone XL Pipeline fight rages on in Nebraska. Y’all are welcome it’s red staters who are opposing this, despite massive GOP fuquery.
It started with the proposed route over the Nebraska Sandhills, the Ogallala Aquifer, and three major rivers. Ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, country singers, and others raised funds to oppose the pipeline. Then-governor Heineman (R) grabbed power away from the Department of Environmental Quality (which rejected the route) to approve the route.
Two-thirds of the state’s drinking water comes from the aquifer, along with much of the irrigation in the central and western parts of the state.
That went to the state supreme court, which found the governor violated the state constitution.
Trump got elected, then the national GOP started challenging rulings in this state against the pipeline. Environmentalists, ranchers, and farmers then used raised funds to build solar and wind-powered barns directly in the path of the pipeline (as a demonstration that they will try to destroy anything in the name of profit and power).
Leading up to this:
Hearing will determine if Keystone pipeline receives construction permit in Nebraska county (Omaha World-Herald)
LINCOLN — A rarely used Board of Adjustment will take testimony Thursday on whether to overturn the denial of a construction permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline across Holt County.
A public hearing will begin at 4 p.m. at the Community Center in O’Neill.
Back in February, the Holt County Board of Supervisors denied a construction permit for the pipeline. That upheld a recommendation by the county’s zoning board to deny the permit to TC Energy, formerly TransCanada, until the pipeline developer “gains access into all lands” on the route either by voluntary agreements or eminent domain, and until the firm can identify all private drainage tiles in fields it crosses.
TC Energy appealed the decision, which required Holt County to appoint members to its Board of Adjustment. That is a five-member panel that decides disputes over zoning issues; it hadn’t been activated for 25 years.
That, plus the advent of COVID-19 and the resignation of one new board member because of coronavirus concerns, delayed the appeal hearing for several months, according to Holt County Clerk Cathy Pavel.
TC Energy did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment Wednesday.
But Jane Kleeb, who founded the pipeline opposition group Bold Nebraska, questioned why Holt County was seeking to resolve the matter amid a pandemic and just before the Nov. 3 election. If Joe Biden is elected, he has pledged to block construction of the Keystone XL, which Kleeb said would render moot any decision made by the Holt County Board of Adjustment.
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Might be something lost in the translation:
Kim Jong-un’s former pop star lover has increasingly been seen at the dictator’s side - fuelling speculation that she has usurped his sister in the eyes of the supreme leader.
Hyon Song-wol, 43, who is the lead singer of all-women group Moranbong Band, has frequently accompanied Kim, 36, on official trips and a military parade this month.
The singer - who enjoyed chart success with hits including Excellent Horse-Like Lady, I Love Pyongyang and She is a Discharged Soldier - appears to have taken on duties previously performed by the leader’s younger sister, Kim Yo-jong.
re: #224 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’ve never liked black licorice.
Now, the anise flavor is ok in small doses. For example, I used to like root beer when I was young and though I’ve not had any in a few years it is still good to me.
But anise can be harvested from other plants than licorice root.
I don’t like licorice at all but star anise as a favor additive (Gordon Ramsay’s oxtail, for example) is really nice and adds a delicious depth of flavor. Same with fennel seeds in bouillabaisse. And cooked fennel bulb takes on a whole different favor and is delicious.
That anyone eats black licorice for pleasure? Why?
re: #238 Shropshire Slasher
The singer - who enjoyed chart success with hits including Excellent Horse-Like Lady, I Love Pyongyang and She is a Discharged Soldier - appears to have taken on duties previously performed by the leader’s younger sister, Kim Yo-jong.
Does she possess the qualities of a pheasant?
re: #232 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Many “sugar free” products contain sugar alcohols which are not absorbed (and thus are calorie free), which means said products (like xylitol) sit in the intestines but have to get out … only one way out.
And xylitol is deadly poisonous to dogs. I won’t bring it into my house.
re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And xylitol is deadly poisonous to dogs. I won’t bring it into my house.
I always wondered why when chewing sugar-free gum and drinking coffee or anything warm (don’t ask, I was at work, trying to remain awake and have fresh breath), I had the lingering taste of caraway in my mouth.
Then I found out that sugar substitutes are made from caraway oils and revert when heated…
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I always wondered why when chewing sugar-free gum and drinking coffee or anything warm (don’t ask, I was at work, trying to remain awake and have fresh breath), I had the lingering taste of caraway in my mouth.
Then I found out that sugar substitutes are made from caraway oils and revert when heated…
I don’t think Splenda is made from that. I use that every day in quantity for my many cups of coffee and never have tasted caraway (something I’m not in love with).
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I always wondered why when chewing sugar-free gum and drinking coffee or anything warm (don’t ask, I was at work, trying to remain awake and have fresh breath), I had the lingering taste of caraway in my mouth.
Then I found out that sugar substitutes are made from caraway oils and revert when heated…
Simpler just to dissolve Jewish rye bread in your coffee. /s
Only to Latinos? Hello! Decency!
Our campaign report for @CBSThisMorning w/ a scooplet: @JoeBiden pledging that if he wins the White House, he’d sign an executive order on day one forming a task force to reunite the 545 immigrant children separated from their families. A big promise to Latino voters. https://t.co/bcT0EhLFCc
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) October 29, 2020
Zeta is still a tropical storm.
LOCATION…35.3N 83.5W
ABOUT 50 MI…80 KM W OF ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…60 MPH…95 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NE OR 40 DEGREES AT 39 MPH…63 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…990 MB…29.23 INCHES
A pet peeve: Nothing is “suddenly” a battleground state —- that’s the byproduct of years (sometimes decades) of sustained investment, organizing, grassroots leadership (usually from BIPOC leaders) & often losing elections by less & less each cycle but building in the process.
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) October 28, 2020
re: #227 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The question is this: Is Abbott trying to suppress election day voting?
Or, does even Abbott realize that right-wing gun whackos are a real threat to decent Americans?
My guess would be that the DPS has word that Meal Team Six and the Gravy Cong are planning some kind of disruption that will suppress voting in non-white, or at least non-fascist, areas. They could do this with false flag attacks on law enforcement, as when they torched the Milwaukee police station in blackface. Right wingers yammer a lot about “false flags,” an obvious indication that they intend to use these methods themselves. Abbott has to act, but he would not take any greater action than absolutely necessary since these terrorists are part of his support base (no middle of the night raids on RW ‘burbsteads).
re: #243 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I don’t think Splenda is made from that. I use that every day in quantity for my many cups of coffee and never have tasted caraway (something I’m not in love with).
from
Enantiospecificity of Pheromones, Sweeteners, Fragrances, and Drugs
The L,L‐dipeptide aspartame, the well‐known artificial sweetener, is composed of phenylalanine and aspartic acid, while its enantiomer, prepared from the corresponding D‐amino acids, is tasteless. A pleasant fresh citrus, orange‐like aroma is perceived from (R)‐limonene, which is a major component of the oil extracted from citrus rinds, while the (S)‐enantiomer produces a turpentine‐like odor. The (R)‐(‐)‐enantiomer has spearmint fragrance, while (S)‐(+)‐carvone smells like caraway.
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A pet peeve: Nothing is “suddenly” a battleground state
I think they conflate it with a “swing state” as in one that has gone both ways in recent elections.
Bullseye! https://t.co/MtazrCYpi4
— brueso (@brueso1) October 28, 2020
re: #26 Jack Burton
Side note. It still to this day makes my ass twitch that apparently no one in the United States (who isn’t me or Iranian) can pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s name correctly.
Hey, I’m happy I can actually spell it correctly after all these years. /
re: #251 Patricia Kayden
one way to read this is that Trump is not worried because he and Barr and his criminal co-conspirators have a plan locked in to secure him the election regardless of the outcome of the voting.
I hope that is not true, but my optimism is overtaxed and waning…
re: #252 lawhawk
Hey, I’m happy I can actually spell it correctly after all these years. /
Khaddafi, Quadaffi, Kadaffi? I don’t think they ever settled on one spelling
re: #135 BigPapa
I can’t wait to say ‘elections have consequences’ Nov 4.
I give 0 fucks about Banana Republican opinions or bullshit.
I am totally ready to tell a few certain people ‘fuck your feelings.’
This article is hysterical.
Reading this from @CaitlinPacific sparked all of the emotions I assumed I’d have if I read Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s Melania book, but in a fraction of the time and for free! A service. https://t.co/ujluikYkOc
— Amanda Mull (@amandamull) October 29, 2020
Peeing Pastor of (warm) Love Wins Ministry identified.
The North Carolina pastor accused of urinating on a Delta airline passenger two weeks ago has been identified, authorities said Tuesday.
Daniel Chalmers was arrested by the Wayne Metro Airport police in Detroit after the Delta flight landed at the Detroit Metro Airport on Oct. 12, according to a police report.
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Khaddafi, Quadaffi, Kadaffi? I don’t think they ever settled on one spelling
Let’s not discuss Chanukah.
re: #256 jeffreyw
Extremely local news: The temperatures have finally come out of the deep freezer here. Later in the week we’ll be in the sixties F, so the milkhouse heater in the basement is unplugged and our electric bill thanks us.
re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Khruschchev!
The Prophet Mohammed. Or is that Muhammed? Or maybe Muhammad?
re: #262 Dr Lizardo
The Prophet Mohammed. Or is that Muhammed? Or maybe Muhammad?
That happens when your language lacks characters for vowel sounds…
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That happens when your language lacks characters for vowel sounds…
I believe that Muhammad is the most widely-used English transliteration of his name but I’ve seen other variants.
You know Trump’s going to crow about the latest quarterly economic data about how the economy has roared back.
There’s a huge amount of context missing.
Namely that we’re below where we were at the start of the year because of Trump’s disastrous covid19 response, and his failed response means that the recovery is slower and much more uneven than had we had a competent response.
GDP rose by +7.4% in Q3 (pretty much exactly as expected), after falling by -9.0% in Q2 and -1.3% in Q1. All told, the economy is -3.5% smaller than it was at the end of 2019.
For context, the economy is roughly as far below its peak as in the darkest days of the last recession— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) October 29, 2020
re: #258 Shropshire Slasher
Peeing Pastor of (warm) Love Wins Ministry identified.
The pisser denies it but has no explanation for the urine on the seat and the woman’s clothes. He is pastor of the “Love Wins” non-denominational scam ministry, in Raleigh. These operations are a branch of the entertainment industry, competing with casinos, strip clubs, bars, and theme restaurants for surplus goober income and their leaders have many of the same characteristics as yokel entertainment entrepreneurs, sexual deviance, drunkenness, poor impulse control, runaway narcissism, etc. They should be taxed and regulated accordingly.
re: #267 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The pisser denies it but has no explanation for the urine on the seat and the woman’s clothes.
IT’S SOME KINDA MIRACLE, I TELL YA!!
Hey Lawhawk, do you know what the difference was in the WI voting ruling vs PA and NC?
re: #270 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This has some of the info (roundup of GOP voter suppression efforts and the judicial responses at the state/federal levels):
The @GOP IS the party of #VoterSuppression https://t.co/OSR5knBmoe
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) October 29, 2020
Please let this be so.
Final NBC/Marist Poll Shows Biden Leading in Florida Ahead of the Election https://t.co/mWfuYAVTWN pic.twitter.com/DaTvzYHx4i
— Drop Off UR Ballot Now! Vote Now!🌊 R. Saddler (@Politics_PR) October 29, 2020
re: #269 Dr Lizardo
IT’S SOME KINDA MIRACLE, I TELL YA!!
Jesus turned water into wine, Peeing Pastor turns wine into, well, piss.
re: #271 lawhawk
Also, with the PA case, the US Supreme Ct refused to expedite the hearing.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour plea by Pennsylvania Republicans to strike down a three-day extension for counties to accept mail ballots but has left open the possibility that it will hear the case and that those votes might not ultimately be counted.
“The question presented by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision calls out for review by this court — as both the State Republican and Democratic Parties agreed when the former applied for a stay,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a statement, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. “But I reluctantly conclude that there is simply not enough time at this late date to decide the question before the election.”
re: #271 lawhawk
This has some of the info (roundup of GOP voter suppression efforts and the judicial responses at the state/federal levels):
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But the SCOTUS upheld WI and not NC, PA. That’s what I don’t understand.
re: #273 Shropshire Slasher
Jesus turned water into wine, Peeing Pastor turns wine into, well, piss.
