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

Not sure about other markets, but the Biden town hall beat Trump in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market ratings (10.5 to 8.1).

You laugh to see it

“Stepien's critics say he is in CYA mode, refusing to make tough decisions that might incur Trump's wrath while setting up excuses for what polls suggest could be a shellacking by Joe Biden.” https://t.co/aysv5lt9Oe

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) October 16, 2020

So the ratings I've seen have been NBC vs ABC, but I assume that means MSNBC and CNBC are not getting factored in though, right?

Ah, truly the talk of confidence:

In internal conversations, Stepien and other senior officials often use the word "optionality" to describe the decision to keep dabbling in every Rust Belt battleground and preserve multiple paths to 270.

we have to keep all the optionalities on the table

What a charming fellow Stepien appears to be!

A friend of mine went to high school in NJ with Stepien.
She says that she always remembered him because he singled out one girl for vicious ongoing anti-Semitic verbal abuse.

— Padraig O Mearain (@PMearain) October 16, 2020

Keith Moon owns the Go To The Mirror

They should give Trump a literal shellacking. Like, coat him in insect resin.

This is INCREDIBLE

Judge Reggie Walton: I think when a president makes an unambiguous statement that he was declassifying information I don't think anything more is required. He clearly has indicated intent.

Walton wants WH counsel to speak to Trump about his tweets/intent https://t.co/yWZchZCZX2

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) October 16, 2020

Oh, and:

SIREN! The Biden Town Hall on ABC drew 2.3 million more viewers than the Trump town hall on NBC. There is nothing @realDonaldTrump cares about more than ratings. https://t.co/03OMGhEVLM

— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) October 16, 2020

So the ratings I've seen have been NBC vs ABC, but I assume that means MSNBC and CNBC are not getting factored in though, right?

Just the NBC numbers here. And as that Variety article points out, preliminary ratings.

Still, the idea that Trump didn't absolutely cream Biden in the ratings is just chef's kiss, no matter how it's sliced.

Fake views. They buy thousands of TVs, hundreds - and just turn them on, walk out of the room.

Given the states that are going to count quickly, It’s basically impossible for Trump to get enough good news on election night for the networks to be even a little bit confident he’s going to go on to win.

And if Trump loses Florida on election night then it’s difficult to see a credible path to a win even if he cheats tbqh.

Biden can be almost certain of a win if he wins Florida. “Almost certain” doesn’t mean trump will concede or that the networks will declare it, and assumes the postal count in PA/MI is allowed to proceed fairly. But you can stop worrying about Biden losing fair and square if he gets Florida on the night.

There’s a remote chance the networks might be able to call it for Biden on the night https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/12/biden-trump-2020-election-night-428856

I am holding onto the hope that all the fears about weeks of court challenges and recounts are overblown because the decision is going to be so clear Nov. 3 that everyone just says the hell with it. Which I think is possible. There's a huge chunk of the GOP ready to cut him loose.

Fake views. They buy thousands of TVs, hundreds - and just turn them on, walk out of the room.

some version of this is actually kinda true though lol

I just saw a posterboard sign with this thread’s title and a “— Joe Biden” attribution on a student rental house while walking to drop off my ballot

long xpost but Ronald Reagan Jr. is “not afraid of burning in hell”, he’s our man

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7INIhD9P0Pw

The nodding woman I mentioned last night:

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/woman-behind-trump-her-nod-013553335.html

THEY ALWAYS STACK THE DECK.....Biden's ABC Town Hall Questioners Include Former Obama Speechwriter and Wife of Former PA Dem Candidate - ZERO Questions About Hunter's Emails via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/jwwesxajmT

— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) October 16, 2020

Never gets less weird to see this stuff from the host of Love Connection or a secondary character on Love Boat who has 450k Q followers or whatever.

lol it's so cute how they keep thinking anyone gives a fuck about Hunter's emails

Woolery Bully

Chuck Foolery

lots of people will think Hunter's emails are vitally important, but that's only because they are being fed that line hourly by the outrage peddlers they pay close attention to. they are a lost cause in terms of ever getting them to think about issues that can't be cast in terms of a soap opera plot.

yeah but none of those people were ever not voting for Trump

he's just too up his own ass this time around with right wing twittersphere garbage

I never listen to radio outrage peddlers, but the other night I was scrolling through the AM band in my car trying to find the baseball game, and came across one of those guys yelling so hard about Hunter’s emails I thought he was going to have a stroke. I don’t know how listeners subject themselves to that much vitriol. I couldn’t do it even if it was anti-Trump radio, it’s just so toxic.

was probably jackin' it during the call, you mistook rage for ecstacy

same reason Dan Bongino has a following despite having clearly achieved brain death ten years ago

I wonder if it was Mark Levin you were listening to. That guy always sounded like he was gonna have a heart attack. Pls calm down sir

just checked the early vote tracker site Ned posted

16% of Minnesota's population has voted already

that is nuts. what percent usually votes in total in an election campaign?

I really hope someone does Trump era trading cards of all the weirdos and grifters and has-beens who hitched their wagon to this flaming sceptic tank

Pelosi and Trump go a full year without speaking

xpost MN has high voter turnout, 75% in 2016

so if my math is correct, about 21% of 2016 electorate has already voted

and tomorrow is Saturday

Pelosi and Trump go a full year without speaking

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, October 16, 2020

I haven't spoken to Pelosi either

Maybe it will be a new tradition to yell about emails every election. That way, sign shirt and mug producers can get a head start on their "what about the emails?!?" merch and the "who" and "why" can get figured out sometime further down the road.

I really hope someone does Trump era trading cards of all the weirdos and grifters and has-beens who hitched their wagon to this flaming sceptic tank

Hey, I've got a mint Lewandoswki that I will trade for a Scaramucci.

No deal, man, but I'll give you two Bannons and a fair-condition Parscale.

The ultimate prize - a rookie Omarosa - eludes me still.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/3f/dc/983fdc2e70445ae72d9a6fbfbe177aa5.jpg

(Just noticed "sceptic tank." Actually I'm more stoic with a neoplatonist strain. But ymmv.)

I've got a holographic first edition Barr

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kPoAAOSwD0VZzYAf/s-l1600.jpg

Your taxpayer dollars are paying for Trump to deliver a speech in Florida today in which he's blasting Hunter Biden and smearing the Biden family as a "crime family." #projection pic.twitter.com/cMG8GMOQdm

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 16, 2020

fucking fanfic bullshit

Doesn't work without the alliteration of 'Clinton Crime.'

their excuse for losing is going to be "media in the tank for Biden/ignored Hunter's emails"

Doesn't work without the alliteration of 'Clinton Crime.'

Biden Balderdash

pfft the balderdash is a bunch of malarkey

lol at Biden crime family.

Get that man an eye-patch, stat!

Joe Bribin’

DUBLIN — Laurita Blewitt knows how deep Joe Biden’s Irish roots run. When the White House contacted her to help put together a family lunch ahead of the then-vice president’s 2016 visit to Ireland, she struggled to limit the crowd.

“He’s loads of cousins living here, in and around Ballina, and that’s just one side of his Irish family,” said Blewitt, 37, a fourth cousin who lives near the County Mayo tourist town along the River Moy...

Why isn't Biden playing up this angle more? American love the Irish. He should be stopping the train in every rust belt town for a pint of Guinness and a plate of mushy malarkey peas.

https://media.irishpost.co.uk/uploads/2020/02/09171441/ronald-reagan-irish-pub.jpg