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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2018 / Thursday Morning Open Thread

Thursday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  November 1, 20186:38 am| 104 Comments

This post is in: Election 2018, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Daydream Believers

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Remember the little girl who was obsessed with Michelle Obama's portrait? Guess who she dressed as for Halloween ?? https://t.co/ZnhmKZsFni pic.twitter.com/RUeSwfhmmh

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) November 1, 2018

New: based on the past week’s evidence, we’re revising our House outlook to a Dem gain of 30-40 seats (was 25-35 last month) at @CookPolitical. This could change again before Tuesday.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 31, 2018

Well over 200,000 people who have NEVER voted in any election before now have already cast a ballot in Texas. The state with the second highest number of first time voters, CA, has only 78,000. Keep that in mind as you assess the polls in Texas.

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 31, 2018

Over 1.5 million people under the age of 30 have already voted in this country, despite many states making it near impossible for younger people to vote early. This is compared to only 563,000 votes cast in the same time period in 2014.

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) October 31, 2018

To win ALL women's right to vote: 100+ years
To legalize same-sex marriage after first state lawsuit: 43 years
To lower legal blood alcohol levels in all 50 states: 20 years
To pass child labor laws in all 50 states: 100+ years
To get the Voting Rights Act signed: 14 years pic.twitter.com/VyvfRHnHKN

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 31, 2018

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2018 at 6:41 am

    Good Morning, Everyone ???

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2018 at 6:42 am

    Little Parker makes my ovaries ache ??

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    November 1, 2018 at 6:43 am

    Number of trick or treaters: 0.

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2018 at 6:43 am

    ICYMI

    BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA ? ?

    Slate (@Slate) Tweeted:
    The Obamas have bought the rights to Michael Lewis’ book chronicling the chaos of the Trump administration: https://t.co/9Gg720MH6Q https://t.co/NWw5GYKTky https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1057784408005058560?s=17

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    Immanentize

    November 1, 2018 at 6:45 am

    Hello All.
    @NotMax:
    We had a bunch of neighborhood kids early, but then turned out the lights and hid from the teenagers who come after 8

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    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 6:46 am

    @NotMax: Here in the hills and hollers we call them “trespassers”.

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    rikyrah

    November 1, 2018 at 6:49 am

    @Immanentize:
    Hid from the teenagers???

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    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 6:54 am

    The most disgusting food in the world – in pictures

    You will love the Mouse wine, a drink infused with dead baby mice from China, and the Kopi luwak, or civet coffee, which is coffee that includes coffee cherries eaten, part-digested and defecated by the Asian palm civet. Also Licorice, which I totally agree is pretty disgusting and Jell-O salad, which I grew up eating and fondly remember.

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2018 at 6:57 am

    ICYMI

    Voter Suppression of Latinos in Kansas.

    This will piss you off??

    Dodge City voters fight government for better voting access https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/dodge-city-voters-fight-government-for-better-voting-access-1358782019717 via @msnbc

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    Schlemazel

    November 1, 2018 at 6:59 am

    @NotMax:
    We had 15 almost no little kids. Makes me sad.

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    NotMax

    November 1, 2018 at 6:59 am

    @immanentize

    hid from the teenagers who come after 8

    Missed out on all the fun.

    :)

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    Ken

    November 1, 2018 at 7:01 am

    @NotMax: That’s why it’s important to plan carefully, and buy candy that you like, or that can be used as aThanksgiving dessert ingredient.

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    satby

    November 1, 2018 at 7:02 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning ?!

    I had a grand total of 15 trick or treaters, pretty well split between little ones and younger teens (all of whom favored a lot of blood in their costume choices). It turned out to be an almost perfect fall day for them, sunny and in the low 50s. First time in 10 years I’ve had any, since I never got them out in the country in Michigan.
    Edited to add: and my treat was enjoying a glass of wine on the porch while waiting for them.

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    Baud

    November 1, 2018 at 7:02 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning.

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    Baud

    November 1, 2018 at 7:03 am

    The kids know better than to come to my house.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2018 at 7:04 am

    @NotMax: None here either, this is a good thing. I was a bit worried my new neighbor’s kid would stop by, so I went out to take some pics.

