"Will you shut up, man?" US Politics October 2020

xxpost It will be a loud Scooby Doo foghorn.

But he knows Trump would be watching now so doesn't that give the game away? Unless he really thinks he is out of the woods now and can handle the truth. But he won't trust him next time!

the physician is demonstrating an awareness that his president would not perseverate to deconstruct & comprehend said acknowledgment of previous circumlocution

i kind of think there's going to be an audio signal, too

I believe the audio signal will be a certain Martha & The Vandellas song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUBd9dQvtY

I believe the audio signal will be a certain Martha & The Vandellas song.

https://images.app.goo.gl/458moJx4RnQ7Jvou9

What kinda sucks about this is acting like all the dipshits in 2016 who endlessly speculated that Hillary Clinton was actually dying based on 3 seconds of film. But we’re being gaslit so hard about everything all the time and I think it’s telling that you have multiple newscasters saying “even with the most charitable reading possible none of this is adding up”

Meanwhile in more cutting edge comedy that isn’t SNL but is as funny

WARNING: May cause your sides to split pic.twitter.com/jt7jOcrHkx

— Dave Weigel, Re-Animator (@daveweigel) October 4, 2020

if he comes out of hospital not in a box there's another of their songs that'll work fine

May I suggest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPt7BN7ZuJk

Frogbs and sleeve otm. Having him back at the WH quickly (for optics) is short-sighted, because it will make the optics of a relapse worse.

And as far as Trump being "discharged," I think I want to prank call those doctors and say "Doctor, I'm noticing a foul-smelling, unpleasant discharge."

"A discharge? From where?"

"From your hospital."

"Mr. Trump, You need to settle up on your hospital bill."

"Discharge it to my card."

WARNING: May cause your sides to split pic.twitter.com/jt7jOcrHkx

— Dave Weigel, Re-Animator (@daveweigel) October 4, 2020

the Depends budget on this show must be astronomical

why is 1996 bob dole doing a 2020 joe biden impersonation?

BREAKING: Joe Biden tested negative for covid again today.

From his campaign: “Vice President Biden underwent PCR testing for COVID-19 today and COVID-19 was not detected.”

— Matt Viser (@mviser) October 4, 2020

weaponized prez went for a ride

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-alternate-reality/index.html

https://i.imgur.com/IAToecn.jpg

Because futures start trading at 6pm East Coast time. https://t.co/ymuM8szaSt

— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) October 4, 2020

Same, Julie, same

lol. reminds me of the thought I saw expressed somewhere on twitter recently, that we now understand the opposite of doomscrolling is schadensurfing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/business/media/trump-coronavirus-coverage.html

In 2017, Mr. Bresnahan and his colleague Anna Palmer wrote that the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate’s appropriations committee, Thad Cochran, was “frail and disoriented,” a story that sped his retirement. Last month, Mr. Bresnahan and Marianne LeVine reported that fellow Democrats were worried whether Dianne Feinstein was up to leading her side of the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings because she gets “confused by reporters’ questions, or will offer different answers to the same question depending on where or when she’s asked.”

...

Physical decline is likely to be a major feature of the next few years of American politics, at least. The current line of succession, after Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, features Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is 80, and the Senate president pro tempore, Charles Grassley, 87, who also runs the Senate Finance Committee. Ms. Pelosi’s two most powerful deputies in the House, James Clyburn and Steny Hoyer, are both 80 or older. Over in the Senate, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee is 85 and coasting to re-election. The chairman of the Appropriations Committee is 86. Joe Biden, who turns 78 next month, is nearly a year younger than the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who is also seeking re-election in November.

This concentration of power in the hands of the old is an American phenomenon, Derek Thompson recently wrote in The Atlantic, noting that our leaders are getting older as European leaders get younger.

Yeah it has always staggered me how old your leaders are. Old white men in particular. No one in any other field works past like 70 or so but theyre still running for office at this age, why!? Go sit by a fire in the alma mater club FFS.

lol they already do that anyways! Why quit?

Good morning

https://i.imgur.com/QorzKq2.jpg

US election poll: Trump BEATING Biden despite being hospitalised with Covid – EXCLUSIVE

The monthly Democracy Institute Sunday Express poll for the Presidential election shows that Mr Trump is still on course for victory with 46 percent of the popular support compared to his Democrat rival Joe Biden’s 45 percent.

However, his overall lead has dropped by two points since the last poll in September.

The poll was completed after the news broke that President Trump and his wife Melania have been infected by Covid-19.

But 68 percent said the illness would not affect their vote while 19 percent said they were “more likely” to support Trump and only 13 percent “less likely”.

Almost two thirds said they felt sympathy and concern for the President while 38 percent said him getting the disease was “karma” in an indication of the current divisive nature of US politics.

Crucially, Mr Trump’s lead in key swing states including Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remains at 4 percent by 47 percent 43 percent.

This gives a projected Electoral College split of 320 to Trump and 218 to Biden.

While other polls have Biden ahead, the Democracy Institute, which correctly predicted Brexit and Trump’s win in 2016, only considers people who identify as “likely voters” rather than all registered voters and also asks about the so called shy vote.

English people: Is this paper for real?

I mean, it exists.

But

Mostly its front covers either spread anti-refugee racism, push cuckoo fake medical bullshit or conspiracy theories about Princess Diana.

It's for people for whom the Daily Mail isn't quite frothingly racism, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic or awful enough.

And need more stories about long-term weather forecasts, medical "breakthroughs", Princess Diana and Madeleine McCann.

I don’t think that pollster is recognised or regulated btw

That paper saying anything about the election is the equivalent of a random drunk European poster rocking up in this thread giving it the Big Thoughts on What Will Happen

only considers people who identify as “likely voters” rather than all registered voters and also asks about the so called shy vote

how do you ask about the shy vote? isnt that the point of the shy vote?

Lolling at “the so called shy vote”

“ask me, I won’t say no, how could I?”

lol

‘Biden? For real?’ ‘Ok, ok, I lied, I’m a full-blown MAGA Man, are you happy now?’

Enhanced polling techniques.

Without clicking through I'm guessing it's the Express?

Wasn't that the paper that got all its long term weather forecasts from a bloke in a terraced house in a small English village? I'm sure it was discussed on ILX somewhere.

Yes. The Mail has used them too

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jan/26/weather-forecasters-daily-mail

That paper saying anything about the election is the equivalent of a random drunk European poster rocking up in this thread giving it the Big Thoughts on What Will Happen

lol

Misread that as 'random drunk European popstar rocking up the thread' and expected one of the Gallaghers to give their thorough analysis of USA today.

Y'know, or Gay Dad's drummer.

only considers people who identify as “likely voters” rather than all registered voters

My understanding is that most reputable pollsters in the U.S. already do this during the last couple of months of a campaign. Often they start with registered voters but then shift to a likely-voter model after Labor Day. I did see the other day that NBC had decided to keep using registered voters for its current polls, but this was seen as anomalous.

meanwhile

What was surprising was that the first three years went a lot better than I expected, 2020 seems like the arrival of exactly what we were worried about. https://t.co/6xFCDPZ6fl

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 4, 2020

Donated to MJ Hegar and Mike Siegel campaigns

if this works theres nothin you can do but tip yr cap and go home

Trump campaign attacks Joe Biden for lack of ‘firsthand experience’ being infected with COVID-19 https://t.co/V9LHjyKJme

— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 5, 2020

lmao

How can you lead the country if you've never danced with death?

I think I’m gonna be out of lulz forever after this.

Man...there's spin and then there's spinning so fuckin' hard you throw up all over yourself and fall and get a traumatic brain injury and spend the rest of your life as a vegetable.