US Politics, November 2018: "There is no blame. There is no anything."

I mean in a manner of speaking he’s right. If media had told the truth that he is a racist etc. from the start...

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jacob-wohl-accused-of-fooling-desperate-woman-into-paying-him-for-sham-private-investigation/

tbf his solutions are indeed bespoke

man wtf w the SC today

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-refuses-to-block-kids-climate-lawsuit-against-us-government/2018/11/02/34bd7ee6-d7af-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?utm_term=.d8337e8dfa86

I mean that lawsuit seems p crazy to me, maybe they're just expecting lower courts to rule against it

"the government should seek relief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit." good luck

9th circuit is the most liberal circuit in the country...?

sorry I was being sarcastic. I was thinking the government isn't likely to win in the 9th

i am the 10,000th person to make a zodiac killer tweet edit

https://i.imgur.com/qty6qec.gif

lol

https://i1.wp.com/badbooksgoodtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/chef-kiss-gif.gif?fit=300%2C198

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch said they would have granted the Trump administration’s request to delay the trial.

lol of course

also for the climate change lawsuit:

"Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch would have stopped the suit."

I am very proud of those local kids

yes!

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/11/03/us/politics/03repubs-print/merlin_146231109_013fcbfe-9950-4b8d-81b1-f7afb991f133-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

Myyyyyyyyy....WAR!
YOU'RE ONE OF THEM
YOU! SAY!
THAT YOU'VE MY FRIEND
BUT YOU'RE ONE OF THEM ONE OF THEM ONE OF THEM!!

Cruz demonstrating how to make a Canadian Clanger.

https://processedmedia.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/mr-show-s1-ep4-3.png

where are the tax returns

there are no tax returns, there is no anything.

this is relatively old news, from the ancient time of august 26, but just to start the day off right, here is a list of investigations that democrats are expected to launch if they take the house:

President Trump’s tax returns
Trump family businesses — and whether they comply with the Constitution's emoluments clause, including the Chinese trademark grant to the Trump Organization
Trump's dealings with Russia, including the president's preparation for his meeting with Vladimir Putin
The payment to Stephanie Clifford — a.k.a. Stormy Daniels
James Comey's firing
Trump's firing of U.S. attorneys
Trump's proposed transgender ban for the military
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's business dealings
White House staff's personal email use
Cabinet secretary travel, office expenses, and other misused perks
Discussion of classified information at Mar-a-Lago
Jared Kushner's ethics law compliance
Dismissal of members of the EPA board of scientific counselors
The travel ban
Family separation policy
Hurricane response in Puerto Rico
Election security and hacking attempts
White House security clearances

And probably lots more. Obviously some of these are in progress already under various jurisdictions.

2018-2020 (and beyond) might still be a shitshow, but at least there might be some shit to show for it.

counting chickens not yet hatched

everyone with twitter, will you please join me in yelling at steve king?
i would like to see him ratio'd to a legendary degree. i fucking hate this asshole

for some reason i'm getting a poxy fule error every time i try to post his latest tweet. it's the one that says "My opponent is the antithesis (the opposite) of Iowa values. My record proves I embody them."

system is protecting us. hail system

#IA04: Rep. Steve King (R)'s lead over J.D. Scholten (D) down to 46%-45% nearly halfway thru NYT/Siena poll. Scholten now airing *two minute* ads. https://t.co/6KqZMxRjaA

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 3, 2018

patiently waiting by my phone for a possible call from Nate Cohn

he conducts all the calls, right?

This is the 2 minute ad by the way

Dem running agnst Steve King puts up 2 min!!! Field of Dreams-inspired ad. ('real" field of dreams in the 1st CD, btw, not the 4th)https://t.co/hlbkfyGZYD

— amy walter (@amyewalter) November 2, 2018

Also lol

#IA04 Rep. Steve King (R) finally went up on the airwaves at 1:18pm today, 2.5 weeks after his opponent. The ad looked familiar to me...and yup, it's a recycled ad from his *2014* race. https://t.co/VkRF8zBspG https://t.co/6qHqYiAok1

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 2, 2018

Hi, I cover the White House for one of the world's most important publications. The President of the United States giving his tacit approval to the massacre of people in synagogues and Chuck D saying "Farrakhan's a prophet" in "Bring the Noise" in 1988 are the same thing

— Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) November 3, 2018

breaking: meet the press blows

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/02/study-over-past-3-months-guest-panels-sunday-shows-have-been-overwhelmingly-conservative/221974

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

(in case you're wondering, "We coded panels as tilting left when a majority of participants were Democratic or progressive; we coded panels as tilting right when a majority of participants were Republican or conservative; and we coded panels as balanced when Democratic and progressive guests numbered equally with Republican and conservative guests. Neutral guests did not affect a panel's tilt.")

things you can do with a lawnmower

https://i.imgur.com/mzcA8Fl.png

i found this article from the night before the 2016 election. it is awesome

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/2016s-election-data-hero-isnt-nate-silver-sam-wang/

Forget Nate Silver. There's a new king of the presidential election data mountain. His name is Sam Wang, Ph.D.

Haven't heard of him just yet? Don't worry. You will. Because Wang has sailed True North all along, while Silver has been cautiously trying to tack his FiveThirtyEight data sailboat (weighted down with ESPN gold bars) through treacherous, Category-Five-level-hurricane headwinds in what has easily been the craziest presidential campaign in the modern political era.

When the smoke clears on Tuesday—and it will clear—what will emerge is Wang and his Princeton Election Consortium website and calculations (which have been used, in part, to drive some of the election poll conclusions at The New York Times' Upshot blog and *The Huffington Post'*s election site). What will be vindicated is precisely the sort of math approach that Silver once rode to fame and fortune.

...So when the smoke clears on Tuesday; when enough non-white and female voters haven't been harassed or intimidated enough to stay home; when Clinton crosses the finish line with something close to 300 Electoral College votes and a popular vote victory somewhere between two and five percentage points; and Nate Silver is telling his 1.7 million Twitter followers that he'd been right all along this election, Sam Wang will be standing tall above the fray, draped in his "median-based probability election" cloak.

Long live the new election data king.

lolll wired

When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang
When the smoke clears on Tuesday what will emerge is Wang

This is the 2 minute ad by the way

Dem running agnst Steve King puts up 2 min!!! Field of Dreams-inspired ad. ('real" field of dreams in the 1st CD, btw, not the 4th)https://t.co/hlbkfyGZYD
— amy walter (@amyewalter) November 2, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, November 3, 2018 3:26 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Through the whole I was waiting for him to start carping about Courtney Love and Beck and Hanson

That lawnmower thing---on two phone games that I play the most and am usually high on the leader board my handles are "trumpisadick" and "trumpsucks."

I do wonder how the MTP panel composition would change under a Dem administration

I do wonder how the MTP panel composition would change under a Dem administration

They would eliminate the token Democrat and make it all Republicans.

That's how it was in 2009-2010.

Huh

oh sweet jesus I hate this motherfucker. praying that abrams wins and this doesn't go into a runoff.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/georgia-elections-kemp-voters-hack.html

also:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/04/politics/sonny-perdue-cotton-pickin-florida-governor-andrew-gillum-ron-desantis/index.html

really, my dude? really???

The Kemp news...i hope that fucker has a stroke

I thought he'd actually prevented the Georgia servers from being looked into previously which might have helped prevent further hacking. So, slight hypocrysy there.