The commander in chief who reportedly called U.S. troops “suckers” and “losers” is now pushing a ballot-counting policy that could disenfranchise tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of American service members who are voting from overseas. https://t.co/28BAu6ZwM6
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 29, 2020
Joke from one of my saucy buds:
How many trump supporters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None, Trump just says it’s screwed in, and they’ll all just stand in the dark and cheer
re: #276 Dr Lizardo
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I should have called him the “piss-tor.” Wish I’d thought of it sooner.
Today’s forecast from the Weather Prediction Center shows Tropical Storm Zeta bringing torrential rain to NC, VA, MD, DC, DE, PA, New York City and Long Island, and parts of CT.
North of there, the tropical storm will draw down snow from Toronto, across most of New York and New England.
To the west, isolated heavy rain near a cold front. West of the Missouri River, stable weather to the Pacific.
Two hours ago:
Philadelphia police discover van loaded with explosives, suspicious equipment (ABC, WPVI Philadelphia)
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — An investigation is underway in Philadelphia after police found explosives and other suspicious cargo inside a van at Logan Circle on Wednesday night.
Action News has learned that police recovered propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks from the van.
The bomb squad is investigating. There is no word on who owns the van or if anyone has been arrested.
The discovery comes as the city remains on heightened alert following nights of unrest stemming from the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr.
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#BREAKING : Phila Police discover van loaded with explosives, suspicious equipment at Logan Circle in Center City. Live report coming up at 11. @6abc pic.twitter.com/GWhMjR7D04
— Dann Cuellar (@DannCuellar) October 29, 2020
But the cops keep supporting right-wingers when right-wingers want to kill cops.
Yet another example of a yokel Republican tool who will go to prison, this time for voting rights violations, if Cheeto loses. There must be many thousands of them by now, from the county chairs who put secession on the Texas ballot in return for Russian money, to the various operatives in the trenches of voter suppression.
Duval County, Florida judge leading vote-counting board donated to Trump 12 times. That’s not allowed. https://t.co/k2sQBxEOoY
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) October 29, 2020
re: #284 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
With any luck, by this time next year, the prisons will be filled with GOP officials.
re: #274 lawhawk
Also, with the PA case, the US Supreme Ct refused to expedite the hearing.
Am I being paranoid in thinking that the Trump division of SCOTUS are basically keeping their powder dry with most of the rulings, and are going to drop the boom after Election Day?
In other words, let everybody try to vote now and then when Trump inevitably comes whining to them, they turn around and go “Yeah, any mail-in vote not physically received on Nov 3 goes bye-bye?”
With the exception of WI, I’m shocked they’re basically swatting down fellow Republicans pleas to rig the vote right now.
re: #285 Dr Lizardo
With any luck, by this time next year, the prisons will be filled with GOP officials.
Biden can get all the space he needs by pardoning non-violent marijuana offenders. The worst Republican traitors, though, should be housed in re-purposed baby-cages.
re: #275 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
But the SCOTUS upheld WI and not NC, PA. That’s what I don’t understand.
From what I read, the WI order to extend the ballot deadline came from a federal judge, the ones in NC and PA came from a state judge. This SC is more willing to let states run their own elections, esp. this close to the election.
re: #283 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Two hours ago:
Philadelphia police discover van loaded with explosives, suspicious equipment (ABC, WPVI Philadelphia)
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But the cops keep supporting right-wingers when right-wingers want to kill cops.
That went down around 10:30 or so last night, I think. Someone’s been blowing up ATMs throughout the city. I’m wondering if this is related to that.
On a side note: I don’t live in Philly but am pretty familar with the city. I’d default to Philly Pretzel on her thoughts, but what’s going on right now is bad. The worst I’ve ever seen.
I mentioned the other night about a conversation I got into with a retired LEO I know and one theme she kept going back to is commingling protesters spreading “hate” by rioting.
Not that it needs to be said, rioting is wrong, but Jesus Fucking Christ: the “Rioting is always wrong” brigade never, never mentions or puts together why the riots and protests are starting. If cops would stop using shooting black people as their default in these situations, there wouldn’t be any fucking riots.
Ted confesses:
I stole Tucker Carlson’s trove of documents.
Awww, just kidding. Of course a major news network wouldn’t have scanned those documents first right? Or make a copy? Nope. They sent their only copy through the mail. If you believe that, then I have a bridge to sell you. https://t.co/JhTVvvUz5H— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 29, 2020
re: #290 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Tucker is claiming that his super-secret, extremely damming trove of documents about Hunter Biden was stolen while in the mail.
Oh, Jesus Christ, really????
re: #291 Mattand
Oh, Jesus Christ, really????
Yeah, it’s funny as hell. He’s basically saying, “The dog ate my homework”.
re: #123 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The GOP scum in Texas want to force voters to choose between protecting their lives or voting, under the pretext that they want to protect voters from the “burden” of wearing a mask to vote.
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Can I show up to vote naked?
Hello from Zeta land!
Looks like we’ll be without electricity for awhile (perhaps a few days). The good news is I am off work (with pay) until the power is back on.
Wife and I were just outside surveying the damage and miraculously our roof survived without even a shingle gone. Plenty of trees and shit to clear from the property but we were very lucky.
We are currently heading out to check on a few friends and neighbors.
re: #247 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I have to give Beto a lot of credit for his 2018 run, but the biggest credit in turning Texas into a battleground state goes to Trump.
re: #286 Mattand
Am I being paranoid in thinking that the Trump division of SCOTUS are basically keeping their powder dry with most of the rulings, and are going to drop the boom after Election Day?
In other words, let everybody try to vote now and then when Trump inevitably comes whining to them, they turn around and go “Yeah, any mail-in vote not physically received on Nov 3 goes bye-bye?”
With the exception of WI, I’m shocked they’re basically swatting down fellow Republicans pleas to rig the vote right now.
👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼
re: #289 Mattand
Not that it needs to be said, rioting is wrong, but Jesus Fucking Christ: the “Rioting is always wrong” brigade never, never mentions or puts together why the riots and protests are starting. If cops would stop using shooting black people as their default in these situation, there wouldn’t be any fucking riots.
This.
No where else in the world has the number of percentage of officer involved shootings we have in the US, let alone the excessive/deadly force incidents we have in the US.
It all flows from a law enforcement and criminal justice attitude that spares cops the consequences of killing people on the job. They’re granted qualified immunity to murder unarmed people, and even if prosecutors do bring charges, they’re usually watered down, and then juries do the rest to give the cops the benefit of doubt, when none was earned or deserved.
We see this time and again. Cops barge into a house and murder a black woman but prosecutors don’t even bring homicide charges at the grand jury. They start off with a reckless damage charge that essentially treats drywall having greater rights and protections than the life of a black woman.
Cops murder POC on the streets, even when the POC are following the cops’ instructions to the letter. Heck, cops murder POC when giving absolutely no time for a person to react (Tamir Rice), or when exercising their 2A rights in an open carry state (John Crawford, etc.)
Every time this happens, cops ascribe superpowers to the POC - that they were struggling and feared for their lives.
How the fuck is it that Europe, which has similar crime rates to the US, doesn’t have the officer involved death rates here? Because firearms are more strictly regulated and the training/tactics are different and better.
re: #285 Dr Lizardo
With any luck, by this time next year, the prisons will be filled with GOP officials.
GA governor Lester Maddox once said the answer to prison violence was to get a “better class of prisoner”.
re: #215 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s made the weirdest comments lately. I mean not just weird but demeaning his audience, laments on his shitty life. These were pulled from a CNN article that spanned multiple states.
It’s just bizarre.
re: #297 lawhawk
This.
No where else in the world has the number of percentage of officer involved shootings we have in the US, let alone the excessive/deadly force incidents we have in the US.
It all flows from a law enforcement and criminal justice attitude that spares cops the consequences of killing people on the job. They’re granted qualified immunity to murder unarmed people, and even if prosecutors do bring charges, they’re usually watered down, and then juries do the rest to give the cops the benefit of doubt, when none was earned or deserved.
We see this time and again. Cops barge into a house and murder a black woman but prosecutors don’t even bring homicide charges at the grand jury. They start off with a reckless damage charge that essentially treats drywall having greater rights and protections than the life of a black woman.
Cops murder POC on the streets, even when the POC are following the cops’ instructions to the letter. Heck, cops murder POC when giving absolutely no time for a person to react (Tamir Rice), or when exercising their 2A rights in an open carry state (John Crawford, etc.)
Every time this happens, cops ascribe superpowers to the POC - that they were struggling and feared for their lives.
How the fuck is it that Europe, which has similar crime rates to the US, doesn’t have the officer involved death rates here? Because firearms are more strictly regulated and the training/tactics are different and better.
Let’s not discount three militarization is LEO. When you look at citizens as enemy combatants, killing them is natural.
Uh huh. 😉
Wisconsin Republican Party chairman says hackers stole $2.3 million from account dedicated to Trump reelection https://t.co/82HAPpZX1e
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) October 29, 2020
re: #301 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Uh huh. 😉
Everybody getting in on the old smash & grab at this point.
It’s just incredible to watch. The GOP is going to be completely destitute by the time they’re done. And I’m absolutely OK with that.
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Khaddafi, Quadaffi, Kadaffi? I don’t think they ever settled on one spelling
i believe first episode of the west wing leo calls the NYT complaining about the xword puzzle and says ‘thats not how you spell his name, i met the man….’
re: #289 Mattand
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re: #293 Eventual Carrion
Can I show up to vote naked?
You shouldn’t have to choose between your right to nudity and voting!
re: #301 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Uh huh. 😉
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Hard to feel bad for the people who sided with Russia when they meddled in our election because it benefited their candidate.
After sticking with a fake 800% match for months, the Trump campaign has bit the bullet and is now promoting a fake 950% match https://t.co/W8QCGW0EdJ
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 29, 2020
Spate of good polls this morning moved Georgia to slightly favored for Biden on fivethirtyeight.com. It’s starting to look like a landslide.
re: #307 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Wait until all this fundraising is done and there still isn’t any money in the coffers.
And everybody will shrug, and then send out another fundraising email.
re: #288 KingKenrod
From what I read, the WI order to extend the ballot deadline came from a federal judge, the ones in NC and PA came from a state judge. This SC is more willing to let states run their own elections, esp. this close to the election.
this is the crux right here
the judge in the PA case overreached past what the legislature had already done.
scotus said nuh-uh, it’s up to the legislatures not judges.
in this, and only this they are trying to be consistent
except with that idiotic 4-4 ruling last week. it clearly should have been 8-0 deferring election authority to the states.
re: #297 lawhawk
This.
No where else in the world has the number of percentage of officer involved shootings we have in the US, let alone the excessive/deadly force incidents we have in the US.
How the fuck is it that Europe, which has similar crime rates to the US, doesn’t have the officer involved death rates here? Because firearms are more strictly regulated and the training/tactics are different and better.
That’s true, and the problem goes all the way back to how US law is perceived and structured. American law exists not to provide for a healthy society, but to divide people into good and bad groups. American cops, as enforcers of the law, therefore don’t exist to serve a healthy society. They exist to provide armed security for one group of people against the other group of people. That’s why they are not really cops - they’re an occupying garrison, and anyone not in the protected group has the status of enemy civilians at best, and enemy combatants whenever a cop decides.
re: #292 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, it’s funny as hell. He’s basically saying, “The dog ate my homework”.
…and his viewers are buying it hook, line, and ‘stinker’
re: #309 makeitstop
Wait until all this fundraising is done and there still isn’t any money in the coffers.
And everybody will shrug, and then send out another fundraising email.
At this point, just fucking say “We match infinity percent!!!!” Trump supporters won’t be the wiser.
re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg
Hello from Zeta land!
Looks like we’ll be without electricity for awhile (perhaps a few days). The good news is I am off work (with pay) until the power is back on.
Wife and I were just outside surveying the damage and miraculously our roof survived without even a shingle gone. Plenty of trees and shit to clear from the property but we were very lucky.
We are currently heading out to check on a few friends and neighbors.
Damn, if roofs can survive hurricanes, I’m ready to trade our hailstorms. Three roofs in two years is getting a bit expensive for us.
