GET OUT: US politics November 2020

sounds like M.I.A.

also for my local soccer team, every time there's a drop of rain, 7000 people post IS THE MATCH GOING TO GET CANCELLED? HOW DO WE GET REFUNDS on the team's twitter

xpost lol

#BREAKING I have learned that the Secretary of State and Gov. Kemp WILL CERTIFY the Georgia election and the 5pm news conference will simple announce that. The Sec of State certification news release was sent out before the certification was official. It will happen, I am told.

— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) November 20, 2020

lolol

#BREAKING I have learned that the Secretary of State and Gov. Kemp WILL CERTIFY the Georgia election and the 5pm news conference will simple announce that. The Sec of State certification news release was sent out before the certification was official. It will happen, I am told.

— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) November 20, 2020

GODDAMMIT XPOST

(reasons to turn off the damn internet on a Friday afternoon, I don't need the stress)

otm

Were y'all legit worried about Georgia? The law's clear about the secretary of state having the power.

Not legit worried, just twitchy.

Yeah, I'm off work today and was also offline until like an hour ago. It was nice to have my anxiety turned down to like a 7.5 for most of the day.

feel like Trump getting off scot-free - which I entirely expect to happen - is gonna be really bad for our country and our political system. already we see Lindsay Graham committing felonies in broad daylight which is not something I think would've happened pre-Trump.

"You say you lost your norms
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no norms to lose
And you know it"

It's tricky
To ascertain the prez
To ascertain the prez
Trump won he sez
It's tricky

"...the tracks he performed over didn't have vocals removed and he only rapped a third of each lyric..."

Sounds a LOT like a Gucci Mane show I saw a few years ago.. also his crew were casually wandering all over the stage, looking at their phones.

Not legit worried, just twitchy.

I feel like this has been how I've spent 85% of the year, when it isn't actually full on worry or anxiety.

I'm fully aware of how privileged this statement will be but, goddamn, do I miss days when the biggest thing in the news was which celebrity was dating another.

Sounds a LOT like a Gucci Mane show I saw a few years ago.. also his crew were casually wandering all over the stage, looking at their phones.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, November 20, 2020 3:04 PM bookmarkflaglink

S'GUCCI

bennifer save us

then there was the MC hammer show, where he walked offstage after he each to ask the sound guy which song was next

Sounds like when Ghostface Killah did a show in Chicago years ago and was three hours later, then performed a 15-minute medley before leaving again.

"three hours late"

ppl who have figured out how to live tbqh

Ever since it became clear Biden won convincingly in the states he needed, i.e. two weeks ago, my anxiety has faded. It doesn't mean I worry about precedents, but it does mean Joseph Robinette Biden will be president in January.

He should start going by “Beto Biden”

I can't help but recall when Vanilla Ice showed up to a mall appearance in Dubuque a week and a half late and then did nothing but play with a Bop-It onstage for four minutes.

My worst concert delay: peak period Outkast in a Miami Beach club two nights before NYE. Concert announced at 9 p.m. By 2 a.m. they still hadn't come onstage. When I left fifteen minutes later, they came onstage shortly before three and played lol a medley.

dying lmao at old lunch

2004 DNC Rock the Vote party, Lauryn Hill showed up 2.5 hours late while her band wandered around on stage riffing along to the tracks the in-house DJ was playing, hectored the audience for 10 minutes about how important it was to pay attention to her lyrics, then sang a meandering song about a philosopher on top of a hill while the rest of her band looked rueful.

IIRC, she performed zero (0) of her hits.

All those in favor of turning this thread into a hip-hop show complaint box? Signify by saying "aye."

I had to do it:

late, delayed, and/or cancelled concerts - your stories here

Ever since it became clear Biden won convincingly in the states he needed, i.e. two weeks ago, my anxiety has faded. It doesn't mean I worry about precedents, but it does mean Joseph Robinette Biden will be president in January.

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 20, 2020 8:13 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah my anxiety has also faded, replaced by a familiar "end of history" numbness as i watch him appoint dupont advisors etc to his cabinet. panic replaced by tiredness at the promise of everything still being terrible but a little less loudly.

I was juuuuust listening to a podcast where someone said DeBlasio pulled a full-on Lauryn Hill by showing up at like 3:30pm for his pre-scheduled 10am press conference where he announced the school closure (poorly).

please tell me he didn't make any "my wife says I'm on CP-time" jokes

It's not that I doubt BdB's ability to take a grim sledgehammer to his credibility as both a politician and as a functional human being, but somehow I can't hear his wife making that joke in the first place? Idk why not.

