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

“They have been running this assault on America,” he said. “They have been giving us gay marriage, pornography, abortion, everything that’s anti-Christian . This is what they do. This is how they corrupt a Christian nation, because they are an anti-Christ people.”

you know, honestly this really just describes every white evangelical in the midwest, including (especially) the pastors and leaders of the church. stuff like that just rolls out of the side of their mouths. and politicians in the midwest have to be christian, or pretend to be christian, and that often involves being evangelical, or pretending that evangelicals aren't filled with hatred toward everyone that disagrees with how genitalia should rub up against other genitalia, or abortion. they have to at least pay lip service to evangelicals and pretend that they're not full of shit, and many politicians genuinely LIKE the evangelicals and think they're a positive influence. so it's not surprising that you end up with midwest politicians that are indistinguishable from hate groups

and not just the midwest. I don't think we'll see an openly atheist President in our lifetimes.

speaking further of white supremacists in the midwest

Bouncing back from its Jacob Wohl embarrassment yesterday, Gateway Pundit now has a story positing that Democrats will use Satanic black magicks to sway the midterms. pic.twitter.com/MktdGNsNiy

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 31, 2018

evangelicals are so fucking boring too, i mean what a way to live

shit...is gateway pundit a st louis org? i never even made that connection

haha, i like the little automatic google summary that shows up when you search for "gateway pundit"

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

lol i don't know if anyone remembers this but awhile back Tucker Carlson had a "witch" on his show who was talking about how she was putting a spell or a hex on Donald Trump, it was the most embarrassing thing, perfect fodder for the right wing to paint the left coast lefties as totally insane. she's best friends with one of my best friend's exes, and exactly the type of person who favors publicizing her witch business over making sure she's not used as an actual living straw-person by Fox News.

TS: magic vs magick

Witchy magick stuff is big business out here in brooklyn it seems

hail satan

Gateway Pundit now has a story positing that Democrats will use Satanic black magicks to sway the midterms

welll, it HAS been eight years since Christine O'Donnell graced the political stage

holy shit blast from the past with christine o'donnell

REMEMBER

Maaaaaaan, I was just about to drop an O'Donnell bomb on y'all.

But yeah, christ, eight years. That part somehow escaped me. Where the hell does time go.

lol i don't know if anyone remembers this but awhile back Tucker Carlson had a "witch" on his show

So not Christine O'Donnell? xps damn

Is this the Tucker Carlson clip?

Tucker Carlson, free speech warrior, questions her as to whether it's legal to cast spells on people.

hey, remember christine o'donnell

hail satan

hmm

Smart piece by @AndrewRomano looking at how some campaigns here in CA have tried to activate Latino voters this cycle: https://t.co/lT6y9dvG9y

— Jose A. Del Real (@jdelreal) October 31, 2018

Why is that hosted on Yahoo Sports?

2018

main Yahoo site is reserved for Chrissy Teigen content, politics have moved to sports, sports have moved to the movies section.

this is the key stuff, which bodes v v well

So far, actual voting patterns — as opposed to anecdotes and op-eds — suggest that this year will be different. According to early vote totals compiled by Political Data Inc., Latino turnout in Southern California’s most competitive House contests is already far outpacing 2014 — even equaling 2016’s presidential-year turnout in some cases. At this point in 2014, for example, Latinos in CA-25 had cast less than 11 percent of all ballots; right now, that number is hovering around 15 percent, just like in 2016. In CA-39, Latinos’ early vote share has grown from 12.2 percent four years ago to 16 percent today — less than half a point shy of the 2016 benchmark. And Latino voting levels have increased in CA-45, CA-48 and CA-49 as well. (PDI compiles its figures using lists of voter surnames and “country or state of origin” data on registration forms.)

Such across-the-board increases in Latino turnout jibe with election results from earlier this year. In June, Latinos made up 21.2 percent of the primary electorate in California’s 39th Congressional District — a nearly 8 point jump from 2014. Subsequent reports by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative concluded that the “Latino vote increased more than any other demographic in Los Angeles County from June 2014 to June 2018” and that “in Orange County, ballots cast in majority-Latino precincts were up over 2014 numbers by as much as a 245 percent.” And California isn’t alone: A new analysis by University of Florida Professor Daniel A. Smith finds that Latino early vote there has tripled in 2018 compared with 2014.

