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

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.'

Why would Mark Zuckerberg and his $40bn give a shit?

trying to attempt to clean his own mess up so he can make a run at prez in 2028.

fuck that guy, i'm trading him off my team on madden as soon as i get home

With respect to

LMAO at that weirdo running for president please do

his foundation is actually doing pretty good stuff (funding a lot of fair election stuff, bankrolling the left side of california ballot measures, etc.) so it's not impossible he still has that in mind and if he wants to spend his money like that then fine with me. but 1) he's a bad person who is bad for the world 2) he's also repulsive in a very visceral way to most humans, and i can't imagine him doing well in an electoral campaign.

AND YET

he's a bad person who is bad for the world

I assume indefinitely means until the next time Republicans have a chance to win a major election.

What it does mean at least is that from Nov 11 to Jan 20, 2021, FB will not be part of any propaganda drive to discredit the election results

, unless they decide to continue being part of a propaganda drive to discredit the election results.

Debate on: when he looks right at Harris, Pence's left eye has a blood bubble by the iris. His body must be rebelling against being alone in a room with two women who aren't Mother.

Good god. I thought Pence would do better than this. He's reciting "under President Trump's leadership" cliches without the shaking-my-head-sadly tactic that worked against Tim Kaine in 2016.

"our COVID plan was amazing, and guess what, Joe Biden's is just like it"

Why would you think he could do better? He is the most platitudinous of empty suits.

Pence's first answer: praises Trump first, then praises his own leadership of COVID task force, runs 30 secs over 2min limit. Second answer: responds to Harris' criticism of his task force's response by saying she's attacking the hard work done by the task force, blows through the moderator stopping him THREE times.
Third question: he blows through moderator ending his time limit so much that she gives up.

This is unlikely to become more edifying; the third q to Harris is predicated on mistrust of vaccines.

Why would you think he could do better? He is the most platitudinous of empty suits.

― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson),

Because he was better at lying in 2016.

attacking the hard work done by the task force the regular American citizenry

Biden/Harris should have insisted that Pence was in an airtight acrylic cage a la Hannibal Lecter.

yeah, but given the abject, anti-Christian horror he's vice-presided over since 2016, it's remarkable that he's still running the same program.

Blew through the moderator SEVEN TIMES just now. Betting that his advisors told him to be forceful, like sweaty baby covid daddy.

Harris is doing pretty well I think

what is the point of this question, besides to play into gop conspiracy theories about biden stepping down