US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

friendly fire is very helpful. i'm sure that if ideologically-sympathetic non-"conservatives" tell each other off enough the GOP will lose this time

Question for those who might know better than me: Here in NJ I'm seeing lots of TV ads about what a piece of shit Bob Menendez is (which he kinda is), and lots of ads about what a swell guy Bob Hugin is (he's not, he's a rich pharma scumbag), but no pro-Menendez ads at all. Either he thinks he's got it in the bag, polls be damned, or he's already surrendered. Does anybody know which it is?

Bush Jr was the proper level of patronizing dismissiveness without sounding like nails on a chalkboard IMO

This FiveThirtyEight piece says things look bad for Menendez, but it's the only thing I've really read about the race.

I thought Ford’s testimony might stick because she went to a superior private school to BK, obviously posh etc so Graham can GTF with the trailer park shit.

It’s disgusting to imply, as graham did, that people with less money and education are more likely to lie

Fuck that trailer park comment. Fuck people who make similar comments about ghettoes and projects, like the countrywide (i think) lenders who called their subprime borrowers “mud people”

this was the last thing I'd read about Menendez: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/09/16/bob-menendezs-political-fight-for-survival-609491

If the Democrats were running literally anyone else they would have this in the bag, kinda wish Menendez had resigned or been convicted so that the seat was open.

This country sucks. The rich benefit enormously from a predatory economic system and then turn around and spit on the people they stepped over. Graham’s comment was not just offensive to Blasey Ford—who after all is upper class—but to everyone

welcome to the world treeship

are you day drinking

"This country sucks. The rich benefit enormously from a predatory economic system and then turn around and spit on the people they stepped over. Graham’s comment was not just offensive to Blasey Ford—who after all is upper class—but to everyone"

The only reason that open rebellion has nto occurred si the middle class is too content with NFL beer and cookies - but if things get worse you will see more political upsets - more Bernie "new deal" types

just received an obnoxious "Presidential Alert" test on my phone

commiserate w/us over here

the presidnet just called me

Tiffany Trump Receives First Ever Text From Father https://t.co/GRuTbsKfTF

— The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) October 3, 2018

Menendez +11 in a poll just released today, his average advantage is +6.8 points in recent polls per fivethirtyeight.com

why has this shit been rebranded as a "presidential alert"? they have had these FEMA alerts before. Ego?

SAD!

https://people.com/politics/tiffany-trump-strained-relationship-dad-donald/

this was the last thing I'd read about Menendez: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/09/16/bob-menendezs-political-fight-for-survival-609491

If the Democrats were running literally anyone else they would have this in the bag, kinda wish Menendez had resigned or been convicted so that the seat was open.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 1:59 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

yeah it fucking sucks i have to hold my nose and vote for this shithead

Guys, he meant to press the Diet Coke button, and pressed the presidential alert button instead.

Menendez held back the ads after he saw Shakey's post this summer that he can't lose.

Re dumb Trump nicknames: one that I'm surprised doesn't turn up more often (ever?) is Tramp, as this is the actual back-transcription of the Russian spelling of his name, До́нальд Джон Трамп.

"You probably don't even have 25 cents..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKlCA0-Arks

Certain to vote in '18, based on late-Sept. Gallup poll:
65+ 82%
50-64 69%
30-49 55%
18-29 26% <----- 🚨https://t.co/KDFFg2xhI8

— Justin Levitt (@_justinlevitt_) October 3, 2018

god damn that's depressing

at this point it's about what I would expect. Youth turnout is always low.

We need to combine voting with fortnite somehow

or BEACH WEEK

Q. why is it always treated like a surprise that most people under 30 don’t care about voting

A. because people who pay attention to likely voter polling data are nerds who totally voted as soon as they turned 18

jeez what are we gonna do to turn out all those people under 30 that love having landlines & answering cell calls from strange numbers

haha xp

xp true

how can we get the young people to pokemon go to the polls

i didn't post that to surprise anyone

i just like to have specific numbers at hand when i make fun of young people for not voting

need a voting app

we need nicknames for those apathetic young voters

i call the young people whippersnappers

I'm curious how many of you live in states/districts where your vote can matter this election?
Since I vote absentee in OR, all I get to do is reelect a popular Dem representative, and I'm bummed I can't express my rage more voluminously.

Im still registered in new jersey so i guess i have to vote for menendez

in case you ever wanted to read the 1983 georgetown prep yearbook: https://archive.org/details/cupola-1983/page/n0

I get to vote against Paul Gosar and for Sinema, pretty stoked

just lmao that they're burying this Kavanaugh FBI report even though they rushed through it in like 3 days and didn't even interview any of the victims

just hope someone leaks the write up on this farce at some point

Did it end early? Heard it was being talked about not going on beyond today, would think they might try to make it look like something was done. Revolting

Don't want to bury the lede, though, which is that North Dakota looks like a really difficult slog for Heitkamp and that makes the Dems' senate math very hard.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 3, 2018

bad news on multiple levels (i assume that heitkamp will be more motivated to vote to confirm kavanaugh the more that she falls behind)

Where were the damn priests when that yearbook was put together? What status-conscious parent thought this was a fine idea?

I'd rather HH vote down Kavanaugh now than win re-election I think

agreed

if we pick up Arizona or Tennessee or *fingers crossed* Texas and lose ND I won't really give a fuck

and yeah I would rather have Kavanaugh off the court than a Dem Senate at this point