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

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Trump, asked if his rhetoric is to blame for the bombings, replies, "Not at all, no. There is no blame. There is no anything." (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/833hzPrxpV

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 26, 2018

"There is no anything" = November title

"Everything is permitted."

always fun to remember that his greatest regret of his presidency is that he condemned the charlottesville nazis

p sure no one is using voting machines in Texas to vote at the moment

xp

not sure what you mean Οὖτις

there is no anything, nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about, strawberry fields forever

lol

Is this some kind of hair splitting over the fact that they are electronic?

So Texas vote stuff is affecting everyone, right? It's not just messing up Beto votes but Cruz votes as well? Did I read that correctly?

not sure what you mean Οὖτις

n/m didn't realize early voting (presumably w machines) was already going on in Texas

anyway I am skeptical. How would they know the votes are being changed, for one thing.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-10-26/texas-voters-say-voting-machines-are-switching-their-votes

users are reporting it? ok

After you go through all the pages plugging in your votes, you get a page that lists all your votes. People are claiming it doesn't match their entries. I'm a bit skeptical too, who knows?

I've used these machines many times and never had issues. I'll be keeping a close eye in it this time.

Trump, asked if his rhetoric is to blame for the bombings, replies, "Not at all, no. There is no blame. There is no anything." (via CBS)

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This sounds pretty good to me: https://slate.com/business/2018/10/elizabeth-warren-housing-plan-racial-wealth-gap.html

So Texas vote stuff is affecting everyone, right? It's not just messing up Beto votes but Cruz votes as well? Did I read that correctly?

I got the impression that it only switched when the "vote straight ticket" option was used, not if you voted for each candidate separately. I've only voted in California, and don't recall ever seeing that option.

The thing with all the voting machine related issues, like possible fraud in 2004 and ever after is that there's never a smoking gun (unlike the much more obvious voter intimidation and suppression that's done in the open) so it's hard to not be skeptical.

The critical difference is when it screws up a Beto vote it switches it to Cruz, but when it screws up a Cruz vote it's switched to no-vote. So Cruz is very much advantaged if the rate of screwups is the same for both.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, October 26, 2018 3:42 PM

if that's true it's really fucked up

"There is no anything" = November title

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 October 2018 21:58 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is november

Always remember that on top of everything else, all of this is an enormous, profitable grift https://t.co/Iam05TIr1B

— Michael T Spooky 🎃 (@mtsw) October 26, 2018

that vote-switching thing is a regular link of machines, might've cost Kerry in 2004

why'd they appraise that shit?

regular *kink* xp

speak for yourself

Feel like it's probably safe to assume that every facet of participatory democracy is essentially a sham at this point. Too many fingers in the fucken pie.

kinky reboots

xp we voted 55% for our lovely president to be re-elected today fyi OL so yknow theres other ways to do things

AJ+ is the digital wing of Al Jazeera. They're located in SF and are my favorite lefty-leaning news org and they employ Dena Takruri who I am completely in love with

no big surprises from the trump rally so far: he's already led the crowd in chants against maxine waters and hillary clinton, as well as responded favorably to a chant of "CNN sucks"

Trump also saying he's not going call any of the bomb targets. What a petty little fucking turd. like i'm surprised.

absurd person

Trump also saying he's not going call any of the bomb targets. What a petty little fucking turd

asked about calling obama, his quote was "If they wanted me to, but I think we'll probably pass"

petty fucking turd, but also very childish reasoning

lmfao he kind of looks like Paul McCartney in that pic

the dead one or the other one?

sounds filipino

Wait for it...

manila envelope

Things that make you go hmmm

(Tl;dr I got nothing so I'm just doing drive-by quips and puns for now)

Regarding the Texas voting machine issue, there's at least one person I find reasonably credible who claims they experienced it:

Dear @TXCivilRights -

I was one of these people.

I have not previously discussed it with anyone because I didn’t want to sound an alarm until I knew whether or not this was a pattern.

I will detail what I experienced, along with a photo, in this short thread.

1/x#TXSen https://t.co/VzMs3wV4iI

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) October 26, 2018

that's very disturbing

I can see him complaining in the near future about how Obama never called to thank him for catching the guy.

Q: "Would you yourself pledge to tone down the rhetoric for the next few days?" A: "I think I've been toned down, if you want to know the truth. I could really tone it up because as you know the media's been extremely unfair to me and to the Republican Party."

YMP, what's the issue with "manila envelope"? I just checked the dictionary - manila paper is "a strong and durable paper of a brownish or buff color and smooth vanilla finish made originally from Manila hemp". I used the term correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila

Is that freedom rock? Well, tone it up, man!

did this get posted yet?

Political violence, including the vandalism we see right here in Lincoln, is a threat to good citizenry and free expression in our republic. It is not funny. It is never acceptable.

— Jeff Fortenberry (@JeffFortenberry) October 24, 2018

this is not terrorism or violent. stop equating the two: pic.twitter.com/yLXcZBV0Q5

— ... Joe (@joefishjames) October 24, 2018

Haaaa

i'm not a huge simpsons guy but i immediately heard the Nelson laugh as soon as i saw that

that's the hardest I have laughed in a while. The responses to his tweet are hilarious. Especially everybody now calling him Fartenberry.

Beware any politician that claims voting for them will promote "strong families"

haven’t seen Obama as unrestrained in his criticism of republican bullshit as he was in the rally in Wisconsin today, was good to see, want more of this