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

lol

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-forecast-thinks-democrats-will-keep-the-house-and-maybe-even-gain-seats/

5% chance of Republicans running the table, just to give you nightmare fuel

9:38 am and no tweet yet hoping for the best 😌💖

— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) October 9, 2020

About those internal GOP polls:

New polls show Mr. Trump’s support is collapsing nationally, as he alienates women, seniors and suburbanites. He is trailing not just in must-win battlegrounds but according to private G.O.P. surveys, he is repelling independents to the point where Mr. Biden has drawn closer in solidly red states, including Montana, Kansas and Missouri, people briefed on the data said.

Nowhere has Mr. Trump harmed himself and his party more than across the Sun Belt, where the electoral coalition that secured a generation of Republican dominance is in danger of coming apart.

“There are limits to what people can take with the irresponsibility, the untruthfulness, just the whole persona,” said Jeff Flake, the former Republican senator from Arizona. Mr. Flake is crossing party lines to support Mr. Biden, who made his first visit of the general election here Thursday.

Many of the Sun Belt states seemingly within Mr. Biden’s reach resisted the most stringent public-health policies to battle the coronavirus. As a result, states like Arizona, Georgia and Texas faced a powerful wave of infections for much of the summer, setting back efforts to revive commercial activity.

🐦[9:38 am and no tweet yet hoping for the best 😌💖
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) October 9, 2020🕸]🐦

In other dumb news: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-got-a-21-million-tax-break-for-saving-the-forest-outside-his-ny-mansion-now-the-deal-is-under-investigation/2020/10/07/de84c1ba-ff6b-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html

This is (of course) crazy. Trump buys a property in upstate New York for about $7 million, claiming he's going to develop it into a golf corse (which fails) and a housing development (which also fails). But then he deducts the value of the property based on the value of ... the houses he never built, because if it *did* build them, and sold them each for $2 million, then the property itself would be worth over $50 million.

I hope everything this guy ever did is investigated forever. I mean:

In one bizarre episode from 2009, Trump rented out Seven Springs to the former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, who was in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Gaddafi’s staff pitched a Bedouin-style tent, complete with camel-print drapery, in Trump’s yard.

But even tent-building was doomed at Seven Springs. Bedford officials issued a stop-work order — the tent was deemed a temporary residence, and it had no permits — and Gaddafi didn’t end up moving in.

I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of it all it turns out that *Trump* did Benghazi.

I did find it heartening to see that a guy I followed on Twitter that had been fairly dormant recently suddenly emerged with a full-on, loud campaign for Jo Jorgensen and got completely lambasted in his responses and his follower count plummeted by like 85% in the past two days.

is that related to the "public park" he bought in upstate NY? a few weeks ago there was a photo of a sad little "Trump Park" sign in the middle of a freshly cut patch of grass, along with a caption explaining that trump bought the land and said he would develop it into a nice park, then did nothing and put the stupid little sign on top

/unconfirmed but that's gotta be true

yeah that's the same

Yeah, I think so (I may have posted that ridiculous picture/tweet somewhere in here).

well that doesn't seem in character for donald trump, must have been a mistake

or no maybe some other crooked scheme xxp

Maybe it was a park named after a different Donald Trump, who died before he could change his name.

To Donald Hitler.

lol wut

President Donald Trump is apparently going to have a “medical evaluation” on television tonight on Fox News.

The reality TV president doing what he does. https://t.co/c5KF8pwqok

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 9, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v7FZwyOdvU

omg I hope he arm wrestles someone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9sBr571y8o

The Normal otm

Biden on FB, guess the gloves are off

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ej19ru0XgAAVaNo?format=jpg&name=small

we know you hate voting

Remember when?

holy shit you've gotta wait for it https://t.co/wWHR9w78ho

— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) October 9, 2020

xp lol I knew that would get a rise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA

Don't taint that song.

may the vote rise with you

Honestly, the Trump part of that video was way far down the list of most disturbing elements. Wtf even was that?

Having a medical exam on tv doesn’t seem like a good way to change the subject

You keep saying that, Alfred. I am not intending to taint, just using for talismanic value to ward off the bad juju going around, like a satchel of gris-gris.

Intending to Taint is one of Muriel Spark's best novels imo

*sadly deletes "lost Limp Bizkit song" joke*

going to add taint to the growing list of words (incl. discharge) that I ask we refrain from using in Trump context

Okay, lol at the Muriel Spark joek. A+

xpost That's gonna be a difficult ask after the world gets a long + loving look at some primetime Trump taint tonight, only on Fox News!

Trump is basically the main character in the Driver's Seat

Exactly!

His post-presidency memoir he'll title Losing with Intent.

are they going to ask him the last 5 questions of the dementia test? because i've heard those are very hard

xpost At this rate, 'taint gonna be a memoir ...

are you the greatest dealmaker of all time?
bleach can kill most bad things, right?
name a book that isn't the bible or art of the deal or the novelization of porky's

That test houldn't be a problem for him at all no matter how hard it is, because he is in his prime.

that's true, the doctors told him that he is better at the dementia test than anyone they've ever seen

Ordinarily the Attorney General of the United States would personally announce a case as massive and important as the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer.

Where are you, Bill Barr?

— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) October 9, 2020

watch?v=SimonAndGarfunkel?tune=MrsRobinson

I hope Whitner sues the living fuck out of Trump and wins

that woman

The fuck did I do

lol

take one for the team, wins

pretty sure Barr, who's malevolent but no moron, understands which way things are going politically.