Seriously though, I’m glad that you did not suffer injury or serious damage beyond your trees. I hope things go well for your neighbours as well.
re: #308 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Spate of good polls this morning moved Georgia to slightly favored for Biden on fivethirtyeight.com. It’s starting to look like a landslide.
I don’t know why people scoff at Georgia being in play. This isn’t Newt Gingrich’s Georgia. Not only do I think Biden can win but I think Ossoff and Warnock can too. We’re looking at a likely big Democratic win imo. This isn’t 2016.
re: #26 Jack Burton
Side note. It still to this day makes my ass twitch that apparently no one in the United States (who isn’t me or Iranian) can pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s name correctly.
Especially when Jon Stewart taught us al to say “I’m a dinner jacket”
re: #314 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Damn, if roofs can survive hurricanes, I’m ready to trade our hailstorms. Three roofs in two years is getting a bit expensive for us.
Seriously though, I’m glad that you did not suffer injury or serious damage beyond your trees. I hope things go well for your neighbours as well.
What about those metal roof over sound deadening ones?
re: #308 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Spate of good polls this morning moved Georgia to slightly favored for Biden on fivethirtyeight.com. It’s starting to look like a landslide.
EV has GA as +2 to +4
re: #315 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t know why people scoff at Georgia being in play. This isn’t Newt Gingrich’s Georgia. Not only do I think Biden can win but I think Ossoff and Warnock can too. We’re looking at a likely big Democratic win imo. This isn’t 2016.
Got to see a lot of Warnock ads this week. He has a good message, and good media people.
Get this news out to MAGAland, quick! Will either encourage them to wear masks or diminish their admiration of Putin, a win either way. https://t.co/H4McFukyNg
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) October 27, 2020
re: #320 Decatur Deb
Got to see a lot of Warnock ads this week. He has a good message, and good media people.
I saw that he’s the minister at MLK’s old church. Very interesting.
re: #308 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Spate of good polls this morning moved Georgia to slightly favored for Biden on fivethirtyeight.com. It’s starting to look like a landslide.
538 went 11/89 to 10/89 back to 11/89 already this AM. The race isn’t tightening like 2016. If anything, seems to be holding steady if not slightly running away.
re: #315 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t know why people scoff at Georgia being in play. This isn’t Newt Gingrich’s Georgia. Not only do I think Biden can win but I think Ossoff and Warnock can too. We’re looking at a likely big Democratic win imo. This isn’t 2016.
EV has ossoff at +2, but only at 49%.
the special election has warnock at +6 and 51% which would mean no runoff
re: #266 lawhawk
As expected:
The economy is 3.5 points smaller than at the beginning of the year. You’ve presided over the collapse of the US economy and the recovery has been slower and smaller because of your disastrous covid19 response that has killed 300,000+ Americans.
You’ve wrecked the economy.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 29, 2020
The US economy is 3.5 points smaller than it was at the beginning of the year because of your disastrous covid19 response.
The economy isn’t roaring back. It’s at the same level as the worst of the Great Recession. That’s on you and your deadly response to the pandemic.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 29, 2020
It is deeply unfortunate that we head into Fall without enough doses of this drug. Many of us were talking about this as early as March. Regeneron did extraordinary work to secure their own manufacturing, but we needed a concerted industrial effort to get the supply we needed. https://t.co/xAibkwK0dn
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) October 28, 2020
re: #318 dangerman
EV has GA as +2 to +4
Which would fit the 8-10 Democratic swing I feel we’re seeing. Clinton did better in Georgia than Gore, Kerry, & Obama did. Her campaign wasn’t a total failure. She also set up groundwork in Arizona too.
re: #308 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Spate of good polls this morning moved Georgia to slightly favored for Biden on fivethirtyeight.com. It’s starting to look like a landslide.
Inside Elections Updates Outlook for President, Senate and House ~ October 28, 2020 (270toWin)
President
October 28: Georgia and North Carolina move from Toss-up to Tilt Democratic; Texas moves from Tilt Republican to Toss-up.
re: #307 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Who exactly is matching the money? Because Trump’s kids aren’t donating a dime to the grift. Trump doesn’t have the cash to self-fund either.
This is all a scam.
Trump: media is biased by noting covid covid covid. If a plane crashed, they’d be talking covid covid covid.
Me: More than 1,000 Americans died from Trump’s failed covid19 response yesterday. That’s equivalent to *8* 737-700 planes crashing per day.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 29, 2020
re: #290 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’m sure the unnamed shipping company and anonymous employees in Tucker’s story will all verify his statement.
re: #323 BigPapa
538 went 11/89 to 10/89 back to 11/89 already this AM. The race isn’t tightening like 2016. If anything, seems to be holding steady if not slightly running away.
In 2016, the race started tightening three weeks before election day. This race isn’t tightening; Trump is just treading water.
For those people checking 538 every 10 minutes because an 88% chance of a Biden win is too close to call, the pitter patter of hedge hog feet accross the floor may help with the nerves:
Because a hedgehog softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of scampering. pic.twitter.com/DjfhhEKp0M— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) October 29, 2020
I need to get to work, but one last question: anyone been catching Matt Lewis’s column headlines over at the Daily Beast lately? He’s their pet conservative apparently. I read one of his a few months back and was like, “Never again.”
Anyways, the headlines have been making me genuinely laugh. Think of Kevin Bacon near the end of Animal House: “Remain calm! All is well!. All is well!!!!”
Today, it’s the right and wrong way to cover Hunter Biden (pro tip: the right way is to not cover it all since his dad did nothing wrong and Hunter’s not running for POTUS.)
Last week, it was essentially “Biden didn’t support fracking! Trump’s got him now!!!”
There was one other idiotic one that escapes me, but it was along those lines.
I’m still bracing for the possibility of Trump winning, but the desperation in the conservative press is amusing.
re: #323 BigPapa
538 went 11/89 to 10/89 back to 11/89 already this AM. The race isn’t tightening like 2016. If anything, seems to be holding steady if not slightly running away.
biden’s lead has been consistent 6% nationally for 3 months
re: #331 jaunte
I’m sure the unnamed shipping company and anonymous employees in Tucker’s story will all verify his statement.
Even freepers are saying: “No copies? It never existed.”
re: #328 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Inside Elections Updates Outlook for President, Senate and House ~ October 28, 2020 (270toWin)
I see Georgia and North Carolina going in a similar direction as we have here in Virginia. Senator Perdue was even nice enough to do his best George Allen impression when he mocked Senator Harris’s name. The old GOP shit isn’t working.
re: #332 NO SMOCKING GUN!
In 2016, the race started tightening three weeks before election day. This race isn’t tightening; Trump is just treading water.
Yup. The Comey Letter was substantial. 2020 had Hunter’s Laptop which never booted up.
Geek Joke! Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck.
Turkish Bank Case Showed Erdogan’s Influence With Trump (New York Times)
New details of the Justice Department’s handling of the accusations against Halkbank reveal how Turkey’s leader pressured the president, prompting concern from top White House aides.
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
one way to read this is that Trump is not worried because he and Barr and his criminal co-conspirators have a plan locked in to secure him the election regardless of the outcome of the voting.
I hope that is not true, but my optimism is overtaxed and waning…
If they had it locked in, why would they bother having Trump campaign so vigorously (for him at least), and why would the GOP in the senate be acting like they’re about to be washed into the gutter?
I have more reasons to hope than to fear.
re: #335 dangerman
biden’s lead has been consistent 6% nationally for 3 months
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And RCP actually leans pretty conservative in the polls they include or don’t. I think Biden is up between 8-12 nationally. People want this shit show to end. People may not love Joe but they like and trust him which is more than enough.
re: #277 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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I wonder how this will play across UT.
As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I can unequivocally say .@SenMikeLee speaks 100% blasphemy in comparing DJT to Captain Moroni. No doubt Trump has kompromat on Lee. https://t.co/pYxg9cUyaE
— GrammyK 🇺🇲 (@UTSunriseSunset) October 29, 2020
re: #340 jamesfirecat
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re: #301 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Wisconsin Republican Party chairman says hackers stole $2.3 million from account dedicated to Trump reelection
“It got lost in the mail” was already taken
re: #341 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And RCP actually leans pretty conservative in the polls they include or don’t. I think Biden is up between 8-12 nationally. People want this shit show to end. People may not love Joe but they like and trust him which is more than enough.
538 posted 11 national polls yesterday
excluding rasmussen (hacks who have +1 trump, yeah right) , they went from +2 to +19 for biden
averaging around 9-10 points
re: #345 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wisconsin Republican Party chairman says hackers stole $2.3 million from account dedicated to Trump reelection
“It got lost in the mail” was already taken
Oh those naughty TikTok kids…🤣
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
How can anyone eat grilled cheese without pickles?
re: #340 jamesfirecat
If they had it locked in, why would they bother having Trump campaign so vigorously (for him at least), and why would the GOP in the senate be acting like they’re about to be washed into the gutter?
I have more reasons to hope than to fear.
I keep going back to this but this isn’t one election. It’s 51. Yes, we all voted for Joe but some of us voted for our incumbent Senator, a challenger, or some have no Senate race at all. There’s only so much Barr can do. And Barr has only so much power. He was unable to get a kangaroo indictment and that from what I understand has Trump furious at him. These guys I think even if they wanted to aren’t competent enough to steal a landslide defeat. Florida in 2000 worked because the margin of victory between Gore and Bush was razor thin. Trump is likely to lose the deciding states by hundreds of thousands of votes. I choose to be hopeful because I know and have seen that when we vote, we can and will beat these bastards.
Yay. One of my tweets made it into Raw Story about Pence crowing about the GDP gain.
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
How can anyone eat grilled cheese without pickles?
I despise pickles (except sweet ones). The only thing which belongs on a grilled cheese is either HP sauce, hot sauce, or horseradish.
I haven’t tried pineapple yet.
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
How can anyone eat grilled cheese without pickles?
on the side, definitely
not into warm pickles in any form. I even pick them off my burgers and let them cool and eat them separately
Looks like there’s a slight problem with that Q guy…
QAnon supporter “Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan and its successor site, 8kun, controls a company that hosted scores of domains whose names suggest they are connected to child pornography”
This is going to get interesting
@thespybrief https://t.co/gxMG1ILVzV— The Editor Devil (@fairchild01) October 29, 2020
re: #336 Decatur Deb
Even freepers are saying: “No copies? It never existed.”
Might an eye be opening there?
re: #350 lawhawk
Yay. One of my tweets made it into Raw Story about Pence crowing about the GDP gain.
Trump’s last, vain hope to move the polls is that everyone across media praise the brilliant job he has done reviving the economy, nevermind that 1k Americans are dying of covid every day.
re: #350 lawhawk
Yay. One of my tweets made it into Raw Story about Pence crowing about the GDP gain.
Congratulations, you have arrived.
You may collect your job as a political writer at the Washington Post since you clearly have the same qualifications as blogger Jennifer Rubin.
re: #344 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I’ve had my eye on the “Death to America” soup tureen in the company store for a while now.
re: #353 makeitstop
Looks like there’s a slight problem with that Q guy…
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It’s been my gut feeling ever since the SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse) days in the 80’s and 90’s, that it isn’t about protecting the children, but diverting attention from the cause of the problem…
re: #346 dangerman
538 posted 11 national polls yesterday
excluding rasmussen (hacks who have +1 trump, yeah right) , they went from +2 to +19 for bidenaveraging around 9-10 points
And then there’s Trafalgar that has the stupid silent Trump voter bullshit. Which is it, are Trump supporters loud and enthusiastic or are they a silent majority? I’m a Biden supporter. I’ve supported him since January but there isn’t a Biden sign to be found in my yard or Biden apparel in my closet. If there’s a silent majority, it’s for Joe among people who live in places that went for Trump and people who don’t want to deal with their obnoxious Trump supporting neighbors, family, or coworkers.
re: #340 jamesfirecat
If they had it locked in, why would they bother having Trump campaign so vigorously (for him at least), and why would the GOP in the senate be acting like they’re about to be washed into the gutter?
I have more reasons to hope than to fear.</blockquote>I have both simultaneously?
re: #353 makeitstop
Looks like there’s a slight problem with that Q guy…
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I fucking knew it.
re: #356 🌹UOJB!
ah this is what I want to see! More of Nate’s Snake Chart tipping blue!
