GET OUT: US politics November 2020

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"

lol ymp

Project Lincoln's aim might've been to save down-ballot Republican candidates from Trump hate and apathy, which if it is the case, kinda worked in some of the margins that came out

Naomi Wolf has been fervently retweeting Trump's "IT WAS STOLEN" posts AND Kamala Harris, I don't really get what's happening in her mind right now.

Nor do I know what she means by saying Biden is "open to lockdowns," nor do I know what she means by saying it would be "unprecedented in this pandemic" (it wouldn't be, though it would be in the United States) nor do I know who the "elites" are that she thinks "love" the idea of confining everyone in their homes.

I've already blocked Trump on Twitter, and muted his name (and the words "lincoln project" too). It's all irrelevant now.

as irritated as I am by Biden's sentiment that he's gonna try to reach across the aisle and blah blah blah I guess what I'm more irritated by is that we have a political system in this country in which one side can stonewall everything and act in bad faith with literally everything they do and there's no way the other side can do a thing about it because our country is ALSO set up to ensure that Republicans always have a disproportionate amount of power

holy shit

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland laughs at the media for declaring that Joe Biden has won the election and will become president. pic.twitter.com/ARHqmsEbo7

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 8, 2020

haw haw haw haw haw

The timing of this is pretty amazing. Nothing nefarious about the timing of this at all right? 🙄 https://t.co/nS5rkywKXT

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 9, 2020

🐦[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

Yeah, Don Jr., it means possibly we won't have to endure months of Republican spin on Joe Biden's failure to eliminate COVID-19.

FYI a lot of people are tweeting about how Pfizer didn't accept government money for this vaccine. This isn't true. HHS did a $2 billion deal with Pfizer to guarantee a market for the vaccine, making Pfizer's R&D spend viable. Classic public/private partnership.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 9, 2020

Actually no, that's called signing a contract to buy things that a business is selling

They couldn’t do the research without preorders.

If the government buying stuff that doesn’t exist and hasn’t been tested isn’t a public private partnership then I don’t know what is.

I’m not a fan of the trump administration but there’s no need to go full big pharma libertarian in response to this news. Big pharma is a hugely subsidised and morally bankrupt industry.

If the government buying stuff that doesn’t exist and hasn’t been tested isn’t a public private partnership then I don’t know what is.

I think this is called a kickstarter

It's like Amanda Palmer but a vaccine

I guess it’s nice that Phizer didn’t take federal R&D investment, but its private investment in a Covid-19 vaccine is inseparable from the broader investment environment that Operation Warp Speed made possible. https://t.co/5BXvWLuJBe

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) November 9, 2020

“I’m proud to announce that our lemonade stand will invest in breakthrough citrus research WITHOUT taking federal R&D money. I did this to liberate our mixologists from burdensome bureaucracy.”

(just offscreen, the government is writing a check for 200 billion cups of lemonade)

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) November 9, 2020

I’m not a fan of the trump administration but there’s no need to go full big pharma libertarian in response to this news. Big pharma is a hugely subsidised and morally bankrupt industry.

This, 100x. Some of the left takes I'm seeing on Twitter are essentially wrapping around to become nearly indistinguishable from the MAGA takes.

as a Minnesotan I cannot tell you how much it warms my heart to see this ghoul reduced to being just another outstate Facebook maga mom weirdo

Former congresswoman Michele Bachmann calls on God to "smash the delusion, Father, that Joe Biden is our president. He is not." pic.twitter.com/gqoFP97ipT

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 9, 2020

nationalize big pharma

what a deluge of information to wake up to, again

some of it very good!

That Robinson Meyer lemonade tweet is the best pandemic recovery plan for bars I've seen yet

Disappointed that Bachmann promo didn't logically resolve on her telling God to take his iron rod, shine it up real nice, turn that sumbitch sideways etc

watch Trump direct the FDA to not approve emergency authorization to roll out any vaccine unless "he is declared the winner"

But of course

NEWS: Sec. Ben Carson tested positive for COVID-19 this morning. His deputy chief of staff says he's "in good spirits & feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery." Carson attended the election night party at the White House

— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) November 9, 2020

not so much worried about Trump commandeering the White House, but worried about the damage this drag-on process is going to do to the transition, as well as what Trump's gun-wielding thugs might want to do.

xpost Genuinely impressed that Pence hasn't caught it yet

but surely ben carson, famed neurosurgeon, would have been wearing a mask the entire time at the election night party at the white house (which was siiiick), right?

he wore the mask, but not where u think

Janet Yellen Treasury sec?

The Prospect has learned that Janet Yellen is the favored pick to become the next Treasury Secretary.https://t.co/sVQZJGXnyk

— David Dayen (@ddayen) November 9, 2020

I called Klain as a pick -- he's been loyal to Biden for years.

yeah I heard Republicans joking about the incoming Klain administration

Is Warren getting a position

Earl?

We don’t have Earls!

Afterhours markets are surging, I wonder who will take credit for that?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, November 7, 2020 10:51 AM (two days ago)

STOCK MARKET UP BIG, VACCINE COMING SOON. REPORT 90% EFFECTIVE. SUCH GREAT NEWS!

i am the duke of poop!

― tunnel joe (harbl), Wednesday, November 2, 2011 8:33 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It’s a burden understanding this man

Trump is devouring fast food — and aides are ‘lighting scented candles’ to cover up the stench: report https://t.co/a9Gfg20IZE

— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 9, 2020