    Halloween sunset.
    and
    Museum of Neon Art.

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    Schlemazel

    November 1, 2018 at 7:05 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    I love licorice but understand it is not everyone’s favorite. OTOH soup made from the head and feet of shheep would be delicious, lot of silky collagen and the meet is very tasty. Cuy is good also though the image is not what you want while eating it.

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    Schlemazel

    November 1, 2018 at 7:07 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    That sunset picture is fabulous!

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    NotMax

    November 1, 2018 at 7:08 am

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Lurve me some real licorice. Salmiak excepted (ammonium chloride – really? Nix on the yum factor.).

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2018 at 7:09 am

    @Baud: The razor wire topped fence probably accounts for that.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2018 at 7:10 am

    @Schlemazel: Thanks, it looked like it would be a good one so I headed to the mall parking lot(it’s got a good view to the west).

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    Ocotillo

    November 1, 2018 at 7:12 am

    I hope the 200,000 new voters in Texas are Betomania. Wife was telling me there a lot of people coming in who thought they were registered but evidently had not voted in years and were purged.

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    Shantanu Saha

    November 1, 2018 at 7:15 am

    I went out with my son (in a home-made Harry Potter outfit), so we left a bowl outside the front door. By the time we got back, it was half-empty, probably from the younger kids who were out when we were. As we came back, we saw the teens begin to get into gear. Half an hour after we got back, the rest of the candy was gone.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    November 1, 2018 at 7:18 am

    Dems should tell their voters that if they vote in four consecutive elections they won’t be contacted by GOTV people. A little carrot to encourage consistent voting.

    I never get contacted, so I know it works.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    November 1, 2018 at 7:19 am

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Gelatin, you say?

    The 11 Scariest Vintage Gelatins For Your Mid-Century Halloween Party.

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 7:22 am

    @Schlemazel:

    OTOH soup made from the head and feet of shheep would be delicious,

    Agreed, and I don’t know why cuy would be considered disgusting. Menudo looks like something I’ve already eaten in my travels SOB. When ever I went down there I had a long standing practice to order things I had no idea what they were. Sometimes I paid a price but most times I was richly rewarded with a taste treat I had never had before.

  27. 27.

    Kay

    November 1, 2018 at 7:22 am

    In May 2016, Vice President Joe Biden dropped into Columbus to tout a federal new rule: overtime pay would be required for salaried workers who make up to $47,476 a year.
    The change was expected to boost the paychecks of 4.2 million Americans who work as mid-level managers in places such as big box stores, restaurants and the like.
    In September 2016, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine joined a lawsuit with 21 state attorneys general to block the regulation, which business groups loathed. The suit was successful.
    The overtime regulation is now a central issue in the Ohio governor’s race.

    The overtime rule! You know the low quality Trump Administration will do a horrible job with it:

    Meanwhile, the Trump administration just concluded “listening sessions” to gather public comment on what the earnings threshold should be for salaried workers to be eligible for time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 in a week. So far, more than 214,000 comments have been received, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. A new version of the rule is expected in January.

    Great issue for us- state AND federal. Applies in both.

  28. 28.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    November 1, 2018 at 7:25 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: @NotMax: Funny that a museum in Sweden included licorice because Scandinavians apparently love their licorice. When we were in Denmark you could buy it everywhere, and the cafes had multiple licorice flavored coffees and teas. Actually that trip got me drinking licorice-root tea again, which I hadn’t had in decades.

    I’ve heard about the civet coffee. Isn’t that also the most expensive coffee in the world?

    Haggis is actually pretty good. But blood sausage aka black pudding squicks me out.

  29. 29.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 7:27 am

    @Baud: The Dems here send out a card with your voting history. Since I’ve been out here I’ve only missed one primary (2010 iirc).

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    November 1, 2018 at 7:27 am

    No trick or treaters where I live now. I never minded the teenagers, assuming I still had candy. I figured there was far worse things they could be doing.

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    debbie

    November 1, 2018 at 7:28 am

    @Kay:

    I benefitted from this. We better not be going backwards.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 7:31 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Haggis is actually pretty good.

    One of these days I’m gonna get to try it. I figure anything that is so reviled in print but so loved by the people who eat it can’t be all bad and probably is pretty good..

