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

I plan on Wednesday morning doing what I always do on Wednesday mornings -- my laundry.

I have a doctor's appointment at 8:30 the morning of November 4. TBD whether I'll be pestering him for a powerful opioid prescription or not.

(Got my flu shot today, for those of you who find human health as interesting as cats.)

It's important to protect your cats against delayed feeding resulting from human influenza.

I took both Tuesday and Wednesday off. That Day After in 2016 was the one of the worst days I ever had at where I work, a regional business newspaper.

This year, I'll be voting in person since Election Day is also my birthday. I'm calculating that I've got three such days in my lifetime: the first time I voted in 1992, next month, and my 75th birthday in 2048. I guess 2076 could also be on the table, but a 103-year-old man probably shouldn't be voting for next week's breakfast menu, much less the next president.

I plan to spend the evening drinking a bottle of Four Roses while pacing in front of the television all night, pointing dramatically at the numbers and scaring the children.

I’m refusing all meetings on Tuesday in pathetic protest my company’s refusal to make it a holiday

Governor Abbott would probably prefer a Democratic President, since he can noisily rail against the intrusive feds again

Remember Jade Helm?

Good times, good times.

Governor Abbott Mitch McConnell would probably prefer a Democratic President, since he can noisily rail against the intrusive feds again

I ain't foolin' either. McConnell, Cornyn, and the other GOP solons probably want a breather as much as the rest of us. Now they can pivot back to deficit hawk mode.

McConnell looks like he might be dead by the end of the year tbh so I imagine he’s particularly keen to get things over with.

I’m refusing all meetings on Tuesday in pathetic protest my company’s refusal to make it a holiday

Local field organizers for the Biden campaign in Miami Springs get surprise visit from @BarackObama. pic.twitter.com/IQWGdqFKc7

— Bianca Padró Ocasio (@BiancaJoanie) October 24, 2020

Say what you will about the guy, but just his silhouette walking down the street in shirtsleeves seemed downright iconic.

Anyway, how many back and forths has that been in Texas? Abbott reduced the number of boxes, then a court overturned, then another court reversed the reversal and he reduced the numbers again, then a court overturned *that* and let the boxes come back, and now it's reversed *again*? I'm confused where we stand there.

After the 2016 election there was such a pall everywhere I went, but 4 years of Trump plus Covid has cast a perma-pall on everything. The biggest bummer is that if he loses this time we can't have a party. America needs a break.

I'm sure you're all just dying to read another one of these:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/24/more-enthusiastic-than-2016-voters-standing-by-donald-trump

thanks I hate it

Texas is very restrictive on who can vote absentee, the one box/county move was more for show than anything - you have to be 65+ or out of the area for the entirety of early voting and Election Day, the signature match on registration vs ballot is supposed to be pretty hardcore.

I can well believe that, among the voters who thought Trump was a great nominee in 2016, he has delivered them to a fever pitch of incitement excitement.

if you vote with an erection the vote still only counts once, maybe zero if the pages are stuck together

They might feel a sudden need to "tuck in their shirts," ifyoukniwwhatimean

Just cast my early vote in the outskirts of Philadelphia County, PA. It was...kind of jarring.

If you have option of *early voting*, do it!! If my experience was at all representative, Nov 3rd may be insane.

Short 🧵 1/5

— Alex Imas (@alexoimas) October 24, 2020

Just a reminder to report any poll interference to 866-OUR-VOTE. 866ourvote.com

Sorry, LIES. 866ourvote.org

I'm just gonna call 976-EVIL.

I attended my first Cubanas Con Biden roadside rally -- in the heart of my deep red part of unincorporated Miami-Dade County. I actually agreed to wear the Baby Trump costume (fresh out of the box) for about twenty minutes. At first the size of the Trump rally on the other side of the park dispirited me; then on our side more and people arrived with flags and signs. I counted 110 people, everyone socially distanced with plenty of space and masked (at the Trump event it looked like more than half the crowd said fuck off to the masks). We got "Commuistas!" yelled at us by the usual stereotypes: every MAGA-ite must own or lease the biggest truck he can find. But the number of honks, thumbs-ups, whoops -- encouraging.