NE-2 leaning blue. The Blue Wave runs through Omaha. /s
NE-3 (my district) remains the most right-wing district in the nation.
re: #349 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I choose to be hopeful because no matter how hard the reporters on their Cletus Safaris look, they keep finding Trump 2016 voters who are sticking with him, and Trump 2016 voters switching to Biden… and not one Clinton 2016 voter switching to Trump.
That’s not how you go from a narrowest-possible win in 2016 to reelection four years later.
GOP alternate reality here at work: Biden is the one evading questions and going to bed early.
re: #355 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump’s last, vain hope to move the polls is that everyone across media praise the brilliant job he has done reviving the economy, nevermind that 1k Americans are dying of covid every day.
I actually watch a lot of CNN because that’s my parents’ network of choice. They don’t let Trump have his narratives anymore. Trump arguably won last time because he had it. His narrative this time is muddled as hell.
re: #351 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I despise pickles (except sweet ones). The only thing which belongs on a grilled cheese is either HP sauce, hot sauce, or horseradish.
I haven’t tried pineapple yet.
I put tomatoes on mine, and experiment with a bunch of different cheeses.
re: #301 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Uh huh. 😉
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The only question is how much % Trump himself is getting from this Mafia style burn-down-the-restaurant criminal campaign as the rats leave the ship.
I would imagine the amount of protection money kicked up to Putin or some other Mafia don running a similarly shady country as Trump’s foreign refuge is very expensive.
re: #357 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Congratulations, you have arrived.
You may collect your job as a political writer at the Washington Post since you clearly have the same qualifications as blogger Jennifer Rubin.
With better judgement.
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Plastic Camelot
re: #157 Dread Pirate Ron
CBC has a drama/fantasy series called Trickster about First Nation people and the supernatural. It’s very good if you can find it. I just watched episode 4.
Looks like Hulu?
re: #364 i(m)p(each)sos
I choose to be hopeful because no matter how hard the reporters on their Cletus Safaris look, they keep finding Trump 2016 voters who are sticking with him, and Trump 2016 voters switching to Biden… and not one Clinton 2016 voter switching to Trump.
That’s not how you go from a narrowest-possible win in 2016 to reelection four years later.
And the new voters favor Biden too. I just wish people who are cynical would realize we’re not blowing sunshine and rainbows up their asses. We’re looking at what’s going on and what’s happened. I think the Philly metro area alone will be Joe’s margin of victory in Pennsylvania for example. Look at district polls. Trump is bleeding support. He hasn’t gotten too many people on board who weren’t with him before.
re: #366 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I actually watch a lot of CNN because that’s my parents’ network of choice. They don’t let Trump have his narratives anymore. Trump arguably won last time because he had it. His narrative this time is muddled as hell.
From the clips I see of the rallies on his Superspreader Tour (and that would make a good name for an album) Trump has no coherent campaign message.
re: #366 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I actually watch a lot of CNN because that’s my parents’ network of choice. They don’t let Trump have his narratives anymore. Trump arguably won last time because he had it. His narrative this time is muddled as hell.
Not to mention his KKK rallies aren’t playing like the empty podium did in 2016.
re: #373 NO SMOCKING GUN!
From the clips I see of the rallies on his Superspreader Tour (and that would make a good name for an album) Trump has no coherent campaign message.
I’d be really surprised if some Zoomer kid somewhere hasn’t already appropriated ‘Superspreader’ as a band name.
re: #375 makeitstop
I’d be really surprised if some Zoomer kid somewhere hasn’t already appropriated ‘Superspreader’ as a band name.
I already claimed The Comorbidities fight me.
While watching the Trump campaign’s disintegration last night, I was reminded of when the Dubya regime was at the top of their popularity, Karl Rove spoke often of a permanent Republican majority. Then it all fell apart.
History does repeat from time to time.
re: #366 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I actually watch a lot of CNN because that’s my parents’ network of choice. They don’t let Trump have his narratives anymore. Trump arguably won last time because he had it. His narrative this time is muddled as hell.
I still recall in 2015 when Trump commented how exciting his rallies were while people were falling asleep at Jeb! Bush rallies.
20 minutes later, CNN aired an interview with a woman who fell asleep at a Jeb! rally.
re: #374 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not to mention his KKK rallies aren’t playing like the empty podium did in 2016.
Yeah in fact they had a reporter in Arizona last night and I heard Trump babbling in the background but the video wasn’t on him. Trump’s rise to the Presidency was the most spectacular (I’m using it to mean amazing not as a positive) thing I’ve ever seen. I likewise feel his collapse will equally be spectacular and we’ve been seeing it fold out in real time since the perfect phone call.
re: #378 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still recall in 2015 when Trump commented how exciting his rallies were while people were falling asleep at Jeb! Bush rallies.
20 minutes later, CNN aired an interview with a woman who fell asleep at a Jeb! rally.
The truth is Trump is the bore. He really is. And the media I think is slowly getting that.
Heads up - Pelosi presser incoming.
I will be speaking with reporters at the U.S. Capitol at 10:45 am ET.
Tune in here: https://t.co/2fi357l3G3— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) October 29, 2020
re: #372 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So very true. If voters show in the huge numbers they’ve been showing so far in Philadelphia, it doesn’t matter how passionate the Trump holdouts are in Du Bois or Lewistown or Uniontown. There just aren’t that many voters in those places compared to what a wave out of Philly would look like.
re: #378 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still recall in 2015 when Trump commented how exciting his rallies were while people were falling asleep at Jeb! Bush rallies.
20 minutes later, CNN aired an interview with a woman who fell asleep at a Jeb! rally.
I’m so over exciting, Cliff hanging Apprentice: POTUS daily disasters. I crave boring government.
re: #349 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I keep going back to this but this isn’t one election. It’s 51. Yes, we all voted for Joe but some of us voted for our incumbent Senator, a challenger, or some have no Senate race at all. There’s only so much Barr can do. And Barr has only so much power. He was unable to get a kangaroo indictment and that from what I understand has Trump furious at him. These guys I think even if they wanted to aren’t competent enough to steal a landslide defeat. Florida in 2000 worked because the margin of victory between Gore and Bush was razor thin. Trump is likely to lose the deciding states by hundreds of thousands of votes. I choose to be hopeful because I know and have seen that when we vote, we can and will beat these bastards.
fwiw, the issue of who won, bush or gore, that led to bush v gore, wasnt a pre-election strategy. not the way we’re all gaming out hundreds of what-if scenarios this year.
it was the outcome of more-or-less legitimate questions that no one specifically targeted or anticipated.
yes it arose from a fair degree of shortsightedness, a bit of incompetence, and certainly some arcane voting mechanisms in Florida, especially Palm Beach (where i voted that year). and certainly some post hoc chicanery as well.
but it was no one’s plan going in
re: #377 makeitstop
While watching the Trump campaign’s disintegration last night, I was reminded of when the Dubya regime was at the top of their popularity, Karl Rove spoke often of a permanent Republican majority. Then it all fell apart.
History does repeat from time to time.
Yep. I remember how sad I was after Kerry lost. That was the first election I emotionally invested myself in. 2000 was different. Interestingly enough I had Civics in 2000-1 and took Government in 2004-5 when I was in 8th and 12th grade. That combined with my early interest in the Presidents and my Grandparents being outspoken Democrats made it easy to get interested.
re: #350 lawhawk
Yay. One of my tweets made it into Raw Story about Pence crowing about the GDP gain.
don’t forget the little people
we hardly knew ye
re: #384 dangerman
fwiw, the issue of who won, bush or gore, that led to bush v gore, wasnt a pre-election strategy. not the way we’re all gaming out hundreds of what-if scenarios this year.
it was the outcome of more-or-less legitimate questions that no one specifically targeted or anticipated.
yes it arose from a fair degree of shortsightedness, a bit of incompetence, and certainly some arcane voting mechanisms in Florida, especially Palm Beach (where i voted that year). and certainly some post hoc chicanery as well.
but it was no one’s plan going in
That said, it doesn’t mean it’s not the plan now.
re: #384 dangerman
fwiw, the issue of who won, bush or gore, that led to bush v gore, wasnt a pre-election strategy. not the way we’re all gaming out hundreds of what-if scenarios this year.
it was the outcome of more-or-less legitimate questions that no one specifically targeted or anticipated.
yes it arose from a fair degree of shortsightedness, a bit of incompetence, and certainly some arcane voting mechanisms in Florida, especially Palm Beach (where i voted that year). and certainly some post hoc chicanery as well.
but it was no one’s plan going in
Hell as I vaguely recall, Bush’s team thought they might win the PV but lose the EC. But you’re right. This wasn’t some grand strategy. I mean the chaotic aftermath btw. I’m certain Bush and his people would have wanted to be declared the winner on Election night. That it lingered into December otoh.
re: #344 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I’d like to thank all the people who made this possible, especially all you who stuck by me when I was just a wet behind the ears liberal college kid who was new to the site while it was still in the process of transitioning to what it is now.
Once again I’d like to remind you all that the reason I don’t post as much anymore is because my own opinions are now fairly thoroughly already represented by most of you so I often feel like I’ve got nothing meaningful to say.
re: #384 dangerman
fwiw, the issue of who won, bush or gore, that led to bush v gore, wasnt a pre-election strategy. not the way we’re all gaming out hundreds of what-if scenarios this year.
it was the outcome of more-or-less legitimate questions that no one specifically targeted or anticipated.
yes it arose from a fair degree of shortsightedness, a bit of incompetence, and certainly some arcane voting mechanisms in Florida, especially Palm Beach (where i voted that year). and certainly some post hoc chicanery as well.
but it was no one’s plan going in
well… Except for those 12000 black eligible voters purged from the rolls…
Llre: #389 jamesfirecat
I’d like to thank all the people who made this possible, especially all you who stuck by me when I was just a wet behind the ears liberal college kid who was new to the site while it was still in the process of transitioning to what it is now.
Once again I’d like to remind you all that the reason I don’t post as much anymore is because my own opinions are now fairly thoroughly already represented by most of you so I often feel like I’ve got nothing meaningful to say.
Nah dude you’ve got plenty to say. It’s good to see you back.
re: #356 🌹UOJB!
ah this is what I want to see! More of Nate’s Snake Chart tipping blue!
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- trump took MT by 24 points. right now he’s up 5
- he took texas by 10. it’s nearly a dead heat (actually +2, but a danger can dream)
even holding these states, this is still horrible for him
re: #380 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The truth is Trump is the bore. He really is. And the media I think is slowly getting that.
He’s not only a bore, he’s a boor.
re: #360 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And then there’s Trafalgar that has the stupid silent Trump voter bullshit. Which is it, are Trump supporters loud and enthusiastic or are they a silent majority? I’m a Biden supporter. I’ve supported him since January but there isn’t a Biden sign to be found in my yard or Biden apparel in my closet. If there’s a silent majority, it’s for Joe among people who live in places that went for Trump and people who don’t want to deal with their obnoxious Trump supporting neighbors, family, or coworkers.
there isnt a silent majority group of significance that have managed to all coordinate together and agree to not talk to any pollster.
it’s fantasyland
re: #373 NO SMOCKING GUN!
From the clips I see of the rallies on his Superspreader Tour (and that would make a good name for an album) Trump has no coherent campaign message.
i cant believe he got by with ‘what have you got to lose?’
(let alone, ‘grab em…’)
re: #387 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That said, it doesn’t mean it’s not the plan now.
That plan would depend upon the numbers being close.
I’m not seeing it. People are fucking tired of Trump, and he hasn’t polled above 50% for his entire term. Add the Covid response on top of that, and chances that the numbers are going to be close enough to warrant a recount are pretty damn slim.
re: #396 makeitstop
That plan would depend upon the numbers being close.
I’m not seeing it. People are fucking tired of Trump, and he hasn’t polled above 50% for his entire term. Add the Covid response on top of that, and chances that the numbers are going to be close enough to warrant a recount are pretty damn slim.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
re: #362 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I fucking knew it.