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    Baud

    November 1, 2018 at 7:31 am

    @debbie: When has that ever happened?

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    Raven

    November 1, 2018 at 7:33 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Tripeface boogie now boogie my sneakers away. ..

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    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    November 1, 2018 at 7:38 am

    More on “disgusting” food. I’m a big fan of science author Mary Roach, who writes books that are laugh out loud funny while also being incredibly informative. In her book “Gulp” about human digestion she mentions that we humans used to eat a lot more organ meats, and have lost a lot of nutritional value now that we don’t and they are considered gross and disgusting. She talks with the Inuit, who have very little besides meat in their traditional diet.

  36. 36.

    Matt McIrvin

    November 1, 2018 at 7:38 am

    We have an official two-hour trick-or-treat window from 5-7 PM which is usually not on Halloween proper, but on the closest weekend, usually before the 31st. This year, there was terrible weather predicted for Saturday so the mayor moved it at the last minute to Sunday.

    Weather was chilly and overcast, but even so, we got just over 100 kids showing up, which I’d say is brisk business though not the biggest one we’ve had. The lady in the other half of our duplex is That Lady who gives out full-size candy bars, one per visitor, and she gets them in packages with a precise count, so she was able to keep track of the exact number. The crowd is always intense for the first hour, dominated by the wee little ones, and drops off right around the 6 PM mark when it starts to get dark. Next door lady gave up around 6:55 when it seemed like nobody was coming any more, and she was at a round 100 at that point. A few stragglers then actually appeared in the final minutes, so I think we were at about 105.

    The mix seemed to run more toward horror creatures and less superheroes than last year, though both were present in quantity. One inflatable T-rex. One Link from Legend of Zelda, who didn’t get it when I handed over the candy saying “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.”

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    Kay

    November 1, 2018 at 7:39 am

    @debbie:

    It’s amazing what you have time to talk about in elections when you’re not talking about “brown and black people invading” stories, huh? Preexisting conditions and the overtime rule- the things Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about.

    This can be done. We can get around them and make the real things they don’t want to talk about campaign issues, because it’s happening. Trump apparently can’t distract Floridians from environmental issues despite his best efforts.

  38. 38.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    November 1, 2018 at 7:40 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I was in Edinburgh and finally told myself I was going to hate myself if I left Scotland without at least trying it.

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    Betty Cracker

    November 1, 2018 at 7:41 am

    @Baud: I’ve never missed an election, voted early this year and was a Democratic Party precinct captain in my old district before I moved, and I’ve been bombarded with GOTV texts, emails, calls, etc., this cycle. I guess they’re not taking any chances.

  40. 40.

    Kirk

    November 1, 2018 at 7:43 am

    I look at that 200,000 1st time voter number (now approaching 300,000 I’ve heard) and get excited. I calm myself with remembering it’s less than half a percent of the 4.7 million Texas voters of 2016.

    But it’s still encouraging.

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    debbie

    November 1, 2018 at 7:43 am

    @Kay:

    ECOT seems to have disappeared as an issue, which is too bad.

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    JeanneT

    November 1, 2018 at 7:43 am

    I had about 30 trick or treaters – having some new families with kids moving into our neighborhood really bumped up the totals. In 2016, I had 6, max. Last year I was the only house on the block with a porch light on, and no one came by, so eventually I just turned it off. It was fun to see the flocks of kids walking around – and most of the parents were in costume, too. Everyone seemed to want to play and be silly for an evening..

  43. 43.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 7:44 am

    @Raven: Gotta love Little Feat.

  44. 44.

    Kay

    November 1, 2018 at 7:46 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    I get canvassed every Prez election year. One year when my middle son still lived here he was canvassed and he was listening to the whole pitch not telling them he already voted and I finally yelled from the couch “he voted!”- he’s infuriating. Apparently it’s a secret.

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    Kay

    November 1, 2018 at 7:48 am

    @debbie:

    They beat it to death, though. I’m not sure they could have talked about it more. Ask anyone – they all know about it. That’s a good example of how hard it is to break through- how long have we been yelling about ECOT? A DECADE :)

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    November 1, 2018 at 7:48 am

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Although probably a mediocre version of the real thing sliced fresh (FDA regulations regarding importing certain traditional ingredients), Amazon sells canned haggis.

