GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Trump showing up exclusively to events he can control every aspect of may have something to do with that. The man is an incredible coward.

Some rough math: If the remaining ~140k Maricopa ballots come in at 53%...

It'd require Trump to pull off 75.1% among remaining ~70k non-Maricopa ballots.

Most of these are Pima & Pinal county ballots.

Yesterday's Pima batch: Trump 52.6%
Yesterday's Pinal batch: 68.4% https://t.co/PYLscKa3QL

— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 6, 2020

Helen Thomas, had she lived to cover a Trump WH, would probably have called him on something and been perma-banned.

The republican party is rotten and also their project is radically destructive. Hopefully it has an identity crisis post-Trump and collapses

We don’t need that party. Maybe a less evil conservative party will take it’s place.

what?

With the attack by the Radical Left Dems on the Republican Senate, the Presidency becomes even more important!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2020

(I promise this tweet is actually recent)

Yeah but what the tweet doesn’t include is that he yelled that while slowly shrinking into a corncob

Part of the problem with the armed conflict/militia narrative has always been ... who exactly are they going to fight? I saw a Facebook post yesterday that I can't find now, but it was a super-Trumper responding to his tirade last night by saying, "Yes! We have to fight this! I'm ready to load up my car and drive somewhere!" That's a paraphrase, but the "and drive somewhere" part is a direct quote. Where you gonna drive?

GHOSTBUSTERS

from MN a glimpse into the inevitable nuttiness of post Trump GOP

NEW: Key #MNGOP activists are actively pushing Mike Lindell to run for governor in 2022 and to announce soon, via sources. In a twist, @MNGOP Chair Jennifer Carnahan - who in an unprecedented move has already endorsed his candidacy - is being mentioned as a possible running mate.

— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) November 6, 2020

omg what

xxxpost That's part of the problem, and another part of the problem is that to the extent that such groups exist, they're little atomized clusters of a couple dozen dumb motherfuckers at best. It's not like there's some organized Trump Army that's going to be traveling state-to-state razing blue cities to the ground.

Meanwhile in Nevada, GAMECHANGER oh wait

Rural Storey County just reported two votes, both for Donald Trump. The president does well in the rurals... but there just aren't that many votes left out there.

— Megan Messerly (@meganmesserly) November 6, 2020

haha

Oh DEAR

son can I speak to your mother and make sure she’s aware her toddler is going unattended to fuck with philadelphia dressed as a literal cowboy https://t.co/LqMmYL6Mxj

— kilgore trout, tucker carlson’s mailman (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 6, 2020

"The republican party is rotten and also their project is radically destructive. Hopefully it has an identity crisis post-Trump and collapses"

This has been said after 2008, 2012, and 2018. They almost won Presidential election with a psycho asshole. They've gained in House and prob still control Senate, not to mention state houses, senates and governorships. Keep dreamin.

xp Is that the kid from Destroyer's Kaputt video?

Yup. They'll pivot just fine. xp

i'm not saying what i think will happen, just what i think should. and anything is possible if this psycho asshole was elected in the first place.

They almost won Presidential election with a psycho asshole the most popular Republican since Reagan

Where you gonna drive?

predictable:

"...But you'll also see me trying to find common ground that would benefit all of us and a good place to start, I think, would be the debt and infrastructure and immigration."

— Chris Cioffi (@ReporterCioffi) November 6, 2020

Topher Grace IS Briscoe Cain, coming soon.

the debt - yes top priority

sorry, this was the tweet I meant to post:

Senate committee talk from Graham: If we keep the Senate which I think we will and I become Budget chairman. I'd like to create a dialogue about how can we finally begin to address the debt.

nobody believes you, lindsey dickhead

o a church, synagogue, mosque, kids summer camp, or community organizing school, is the unfortunate answer of history
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, November 6, 2020 9:13 AM (one minute ago)

Though with Covid restrictions on assembly ...

This sounds about right

To me, this was always the most revealing part of the @jonathanvswan interview. Trump's idea of "not conceding" isn't to bar the doors and call in the National Gaurd, it's "never personally take responsibility and go on a book tour instead." pic.twitter.com/qojyNijnKY

— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) November 6, 2020

still, they could do a Charles Whitman and just shoot a bunch of people outdoors rather than indoors

And I have to wonder -- COVID cases are getting worse, numbers ramping up. Even with treatments preventing as many deaths, those numbers will still rise. I can't imagine Trump cares anymore at all, beyond his own brush with it.

my plots are still going

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/williamsmj/countdown/main/plot1.png

I insist that we increase the size of the national debt, as much as we possibly can

Rush Limbaugh concedes election, says Biden has won

— Steve Thomma (@stevethomma) November 6, 2020

thank u caek

“anymore” implies he once cared

Rush Limbaugh concedes the election, dies

If you want to address the national debt just repudiate it bitches

And I have to wonder -- COVID cases are getting worse, numbers ramping up. Even with treatments preventing as many deaths, those numbers will still rise. I can't imagine Trump cares anymore at all, beyond his own brush with it.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, November 6, 2020 11:20 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

AFAIC, this will be the worst part of this lame duck period. A couple more months of complete inaction at the federal level as we head into winter is going to be devastating.

“anymore” implies he once cared

Oh I allow for the occasional two seconds.

lol

On life after, anger at Fox / Murdoch family cannot be understated. Should he lose, Trump wants to destroy Fox - aides believe they can steal hosts Hannity & Carlson. Sources believe Trump will never admit he lost should we get there - instead stick with “rigged” “fraud” “stolen” https://t.co/15PzANMS9c

— John Santucci (@Santucci) November 6, 2020

xp man, I don't

might be tough to steal some of those fox hosts cuz they actually like to be paid.

AFAIC, this will be the worst part of this lame duck period. A couple more months of complete inaction at the federal level as we head into winter is going to be devastating.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, November 6, 2020 12:24 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

have thought this, a lot

yep

the only hope is that the GOP is motivated to do something by the georgia runoffs. but even then, trump stands in the way.

I know the short answer is misplaced vengeance, but what does Trump gain by firing a lot of senior people at this point?

You have answered your own question quite well as you yourself admit

xpost Why among other things he gains the ability to let Biden pick a new head of the FBI

(Which would be strangely ironic since while I am aggressively neutral on Wray, over time he seems to have quietly pushed back against Trump and Barr as much as he can.)