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

re: undecideds

Ken Bone is, and I mean this in the meanest way possible, the stupidest American https://t.co/FfeRBrJK9v

— Kate, but spooky🎃👻🍂 (@kbschroedy) October 7, 2020

As I said I just picked up on the three million + votes exchange upthread and made a comment. I didn't claim it was the #1 problem xps to caek.

lmao he is not undecided

All morning the Trump supporters have been nice to me even though I don't like Trump. The Biden camp has been shitting all over me because I don't like Biden. Do these people really not see how much this behavior pushes bystanders toward the right?

— Ken Bone (@kenbone18) October 7, 2020

he is though, a blue checkmark for some reason

I never want to hear from him again. Too many bad memories.

Hell, I saw a Cubs World Series Champions sticker on a car the other day and got triggered.

glad to see mr bone is also on the, "don't you see? you being rude leaves me absolutely no choice but to be racist!" train

Well.

Starting this week, a generation of voters in Texas will see something they’ve never witnessed before: a heavy rotation of presidential TV ads.

In a move that would have been far-fetched even a few months ago, Joe Biden is set to spend $6.2 million on ads in the state over the next month — attempting to put the state in play for the first time in decades. The latest polling averages show President Donald Trump leading by only 2 to 3 points in Texas, and Biden’s push there illustrates both how much the state has changed and how much the political environment is tilting against Trump less than a month from the Election Day.

Perhaps even more astounding: Trump doesn’t have the money to counter the cash-flush Biden on TV.

Over the past two weeks, Biden had the airwaves to himself in Iowa, Ohio, Texas and New Hampshire, while Trump went dark, according to Advertising Analytics, a TV tracking firm. This week, Trump isn’t airing any ads in Nebraska, where both campaigns are competing for the lone Electoral College vote out of the Omaha-based congressional district, while Biden is dropping just under $500,000.

Hell, I saw a Cubs World Series Champions sticker on a car the other day and got triggered.

I'm still mad we had less than a week to appreciate that.

he's trying to mess with Texas

I voted Clinton in '16 and this morning I sealed my mail in ballot having voted for Jo Jorgensen.

I don't agree with either of them 100% but felt they were the best options available to me at the time.

— Ken Bone (@kenbone18) October 7, 2020

Hate all the singling out of Bone when FFS there are 17 other people who voted Clinton but won't go for Joe that we never hear from.

Hell, I saw a Cubs World Series Champions sticker on a car the other day

A little voice inside my head said don't look back you can never look back

Hell, I saw a Cubs World Series Champions sticker on a car the other day and got triggered.

the tweet from Nate Silver that was like "Trump's odds of winning are roughly the same as the Cubs winning the World Series" was the first time it really hit me that Trump actually had a shot so yeah bad memories all around

looking forward to your thoughts next time pr, av , etc. come up on the uk pol thread then.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 bookmarkflaglink

See you in 2028.

Will you shut up, man?

huh I mistakenly thought Bone copped to ultimately pulling the lever for Trump

sometimes I get really bummed out that I live in a country where we don’t have universal basic healthcare but I know who Ken Bone is

would not have thought of Ken Bone as a fan of Ministry

Let's check in with Joe the Plumber.

Please don't be fooled. Even if @BernieSanders drops out there will still be a #Socialist running for the #WhiteHouse and that would be @JoeBiden He wants to "ReDistribute" your wealth as well. #2AShallNotBeInfringed #KAG2020 @DonaldJTrumpJr @realDonaldTrump @POTUS

— Joe the Plumber (@RealJTP) March 11, 2020

What fucking wealth, man

joe's wealth clearly not measured in twitter interest

His expertise is in making sure shit flows efficiently.

his wiki is a real journey

huh I mistakenly thought Bone copped to ultimately pulling the lever for Trump

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ken-bone-still-wont-say-voted-131529619.html

"The power plant employee from Belleville, Ill., was selected to participate in the town hall with fellow undecided voters after answering a Gallup phone survey. Bone said he was leaning toward voting for Trump.