  47. 47.

    germy

    November 1, 2018 at 7:52 am

    This is Debbie Cox, the county clerk of Ford county , Kansas. She is jeopardizing the voting rights of 13,000 , mostly Hispanic residents of Dodge City Kansas. When the ACLU emailed her to get her to do the right thing, she forwarded that email to Chris Kobach with an "LOL" pic.twitter.com/DgYE4Q3Mr5— Terrypdx (@terrypdx1) October 27, 2018

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    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 7:53 am

    @Matt McIrvin: Nice to hear that T or T isn’t just a fading memory from my childhood. When I was a kid there were always hordes of youngsters going up and down the street. In my parents last years they’d only get 5 or less visitors. The neighborhood grew old.

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    Jager

    November 1, 2018 at 7:53 am

    A guy in my hometown had a gorilla costume he would scare kids into peeing their pants. The last year my Jr High pals and I trick or treated he came hopping bowling around the side of his house. My friend Ron, who was one of those 13 year old boys who was already a grown man, chased the guy down, tackled him and came back with King Kings head.

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    Platonailedit

    November 1, 2018 at 7:54 am

    @Kirk: It’s 5%, which is a bfd.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    November 1, 2018 at 7:56 am

    @NotMax: Canned haggis? And it’s a “mediocre version of the real thing”? I feel ill.

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    Jager

    November 1, 2018 at 7:56 am

    The edit buttondoesnt work on my phone. That’s howling and Kong

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    danielx

    November 1, 2018 at 7:58 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I feel so….unexposed. Brussels sprouts are over the line for me.

  54. 54.

    danielx

    November 1, 2018 at 7:59 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I was thinking it was the doll’s head nailed to the front door.

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    Kirk

    November 1, 2018 at 8:00 am

    @Platonailedit: Note to self: no math before coffee.

    You’re right and I’m excited again.

  56. 56.

    PsiFighter37

    November 1, 2018 at 8:02 am

    @Baud: Not sure that is accurate. I was getting text messages ahead of the NY primaries, even though I’ve voted in every election save for one (maybe the 2011 primaries? It was an off-year all around is all I remember).

  57. 57.

    NotMax

    November 1, 2018 at 8:03 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor

    Well, the “mediocre version” part is a guess on my part. The reviews at Amazon are not at all terrible.

  58. 58.

    PsiFighter37

    November 1, 2018 at 8:03 am

    @Kirk: Check your math. It’s almost 7%.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 8:07 am

    @NotMax: I’ll wait to eat the real thing. I’ve had some horrible experiences with canned “delicacies.” (don’t ever ever EVER try the caviar)

    My wife has found that La Tienda is a pretty good source for Spanish sausages and cheeses. I can testify that the Sobrassada and Botifarro are dead on what you eat over there. I am particularly fond of sobrassada:

    Sobrassada (Catalan pronunciation: [suβɾəˈsaðə]; Spanish: sobrasada) is a raw, cured sausage from the Balearic Islands made with ground pork, paprika and salt and other spices. Sobrassada, along with botifarró are traditional Balearic meat products prepared in the laborious but festive rites that still mark the autumn and winter pig slaughter known as a matança (in Spanish, matanza) in Majorca and Ibiza. The chemical principle that makes sobrassada is the dehydration of meat under certain weather conditions (high humidity and mild cold) which are typical of the late Balearic autumn

  60. 60.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 8:10 am

    @danielx: I love me some Brussels sprouts, have since I was a wee one. Yes, I was a strange child. Why do you ask?

  61. 61.

    Kirk

    November 1, 2018 at 8:14 am

    So I should note I’m trying to keep it calm because the depression around here after 2016 was a thing.

    That noted, the thing that keeps me vacillating the most is the straight ticket option on Texas ballots. I’m hearing a lot of claims that this will help Cruz. But I’m old enough to think “coattails” and wonder if the high profile Cruz-O’Rourke deal might not just incidentally turn Texas blue all over.

    Pardon, time to calm down and go to work. But still I dream.

  62. 62.

