Yo, y’all.
I just made my ritual debate night donations. Tonight it was small $ to Hillary, Maggie Hassan, and the Balloon Juice Act Blue fund.
If any of you share my superstition (donations when you’re nervous, pissed off at something, or what have you, have more impact than any others), I offer you the house widget below, shamelessly lifted from a DougJ post:
As Doug says, let’s take the House and Senate too.
Image: Martinus van Reymerswaele, The Banker and his Wife, before 1550.
Schlemazel
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Schlemazel
I have seen some stories that Ailes the Hut has left Trump. Like this one
I tried posting a link to a story about what Chris Wallace was going to do tonight to save down ballot wingnuts but they removed the story. It was very nicely written and a shame I can’t share it
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
I’m sure as Hell not playing any Trump drinking games, as I’d probably wind up in the ICU going through the worst detox evar.
raven
Act Blue is the first site that took my Apple Pay!
aimai
Love the painting, Tom. I, too, donate money when I’m sad/angry/enraged/sickened. So I’ve actually maxed out for HRC twice this cycle. I never thought I’d give that much money again after Obama but I’m all in for Hillary. Damn the torpedos and full speed ahead. but you are right to remind me about Maggie Hassan. I’ll throw some more money her way. My daughter is working for HRC in NH every weekend and they are running a co-ordinated campaign with Hassan and door knocking for Hillary is also door knocking for Hassan. Hopefully they will pull each other across the finish line.
F
Tim Tebow’s foray into the Arizona Fall League is the perfect metaphor for the Trump campaign.
Mali muso
Don’t forget about Luann Bennett here in VA-10. She actually has a competitive chance against Frank Wolff’s replacement Barbara Comstock. After eons of watching this seat be red with no hope of turning it blue, I am excited we are within striking distance.
Jeffro
Perfect anti-Trump, anti-“rigged” ad:
John Kerry and Al Gore yukking it up, turn to camera…”oh hey, remember us?”
(goes on to explain how democracy and elections work in America, how they’re impossible to ‘rig’, and how complaining about losing is kind of unprecedented in our history)
Kerry rattles off a few notable losers…”and Al even though you actually got the most votes 2000, you still helped bring the country back together, didn’t you?”
Gore: “Why yes John – I seem to remember you did the same in 2004 even though just a few votes in one state would have made you president”
in unison: “So let’s quit babbling nonsense, elect a president, and then get to work moving the country forward.”
Kerry: “Because anything else, well, that would…”
Gore: “just be a sore loser,man”
piratedan
mike Pence – voter fraud is real… fuck that guy
FlipYrWhig
@Jeffro: Nice! Your work?
Schlemazel
I know he has his problems but this 7 minutes from Kieth Olbermann recounts a personal story about the vast right wing conspiracy against the Clintons. He explains who introduced him to it & explained who the players were. You will be surprised by the size of the group but not the names or the fact that they are all tied to Trump.
Chyron HR
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piratedan
man… if the GOP has both houses, the majority of governorships, then exactly WHO is rigging elections? Are you saying Mike that there’s no reason for any Democrat to be elected anywhere?
PsiFighter37
@piratedan: That shithead is only on the ticket because he would’ve lost his re-election race in Indiana. I bet Fox News has a nice gig lined up for him, though (or Trump will put him on his new TV network).
dr. bloor
Bah. i clicked over from twitter to get in on the latest liver-damaging game, and you give me something constructive? Sad!
misterpuff
Big Media is in Big Crooked Hillary’s pocket, so ya it’s rigged/PencetheMenschNot
PsiFighter37
Apparently AA early voter turnout in Georgia is way up over 2012. That’s a good start, but need college-educated white folks to push us over the top in GA.
Baud
@misterpuff:
Don’t forget Balloon Juice. Completely rigged in favor of Hillary.
Steeplejack
@Mali muso:
I’m in VA-8, so I’ve been seeing Bennett’s TV ads. I hope she can unseat the odious Comstock.
burnspbesq
Fingers crossed: all three of my down-ballot contributees (Roy Cooper, NC-GOV; Doug Applegate, CA-49; Josh Gottheimer, NJ-05) are doing better than expected.
JordanRules
I already heard the word “both” enough on NPR. They are horrible.
japa21
Not watching debate. Have to watch the Cubbies become hitless wonders for another night. Although not a Cubs fan myself, my wife has been a long suffering one and it is almost painful watching her as they fall apart. Hopefully they can turn it around.
Kay
Imagine how crazy it is in the Trump strategy room. I don’t even know what this means.
Baud
Baio is in the house!
burnspbesq
@F:
The idea behind sending Tebow to arizona was to throw him in the deep end and find out ASAP whether he was a prospect or a suspect. I’d say it’s working nicely.
Major Major Major Major
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): one of my friends suggested on FB that people try “when they go low, we get high”
Kay
Starting to dawn on Ivanka, this may not end well for the Trump brand. “I barely know the guy!”
TS
@PsiFighter37: Women will get Georgia over the top – the GOP did quite forget the words of former secretary of state Madeleine Albright.
burnspbesq
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
Haven’t seen you around these parts for a while. Welcome back!
NotMax
@Kay
Practicing the John Wayne walk, a la “La Cage aux Folles.”
Alain the site fixer
@raven: thanks for mentioning that. Now it’s setup on my iPad too.
Mnemosyne
@japa21:
The Cubs broke my heart in 1984 and I haven’t trusted them in post-season ever since.
Peale
I hope for the next cycle of debate we just lose the guests. Hell. Lose the audience. but the guests have got to go.
Major Major Major Major
Did y’all see the Vox piece about Hillary’s silent majority? Not news for a lot of us but a good read to share.
