U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

Freeway and LeVar Burton… man.

man I just fuckin started crying. Burton seeing how his work lives on in others. got me

Whoopi Goldberg has said some of the dumbest shit on American network television, and that REALLY, REALLY says something. I can’t believe I loved her one woman Broadway show directed by Mike Nichols

Azelia would've gotten foreign policy in a Trump admin. Real opportunity missed.

Whoopi’s brain melted in the green room, making nice with the centrists.

Reuters: US Election updates: 'It's ours to lose,' Trump says during his final rounds

That's what we're all hoping for

Whoopi has now spent the great majority of her adult life living in Hollywood among the sort of people who are allowed to come into contact with and speak to established stars. It does weird things to you.

yes, trump did end his rally by dancing to y.m.c.a. just now.

always weird to me that trump never got the memo that you are always supposed to end a speech with "god bless you and god bless the united states of america" when you are running for president and were an actual president. just another way that he is "quirky".

its also very weird that Trump's signature song/dance combo involves a song which already has a signature dance and is a de facto gay anthem

And he’s doing this essentially in blackface

What a country!

These are some times some key states were called by AP in 2020 after polls closed

Eastern Time: State
00:19: Ohio
00:21: Iowa
00:35: Florida
01:06: Texas
02:51: Arizona
14:16: Wisconsin
17:58: Michigan

Just hoping I can fall asleep before midnight and make it til at least 5am

This will be the first time I've been on the west coast on election night. Looking forward to watching results at 4 p.m.

unless it's a total rout the race itself probably won't be called until Wednesday or Thursday but if either NC or GA goes blue we should know that pretty early and either one would most likely be game over

And he’s doing this essentially in blackface

For real, is ANYONE talking about this

Like not just “haha so much bronzer” but actually that he is not that many shades away from Al Jolson

00:35: Florida

I'm absolutely certain other papers/networks called Florida around 8 p.m.

always weird to me that trump never got the memo that you are always supposed to end a speech with "god bless you and god bless the united states of america"

him ending his 2021 farewell speech with "have a nice life" is the funniest thing to me, a top DJT moment

One thing that's crazy is we spend so much time, money, and attention on these campaigns, and -- do we really know whether any of it works? All those tens of thousands of people knocking on doors, does that work? Do the TV ads work? Do the texts work? Do public rallies work? Will any of this have mattered?

I mean, I think in the end Hillary would have won if it wasn’t for two or three late breaking events that went against her, all just piling up. The Comey letter being the main one, which tied back to Anthony Weiner, plus there was that time she was looking very ill in public right after Trump was suggesting she was in poor health and she wasn’t up for the job or something along those lines. I really do remember having a sense of mounting dread, even though I thought she would win.

And by “very ill“ I really don’t think she looked particularly ill, I think it was something along the lines of her slipping on a step or something, and maybe she was a little under the weather. I don’t know.

she fainted

I know the early vote doesn't indicate everything, but gender split here across pretty much every state is really encouraging:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Also impressive # of Dem party early votes in PA.

If she had said, "I feel like crap!" she might've recovered from the perception. Of such things our political circus are made.

Derek Guy had a makeup artist review their makeup in Foreign Policy magazine.

I'm part of the 34% "Other" vote in Montana. If I was a registered Democrat, maybe I wouldn't have gotten so fucking many Sheehy flyers in my PO box the last few months.

Yeah, that’s what it was, i blocked out that last week or much of it in the wake of election night. All that bullshit added up.

In September 2016, Clinton developed pneumonia. She left a 9/11 commemoration ceremony early due to illness.[167][168][169] Video footage of Clinton's departure showed Clinton becoming unsteady on her feet and being helped into a van;[170] this footage went viral.[171]

Like not just “haha so much bronzer” but actually that he is not that many shades away from Al Jolson

― DJP, Monday, November 4, 2024 4:06 PM

Thought the same thing, especially after this:

https://i.imgur.com/Isn1C00.png

Oh my god I saw that picture and practically screamed “OH MAMMY”

The Jizz Ringer

But how many blackface jokes can one cac like myself make.