    TS (the original)

    November 1, 2018 at 8:15 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: When I was at college it was the vegetable of the day – 5 days a week. Couldn’t face it then – still can’t now. granddaughter eats them out of the fridge (I am obligated to buy them when she visits) – strange children exist in all families :)

  63. 63.

    Matt McIrvin

    November 1, 2018 at 8:15 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Trick or treat is serious around here. But I’ve been reading the comments on the mayor’s Facebook feed, and it seems some neighborhoods in town don’t get any. I think it depends on the mix of families and the street’s reputation for safety and candy distribution.

    Holding it earlier in the evening on the weekend, so it’s easier for little kids and parental work schedules aren’t as much of an issue, really helps, though I know some traditionalists grumble about it. It’s common for kids to come in from other streets or even other towns, either with local friends or just on spec–in past years my daughter has double-dipped, trick-or-treating locally on our designated day and then going up to do it with family in Hampstead, NH on Halloween. This year she went to a school friend’s Halloween party on Sunday and they all went out together on the friend’s street.

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    NotMax

    November 1, 2018 at 8:16 am

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Pricey, but here ya go.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    November 1, 2018 at 8:17 am

    @NotMax: I’m not sure that helps.

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    Elizabelle

    November 1, 2018 at 8:18 am

    Abigail Spanberger’s campaign hits the big time. Gets to eject its very own embedded “Project Veritas/James O’Keefe” volunteer, an apparently pregnant woman who had wormed her way in but was found out.

    WaPost: Democrat says Project Veritas infiltrated her campaign in Va.’s tight 7th District

    RICHMOND — A conservative group that creates undercover “sting” videos infiltrated the campaign of Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat in a tight race with Rep. Dave Brat in Virginia’s 7th District.

    The campaign said a young woman working for Project Veritas posed as a Democratic volunteer and spent every day over the past several weeks in Spanberger’s suburban Richmond campaign office, performing basic office tasks — and peppering her office mates with questions that eventually raised red flags.

    Campaign staffers on Wednesday confronted her and asked her to leave, a video released by the campaign shows.

    (It’s a good video.)

    … Spanberger’s campaign said [Ms.] Jorge showed up a few weeks ago and said her name was Monica Nelson. She said she was five months’ pregnant and looking for something to do after overcoming an illness early in her pregnancy.

    In an email sent to the campaign’s deputy director Sunday, she pressed for a one-on-one meeting with Spanberger so she could pitch her idea for a website “to encourage moms to follow their political passions.”

    The campaign grew suspicious and found her image on a website that identified her as Marisa Jorge, a veteran of several previous Project Veritas stings.

    In a video provided by Spanberger’s campaign, Bye confronted Jorge on Wednesday.

    “We understand that you are here under false pretenses, and that we need to ask you to leave, and that your name is Marisa Jorge, and that you’re with Project Veritas,” Bye says.

    Jorge calmly says, “Okay, thank you,” and leaves immediately.

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    Baud

    November 1, 2018 at 8:21 am

    @PsiFighter37: Hmm. Maybe the Dems don’t want me voting.

  68. 68.

    Platonailedit

    November 1, 2018 at 8:24 am

    b2a3m9g8.stackpathcdn.com is fucking up the desktop site.

    Does anyone else have this problem in firefox or chrome browser?

  69. 69.

    Baud

    November 1, 2018 at 8:29 am

    @Platonailedit: I’ve had problems with Firefox recently.

  70. 70.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 1, 2018 at 8:32 am

    @Platonailedit: I have found that this site is very hard on Chrome. I’m on the latest Chrome under Windows 7, all patches and updates, and after a fairly short period of time reading here, Chrome is up to nearly 100 % of CPU.

  71. 71.

    Patricia Kayden

    November 1, 2018 at 8:33 am

    @Baud: That sounds pretty ominous for a future presidential candidate.

  72. 72.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 1, 2018 at 8:35 am

    Oh, and on my iPhone with Safari, I can literally watch the battery capacity drop by 1-2% every time I refresh the page. Clearly it’s the ads. I’m hesitant to use ad blockers, but if this persists I will have no choice.

