US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

yeah this stuff is meaningless this far out

In 2016, Australia held their second-longest federal election campaign ever, after the Senate were dismissed six months early (essentially combining mid-terms & the regular election, in US semi-translation). This marathon campaign lasted 54 days.

How long til he privately blames Pence and starts saying he wants a new veep

― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 8:44 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago)

BREAKING: Pence OUT, Kurt Suzuki IN

I agree that polls are meaningless right now but Biden consistently trending down seems significant

Maybe he shoulda thought twice about doing Ukraine, huh

Sondland's memory was jogged and he finally testifies there was indeed a quid pro quo regarding Burisma investigation holding up Ukraine aid:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/politics/impeachment-trump.html

Funny how it works

jokes on us because quid pro quo is totally cool now

yeah, part of the pivot. Can't deny it, now just argue that it's totally cool cuz the Bidens are corrupt.

he should just murder somebody and get it over with. Maybe Giuliani.

More than 60 percent of respondents who support President Trump say they support him no matter what, according to a new survey.

The Monmouth University poll released Tuesday found that 62 percent of Trump supporters said they could not think of "anything that Trump could do, or fail to do, in his term as president that would make [them] disapprove of the job he is doing." The sample size for the question was 401 adults age 18 and older.

The numbers released in the poll show Trump supporters becoming more entrenched in their belief of the president, with a 12 percent increase from the last time the question was asked in January of 2018 to a sample of 341.

On the flip side, among respondents who disapprove of the job Trump is doing, 70 percent said there's nothing the president could do to gain their support.

Forty-three percent of respondents in the survey approve of the job Trump is doing as president, compared to 51 percent who disapprove, on par with the numbers from the September poll.

The findings come as Trump is facing an impeachment inquiry that has divided lawmakers in the House. The chamber voted last week along party lines for a resolution approving procedures for the inquiry. No Republicans voted in support of the resolution.

The Monmouth University poll was conducted between Oct. 30 and Nov. 3 and surveyed 908 adults by phone. The margin of error for the total sample is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

figured this was coming, wasn't there a story last week that the GOP was going to transition to "quid pro quo, so what?"

yes

there was a GOP Senate luncheon where they made this decision

More than 60 percent of respondents who support President Trump say they support him no matter what, according to a new survey.

Right-wing internet has consistently made the point that polls are designed to manipulate public opinion, not measure it.

And further, polling organizations are largely media and academia (in other words, THE ENEMY and THE OTHER ENEMY). As a result, I'm going to assume that almost every poll response coming from a rightward direction is 97% "fuck you, next question" and maybe 3% "this is exactly how I think and feel."

right-wing internet has made the point that if your parents leave you $500,000,000, and you're willing to cut taxes and promote fascist judges, the law doesn't matter. mrga

I wonder how granular you could get with that line of questioning and still get the same response. Would you continue to support President Trump if he ate your children in front of you? If he insisted that you grab a fork and join him?

I mean genuinely...what kind of goddamn monster would support a person NO MATTER WHAT

are you worried about other sixth and seventh graders teasing you? vote trump

funny how this will be the headline and not the "70 percent said there's nothing the president could do to gain their support". I guess it's nice to have gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the electoral college on your side otherwise something like that might actually matter

tens of millions approve of rich kid dumbfuck bully don trump. and america, you really did begin in slavery

Is it uncool and conservative to believe that 2020 Trump voters should have that fact branded onto their faces such that the rest of us know to steer the everloving fuck clear of them at all times forever? Or is that just something they'd proudly embrace anyway if it were mildly suggested to them?

When did qualmsey return? And more importantly, where are the tax returns?

tax returns will be coming as soon as the golden boys puts his stamp of approval on it. should be very soon

good afternoon!

I'm sure the GOP will be very, very concerned about this case of voter fraud

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/469082-authorities-looking-into-possible-election-fraud-in-marion-ohio

Trump rejects Native American Heritage Month, proclaims November “National American History and Founders Month.” https://t.co/ZnBGIaUcXj

— Simon Moya-Smith (@SimonMoyaSmith) November 5, 2019

cool

Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he won't read any of the transcripts, and dismissed Sondland's reversal.

"I've written the whole process off ... I think this is a bunch of B.S."

Per @alanhe

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) November 5, 2019

new GOP strategy is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD8se6iN548

but Benghazi, now that was a real scandal amirite

December is going to become National Benghazi Month (And Also Christmas For All Month).

Don't know about the other state elections, but Virginia turnout numbers are apparently up 35%!

BREAKING NEWS New numbers in from the voter registrar in Virginia Beach. As of 5pm 96,000 people have voted compared to 63,000 in 2015 when the entire General Assembly was up for election. That is 32% and climbing. @WAVY_News

— Andy Fox (@AndyFoxWAVY) November 5, 2019

I find Graham’s honesty refreshing, tbh

That vest...

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/191104202059-03-trump-ky-rally-1104-rand-paul-super-tease.jpg

Ah yes, of course.

From the Trump campaign to my inbox: “PRESIDENT TRUMP TO LAUNCH 'BLACK VOICES FOR TRUMP' COALITION ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – ATLANTA, GA”

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) November 6, 2019

So ... Black Friday?

so that will be Candice Owens and who exactly?

Diamond and Silk

That Simon Moya-Smith tweet is seriously misleading. There's no evidence that Trump "rejected" or replaced Native American Heritage Month with National American History and Founders Month. You can question the intentions behind the latter (which didn't exist before this year), but both months have been proclaimed (along with Natl Adoption Month, Natl Entrepreneurship Month, and a few others, just like every month). For some reason, the NAMH proclamation didn't appear on whitehouse.gov last night, though it did appear on other gov sites, and it's on whitehouse.gov now.

It really does look like a deliberate dilution of the Native American month though - the acronyms are near identical (NAHM vs NAHFM) and celebrating "founders", who by definition took what they had from Native Americans, seems like a deliberate slap or provocation. Kind of like declaring a "white history month" to coincide with Black History Month, or adopting All Lives Matter to try to silence the sentiment of Black Lives Matter.

I think this was obviously intended as a diminishment of native american history month

So uh election results seem good for Dems so far

Early results for Cleveland/Cuyahoga County voting on a lot of municipal elections and city & county issues (including, in my city, an issue to change our form of government from city council-appointed city manager to elected mayor) are showing a whopping 7.7% turnout. The highest turnout is just under 25% in the extremely white-flight suburb of Independence. Yay, democracy!

I've seen enough. Projection: Andy Beshear (D) has defeated Gov. Matt Bevin (R) in #KYGOV.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 6, 2019

is this a fantasy? would be nice

Trump won KY by 30 btw

It looks like it's going to be a squeaker: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/97213/web/#/summary

Although winning by +3 in a +30 Trump state is fucking incredible.

the gov is really hated there right?

Looks like VA (finally) flipped both house and senate?

don't want to get too hopeful but it looks like Beshear might win