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

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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.

Hmm hipocracy on the part if a Republican... I don't know, don't buy it tbh

.@SenBillNelson has been in public office for over 40 years. He’s been in the Senate for 18 years. He’s the only statewide elected Democrat in Florida. @desiderioDC talked to voters who think @AndrewGillum chose Nelson for the ticket.

AMAZING pic.twitter.com/EJud1dmXyk

— Chris Hartline (@ChrisHartline) November 5, 2018

Hypocritic oaf

if he can pull Nelson over the line...

I hate Rick Skeletor Scott

You have no idea!

Forty-eight hours from now, I will be pointedly avoiding the internet. Probably watching something on Netflix.

i will be right here

stoked for the madness

Nope. Can't avoid it. To quote Morrissey, angel, we go down together.

I guess we'll see. The memory of Election Night 2016 - which never officially ended for me, because I couldn't sleep - is still very raw.

ray netflix is right on the dang internet!!!!

j., you know what I meant.

ayo how does one watch election results on the west coast of the USA?

― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Sunday, November 4, 2018 5:39 PM (yesterday)

yeah i for one am lining up some dense and wine-oriented movie watching i think, the november 2016 double-feature of "duck soup" and "saboteur" was totally inadequate at skipping forward through time, esp since as soon as the credits started rolling someone near the back of the theater checked their phone and yelled out "it's america that's being sabotaged, because trump is winning!" i dismissed them as superficial followers of early precinct information or w/e but a few hours later my little household, deep in some sad cups, was switching between bob ross and "airheads" just to try and blot out the minutes until the last, miserable make-or-break states came in. netflix must be sitting on fascinating data of what ppl reached out for that night. i'm going to need continuous distraction, minimal news, unless it's amazing news.

it's not going to be another upset like that

i've probably posted all that on one of these threads before, sorry

sure i just don't need to be sitting there watching ppl say "checking back in the texas senate race, it is still TOO CLOSE TO CALL although o'rourke is probably hoping that THESE precincts break in his favor" etc etc til 2 in the morning

"nate, since we're still waiting on those Fargo precincts to figure out if heitkamp has a chance, are there any state senate races where the exit polling so far has surprised you?"

I'm going to sit through every last second of the election returns and then hate myself after.