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

It's one soybean, what could it cost, ten dollars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McuMXM70nHE

I don’t know why people still assume Today Show anchors are softball interviewers

We’re all still traumatized by lauer

ernst's silent sepulchral grin in that clip haunts me

i don't understand why i criticized by people that I LOVE for watching and enjoying things like nathan for you, but there's this ELLEN clip where she's identifying with the audience as the group that understands the costs for the real people, jfc

So my mom is a Trumper. She also is fond of Archie Bunker and Ralph Kramden. Some people are drawn to loudmouths who “tell it like it is,” or, say out loud what they feel they can’t say.

But I don’t understand how anyone can watch an episode of All in the Family and not realize that Archie is an asshole. People see what they want to see.

― Cow_Art, Friday, October 16, 2020 2:51 AM (four hours ago)

otm. for that matter, i love the honeymooners but it amazes me that anyone could think of ralph kramden as someone who tells it like it is. he's always an idiot!

Biden uses his folksy/family schtick in a good way; tells a bullshit-sounding pat anecdote version of something that probably really happened - an eight-year-old grandson or grandnephew or s/t pointing across a car park to some LGBTQs holding hands and saying "they love each other" - then suddenly realises he has a more relevant fact to relate, and says "and by the way, my son who died, Beau Biden, when he was attorney general, he had a staffer, a man who became a woman, right there in the office." (not exact quote)

Asked by a mother of a transgender child about what he will do to protect LGBTQ rights, Joe Biden says: "I will flat-out just change the law." https://t.co/AHhqjfwTJc #BidenTownHall pic.twitter.com/mc4KkDnsmr

— ABC News (@ABC) October 16, 2020

I thought the answer was good and the exchange moving. Worth pointing out that the "bullshit-sounding pat anecdote version of something that probably really happened - an eight-year-old grandson or grandnephew or s/t pointing across a car park to some LGBTQs holding hands and saying "they love each other"" was actually Biden remembering himself seeing two men embrace and kiss, and his dad explaining it to him.

can we dispense with the idea that debates are ever superior to a competent journalist asking questions?

I thought that was the whole reason we have debates rather than interviews.

Vote count just a hair under 20 million, as I figured. Assuming it generally maintains a pace of 3 million every 24 hours that would take it up to at least 56 million before Election Day not counting weekends, but those should be counted to some degree and there’s no reason not to think the overall pace will increase further as more states start voting early, line delays ease back (as has been the case in Georgia) etc.

Just saw this in https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/president-trump-platinum-plan-final-version.pdf

Prosecute the KKK and ANTIFA as terrorist organizations and make lynching a national hate crime

Okay, but you know the hidden meaning behind that 'lynching' designation, yeah?

Let's just say that police charge protestors, even peaceful protestors, with 'lynching' all the time, particularly in California, where to de-arrest someone being forecefully kidnapped by the state is considered 'lynching'. It is another charge to add to those like 'resisting arrest.' Police are eager to utilize the law as a cudgel against protests.

Fuck that.

Ice Cube should definitely prosecute antifa, though

found myself watching chris cuomo last night and he spent a good half hour talking about Biden’s “evasive” answers on “court-packing,” saying that it was “trumpy”

kindly stfu, fredo

Woke up with a pit in my stomach after dreaming Trump started handily winning battleground states on election night. I was hoping I could stave off the nightmares for a couple more weeks.

So are there any legit sources gaming out Trump's path to a win? Because I feel like I should start keeping tabs on that and preparing for the worst. The outlook is getting a little too rosy atm and I'm getting unpleasant 2016 flashbacks.

