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

the quotes in the articles from Trump attendees all suggest they'd gladly die at one of his rallies.

If you're a New York Times reporter assigned to cover a Trump rally, do you quote the "I'm sure Mr. Trump didn't mean for this to happen, he probably wasn't briefed on the logistics" guy or the "MY LIFE FOR YOU!" guy? "MY LIFE FOR YOU!" makes it into the paper every single time.

Real shame ol' Ron isn't up for reelection this year, the way the state is looking:

Sen. Ron Johnson is so angry about this obviously satirical tweet about him, he just read it at the Senate tech hearing. Johnson says he wants the tweet taken down— "That could definitely affect my ability to get re-elected." https://t.co/Kx7782yBM7

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 28, 2020

Said tweet:

Sen Ron Johnson is my neighbor and strangled our dog, Buttons, right in front of my 4 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter. The police refuse to investigate.This is a complete lie but important to retweet and note that there are more of my lies to come.

— Mary T. Hagan (@marytherese5) October 18, 2020

Lol @ lunch

Meanwhile if you want to hear from the unhinged "all polls are wrong" contingent, here's a tidy distillation of how that thinking works. Feel free to tear it apart at your leisure

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/522957-dont-believe-the-polls-trump-is-winning-bigly

i lold

https://thenib.com/are-you-prepared-to-lose-the-election/

For example, the recent revelation of Hunter Biden’s hidden emails on his laptop, coupled with the link to his father, has come at an opportune time for the president. Moreover, if the economic recovery continues, the good news may continue putting wind in Trump’s sails.

Absolutely delusional.

Speaking of delusional

Kushner told Woodward: "The most dangerous people around the President are over-confident idiots." https://t.co/WR8s5KeKut

— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) October 28, 2020

Wait, didn't that quote come out a while ago? because i definitely remember thinking "more like YOU'RE the dangerous delusional idiot around the president, you jerk" about Kushner pretty recently

pure uncut Trump

Why isn’t Twitter trending Biden corruption? It’s the biggest, and most credible, story anywhere in the world. Fake Trending!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28, 2020

Guess he really is losing

"Fake Trending??" WTF?

After his son Eric, the only child still willing to visit the old man on his birthday, had wheeled his chair into the corner, so as to better avoid the stomach-churning sight of the balding lump of orange flesh slurping the lumpy tapioca pudding, the old man began to weep and muttered plaintively into his lap, "fake... pudding... fake.... pudding."

They clearly placed all their hopes in Rowdy Rudy's laptop scheme, and there is no Plan B.

"has come at an opportune time for the president."

Lol yeah amazing that a bullshit attempt to smear his opponent that his team fabricated came at an opportune time!

The fact that most people in the media didn't fall for the EXACT SAME BULLSHIT he pulled with Hilary's emails is encouraging. "Oh gee just weeks before election a scandal about his opponent's emails surfaces, far enough out to effect election but not enough for it to be formally discredited. Again. What are the odds??" Jfc of that had worked…

also we've had 4 years of "this guy met this other guy at a hotel in Prague" shit that mostly went nowhere

OK, it's Miles Taylor, I'm told.

— Ben Smith (@benyt) October 28, 2020

this guy

poor google ahahah

BREAKING: Trump does not know Miles Taylor, but he should be in jail.

No major revelations in his statement, but here it is:
https://milestaylor.medium.com/a-statement-a13bc5173ee9

Trump already tweeted about him when he started publicly criticizing the administration a couple of months ago:

Many thousands of people work for our government. With that said, a former DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE named Miles Taylor, who I do not know (never heard of him), said he left & is on the open arms Fake News circuit. Said to be a real “stiff”. They will take anyone against us!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2020

lol @ 'who I do not know (never heard of him)', Neanderthal otm

Taylor? Whoopty fuck.

when Anonymous turns out to be a deputy undersecretary somewhere that no one has ever heard of, I will allow myself a smug smile, then never think of them again https://t.co/td7EoMN06W

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) October 28, 2020

*three hours later*

https://t.co/YRBnBw1O6y pic.twitter.com/pWjhZ2G982

— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) October 28, 2020

a real "stiff"

