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

Pushing back is more than saying "cmon really?". Anyone can do that. A professional journalist should at the least be able to say "you're wrong…and here's why!".

I think she does do that, as possible. But if she didn't eventually move on she'd get exactly one question asked, over and over, and it would never get answered. What's the Mitch Hedberg joke? "The thing that's depressing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."

I just want to say that I compulsively read and indeed post in this thread even though it makes my mood worse and accomplishes nothing BUT I did not know that perfecft Mitch Hedberg joke and so thank you for redeeming my practice for me, Josh.

He starts whining immediately about everything she says.

It's awesome that he's tweeting out all his worst moments, good job!

"We hardly even knew Barron had it" (covid, that is)

I'm sure you barely noticed!

If there were a fake ballot box, like those Letters to Santa boxes I see every Christmas, where I could drop my own fake ballots every day until election day, I would. Again and again and again until he's gone. Same for Santa, tbh.

you've described the SB system

tweeting that out is giving me flashbacks to Don Jr.'s "here's the actual email where I was colluding with the Russians" stunt

best play would just to tweet "covfefe" again after the interview ends

"full, flowing and 'magnificently brilliant'"

Next month's title, if "You're fired!" doesn't get it.

i swear to god, this is what they're mailing out two weeks before the election
http://i.imgur.com/0vxsNEw.png

he obviously leaked this because LS said (of the Biden crime family stuff), "Sir, this is 60 Minutes. We can't air accusations that are not verified."

okay now that's pathetic, holy crap

Lol that is the most insane shit I've ever seen. Two weeks before the election!

maybe our greatest accomplishments were the friends we didn't make along the way

Mollie Hemingway (writing in The Federalist) really appreciates how thoughtfully Trump has done nothing about the pandemic. It is among his greatest accomplishments!

it's like me every weekend of not really cleaning my house, maybe i'd feel better if every sunday night i said "but think of all the things you DIDN'T get done!"

A stranger's just a friend you haven't met.

trump 2020: he's done nothing and will continue to do nothing.

I have never seen Boyhood (and never will). Apparently the song from this Lincoln Project commercial features in it.

A Democratic aide told me to check out this ad — saying they thought it was actually pretty smart — and what they didn’t know is that it not only appeals to guys who want to make their fathers proud, but guys who love this song and still think “Boyhood” deserved Best Picture. https://t.co/bbDblEZYa2

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) October 22, 2020

It's all about the notes you don't play.

That Lincoln Project ad was like every ad for Ford or Chevy pickup trucks, only more so.

the looming threat of authoritarianism is more like a ghost note, i guess

I'd imagine the number of regretful 2016 Trump voters who think Boyhood should have won best picture must be around 14 ppl

http://quoteparrot.com/images/quote/i-am-a-ford-not-a-lincoln-129771.jpg

- Bob Marley

fuck the dicks who run LP forever and ever, but I do appreciate that sentiment.

one of the few ‘powerful’ social media posts I saw after Trump won was an ex-cousin-in-law eloquently bemoaning how his Trump-voting parents had Raised Him Better Than This and how shook he was by the victory. resonated like hell for me, anyway.

the commercial itself is eh, but it ain’t really made for me

Trump is the best musician, because he’s never played a note — on any instrument!

the commercial itself is eh, but it ain’t really made for me

Trump is the best musician, because he’s never played a note — on any instrument!

Trump is the best musician, because he’s never played a note — on any instrument!

Ugh, sorry for double post ... it wasn’t that good a joke

--Bob Marley

It's the notes he doesn't play

Oh, sorry, that joke was already made, my bad

That would be a good line for Biden tonight, as long as he didn't glitch and say it 3 times.

Whether it’s not seizing power at a time nearly all other executives have, not launching wars in the manner of his predecessors, or not ignoring the campaign promises he made, some of President Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishments are what he hasn’t done.

hate to be pedantic here, but you can't include doing something in a list of things he did not do. framing "doing" something as "not ignoring" does not count. or to put it in mollie hemingway's terms, it does succeed in not counting

Sleepy HD

it's a triple negative! (I think)

That debate is tonight? Gosh. Is he going to toddle out of that one, too?

look, i haven't done single thing here. for example, i have not ignored my impulse to kick you door down and take your stereo

Here are my updated demographic splits in average crosstabs of live-interview national polls, w/ new @QuinnipiacPoll thrown into the October mix.

A few breathtaking splits:
- Biden now +25 w/ women
- Biden now +10 w/ seniors pic.twitter.com/XCbybZJdJu

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 22, 2020

In my view, the biggest "tell" Trafalgar etc. are off the mark? Private, district-level GOP polling conducted to make spending decisions backs up what we're seeing in averages of live-interview polls: Trump doing terribly w/ college whites/women into October.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 22, 2020

Trump doing terribly w/ college

This is possibly where it all went wrong.

I'd like to think that was a telegram sent back in the day.

"Trump doing terribly w/ college. Stop. Suffering from dysentery. Stop. Low on supplies. Stop. Send napkins. Stop."

This seems like a good ad:

I’ve spent my entire career fighting for the middle class and standing up to the abuse of power.

Donald Trump has spent his entire career looking out for himself and abusing his power. pic.twitter.com/Vie5CP9wq7

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 22, 2020

I can't even watch it based on that disingenuous lede.

Sorry Joe, but you held a powerful political position for decades, and were second in command of the most powerful country in earth. You ARE power.

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There’s also the careful omission of the most vulnerable people in “fighting for the middle class”

To be fair, MBNA was in the middle class of enormous banks. We had to protect them from the scourge of individual bankruptcies.