Early voting story which confirms the obvious. That whole USPS stupidity by DeJoy has bitten back hard:

New: Voters across the country showing up in person to vote early say one reason they're waiting in long lines is they don't trust the mail to deliver their ballots, following Trump attacks and USPS cuts (w/ a big assist from our teams in battlegrounds) https://t.co/KcuH0sgXKm

— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) October 16, 2020

Xp to Old Lunch - as annoying as their cartoony interface is, 538’s election tracker is an easy way to see the scenarios most likely to lead to a Trump win. You can mouse over the dots on their distribution and see the maps that each one corresponds to. I do it when I’m wallowing in doom

xp:

My nightmare scenario has been DJT prematurely declaring victory on election night, and contesting mail-ballots as fraudulent as they're being counted through the following week. Instead of the 2000 Florida recount's Brooks Bros. mobs, armed right-wing militias protesting the vote count, following poll workers home, etc. "Voting early and in person" is a rational response.

I am voting early and in person.

What’s your voting plan?

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 20, 2020

i mean that's likely to happen

Oh my fucking god

Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News https://t.co/JPmjOrKPcr via @TheBabylonBee Wow, this has never been done in history. This includes his really bad interview last night. Why is Twitter doing this. Bringing more attention to Sleepy Joe & Big T

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2020

What's Trump got against the Million Dollar Hook Man?

Good lord, the full Elections Project update this morning now has the total at 21.3 million.

The reason I stay off Twitter is elucidated by clicking on that 45 tweet above and reading not just the replies, but the related tweets. I salute all of you who wade through that crap every day. All these people deserve the guillotine, and now I need a nap.

It's very easy not to wade through that crap once you embrace blocking nonsense

man a lot of Feinstein apologists on fb today. did she have a posse I wasn’t aware of?

Apologies if this was shared yesterday and I missed it, but it came across my tl this morning:

Decided to check out the Instagram of the author of today’s NY Post story on Hunter Biden and, ah, well pic.twitter.com/yTmR64WqYA

— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) October 15, 2020

Illuminating to see who the article of that NY Post laptop hit piece brags about hanging around with (to save you a click, her Instagram features her proudly posing with Hannity, Bannon Stone and displaying her Breitbart t-shirt.

it really sucks out here in flyover country that the NY Post has a real old school respectable newspaper name because people don't get that it's one step up from the National Enquirer

but don't they hate the fake news NY Times?

NY Post has some truly entertaining sports headlines, sucks they're actively helping to demolish the planet

They do, but I genuinely think there exists a segment of flyover country that thinks the NY Post is the "conservative" competitor to the lib NY Times.

source: I grew up in flyover country and the NY Post was much more likely to be found lying around coffee shops (of the early morning blue collar type) and diners than the Times, if any out of town or state newspapers were to be found.

That’s the way it is in NY!!

its the same with the sun papers here in Toronto. they give them away – literally - to some places. the idea isn't to make money selling papers, it's to spread right wing propaganda. so you see them lying around things like chain coffee shops etc all the time.

That’s the way it is in NY!!

Considering I've only ever spent a grant total of six hours in NYC, this is good to know. I guess I just kind of assumed it was mostly dismissed as the rag it is.

oh it is dismissed you just can't avoid seeing it

i throw them in the garbage out of spite sometimes when i see them sitting out.

xxxxxpost I mean I've never seen an NY Post irl

but if you see the headline "NY Post reports....". it just scans like a legit newspaper esp because of the Washington Post

i actually think that's one reason so many dummies I know share the Moonie paper, cos Washington Times sounds like New York Times.

I didn't know about the Post's tabloidy status until my mid-20s for reasons like ums mentioned above (and well I was stupid in college)

lol I knew Washington Post was shit but it's moonies??

Washington Times is.

sorry meant NY Post with my second post. too many posts

Washington Times is Moony

Washington Times is Moonies, Epoch Times is Falun Gong, everybody's got themselves a Times.

here are my summaries of newspaper surnames:

Examiner - written by people who had two readers on blog.com in 2006
Thinker - no thinking is going on
Greatness - ALERT - RACISM AFOOT

I still have a subscription to WaPo...I think? who owns things anymore, let news be ~free~

https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E11/uzxMUsIbIa2njGJezTiu1KLCcPU=.gif

epoch times ads come up on YouTube every single time i try to watch something. they’re going to give me a rage stroke

oops sorry typo i mean to type "Washington Times" not Post sorry for the cofusion