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

oh okay, that makes sense. what a dumbass.

It has more to do with the vacant look in Kushner's eyes than it does to any real world phenomenon afaict.

rasmussen says trump is winning O NO!

at some point in the past four years Republican talking heads just started doing talking points Mad Libs

You gotta listen to Corey Lewandowski on this:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/521646-state-of-the-race-cancel-culture-and-polling-dont-mix

If I ever got a call from a pollster (which I haven’t), I’d have no fear of answering honestly about which candidate earned my vote.

But not everyone is comfortable sharing what the left and their friends in the media and big institutions have deemed to be an invalid opinion. It can, and does, get you fired. Answering a pollster who called your phone, and knew your name, creates a record of your choice for president. There’s real risk in saying the name “Donald Trump” — someday, it could be used against you.

lol of course it would be an even stupider reason than i was imagining

There’s real risk in saying the name “Donald Trump” — someday, it could be used against you.

to be honest, if i find out someone voted for donald trump, i do think they're a fucking idiot

so best not to mention that during a job interview i guess, because holy shit, it would be hard to avoid pulling out an airhorn and blasting it

Uh.

Rep. Denver Riggleman (R) on MTP re: Qanon : ‘these are people who think Lord of the Rings is a documentary’

— amy walter (@amyewalter) October 25, 2020

I want over a billion people on the Supreme Court

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, October 26, 2020 10:47 AM bookmarkflaglink

"goddammit, another 500,000,001 - 499,999,999 decision"

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513K0iwRuKL.jpg

dammit Justice Ken Bone screwed us again

Billions and billions of Stare Decisis

if only 1 out of every million supreme court justices are on the toilet during the zoom call, there are a 1000 SC justices on the toilet during the zoom call. and it only takes 1 person to accidentally unmute to cause mayhem.

that's the main reason the idea isn't feasible, sorry djp

This is the main reason why the idea must be implemented post haste, IMO

every week, someone pulls a Toobin

^and now the threat of COVID-19 makes more sense due to that analogy

xpost.

xpost?

ex - post.

Imagine the betting markets!

By the time each vote was decided we'd all be dead.

Judge Donnie Yen has threatened the Republican bloc

This is the main reason why the idea must be implemented post haste

as an originalist and constitutional scholar, i remember the Section that says if it's your idea to add a billion SC justices to the court, you have to run the zoom call every week

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/nc09or0CIHATMyGFs8aPqNEPJvX.jpg

" 500,000,001 - 499,999,999 decision AGAIN!?!"

Bolo has been warned about being a provocateur, begin impeachment

Makes sense to name every US citizen a Supreme Court justice. That way, we just vote on these cases as they come up. I know there would not be enough in the federal budget for robes-for-all, but I'm sure there's enough for everybody to at least get a commemorative coffee mug.

We can all work from home, who needs robes?

I'm wearing a robe right now already!

The "massive early voting numbers have no discernible meaning" takes are starting to grate a bit.

We're all totally neurotic from 2016... my WAG-not-prediction is that Election Day turnout is also massively higher than 2016 and (as in the past) this bodes well for Democrats.

yeah I'm also sick of hearing about how Trump enthusiasm is higher than Biden...I think anti-Trump enthusiasm beats them both, you cannot overstate how much 55% of this country wants him to go away forever

New: Denton and Williamson counties in TX just became the second and third in the nation after Hays (to my knowledge) to surpass their *total* 2016 votes cast. And there's still a week of voting left.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 26, 2020

"I shall have my vengeance against Pennsylvania" is a brilliant closing message for a Presidential campaign. https://t.co/lvoXaZvO1H

— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) October 26, 2020

his closing message for the country is that you're a loser if you care about covid-19

COVID-20 is the newer hipper disease

Denton was +8 for Cruz over Beto in 2018, but Williamson (just north of Austin) was +2 for Beto... like the aforementioned Hayes county, Williamson used to be very Republican but has been progressively blued by Austin commuters. Williamson is still notorious among Austinites for having a predatory police force, you do not go north of Wells Branch Parkway if you're riding dirty.

yeah man, not just Covid 20 but I thought we would be on a totally new pandemic by now, get with the programme viruses.

WAs thinking there might be something else hatching out of the various current environmental situations.
Hasdn't been has there, I mean if Covid is stealing all the oxygen nothing is being ignored is it?

various pathogens thawing out of the ice as ice cover tahts thousands of years old appearing or anything?

I think I'm finally in a place where I'm willing to accept that Trump will almost certainly lose, and probably lose badly. But I still think there's going to be awfulness up to and including SC-related fuckery such that even a clear + decisive win for Biden on election night won't do what it's supposed to do to my serotonin levels.

THis was in the Guardian weekend a couple of days ago, not sure if it appeared here
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/24/more-enthusiastic-than-2016-voters-standing-by-donald-trump

xpost Texas early voting: Just for comparison's sake, in 2018 Harris County (Austin) was +50 for Beto

I'm with you OL. until the electors vote I'm probably still going to be on edge.

and even after he wins...it's not like 2020 in a non-pandemic society, where I can go about my daily life unencumbered worrying about Trump in 2021. yay, my mind gets to return to COVID-19, and what kind of trolling Trump will do to make that even worse in his last two months on the job.

half-expecting him to declare "National COVID-19 Day" where he just asks everybody to make out with infected people

"Nice trucks. You think I could hop into one of them and drive it away? I'd love to do it. Just drive the hell out of here. Just get the hell out of this. I had such a good life." -- Trump pic.twitter.com/0sZC13WH9O

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 26, 2020

Yes, they may be grifters looking for mudslinging clients in 2024, but this is a terrific ad:

In 8 days, we’ll make sure this story has a happy ending. pic.twitter.com/XAA3sLzqbo

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 26, 2020

i hate it but it's not for me

that ad will do great with the 10 and under voting bloc

half-expecting him to declare "National COVID-19 Day" where he just asks everybody to make out with infected people

"A 24-hour lifting of restrictions on gatherings and celebrations, a break in the war on Covid, just like the pause in the First World War on the Western Front in 1914."https://t.co/57MiYsCji9

— The Scotsman (@TheScotsman) October 25, 2020

my stance on the lincoln project however is that you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them xxp

i can't believe these words came out of jared kushner's mouth, wow!!

The backlash was swift against Jared Kushner Monday shortly after he suggested on that Black people must “want to be successful” so that his father-in-law’s policies can help them.

After telling “Fox and Friends” that he had an “in-depth and respectful policy discussion” with rapper Ice Cube — who told the network the day before that he had spoken with Trump administration officials recently to collaborate on its Platinum Plan that aims to invest $500 million into Black communities — Kushner launched into a tone-deaf lecture.

“Again, one thing that we have seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about,” Kushner said. “But he can’t want them to be successful more than that they want to be successful.”

Are U. of Wisconsin/YouGov reputable snake oil salesman?

Wisconsin -- Biden +9
Michigan -- Biden +10
Pennsylvania -- Biden +8

That would be the election right there.

― clemenza, Monday, October 26, 2020 10:29 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yougov is not snake oil, but they're a British pollster and they don't have a great record in the US.

xpost to clemenza -- yep, I'm playing with the map and basically not seeing any way for Biden to lose if he takes those 3.

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, October 26, 2020 10:45 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

here's one: everything goes like it did in 2016, except those states, which take weeks to call their results, during which time the courts intervene.

i can believe it. he was the one who thought it might be politically advantageous to let the virus run rampant in the "blue states."

xp