Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

He really is that stupid.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Everybody saw this coming.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

I was promised a recession.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Second rate reporter says what?

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

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Early Morning Open Thread: Campaigning in the Sunshine State

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One candidate is running to be leader of the Free World. The other is running to bask in the adulation of his fans at yooooge, classy rallies…


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  1. 1.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    Wow, election day is Nov. 28th? That should make for some interesting Thanksgiving banter, though the timing sucks for folk who work retail being it’s the Monday after Black Friday.

  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Those poor people at The Onion, The Late Show, Full Frontal, The Daily Show, all the rest…

    Their creative energies are not needed during this presidential campaign. All they need to do is roll the tape of the most recent Drumpf rally.

  8. 8.

    md S Oregon

    Wow! You kids still up?? I’m late to the party with the West Coasters. Signing out now in J’ville County. Peggy Noonan count of signage…1 Trump sign removed from Crater Lake Highway.

  10. 10.

    Soylent Green

    What our media have learned from this election:

    (1) “Wall-to-wall, policy- and context-free coverage of the ferret-wearing shitgibbon made us a butt-load of money,” and
    (2) “More, please.”

  11. 11.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @scav: The wife told me that Macys(her employer) is opening at 4:30pm on Thanksgiving Day for Black Friday. UGGGGHHH.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    Between Sept. 10th and Oct. 10th, the Florida GOP registered 117 new voters.

    Florida Democrats registered 6,920

    Obviously, the Dems did better, but both numbers seem low for a month-long total. Anyone know if the Dem number is a good one?

  17. 17.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @OzarkHillbilly: Heh, she only works 3 days a week, but it’s 12 hour days.

    ETA: The other thing I can complain about is there will be NO parking on my street on Black Friday, I’m about 3 blocks from the mall and the fuckers park here and walk to the mall AND I have to drive madame to the mall.

  20. 20.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @BillinGlendaleCA: My hospital employed brother and SIL both get the 3/12 work schedule too. It’s a pretty sweet deal. Of course in their case it means they only get 1 full wkend a month together.

  21. 21.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @OzarkHillbilly: I think she works Mon, Wed, Fri; I know she was off last Sunday since she put up a video of her at the Rams game. I haven’t talked to her since she stood me up on our hike to Mt. Lowe(she had a good excuse, she came down with a cold).

  22. 22.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t know. I’m pretty sure my brother has his 3 days in a row as he has spoken of how much he enjoys his 4 day wkends (It’s really funky how it gets scheduled and I can’t recall the details now). Of course, I suppose different hospitals will do it differently.

  25. 25.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @OzarkHillbilly: I don’t think she has too much of a choice being that she’s new. She working on the floor now, but next spring she’s supposed to be moving to the OR(she likes that work).

  26. 26.

    trnc

    I’m trying to think of the most Luntzian spin on the voter registration disparity. So far, I’ve come up with these.

    “Republican voter confidence.”
    “Liberal registration panic.”
    “Fuck it. Just fuck it. I’ll be at the bar.”

    Any to add?

  27. 27.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @OzarkHillbilly: I went to one in 1979 and I’m still haunted by the experience. On the other hand her BF is a Chargers fan, there’s an exercise in futility.

  29. 29.

    trnc

    Washington (CNN)Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that he doesn’t “want” or “care” about having House Speaker Paul Ryan’s support in an interview in which he repeatedly trashed the House speaker, virtually unprompted.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/politics/donald-trump-republican-paul-ryan-2016-election/

    How was it virtually unprompted? The Cowardly Ryan didn’t fluff the mango misogynist for a couple of days, and that’s like a declaration of war on his ego.

  31. 31.

    craigie

    Wait, who is Donald Trump? The name seems familiar – have I heard it at all in the past few months?

  32. 32.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @OzarkHillbilly: The good thing about when I saw the Rams play in 79 was it was free(my former and future roommate’s dad got tickets and parking), they were playing the 49er’s, and OJ was still playing for the 9er’s.

  34. 34.

    amk

    @Baud:

    As of August 1, 2016, there are 2.1 million Hispanic registered voters in Florida, according to designation on voter registration forms. Among Hispanic voters, more than one in five are newly registered voters who were added to the voter rolls since the 2012 presidential election. Between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2016, 441,508 Hispanics registered to vote and remain in the statewide voter file. And according to state records they are trending more heavily Democrat in 2016 voter registration than ever before.

    I read somewhere they registered 60K new hispanic voters last month.

  41. 41.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: I need to take some more pics of my girls, but they’re horrible models. They don’t take direction very well.

  42. 42.

