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

Lol, Democrats aren't polarized enough yet for my liking.

Is it? It's a reversion to the post-Civil War means. We don't need lib Republicans or conservative Dems

I am still waiting for the Democratic Steve King and it ain't AOC (as much as I love her).

what else do the Republicans have except Trump's politics of resentment.

no one actually likes any of their ideas

and the dueling town halls (?!?!?!?!!!??) are about to start.

i guess i'm outraged on behalf of the shameful ken bones out there, the undecided voters who, for no reason whatsoever, must choose between which broadcast to watch. and like me, i'm guessing they will probably watch trump, because we know what joe biden will say, and we do not know exactly what trump will say, and perhaps trump will have obvious covid-19, or perhaps he will be so 'roided up that he will get angry and call someone a name and lose another 2% off of his republican favorability ratings

Sasse's scolding style might let him stay in the Senate forever if he votes right but it has no legs beyond that.

As stated elsewhere, I am firmly in the hated 'Trump is gonna win' category.... but I don't think it's going to happen because of his deification within the party rank-and-file. I think that a combination of paranoid rhetoric, fear-mongering, and soft suppression tactics are going to hand him enough states to help him win. The Rs I know / am related to absolutely abhor him, and are either planning on holding their nose and voting against better judgment or are outright staying home. I mean maybe they're all in that 4% that disapproves of, bu I dunno...

Earlier someone was talking about or tweeted a quote that shy voters and excitement/approval couldn't coexist and I think that's completely wrong. A Trump voter could be fuckin' hyped to vote for him again but not want to get shunned by the libs in his life or have his kids stop talking to him again.

NBC should be razed to the ground for the shit they're pulling tonight. Is it hyperbolic to call it an affront to democracy?

Christie's not (and will never again be) an elected official, though.

Which didn't stop him from being as subservient as could be the past few weeks. He may have given up on being an elected official, but I suspect he still harbors hopes of being an appointed one someday, and will position himself wherever he thinks that might come about.

honestly if I don’t get one Covid trophy from that superspreader event in the Rose Garden I’m going to be pretty fucking disappointed

That means he doesn't have to sell himself to the nest of vipers that we call the GOP base, repudiating Trump is good for your career in the media or lobbying and no one notices the Undersecretary for Chesapeake Bay Affairs if he wants a government job in 2024.

i expect at least ONE person at the town hall to ask him about how his own incompetence, specifically him, led to unnecessary deaths in 6 months. he'll spin it and start talking about how we can't be afraid, but then i want to hear the hapless moderator try to press him on it.

meanwhile, biden will be saying 'lookit', i just can't watch.

trump will dominate the ratings and claim victory (on his terms - get the most attention, he will be correct)

trump just says his lungs were infected, but claims he doesn't know what it was infected with, because he didn't "do too much asking"

seems normal. my lungs are infected? ok

Aerosolized herpes pumped into the Oval Office by the Deep State.

NBC moderator is doing a good job of grilling trump on how ridiculous his handling of his own recent illness was. town hall hasn't even spoken yet. she keeps interrupting him so he can't go on and on. this is good.

why are you watching

to me, watching trump, he seems very obviously and completely wrong and lying, like being caught in a lie, redhanded. but what do i know

you may actually read news about this later, btw - trump looks panicked already and when he gets going, he starts melting down

Would be funny if Biden called in from the other town hall. "OK, we've got Joe, from Delaware on the line with a question ... " And then the other town hall can televise Biden calling Trump.

he's already attacking the host/moderator, too

"excess mortality. we're a winner on excess mortality"

why are you watching

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 15, 2020 7:08 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Karl is drownin' for our thirst, drownin' for our thirst, DROWNIN' FOR OUR THIRST

Q: do you support herd immunity as a strategy?
A: the cure cannot be worse than the disease

i'm not going to lie: i have taco bell coming my way. crunchwrap supreme and cheezy bean burrito.

how's biden doing? has he said lookit?

getting another chance to denounce white supremacism again.

"you always do this...you always do this to me..."

"here's the deal"

"i denounce white supremacy, and frankly, i denounce antifa, i denounce the left " bla bla bla

now getting asked about qanon

More bounce to the denounce.

trump knows that qanon is "very much against pedophilia, they fight it very hard"

then pivots to radical left and antifa burning down cities run by democrats

he just doesn't know about qanon

he's really mad at her. he really hates women

there are people in the townhall with masks on visibly shaking their head NO violently, left and right

he just said "so cute" to her

i'll stop.

you'll be reading about this later, for better or worse

On ABC, Joe Biden is giving a lengthy, cogent explanation of his plans to handle the pandemic, incorporating recent scientific findings and recent testimony of the CDC Director encouraging mask wearing.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 16, 2020

trump seems honestly befuddled, like completely confused, that savannah hasn't heard about the corrupt ballots. every day, he watches and they talk about the corrupt ballots.

omg, these brave town hall people. they are getting to live the dream of asking the president to be accountable for their actions, and then they have to stand there and stare at him for 2 minutes as he lies to their faces. this very first question, you can tell the person who asked the question fucking HATES him

and now the moderator is leaping in to interrupt his bullshit and call him out on it. trump campaign is going to regret this decision

there were 3 blurry faces in the background. 2 of the 3 shook their heads NO as trump was talking

is this an intervention? for trump, i mean. not for me. but this event almost seems lined up to force him to go face to face with the people he has fucked over

I watched the Trump shouting session for five minutes, thought Savannah Guthrie did better than Chris Wallace, and said "fuck you people" for watching this. Nothing has changed.

Watching Trump of course, and enjoying the moderator's badgering of him.

(There's an African-American woman in back of him nodding yes to everything he says--that's a little disorienting.)

Flipping between Trump claiming he hasn't heard of Qanon and ANTIFA is burning down our cities and bales of Trump ballots thrown in the trash; and Biden explaining how the a competent WH organizes a crisis response, showing his work, emanating empathy from every pore is...a trip

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) October 16, 2020

How's Biden doing?

xp I think that is a little harsh on me for watching, but I understand

xpost Apparently so far so good, even with a couple of tough questions/follow-ups.

Biden spent like ten minutes answering this question and then offered to finish talking to the guy backstage https://t.co/ax24s9ECJd

— Ed MD (@notdred) October 16, 2020