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

be a beer you can drink in tremendous volume with the rest of the rugby club

none better

Guinness is delicious, I just drank four of them

Don’t particularly like biden even to get a beer with but I’m reading the supposed death blow to bidens campaign and hoping I can be as good a dad as him, so great job giuliani etc.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/texts-show-raw-intimate-exchange-between-joe-and-hunter-biden/

yeah that brought me to tears

same, and I mostly hate the guy

Guineas used to have an ice cold option available at the bar for a number of years.specific cold tap version.
& it does seem to.matter about the pouring process. Can't just pour it straight like a lager or something.

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HRxeomGpTQ0bqc8tBk8_eQ--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--/http://41.media.tumblr.com/7a7c84b944adac115d488ca47dd7187a/tumblr_inline_o41d3sd94I1tcrq9x_1280.jpg

Maybe Biden doesn't play up the Irish thing because it means playing up the Catholic thing which doesn't seem like it's in the plus column for presidents.

daring stuff from Clinton with the half-pint of Murphy's

“I feel your pint!”

Guinness is irredeemably bad, and I've had good pours at good pubs. Still is a shitty stout!

Catholic thing which doesn't seem like it's in the plus column for presidents.

Also not historically popular with yer Guinness overlords.

I haven't had a Guinness in years -- I'm not much of a beer drinker -- but I won't turn it down, you savages.

*non-drinker stays quiet*

Guinness is bad. It's like a version of a thing for people who think they like that thing but don't really know what that thing is because all they can ever find is that thing they think is the thing. Like Budweiser.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 16, 2020 10:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Oooh tell me more Professor Beer on second thought eat my room temperature ass

Bragging about being as beer snob in 2020 is so lame it's incredible

Like who hasn't had like 1,000 different craft beers at this point get over yourself

Ha! I just don't like the beer! I assume it's one of the only stouts people can name off the top of their head, including me, because it's so well marketed. You want beer snob, my wife is in beer marketing and keeps telling me the hard seltzer train shows no sign of slowing down. Now, if there's anything that can unite us all it's an aversion to hard seltzer.

I like Guinness! It's fine. I know, I have had other stouts. I dunno

Hard seltzer I'm good for one, but I drank a bunch once and my stomach was a wreck, it's so acidic. There is a local beer company Fulton that started making one I liked better, it's way less flavor, kind of like a mineral water with a twist of lime, etc but alcoholic

But yeah more than one I can't do

My job is done here

cold dark piss vs room temperature ass

if only we had Adrian here for the swing vote

I just remembered that once as a gift I had a custom ice cream flavor made for my wife based on her preferences, and I think Guinness played a role. It was a chocolate milk stout with shortbread and toffee, and it was delicious. Could have been any stout, I guess. The ice cream maker was Joe Swanberg's wife! She loved the result, but shortly thereafter moved on from her hobby.

Is that from that recent Sing “☮️” the Times reissue?
xp

lol, ums, does that make you a ... hard seltzer snob?! ;)

Ugh, Sign “☮️” the Times

Did you italicize a peace sign? I didn't know you could do that.

In the sense that the peace sign was inside the italics, yes. What would have been really cool is if there had been some sort of affine transformation of it.

there was

(Googles affine, learns a new word)

Now imaging some unreleased Westerberg/Nelson collabo and a recently discovered setlist from the 7th Street Entry featuring the letters “RTA.” #OneThread

there was

Vote total update over 25 million as I suspected. That’s now over half the early vote of 2016, approaching 1/5th the overall vote of 2016 and 1/8th of the current total electorate.

So basically this bellend ranting on about how postal votes are all fraudulent has meant way more people voting in person, thereby making his cunning plan to contest the results that much more difficult?

Ums, just to clarify that I'm definitely not a beer snob. I drink malt liquor on the regular. If you gave me a choice between Guinness and an Axe Head or Steel Reserve, I'd choose the latter every time-- I just think Guinness is bad! I'm not one for stouts, tho, unless they're Imperial.

Yeah it’s worth noting that while there certainly have been mail votes in that total, of course (or direct dropoffs of ballots), there’s been a hell of a lot of in person voting, with numbers that will increase as more early voting options open up, like in Florida next week. I’ve been wondering more than once about how Trump and company’s rumblings about poll watchers on Election Day, while obviously horrible, are also missing out on the minor fact that a huge amount of voters are basically cutting them off at the pass. Certainly there’s going to be a lot of voting on the day but I do wonder how much of it will essentially be banked and done.

I think what’ll be telling is the numbers for next week. We went from about 8 or so million votes on Monday morning to 25 million this morning; allowing for slower weekend numbers, the question is how many votes are in place by this time next week. If it’s somehow 45 million or so — just shy of the 2016 early vote total — with 10 further days to go, then that’s a heck of a shift.

Worth noting, meantime, that various figures on polling Twitter are hesitant if not skeptical at saying this is clearly a Biden slam-dunk, and that’s fair. But there’s been an increase in noting at how this can change likely voter projections, and how numbers are starting to match up to some degree. I stick with my guess we’re seeing general increased enthusiasm but with a clear bent nonetheless.

One other thing: it’s also been argued in a couple of spots that enthusiasm itself might not mean an actual increased vote total in the end. Which would be interesting if depressing since that would mean about a third of the electorate still didn’t vote. Now I’m hardly expecting 100% but it’d be nice to see somewhat higher numbers. Anecdotally that certainly seems to be the case but we won’t know until we do.

guinness is good, you ipafucks

i hate IPAs

i like Guinness

I like stouts

I like butts

I like like

ipacacs would be a good put down.

I like stouts, just not that one. Who owns Guinness, Diageo?

Jim Guinness iirc

James "Jim" Guinness.

yerac otm

Kip Guinness

So the mail carrier in Pittsburgh that discarded bags of mail is a Q guy?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/usps-worker-suspected-throwing-away-230656498.html

A good polling Twitter thread re what early voting and party ID might or might not mean. Again, think of these totals as measures of enthusiasm rather than clear signs, at least for now. We’ll know if it’s otherwise soon enough:

You'll see a lot of early voting statistics out there that cite the partisan makeup of early voters, like, say, a D+15 among absentees in Florida, based on registration.
But remember this: the presidential preference of these voters is even more skewed than the party reg.

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) October 17, 2020

Notable (Harris being of course the county where Houston is; Abbott’s clear shenanigans at trying to limit early voting seems to have just sparked a backlash and response in kind):

Not out of the question some large TX counties like Harris could exceed their *total* 2016 votes cast before Election Day. Just massive. https://t.co/tDQuoKE4Fs

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 17, 2020

omg, early voting numbers are correlating with the spike in covid, voting causes covid, stay at home!

can i just say there will never be a better us politics thread title

especially since I keep thinking it's a quote from "Housequake."

The beauty is still on duty, unfortunately.