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I feel like we’re in the final episode of ‘American Bachelorette’ and Lady Liberty has an obvious choice to make.
Hopefully, she will deliver a knee to the gonads of the Orange King, and we can cast him out.
Now is the time…GOTV!
Find your very own wingnut fear-mongering slogan here.
"If Joe Biden wins, illegal aliens will sniff our savior Donald J. Trump."
Trump stinks. He really, really, really stinks.
Tune, Give me the beat boys and free my soul, I want to get lost in your rock and roll.
-0-
Oh. Give me Febreze boys and Irish Spring,
Trumpstink is an awful thing
So vote today.
Vote out the stink
And the stinking clan
Vote out this nation’s stupidest man
So vote today.
Biden may not have been your very first choice
But he will give us all a voice
And he doesn’t stink.
And our Kamala smells so sweet
Mike Pence stinks from kissing Trump’s rear seat.
So vote today!
V, the song was "Drift Away", originally recorded by Doby Gray in 1973. But I like your rewrite.
Today is National Homemaker Day. One of Fat Donnie’s favorites.
Here's to the keepers of the homefires everywhere. They never get enough credit and thanks…or Social Security benefits, for that matter.
MSNBC election night drinking game:
* A talking head says "the great state of" – one shot
* They go to "Steve Kornacki at the big board" – one shot
* A former Democratic primary contender shows up – one shot
* James Carville says something insightful – two shots
Add your own!
That already sounds lethal without adding anything!
Haven't done any drinking at all since 1983, but I gotta believe a person would be totally hammered by 7:30 eastern time adhering to that.
I think that's the point 🙂
Well, now we wouldn’t want the talking heads to call out the states as they really are:
Mississippi, the Gerrymander state
Alabama, Backward and Proud.
Georgia “ We won’t count your vote.”
Florida: “ enjoy our beaches while they’re still above water.”
California: We trended it first.or, Blue Who?
Wyoming: Sheep are people, too, my friend.
Is Colorado still the Centennial state?
Kentucky: Electricity in almost every town.
I rarely watch MSNBC as I find their talking heads incredibly annoying. Rachael Maddow has the ability to make me dislike ideas I support because she is so focused on getting everyone to catch a case of the vapors over each issue.
CNN baby!
Agreed on Maddow. No CNN for us, either. After all of his years in teevee, Wolf Blitzer still can't ad lib to save his life. Unless he's reading off the teleprompter, he's spewing "uh's," such as, "We'll go now, uh, to John King, who has "uh" fresh numbers for us.
I'll try the OTA networks tonight.
I'll be doing MSNBC about 80% and Fox about 20%. Never watch CNN.
CNN is better for breaking news, but you're missing out on Joe Scarborough (former GOP congressman), Nicolle Wallace (former GOP campaign honcho for McCain), and Brian Williams. Their regular guests including Eugene Robinson, David Plouffe, Bob Costa, Claire McCaskill, Jon Mecham, Steve Schmidt, Jonathan Lemiere, etc., etc. are worth every minute of my time.
CNN, on the other hand, wastes my time with GOP representatives like Rick Santorum, the smarmy guy from Louisville, KY, Mary Stewart(?) and others who spin so shamelessly that it's embarrassing.
But, as we say in my business: "There's no accounting for taste."
You left out Wash. Post common sense conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin on MSNBC.
Kayleighanne McEnConway was a frequent commentator on CNN before Fat Donnie from Queens snapped her up. She was as bad on CNN as she is today, but y'know, viewers got both sides of an issue???
Yep – " both sides of an issue " as in the actual truth and whatever complete bullshit she's peddling.
Our remote location has us still relying on broadcast TV. Of the 5 networks available to us. We prefer CBS and PBS.
John Dickerson, Ed’Okeefe, Nora, Gayle, Major Garrett…but both my Cat and I have a crush on the inimitable Weija Jiang.
"election day" 1
"trump" 1
bedtime – 9pm
If you're going to train cops to be "ruthless killers" and use Hitler quotes to drive home the point, perhaps you shouldn't include that shit in your written instructional materials.
That is awful – and clearly was used with no one commenting publicly.
And incredibly they closed the training slides with this Nazi exhortation:
The militarization of the police is an extreme solution in search of a problem.
That’s just all kinds of disturbing, but it does explain a lot. It goes with what I posted a couple weeks ago about the “warrior training”, that teaches cops to see all but themselves as “the enemy”.
I think this will end with the Dems doing very well. Biden taking Florida and pretty much every other close state. The Senate going 54 Dem.
And maybe a miracle in Texas.
Sussing out your scenario, I'm thinking that means:
-1, AL 46 D
+1 CO 47 D
+1 AZ 48 D
+1 NC 49 D
+1 ME 50 D
+1 GA-A 51 D
+1 GA-B 52 D
+1 IA 53 D
Where would seat 54 come from?
I think 50/49 w/ one seat in GA TBD in January is realistic.
Dems lose Alabama (sadly, although Doug Jones would make an excellent AG in the Biden administration);
Dems pick up Maine, North Carolina, Arizona and Colorado;
One of the Georgia seats – probably the one with Warnock and Corrupt Kelly – to be determined in January.
