GET OUT: US politics November 2020

i don't think much rhymes with this

lol Sidney is claiming Biden has a concession speech written and that he's conceding tomorrow

i'm starting to wonder if she had a stroke or something

either that or she senses a golden opportunity to become the matinee idol of a million lunatics and monetizing it

I got a tweet by Sidney Powell removed

I understand it's a routine outpatient procedure nowadays

when you have a malignant rumor removed

looks like the child of Roger Stone and Zippy the Pinhead

are we having fun yet? pic.twitter.com/u76H2pXVVz

— Kit (@awardtour) May 25, 2018

that’s two days in a row Gowdy has poked his supremely weird head into my consciousness and I uh don’t like it

he lives rent free in his mother's basement

does he still have that invisible mustache

GET OUT

Hey fuck face, thanks for enabling the transition. Now get your fuckin shine box.

— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) November 23, 2020

the only good celeb

lol wut

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/527179-conservatives-spread-false-claim-biden-invented-office-of-the-president-elect

I distinctly remember conservatives complaining about when Obama had his going.

I wonder if Ron Perlman was like this pre-SOA

Trump's transition period as president-elect was a damp squib. Even weeks after his inauguration he still hadn't decided on a bunch of Cabinet nominations.

these are the same people that said President Obama was out golfing during Hurricane Katrina

This is fine. pic.twitter.com/FQHyeEFpul

— Asher Langton (@AsherLangton) November 24, 2020

Anyway, Chotiner interviews the Newsmax CEO

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-newsmax-supports-trumps-false-voter-fraud-claims

Also, haha how pathetic

A Roger Stone-linked super PAC that's been largely dormant since Trump was elected has kicked back into gear with an effort to get Rs to write in Trump in both GA Senate runoffs https://t.co/N4EGKLWsVy

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) November 24, 2020

Verily I support this position.

Given this rate of acceleration, I expect the GOP to faceplant in 2024 if for no other reason than that their constituents no longer understand how the electoral system works at all. Like maybe they'll just all eat their ballots in protest of...something.

that would be huge. make it so!

xpost

Ah, art.

This romantic moonlit scene in RUDY: THE RUDY GIULIANI STORY absolutely murdered me. I am dead. pic.twitter.com/eRZuxM0iMI

— Marie Bardi (@mariebardi) November 24, 2020

Given this rate of acceleration, I expect the GOP to faceplant in 2024 if for no other reason than that their constituents no longer understand how the electoral system works at all.

https://topshelfmovies.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/millers-crossing_528_poster.jpg

"I'm talkin' about civics!"

well give them loads to protest, the better the turn out for protesting in ways negative to them the better. Hopefully they can all boycott the vaccines, masks. voting etc and find a way to segregate themselves from people who need to live comfortably.
BUt somehow I bet they're still going to find a way to interfere.

From that Newsmax interview: "We’re reporting on factual evidence of anecdotal vote fraud."

Such genius

Did you enjoy the special on CNN that explained all the election security measures that make it essentially impossible for a Democrat-controlled city to rig an election? Oh, wait, that special doesn't exist. #DogThatDidNotBark

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 24, 2020

Hopefully they can all boycott the vaccines

Gonna say that I hope 47% of the country doesn't boycott the vaccine...

Agree

For at least six months, there won't be nearly enough doses to cover 50%+ of the population here (let alone the entire world) so we don't have to worry about that quite yet

I can't imagine this vaccine catching on among the more reluctant, who already largely ignore the (ubiquitous, easy to get) flu vaccine, not to mention in some cases inoculations for more serious illnesses. What will the percentage be? No idea, but I bet it'll be a low adoption rate. Too much misinformation, too much mistrust, even choice paralysis (I saw someone suggest that having multiple vaccines available might ironically lead some to inaction). I mean, how in the world can you convince someone who refuses to wear a mask or stop having social gatherings to take a vaccine that's been fast-tracked through the system? The/a question is if schools will *require* the vaccine (not sure who else could get away with issuing such a draconian order), but I don't even know how fast a policy like that could be implemented, let alone applied equitably, especially since, yeah, it will take a while before everyone has access to a vaccine.

On the plus side, anti-vaccine people seem to exist on all ends of the political spectrum, so maybe that will be the impetus that finally unites a divided America.

not sure who else could get away with issuing such a draconian order)

I mean, not trying to argue with you Josh, but I could see this fairly easily. I mean, starting in January, my work is going to require weekly testing for all staff and, if I don't keep up with it, they shut off my swipe card access to campus.

xp It could swing the other way too - for schools or workplaces, the local governent or employers demanding that people get vaccinated before they come in. Conservatives might say that there's no more excuse for preventative measures and lockdowns.

Right, jon - I figure many hospitals will require it pretty quickly for staff as well

Either way, the next 6-9 months are going to be absolutely lousy with outraged takes about "oppression", "forced vaccinations", "Gates/Soros/Biden tracking chips", yadda yadda.

not true, it's going to be a lot longer than that

Well, sure, it'll never go away, I just think the next 9 months will be the worst of it.

The tracking chip people posting on instagram on their iphones always confuses the fuck outta me

hoping that conservatives boycott the vote is an anti-democratic stance just FYI

how so?

Yeah, IDGI. Any voter is free to vote or, in lieu of voting, to self-own. It's what makes our country beautiful.

T/S: Stripping voting rights and making it increasingly difficult for your opponents to vote vs hoping the other side doesn't vote because they are whiny babies

hoping someone doesn't vote isn't anti-democratic, stopping them from doing it is

Yeah hoping is just hoping.

otherwise we were all anti-democratic for hoping Trump voters stayed home on 11/3

hoping that conservatives boycott the vote is an anti-democratic stance just FYI

No, it isn't.

Hoping that people who actively vote against your existence are too dumb to vote in people who will legislate in a manner inimical to your survival is not "anti-democratic".

Laughing at people who willfully and intentionally misunderstand the election process is not "anti-democratic".

These people are adults and they claim to be rational and intelligent. They have the ability to look up the information on how the voting process works and who the viable candidates are; no one is preventing them from accessing this or hiding it from them. As intelligent, rational individuals with access to facts, it's their responsibility and choice to use that information as they see fit; if their choice is to throw away their vote on someone who not only isn't running in the election but is in fact ineligible for the position, then they should own that. It is not my responsibility to encourage these people to kill me and fuck you for intimating that it is.

How about hoping all conservatives drop dead?

But what if they drop dead while they're trying to vote?

sorry DJP.

I mean, not trying to argue with you Josh, but I could see this fairly easily. I mean, starting in January, my work is going to require weekly testing for all staff and, if I don't keep up with it, they shut off my swipe card access to campus.

No, I totally get it. Maybe I should have specified schools as public and widespread vs. anyone's private place of work. You don't need proof of (any) vaccine to, for example, fly on an airplane, but schools, summer camps, things involving kids you generally do. But not many other public places, afaict, where they are mandatory. Do you even need actual proof of vaccination to work in a hospital, or is it only assumed?