GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Stand back and stand by

I was thinking of Fred More in my last post. His quote is better:

The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?

Not Fred More, Fred Moten, poet and philosopher.

Fred Meyer? Poet, philosopher, and grocer

Nick Kroll is totally playing Nate Silver in the movie about this year

Biden down just 60k in GA.

c'mon Braves fans

Homophobia is prevalent in so many non-white cultures, it's part of the white supremacist agenda but can and does exist elsewhere. xpost

Kind of comforting that no other Republican (besides Rudy) is playing along with what Trump’s trying to do right now

some of them are vaguely familiar with wanting to have a career after Trump

who they have probably concluded will die when his veins congeal and turn into Cheez Wiz

Homophobia is prevalent in so many non-white cultures, it's part of the white supremacist agenda but can and does exist elsewhere. xpost

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 10:48 PM (fifty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

you're really close to getting it!

Homophobia is universal.

I was really getting serious about leaving the country last night.

Kind of comforting that no other Republican (besides Rudy) is playing along with what Trump’s trying to do right now

― frogbs, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:48 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

probably because it doesn't seem to be successful

Kind of comforting that no other Republican (besides Rudy) is playing along with what Trump’s trying to do right now

― frogbs, woensdag 4 november 2020 23:48 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep:

This is an important note.

They may be signaling that they will not go along with Trump efforts to stop vote counts, etc. if it is clear that Biden has won. https://t.co/I2KgD6NXA3 https://t.co/sMr4EiFvFv

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) November 4, 2020

they're through with him too i think

oh my god are we really falling for this again; the only reason why it appears they are opposing it is because it seems likely trump won't pull it off.

The Republican political project is better served with Biden eating the shit sandwich of the next two years than Trump.

xposts
if 99% of the vote is already in in Georgia, doesn't that mean there are <60,000 votes outstanding?

The Republican political project is better served with Biden eating the shit sandwich of the next two years than Trump.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, November 4, 2020 10:53 PM (thirty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah at this point it's just realpolitik

whenever mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, susan collins, mitt romney, etc. appear to be "signaling they will not go along with trump," with few exceptions, that signal disappears when it becomes clear trump will get his way

GOP eazy breezy plan of lay low for 2 years and blame everything on the Democrats seems to work pretty well.

tbc he has to officially lose first

a postmortem for the lincoln project, who are presumably moving on to cushy media gigs:

Their ads focused on trying to court disaffected Republican voters and attack Trump’s character, as Biden loaded up the Democratic convention with GOP speakers. When polls during the summer showed that the strategy wasn’t working, galaxy brain Rahm Emanuel defended it to a national televised audience, insisting that 2020 would be “the year of the Biden Republican.”

Now survey data show the strategy epically failed, as Trump actually garnered even more support from GOP voters than in 2016. Indeed, Edison Research exit polls on Tuesday found that 93 percent of Republican voters supported Trump — three percentage points higher than in 2016, according to numbers from the same firm.

McConnell are delighted they're gonna have an easy four years kickin' it as fake legislators no longer forced by Kasie Hunt to respond to the latest Trump outrage.

Welp, time to double down on that strategy again I guess.

yeah I have to imagine McConnell and co are delighted by this result for the most part

xposts I think there are some 170k ballots left to count in GA.

this is just too much like an abusive relationship or that Danish tv show I watched last week where there was a violent rapist but the sadistic one was his partner who would let the victim escape briefly only to be recaptured.

xp to Simon
no need to guess: https://www.axios.com/scoop-the-lincoln-project-is-becoming-a-media-business-f366aea2-d730-4ad3-a601-e8380ebf96e8.html

Feel like there are still 3-4 variations on this they can run with over the next decade.

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”

(xxp yeah I see WP NYT and Fox are all reporting different percentages of the oustanding vote in GA)

Georgia has been called for Michael Dukakis

pic.twitter.com/BWOh4TMwsP

— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) November 4, 2020

We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, Your Mom

hahaha

BBQ
BEER
FREEDOM

The moment when Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project tweeted out that Eric Garland tweet being trashed up thread was the telling moment.

Trump losing and having to stay in power until Jan 20 will be wild.

GOP eazy breezy plan of lay low for 2 years and blame everything on the Democrats seems to work pretty well.

Enforce rigid austerity in a deep recession, hold the budget hostage, probably refuse to let Biden replace Breyer. McConnell might be experiencing his first erection in decades.

while I do like to think about penises, Mitch McConnell's penis is not something I want to consider except in the context of leprosy

AP calling it

xp the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says that about 163,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted as of 5:50 EST

https://www.ajc.com/politics/about-200000-absentee-ballots-still-need-to-be-counted-in-georgia/BYGJAXV5FRBGBAMA6JPIC7ZL34/

AP calling it

― lukas, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:05 PM (forty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

what is "it," I'm not seeing anything

wait yeah now i can't see it either

calling it how it is

it's it

With Nevada releasing additional ballots today, Biden now has a reasonable path to clearing the 270 electoral vote threshold tonight https://t.co/LFIErxoj2T

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 4, 2020

Is AZ still in doubt?