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

I truly don't understand this, and nor do a number of people who advise the president. It's like he's trying to lose. https://t.co/GNOwrZEhx9

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) October 6, 2020

You’re still a hot pencil to me Doc

he's going to lose and say he was mis-advised and then give out the addresses to all of his aides after they leave the White House.

and twitter will ban him.

and suddenly @the2ndrealdonaldtrump will show up.

this is going to end up like Who Shot Mr Burns?

”No Woman, No Commie Can Stump Him"

poet and a prophet

WH economic adviser Stephen Moore on Trump walking away from stimulus talks:

"From a political and a policy standpoint, this was a shrewd move .

"A deal on the Pelosi plan would have completely divided the Republican Party on the eve of the election."https://t.co/PevJsXZOSb

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) October 6, 2020

wonder if publicly saying WE ARE DOING THIS FOR POLITICAL REASONS is gonna help them in November

pic.twitter.com/VfhWsCCELd

— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) October 6, 2020

Yes, by all means, keep the GOP united so they can all sink into the ocean together on election night.

honestly this might be the worst week any political campaign has ever experienced and it's entirely self-owns

the composition of that photo is incredible

like it's looking like all the early voting might have actually been good for Trump

they're morons if they think scuttling stimulus negotiations will have positive political results

Vice President Pence is requesting that no plexiglass dividers be placed on his side of the stage during the vice presidential debate in Utah against Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post.

The Biden campaign said Monday that plexiglass dividers would be installed on the debate stage in Salt Lake City.

...Marc Short, chief of staff to Pence, said his team did not see plexiglass dividers as medically necessary, according to the Post. Other safety measures have already been agreed to, such as daily testing for both Pence and Harris and a 12-foot distance between them.

“If she wants it, she’s more than welcome to surround herself with plexiglass if that makes her feel more comfortable,” Short said according to the newspaper. “It’s not needed.”

"patriots don't need walls"

or wait, that's not a good slogan for them

oh idk the GOP precipitating a recession just as they’re very likely to lose both executive and legislative branches for at least two years could be the ‘smart’ play

lol I'm sure there are plenty of GOP politicians who really want a stimulus to save their campaigns but they have no choice but to follow roided up strong daddy

destroy the country they are entrusted with governing in order to possibly make their opponents look marginally worse (if things shake out electorally like we preddict)

on Jan 21 or whatever this all becomes a “Democrat problem” and then it’s just a drunken turkey shoot

aren't we still already *in* a recession?

I honestly can’t tell what’s going on any more. Certain sectors have certainly managed to insulate. we’ll see if it holds...

"I just want things to go back to normal"
tbc these people are also idiots, albeit understandable ones

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, October 6, 2020 1:20 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Intellectually, I understand that the status quo was super-shitty for a lot of people before Trump came along and also that there are various harmful trends that have accelerated over the past few years (some related to Trump, some not) that won't just disappear with a Democratic president in the Oval Office and will require continued effort to address.

Emotionally, I'm exhausted and don't want to think about Trump anymore and crave some form of "normal" as relief, even if it's a mirage.

Entire sectors of the economy are essentially shut down, so yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu8WOh58EvI

New Franklin Pierce/ Boston Herald National Poll

Biden 51% (+14)
Trump 37%

Biden up by 14pts in the Boston Herald’s national poll. In post-diagnosis polling, Biden’s lead extended to a 21pt lead (which was a 16pt swing from pre-diagnosis polling)

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) October 6, 2020

21! there's no national election, this is one poll, and this is probably non-response bias that won't last to election day, but still!

to jaymc's point just get the sense of real exhaustion from everybody

like even if not one thing is better because Biden is elected there will be some mental relief that I won't have to care what this stupid fuck yammers on about day after day

oh idk the GOP precipitating a recession just as they’re very likely to lose both executive and legislative branches for at least two years could be the ‘smart’ play

Having this happen now, though, anything Biden does is going to make him look like a savior come January.

