GET OUT: US politics November 2020

the important thing to remember about natalie morales is that she was great in 'the middleman' and that they should bring that show back (tho it won't be the same without the late great mary pat gleason)

what the hell that IS the same Natalie Morales!??

Fox still not rolling back on their Biden count, is that some sort of snub I wonder, Murdoch pissed off at getting angry phone calls? Curious to see what happens when Biden wins his next state.

Stepping back a bit to a point raised way upthread -- there was some speculation that the optics of the Georgia runoffs may put Perdue/Loeffler more on the spot (either way) if there's some actual lame duck action on COVID relief. Perhaps but I'll at least add this interesting point: Kelly, having defeated McSally in Arizona, is due to take office at the end of November thanks to the slight quirks surrounding the seat, which was originally opened up by McCain's death and later Ducey putting McSally in after she lost to Sinema in 2018. That changes the Senate balance to a de facto 52-48, which will stay that way in the new year once Gardner and Jones are swapped out for Hickenlooper and Tuberville. Nothing may happen at all, but given the runoff election date of January 5th, it could make for an interesting few weeks there.

whatever the final tally, a small price to pay for such a winning campaign

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-31/super-spreading-trump-rallies-led-to-more-than-700-covid-19-deaths-study

For Trump to win Pennsylvania, the Secretary of State would have to be very, very wrong about how many mail ballots aren't included in the current results tally https://t.co/nRGDxTiC2l

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 5, 2020

antici

Just did some back-of-the-envelope math, and it seems like Biden would only need about 60% of the remaining PA vote.

Just got off call w/ conservative movement heads. Lots of talk of "stealing," election schemes, lack of transparency etc. When I pressed for examples, all I heard was windows being covered up in Atlanta to prevent monitors from watching the count. Anyone know what this refers to?

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 5, 2020

It looks increasingly like the USA has just elected the first woman and the first POC to the vice presidency. And nobody seems to be noticing, yet.

Clark County Nevada will release next batch of votes Friday ~noon EST.

Hold onto yourselves, I know this will be a shocker...

Trump and aides have had discussions about mounting a comeback run in 2024 should he lose reelection to Biden, an adviser tells me. No word whether he would do it. But the subject has come up, I'm told.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 5, 2020

wonder if #electionfraud will be the #benghazi of biden's term

Atlanta? There was an incident yesterday where they put up some pizza boxes inside a Detroit counting area's windows because 'protestors' were rapping on them and shouting, but other than that.

Pizzagate II

wonder if #electionfraud will be the #benghazi of biden's term

Nah. Huntergate is nothing either. Something else will come up.

yeah, the #electionfraud movement seems to lack any sort of coherent, central lie

Trump trying for a comeback when people like Haley, Cottom, Roem etc are already testing the waters would be...interesting.

crosses everything for ‘controlled by the Vatican’

the first POC to the vice presidency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis

Oh, Biden's getting impeached over Huntergate/Burisma/anything if the House flips in 2022.

Every Democratic President with a GOP House will be impeached from now until the country is a pile of ashes.

I fully expect Trump to go full-on LaRouche and perpetually run for re-election.

If my old dad was still around he'd be reminding us of what happened to the only other Catholic president.

(xps)

Texas is the reason...

Should he survive indictments, I've thought about a Trump Pt. II in 2024 too.

I fully expect Trump to go full-on LaRouche and perpetually run for re-election.

I guess if Eugene Debs could run from a prison cell, Trump could, too. (Note: fantasy content included)

http://outline-prod.imgix.net/20180501-tENZI9d19TU961vOPdwH?auto=format&q=60&w=1280&s=9fa941ae3c9c0758fdbe66f580dd41cf

Friend in NYC just texted me a message that her kid's school is closed tomorrow due to anticipated violent protests. huh?

they're boarding everything up at night over here in midtown

the entire block around trump tower and even a little bit of a wider perimeter than that is barricaded off

Is there much of a history of an unfriendly Senate blocking Cabinet appointments? Fuck Mitch McConnell etc

https://www.axios.com/gop-senate-biden-transition-50ebe6c8-e318-4fdb-b903-048908b3b954.html

A beautiful sight

just watched a michigan court throw out a ridiculous trump suit. Here was the face trump's lawyer made when the judge announced she was tossing the whole thing pic.twitter.com/08lHwsCHLi

— mo (@mo87mo87) November 5, 2020

Such skill

the only problems with trump's suit, according to the judge, is that it was based on hearsay, brought the wrong party to court, couldn't give names of any of the ppl or locations they said broke the law and the relief sought is unavailable because the counting is over.

— mo (@mo87mo87) November 5, 2020

A few xps but I am faintly amused by the prospect of a 77-year-old Trump seen by GOPers as a kingmaker and elder statesman.

Prospective candidates like yr Pence, Haley, Noem, et al. have to go and bend the knee and ask for his blessing.

He will (like Teddy R.) determine that none of the aspirants have what it takes. So he will cast off his laprobe and toss down his ear-trumpet and say, "by golly, if none of you pansies have the guts to do what needs to be done, I'll do it myself!" And he will run his own rogue third-party write-in campaign.

It could be like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull but with Donald Trump Jr in place of Shia LeBeouf.

cmon Philly

Cha-cha-slide into the vote count - Philly is outside the convention center demanding we #CountEveryVote #joytothepolls #goodthingshappeninPhiladelphia #philly #votecount pic.twitter.com/XEKjBm6Nnw

— Philly We Rise (@phillywerise) November 5, 2020

Prospective candidates like yr Pence, Haley, Noem, et al. have to go and bend the knee and ask for his blessing.

Didn't they do a trial run for that when he auditioned his cabinet? Even remember Romney taking part.

Biden's on the move:

Looks like FAA has put POTUS bubble up over Wilmington, DE. pic.twitter.com/hySfCDSZ81

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) November 5, 2020

There's Elmo in Philly again. Someone please tell me what the story is there.

Think the bubble was announced yesterday -- saw a couple of tweets about it. Logical anticipation.

elmo is ringleader of anticha

Someone please tell me what the story is there.

Surely you've heard the rallying cry "Remember the Elmo!"

Tickle me once, my fault... tickle me twice...

can Ned just call the election already? I think that's in the Constitution

Please Like, Follow, Ned and Subscribe.

Civil rights groups @LawyersComm & @CommonCause are call on Twitter to suspend President Trump's account. https://t.co/WCGaoY4pcJ pic.twitter.com/mORhYKIY6p

— Sam Levine (@srl) November 5, 2020

Ned Raggett reads the election results.

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