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

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

Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.

Paul Mooney owns the Washington Times

Was curious about editorial endorsements this cycle, which were overwhelmingly pro-Clinton in 2016. To date, only one has moved away (Dallas Morning News from HRC to "no endorsement"), while 19 (including 4 science publications making endorsements for the first time in their history) moved from the no endorsement column to pro-Biden or anti-Trump.

The Biden endorsement by Surfer magazine has gotten too little attention: Why Surfers Should Vote For Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

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

I subscribed to WaPo after the 2016 election, it's good to support stuff and pay for it, and I only regret it when they publish trolling bullshit by Thiessen and the like

Op-ed pages are garbage dumps in every newspaper.

*prepares NYT editorial pitch on Alfred’s post, completely misreading it* “It can be said that editorials are the compost of opinion, allowing it to grow.”

The bravery:

Scoop w/ @ErinatThePost: Turned off by President Trump, Maryland’s GOP governor Larry Hogan casts write-in vote for Ronald Reagan... https://t.co/U36tp4WXEz

— Robert Costa (@costareports) October 16, 2020

gov. larry hogan, welcome to the #resistance

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.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, October 16, 2020 8:58 AM

this sounds like flyover country that was close to a city! not sure i've ever seen a NYT in a morning/all-nite restaurant.

the standard set-up, iirc is:

- local newspaper (100% chance)
- tidbits (50% chance)
- USA today (25% chance)
- a short-lived "only positive news!" venture (5%)

or a NY Post, especially

My dad's hometown newspaper op-ed is basically a real-life Ed Anger, it is a wonder to behold

xp ronald fucking reagan, lol. seriously, how do these people grow up and get elected to be the governor of a state? ronald fucking reagan? imagine having a friend who would seriously suggest voting for ronald reagan and how bizarre that would be

The lowest of stakes and importance but I'm still amused that two years ago Avenatti was a chief newsmaker/hyper of the year and Scaramucci a seeming flash in the pan joke even by joke standards, and now Avenatti's out of sight, out of mind and buried in endless bad decisions and verdicts and Scaramucci can deservedly troll the president for things he's literally saying this morning:

Nice to be inside what is ever left of your vacuous melon. Stop projecting! Where is the donor money? Fool me once.
We all know it was a catastrophic
year. 4 yrs.

But it’s all going to be over soon! You will be low life losing on Nov 3. Then America can move on and heal. https://t.co/K2UU49gxxI

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 16, 2020

Wait, is Reagan even running?!