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

this was the last thing I'd read about Menendez: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/09/16/bob-menendezs-political-fight-for-survival-609491

If the Democrats were running literally anyone else they would have this in the bag, kinda wish Menendez had resigned or been convicted so that the seat was open.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 1:59 PM (fifty-one minutes ago)

yeah it fucking sucks i have to hold my nose and vote for this shithead

Guys, he meant to press the Diet Coke button, and pressed the presidential alert button instead.

Menendez held back the ads after he saw Shakey's post this summer that he can't lose.

Re dumb Trump nicknames: one that I'm surprised doesn't turn up more often (ever?) is Tramp, as this is the actual back-transcription of the Russian spelling of his name, До́нальд Джон Трамп.

"You probably don't even have 25 cents..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKlCA0-Arks

Certain to vote in '18, based on late-Sept. Gallup poll:
65+ 82%
50-64 69%
30-49 55%
18-29 26% <----- 🚨https://t.co/KDFFg2xhI8

— Justin Levitt (@_justinlevitt_) October 3, 2018

god damn that's depressing

at this point it's about what I would expect. Youth turnout is always low.

We need to combine voting with fortnite somehow

or BEACH WEEK

Q. why is it always treated like a surprise that most people under 30 don’t care about voting

A. because people who pay attention to likely voter polling data are nerds who totally voted as soon as they turned 18

jeez what are we gonna do to turn out all those people under 30 that love having landlines & answering cell calls from strange numbers

haha xp

xp true

how can we get the young people to pokemon go to the polls

i didn't post that to surprise anyone

i just like to have specific numbers at hand when i make fun of young people for not voting

need a voting app

we need nicknames for those apathetic young voters

i call the young people whippersnappers

I'm curious how many of you live in states/districts where your vote can matter this election?
Since I vote absentee in OR, all I get to do is reelect a popular Dem representative, and I'm bummed I can't express my rage more voluminously.

Im still registered in new jersey so i guess i have to vote for menendez

in case you ever wanted to read the 1983 georgetown prep yearbook: https://archive.org/details/cupola-1983/page/n0

I get to vote against Paul Gosar and for Sinema, pretty stoked

just lmao that they're burying this Kavanaugh FBI report even though they rushed through it in like 3 days and didn't even interview any of the victims

just hope someone leaks the write up on this farce at some point

Did it end early? Heard it was being talked about not going on beyond today, would think they might try to make it look like something was done. Revolting

Don't want to bury the lede, though, which is that North Dakota looks like a really difficult slog for Heitkamp and that makes the Dems' senate math very hard.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 3, 2018

bad news on multiple levels (i assume that heitkamp will be more motivated to vote to confirm kavanaugh the more that she falls behind)

Where were the damn priests when that yearbook was put together? What status-conscious parent thought this was a fine idea?

I'd rather HH vote down Kavanaugh now than win re-election I think

agreed

if we pick up Arizona or Tennessee or *fingers crossed* Texas and lose ND I won't really give a fuck

and yeah I would rather have Kavanaugh off the court than a Dem Senate at this point

Florida is still looking decent too -- better than North Dakota.

that's not a pickup though

I'd rather have Bill Nelson in the Senate than Rick Scott, and Gillum in the governor's seat than either.

at this point I am not very worried about the Trump Dem states (WV, ID, FL, MT) and it looks like there are good pickup opportunities in at least a couple states if we lose Heitkamp or McCaskill. I haven't seen much recent polling on the latter but I assume she's in as tough a spot as Heitkamp.

Q. why is it always treated like a surprise that most people under 30 don’t care about voting

A. because people who pay attention to likely voter polling data are nerds who totally voted as soon as they turned 18

this is brutally otm

republicans can eat my drafty cunt

every single one of them. i don’t care. if you’re aligning with them now you hate anyone who isn’t a straight white male with money. it’s that simple

Clarence Thomas: Perjured himself to the Senate regarding his interactions with Anita Hill. Incredibly enough, Thomas is now the Republican appointee with the least problematic claim to his seat on the Court.

John Roberts: On the Court only because the 2000 presidential election was hijacked in favor of the Republican candidate, who lost both the popular and electoral vote, by five justices put on the Court by Republican presidents. Personally helped steal that election.

Samuel Alito: Ditto, minus the personal participation in Bush v. Gore.

Neil Gorsuch: Sits in SCOTUS seat stolen by Mitch McConnell. Appointed by a president who lost the popular vote by three million ballots, despite conspiring with a foreign power to steal the election.

Brett Kavanaugh: Flagrant perjurer (his testimony made Clarence Thomas’s lies seem modest by comparison). Appointed originally to the federal bench via the same stolen election that put Roberts and Alito on the Court. Like John Roberts, participated directly in the theft of that election.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/10/kavanaugh-confirmed-every-single-gop-justice-scotus-will-appointed-illegitimately

every single one of them. i don’t care. if you’re aligning with them now you hate anyone who isn’t a straight white male with money. it’s that simple

So the NYT published a list from hundreds of law professors asking the Senate to deny Kav the confirmation, but what's the point? The GOP loves pissing off elites.

their point is a good one though, he isn't impartial and doesn't have the temperament necessary to be a supreme court justice

So the NYT published a list from hundreds of law professors asking the Senate to deny Kav the confirmation, but what's the point? The GOP /loves/ pissing off elites.

I know, but I had a flashback to a similar point in 2016 when the foreign policy and GOP elite said they could not endorse Trump. It made no difference.

If the letter moves Flake-Murk-Mindy into voting no, then I'll eat this coffee mug in front of me.

lol

really wish there had been a violent resistance to the 2000 election theft at this point (well, then too)

One copy of the FBI report. No more than an hour to review it. No ability for any follow up. Then a rushed vote.

For 2 years, McConnell has been carefully and purposefully breaking the Senate. This is the final blow. No comity or tradition left. It’s just about power politics.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 3, 2018

complete bullshit, especially since the fbi didn't bother / wasn't allowed to adequately investigate