Yeah there were more trucker rallies for Trump around Philly today

Even if the polls (in aggregate) are overestimating Biden by 6.5 percent, he would still win.

― fretless porpentine (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:22 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

YMP, I'm playing with the Wash Post widget and I'm getting:

1. Uniform error for Trump of 5.5% = 279 Biden; 259 Trump.
2. Uniform error for Trump of 6% = 259 Biden; 279 Trump.

PA's 20 ev is the difference between the two. Regardless, the larger point is encouraging.

PBKR, sorry, either I read it wrong or the model is updating.

Either way,

every MAGA-ite must own or lease the biggest truck he can find

Not making compensation joke here because that would be sizeist.

Definitely could be updating. As per the article, the trend in the swing states has been slight move for Trump (.25%).

And I will absolutely be watching on election night - I have no willpower and want to see Trump lose too badly to miss it if it happens.

I have champagne if he loses and whiskey if he doesn't.

I have some follow-up questions. https://t.co/XhZoY03hIp pic.twitter.com/GlzfJgZ3bb

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) October 24, 2020

Party unity!

Trump privately told donors it would be ‘very tough’ for GOP to hold Senate, saying: ‘I don't want to help some of them’ https://t.co/3aR8MAZx6D

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 24, 2020

you're welcome to actively hurt them as well

This guy would literally throw ever person in the world out of the lifeboat if he had to, up to and including helping Barron, Ivanka, Melania, etc. into iron vests for good measure.

i'm watching Univision and just saw a Latin-themed Donald Trump ad, where they had him dancing in sync to the syncopated beat while they sang "Vote for Trump" in Spanish.

that was the whole ad.

You didn't cite the best part!

The president — in a sentiment not shared by many of his party’s top officials and strategists — said he instead thinks the Republicans “are going to take back the House.”

i wonder which ones he doesn't want to help, and why -- Susan Collins and Corey Gardner come to mind, but there are probably others.

lol....how much you wanna lay on that Prez

"There are a couple senators I can’t really get involved in. I just can’t do it. You lose your soul if you do."

lol at his concern for his soul

Ned I read that tweet and immediately thought - I'm ready for the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWHavH6IQw

Maybe Trump really is in on the Dobbs Plan: threatening Graham that he will lose Trumper support if Graham doesn't agree to launch a laptopgate investigation, and then pivoting back to embracing Graham if he does launch an investigation?

Amusingly insane, if so.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/24/johnson-will-wait-for-us-election-result-before-no-deal-brexit-decision

Let the populist dominos fall

lolol at Boris genuinely thinking he led get good and special treatment from a second-term emboldened Trump

Meantime, focused on the issues that matter.

"Big Tech. Section 230, right?" - @realDonaldTrump to a silent crowd in Ohio.

— Max Steele (@maxasteele) October 24, 2020

he says a lot of stuff lately and I don't know what it means

And i say ACK

Getting odd out there:

At some point we'll have to ask for an all-mail ballot state like Colorado, when are Republicans going to vote? Sure, there are some vote centers for in-person early voting, but they're not going to handle a hundred thousand Republicans on Election Day pic.twitter.com/JzykXUd7Fs

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 25, 2020

In past elections, at this time in Colorado, registered Republicans would be leading returned ballots, and I'd be cautioning how Democrats will make up ground the last weekend, esp. as young voters surge with same-day registration at vote centers. I still expect that youth surge

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 25, 2020

Also this is getting amusing:

The Lincoln Project’s legal response to the frivolous threat of a lawsuit from Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s lawyer.

This will not be the last they hear from us. pic.twitter.com/GNnFsnsCer

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 24, 2020

let_them_fight.gif

As cringe as watching the Masters of the Universe movie

there's definitely a "Stalin's soldiers getting closer to Berlin" feel to these Lincoln Project activities. let history be our guide!

Colorado NPAs are doing even worse than the GOP, are they waiting till the last minute to "decide?"