GET OUT: US politics November 2020

You can count on it, PBKR.

Friends, I've entered a Zen state. I'm past the anxiety. I'm text banked, gone to rallies, done my part.

Aww, yeah!

New @CookPolitical: our FINAL House outlook is a Dem net gain of 10-15 seats, with anything from 5-20 seats well within the range of possibility. View our final ratings: https://t.co/wcfAZ8REga

Solid/Likely/Lean D: 229
Solid/Likely/Lean R: 179
Toss Up: 27 pic.twitter.com/WcdnWJLG16

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 2, 2020

Meantime....

One state I am a bit curious about is Texas. Our forecast has been pretty skeptical about Biden's chances there, expecting Trump to close well. But instead Biden got a decent run of polls there this weekend and it now it has him within ~1 point. https://t.co/486ZZ385cV pic.twitter.com/efAeDAaXaX

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 2, 2020

i'm with Alfred on paper, and have really done okay at not spiralling into anxious news- and poll-following as i might well have done (given my track record). all signs point to a solid Biden win, maybe a blowout, but the memory of 2016 is in my body, my shoulder muscles, my stomach --- my brain is not driving the car right now. i just have to pass the time and get through these days. substances will likely be involved, tho i regret to say aperol has never quite landed with me.

Good morning!

I'm past Aperol, honey. I've got Fernet, Ramazzoti, Averna, Lucano, you name it.

Biden has passed the "clearly favored" 90% mark in FiveThirtyEight's forecast

Alfred do you know Sfumato? It's rhubarb-based and hence politically apt.

I only have time for barbs.

Tipsy, have you had Zucca? Just wondering how they compare.

GUYS, you’ll never believe what NYT did today on front page—it sent reporter to a deeply red state to interview white, middle aged men abt how much they love Trump! https://t.co/2ou7wyoZwu

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) November 2, 2020

That headline...it's an Onion thing, right?

Was a diner involved?

i'm trying to get through training class knowing I care little about it, esp tomorrow.

someone give me a non-sequitur (work-appropriate) phrase to insert at some point of the training.

jesus i was going to make a joke about antifa burning his tractor and then i got to this:

"For his part, Mr. Rempel refuses to speculate about a motive, but here in Henderson, a certain fear is being whispered: The fire-starters are aligned with antifa, coming from the cities to attack their way of life."

beyond fucking parody

amari xposts

WmC I have not, but Imbibe says Zucca is a bit sweeter. Sfumato more or less tastes like wet dirt, in a good way.

I am going to work an anecdote about a Mr Rempel into my class today, thanking u

xposts re: NYTimes

NPR also this morning, as I was making breakfast for kids, seemed to be spotlighting Trump voters telling their stories of why they're voting for him.

Sudden relapses of both-sidesism as the stress levels rise and our legacy media can't handle the pressure

both-sidesisms might even be due to pressure from Editors wanting to retain a broader base of readers.

in other words, the typical chickenshit bullshit in the industry. hey editors, they don't love u hoes, you're fake news.

antifa hates the tractormen for their freedoms

Antifa burned my tractor/
because I doxxed a crisis actor

xps ty!

bg's post for new board description

Trumpers in mistaking their voracious coprophagia for a universal trait shocker.

No, you cracker POS, this is quality attributable only to you and yours because your brains are fucking broken.

Meanwhile in the Land of Schadenfreude:

From @WSJopinion: It was a serious failure for me, as a public figure, to go maskless at the White House, writes @GovChristie. I paid for it, and I hope Americans can learn from my experience.

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 22, 2020

Early vote total now 95 million, fully over double the entire 2016 early vote total. The last possible milestone of 100 million by tomorrow morning is in reach.

but it's like george washington used to say: "if you can't beat em cheat em"

I'm past Aperol, honey. I've got Fernet, Ramazzoti, Averna, Lucano, you name it.

Barf. In anything more than small doses in cocktails, amaros (and the herbal like) can go jump in a lake. I think tomorrow night feels like a beer (or wine) night to me. Easier to drink more, a pint/wine glass lasts longer than a coupe, no preparation necessary, and if things go well I can toast later with the good bourbon.

there is no way I'm going to spend the day after Election Day hungover

I think tomorrow night feels like a beer (or wine) night to me. Easier to drink more, a pint/wine glass lasts longer than a coupe, no preparation necessary, and if things go well I can toast later with the good bourbon.

Don't misjudge me. More than Negroni grosses me out. A bracing way, though, to prepare for wine.

*more than one Negroni

Amaro Nonino on ice with a slice of orange is very easy drinking!

Four Roses.

Spent last post-Election Day hungover at work, and I'm still feeling it. That's why I took Nov. 4 off.

I'm going to drink heavily if Biden wins but feeling a hangover come on at 3 AM as Trump's victory becomes more and more inevitable is not something I ever want to experience again

Trump says he's sending in lawyers to swing states as soon as voting ends https://t.co/Hjemi6vHJc

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 2, 2020

it's so stupid that he is telegraphing his intentions this way

what a stupid moron and a stupid country

bullshit, he can't even afford to pay bus drivers for a full shift never mind lawyers in multiple states

i mean i guess he send the DOJ but, like... where has barr been for the last 3 week (around, i know)

Apparently meeting with cops in the big cities for... reasons.

I've got to assume his lawyers have been working for Happy Meal coupons for the past several years, because no way can that guy afford all those billable hours. Maybe that's where the reelection war chest went.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/trump-campaign-funds-legal-bills.html

Mr. Trump’s tendency to turn to the courts — and the legal issues that have stemmed from norm-breaking characteristics of his presidency — helps explain how he and his affiliated political entities have spent at least $58.4 million in donations on legal and compliance work since 2015, according to a tally by The New York Times and the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.

it's so stupid that he is telegraphing his intentions this way

― treeship., Monday, November 2, 2020 9:22 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the point is to undermine faith in our democracy

I get that's the point but even with conservative judges it's kinda hard to win a case if you make it clear right away that your intention all along was to have a judge throw it your way

Not with judges he's appointed, he's all about the loyalty, as he's made abundantly clear.

“I think it’s terrible when we can’t know the results of an election the night of an election in a modern-day age of computers,” said Trump, before alleging that the Democratic governors of Pennsylvania and Nevada would somehow interfere with accurate counting.

yeah bruh, so much for caring about voter fraud. guess we can dispense with the whole "making sure signatures match" part, right?

fuckin' idiot. and a large part of the reason the count won't be finished are state laws, and Kavanaugh has already shown a reticence to overturn state laws, so ....sue all you want, dickhole.

xpost loyalty to whom? they have appointments for life, unlike other Trump stooges, they don't need to please him anymore because he can't fire them.

bullshit, he can't even afford to pay bus drivers for a full shift never mind lawyers in multiple states

oh, he can, he just chooses not to

the legal fees are already banked I'm sure