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

It’s so weird though because millennials span like 1981-1996 and I tend to think of myself as worlds apart from someone who was born in the 90s (absolute babies, obv.).

Sorry wrong thread lol.

if the results are the landslide we're seeing -- at the moment -- it's harder to wage a court battle

I agree, but they will still try

wouldn't you?

idk I'd like to think I'd know when to cut my losses :)

amazing to think the Access Hollywood tape was 4 years ago today, felt like an eternity between then and the election

I wanna say I'm nervous that Trump could somehow rebound but getting caught on tape saying something everyone knew already is a different sort of scandal than turning the entire WH into a leper colony

Breaking: "In an unprecedented move," the New England Journal of Medicine has published an editorial "condemning the Trump admin for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic – and calling for the current leadership in the US to be voted out of office."https://t.co/4fxv26TZBx

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 7, 2020

Can we impeach him again for being a poxy fule?

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

NEWS: Facebook to BAN ALL POLITICAL ADS INDEFINITELY, beginning after the polls close on November 3rd

also cracking down on polling place intimidation posts and adding more rules as disinformation and the threat of violence rises approaching Election Dayhttps://t.co/cuo8mwIVfd

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 7, 2020

is that a joke

we will close the barn door after the horse has left the stable

reminder that they actively violate electoral law constantly in Washington, and spend more on lawyers fighting their violations than it would even cost to pay the relevant fines

also that indefinitely could mean "for two minutes"

What the fuck is the point at that point?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/health/coronavirus-debate-pence-harris.html

Should’ve just cancelled it imo, but what do I know.

'We are extremely concerned with how our platform was misused with respect to the last election, and we're even more concerned about how it's being misused in the lead-up to this year's election, and we promise to look into these issues just as soon as our democracy has been thoroughly rendered a smoking ruin.'