GET OUT: US politics November 2020

the numbers are clear: Worst ongoing plotline in the second season of Twin Peaks (SPOILERS)

KM is super cool and as long as he stays away from Evelyn we’ll be fine

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Nate Silver, Stupid Myopic Asshole: a thread.

So, I really try my best not to use the quote tweet for shade or snark. I employ it for funny/sweet things or if there’s a lesson we really, really need to understand.

This, you’ve by now guessed, is the latter. Because this isn’t just wrong, it’s dangerous.

Yes, thread. https://t.co/oVxW1eKjPJ

— this is a jingle jangle stan account. (@MsPackyetti) November 25, 2020

tremendous

it sounds like this guy and nate silver have different goalposts for "election theft"

"This guy" is a woman named Brittany Packnett Cunningham, and that thread is right on in *every single way.*

yes

oof, my bad. :/

nate silver should def talk less

Who are these infants who must be spoonfed only what they choose to believe? How do they work and live and breathe?

― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 05:42 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

😏

Oh, you.

out there in the thread

Eh, I’m fine with dunking on Nate, but his argument was a lot more specific— not that Trump and the GOP more broadly weren’t trying every conceivable way to steal the election, just that in the post-11/3 aftermath there was never a very plausible way for them to do it.

All of her points are of course otm.

yeah I don't think Nate was focusing on systemic issues so much as elaborate plots to steal an election, flipping the results of an election.

that said, the general voting public does need to be consistently reminded of the systemic voter disenfranchisement that has been the M.O. of the GOP for decades, particularly against minorities.

happy Kraken Day to all who celebrate

Excited Trump supporters have dubbed today Kraken Day, after ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell promised to "release the kraken" in an election fraud lawsuit set to be filed today. pic.twitter.com/9Q3JRs3VGC

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 25, 2020

man is their Thanksgiving going to suck

Happy Karen Day!

lol

Karen On Krak

The post-election fallout among diehard Trump supporters consistently brings to mind the title of Harry Partch's Delusion of the Fury. These people are furiously delusional or deludedly furious or both, take your pick.

"release the kraken" used to be a euphemism for taking a shit, which I guess in this case still fits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPErA7NZISM

https://i.imgur.com/SNtTRUO.jpg

Kraken Day off to a great start!

Trump’s planned trip to PA is off after a member of the campaign tested positive.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 25, 2020

lmao

nice going Kraken

Kraken… welcome to The Resistance

COVID got crackin' ("kraken")

Is he still...campaigning?

yeah I don't think Nate was focusing on systemic issues so much as elaborate plots to steal an election, flipping the results of an election.

that said, the general voting public does need to be consistently reminded of the systemic voter disenfranchisement that has been the M.O. of the GOP for decades, particularly against minorities.

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, November 25, 2020 10:58 AM bookmarkflaglink

well, that's the critique, right? insisting that our elections are robust and mostly not-very-stealable is a problem when systemic voter disenfranchisement means our elections at various levels are stolen, all the time. it's a useful adjustment of the frame IMHO, and it would be a good thing if election pundits like Silver, when asked about the stealability of elections, would emphasize these regularized and legalized forms of theft.

Silver's original tweet is a gigantic point-missing fart and that Twitter thread rightly calls him on it

'The kraken' is Powell's secret code for her overstuffed purse, which she will dump onto the lectern on live tv before proceeding to fish through a mound of detrius for the wadded scraps of paper which will at last demonstrate her profound mental illness to the world expose the fabled Rise of the Sentient Voting Machines as prophesied by Q.

in retrospect "nate bronze" was going way too easy on him

nate participation medal

what if.... an election was “flipped” before the results were even counted

* kaboom *

there's a really nice old couple a few blocks from my house who always talk to me and my son when we're walking to a park and I'm about 90% certain they're nate silver's parents

I do think it's super important to harp on voter suppression measures but c'mon that was clearly not what Nate was talking about here. there's a pretty big difference between "the New England Patriots will cheat to win the AFCCG" and "the Patriots will lose the AFCCG but play in the Super Bowl anyway"

joygoat, are you in East Lansing?

Polls say there is a 70% chance they are his parents, however despite postal service underfunding and controversial management, there is a chance the mailman is actually the father

CDC warning not to travel for Kraken Day

yeah, voter suppression is an actual issue, Trump is going to change the will of the voters after the fact, not so much.

jaymc yes i am, but if my own .xls is correct i'm probably within a few miles of you at the moment

Absolutely otm that vote suppression and disenfranchisement ought to be front and center in the discussion at all times. It runs from voter ID bullshit to post-prison bullshit to mail-vote bullshit to the pinnacle bullshit of the Electoral College.

if we truly had fair and enfranchised voting (and districting), I think the EC would be less of an issue. The Senate, on the other hand...

in a perverse way, the more blatant and clumsily obvious ways Trump and company tried to disenfranchise voters this year may bring this discussion more to the forefront for those that have previously been ignorant of the tactics used to suppress the vote.

Yeah gerrymanders and the Senate are the other biggies. I was thinking the other day about what politically viable Senate reform could look like. Obviously the best thing would be to either just get rid of the Senate or redistrict it to 100 equal population districts. But I can't imagine that ever flying, because states are very attached to their powers, and a lot of people are very attached to their states. So I was thinking you could leave one senator per state, so "small states" still get some overrepresentation, and then make the other 50 into large-district senators.

Even that feels like a pipe dream, but I'd love to see Senate reform at least get into the conversation.

Ryan Lizza’s brain is so smooth

What a weird fight to pick. Reed is being attacked by the left for serving as a staffer on a bipartisan blue ribbon commission years ago rather than being applauded as one of the key policy architects of the most progressive agenda in modern history. https://t.co/2ib1Me4jbz

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) November 25, 2020

Smooth like the food at a ‘70s key party

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what is with the brains of people with "lizza" in their name

https://i.imgur.com/0Tian63.jpg

when you've been on ilx long enough, you can just post a fucking koosh ball and it might mean something to someone