Thursday, October 29, 2020

Apparently There's An Election On Tuesday

Everything just seems like filler until then, the freak-of-the-week episode before we finally get back to the Big Bad.

The guy who gets the most votes should win, but, ok, that isn't our system. So they guy who gets the most electoral votes, as we've been told that's suppose to happen, should win. But, no, the Supremos might try to start throwing ballots out if they don't like what might be on them, and state legislatures might step in and say LOL WHO SAID YOU GET VOTE, and...

Really this TV show sucks.

Copaganda

...ah, they deleted the tweet. Here it is:

Afternoon Thread

New computer fun.

Supremos

Back in 2000, the Supremos intervening at all was seen as an extremely out of the ordinary event, whatever one thought about whether that they did and how they did was appropriate. Now they've decided they are the local election board of 50 states and 3000 counties.

Windows Update

Apparently a new laptop is faster than the 9 year old one, but windows insisting on spending 90 minutes updating is a bit annoying.

Thursday Is New Jobless Day

751K new lucky duckies.

Village Morals

Morning Thread

They tried to destroy the post office to create chaos for mail in ballots and it's barely a scandal!

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Wednesday Night

Got Some Bad News About Brunch

I do not think the successful election and inauguration of Joe Biden will calm things down.

Nobody Knows Anything

 In "normal" times we can all put on our Real Pundit hats and talk about ad buys and campaign travel, trying to discern the campaign strategy.  You know, last minute swing through Pittsburgh!  Ad buy in Kansas City!  Forcing Trump to waste resources competing in Texas!

I think in normal times that stuff was mostly bullshit, but in these not normal times it's ridiculous to even try to pretend that these stories mean anything at all.  With Covid, all the early voting, having no idea how much Trump and affiliates even have to spend*, and just dozens of reasons this does not resemble a campaign from 2004, nobody knows anything except what the polls say.

*I'm sure the proper answer to this is, "Trump can as spend as much as he wants as long as vendors will accept payment after the fact, because they're all going to be stiffed."

The Only People Who Matter

Poll Pron

Just to keep your moods oscillating!

GEORGIA: PRESIDENT VOTER MODELS
 Registered
voters
High likely
turnout
Low likely
turnout
October   
Trump45%46%48%
Biden50%50%50%

GEORGIA: SENATE VOTER MODELS
Regular electionRegistered
voters
High likely
turnout
Low likely
turnout
October   
Perdue (R-i)46%47%48%
Ossoff (D)49%49%49%

Never Tweet

We're All Posters Now

I probably should understand it, given what I do all day, but the lure of the internet for wealthy and powerful people evades me. Sure Thomas doesn't make zillions, but she's had good grift going for years. They can afford to go sip wine in Italy instead of mainlining Fox and hosting facebook groups for wackos.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is using her Facebook page to amplify unsubstantiated claims of corruption by Joe Biden.

Ginni Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, asked her more than 10,000 followers Monday to consider sharing a link focused on alleged corruption by the Democratic nominee for president and his son, Hunter, as well as claims that social media companies are censoring reports about the Bidens.

Iraq'd

Nothing will ever get the war loving commentariat or even most people to care much, but as we consider what incompetent maleveolent "leadership" can do to a country (ours), remember that the Bush administration did it to Iraq with 5 years+ of unwavering support from all of our elite Thinkfluencers. Worse, of course, but similar in many ways.

They sent the idiot 23-year-old conservatives who were too useless to make it in the conservative movement at home to destroy Iraq, and that same basic set of people (the next generation) is destroying America.

And everyone is busy helping these assholes rehabilitate themselves.

Stonks

I do, actually, root for the stock market to crash for reasons I have previously explained (policymakers won't let it stay down, they might be encouraged to help the rest of us).

Starting off to be another fun day!

The CNBC headline is:

Dow drops more than 500 points on fears rising coronavirus cases could slow down economic recovery
And while they just make those headlines up... um, yah, you think?

Trumpfest

The caring geniuses at the Trump campaign stuck a bunch of elderly MAGAs at a rally in Omaha in freezing weather.

Our rallies have the best hypothermia!

Not sure if it was "not enough buses," "the buses couldn't get through the traffic," or "lol stiff the bus drivers once we get a video of this thing nothing matters."

Morning Thread

Not making any predictions, but not optimistic about this Covid thing right now!!!

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Tuesday Night

Rock on.

Overheard At The Hipster Coffee Shop

Not very bright, outta hand, yadda yadda.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A grand jury in Cleveland on Tuesday indicted right-wing political hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman with felony charges connected to a multi-state robocall campaign that prosecutors say was meant to scare voters in urban areas with large minority populations out of voting by mail in the Nov. 3 presidential election.

Wohl, 22, of Irvine, California, and Burman, 54, of Arlington, Virginia, are indicted on eight counts of telecommunications fraud and seven counts of bribery in connection with more than 8,000 calls that were placed to residents of Cleveland and East Cleveland.

Tuesday Evening

Nothing important ever happens on Tuesdays.