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

the Wohl crew makes Gordon Liddy look like a mastermind

but i must admit idgaf

me too KM. i have enjoyed your tweets on him. i sent scholten a small donation march and have been following the race since then. he's made great progress in an insanely red district without compromising much on policy afaict, so happy to send some more last month (the other race i did that for is jess king in pa-10 who is a longer shot but would be a great represenative https://theintercept.com/2018/09/15/jess-king-pennsylvania-lancaster-stands-up/). i'm done for the year, but if i weren't, and there were more than a week to go, they would both get more from me.

p.s. i am 100% certain scholten will disappoint us if he wins, but come on it's steve king.

p.p.s. if you feel like donating, it's honestly kind of late to make a difference (hoos correct me if i'm wrong) imo, so one thing you might want to do is put it to one side and send it to the inevitable mississipi senate runoff later in november.

p.s. since silver mentioned maxine waters in that thread as a poor analog to steve king, there is one way in which those congressional race are similar. both have nazis on the ballot:

In 2017 I went to a county meeting where a public commenter said Jews were bringing immigrants into the US. Same thing the synagogue shooter said.

Two people from LA GOP stood and applauded.

Both of them now work for Omar Navarro, the Republican running against Maxine Waters.

— Slays Stabbinport 🤺 (@hayesdavenport) October 27, 2018

discussed upthread. better than down 508% but doesn't mean much unless you compare absolute numbers of this group and other groups.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)

Bonier's organization, TargetSmart, has absolute number up on their website: https://targetearly.targetsmart.com/

Don't know the org, so can't speak to accuracy, but the under 30 increase is from 57,519 to 331,918 (477%) and the over 65 increase is from 647,270 to 1,213,745 (87%). All age groups showing big jumps, smaller absolute numbers and bigger percentage increases with the younger cohorts.

p.s. i am 100% certain scholten will disappoint us if he wins, but come on it's steve king.

uhhh what? too centrist for you?

xp

Dang, that’s what I was afraid of. That above 65 increase is almost as surprising as the whippersnapper increase

How many over 65s forgot to vote once there

Dang, that’s what I was afraid of. That above 65 increase is almost as surprising as the whippersnapper increase

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 5:43 PM

still hopeful though

remember to ignore early vote.

uhhh what? too centrist for you?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, October 30, 2018 8:43 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nothing specific, it's just the way of the world.

You may be surprised!

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

lol

Dat's a beeeen-go!

haha!

I am doing the second Sam Byck monologue at rehearsal in ten minutes and the inspiration for the anger in this scene is so easy to draw from this week

xp

I've donated to Scholten and actually met him. On some level, of course he'll disappoint me because I think the farm bill and ethanol subsidies are terrible and no way he can play that way.

But yeah, let's get Steve King.

Moodles is legit imo

This might be my ILX high water mark!

TBRR, I copy and pasted a tweet. I think the numbers are accurate, but not 100% sure.

Jacob Wohl's fiasco today reminds me of how in Heat, DeNiro's character knows Pacino is aware that he is going to rob a bank the next day, and does it anyway

Who is Waingro in this scenario though

Hey let's not ignore this sweet grift.

Loren Jacobs, who was invited onstage by VP Pence to speak at a rally in Michigan, was defrocked 15 years ago, according to a spokeswoman for the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations. https://t.co/NofWyH2UmM

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 31, 2018

so Epstein/Pence couldn't find an actual rabbi. Lena Epstein deserves to lose her race.

From a bit further down the 'jury duty' tweet

There is a gym on the 19th floor of the St Regis pic.twitter.com/9ypDBeqFHl

— Pet Emetary 🎃 (@FormalScrunchie) October 30, 2018

Though now I am wondering if this is bait to get "Dems visibly challenging inaccurate memories of rape victims" out there.

(It's mentioned in the comments that the 19th floor gym was a renovation in 2013.)

Yea refuting facts in these idiots' stories only plays into their hands

I dislike hashtags but I really dislike incorrect hashtags and how the right subtly bastardized #believewomen to #believeallwomen in order to mock.

i thought all distractions must be answered in full

Duly noted. But that's on you, mate.

Yea refuting facts in these idiots' stories only plays into their hands

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), 31. oktober 2018 12:28 (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does not. This shows how tough it actually is to fabricate these stories, and how easily spotted falsehoods are. It makes it smarter, rather than stupider, to say that when it's word against word, the proper thing to do is to #believewomen.

Burden of proof is on them and they've been hilariously clowned nd humiliated and discredited at this point.

Continuing to refute individual facts like "lol the 18th floor is a gym" lends the illusion that people are taking the allegations seriously. Which nobody is, because right now there ARE no actual specific allegations and cos the whole thing was so badly bungled.

This isn't a Devin Nunes scenario where you have to attack him on all fronts because he is a weasel with power who can exert influence. This shit never got off the ground

Like there is no woman to believe or disbelieve at the moment

good mourning!

RIP Muellergate (2:30-2:32 CST, 10/30/18)

Happy Halloween. I am going as an Executive Order

*signs*

https://www.snoopn4pnuts.com/images/products/zigzagtowel.jpg

good grief

Executive Ordure

The president: I went to the site of a mass murder and everyone was very nice to me. pic.twitter.com/NITHYfWEta

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 31, 2018

That's nice for him :)))))

aw

Meanwhile: North Dakota!

State officials say it is easy for anyone without a residential address to get one. In a letter to tribal leaders last month — just after the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit let the requirement take effect, in a decision later affirmed by the Supreme Court — Secretary of State Al Jaeger’s office wrote that voters could contact their county’s 911 coordinator, describe the location of their home and have an address assigned “in an hour or less.”

In practice, it isn’t always so simple.

Voters’ experiences have varied greatly based on which county they live in. In Rolette County, where the Turtle Mountain Reservation is, they have been able to get addresses from the county and IDs from the tribe without much red tape. But at Standing Rock, in Sioux County, the 911 coordinator is the sheriff, Frank Landeis. That’s a deterrent to people who are afraid to interact with law enforcement, much less tell the sheriff where they live, and Sheriff Landeis is not easy to reach.

When Ms. Finn called him on Oct. 12, three days after the Supreme Court ruling, he was out. On Oct. 15, he said he was transporting prisoners and could not assign addresses that day. He was also unavailable when The New York Times called on Friday.

And in an episode recounted independently by Ms. Finn, Mr. Semans and Ms. Young, a tribal elder, Terry Yellow Fat, got through to Sheriff Landeis only to be assigned the address of a bar near his house. Mr. Semans worried that, in addition to playing into stereotypes about Native Americans and alcohol, this could expose Mr. Yellow Fat to fraud charges if he voted under an address he knew was incorrect.

So, with help from Four Directions and others, some tribes are creating addresses themselves — and preparing to do so until the polls close.

Jesus christ that trump tweet xp

No one else on earth would be capable of making a tragedyd like this about themselves

yeah they would, they just all happen to be part of the same party he is

Idk bro. This is deranged

Yeah even more deranged are the people that see no problem with it

if we get WWIII, it will definitely be about him

here's some mueller catnip for the fans

I don’t really think about the mueller thing but this article is phenomenal reporting and docket analysis. The speed of whatever this is can’t be accounted for unless they’re right. https://t.co/X9flQzlzUz

— warrior cop (@wyatt_privilege) October 31, 2018