GET OUT: US politics November 2020

i hesitate to go along with bringing abuse/trauma language into political discussions because i generally don't think it's helpful to view your political opponents as abusers — but i do understand why others may disagree with me on that especially in the Trump era. personally i think it's simpler to say he's lying and projecting.

― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Friday, November 13, 2020 12:48 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

why do you hesitate? i think it's actually much simpler to apply the language of abuse to obvious abusers.

A third poll watcher noticed that when absentee ballots came in from military personnel, many showed votes for Democrats. He found that odd.

“I can estimate that at least 80% of military ballots I saw were straight ticket Democrat or simply had Joe Biden’s name filled in on them,” the man wrote. “I had always been told that military people tended to be conservative, so this stuck out to me.”

hey military, quit committing fraud, vote for the right candidate!

“i noticed that sun would rise in the EAST and set in the West. this seems very suspicious & suggests to me a communist plot surrounding a FAKED sun of some kind”

lol these assholes simply can't believe that anyone in the military is a Democrat or even sympathetic to them

Was listening to a hayes guest argue that litigation re: fake vote fraud creates a useful record. Creating an official record is essential, but that is why mcconnell’s undermining of the courts is so terrifying. I mean the existence of a record is great, until it is, itself, a joek.

An armchair psychologist might see Trump himself as the victim of some kind of abuse during his developing years... certainly rings all the bells.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dodgers/comments/jrzd40/shoutout_mookie_for_receiving_a_vote_for/

I don't understand how fake vote fraud creates a useful record

to immediately dismiss similar cases in the future?

yes, and to undermine any legitimacy of said claims

Is Susan collins a liar? I just think of her as a coward

The best-case scenario is for this whole thing to discredit the whole fake voter fraud storyline.

best case is for all of the Trumps to be eaten by the same whale

jfc it’s bad enough that our fucking idiot president slept through Civics, do any of these clowns HAVE half a brain (dont answer)

Tommy Tuberville, who is about the be sworn in as a U.S. Senator, thinks the three branches of government are “the House, the Senate and executive.” https://t.co/021Fo4R9GO pic.twitter.com/pT2cpbTTXd

— Ian Sams (@IanSams) November 13, 2020

CTE presumably

dude named Tuberville with the brains of a potato, who'da seen that coming

brainworms agogo

college football coaches are on balance the worst group of human beings

Tupperware is gonna get eaten alive in the Senate. even by his own party's Senators

btw today was a busy move day so I barely got to read about politics all day and it was pretty good for the psyche, everybody should take a "avoid Trump news holiday" in the next week or so.

just not on Dec 14

plan to go on that holiday trip in January and never come back

oh and btw, Arizona called for Biden on CNN, WaPo

I just looked at that page with the rolling counts, Pa. is finally down to like 3,000-some votes left to count. And yeah, votes remaining in AZ are now about the same as the margin.

and NBC News called AZ as well.

it'sa over!

Tommy Tuberville, who is about the be sworn in as a U.S. Senator, thinks the three branches of government are “the House, the Senate and executive.”

it would be lol if this was an actual job interview, that could disqualify Potatoton and Q Marjorie

For people asking why Dems are so gloomy, here's the baseline scenario for the next eight years of American government. It's a nightmare:

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) November 12, 2020

Grimly plausible scenario in the above linked thread

https://i.imgur.com/ejeK0qO.gifv

https://i.redd.it/ktgq7zxbiix51.jpg

https://gifs.com/gif/lord-of-the-flies-simon-s-death-short-clip-vZAnB5

ffs i give up

mmm grimly plausible yes yess
hold on while i work up some liberal tears and grab some sandpaper and then i can really jerk myself off over this

Yeah, winning the Senate is pretty damn important.

Bernie Sanders becomes chair of the Health *and* Budget Committees if this happens!

Yes, the last eight years have unfolded so predictably, I can see no issue with Nostradamusing the next eight.

Fair to assume it'll be bad though

xp In 2012 it was completely plausible to assume a Republican could win the presidency in 2016 (which made Ginsburg's decision to stay on so chancy).

Looks like Biden's margin in Arizona might end up at around 9000 votes. I thought it was still around only 10K in Wisconsin so nice t see that's since doubled.

what happens if the Georgia count goes even furthe rinto Biden's favour.
Likelihood that he'd break out of the margin is still pretty slim I take it.

counters haven't conveniently disappeared any ballots so far have they, hoping that anybody picked is going to be entirely non partisan anyway. Even if their sacred orange avatar might lose his chance to further his corruption, like.

Automatic recount threshold in AZ is 0.1%; that's about 3500 votes. Very unlikely to go to a recount there. Biden lead 11.4k with 11.6k left to process.
In GA it's 0.5%, so around 25k votes. No one seems to know how much is still to be counted in GA (presumably they're just grinding through the handfuls of provisionals, only 400 votes have been added to the tallies since Wednesday afternoon), Biden lead is 14k. So recount still required.

Amazing that there's still over 2m to be counted in NY. A few ppl on Twitter were pointing at that state as being a rare example of a substantial swing to Trump (something like 43 of 51 states+DC went bluer vs 2016), with Biden only leading by 12-13pts (Hillary won by 23pts). But I think he'll end up with a margin in the high teens.

*points, laughs.*

BREAKING: The law firm alleging voter fraud in PA on behalf of the Trump campaign has RESIGNED. @davidenrich @jbsgreenberg @alanfeuer https://t.co/tLuTdIyugf

— Rachel C. Abrams (@RachelAbramsNY) November 13, 2020

I get up and down with the current shit show, but this feels like an up.

He slid into first and felt something burst

I just want this fucker to concede so he quits taking up airtime and digital real estate and, as a result, spends less time in my head.

I like the comment that suggests maybe the firm had no serious principled objection to the case, just that they weren't getting paid, which ... seems possible!

This is full-on Mad Max/Idiocracy:

VIDEO THREAD: Last night, a caravan of Trump supporters heading to DC led by Infowars' Owen Shroyer in an armored truck stopped in Richmond, Virginia.

The pitstop became a sort of rally, attracting Trump supporters, militia and boogaloo activists, and BLM counter-protesters. pic.twitter.com/ZrGiNbHG6g

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) November 13, 2020

xpost - I mean, any new business that willingly does work for him is just asking to be stiffed at this point, no?

A friend told me there's an entry in Andy Warhol's diaries where Warhol's upset at Trump about non-payment for some design work in one of his hotels...going back a few hundred years.

I have this feeling that real lifer professionals - these lawyers, government employees, etc. - just don't pay attention to all that noise and are always taken by surprise by stuff that does not seem surprising to us. Both for reasons of plausible deniability but also because they're busy. I have a couple of really good lawyer friends, for example, and when they are working and focusing on something they barely know what's going on in the world.