Corner Stone
@Kay: “What, that speech I gave at the RNC? That was marketing for my clothes line. Not really even sure what happened after I left. As a business person I try to stay apolitical.”
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
I called it that months ago. Should have copyrighted it.
JordanRules
@Kay: Ivanka packed a fuck ton of bullshit into that statement. WTF
Peale
@Kay: so he needs to first pretend that he’s debating Hillary, but instead debate his own party. That’s really impressive three weeks before the end.
Aleta
Putting in a plug for any small token of support for Emily Cain, against Rep Bruce Polaquin. Big money is pouring in from out of state for him; she has a decent chance right now and a lot of committed supporters, but less money.
For the last 40 years the northern 2nd district in ME has elected (first 20 years) a relatively independent moderate Repub. to the House of Reps, and then (most recent 20 years) a Democrat to the House.
The seat was lost to Repub. Polaquin just 2 years ago only because Dem Michaud stepped down to run against Le Page. (Who sleazed him, after which Michaud publicly came out, and then lost due to a 3 party race.)
Polequin is a former investment banker who wants to further deregulate banks, among other junk positions and actions. Cain has a long record of service and strong progressive work and has held local and state elected offices, incl Maine House and Maine Senate.
It would be SO great if she could remove Polaquin from Congress. He has “disagreed with Trump’s language” but not broken with him, and his out of state money has produced ads with blatant lies about her.
Corner Stone
Anybody else think about the debate tonight and start remembering the opening football scene in The Last Boy Scout?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Brian Willaims “vows a campaign to bring facts back when this is all over”
As I’ve said before, he’s as incoherent as Trump or Palin, just more confident, but that’s one somebody on that set should call him out on
Back to baseball
Old Dan and Little Anne
If I can see the Jays lose the ALCS, Lackey shit he bed, and Hillary do her thing against drumph all in one night? Holy fuck! What a hat trick! Go Hillary! I’ve watched each televised debate beginning with the 16+ clown parade this summer. Tonight gloating. Tomorrow rehab.
NotMax
@Peale
Audience ought to be limited to students, faculty and administration of the campus where it is being held, and also those alumni/alumnae who kicked in funds to defray the costs.
Baud
@Old Dan and Little Anne:
Wow. You deserve a medal.
And a new liver.
Original Lee
@Mnemosyne: Me, too. Hoping they keep winning because I have run out of cardiac glue.
hovercraft
To continue my Tweety bashing, he is the only pundit who keeps spouting about how Trump can right the ship and still win. Chuck Todd says there is no way, the best he can do is to prevent the bottom from falling out, and taking the entire republican party with him. Gene Robinson says no shot, Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, all say stick a fork in him. Wallace is happy though that there is a new frontrunner for 2020, Marco Rubio! Mike Pence was interviewed by Brian Williams, and hedged about the Russian interference and hacking, so now that he’s put himself firmly on the side of Trump and Putin, and Rubio has come out on the side of Ronald Reagan, he won the week, not either of the two people who will be on stage tonight. Oh my, who knew it would be so easy for Little Marco to leap right back to the head of the pack after he flamed out so spectacularly.
EDIT: to fix typo, not saying there aren’t more but fixed glaring one.
PsiFighter37
The Trump clan just sat down. No bothering with the niceties today…good.
Old Dan and Little Anne
@Baud: I’ll take a liver shaped medal.
Corner Stone
I love this skewering of fucking Mark Halperin’s idiot ass:
ETA, Come to think of it, “skewering”, “fucking” and “ass” in the same sentence may not be the best construction.
Kay
@Corner Stone:
It’s too late. That name has an entirely different meaning. Melania’s the real victim here. I saw her Twitter. It’s all photos of her shoes and pictures of NYC taken from windows. She was just fine until dumbo decided to run for President.
burnspbesq
The sign outside the venue should read “abandon hope, all ye who enter here.”
hovercraft
@Kay:
Nicole Wallace says that she’s spoken to members of the family, and they are aware that Trump is probably not going to win. They are now becoming very concerned about the fallout from the campaign, it is hurting their brand, especially internationally where they were making tons of money selling their name. Poor, poor, poor babies. SAD!
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
@Corner Stone: Larry King is at the Dodgers / Cubs sitting next to Mary Hart in the from row behind home plate.
Kay
@hovercraft:
He’s unwatchable.
I saw some of Chris Hayes earlier. He has a nice way about him. He’s able to correct the Trump people in a friendly way that seems to disarm them, knock them off balance.
haroldo
Mr. Levenson,
Thanks again for the reminder. I am so chuffed when I donate!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Corner Stone: I keep hoping somebody better than salon hires Simon Malloy, but where can a snarky smart ass get paid these days?
Corner Stone
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: Sure. But where is K Bone? Where is he? Huh?
Boom! Point.Made.
redshirt
Just gave a bunch. GO BLUE!
FlipYrWhig
@hovercraft: My wife said she was clearance shopping — which she doesn’t even like to do; I quite enjoy it myself — and saw a dress she thought might be worth checking out. Then she saw the label: “Ivanka Trump.” Ew! Get thee behind me! I wonder how dusty it’ll get over the next few months of decent human beings having the same reaction.
FlipYrWhig
@Kay: Somehow the best show in that lineup this election season has been Lawrence O’Donnell.
Kay
@hovercraft:
They’re all bad business people then. How in the hell did they think it would go if he lost? He’s been insulting huge groups of people for a year. Tens of millions of people. It’s not like they sell something obscure or abstract or unique. They sell dresses and shoes and water and hotel rooms. There are lots of those. They had this little tiny distinction based on their name and they blew it. There are hundreds of brands of mid-priced women’s shoes. Thousands of dresses just like hers. Too many to count.
Mike in NC
@Kay: After November 9th there needs to be a concerted effort to get “Hardball” cancelled.