GET OUT: US politics November 2020

lmao he's on Twitter now just spamming the TL

Someone posted this ITT yesterday and it keeps coming to mind

all you hear when trump tweets now is the charlie brown grownups

— kilgore trout, four seasons appreciator (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 7, 2020

Trump got 89% of registered Republicans in KY, McConnell got 82.7%.
Biden got 44.74% of registered Dems, McGrath got 47.29%
Anyone have an explanation??

it is so fucking wild that a man can become President of the United States and literally not change in any way or learn a single thing

Frogbs, yes that is wild but we don't elect people, we elect brands.

The man can change while the brand doesn't, and vice versa

Right-wingers on Facebook won't shut up about Benford's Law. On the plus side, they've stopped misinterpreting COVID statistics for a few days.

You mean this one? (Quoting wikipedia):

Benford's law of controversy is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape, stating: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Today, Canada’s Foreign Minister @FP_Champagne told @RosieBarton that persuading @joebiden not to rescind the permit for the planet-wrecking Keystone XL pipeline is “top of the agenda” for @justintrudeau’s government.

This is what the new climate change denialism looks like. pic.twitter.com/APv3MkLHsa

— Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) November 8, 2020

President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead...

Worked for Joe McCarthy (for a while, anyway).

Anyone have an explanation??

a poor candidate (confirmed) and lackluster operations (inferred from recent chatter)

(and other reasons specific to the region, I'm sure, but contributing factors.)

FP_Champagne sounds like it's drunk from the skulls of ILX enemies

Will be interesting to see how the lamestream media engages with him once they don't have to do the bullshit "respect the office" stuff.

Once they don't have to engage with him anymore, the gloves will come off and they'll treat him like they treat George Bush

The last people excited about Amy McGrath were the Iraqi people she was performing air strikes on.

v confusing why the pro-trump Dem candidate didn't siphon votes from Mitch McConnell, yes

Remember Naomi Wolf from the Clinton years? She seems to have gone full kook.

If I’d known Biden was open to ‘lockdowns’ as he now states, which is something historically unprecedented in any pandemic, and a terrifying practice, one that won’t ever end because elites love it, I would never have voted for him.

— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) November 9, 2020

This is not a new development

She’s been a bit of a nut job for a while and pretty aggressive at going after anyone who challenges her historical research.

Right on cue, I suppose. Dr Wolf today again accuses me of whitewashing gay history. In a tweet in this thread she also accuses me of homophobia. That's a new one. This would be a surreal amusement if the accusations weren't quite so serious. https://t.co/D23mwmZgD5

— Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) February 4, 2020

When was she not a kook?

She also has bizarre and long running beef with the Australian energy minister over what he said she said about a Christmas tree in Oxford 30 years ago. Angus Taylor is an irredeemable liberal prick so she might be right on this one but she went bizarrely deep on this one.

Is Georgia on your mind? It’s on ours too.

Donate here and help fund our fight to take power away from Mitch McConnell. https://t.co/gwooi9TsNW

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 8, 2020

The Lincoln Project convinced Democratic donors to part with $39,384,397 in Q3. It burned a staggering $13 million on operating expenditures, made $23.9M of IEs (mostly routed into its founders firms), and ended with $13.2M on hand. https://t.co/wvOXUYp7ed

— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) October 14, 2020

One last grift before they ride off into the sunset.

thanks for the reminder re Wolf vs Minister For Destroying The Environment Taylor. this is amazing, Angus is 1000% in the wrong but she still manages to ju-jitsu it against herself and come off demented. instead of doing some historical research (say, back three or four months) and showing that Taylor has form on falsifying public attacks against feminist women, she decides it was an anti-semitic dogwhistle and defuses her entire standing:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/05/naomi-wolf-angus-taylor-formal-correction-christmas-tree-row

https://i.imgur.com/IWUNNpl.png

Some of those Electoral votes are coming from states that dead!