8chan has long been a site for trafficking in child exploitation photos and media. The uber-libertarian guy who runs it is in The Philippines explicitly to avoid prosecution for that in the USA.
re: #392 dangerman
- trump took MT by 24 points. right now he’s up 5
- he took texas by 10. it’s nearly a dead heat (actually +2, but a danger can dream)even holding these states, this is still horrible for him
He’s bleeding support. I mean with Bush 2004, you saw that he made significant inroads with Hispanic voters. The media is trying to claim that Trump has done the same thing with African Americans but he’s going up against a guy whose campaign was kicked into gear by AA voters and who has as a surrogate the most popular politician in the country. Who are Trumps surrogates? He had Nigel Farrage speaking for him in Arizona last night. Now I’ve never been to Arizona but I think it’s safe to say that the face of Brexit doesn’t have much sway in Northern Arizona.
re: #380 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The truth is Trump is the bore. He really is. And the media I think is slowly getting that.
they will only when his ‘ratings’ start to fall
re: #399 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
8chan has long been a site for trafficking in child exploitation photos and media. The uber-libertarian guy who runs it is in The Philippines explicitly to avoid prosecution for that in the USA.
Doesn’t surprise me.
re: #400 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He had Nigel Farrage speaking for him in Arizona last night. Now I’ve never been to Arizona but I think it’s safe to say that the face of Brexit doesn’t have much sway in Northern Arizona.
I’d bet most of the people in that crowd were going ‘Who the fuck is this guy?’
re: #367 Belafon
I put tomatoes on mine, and experiment with a bunch of different cheeses.
I just had a grilled cheese made with Jewish rye, provolone cheese, and HP Sauce.
re: #387 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That said, it doesn’t mean it’s not the plan now.
totally agree
when you’re this far behind it’s basically the only plan
re: #403 makeitstop
I’d bet most of the people in that crowd were going ‘Who the fuck is this guy?’
“He shur talks funny.”
re: #403 makeitstop
I’d bet most of the people in that crowd were going ‘Who the fuck is this guy?’
And for trump supporters, they were likely asking “WTF is he saying with that accent?”
re: #401 dangerman
they will only when his ‘ratings’ start to fall
They really need to look at what he actually says at rallies. It’s really seldom ever anything of substance. I heard last night he was making fun of Evan McMullin’s hair. I mean if you want to risk Covid for that, by all means but it’s boring because it’s so pathetic. Even the worst political demagogues in history offered more than that.
re: #407 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And for trump supporters, they were likely asking “WTF is he saying with that accent?”
23 seconds. Your steak knives will be arriving via FedEx. If you get a stack of papers by mistake, Tucker Carlson would like to hear from you.
re: #403 makeitstop
I’d bet most of the people in that crowd were going ‘Who the fuck is this guy?’
I know who he is but I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup of British right wing wankers.
re: #408 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They really need to look at what he actually says at rallies. It’s really seldom ever anything of substance. I heard last night he was making fun of Evan McMullin’s hair. I mean if you want to risk Covid for that, by all means but it’s boring because it’s so pathetic. Even the worst political demagogues in history offered more than that.
At this point, his campaign ‘speeches’ are mostly stream of consciousness blab that the late act in the lounge at a run-down resort would be embarrassed to use.
He’s become Shecky Green without the funny.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
There are none so incompetent as those who think they’re the smartest in the room and refuse to listen to anyone telling you what you need to hear, instead of what you want to hear.
Both describe Trump to a T.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 29, 2020
re: #398 makeitstop
Also a boar.
Man, person, camera, but also boor, boar, & bore. I honestly feel bad for people who find him inspirational. You can’t even call these speeches. They’re just Trump ranting into a microphone in a stream of consciousness word vomit that would make my cousin Jimmy Joyce dizzy.
re: #413 makeitstop
At this point, his campaign ‘speeches’ are mostly stream of consciousness blab that the late act in the lounge at a run-down resort would be embarrassed to use.
He’s become Shecky Green without the funny.
It’s honestly sad. The difference between the real Trump and what they see him as. I mean I hate Reagan but I acknowledge that he could be moving. The D-Day 40th anniversary speech on Pointe-Du-Hoc and the Challenger speech are good speeches. Trump? I don’t know what I’m hearing most of the time.
re: #222 John Hughes
Actually digestive upsets are, in my experience, a possible symptom.
(Although that might have just been my poor cooking skills).
Almost anything can be a symptom. A friend had a version of COVID akin to the stomach flu.
re: #226 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Texas to Deploy National Guard Troops to 5 Major Cities For Nov. 3 Election
Abbott is expecting some kind of trouble and doesn’t want to talk about it.
Wouldn’t trust anything Abbott, a master of voter suppression, is doing. Maybe he is afraid of real violence or maybe he wants to intimidate voters in minority districts. Either is a possibility — but intimidation seems more his style.
re: #351 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I despise pickles (except sweet ones). The only thing which belongs on a grilled cheese is either HP sauce, hot sauce, or horseradish.
I haven’t tried pineapple yet.
Sweet “bread & butter” pickles are considered blasphemy by most Ashkenazi Jews, but they are good with:
Tuna salad
Egg salad
That’s it. I can’t think of anything else.
re: #396 makeitstop
That plan would depend upon the numbers being close.
I’m not seeing it. People are fucking tired of Trump, and he hasn’t polled above 50% for his entire term. Add the Covid response on top of that, and chances that the numbers are going to be close enough to warrant a recount are pretty damn slim.
This seems fairly accurate. The NYT published a (“Last”) poll today showing Biden/Harris numbers for seven “battleground” states, and the aggregate (with only one exception*) showed Joe/Kamala still winning all but one, even with their “qualifying exception” - which were numbers based on the assumption that “polls were off as much as they were in 2016”. Which seems to me to be a pretty thin reed to base assumptions on. Like generals prepping to fight the last war, pollsters always seem to be sampling to gauge the last election…
*North Carolina
re: #416 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s honestly sad. The difference between the real Trump and what they see him as. I mean I hate Reagan but I acknowledge that he could be moving. The D-Day 40th anniversary speech on Pointe-Du-Hoc and the Challenger speech are good speeches. Trump? I don’t know what I’m hearing most of the time.
Reagan had 1.) better speechwriters, and 2.) the ability to read a speech. Trump can’t read - or rather, can’t sustain the concentration to read a prepared text, so he veers off into his incoherent verbal spew.
re: #298 Decatur Deb
GA governor Lester Maddox once said the answer to prison violence was to get a “better class of prisoner”.
Georgians: “he may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.”
re: #239 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I don’t like licorice at all but star anise as a favor additive (Gordon Ramsay’s oxtail, for example) is really nice and adds a delicious depth of flavor. Same with fennel seeds in bouillabaisse. And cooked fennel bulb takes on a whole different favor and is delicious.
That anyone eats black licorice for pleasure? Why?
I’m a big fan and have been one since grammar school. It doesn’t last long on the very rare occasion that I actually purchase some.
Plre: #421 Jay C
This seems fairly accurate. The NYT published a (“Last”) poll today showing Biden/Harris numbers for seven “battleground” states, and the aggregate (with only one exception*) showed Joe/Kamala still winning all but one, even with their “qualifying exception” - which were numbers based on the assumption that “polls were off as much as they were in 2016”. Which seems to me to be a pretty thin reed to base assumptions on. Like generals prepping to fight the last war, pollsters always seem to be sampling to gauge the last election…
*North Carolina
I really think using 2016 as the only point of reference makes them look foolish.
re: #422 A Three Hour Tour
Reagan had 1.) better speechwriters, and 2.) the ability to read a speech. Trump can’t read - or rather, can’t sustain the concentration to read a prepared text, so he veers off into his incoherent verbal spew.
Yep. Trump has Stephen Miller writing these screeches.
re: #426 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Pl
I really think using 2016 as the only point of reference makes them look foolish.
Especially with COVID. I don’t think anything is representative anywhere.
re: #286 Mattand
Am I being paranoid in thinking that the Trump division of SCOTUS are basically keeping their powder dry with most of the rulings, and are going to drop the boom after Election Day?
In other words, let everybody try to vote now and then when Trump inevitably comes whining to them, they turn around and go “Yeah, any mail-in vote not physically received on Nov 3 goes bye-bye?”
With the exception of WI, I’m shocked they’re basically swatting down fellow Republicans pleas to rig the vote right now.
I agree entirely — make them think that votes will count and then take them away when it’s too late for voters to adopt a different strategy. Our belief in victory is based on all those mail-in ballots that will not be arriving on a timely fashion.
re: #419 Hecuba’s daughter
Wouldn’t trust anything Abbott, a master of voter suppression, is doing. Maybe he is afraid of real violence or maybe he wants to intimidate voters in minority districts. Either is a a possibility — but intimidation seems more his style.
Abbott is starting to look like the only sane one left:
“If the Republicans lose it,” Patrick said, it’ll be “because they stole it.”
— Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal (@BudKennedy) October 29, 2020
re: #416 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s honestly sad. The difference between the real Trump and what they see him as. I mean I hate Reagan but I acknowledge that he could be moving. The D-Day 40th anniversary speech on Pointe-Du-Hoc and the Challenger speech are good speeches. Trump? I don’t know what I’m hearing most of the time.
I have always despised Ronald Reagan as well, but I put his Challenger disaster speech amongst the most moving and inspirational speeches a president has ever given. Short, sympathetic, binding the nations sorrows, and inspiration that this would not hold back exploration. (4:47)
re: #297 lawhawk
This.
No where else in the world has the number of percentage of officer involved shootings we have in the US, let alone the excessive/deadly force incidents we have in the US.
……
How the fuck is it that Europe, which has similar crime rates to the US, doesn’t have the officer involved death rates here? Because firearms are more strictly regulated and the training/tactics are different and better.
Yep. Europe doesn’t have the officer-involved shootings because every yahoo there doesn’t have their own personal arsenal putting police forces in an arms race with criminals, boogaloo boys, biker gangs, racists, etc.
re: #428 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Especially with COVID. I don’t think anything is representative anywhere.
Yeah Covid is just the elephant in the room that can’t be ignored. Basic political psychology tells you that people don’t reward the administration that botched a crisis and we know Trump has with Covid.
re: #420 The Pie Overlord!
Sweet “bread & butter” pickles are considered blasphemy by most Ashkenazi Jews, but they are good with:
Tuna salad
Egg salad
That’s it. I can’t think of anything else.
indeed. refrigerator dills or nothing
re: #433 Hecuba’s daughter
Yep. Europe doesn’t have the officer-involved shootings because every yahoo there doesn’t have their own personal arsenal putting police forces in an arms race with criminals, boogaloo boys, biker gangs, racists, etc.
Police shootings: German cops shot dead 14 people in 2017
Police throughout Germany fired a total of 75 times at people in 2017. The resulting deaths were far fewer than the United States, where more than 950 people died as a result of police shootings.
re: #436 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Police shootings: German cops shot dead 14 people in 2017
Police throughout Germany fired a total of 75 times at people in 2017. The resulting deaths were far fewer than the United States, where more than 950 people died as a result of police shootings.
And there are likely a number of wingnuts over here who would take those figures as evidence that German police need more training and target practice to up their “success” rate….
re: #436 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Police shootings: German cops shot dead 14 people in 2017
Police throughout Germany fired a total of 75 times at people in 2017. The resulting deaths were far fewer than the United States, where more than 950 people died as a result of police shootings.
More people shoot at cops in America. We have a serious policing problem to fix, but our gun madness would result in more people being shot, even with properly screened and trained police.
re: #434 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah Covid is just the elephant in the room that can’t be ignored. Basic political psychology tells you that people don’t reward the administration that botched a crisis and we know Trump has with Covid.
That’s why Trump complains about the coverage, thinking he can whine and bully the news away.
re: #421 Jay C
This seems fairly accurate. The NYT published a (“Last”) poll today showing Biden/Harris numbers for seven “battleground” states, and the aggregate (with only one exception*) showed Joe/Kamala still winning all but one, even with their “qualifying exception” - which were numbers based on the assumption that “polls were off as much as they were in 2016”. Which seems to me to be a pretty thin reed to base assumptions on. Like generals prepping to fight the last war, pollsters always seem to be sampling to gauge the last election…
*North Carolina
polls were not ‘off as much as they were’ in 2016
- there was a lack of last minute polling in WI, MI, PA
- educational background was not taken into account as a crosstab factor
- ‘the polls’ predicted there was a chance trump could win. he did.
