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

Elsewhere, ranting away.

"They're getting tired of the pandemic, aren't they? Getting tired of the pandemic. You turn on CNN, that's all they cover," Trump says in Prescott. He says CNN is trying to suppress voting. "People aren't buying it CNN, you dumb bastards."

— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) October 19, 2020

I know Biden really doesn't have anything to gain here but I kinda wish he'd call Trump's bluff on the debate.

"People aren't buying it CNN, you dumb bastards."

broken clock strikes again!

Don't worry; Trump has a plan.

Trump will bring up Biden's ties to Ukraine at debate, adviser says

A senior adviser to the Trump campaign said on Monday that President Trump will not let it slide if Thursday’s debate moderator NBC News’ Kristen Welker fails to question Joe Biden about his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine that were exposed by The Post last week.

“If Kristen Welker, the moderator, doesn’t bring it up, I think you’re pretty safe to assume that the president will. Again, these are real simple questions,” Jason Miller said on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria.”

I really want Trump to pound the podium, interrupt constantly to ask why nobody's talking about Biden and Ukraine, and eventually just start slobbering and shouting "Burisma! Burisma!" over and over again...ultimately forcing Biden to say, "Ukraine? You mean the whole thing you were impeached over?"

he will

Just realized that Trump going off on Fauci was a response to a 60 Minutes interview (maybe preemptive, not sure). So evidently it's not a leak, he wanted it out there. More A-1 strategizing.

i think he wants to do a debate. He just doesn't want to do another one where covid is the main subject, which, well, fair enough, i'd also want my responsibility for the deaths of 100,000 people to be off the agenda.

"Wah, it is so unfair that this debate should touch on such left-field, gotcha subjects as fighting Covid, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership!"

He doesn't want to debate, he wants to berate.

also that letter is a bit unhinged but it doesn't read like trump dictated it, and i'm skeptical he even realizes covid is a bad subject for him, so i think an adult on his team is trying to do this. i'm sure he wants to debate. he thinks he's good at it.

I mean, he was even complaining about a Lincoln Project ad he saw last night. (So, say what you want about them, they are apparently continually good at getting in his brain.)

He's irate, he won't debate, but will berate, a big mistake, the truth dilate, special date, the animal we ate, at ninety-eight we all rotate.
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Can we interrupt this to laugh about Jeffrey Toobin pulling out his dick on a Zoom call?

loooooooooool

Trump just debuted a new attack line against Biden: “He wants to listen to Dr. Fauci.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 19, 2020

Does he know he doesn't have to wait till election day - that if he's so sick of being president, he can just quit? I mean, he won't get to declare bankruptcy, which is his usual squid-ink strategy, but he could just walk away...

if everyone in the US, including children and especially infants, could contribute $1 each, we could pay him $350M to leave a few months early

it's the flat bribe, $1 each across all income levels

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Jeffrey Toobin is practically the last CNN person I like...or maybe was.

If he quits he doesn't get unemployment.

Jeffrey Toobin is practically the last CNN person I like...or maybe was.

I liked his Patty Hearst book from 2016.

I've read four or five of his books, and they were all really good.

Now imagine him writing them all with his dick out.

"It seems to me this is policy-based evidence-making rather than evidence-based policymaking,"

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Re; Lincoln Party:

“Never Trumpers” are key to Biden’s Lead... This group of Republicans currently voting for Biden account for 4% of all voters nationwide. If they were voting for President Trump instead, the race would be dead even. #Elections 2020 https://t.co/rJFVlUapcw via @politicaliq

— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) October 19, 2020

Rasmussen...that seems very specious to me, that there are that many of them.

they're no more key to his lead than anyone else who also voted for clinton four years ago.

there's no reason to pay more attention to them than the (much bigger) groups of people who have changed from staying home to voting, or from obama to trump.

and there is no need to pander to them. they have no one else to vote for.

Laptop is just the new email. It's a word. It is memorable. It alludes to shadiness. It'll catch on a bit probably. COVID? Yes, sure but what about the laptop? Where is the laptop? When are we going to talk about the laptop? We. need. answers. about. this. LAPTOP! It's so catchy and quotable like a good Seinfeld gag. Nothing deeper than that matters at all.

oh lmao it's scott rasmussen.

well, if that pollster is known for anything it's inflating Republican numbers.

Final weeks of 2016: massive Dem denial about district-level polling that showed Trump breaking through (see replies to this tweet).

Final weeks of 2020: massive Dem paranoia, even though district-level polling consistently shows Trump running well behind his '16 margins. https://t.co/2oAGSUfRU1

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 19, 2020

“Scott Adkins,” Trump said, mispronouncing the doctor’s name. “If you look at Scott, Dr. Scott, he’s from — great guy — from Stanford, he will tell you.”

would have assumed Trump gave up on DTV actioners without Eric around to FFWD through the talking parts, but it's good to know the pandemic is in a safe pair of fists

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maybe he just saw this series and wants to keep him onside

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Avengement!

Can I just

Toobin Snake Boogie

That's all, sorry

Those are all movie posters for 30 Rock, right?

Trump's idea of the Adkins diet is very different from mine.

I watched Avengement last week. It's on Netflix. It's pretty good.

wait, why did Toobin do that?

Toobin's explanation that he thought the video was muted and no one could see him doesn't really explain why he did that, but only why he thought he wouldn't be publicly embarrassed by doing it.

It was over Zoom, he probably figured he would only be *virtually* embarrassed.

he probably thought he could get away with having zoom running in the background while being muted and having his camera off. so he felt like he could do whatever he wanted and no one would known. and from there, you know, click a few links, have another glass of wine, one thing leads to another

that's the most innocent explanation i can think of and it's still pretty gross. the other option is that it was in some sense intentional.

Maybe he was just *being* a dick and contemptuously making the jerk off motion.

def don't need two threads for Toobin's dick

Especially when the biggest dick in the world is already the subject of several threads.

#onedick

Barely worth half a thread from what I heard.

No need to minimize the zoom window, if you know what I mean.

Wait, what the fuck is all this

Wait, I am actually most confused by this part of the story. What exactly are they doing over there? pic.twitter.com/h4W5fUjuYx

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) October 19, 2020

"We're too good to play D&D! Anyway, you get to be Pompeo this time."

i assume they were doing something like this for the #content

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/08/06/election-2020-war-games-trump-vs-biden-race-show-risk-chaos/5526553002/