this friend also mentioned something about how "really not that much has changed" under Trump, which I thought was a remarkably tone deaf thing to say (especially because he takes the pandemic fairly seriously!) but he's one of those "why blame Republicans when you can blame Democrats" kind of people

my response was that even if your life isn't measurably worse somehow, even if you don't care about the cruelty at the border or the people wrecked in Puerto Rico or the environment or the massive deficit or the treason or anything else, you cannot deny how fucking shitty it's made all political discourse and the extent to which he's not only ruined friendships but destroyed familial relationships as well. even if YOU are one of those "conservatives that think Trump's a moron" a lot of people aren't and in fact hang on to every single word he says, the vast majority of which boil down to "Fuck facts, fuck minorities, and fuck all liberals", which has utterly poisoned so many relationships in my life and probably all of yours as well. I have a stepbrother that calls me "triggered" because I told him how dumb the "only 6% of Covid deaths are Covid deaths" thing was. my neighbor with a Trump sign I will never want to hang out with again. a bunch of my lifelong friends post Trump BS on Facebook all the time and I don't think I can have a good relationship with them anymore either.

it's not that the GOP hasn't always been shitty, it's that Trump has created an environment where your political alignment is your sole personality trait and has reduced every single GOP argument to the intellectual level of "the Earth is flat, every single NASA photo was faked, and I know because you can't see curvature from an airplane". every fucking week there is a new major scandal that would've tanked literally any other politician on the planet. we are governed by the stupidest, most evil motherfuckers on the planet and it's fucking terrifying since they've gotten to the stage where they don't even feel the need to hide it any more. Biden winning ain't gonna fix everything but its not healthy to have this much politics in your life, especially not politics where the only fucking thing that matters is triggering people. so yeah. pretty excited for President Biden right now!!

Excellent post, frogbs.

Amen brother

I fucking hate how everything about Trump is so implausible it's basically turned literally everything into a conspiracy theory. He's the the most exceptional exception that's become the rule, so now everything is an exception.

I was excited about election night 2016 solely because I assumed it meant the end of Trump being a constant voice and presence in the background of my daily life. I'm equally excited about this election for the same reason. Just hope it doesn't drag on for weeks after election night.

Speak of the devil, did I see that Facebook just outright banned Q bullshit?

Yes sir, frogs.

I'll never understand this need to piss off people who disagree with you politically. I don't want to piss republicans off. I want them to change their hearts or die.

lol, if Q abandons FB, FB will lose most of their traffic.

whoa!

#NCsen:
Cunningham (D) 47% (+5)
Tillis (R-inc) 42%@Reuters/@Ipsos, LV, 9/29-10/6https://t.co/6xIVPfSkYH

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) October 6, 2020

Is this after the sexting revelation?

ST. LOUIS -- A grand jury indicted [RNC speakers] Mark and Patricia McCloskey Tuesday on charges of exhibiting guns at protesters in a June incident in their neighborhood.

Additionally, the grand jury added a charge of tampering with evidence for both. https://t.co/yb5try153J

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 6, 2020

lmao get disbarred fucko

Great post frogbs

xp YESSSSS

Name a more indicted duo I'll wait.

Yeah, great posts, frogbs and jaymc.

we’re starting to see trump do stuff because he enjoys it even though he knows it’s electorally counterproductive

Imagine how unchained he'll be after he loses (but before he leaves)!

Is this after the sexting revelation?

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:38 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Polling was 9/29-10/6. The "sexting" was revealed on 10/2, so...right in the middle of it.

I saw another poll that was taken on 10/4-10/5 that showed Cunningham up 48-42; the pollster characterized the race as "unaffected by recent developments."

Trump did that guy a huge favor

Ivanka or Don Jr coming along in 2028 to avenge their father is going to be one hell of a dark sequel.

neither one of them has any of the charisma that trump does. even if you think trump has no charisma, which, fair, what is less than zero? ivanka and don jr. one of don jr's main problems is that he has never accomplished anything at all. ivanka is a training video AI

OK but people voted in their father.

non-US poster in "not understanding Trump" shocker

if I had a dollar, etc

that awesome re NC

come onnnnn SC, if for no other reason than Graham getting owned would be so sweet. Would honestly take it over TX or GA flipping blue.

non-US poster in "not understanding Trump" shocker

― sleeve, Tuesday, October 6, 2020 3:09 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Alba lives in the US