- off the top of my head, clinton did perform within the moe
what was ‘off’?
re: #436 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Police shootings: German cops shot dead 14 people in 2017
Police throughout Germany fired a total of 75 times at people in 2017. The resulting deaths were far fewer than the United States, where more than 950 people died as a result of police shootings.
You do have to adjust for population size. On a per capita basis, there are approximately 17 times as many deaths from police shootings here compared to Germany.
re: #426 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Pl
I really think using 2016 as the only point of reference makes them look foolish.
Well, it’s sort-of understandable: the results in 2016 made them look foolish - and still serve as reminder that little in politics can be taken as a certainty.
I wonder if Trump has ever read a poem.
“History says, don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.”
- Seamus Heaney pic.twitter.com/7nB1ytYlvm— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 29, 2020
re: #442 Hecuba’s daughter
You do have to adjust for population size. On a per capita basis, there are approximately 17 times as many deaths from police shootings here compared to Germany.
Of course their population is only one-third of America but 75 bullets in one year? That is a typical weeknight in most large American cities…
US alters passport ruling for Jerusalem births https://t.co/nFDxWCp3Ja
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 29, 2020
TVihPPFROHsydcuvSmE3p/e6tEr070ZqAeOhM8mPg1KaVDssu4gaTkxBfOdSwLU85l3yb436wEznNdgE5oETspq3CPpge1xgsiNByAcSrBK3N8+V2CwFQ6tKaR47tZq2XTrI3sGju9oEToEyxw8QTkuXy0QX2EZqfJYzsacTMevaizb8OD8su3pFFOzC8qRJkSxxvOC/ruQ/u8V0mxbIWar8c4Qk0+8vYgsfHWOGrqq3zPNPsXtYlucg0Tb8OQWLHdSyXkYwm9UA1DqOyjFmcubDgWnU0BwA
re: #443 Jay C
Well, it’s sort-of understandable: the results in 2016 made them look foolish - and still serve as reminder that little in politics can be taken as a certainty.
yes
to put a finer point on it
the polls werent ‘off’ to anyone who understands statistics
what was off was the pre-election predictions
re: #443 Jay C
Well, it’s sort-of understandable: the results in 2016 made them look foolish - and still serve as reminder that little in politics can be taken as a certainty.
Again the 2016 problem was due to the EC. Based on popular vote, she performed as expected. The EC will doom this nation, especially if we experience an analogous situation in 2020 — Biden winning the national vote by 6% and then losing the EC.
re: #348 The Pie Overlord!
How can anyone eat grilled cheese without pickles?
Got to have half-sour pickles!
re: #430 b.d.
Abbott is starting to look like the only sane one left:
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Dan Patrick was a Limbaugh-lite radio show host. He’s still doing it as Lt. Gov.
re: #447 dangerman
yes
to put a finer point on it
the polls werent ‘off’ to anyone who understands statistics
what was off was the pre-election predictions
Michael Moore came out in the summer of 2016 and explained quite clearly how Trump could win: namely to carry all the states that Romney won in 2012 (no problem there) plus the four key states of OH, MI, PA and WI.
It was all a matter of mathematics, he pointed out. With those four states, they did not even need Florida.
That was the strategy they pursued. With success, it turns out.
Have not heard anything from him on how Trump might win this election…
Lre: #447 dangerman
yes
to put a finer point on it
the polls werent ‘off’ to anyone who understands statistics
what was off was the pre-election predictions
That’s the thing. The polls really weren’t that off and the mistakes made in polling have been changed. Lest we forget this but the Dems actually exceeded their expectations in 2018 and I think they will again Tuesday.
re: #441 dangerman
polls were not ‘off as much as they were’ in 2016
- there was a lack of last minute polling in WI, MI, PA
- educational background was not taken into account as a crosstab factor- ‘the polls’ predicted there was a chance trump could win. he did.
- off the top of my head, clinton did perform within the moewhat was ‘off’?
The NYT chart doesn’t go into much detail: here’s a link to check them out: : there’s a chart with a list of states with the latest poll numbers and columns headed “If Polls Are As Wrong As They Were In… [2016 and 2012]: so I am guessing the comparison might be between the “last” polling in those years vs. the actual election results.
In any case, it’s not looking good for Team Orange (but good for the country!)
re: #286 Mattand
Am I being paranoid in thinking that the Trump division of SCOTUS are basically keeping their powder dry with most of the rulings, and are going to drop the boom after Election Day?
To me, this is the analysis that makes the most sense:
The Supreme Court rulings seem consistent with “SCOTUS will break a tie for Trump so Dems had better hope it’s out of the recount margin” and not “SCOTUS will go to outrageous lengths to hand Trump an election that he’s clearly lost”.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 28, 2020
So GOTV like you want to make Beer-Keg Brett cry all over again.
Labour suspended Corbyn. Good riddance to that asshole.
re: #454 Interesting Times
To me, this is the analysis that makes the most sense:
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So GOTV like you want to make Beer-Keg Brett cry all over again.
GOTV like you want America to be America again.
re: #456 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
GOTV like you want America to be America again.
GOTV to keep the election out of SCOTUS’ hands altogether
re: #454 Interesting Times
To me, this is the analysis that makes the most sense:
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So GOTV like you want to make Beer-Keg Brett cry all over again.
Can I point something out about SCOTUS and the vote? But it’s an assumption that it will get there. The state supreme courts and circuit courts aren’t guaranteed to listen to Trump especially if his lawyers make shitty arguments.
re: #446 The Pie Overlord!
Does this mean Jesus’s dual citizenship can be retroactively changed to “Israel/USA?”
re: #454 Interesting Times
The Supreme Court rulings seem consistent with “SCOTUS will break a tie for Trump so Dems had better hope it’s out of the recount margin” and not “SCOTUS will go to outrageous lengths to hand Trump an election that he’s clearly lost”.
That is the only way he can possibly not lose.
re: #141 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The punditry will be demanding the Democrats “work across the aisle”, “meet the Republicans halfway”, respect Senate traditions, and not be “divisive.” The Democrats should ignore those motherfuckers.
Drag people across the aisle and kick their heads in.
Cut the Republicans in half.
Respect the traditions of the blood-eagle.
Divide their limbs from their bodies.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Maybe I’m drunk? In vino veritas.
re: #461 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is the only way he can possibly not lose.
That would be it for America, since only Trump’s cult would have faith in our system if that happened. Trump needs to be crushed.
re: #459 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Can I point something out about SCOTUS and the vote? But it’s an assumption that it will get there. The state supreme courts and circuit courts aren’t guaranteed to listen to Trump especially if his lawyers make shitty arguments.
Yes, but the state GOP legislatures might sue to get the SCOTUS to look at them, and think of Kavanugh’s argument.
Not all criminal complaints are boring. pic.twitter.com/wShFW1LKzS
— JJ MacNab 🐈⬛🎃🦇 (@jjmacnab) October 29, 2020
Imagine you had $100 & someone came by & took 5. Then they came back and took 29 more, leaving you with $66. Then they come back a third time and give you back $22. So you have $88. Sure, you’re happy to get $22 back, but you’re still down $12. That’s what Trump is bragging about https://t.co/Xh4aYJWiLf
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 29, 2020
re: #464 Belafon
Yes, but the state GOP legislatures might sue to get the SCOTUS to look at them, and think of Kavanugh’s argument.
True. I’m just saying that the state Supreme Courts might not want to mess with that if Biden is up by 5-10% in their states. I really think if we vote in big numbers, no matter what they may be scheming might be hard to do. Trump wanted Barr to charge the Clintons and Obama for him and here we are five days from election day without an indictment in sight.
re: #466 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
As Biden and several others have pointed out, he’s the first President to lose jobs since Hoover.
re: #465 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
All part of a gang calling themselves the 1488s.
FUCKING GODDAMNED NAZIS.
re: #454 Interesting Times
To me, this is the analysis that makes the most sense:
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
The Supreme Court rulings seem consistent with “SCOTUS will break a tie for Trump so Dems had better hope it’s out of the recount margin” and not “SCOTUS will go to outrageous lengths to hand Trump an election that he’s clearly lost”.
6:35 PM * Oct 28, 2020So GOTV like you want to make Beer-Keg Brett cry all over again.
Nate is wrong. Roberts (who is fully on board with voter suppression) and the other GOP judges will look at this as an opportunity to put the GOP in charge permanently. There will be no coming back from the decisions they will reach. They will bar mail-in votes if the count on election day favors Trump.
re: #465 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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OK: IANAL Disclaimer: WTH is a “Vicar Conspiracy”???
And I’m guessing it does NOT mean that a local clergyman is involved??
re: #469 lawhawk
All part of a gang calling themselves the 1488s.
FUCKING GODDAMNED NAZIS.
I never thought I’d see Fuck Face in a criminal complaint.
I dropped by a Walgreens earlier and they had this shit on the door.
Everyone who knows the science KNOWS we’re a ways off from a vaccine, but because this is a red state and because Cheeto has been running his mouth about a vaccine being “weeks away”, these pharmacy workers have to plaster these signs everywhere so morons won’t ask them about it.
re: #460 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Does this mean Jesus’s dual citizenship can be retroactively changed to “Israel/USA?”
Only if he applies for a passport.
re: #471 Jay C
OK: IANAL Disclaimer: WTH is a “Vicar Conspiracy”???
And I’m guessing it does NOT mean that a local clergyman is involved??
Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Activity
re: #471 Jay C
OK: IANAL Disclaimer: WTH is a “Vicar Conspiracy”???
And I’m guessing it does NOT mean that a local clergyman is involved??
VICAR
Violent crimes in aid to racketeering
18 U.S. Code § 1959
re: #476 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
VICAR
Violent crimes in aid to racketeering
18 U.S. Code § 1959
You see it a lot in organized crime cases involving Cosa Nostra.
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Khaddafi, Quadaffi, Kadaffi? I don’t think they ever settled on one spelling
Because the spelling is معمر محمد ابومنيار القذافي
All the others are not spellings, they’re transliterations.
Similarily Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s real name is محمود احمدینژاد.
I’m still wondering if it’s possible to use RICO on the Trump family organization.
re: #473 Eclectic Cyborg
I dropped by a CVS earlier and they had this shit on the door.
Everyone who knows the science KNOWS we’re a ways off from a vaccine, but because this is a red state and because Cheeto has been running his mouth about a vaccine being “weeks away”, these pharmacy workers have to plaster these signs everywhere so morons won’t ask them about it.
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Someone will have to rewrite Contagion so that the riots at the pharmacies are caused by the president.
re: #473 Eclectic Cyborg
I dropped by a Walgreens earlier and they had this shit on the door.
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Everyone who knows the science KNOWS we’re a ways off from a vaccine, but because this is a red state and because Cheeto has been running his mouth about a vaccine being “weeks away”, these pharmacy workers have to plaster these signs everywhere so morons won’t ask them about it.
They put that sign up every time they run out of Clorox.
re: #473 Eclectic Cyborg
I dropped by a Walgreens earlier and they had this shit on the door.
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Everyone who knows the science KNOWS we’re a ways off from a vaccine, but because this is a red state and because Cheeto has been running his mouth about a vaccine being “weeks away”, these pharmacy workers have to plaster these signs everywhere so morons won’t ask them about it.
I’m in a blue state and they have this sign too. No matter how blue the state, there are MAGAts everywhere.
what has been happening are (more or less) good faith attempts to accommodate the pandemic by other than legislative means. changing dates, requirements, etc. scotus is mostly not allowing that.
it is state laws, as enacted, that determine what votes get counted and when (first time through, not recounts)
scotus has virtually no say in this and imo would be lunacy to insert themselves so obviously
elections are the province of the states, so says the constitution.
yet the pennsylvania decision last week was 4-4, not 8-0.
could Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito and now barrett band together and effectively shred the constitution?
sure
what would roberts do?
what would the country do in such an obvious power grab?
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The Atlantic is run by cowards:
(Trump denies the affairs and says he had no knowledge of the payments.)
We’ve seen the receipts you useless shits.
re: #472 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I never thought I’d see Fuck Face in a criminal complaint.
