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

yeah our equivalent of Tucker is like, Seth Myers

really wish we could have a progressive liberal news media network with actual teeth and acid tongue programming but many wishy washy Democrats would probably shit on it

**ck yes, Urias

lmao

I really hate CNN, I can't watch it for more than a couple of minutes at a time now, all of the both-sides screaming matches they set up between political 'opponents' are awful, it makes me cringe and it is not in any way illuminating

I'm also over MSNBC, it's more sane than CNN but it has the exact same news opinion coverage every single day. I'm on their side, I get it, but come on, how much of that same shit do you think we want to watch

have they ever been subject to such an unlikeable, suffocating figure??

idk I think Biden's about as bad as a lot of past Dem candidates

@ Dan S., my one bit of thankfulness re: being COVID-separated from my folks is not having to endure my dad's constant CNN and FOX watching. intolerable.

broadcast news is evil

that's my hot take of the day

24 hour news networks obv a very specific vortexing of that evil but the rot is built in

With 54,000 in-person votes so far today, Harris County has now exceeded total turnout for the 2012 election, which was 1.2 million. #HarrisVotes #HouNews #VOTE

— Harris County Clerk (@HarrisVotes) October 27, 2020

This seems noteworthy. There are still three full days left of early voting, plus election day. Harris is the biggest metro in Texas, but it's not the only one. I wonder if the numbers in Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are similar.

how much of that same shit do you think we want to watch

all of it. all of the same shit, we want to watch it

the beauty of the internet = the ability to pick and choose the news I read and where I get it from, having the shit excreted out of a tv set seems superfluous

it's like we're in Videodrome

at least Videodrome ended

i signed up for yelp purely to give 1* to everywhere i go that plays cable news in the waiting room.

can we add an asterisk to the title of the "people who YELP are scumbags" thread

I did used to love using those remote control apps to discreetly change the channel from Fox News every time I got my car repaired at the local CarMax, who inexplicably always had it on.

people would look around confused, then realize they were happy it wasn't on anymore.

I wonder if the numbers in Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are similar.

They are. And don't forget El Paso... only ~400k voters but like Austin, deep blue (+50 Dem lean). Nobody is racking up as many early voters as Harris County in Texas, as noted upthread it's the because since 2018 the County Clerk is now a Democrat and is actively helping people vote instead of hindering them. Thank Beto for that. Travis County (Austin) early voting will match their *total* 2016 vote sometime tomorrow.

Iconic Cuban-American author and unimpeachable anti-Communist intellectual, @CarlosAMontaner emphatically announces in this powerful ad, that far from being ‘socialists,’ @JoeBiden + @KamalaHarris are the true friends of freedom, liberty and democracy. #CubanosConBiden🇨🇺🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/GSsmNzkRsy

— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) October 27, 2020

Bloomberg-funded ad aimed at Cuban-Americans in Florida, really interested to hear what Alfred thinks about this

Meanwhile, in the world of animated gristle.

So @kennedynation interviewed Rudy Giuliani tonight on FBN. The whole interview is here:https://t.co/s3T3gDkLXI

Here's a clip from that interview.

(cc @mattwelch @nancyromm) pic.twitter.com/nnpytoFkzD

— Andrew Wimsatt 🖐 (@ajwimsatt) October 28, 2020

look at that beautiful photograph of you, me, and bill bellamy

Wasn't Bill available or something

Also, it seems like Trump bussed a few thousand people to an airport outside Omaha for a rally and then didn't bother to arrange for busses back and there are all these old people standing out in the freezing cold a three mile walk from their cars

they can pull themselves home by their bus straps

welp that's one way to purge the voter rolls

two more clips of Kennedy / Giuliani in the thread, if ppl enjoy that first.

Kennedy is such a loser.

"Nixon now! Nixon now!"

"The irony was that we were deep in Gen X land where rebellion was the most popular flavor," Kennedy’s former boss Lauren Levine recalls in the book. "And being a Republican was the ultimate rebellion, as most, if not all, were left leaning."

lol that's...an interesting way to frame it

But Kennedy really made the gossip columns because of the way she greeted a fellow Republican. "Finally out of the corner of my eye I spied a f---ing rock star real star,” she wrote. “ John McLaughlin was looking and I knew another headset was bound to intercept if I didn’t act fast, and I had to prove to him he was not the only Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) in the room.”

LON

Kennedy marched up to the “McLaughlin Group” host and Martha Stewart, McLaughlin’s date for the evening. “I instinctively hiked up my dress, half pulled down my red thong, wangled free of my red opaque satin Donna Karan hose (She was there too! Hi Donna!) and showed him my faithful pink GOP elephant tattoo on my pristine pelvis, which I’ll have you know is a hard spot to show off in confining evening wear,” she said. “He about spit out his mint julep all over Martha’s melons.”

The two became fast friends.

In the end, the meeting didn't improve the evening. “This huge night came to a solitary end, and I realized, as a choked on my tears, liberals are almost worse than loneliness,” Kennedy remembered.

She was first introduced to libertarianism when Kurt Loder suggested she read Ayn Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.[34] She actively supported Gary Johnson in both the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.[35]

In March 2012, Reason published an article by Kennedy saying atheism is a religion on par with theistic religions.[36]

They are. And don't forget El Paso... only ~400k voters but like Austin, deep blue (+50 Dem lean).

They've still managed to notch up about 200k early votes!

yup, but if people in el paso can't vote on election day that means fewer democratic votes in texas.

.@hamiltonnolan wrote a really good piece about how trump's rallies are "inevitably held at the air­port, allow­ing him to exit Air Force One, hold forth to the ador­ing crowd, and then fly right out" - in this case with potentially deadly results https://t.co/m2BFN7HFdY https://t.co/HBqIVEEEfK

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) October 28, 2020

if i wanted to boost my vote with seniors i would simply not strand them in a field in single digit temperatures.

this is exploding on twitter and reddit right now too.

and all this for one electoral vote

really fucked up that the Democrats sabotaged the buses to kill those old Trump voters man, fucked up

xp

if biden flips only AZ, MI and WI (which is not a crazy scenario) then it's a tie. it's not crazy to campaign there!

though perhaps not on a freezing night during a pandemic that's worsening where you only paid for buses to drop off, and not pick up (which is apparently what happened? who knows)

Bloomberg-funded ad aimed at Cuban-Americans in Florida, really interested to hear what Alfred thinks about this

― Guayaquil (eephus!),

It may work. I posted this here yesterday afternoon: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-pro-trump-disinformation-is-swaying-a-new-generation-of-cuban-american-voters

c'mon clap, clap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqlVCKfX3hk

Trump campaign email tally: 18 since Monday night.

I thought you meant ‘deaths at’

I saw an article on Twitter this morning about Rogan going in on the media ignoring the laptop story and I'm still shook by the cesspool in the replies, even for the state of Twitter in 2020. Just an entire alternate universe out there about this story.

Pathetic: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/28/michigan-court-gun-advocates-voting

Since I met my wife, I've spent a lot of time in Michigan over the last 15 years. It never fails to surprise me. I love the state and I hate the state.

i've only there for a layover and had no desire to leave the airport

xxxpost the crankverse is convinced that the media is ignoring the Hunter Biden story until after the election, so Nancy and Chuck can impeach Biden in January and install Comrade Kamala

they are going to remove Nancy as speaker, install AOC as speaker, then impeach both Biden and Kamala, installing AOC as President, despite no being old enough.