That Are dead!

i keep veering between 'uninspiring plagiarist loser joe biden somehow managed to defeat a famous reality show star in the face of media acquiescence and unprecedented disinfo campaigns, holy shit' and 'worst president ever who allowed a global pandemic to rage unchecked through every constituency was only defeated by democrats threading the needle perfectly in a handful of swing states'

Whynotboth.gif

Pfizer finds a vaccine the weekend after the election is it

Do Electoral college votes automatically follow the consensus of whatever state electors they're grouped with. I assume they do but could see benefits of them following their own lead.
Not as many as getting rid of the archaic institution.

I wrote a thing about this past weekend. There'd been no plans to do so until the Sunday moment arrives and something crystallized for me.

https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/the-cautious-invisible-smiles-of-victory

That's wonderful. Richard Ford-esque!

Agreed! And Walmart really is the most depressing place.

guys both these georgia senate races look winnable

And that’s what makes this a fun read

Republicans told Axios they worry that Trump's election fight will divert money from the real remaining prize for the GOP — the Georgia runoffs that'll determine Senate control.

One top Republican said, "It is a distraction. And a gigantic waste of time." https://t.co/gEIcaKNNoU

— Axios (@axios) November 9, 2020

is there any point in conning him into a Texas recount.
Were there more votes taht weren't counted when that was called.
I mean couldn't he get to gloat a bit more if he was convinced he could show off a better win or something.
or would he get it

One obvious thing in counteracting all this nonsense is Ohio, which provides a perfect inverse parallel to the way that Pennsylvania and other states unfolded. Ohio counted mail-in first, and Biden was way ahead election night.

Maybe Asshole could spin it into a new reality show, traveling the world searching for lost votes.

"We are here in Uruguay, where rumors are rampant that there are votes to be found. Sources say three were sighted deep in the jungle, just before we arrived. Will we get to them before the mosquitoes get to us? Join us as we Search ... for the Lost Votes."

He could also catch snakes, because people love that shit.

Maybe Asshole could spin it into a new reality show, traveling the world searching for lost votes.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 9, 2020 7:47 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"(If) I Tried To Steal It"

This is really the best case scenario, will keep him occupied from doing more real damage and siphon money away from the Georgia runoffs

you guys can keep your Four Seasons Total Landscaping bandcamp pages for real

I'm going to start practicing this weekend with The Georgia Runoffs

HUGE NEWS: Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90% of its volunteers.

— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) November 9, 2020

this is a total lie (Pfizer didn't take any government money) but it's nice to not be totally irritated by this

"The Lincoln Project convinced Democratic donors to part with $39,384,397 in Q3"

How do they know those are Democratic donors? I'm a Democratic donor, I know a lot of Democratic donors, it would have never occurred to us to give to Project Lincoln, we were all giving to the Biden campaign and Theresa Greenfield and Sara Gideon. I always assumed Project Lincoln was funded by rich Republicans who hated Trump.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJn-Jl2ZeQU

btw the Dow hitting an all-time high the Monday after the race is called for Biden is just too perfect

Re the Pence tweet

Dear Mike Pence:

Why the pfuck do you think we held off on announcing the results until after the election? Because we knew you and your criminally dishonest boss would pfalsely try to take credit pfor our work. Pfuck off.

Respectfully,

Pfizer

I always assumed Project Lincoln was funded by rich Republicans who hated Trump.

I don't know how accessible that information is, but anecdotally speaking the comments on any Lincoln Project post are routinely filled with praise from liberals, it's not that weird to guess/assume they gave a good chunk of that money.

It's hard for me to get too outraged about Project Lincoln when people gave them money of their own accord. The narrative is that it was supposed to help flip moderate Republicans, but I always saw it mostly as a Trump harassment campaign. They made some of the best anti-Trump ads of the year. That maybe says more about Biden and the rest of the Democrats than it does about them, but honestly I don't really care what they do with their money.

(to be clear, I would never give them a dime)

yeah it was nice to see attack ads against Trump that weren't just "THIS ISNT NORMAL GUYS"