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

haha

xpost - Nope, they'll just stick with profiles on the sad Trumpers who get completely blindsided by the loss because orange baby man promised them a win.

god damnit I'm reading the "I disagree" part in the Adam Sandler Uncut Gems voice

I would have believed Tucker more if he had said his dog ate the top-secret Biden documents.

You guys are really underestimating the possibility that Tucker's secret documents include time travel schematics in addition to Hunter Biden dirt, and that he will travel back in time, months and months, to where that information might matter, to the handfuls of people who even care.

Why is he standing in front of that sunglasses/car selfie meme?

xps

This is from the vote counter Wasserman relies on rather than Elections Project; this fellow has higher numbers overall so I'm always a hair cautious (lowballing seems safer on this front) but:

MAHALO, HAWAII!
You're the first state to exceed 2016 turnout...just got confirmation from a Honolulu reporter.

— John Couvillon (@WinWithJMC) October 29, 2020

Texas still on track to exceed 100% at some point tomorrow.

o'wahoo!

Ned's covered this a lot already, but the early vote totals in Texas are the most shocking and almost unbelievable thing to me. Early voting there is currently at 94% of the 2016 total turnout. Either election day is going to be a ghost town in Texas or turnout is going to be massively higher there than in 2016.

yeee my home state of hawaii doing me proud xp

and I just saw that Ned mentioned Texas literally two posts above me rather than like two days ago. sorry!

Haven't seen it mentioned, but it's worth noting that right now, 90% of eligible voters in Philadelphia are registered to vote, the highest numbers since 1984.

Anybody got any good leads on where to donate to orgs in Texas that are driving people to the polls/generally getting the vote out?

read that as donate organs in Texas

Physically driving people to polls is going to be a problem this year because of physical distancing. I'm not sure how covid-19 is curtailing that kind of GOTV activity, but I'm guessing that it's going to limit it pretty severely.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0

Anyway, borrowing from the scale Kilgore Trout on Twitter has popularized in terms of trashing Trump's use of his time, here's how to think of that time left:

Today: 20% of time before the election
Tomorrow: 25%
Saturday: 33%
Sunday: 50%
Monday: 100%

And in terms of anything changing much or causing a change, nothing is happening.

Should readjust the amount of time against the percentage of the electorate already having cast ballots.

Indeed!

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states and tribes in charge of overseeing the predators.
The U.S. Department of Interior announcement just days ahead of the Nov. 3 election could lead to resumption of wolf hunts in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin...

And what is Biden doing to secure that coveted 19-55 wolf hunter demographic?

My Resignation From The Intercept

The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.https://t.co/dZrlYGfEBf

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2020

defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

tyvm

And what is Biden doing to secure that coveted 19-55 wolf hunter demographic?

You're snarking but this is a live political issue in northern Wisconsin. Lots of people see grey wolves as pests and dispute that they're still endangered.

But I don't think this is going to move votes for him in the parts of Wisconsin where he's really hurting (traditionally Republican Milwaukee suburbs.)

Yeah I was going to say, surely this is more of a sop to the predisposed.

"We will prevent nasty grey wolves from moving into your beautiful suburbs!"

Do Wine Moms Dream of Electric Sheep

https://cdn.cjr.org/wp-content/themes/cjr2017/images-body/NY1.jpg

I live in Wisconsin, the "single issue wolf voter" is definitely a thing

Welp, there goes the country.

(JK, Wisconsin is literally one of the worst places in the globe right now for how COVID cases are trending.)

Personally I'm a three wolf moon voter.

Also today I learned Glenn Greenwald's middle name

is it Gary

lol

Always be complaining

(JK, Wisconsin is literally one of the worst places in the globe right now for how COVID cases are trending.)

― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:28 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup if you look at the top 20 cities for infections per capita, we've got #3 (Beaver Dam), #7 (Sheboygan, where I live), #8 (Wausau), #10 (Fond du Lac), #11 (Oshkosh), #12 (Manitowoc, my hometown), #14 (Appleton), #15 (Green Bay), #18 (Stevens Point), and #20 (Eau Claire). On Wisconsin!!!

You're the Manitowoc Minute guy aren't ya

that dude had never even been to Manitowoc before he came up with that character

re: the title of the thread, i thought this was a good piece

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/trump-arts-culture.html

Yeah, I liked that, too.

Every moment spent thinking about Trump is a moment that could have been spent contemplating, creating or appreciating something else. Trump is a narcissistic philistine, and he bent American culture toward him.

that's not true, we have plenty of time to do that stuff now

If you like ketchup on a well-done steak, then he's no philistine.

Before Trump, I’d never had the feeling of wanting to fast-forward through the era I was living in, of longing to be in the future, looking back at how it all turned out.

i felt this a lot over the past 4 years, despite the fact they both my kids were born in that time, and i should have been savoring it. what a bunch of shit.

To a point I brought up this morning:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/politics/mail-in-ballots-supreme-court-pennsylvania-wisconsin-north-carolina/index.html

All those in-transit ballots have to arrive by Tuesday to be counted in Wisconsin. So that is unsettling. Hopefully Biden's lead is large enough that late ballots won't matter.

doesn't automatically discarding ballots have an equal chance of hurting Republicans?

Potentially an even greater one, given that there's been a huge emphasis on the Democratic side to vote early regardless.

I just assumed it would hurt Democrats in blue states (and wouldn't matter to them in red states). Wisconsin is extremely important, and Biden's up 7-10 in most polls.

Trump postponed tonight's Fayetteville, North Carolina rally to Monday, due to bad weather. Surprised he didn't just do it anyway.

xpost -- Remember that these are not nationwide decisions but individual state ones. The only reason Trump et al are venting is that these are swing states or seen to be.