“They asked, ‘How likely are you to change your mind, on a scale of one to 10?‘” he explained. “One is, like, there’s no way you’ll change your mind — your candidate could murder a person on television and you’d still vote for them. And 10 was, it’s a total coin flip. And I said, like a two or a three. Like, I’m probably not going to change my mind, but I’m willing to hear what the other side has to say. And based on it being such a polarizing election, a two or a three was considered undecided.”

interesting, tell me more about your meaningless decision mr bone

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/doug/images/8/8e/Doug_Meets_Robobone.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20140416040449

"The subject is closed!"

did sarah palin drop out of politics and public life, or is she still doing the reality show thing?

Busy catching up on her favorite newspapers and magazines iirc.

it seems like she should be having a moment right now, for real. she is just as dumb and gullible as all these trump supporters, and she used to be the patron saint of stupidity. oh well

she was in the news last week!
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/palin-hints-at-challenge-to-murkowski-in-bizarre-video.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMtFeLKPcfc

https://www.gq.com/story/ken-bone-reddit-ama-nsfw-comments

Never forgive McCain for elevating that turkey and fueling other profoundly stupid people's delusions of glory.

Grandeur, glory, whatever. He helped to fuel them.

wtf, that video. nm, she is still ten years ahead of the dum dum curve

wow cant believe ken bone would do something stupid

Decent chance McConnell suckered Trump into pulling the plug on stimulus. Party is in bust out mode. McC likely sees that Trump is finished, probably senate majority too. Get the Court seat and leave the economy as wrecked as possible to ensure a Biden admin is stillborn.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 7, 2020

I feel like Marshall is rarely this cynical

He is always, always writing fan fic though. “Decent chance.” Ok. Is that sourced, Josh?

yeah, he expands a bit in an exclusive TPM ~PRIME~ article. i just tazered my way in, stole an excerpt, and killed some dudes on the way back out. but here it is:

Normally it would be reasonable to ask whether anyone really thinks that cynically about governance. With Mitch McConnell not only do we know he thinks that cynically he actually acted this cynically under Barack Obama. We have a track record.

...But don’t take your eyes off this broader calculus – one separate from Trump, his state of mind, one that is above all rational. Yes, everyone should give their 110%. Everybody get out to vote. The stakes for a second Trump term are too high to take anything for granted. But for those gaming out their own moves and post-January realities, Trump’s defeat is starting to look very likely. Under normal circumstances that would lead congressional Republicans to cut Trump loose and pitch their reelection as a check on the power of a Democratic President. That would be a great card to play for a number of endangered Republican Senators at the moment. But it’s all but impossible since loyalty to Trump is now the centerpiece of Republican identity. And any move away from him would trigger a fatal backlash.

So look for more signs of this bust out scenario. Steal what you can and burn the rest down on the way out.

I don't get McConnell's role as Marshall describes it.

tangentially related to the economy, the stock market has already more than bounced back from yesterday's drop following trump's tweet

https://i.imgur.com/B6gMZpa.png

Xpost his role is "make turtle noises, stop things from happening"

xp re: mcconnell's role

in marshall's scenario, i think it would just be pushing the republicans back to their natural role: minority party obstructionists with a tanked economy, pushing for austerity and fewer benefits for low-income people. that's what they're going to be anyway....

or if you mean practically how would it work, perhaps it would mcconnell telling trump that the stimulus deal has no chance of passing and just to concentrate on the election so the senate can concentrate on confirming barrett

You want the economy to tank 6-12 months into Biden's term, not have him enter at a nadir when any half-assed shit he does will improve the situation.

or if you mean practically how would it work, perhaps it would mcconnell telling trump that the stimulus deal has no chance of passing and just to concentrate on the election so the senate can concentrate on confirming barrett

― president of my cat (Karl Malone)

I get this part, but I don't Trump agreeing to a scenario in which by implication he loses.

Xpost Latter = Tully at the end of Ghostbusters 2

🚨 Buzzfeed reports Donald Trump's ad-buy cancellations are now moving beyond Ohio and Iowa. He has scaled back TV ads significantly in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota — signaling a retreat from the Midwest.

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) October 7, 2020

yeah they are all in on simply crippling the certification process at this point

if they delay it past Dec. 14th, it goes to a vote by the states, 1 state 1 vote, and Trump "wins"

yeah they're all in on just fucking it up good

scaling back the ad buys kinda signals they don't see a way to win, right?

they see a way to win alright