Doug Jones did a huge service to the country by sparing us Roy Moore.
Montana, Texas, or Kansas. And I admit, that means a total blowout.
Don't be surprised if Bullock wins the Senate race in Montana while Trump carries the state. My native state can be that way, and often is.
I made more calls there than here – and I hope so.
The market appears pretty jazzed over a likely Dem sweep, and the economic stimulus, and the rise in international trade that would follow:
DOW 27571.29 646.24 ( 2.40%)
NASDAQ 11178.40 220.79 ( 2.01%)
S&P 3382.88 72.64 ( 2.19%)
10 YR. T-NOTE 0.89 0.42 ( 4.95%)
That's correct about the market finally acknowledging a Dem victory. What they are forgetting about this time is the unmitigated s*show that Trump may inflict in the next three months until 1/20/21.
I sold all my retirement stock investments, one-half on 1/2/20 after we were ten minutes from war with Iran and, the other half in February, 2020 when I learned of the expectation of worldwide shutdowns due to Covid. I haven't regretted whatever stock market gains, if any, that I might have missed. I won't get back into the market until after 1/20/21 assuming a Biden victory, and when an effective vaccine is found.
I've been cautiously buying on dips for the last few months, but will get back to regular dollar cost average investing next year as well.
Clean sweep (5-0) for Unca Joe in Dixville Notch. He should declare victory right the hell now!
Once again, Polsters, here’s the link for the Zoom meet-up tonight. We’ll open the channel at 5pm, by which time some results from the East Coast should start to trickle in.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86144126796?pwd=UDdvdU9Ea3JkYUJKWFgzWEtWMlQ1UT09
I made a diary about it, cook.
I’m on a plane until 7:30. I’ll try to join late.
Four years ago my wife and I attended a Dems Abroad party at a bar in Auckland, New Zealand. A college student thought that Trump would win and I bet her 5 NZ dollars and told her I felt guilty about taking her money. Next, I became the American man on the street for a Radio NZ reporter who began a series of interviews with me.
Interview #1: Hillary will win, it's just a matter of how much. Interview #2: We didn't need FL and weren't expecting it anyway. Interview #3: We didn't need OH and weren't expecting it anyway. But, we did need to win PA, WI and MI. And, that's okay because Democrats had never lost those before.
Interview #4: As PA is starting to fall, the reporter says I'm not as optimistic as before. I said, "You're about to see a grown man cry."
I paid off my bet to the student and walked out of the bar.
Can we have a Pols poll on the Electoral vote outcome, even if we won’t know the final count for many days?
My conservative and hopeful guess is 321 Biden.
That leaves IA, TX, OH, and FL on the table.
I am insanely, crack-headedly pessimistic, and even my bleakest assessment has Biden winning 277-261.
My 538 map shows Biden 324, Trump 208. You have to include those split districts in NE and ME.
Is it too over the top to ignore Godwin's Law and begin to compare Trump and the GOP to Nazis?
Beyond all of the authoritarian actions and rhetoric, I'm thinking about the Covid deaths that will be caused if Trump is re-elected. He will "Fire Fauci" and replace him with "Dr." Atlas who is promoting herd immunity. Herd immunity could easily result in two million or more US deaths. Deaths that could have easily been avoided by just wearing masks. Add that to Trump's belief in a Unitary Executive (endorsed by William Barr) that states Article 2 gives the president unlimited power (checks and balances be damned), and we are well on our way to a fascist regime.
I am only one generation removed from Nazi Germany. I've always been mystified by how that happened. I believe that German citizens' lack of vocal opposition, willful ignorance, and just plain racism allowed it to happen. Just sayin' when I am told to embrace current Trump supporters even after a Biden victory.
Short answer: no. No, it isn't.
Good news is that all of my California extended family who denied and buried the existence of our Austrian Jewish kin, who completely disconnected from that entire cultural heritage, are now never-Trumpers. So maybe they did learn something.
Short answer: yes, it is over the top. And any comparison of Trump & his enablers to nazis demeans the memory of the millions who died at Hitler's desire and takes away the shock value of the Holocaust.
If you need to compare, try historic fascists like Mussolini, Franco, Stroessner; and modern day fascists like Putin, Erdogan, Duterte, and Maduro.
Think of Huey Long without the brains or the humor.
One thing that makes me very optimistic – Trump's support is 38% – 42% and the vast majority of them will drive through a small nuclear war to vote for him.
Everyone else spans the gamut from conservative but done with Trump to very very liberal. And they're all voting Democratic.
And so, the larger the turnout, the more Democratic it is.
Hmmmm…
Trump administration misses deadline on conservation projects, top Democrat says
They’re too busy polishing their resumes to worry about such trivial things as doing their jobs (except for anything that sabotages that which they are charged to protect). Just as Moddy.
So. Much. Winning.
US to exit Paris accord whether Trump or Biden wins
Biden's first 100 days will be a flurry of not just legislation, but of executive orders cancelling or reversing all of Trump's.
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