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

xp single polls aren't very useful of course

this amtrak thing seems to be .. going nowhere fast haha

"We are concerned that the Biden campaign's use of Amtrak's charter train redirected Amtrak's scarce resources during a time of record losses, employee layoffs, and service cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic," they wrote.

jfc they have no shame

"We are concerned that the Biden campaign's use of Amtrak's charter train redirected Amtrak's scarce resources during a time of record losses, employee layoffs, and service cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic," they wrote.

jfc they have no shame

xp single polls aren't very useful of course

― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:30 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

not on their own, but that specific pollster is generally considered the best for state races and that's not a huge outlier wrt the results from spammier pollsters in IA, which adds up to some confidence.

Lol and Amtrak's resources are scarce because... ???

This is "why are you hitting yourself?" While wearing a nice suit instead of Garanimals.

Meanwhile, Amtrak is great because you can drink the whole time, not just when the beverage cart comes by. Amtrak is like planes except slower and everyone is in first class.

Seriously trains are awesome, everybody take more trains

Early vote count now almost 41 million, and Elections Project now starting to show breakdown of vote origins on the main page:

Total Mail Ballots: 29,425,844
In-Person Votes: 11,502,917

Also per the site, four states have yet to report any votes -- Arkansas and Hawaii on the lower population end, but also Missouri and of course New York, which will cause the numbers to really ramp up next week.

Why does everyone care about Iowa? It has like three electoral ones.

Why does everyone care about Iowa? It has like three electoral ones.

As go the children of the corn, so goes America

if Trump loses Iowa the GOP is gonna get blown off the map

yeah Iowa is a bellwether... if it goes for Biden then it suggests there is in fact a blue wave happening. Also the Senate seat is a pretty essential pickup for Dems!

also, speaking personally here, it's important to watch those states because if things appear to be close in a state like Iowa on election night I think you can pretty much assume its over? like everyone else here I'm terrified about what's gonna happen in the wake of Nov 3rd if it's not immediately clear that Biden won

Uhhhhh look at this picture of Mitch McConnell's hands that @lizzyratner found on AP pic.twitter.com/Y4LJL7mAdh

— Annie Shields (@anastasiakeeley) October 21, 2020

What the fuck

Trump has taped an interview with Jason Whitlock.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 21, 2020

can't wait for a 20 minute discourse on Bojanglin from these two mind wizards.

Should have made it a threeway summit with Clay Travis

Seriously trains are awesome, everybody take more trains

Give us lots more passenger trains, so we can take them!

Prediction: I think a big big scandal is going to emerge about misappropriation of Trump campaign funds.

Mark Meadows is already catching heat for spending donation dollars on personal expenses even after he left his elected office to be Trump's COS

Good. It'll give Trump someone to sue and cast blame on when he's at loose ends after losing office.

And speaking of

Sen. Blunt, being — very blunt: Question: Any sense of why Meadows came to the lunch? To sell you guys?

BLUNT: I don't think so, I don't think so.... maybe he just needed to get out of the White House.

— Kristin Wilson (@kristin__wilson) October 21, 2020

Should have made it a threeway summit with Clay Travis

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:25 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Clay Travis = underrated piece of shit in American media

what states begin counting mail ballots on election night

it's all kinds of fucked up though, the're basically going to be saying "you didn't count fast enough, we won" as their attempt to cry foul, even when it's obvious millions of legit mail ballots have been cast

New Jersey and Vermont have joined Texas in an elite club: States where turnout is already more than 50% of the total vote four years ago. https://t.co/TWxouT87Ve

— Dave Weigel, Re-Animator (@daveweigel) October 21, 2020

Mitt Romney did not vote for Trump. https://t.co/BHNtD6X6zY

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 21, 2020

But maybe he did, we'll never know

As much as watching Trump eat shit will be a glorious experience, equally glorious will be watching as all of the people who gave their time and blood and sweat and tears to aid his reelection effort are torn to shreds by Trump himself. I don't know how people haven't figured out by now that having anything to do with him is ultimately thankless as all hell.

Mitt finally got his revenge
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161129212927-trump-romney-full-169.jpg

Kayleigh McEnany presenting Lesley Stahl (@60Minutes) with some of the many things we’ve done for Healthcare. Lesley had no idea! pic.twitter.com/8bfIxkFiXt

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 21, 2020

so uh the book is clearly blank, right? look at the final image

it looks like a sheet cake

what states begin counting mail ballots on election night

― eat my room temperature ass (Neanderthal), Wednesday, October 21, 2020 2:37 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/13/us/politics/when-votes-counted.html

i.e. PA and WI will be the last to start counting.

FL and AZ are the ones to watch on the night. they should finish that night, and if they go biden enough for the networks to call them then it's over.

it looks like a shit cake.

they spent at *least* a hundred bucks on that empty book pic.twitter.com/cmt3onPZVm

— kilgore trout, a crushed algorithm (@KT_So_It_Goes) October 21, 2020

Back in early September, Trump weighed spending as much as $100 million of his own money on his reelection bid, according to Bloomberg News. When asked by reporters if he planned to self-fund part of his run, Trump said, “If I have to, I would.”

But the money has not materialized. Trump has contributed just over $8,000 to his campaign this election cycle, according to FEC data. It’s a huge difference from 2016, when Trump contributed $66 million of his own money to his first presidential bid.

Eight grand. Probably just the change from his sofa and junk drawer, taken to Coinstar.

https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/522077-borat-cameras-captured-giuliani-in-hotel-bedroom-scene-reports?

https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/522077-borat-cameras-captured-giuliani-in-hotel-bedroom-scene-reports

https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/522077-borat-cameras-captured-giuliani-in-hotel-bedroom-scene-reports?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=16033067828979&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fin-the-know%2Fin-the-know%2F522077-borat-cameras-captured-giuliani-in-hotel-bedroom-scene-reports

I fucking give up

xp non-NYT link for how different states start counting early votes:

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vopp-table-16-when-absentee-mail-ballot-processing-and-counting-can-begin.aspx

xpost All you really need:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek3ofgRU0AAebjP?format=png&name=900x900

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-compromising-scene-in-new-borat-film

xpost eww omg

Neanderthal, also check out this Politico thingy

https://politico-dispatch.simplecast.com/episodes/why-election-night-could-be-a-nightmare-from-trump

Meanwhile

Should have made it a threeway

uh, Imma stop you there

Added summit to that but I really wanted to leave it out.

damn, giuliani

thank you YMP

and Karl, and caek!

But it wasn't a dream. It was a place! And you and you and you...and you were there...and Rudy Giuliani was there, with a hand down his pants

http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/blade-runner-esper-photo.jpg