    Botsplainer

    So Assange isn’t aware of how he’s fucking himself in every orifice with this hacking shit. He always had a somewhat plausible excuse on Manning’s crime (which was, at its heart, Manning’s crime); but now, he’s a material conspirator in a targeted set of unauthorized cyber invasions.

    That’s a whole different pot of shit.

    Ecuador is going to find itself in an awkward spot, given the target of the incursions and the sort of policies the beneficiary of the incursions would have enacted.

    How long until it cuts its losses, and how different will Julian’s life be in Leavenworth?

  43. 43.

    TriassicSands

    @Baud:

    I don’t know, this late in the campaign getting almost 7,000 new registrations seems pretty good. I wouldn’t count on many of those 6,920 potential votes actually being cast. With the wall-to-wall coverage of this campaign and the amount of media attention that has been given to all things Trump, anyone not registered by September probably doesn’t care much about the outcome. That is particularly likely for Democratic registrants, since so many always have something better to do on election day. (And, now, with so much early voting, absentee voting, and mail-in voting, you really have to be apathetic to not manage to get your ballot filled out and delivered.

    The number I would like to see is how many people refused to register even though all it took was a few minutes and a little bit of printing.

  45. 45.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: You are still doing better than me. After the Cliff Cave rescue I learned that my truck was more photogenic than I (a fellow carpenter saw it on TV) and more quotable than I (a PD reporter quoted a bumper sticker I had on it)

    Sad!

  50. 50.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Sign # 3,212,547, 568,644 that our elections is broken:

    US elections are made-for-TV events. The conventions, rallies, polls and pundits are all essentially spectator sports. The process is built for consumption rather than engagement. It’s big business. In 2012, Republican spending on ads in Florida alone was almost double the total spent by the six main British parties combined during the UK 2015 election.

    I blame Obama.

  53. 53.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    The Bobic tweet confuses me. Is Trump promising that there will be rallies if he wins? Why? Does he know the campaign ends whether you win or lose?

    Maybe I’ll just make myself crazy if I try to parse meaning into a Trump quote. His voters probably don’t, they just hear “blah blah blah Crooked Hillary blah blah great again”

  54. 54.

    TS

    So Joke and his fool Halperin seem to be accepting that Trump has lost. Now as usual Joke is saying “as I told you last week” – b.s. but Halperin is rabble rousing the civil war – it’s going to be 35% of the population that hates the media and the Clintons and Paul Ryan.

    They talk more b.s in this show than Trump talks at his rallies.

    Edit: Cancel that – they still think Trump can win. Why do I ever turn it on.

  55. 55.

    Botsplainer

    @Luthe:

    At the rate he’s going, he’ll spend the rest of his life in confinement somewhere.

    I’d taunt him on the Wikileaks twitter, but I don’t want his flying monkeys attacking my office computers, because we’re just not that secure.

  57. 57.

    TS

    @TS: Edit won’t work – Cancel the Trump can’t win – the polls are coming back in his favor according to Mica – and she’s attacking Hillary campaigning with Gore – and why on earth do I ever turn it on.

  63. 63.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Arpaio has acknowledged violating the order to stop the immigration patrols but insists his disobedience wasn’t intentional.

    County taxpayers have shelled out $48m so far in the profiling case, and the costs are expected to reach $72m by next summer.

    Your Maricopa County tax dollars at work! Here’s hoping he spends the first 6 months of his new term in the Federal hoosegow.

  65. 65.

    where's my hammer

    In Washington state:

    “According to the Secretary of State’s Office, 27,601 people statewide signed up to vote online Monday — the state’s voter registration deadline — breaking a record set the day before, when 23,167 voters registered to vote.

    “We are ecstatic to see more than 50,000 new registrations in the past 48 hours,” said Secretary of State Kim Wyman in a news release.”

  66. 66.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    I can never make heads or tails of it in Ohio. Maybe the ratio means something, 5 to 1 for D v R or something, but you would need much better analysis to come up with a real comparison, because voters also drop off every year- they move, die or “become inactive”. The reporting on it is cyclical in Ohio- between 2008 and 2012 they said Democrats “lost” 300k D voters (not sure what that means) and then Democrats said they registered 220k new voters btwn 2011 and 2012.

    Someone could do it I guess- count this in some reliable way that means something- but it’s more complicated than just comparing monthly totals of new voters.

    The only thing the Obama campaign used was early/absentee votes CAST- that’s a “banked” vote. Reliable. If the votes are cast in a D county where he needs a huge margin and they have a number they need in that county (as a total) that’s “10% there” or “25% there”.

  67. 67.

    Kay

    @TS:

    Edit: Cancel that – they still think Trump can win. Why do I ever turn it on.

    I forgive them that because if they made any kind of definitive call that really would drive down turnout and affect the race. They can’t do that. They shouldn’t do it.

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