  73. 73.

    satby

    November 1, 2018 at 8:38 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: re: haggis. It’s best deep fried, which is how it was served as an appetizer when I was in Glasgow. I also had the traditional version. It was fine, a bit bland because it’s basically a savory oatmeal with organ meats.

  74. 74.

    Walker

    November 1, 2018 at 8:38 am

    @Kirk:

    Except that there have been many reports of people voting straight ticket and the electronic machines flipping the senate votes to Cruz.

  75. 75.

    Kay

    November 1, 2018 at 8:38 am

    @Elizabelle:

    Great! Just so people will be more paranoid, hate each other more, and volunteer less. We should all infiltrate the opposing campaign and lie about why we’re there. Good work, conservatives. One more valuable contribution to our civic life by the insane Right wing.

    Project Veritas is a grift. They release tape of public events Democrats are doing and sell them to vulnerable chumps in the base by telling them they’re “exclusive!” and “secret!” – who don’t these people get a real job?

  76. 76.

    Baud

    November 1, 2018 at 8:39 am

    @Patricia Kayden: It helps burnish my anti-Establishment cred.

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    germy

    November 1, 2018 at 8:40 am

    @Platonailedit: YES

  78. 78.

    Kay

    November 1, 2018 at 8:41 am

    @Walker:

    It is worrisome but these flipping reports are made every year in all different states. I wonder what it is. I don’t doubt they’re seeing it but it really does show up every cycle. I’d just like to know if it’s real and why it’s happening.

  79. 79.

    Kay

    November 1, 2018 at 8:43 am

    @Walker:

    I personally like the paper ballot with the scanner. It’s the best of both worlds, IMO.

  80. 80.

    Tata

    November 1, 2018 at 8:45 am

    My first trick-or-treater last night was a little boy, maybe 10 at the most, in street clothes with a long list of tiny numbers printed on paper belted to him. He said, “I’m a million digits of Pi.” Almost swallowed my tongue, I laughed so hard.

    Had lots of trick-or-treaters, even some parents, but it tapered off just after 8. Fortunately, two girls rang the doorbell at 9:30. I told them they’d just won the lottery and I emptied the candy bowl into their bags. No leftover candy = I win!

  81. 81.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 8:45 am

    @Matt McIrvin: There are places up in STL where they have Halloween parties for the kids at YMCA’s, schools, etc. It’s understandable considering the neighborhoods, but it’s still sad.

  82. 82.

    Sloane Ranger

    November 1, 2018 at 8:46 am

    Just had a breaking news alert on my phone. The Electoiral Commission has referred Aaron Banks, the businessman who put a lot of money into the Brexit campaign, for criminal investigation. Apparently there’s evidence that the money didn’t come from him and he was just a launderer for it.

    The Guardian has been running with stories like this for some time but it’s nice to get separate confirmation. Doubt it will change the minds of many Brexit voters, however. They are doubling and tripling down with every revelation that they were lied to.

  83. 83.

    satby

    November 1, 2018 at 8:47 am

    @satby: or, you could do it yourself if you find a sheep to slaughter.

  84. 84.

    Amir Khalid

    November 1, 2018 at 8:47 am

    @Platonailedit:
    We all have this problem, some of us worse than others.

  85. 85.

    Sloane Ranger

    November 1, 2018 at 8:48 am

    Further to 82, that’s Electoral, not what I wrote.

  86. 86.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 8:48 am

    @NotMax: If you think that’s pricey ($11/lb is) try this.

  87. 87.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 1, 2018 at 8:50 am

    @Kay: That’s what we have in RI. Works like a charm and everybody loves it (or at least nobody complains.)

  88. 88.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 1, 2018 at 8:52 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, but have you had that? It’s amazingly good.

  89. 89.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 8:53 am

    @Kay: That’s what we have here. For once Misery has done something right.

  90. 90.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 8:56 am

    @Gin & Tonic: Yeah I have. It’s wasted on me.

  91. 91.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 1, 2018 at 9:03 am

    @satby: Bookmarked!

    @Gin & Tonic: My wife worships the table it is placed on. When she still lived in Majorca, she worked in the office of a construction company and every Xmas the big boss would buy one for the office party. One of the expensive ones. I have pictures of a butcher’s stall in the Palma market with a couple dozen hanging with prices ranging from something I might consider spending to a 2nd mortgage on my house. It’s good, but it’s not that good, to me. My palate is just too blunt an instrument.