We see it all the time: Donald J. Trump.
re: #445 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Of course their population is only one-third of America but 75 bullets in one year? That is a typical weeknight in most large American cities…
It’s been a while since I looked up the stats for American homicides but when I did the US homicide rate was about six times that of Japan and five times that of my own country, Great Britain. Another thing that stuck in my mind was that the US had about 30,000 deaths a year from firearms for all causes (homicide, accident, suicide, police shootings etc.) That’s about eighty deaths a day and of course for every death there will be at least four or five woundings where the person who was shot survives. The other piece of data I recall from that search was that the most violent state with the most murders per capita was, oddly enough, Alaska.
Personal anecdote: a friend told us of the time she moved to a rather rough neighbourhood in Chattanooga sometime back in the 1980s. The night after she moved in there was a drive-by shooting with a few bullet-holes in her downstairs windows. When she asked around the neighbours they explained that the locals were just seeing if she was going to stick around or not. When they found out she was a nurse with ER experience and she was willing to patch up people without putting in a police report she was declared off-limits.
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This is incredible. Oh and here all three of our declared Democratic gubernatorial candidates are black including two women. We’ve got a great chance to make history by electing the first black woman Governor next fall and being the first state to elect two African American governors. And all three are qualified. I’m proud of this not that Robert E. Lee was from here.
New “Archer” available on Hulu … catch y’all in a bit.
re: #486 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We see it all the time: Donald J. Trump.
In a formal criminal complaint. Colloquially he’s Fuck Face but he’s also Agent Orange, Putin’s Puppy, & the Asshole.
re: #490 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
In a formal criminal complaint. Colloquially he’s Fuck Face but he’s also Agent Orange, Putin’s Puppy, & the Asshole.
I know. I just had to.
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
She seems desperate to convince the reader of something with all of these carefully documented expenses. But what?
But what? But that she [ Wolkoff ] shouldn’t go to prison for corruption I’d guess.
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re: #343 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I wonder how this will play across UT.
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Not just Utah. I live smack-dab in the middle of the Arizona end of the Jell-O belt and people are somewhat offended.
My AC just died.
Well, it’s alive, but it certainly ain’t conditioning at an optimum level.
Running constantly, but temp slowly climbing
I can already feel the humidity spiking in the cave
re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
When Wolkoff explains that she will have to wear the clothes of an American designer (Ralph Lauren) to the inauguration, Melania is horrified. Her soul wounded, she cries out to the gods: “But I want to wear Lagerfeld!”
Finally I feel sympathy for Melania, he says, looking at his Lacoste branded washable mask*
(* A present from my aunt who was on the cleaning staff at the Roland Garros tennis tournament).
re: #496 mmmirele
Not just Utah. I live smack-dab in the middle of the Arizona end of the Jell-O belt and people are somewhat offended.
So Mormon’s have more principles than “Christians”?
re: #497 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
My AC just died.
Well, it’s alive, but it certainly ain’t conditioning at an optimum level.
Running constantly, but temp slowly climbing
I can already feel the humidity spiking in the cave
Have you checked the status of the condenser (i.e. the part of the heat pump which turns hot) as to dust, dirt etc. as well as the status of any ductwork air passing thru the condenser runs thru? That would be first on my list if a heat pump device becomes increasingly ineffective. Next stop would be to check the fill status of heat exchange medium.
re: #496 mmmirele
Not just Utah. I live smack-dab in the middle of the Arizona end of the Jell-O belt and people are somewhat offended.
I keep on forgetting Arizona has a sizable LDS community. What idiots like Lee don’t get because they’re obsessed with being in Trump’s good graces- Lee especially since I think he hopes for Scotus one day is that portraying Trump this way really turns off a lot of religious voters. As someone heavily influenced by Catholicism, I can tell you that Biden’s campaign portraying him as a man rather than a savior is a lot more appealing to Catholics and I imagine the LDS community feels the same way.
re: #499 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So Mormon’s have more principles than “Christians”?
Mormons probably don’t like some suck up like Lee who we know has been considered for Scotus telling them that Trump is this messiah. Religious voters aren’t all that asshole Jeffress and totally subservient.
One possible reason why the Supreme Court intervened in some state cases, but not others:
The difference appears to be that a majority of the Justices are unwilling to disturb *state court* rulings with respect to deadlines for receipt of mail-in ballots, but willing to intervene where it’s only because of a *federal* court’s intervention that the deadline changed. https://t.co/0HLroU8ULK
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 28, 2020
The best thing Biden’s campaign does is portray him as a person. He’s admitted mistakes. Hell he admits he will make mistakes even. Trump has to be the general, messiah, hero, & hit the grand slam to win the pennant all in one setting. Biden’s most enduring quality to me is he doesn’t see himself as a political messiah.
My doggie, see above post, is sorta happy right now because his entirely too long nails got clipped last night. He hated it and yiped tragically, but the nails are super short and he’s much happier walking in the park.
This is my most important news. Fuck the political news. :D
Looks like Moore got taken in by Blair Erskine’s video yesterday.
Blaire Erskine is a comedian.
Michael Moore, y’all. pic.twitter.com/A76RO5zGie— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 29, 2020
re: #507 plansbandc
What a precious baby.
She’s a sweetie! No actual interest in politics, but she’ll stare at squirrels all day.
I found this an interesting way to describe what we know so far about the Deutsche Bank ‘forgiving’ a $287 million loan to Trump:
Impressive reporting, but pretty obviously 4/5 of what really happened here remains below the surface of the water. Something big and sinister down there, and if you squint hard you can see the outline … but only just that. https://t.co/9hj4FNKCEy
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 28, 2020
re: #508 makeitstop
Looks like Moore got taken in by Blair Erskine’s video yesterday.
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Moore is an idiot and yes I know he got 2016 right. He’s also gotten a lot wrong and he continues to shit on Biden despite Biden won every county in his state in the primaries and it could be the biggest margin of a former Trump state going for Biden.
re: #509 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
VOTER FRAUD ! ! !
SRSLY. How do we know anyone checked doggo’s registration??
re: #503 ckkatz
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They will 100% intervene if it’s a difference between Trump winning and losing. The question arises about what will happen if they have to rule differently in the 2 outstanding cases to guarantee a Trump win. But I’m sure they are clever and will figure out how to handle this since their only concern is a permanent Republican majority “stamping on a human face - forever”.
re: #503 ckkatz
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kinda sorta what i’ve been saying
The difference appears to be that a majority of the Justices are unwilling to disturb *state court* rulings with respect to deadlines for receipt of mail-in ballots, but willing to intervene where it’s only because of a *federal* court’s intervention that the deadline changed. https://t.co/0HLroU8ULK
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 28, 2020
re: #508 makeitstop
Looks like Moore got taken in by Blair Erskine’s video yesterday.
Too funny. He was spot-on in 2106 but I ignored him because I found him an obnoxious gadfly.
But he is way out of it. I was unaware at the time of who Blake E was, but by the end of the video, it was quite clear that it was a deadpan send-up of Trump supporters.
Thank you to Dave Rubin, author of “Don’t Burn This Book”, just announced on @foxandfriends that he is voting for your favorite President, me. “I think Donald Trump has done a lot of good. When I see an American flag, I see Trump support.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2020
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Llre: #517 Eclectic Cyborg
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I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Yeah well fuck Dave Rubin. He’s a hack and yet another fraud.
re: #516 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Too funny. He was spot-on in 2106 but I ignored him because I found him an obnoxious gadfly.
But he is way out of it. I was unaware of who Blake E was, but by the end of the video, it was quite clear that it was a deadpan send-up of Trump supporters.
Doesn’t Moore predict McCain would win in 2008, and then predict Romney would win in 2012?
(I can’t find anything rock solid for 2008 but I can totally find stuff for 2012 and nothing from 2008 that has him directly predicting Obama)
To me this read likes a guy who keeps picking “Red” at the roulette wheel managing to win over 40% of the time!
re: #517 Eclectic Cyborg
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I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Nope, Dave, the American flag does not indicate Trump support.
re: #515 dangerman
kinda sorta what i’ve been saying
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That does make sense to me as well. I’m sorry. I know we have 2016 ptsd but goddamnit optimism is good and I want it to be contagious.
“A Shakespearean tragedy unto itself,” says Bob Woodward, of Jared Kushner recounting an Oval Office conversation in which he said Kayleigh McEnany said Pres. Trump might be better off politically because of Covid-19.
“I said ‘is that possible?’” said an astonished Woodward. pic.twitter.com/6PudJZ26Jr— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) October 29, 2020
re: #300 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Let’s not discount three militarization is LEO.
See, the funny thing is in many European countries quite large parts of the “police” are actually real military, not Rambo wanabees (Gendarmerie,
Carabinieri), and in many cases they’re more highly respected than the “civilian” police force.
(Notwithstanding: kudos to the Nice municipal police for their action today — municipal police in France are they lowest of the low, usually just giving out traffic tickets, but they stood up and did their jobs).
re: #519 jamesfirecat
Doesn’t Moore predict McCain would win in 2008, and then predict Romney would win in 2012?
To me this read likes a guy who keeps picking “Red” at the roulette wheel managing to win over 40% of the time!
He did. Moore has just become a left wing Limbaugh. He spends more time whining about Biden’s strategy than actually doing anything. Hell I bet since the year started he’s been in Michigan less than Biden.
re: #514 Hecuba’s daughter
They will 100% intervene if it’s a difference between Trump winning and losing. The question arises about what will happen if they have to rule differently in the 2 outstanding cases to guarantee a Trump win. But I’m sure they are clever and will figure out how to handle this since their only concern is a permanent Republican majority “stamping on a human face - forever”.
You do bring up the interesting questions…
How far are they willing to try and support the Trump administration over the Constitution? And how far are they willing to go, even when it becomes counterproductive to their reputations and careers? Enlightened libertarian self-interest or career suicide for cultism?
I guess that we are all along for the ride, even if not willingly.
You know how we think movies are unrealistic, when the villain says his plot out loud? https://t.co/q45YduGccZ
— Peter W. Singer (@peterwsinger) October 28, 2020
Trump literally installed a big donor as head of the postal service with the explicit instructions that he make sure people’s votes don’t arrive by Election Day, and then the guy did exactly that, you excruciating dork. https://t.co/6sDPvYMAKM
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) October 27, 2020
That’s all it was ever about. https://t.co/MnrygHxzOF
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 26, 2020
you say that these people just want a license to lie and people call you hyperbolic and then the senator from utah says i would just like permission to lie and welp https://t.co/HUfZQNy0p5
— the ribald sportsman (@CalmSporting) October 28, 2020
FAUCI: “If things do not change, if they continue on the course we’re on, there’s going to be a whole lot of pain in this country with regard to additional cases and hospitalizations and deaths. We are on a very difficult trajectory. We are going in the wrong direction.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 29, 2020
re: #526 Belafon
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It also goes completely against precedent. I’m sorry. Yes, Roberts is a latter day Taney but they’re not going to just invalidate millions of votes and if they do, all hell breaks loose and I think even a rat bastard like Roberts gets the implications of that.
So, the hackers stole the money before the GOP could. Got it. https://t.co/ZkCbZaj9Av
— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) October 29, 2020
re: #529 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Fauci also says that Atlas has Trump’s ear, not him.
That’s all you need to know. Atlas is a radiologist who has zero public health experience or knowledge. He is merely telling Trump what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear, and has frozen out the one guy who actually is an expert on infectious diseases and public health.
A bud gave me a batch up hawaiian chili peppers (and one habanero) so I chopped/seeded the biguns and put them and the smols in a jar with 4% white vinegar, crushed garlic, crushed peppercorns, and some lemon juice.
OMG I’m so high right now. I probably shouldn’t drive.
re: #399 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
8chan has long been a site for trafficking in child exploitation photos and media. The uber-libertarian guy who runs it is in The Philippines explicitly to avoid prosecution for that in the USA.
re: #524 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He did. Moore has just become a left wing Limbaugh. He spends more time whining about Biden’s strategy than actually doing anything. Hell I bet since the year started he’s been in Michigan less than Biden.
Wouldn’t a left wing Limbaugh actually support our candidates and tell people they’re great and amazing?
Like I’m the last person who wants to defend Rush but….
re: #526 Belafon
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Lowry should just move to Alaska already and just ask Sarah Palin to marry him and leave the rest of us alone. I bet he was an obnoxious asshole in high school. My cousin actually graduated with him.
re: #326 Belafon
Yeah, it’s made from ground up babies*, so that’s not going to fly.
