US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

Was coming here to post that.

i voted in san antonio today, about a 35 minute wait in a midterm is p darn long. saw lots beto shit as well as white olds.

was Alex Jones yelling at beto's shit

holy shit @ what Pelosi went through

In recent weeks, Lesley Stahl, the AP White House team & now Van Jones have all secured rare sit-down interviews with Trump and Kushner; rare opportunities for a non-Fox interviewer to hold this dishonest, racist, unhinged White House to account.

And they've all blown it. Sigh.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 22, 2018

What did he expect?

The only halfway correct opinion Trump has is re: the general worthlessness of a so-called news media that doesn't rip him to absolute shreds on a daily basis.

I thought Stahl did okay

Van Jones's bootlicking was pretty disappointing. "How'd you get this awesome job?" fuck off

Predictable though

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321722-van-jones-on-trumps-honoring-of-widow-of-navy-seal-trump-became

Pretty spicy language for the times

Trump is running a midterm campaign based on stoking racial divisions and fear of immigrants, and in some cases the GOP is making open appeals to racism @AsteadWesley & me, w/@llerer @elizabethjdias @jwpetersNYT >>https://t.co/oSPncMl3ti

— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) October 23, 2018

Good luck, buddy!

David I really do wish Trump supporters who are not racist would acknowledge the extent to which racist Trump supporters are out there and the extent to which their grotesque presence has inflicted very real costs on our nation and on individual citizens. https://t.co/v7twYaWUe5

— David French (@DavidAFrench) October 23, 2018

Early voted just now here in Austin... wait was about an hour, which is pretty high in my experience. Might partly be the 14-page ballot, but it usually takes all of five minutes.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, October 22, 2018 6:25 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Houston Chronicle described the turnout on the first day of early voting in Texas as “shocking.”

Thousands were already camped out at a key early voting location in Houston on Monday morning, hours before voting was even set to begin. https://t.co/9WzY7ZnjU5

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 23, 2018

Lucked into the only polling place in my city without a line, somehow. Still took longer to get my ballot code than to vote.

Its shocking because a lot of people turned out? Isnt that good?

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/22/politics/ted-cruz-election-2018-president-trump-campaign-rival-opponent/index.html

"A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly not caring about the country so much. You know, we can't have that," Trump said, prompting boos from the crowd.

"You know what I am, I'm a nationalist," he added, as the crowd erupted in "USA! USA!" chants. "Use that word."

Well blow me down...

Its shocking because a lot of people turned out? Isnt that good?

fwiw my county's first day early voting totals went from about 13000 in 2014 to 34000 this year.

Well, this whole voting business costs money, you know. And that comes right out of your and my pockets. Best to cut off most funding for elections when you think about it. Smaller government, more streamlined, gets rid of a cost center that just eats up your profits.

Shocking in the sense of very surprising, not in the uk/au sense of extremely bad trayce.

Strong turnout in urban Texas is probably good for the democrats but nobody knows anything, certainly not whether it’s good enough. Early turnout helps you predict turnout and not much else.

does it even tell you that? i've heard the theory that high early voting cannibalizes e-day turnout

ha yeah it's apparently not as simple as high early vote -> high total vote, but the early vote total is not nothing if predicting turnout is your goal (which for people like nate cohn at the NYT, who does the needle thing, is a necessary thing he needs to do for election night modelling). but yeah, it's basically useless information for the vast majority of us, including the people who write about turnout like it signifies.

that said, people camping out to vote is news though.

this is good content https://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/10/22/12-laxalt-family-members-oppose-adam-laxalt-governor-heres-why/1733253002/

yeah i guess you might see something about which groups of voters are turning out...i think reading all those jon ralston tweets about high nevada turnout in 2016 made me complacent about the actual election. and ralston was right about hilary winning nevada! it just didn't signify anything else.