This is not an accident; both Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party are “definitely doing more to reach Latinos in 2018 than they did in 2014,” according to Barreto. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has invested nearly $30 million this cycle in contacting, organizing and turning out Democratic base voters, including Latinos. It has conducted Latino focus groups in California, Colorado, Florida and New Mexico. It has hired at least one Latino field staffer in 29 California districts — 11 of whom are currently directing field, get-out-the-vote (GOTV) or canvassing operations. Each heavily Latino district boasts its own Latino constituency organizer, who engages with churches, businesses and other community organizations. And the DCCC also just released its first-ever televised Spanish-language get-out-the-vote ad in Southern California, which will continue running through Election Day.

Heidi Cruz told me they have to try and shield the Zodiac Killer stuff from their oldest daughter, because she might get skeptical and start, like, seriously grilling her dad about where he was on different nights in the early 70s.

— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) October 31, 2018

def in mushmouthed lockstep w/ Schumer

“There’s been a lot of talk about lowering the temperature of political discourse,” host Stephen Colbert asked. “Have you seen evidence of that?”

“Well, I think when we win, you will see evidence of that,” Pelosi said to applause. “Because when we do win, we will have, as we open the new Congress, we will honor the vows of our founders. E Pluribus Unum. From many, one.”

At this point, you should be asking yourself a simple question: is Nancy Pelosi out of her fucking mind?

https://splinternews.com/what-world-is-nancy-pelosi-living-in-1830135382

splinternews is garbage, why do you keep posting information-free links

It's just possible that Pelosi perhaps considers her words carefully instead of just barfing out every thing she thinks as it enters her mind. Maybe, possibly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7tY35xBJUI&list=WL&index=9&t=0s

I mean...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7tY35xBJUI

Like when people were giving her shit for kinda pooh-poohing the notion of impeaching Trump. What value is there in publicly playing that card right now?

I mean, if I were the minority leader, I'd go on Colbert and be all, 'FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK THE GOP, GET READY TO EAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS' and this is just one of the reasons why I will never be minority leader.

Man if i had the ability to perform black magick....

there is a way to answer that question without ALL CAPS and not sounding like you don't consider the GOP an existential threat

sorry Pelosi needs to sound like a fighter, not a Clinton

Whadya want her to do, put out a mixtape?

saying you expect the villains to play E Pluribus Kumbaya after you win is what keeps potential voters sure you don't give a shit

xp lmfao

Pelosi to Trump: YO KOBE TELL ME HOW MY ASS TASTE

ahhh sh@kedown bringin it back

Nancy pelosi isn’t going to change. It doesn’t make sense to continually get upset with her for being a mild mannered elderly individual. She is unsuited to her speakership though.

Or minority leader chair. You know what I mean.

keep her off talk shows

so Oprah is gonna campaign for Stacey Abrams

this is the key stuff, which bodes v v well

right. it's early turnout tea leaf reading with a phd, and it happens to be good news from my POV, so i'm trying not to read too much into it. but it's not bad news.

so Oprah is gonna campaign for Stacey Abrams

― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4:30 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also obama.

and this

Stacey Abrams' campaign manager says they've learned that Kemp is backing out of the final Georgia governor's race debate... the same day that Trump is scheduled to come to Macon to stump for the GOP candidate. https://t.co/nUYhzFTKTi

— Jeffrey Cook (@JeffreyCook) October 31, 2018

She is unsuited to her speakership though.

I'll get in here before Alfred does. Name one Democrat who you think would do her job better, bearing in mind that her job is not going on talk shows, her job is keeping her members together and counting/whipping votes.

her job is not going on talk shows

this is why norm macdonald isn't speaker of the house

also he's Canadian

she is among the best Speakers the House has ever seen and if you can't see that you're dumb as shit

going on Colbert and saying that isn't going to affect turnout one way or the another, this whole thing is stupid

she holds the caucus together and delivers votes, that's the fucking job