(* it isn’t).
Also all of the top google searches end up on Regeneron sites, so my smell test is it doesn’t work.
re: #524 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He did. Moore has just become a left wing Limbaugh. He spends more time whining about Biden’s strategy than actually doing anything. Hell I bet since the year started he’s been in Michigan less than Biden.
More of a gadfly than a full-on Limbaugh. But in retrospect, he saw through the GOP strategy in 2016 and called it.
re: #529 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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The canary in the mine has been here but the miners think the rocks have a good point that maybe a cave in wouldn’t be so bad. It’s criminal what Trump is doing and it’s going to be remembered as quite honestly the greatest failure of presidential leadership to this time.
re: #534 GlutenFreeJesus
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Lawdhavmercee….
Now you understand my gut feeling that Q and SRA before it are just diversion tactics to prevent the cause from being discovered?
re: #336 Decatur Deb
Even freepers are saying: “No copies? It never existed.”
1st rule of backups.
Data without a backup doesn’t exist.
re: #535 jamesfirecat
Wouldn’t a left wing Limbaugh actually support our candidates and tell people they’re great and amazing?
Like I’m the last person who wants to defend Rush but….
Ha true enough.
re: #497 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
My AC just died.
Well, it’s alive, but it certainly ain’t conditioning at an optimum level.
Running constantly, but temp slowly climbing
I can already feel the humidity spiking in the cave
re: #500 Teukka
Have you checked the status of the condenser (i.e. the part of the heat pump which turns hot) as to dust, dirt etc. as well as the status of any ductwork air passing thru the condenser runs thru? That would be first on my list if a heat pump device becomes increasingly ineffective. Next stop would be to check the fill status of heat exchange medium.
I have replaced the batteries in the thermostat (previous failure point), and cycled the breaker.
30 minutes later and the conditioned air is once again having a cooling effect
I’ll explain it to maintenance when the come tomorrow or next week
re: #539 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
More of a gadfly than a full-on Limbaugh. But in retrospect, he saw through the GOP strategy in 2016 and called it.
A bitter old hack who knows the Democrats are never going to give him his class reductionist society. Fuck Michael Moore man, I haven’t forgotten his frequent appearances on Maher whining that Obama wasn’t good enough because he wasn’t the white flight socialist he worships. This man isn’t my ally.
re: #526 Belafon
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how do you feel about:
- military ballots
- specific state laws that say you’re full of shit?
or don’t states have a say in this?
Trump literally installed a big donor as head of the postal service with the explicit instructions that he make sure people’s votes don’t arrive by Election Day, and then the guy did exactly that, you excruciating dork. https://t.co/6sDPvYMAKM
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) October 27, 2020
re: #531 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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that’s what he’s saying
So, the hackers stole the money before the GOP could. Got it. https://t.co/ZkCbZaj9Av
— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) October 29, 2020
GOP: we’re the pro life party.
GOP in actuality: kill’em all and control over women is paramount; pro life was always a ruse/con/grift
By a 5–1 vote, the Florida Supreme Court overturns a whole line of precedent that limited the death penalty to “the most aggravated and the least mitigated of first-degree murders.”
The decision sets back Florida’s death penalty jurisprudence by decades. https://t.co/GN1lVq3eAJ— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 29, 2020
Florida Presidential Polling:
Biden (D): 51% (+1)
Trump (R): 45% (-)
Monmouth / October 28, 2020 / n=509 / MOE 4.4% / Telephone
(% chg w Sept 13)https://t.co/aFxWu7I5zi— Polling USA 🎃 (@USA_Polling) October 29, 2020
New poll out of FLA has Biden plus six. Imo Biden has solidified the Hispanic vote there and gotten back a lot of the seniors.
re: #547 dangerman
Brad Parscale and his acolytes can’t be reached for comment.
re: #548 lawhawk
GOP: we’re the pro life party.
GOP in actuality: kill’em all and control over women is paramount; pro life was always a ruse/con/grift
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re: #350 lawhawk
Yay. One of my tweets made it into Raw Story about Pence crowing about the GDP gain.
How to get higher:
1. Dig a 100 foot hole.
2. Fill half of it in.
Yay! we have gone 50 feet up!
re: #525 ckkatz
You do bring up the interesting questions…
How far are they willing to try and support the Trump administration over the Constitution? And how far are they willing to go, even when it becomes counterproductive to their reputations and careers? Enlightened libertarian self-interest or career suicide for cultism?
I guess that we are all along for the ride, even if not willingly.
How is it counterproductive to their careers? They will be doing fine turning us into a dictatorship. Eventually all decisions will be 9-0 because the independent judiciary will be completely neutered and all we will have are Trump family toadies making decisions for us. The United States was the last best hope for our planet and now we’ve joined the Axis of Evil.
Of course, if Biden has an overwhelming victory based on votes counted by Tuesday and the Democrats seize control of the Senate, we will have a chance. But not if the overwhelming victory relies on the count of mail-in ballots.
re: #549 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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New poll out of FLA has Biden plus six. Imo Biden has solidified the Hispanic vote there and gotten back a lot of the seniors.
I think there are two values that need to be talked about: Biden’s lead over Trump, and his distance above 50%. If Biden finishes at 51%, it doesn’t matter if Trump finishes at 49%.
re: #522 Belafon
How is that possible?
If your goal is to win an election, not so much.
If your goal is yet another in the long sordid history of conservative genocides, then that’s a victory.
re: #554 Belafon
I think there are two values that need to be talked about: Biden’s lead over Trump, and his distance above 50%. If Biden finishes at 51%, it doesn’t matter if Trump finishes at 49%.
Right. I’m seeing Biden consistently hit the upper 40’s/lower 50’s in the polls. Trump stagnates in the mid 40’s. And honestly I trust Biden’s GOTV operation more too. I was texted at least three times asking if I had voted yet and I’m in a safe state. I think the polls might be underestimating Biden at this point. And I’m going to keep saying that until I see something that suggests otherwise.
re: #555 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How is that possible?
If your goal is to win an election, not so much.
If your goal is yet another in the long sordid history of conservative genocides, then that’s a victory.
To quote Deepthroat these really aren’t smart guys. As I’ve said, they spend way too much time on social media.
re: #525 ckkatz
You do bring up the interesting questions…
How far are they willing to try and support the Trump administration over the Constitution? And how far are they willing to go, even when it becomes counterproductive to their reputations and careers? Enlightened libertarian self-interest or career suicide for cultism?
I guess that we are all along for the ride, even if not willingly.
Conservatism consists of one proposition, &c.
Reputation does not matter in gathering and maintaining power. The endless speculation of “does John Roberts want to uphold his legacy” flies in the face of his decisions to gut voting rights.
Social distance. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. https://t.co/ZtXhq6vS57
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) October 29, 2020
Suck a dick. https://t.co/bf6uLrA0Yx
— STORM172345 (@oneLOVE173) October 29, 2020
If you do, please use a condom. Protects you and your partner(s). Just like a mask, social distance and washing your hands do with #covid19. #MaskUp https://t.co/8MyVpQO9bY
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) October 29, 2020
Fucking fascist cop union covering for fascist criminal cops:
This wasn’t a lost child. We have video showing that the cops in Philly smashed a SUV side window, assaulted the driver, and grabbed this child out of the vehicle.
You’re lying and covering for felony conduct by cops.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) October 29, 2020
We have the entire event on video. It shows Philly cops smashing SUV window, assaulting the driver, and grabbing the child out of the vehicle. This wasn’t a lost child. It was a kidnapped child. The cops kidnapped the child under claim of “enforcing law”.
Nothing about this is legit, but the police unions defend this crap uncritically. And the right wing amplifies it. Criticism of the cops and their unions is used as a cudgel against Democrats who insist on holding police accountable for their actions - for cops to do better.
The GOP doesn’t want cops doing better. They want the cops to inflict violence and pain on those the GOP deems unworthy.
re: #559 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Like bullets off of Superman.
re: #562 Eclectic Cyborg
Like bullets off of Superman.
She’s taken shit from assholes from a young age. She handles it with humor and grace.
re: #559 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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You ma’am, win the internets, at least for today.
:salutes:— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) October 29, 2020
Well that’s gonna leave a mark…
Deep State? No. UPS, doing what they do? Yep.
UPS has found Tucker Carlson’s mystery package of Biden papers, suggesting it wasn’t stolen by the deep state after all. https://t.co/5iYPG9SDMx
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 29, 2020
re: #292 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, it’s funny as hell. He’s basically saying, “The dog ate my homework”.
It actually reminds me of when The Sunday Sport (A newspaper so ridiculously trashy it made the National Enquirer look like the Financial Times.) published a front-page story with the headline “WORLD WAR 2 BOMBER FOUND ON MOON VANISHES”.
Looks like a certain US journalist is basing his journalism on a model invented by the Sunday Sport. https://t.co/4qkDFPi8f9 pic.twitter.com/KXhh2TXtY7
— Michael James (@alephnaught) October 29, 2020
re: #560 jeffreyw
Looks like a Brittany from the nose back.
She’s a Brittany from the nose forward, too!
(And she sends Brittany love and regards your way. They’re such awesome dogs.)
Just remember real life fascists are not O’Brien: incorruptible (for a given use of the phrase) zealots who seek to bring their world order into being at all times. When we looked into the true nature of Hitler’s top followers deep they were all pathetic schmucks of one verity or another who were more interested in their own petty desires than really creating a 1000 year Reich.
The lie at the heart of fascism is that it is a strong and powerful ideology that makes the people who support it strong and powerful.
Fascism will fail.
re: #533 BigPapa
A bud gave me a batch up hawaiian chili peppers (and one habanero) so I chopped/seeded the biguns and put them and the smols in a jar with 4% white vinegar, crushed garlic, crushed peppercorns, and some lemon juice.
OMG I’m so high right now. I probably shouldn’t drive.
Fermented peppers pic.twitter.com/y6O7c3o6qx
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) October 29, 2020
re: #502 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Mormons probably don’t like some suck up like Lee who we know has been considered for Scotus telling them that Trump is this messiah. Religious voters aren’t all that asshole Jeffress and totally subservient.
Charles P. Pierce describe him as Senator Mike Lee, the konztitooshunal skolar from Utah
and has said, The Utah senator’s grasp of the actual Constitution is “eccentric,” if not outright “batsh*t.”
Charlie—not a Lee fan.
re: #508 makeitstop
Looks like Moore got taken in by Blair Erskine’s video yesterday.
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That line about “what lesson was he trying to teach us? Mine is not to know!” Sounded like something a true Maga person would say. Anyway, it’s brilliant. “I’d walk 750 miles.”
Extremism & Michigan this month:
➡️Ruby Ridge echoes in deadly Madison Heights FBI shootout https://t.co/oCVs9TzTXN
➡️Feds say they thwarted militia plot to kidnap Whitmer https://t.co/VBrt4RuIAC
➡️FBI arrests white supremacist in extremism crackdown https://t.co/Iht9rtcxg7— Robert Snell (@robertsnellnews) October 29, 2020
re: #571 jeffreyw
Nice! My bud shared some fermented habaneros. Tasty and hot.
re: #542 John Hughes
1st rule of backups.
Data without a backup doesn’t exist.
True: but in the case of the ludicrous “Hunter Biden laptop” flap, it’s way more a matter of a backup without data…..
re: #567 makeitstop
Deep State? No. UPS, doing what they do? Yep.
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UPS has found Tucker Carlson’s mystery package of Biden papers, suggesting it wasn’t stolen by the deep state after all. https://t.co/5iYPG9SDMx
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 29, 2020
re: #561 lawhawk
At the same moment that Chile votes to replace Pinochet’s constitution the US adopts his tactic of kidnapping the children of opponents.
(Ok, exaggerated for effect, I admit, but that photo made me feel sick).
re: #569 i(m)p(each)sos
She’s a Brittany from the nose forward, too!
(And she sends Brittany love and regards your way. They’re such awesome dogs.)
They were my father’s favorites!
re: #367 Belafon
I put tomatoes on mine, and experiment with a bunch of different cheeses.
A malt shop across the street from where I used to work made grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato slices and onions. It was very good but so sloppy that I usually ate it with a fork and knife. They also made a BLT with egg salad. That was a GREAT sandwich. I miss that place. I had a secret crush on the owner.
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