  92. 92.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2018 at 9:23 am

    @Elizabelle:

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

  93. 93.

    Quinerly

    November 1, 2018 at 9:25 am

    Oops. I meant to leave this on this thread. Was avoiding upstairs. Damn.
    https://www.salon.com/2018/11/01/the-bad-the-worse-and-the-downright-ugly-gop-candidates-who-out-trump-trump/

  94. 94.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2018 at 9:25 am

    @Sloane Ranger:

    Just had a breaking news alert on my phone. The Electoiral Commission has referred Aaron Banks, the businessman who put a lot of money into the Brexit campaign, for criminal investigation. Apparently there’s evidence that the money didn’t come from him and he was just a launderer for it.

    GOOD

  95. 95.

    Elizabelle

    November 1, 2018 at 9:36 am

    @rikyrah: I saw her a few times. Word that comes to mind: slovenly. LOL.

    Learned through her “work” that James Comey has contributed to Abigail. As has George Soros’ son.

  96. 96.

    Tenar Arha

    November 1, 2018 at 9:40 am

    @Tata: I’ve got more leftovers than I wanted (I really would have been > fine to only have Twizzlers left). I thought for sure I’d get at least some older teenagers after 8, or I’d have done that to the tweens who were all in furry onsies who were in the last group.

  97. 97.

    CliosFanboy

    November 1, 2018 at 9:41 am

    had 61 kids, mostly real kids. Also mostly Hispanic. One little boy of about 10 was cute. He was with his mom and a baby sister (an infant dressed as a bunny rabbit). He was explaining this strange Yankee custom of Trick or Treat to his Mom, who was a bit bewildered but being a good sport…

    Last ones about 9:15. a couple little kids with their Mom.

    TONS of leftover candy as my wife and I both bought a bunch, and she always over-buys. So each kid got a full handful. My students will get a lot of the rest. The local food bank likes to get some too.

  98. 98.

    Redshift

    November 1, 2018 at 9:52 am

    Thanks to the nice weather, we had over 200 kids come through our neighborhood haunted house. (I was Dr. Frankenstein!) I still have something of s voice this morning, and my feet don’t hurt too much. A good night.

  99. 99.

    Haroldo

    November 1, 2018 at 9:53 am

    @Raven:

    I prefer

    to blow out my speakers, just one more time……

  100. 100.

    Redshift

    November 1, 2018 at 10:06 am

    @Quinerly: I just saw Corey Stewart’s closing ad, and apparently the awful one I thought I’d seen a couple of days ago was just the closing bit. After his brief attempt at “really I’m not a racist” apparently failed, he’s going hard Trump, “if we don’t stop the migrant caravan, millions of illegal immigrant will food our country, being crime and disease! Tim Kaine’s (lovely, actually) “America for all” means he wants Open Borders!” And so on.

    Again, can’t wait to see him get stomped by 20 points.

  101. 101.

    narya

    November 1, 2018 at 10:07 am

    @Gin & Tonic: I also had to change my data plan, as the site was gulping data.

  102. 102.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    November 1, 2018 at 10:22 am

    @Platonailedit: I’m not having an issue with stackpathcdn that I can see. Or any issue, really.

    I’m running Firefox with uMatrix and blocking: facebook, connatix, ora.tv, culturalconvergencemedia, google-analytics, googletagservices.

    The main slowdown I see is waiting for Twitter to respond.

  103. 103.

    J R in WV

    November 1, 2018 at 11:26 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    We had some black blood sausage in Spain and France that was pretty good. We stopped in little rural bars while moving between caves, and what they had was what was for lunch most days. My first palatable octopus/squid in those little bars full of farmers and retired factory guys moved back home after quitting the factory jobs in town.

    Roadside bars in Spain and France have as good food as high-end restaurants in this country, far better than the salad bar at Appleby’s !!!

  104. 104.

    Uncle Cosmo

    November 1, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    @CliosFanboy:

    TONS of leftover candy

    Bienvenidos a la Dia de Muertos Diabeticos.

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