Were y'all legit worried about Georgia? The law's clear about the secretary of state having the power.

I'll be honest, in the end I am not a terribly anxious person (just constantly angry and disappointed, lol), but if the last few years have shown me anything it's that the law is not "clear" about as much as we might have thought, especially when it comes to the Federal government. I mean, do I need to make a list? Acting cabinet appointments overstaying their welcome or using powers they don't have. Treasury being compelled to furnish Trump's tax returns and refusing. Countless subpoenas unenforced or met with silence. Violations of the Hatch Act, from campaign events at the WH to cabinets members campaigning for the president. The apparent worthlessness of the emoluments clause. And so on and so on. The "legit" worry is that there is very little faith that things once considered "clear" will be treated or enforced as such, or that the worst we can imagine, even if it ultimately fails, will not be attempted. As long as the rules are not being enforced, then the rules are worthless, and the remedy nebulous or hinging precariously on unpredictable factors, like the whims of lifetime appointed judges, or even luck.

We've all knocked on wood that Team Trump seems to be largely inept, but a smidge more competence is all it might have taken to make things go the other way.

It definitely seems that some 'accepted norms' need to be codified into 'ironclad laws.'

certification in GA re-completed

I respect your opinion, but certification denied.

I love the gullible idiots who keep saying the litigation should be allowed to play out, like they haven't figured out after four years that Trump will just keep filing meaningless lawsuits so he can say there are legal options pending

you know McEnany may almost be worse than Huckabee-Sanders.

almost

I'll be honest, in the end I am not a terribly anxious person (just constantly angry and disappointed, lol), but if the last few years have shown me anything it's that the law is not "clear" about as much as we might have thought, especially when it comes to the Federal government. I mean, do I need to make a list? Acting cabinet appointments overstaying their welcome or using powers they don't have. Treasury being compelled to furnish Trump's tax returns and refusing. Countless subpoenas unenforced or met with silence. Violations of the Hatch Act, from campaign events at the WH to cabinets members campaigning for the president. The apparent worthlessness of the emoluments clause. And so on and so on. The "legit" worry is that there is very little faith that things once considered "clear" will be treated or enforced as such, or that the worst we can imagine, even if it ultimately fails, will not be attempted. As long as the rules are not being enforced, then the rules are worthless, and the remedy nebulous or hinging precariously on unpredictable factors, like the whims of lifetime appointed judges, or even luck.

We've all knocked on wood that Team Trump seems to be largely inept, but a smidge more competence is all it might have taken to make things go the other way.

― Josh in Chicago,

I get all this, so in a sense my post was gauging the rest of y'all.

Where does this bullshit go?

#BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse, teenager who shot two people during a protest in Kenosha (Wisconsin), released from jail on $2 million bail https://t.co/d0zPYUizH7

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) November 20, 2020

alt-right thread, maybe

Done!

Lol at his follow-up tweet being very defensive about who funded the bail.

xps “legal options pending” is the new “IRS audit”

Just enjoy the consequence that he's going to have to leave office as a loser and he knows the whole world knows it, regardless of what he says about it. If he ends up broke and/or in jail, all the better, but at a minimum he's finally run into something he can't just grift his way out of.

Just want to note that this is grifting his way out of it. He's been a massive loser at everything he's ever attempted, except for holding onto some buildings his daddy bought, and being edited desperately around by harried TV freelancers. He just walks away and talks about how great whatever the thing he's doing now is.

I dunno, I still think losing this election is going to eat at him every remaining day of his life. Or at least, that's what I'm going to choose to believe.

he doesn't have an inner life

But he has endless seething rages and resentments. There's no way losing a presidential election, being literally evicted from the White House, doesn't cause him deep and lasting pain. That's what we're all seeing every day right now, but it won't go away once he leaves. He'll still be tweeting the stolen election from his deathbed.

he doesn't have an inner life

xpost - Oh for sure he will. What I would love to see happen is for the media to completely ignore him and let those tweets fall only on the ears of the MAGA faithful, but I don't have a lot of hope for that. Sadly, I think the media (on both side, tbh, the hate clicks are still clicks) is going to keep smearing his shit in our lives for some years to come.

He knows that being a single term POTUS has become a historical aberration - that he's now in the Jimmy Carter/George HW Bush club. Just the way he grimaces these days shows his loserdom.