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

i thought that last line was about a cat!

ohhh thanks sic

i am reposting this favorite cat video i put on 77
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3-sie5pNUE

This is now the cat thread

My wife has the gift of premonition.
Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, “unauthorized foods” and stored water. They said we had been “reported”.
Becca awoke crying.
What happened to our freedom? She asked.
What indeed.

— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) October 23, 2020

Bring back witch trials

NOT TODAY, SLIPPERS

Not sure if this has been covered already but I keep checking to see if this gets deleted but apparently it's real?

Pres. Trump is fighting for YOU! Here are some of his priorities for a 2nd term:

*Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon
*Send the 1st Manned Mission to Mars
*Build World’s Greatest Infrastructure System
*Establish National High-Speed Wireless Internet Network

— GOP (@GOP) October 23, 2020

omg Christians are a menace. Even the reasonable ones, because they normalize Xtianity for the batshit ones.

i will vote for this if the mission to mars is manned by donald trump

that's the guy that livestreamed from auschwitz i think

stop making me like you dude

Ending the present ongoing mass casualty event should probably make it into your top four. https://t.co/cH8UfKfZfp

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) October 23, 2020

gil scott heron had a song about this

Becca's lucky, I've dreaded waking up for four years now.

What that GOP twitter account will talk about in a few days:

"Despite Democrats’ procedural maneuvering, Barrett will almost certainly still be confirmed to the supreme court in a nearly party-line vote on Monday."

*Establish National High-Speed Wireless Internet Network

lol

going through a whole term and announcing priorities for the second one that you have never once mentioned before, ten days before the election

Sure thing. Nobody in his base would refuse a 5G connection.

Pretty sure he's referring to the all-American 6G prototype, which automatically dechips and devaccinates.

fuck everything, we're doing six Gs

i thought that last line was about a cat!

ha :D

i thought that last line was about a cat!

https://deadstate.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-27-at-7.35.41-AM.png

those are all failing my anti-Turing test. clearly written by the author of the tweet

is this the first time you've encountered this Twitter account

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, October 23, 2020 2:51 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

hmm, I was not familiar with this person at all but part of me did worry this might be the case. bummer, though they're still funny.

multiple xposts

Cats are horrible for a ton of species that are part of ecosystems that cats don't belong in, they have no predators to keep them in check

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45588088

'Croydon cat killer' mystery solved by police

The so-called Croydon cat killer does not exist, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.
The force launched an investigation in 2015 into reports of mutilated cats in Croydon and the surrounding area.
Twenty-five post-mortem examinations were carried out but found no evidence of "human involvement".
Scotland Yard said injuries inflicted on cats were "likely to be the result of predation or scavenging by wildlife on cats killed in vehicle collisions".
Foxes are believed to be behind some of the mutilations.

Cats are horrible for a ton of species that are part of ecosystems that cats don't belong in, they have no predators to keep them in check

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_meat

cats are weirdos

Didn’t Germans call cats “roof rabbits” when they had to eat them because of famine or war?

good band name

I think "Roof Rabbits" was the nickname of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry that Teddy Roosevelt served in in the Spanish-American war. Or, you know, pretty sure. Like, 98%, just leaving a tiny bit of room for error.

Anyway.

On the 2016 timeline, today was the day of the Comey letter. Congrats to everyone on reaching the east coast close of business.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 23, 2020

we're still on the 2016 timeline stay woke

Far-right dipshit charged with shooting at police station during MN protests. Let's all pretend to be shocked.

someone from Mpls I follow on Twitter posted something I am feeling very much right now: fuck you to all the "reasonable" know-it-alls on twitter who were constantly gaslighting people like me (who lives literally 6 blocks from the police station that burned) about how we were paranoid when, for instance, i would see a car with indiana plates w/four white dudes driving past curfew down my extremely quiet street after curfew at 10pm on a sunday night

roof rabbits vs. lot lizards

If you're eating either one, times are tough.

Feeling that, ums. Although don’t forget to add some dickhead from high school who never leaves Maple Grove sharing Candace Owens videos and their opinions on Minneapolis, a place they haven’t been to without Vikings tickets.

What is happening pic.twitter.com/ZUt29ObBL9

— Blake News (@blakehounshell) October 23, 2020

welp pack it in

Ah, found the one single-issue Hunter Biden Scandal voter.

Biden: "I'm the cream of the crop, I rise to the top, I never eat a pig, cos a pig is a cop"

So if they media covered the nonstory more thoroughly, he'd vote for Biden. Got it.

The media fantasy fed to me was not the media fantasy I like, and I like fascism, tits, and spraytans

Joe Bodge and Dorene Heselton closed Roselynn Homemade Ice Cream Breakfast and Lunch in Epping, New Hampshire, on Sunday. A sign on their door now reads, "What Happened to Live Free or Die."

"I have decided, and I'll be honest with you, the sheer volume of my customers and people supporting me believe the same thing — we can either exist in fear, and hope to not die, or we can live knowing eventually we're all going to die," Bodge told NBC News on Thursday.

and by "eventually" we mean "next month"

feel like they should make a US-centric remake of 28 Days Later.

within a half hour the population of the US is 500 people cos everybody refused to quarantine and got eaten by Ragers

Would buy a ticket tbh.

funny how when a Muslim woman shows up wearing a hijab at McDonald's, live free or die crowd gets scared enough to call 911.

https://trumpcovidplan.com/

A note of appreciation for Ned's interest in sustaining the thread with updates on the voting tallies, including special oddities like that Florida early vote vs Florida Trump vote point. Not drawing any conclusions from the data, but it's interesting in its own right, and certainly heartening that neither the pandemic nor four years of political exhaustion have suppressed the vote in general.

I'm interested in Ned's postings of the tallies too, it's very encouraging

It's nice to have him around more