Just imagine the people around him looking at that and saying, "yep, you look great sir! totally normal and very masculine!"

It almost makes you wonder if it's deliberate sabotage, like the fact-checking cameraperson.

I know the early vote doesn't indicate everything, but gender split here across pretty much every state is really encouraging:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote

Also impressive # of Dem party early votes in PA.

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, November 4, 2024 4:57 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

was expecting this gap to close as we got closer to election day and it looks like it's stayed pretty much the same. gonna have to be a lot of dudes coming out tomorrow if they wanna make this competitive.

I agree you can't really tell much from early vote but the fact that the Dems are close to 2020 numbers is very encouraging considering that they were telling everyone to vote by mail because of the pandemic while the GOP was telling people mail-in voting was "rigged"

I have a feeling Trump’s campaign is on the “not giving a shit” train because of the “little secret” he and Mike Johnson alluded to a million years a week ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/us/politics/trump-secret-house-republicans-panic.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU4.sb1X.qnpAd2JrGgJq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Yeah that is scary.

this thread needs more Freeway content

this is my favorite of his probably even though it's not long enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPh0Zr9nRCU

Yeah, I just think that would be fought tooth and nail. This wouldn’t be like Bush vs Gore. This country would and should shut down if they did that. But it’s also why it’s important to GOTV to the point that it’s undeniable. It also felt like desperation, and some unscripted bullshit.

Combined with his usual rhetorical bit about secrets he's not supposed to say, which can mean anything -- also worth remembering he said that at the MSG rally where the damage from the garbage comment and the full sense of a late break away from him wasn't yet known.

Via TargetEarly, it is now official - Dems head into E-Day in a stronger position in the battleground early vote than 2020. More D post-Dobbs overperformance.

Rs big campaign to make gains in the early vote has failed, and their EV "memos" are just pure bullshit. pic.twitter.com/CWZwRKo9wP

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) November 4, 2024

again, given the fact that BOTH parties are encouraging early vote this election this seems like real bad news for Trump, he's gonna need people to come out en masse tomorrow and if these rally crowds are any indication well, good luck

wow nice

I'm not sure I'm understanding the data in that tweet

Trump farted basically

Yeah if I'm reading it right it's an improvement of .01%?

I think that's an aggregate of the 7 battleground states this guy tracks, basically you'd think Rs would do better this time with early vote since their party isn't actively discouraging it, but they aren't. So either it's good news or nobody listened to Trump when he told his supporters not to vote early in 2020

there's a lot of context missing though, you combine that with women having a 9-point lead overall and polls indicating early voters breaking hard for Harris and yeah it does appear he's gonna need to make up a lot of ground on Election Day

he also notes that R-leaning partisan pollsters have released 93 polls in the final week to try to push the averages back, they may be working overtime because Harris's best polls are apparently coming right now

Fuck! Guys, I'm really finding the uncertainty hard to tolerate. Really drastically different things could happen tomorrow and I have no way of even guessing which of the possibilities will be realized and also no control! Why can't I be like the people who don't care as much? Like, they care *some*, they vote, etc., but it's not IN THEIR STOMACH the way it is in mine. I don't think it's helpful to let it be in my stomach. I don't think I'm more in service to my country because it's in my stomach.

Seen online: "I saw someone call tonight Poll Nidre so that’s what we’re going with."

If you think you're anxious now try 24 hours from now ...

Wow, I dunno how some of y'all can watch CNN. At least MSNBC has laughing, often drunk commentators who look like they're having fun. Everyone's so fuckin' dour over there; they take themselves so seriously.

I cannot watch televised news. The Guardian and some Dutch-language newspapers is all I can do

yeah tv news is dire

This is channel surfing. I watched Hundreds of Beavers and Copycat (prescient about incels!).