I mean did anybody really think it was going to be a big name? that'd be a lot harder to hide for a major player in the admin

Ohhh https://t.co/Yx2KJA4Dhv

— can (@can) October 28, 2020

Personally, I was hoping for multiple no name stiffs all putting out competing "I am anonymous" statements, that would be more fun.

if only for the growing list of people Trump had to remember that he "didn't know"

Militia leader Stewart Rhodes tells Alex Jones that his group will be at polling locations and is ready to kill Democrats

Spotify to sign Stewart Rhodes for $100 million, so that he can have Alex Jones on his own podcast


Biden voters who wish to eat a half-off Pizza Hut pizza should just go in and say "I'm voting for Trump" while smiling and holding up a written sign that clearly states "No way in hell is that true!"

if they only wish to eat it, they could just grab the fresh half from the top of the bin

I don't know Miles
Steven
Calvin
John
Michael
Oliver
Elvin
or Tom

But I do recall
the most famous DEEP STATE of all

Liddl Donlad Trump Jr. (never heard of him, sounds like a loser)

Focused on the issues

Trump is, at a rally six days from Election Day 2020, making fun of the hair of 2016 independent candidate Evan McMullin.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 28, 2020

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
And Anonymous.

Early vote over 75 million -- given projections of a vote total at/around 150 million, might as well call this a tentative 50% line that's been crossed.

I really feel that the hubris gods should set Trump on fire for talking shit about anyone else's hair

Curse thee and thy blond rags

I really feel that the hubris gods should set Trump on fire for talking shit about anyone else's hair

That he isn't already a sulphurous skeletal burned matchstick is for me concrete proof of the non-existence of an interventionist god

For example, distrust of pollsters also leads to lower response rates for Trump supporters. Rasmussen finds that 17 percent of likely U.S. voters who “strongly approve” of the job Trump is doing say they are less likely to let others know how they intend to vote in the upcoming election. By comparison, only 8 percent of those who “strongly disapprove” of the president’s performance say the same.

Love to cite poll results as evidence that polls can't be trusted

I knew the nuts at Ask Trump Supporters had truly gone off the deep end when they started proclaiming their distrust in polls because every time they'd ever been personally called by a pollster they just lied so the results can't be legit.

Big:

BREAKING: Supreme Court *rejects* Pennsylvania Republicans’ second attempt to block extended ballot deadline.

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) October 28, 2020

they care so little about polls that they need to expend lots of energy online explaining to people why the polls are wrong

Justice Kavanaugh seems to have switched sides from the earlier PA order, abandoning Gorsuch, Alito and Thomas's position.

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) October 28, 2020

Roffle.

he’s drunk

what's different between Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that there'd be different rulings?

Chicanery.

The worst legacy of the Bush II years: Sam Alito, every year grinding out gross and evil opinion after opinion that never abandons the hackiest and most sinister of Republican notions of -- I use the term loosely -- governance.

just for a break from the polls/courts... she is very good at this

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/becoming-aoc-cover-story-2020

Under a President Biden, “if his life doesn’t feel different,” she points to a cab driver whizzing by our table, “if their life doesn’t feel different,” she gestures to people walking by the beauty shop and Bengali Halal Grocery, “if these people’s lives don’t actually feel different”—now she is giving a stump speech over her omelet—“we’re done. You know how many Trumps there are in waiting?”

She is tired of incremental change, of “bullshit little 10 percent tax cuts,” she says. “I think, honestly, a lot of my dissent within the Democratic party comes from my lived experience. It’s not just that we can be better, it’s that we have to be better. We’re not good enough right now.”

Hahaha man they are just SAD.

Trump super PAC @AmericaFirstPAC is putting @TuckerCarlson's Tony Bobulinski's interview on the air in Pennsylvania + Wisconsin, beginning Friday >https://t.co/w8XTCSJIOJ

— Dave Catanese (@davecatanese) October 28, 2020

Tony Bobulinski
Mr. Tony Bobulinski (ZILCH)