People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

for instance I'm voting (probably in person, my poll site changed though so I need to figure out how to get there), volunteering (though I'm being lax), am considering signing up as a poll worker, but I know all of this is really just "taking action" theater because I don't expect any of it to matter

or, rather, a lot of the despair is due to that disconnect

actually think that's otm!

katherine is totally otm, yup.

On the other hand I think a little bit of Kantian categorical imperative thought applies. Act as though your judgements were universalizable.

Ok maybe on an individual basis your voting/advocacy is unlikely to make a difference in the outcome (e.g., you live in Manhattan or in rural Mississippi).

But the actual real results will be the aggregate result of millions of individual actions.

What if EVERYBODY who agrees with you behaved as though their contribution were meaningless? Defeat. So I maintain a commitment to act the way I thik everyone should act, even if my one specific contribution only runs up the score in my safely blue jurisdiction in my safely blue state.

Yup

On a related note, I feel like I need to ramp up my passionate support for the Biden/Harris ticket... not just as an antidote to Trumpism, but on their own merits. Even if I have to fake it, we need to give the impression of genuine support rather than ambivalent acceptance.

I think I'm getting a Biden neck tattoo, today.

If only everyone did that

It's weird that they're not!

I took election judge training today in my county. Felt good man. But I’m i standby and may not be needed.

oh a couple of knee whacks and you're in

I’m not a political smartie like Ryan Grim but I fear Trump will steal the election and it makes me MORE determined to overcome any obstacle to vote. I want to shove my ballot up his ass.

that's what we call "spoilage"

Like, to do the election judge training I was in a conference room with several other people, the first time and be been around so many people indoors since Mid-March. We were masked, but if I get Covid trying to protect the integrity of the system I will have no regrets.

that's what we call "spoilage"

So you can ram it up there again.

for the first time in my life I'm accepting a sign from a friend

I want to shove my ballot up his ass.

― Boring, Maryland

that's what we call "spoilage"

― Neanderthal

Naw, it's fine unless there are hanging chads. So don't leave any chads hanging out.

oh sweet "the Clinton Foundation" is "trending."

Can’t remember, is Joe Biden a puppet of the radical left or the Clinton machine?

They are one and the same.

I think the Trump campaign is just pretending that Bernie is the nominee. That's all they prepared for and it's too late to pivot.

it's trending because the special prosecutor Barr appointed to review the origins of the Russian investigation started looking into the Clinton Foundation, as if that was remotely in the scope of what he was investigating.

It's impressive how thoroughly "flooding the zone with shit" has erased the outrage over ratfucking the postal service.

Or the Russian bounties on American troops that Trump has known about for months and months... "Look! A condor in a wet suit, right over there!"

I barely have time to READ this stuff - how does this notoriously lazy man have time to DO it?

he delegates

Just a meme, posted without comment, no relevance to current US society...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EitZdGpXcAIZYLe.jpg

My older daughter is volunteering as poll worker, she totally pursued that on her own. Very proud.

Or the Russian bounties on American troops that Trump has known about for months and months

Or the Russian bounties on American troops that Trump has known about for months and months... "Look! A condor in a wet suit, right over there!"

Stefanik is infuriating; what are her chances for re-election?

looking forward to the Oppo Dump follies next month

more like Opprobrium Dumps

Today in math:

Trump, on AIDS research status, in his 4th year as president:

"When I first started they said it would take 10 years, now it's down to just 6 years," which "nobody" predicted.

— Craig Harrington (@Craigipedia) September 24, 2020

Trumpcare is the Healthcare Plan of the Future.. and always will be.

Sen. Booker on Justice Ginsburg replacement: “I think Democrats are gonna continue to appeal to the sense of honor that when someone gives their word, as Lindsey Graham did, that they can’t just break it.”https://t.co/UVX4WBpeeB

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 24, 2020

i got nothing

like the episode of The State where a criminal is told by the warden that there's no way out of the prison except for the open door at the gate but that this "open door" is off limits and being shocked when he escapes

now, i'm just going to take a catnap over hee-ya, and just remember - we like to consider this open gate "off limits"

Trump is kinda like Yogi Berra if he looked like Yogi Bear.

Stefanik is infuriating; what are her chances for re-election?

The filthy traitors at Fox News are stabbing the Glorious Leader in the back again:

New Fox polls:

NEVADA
Biden: 52%
Trump: 41%

OHIO
Biden: 50%
Trump: 45%

PENNSYLVANIA
Biden: 51%
Trump: 44%

In each state, voters prefer Biden to Trump on SCOTUS.https://t.co/oLy9VUQAQF

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 24, 2020

"The GOP's sense of decency"??

Paging General Eisenhower, please pick up the white phone.

lindsey graham, we knew you as a man of honor

they prefer Biden to Trump on SCOTUS?

Maybe Trump will peacefully stand down if we allow him to remain President of Mar-a-Lagoo.

nonsense, that's a fox news poll. you can't trust socialist fox news

They should bury him in Mar-a-Lago, preferably tomorrow.

I'll let him be the President of Polyps

More pleasant news:

President Donald Trump is on the defensive in three red states he carried in 2016, narrowly trailing Joe Biden in Iowa and battling to stay ahead of him in Georgia and Texas, as Trump continues to face a wall of opposition from women that has also endangered his party’s control of the Senate, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College...