(sorry for triggering anyone's ptsd btw)

will no-one think of the summer homes hundreds of miles away from the border

But Mr. Trump’s dystopian imagery has clearly left an impression with some. Carol Shields, 75, a Republican in northern Minnesota, said she was afraid that migrant gangs could take over people’s summer lake homes in the state.

“What’s to stop them?” said Ms. Shields, a retired accountant. “We have a lot of people who live on lakes in the summer and winter someplace else. When they come back in the spring, their house would be occupied.”

from this nyt story about migrant caravan hysteria: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/politics/republicans-race-divisions-elections-caravan.html

Recall that super-insane radical leftist George Soros recently said his main hope for US politics was a return to bipartisanship, and that he admires France's corporate center-right president Emmanuel Macron https://t.co/epe2Tbzuqx

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) October 23, 2018

Have you SEEN people’s lake cabins in Minnesota? Outdoor toilets and showers featured until VERY recently.

The “migrant caravan” seems oddly timed. Do immigrants ofte travel this way? In a pack of 1,000?

bg, the fact that you know more about the geography of MN than a resident of MN goes a long way toward explaining the mess we currently find ourselves in, I feel.

Yeah we won’t know what the early vote numbers mean until Election Day, but anecdotally they’re running super high here in East Tennessee. In the 2014 midterms there were about 54.000 total early voters in my county. As of yesterday, through five days of early voting with nine more to go, there were already 45,000.

(Xposts)

in a bit of fun timing, I'm in a production of Sondheim's Assassins as of last week and playing Samuel Byck

good mourning!

Have you SEEN people’s lake cabins in Minnesota? Outdoor toilets and showers featured until VERY recently.

― suzy, Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:03 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Old school cabins up north are very very few and far between anymore, they've been sold and torn down esp in the last 15 years

I think lake homes is more accurate now

i do enjoy the thought of ms-13 members eagerly rolling up to seize some septuagenarian's lake house only to be struck dumb with horror at the state of the plumbing

Most of my school friends’ family cabins are still fairly old school but happy to report best grade school friend with a bare-bones resort compound right next to Breezy Point has upgraded to indoor plumbing.

ilxmail me the address and i'll pass it along the george soros grapevine to ensure that isis know where to go when they reach minnesota

Not until I get that SorosDollars cheque I’ve been expecting, it’s LATE.

Trump: We’ve got Ted Cruz here tonight! Great guy, great guy. His wife looks like shit! But Ted is great. He’s a big, beautiful baby, aren’t you Ted?
Ted Cruz (naked except for a diaper): Yes ...
Trump: Say it, Ted
Ted Cruz: ... papa

— pixelated (something halloween-related) (@pixelatedboat) October 23, 2018

Cruz will be re-elected by a 10-point margin, of course.

Dude, I just about sprayed my monitor with a mouthful of coffee. A little heads up next time.

"They have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned....we’re not supposed to use that word."

I wonder how hard it would be to get Trump to label himself a fascist.

c'mon, he'd never ally himself with a leftwing political philosophy

lol

Do immigrants often travel this way?

iirc there was a similar caravan a while back, maybe a year ago.

Fuck this caravan thing is turning out to be high octane fuel for these racist mainiacs and thier followers.

“What’s to stop them?” said Ms. Shields, a retired accountant. “We have a lot of people who live on lakes in the summer and winter someplace else. When they come back in the spring, their house would be occupied.”

lol I'm imagining local cops standing around saying "What can we do?" rather than running to the artillery closet

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/412690-arkansas-county-leaves-dem-candidate-off-ballot-in-key-race?fbclid=IwAR3egz9G9LwuQYoooqBXKiGMYRfLbQ_FgioMgEHDD6oKu1Se-QvbNf99WaQ

xpost yeah it sucks that squatters aren't a thing that have ever existed before prior to now, thank god for Trumpiestilskin

So someone planted a bomb in Soros's mailbox. That's where we are now, I guess.

false flag