Joe Biden's version of the Access Hollywood tape. How will he ever recover https://t.co/hlfryAMRGx
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) September 18, 2020
Call it ‘wired for Republicans’, call it ‘jonesing for those horse-race clicks’, pretend it’s ‘scrupulous bipartisanship’… our Failed Media Betters are frantically covering themselves with something other than glory.
Obviously, there are plenty of good reporters doing their jobs, some of them quoted in this very thread! But…
Oohhhh not Chris Wallace and Jake Tapper. How’s he gonna handle the guy who got his job through his dad and the guy who broke into the industry because he had coffee with Monica Lewinsky once. https://t.co/IgGJHNiJg1
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) September 18, 2020
His website is absolutely packed with dense white papers laying out trillions of dollars of proposed programs. But his take is clearly that that’s not what you talk about to the average voter, he does a recurring bit where he tells audiences he doesn’t want to bore them. https://t.co/ReUjFTHF6k
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 18, 2020
cant help but find it amusing that facts checks of biden are stuff like "'Frankenstein' was actually the name of the scientist" while for trump its "the mayor of portland did not in fact declare that white babies could be used as currency" https://t.co/KwbdK8YEjX
— @canderaid mentality (@canderaid) September 18, 2020
You again really see the @JamesFallows Why Americans Hate The Media dynamic on display at this Biden town hall.
Pro journalist wants Biden to respond to something weird the Attorney General said.
Citizen questioner wants Biden to explain his health care plan.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 18, 2020
Cooper asks Biden to react to Trump’s comments about the vote-counting process.
Citizen asks Biden what he will do to improve police officers’ treatment of young African-Americans.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 18, 2020
A fact check roundup on Biden's CNN town hall, from colleagues @HolmesLybrand and @tarasubramaniam: https://t.co/FUaFXZKwDv
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2020
One side effect of the Trumpification of Republican politics is that Trump supporters see basic political competence and think it must be the result of cheating or malfeasance, because they're so unfamiliar with a politician actually knowing what they're doing. https://t.co/azdvff9rIp
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) September 18, 2020
A lot of reporter tweets grading these town halls boils down to:
Trump: did he explicitly tell a voter he‘s cool if they die and/or declare war with Iran?
Biden: well he didn’t quite put enough detail on the fourth bullet point of his plan there
— Patrick Dillon (@mpdillon) September 18, 2020
Think of "Biden is impaired" not as an electoral strategy, but (as @dbernstein and others talk about it) as a product that's selling like hotcakes in the conservative marketplace. https://t.co/t0mwYqpsJ9
— Jonathan Bernstein (@jbview) September 18, 2020
lamh36
Biden is just a good guy and nothing but diehard Chumpers and GOP culters believe otherwise
That’s just something Chump co can’t fight against. Comey and Wikileaks aided in the October surprise against HRC. Chumpers w/leftwing allies tried to get Biden via Hunter or Tara Reade and it basically all imploded once the COVID pandemic and Chump’s complete mishandling of it hit us in March.
NotMax
It’s a lot easier for the hacks to copy/paste stories from previous elections and use global replace on the names, dates and locations than do original reporting.
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lamh36
@lamh36: More of Biden just being a good guy. This is just the type of thing that makes Joe, JOE!
Chump couldn’t even ben his knee to get to a child’s level like Joe
debbie
@lamh36:
Reminds me of PBO down on the floor of the Oval Office with a tiny baby.
Major Major Major Major
Cannot wait for this election to be over.
lamh36
FYI, Kamala Harris LIVE on Instagram with Lizzo!
banditqueen
I guess the gravitational pull of bothsiderism is even pulling a bit at Daniel Dale–it’s just not that important whether or not the beast held the bible upside down or not while the 1600 crew debated using ‘heat rays’ against anti-beast protestors in DC.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Thank you, that is really heartening.
Every video of Biden and Harris is just balm to my soul.
different-church-lady
So with that first tweet they’re going for the actually-click-on-the-“She didn’t know why the crowd started applauding”-ads crowd?
zhena gogolia
@banditqueen:
It sure looked upside down to me. But maybe I just watch too many J-L Cauvin videos.
And I really watch a lot of J-L Cauvin videos.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
Have they not seen the video of Trump without a mask in the sterile mask-manufacturing factory?
randy khan
While it’s technically true that Trump did not hold the Bible upside down in the famous photo, he definitely held it like someone who’d never held a book, let alone a Bible, before.
different-church-lady
@banditqueen: SHE DIDN’T ACTUALLY SAY SHE COULD SEE RUSSIA FROM HER HOUSE!
Miss Bianca
With regard to that tweet responding to BillO, now I understand the context for something I overheard this morning: two guys working on the roof of a house talking about a town hall that had been “staged”. My response was exactly what that tweeter’s was, except his is better-expressed and has less profanity.
matt
Biden should follow the lead of Trump and send out some ridiculous shill to meet people like Tapper and Cilizza.
zhena gogolia
@randy khan:
Right!!!
different-church-lady
@randy khan: I wonder if his hand has healed from the burn marks yet.
Roger Moore
I think the process is pretty obvious. First they tried to sell their people on the idea that Biden was senile. That worked OK as long as the main way their voters saw Biden was in selectively edited clips designed to make him look senile, but it can’t survive him showing up on the news- even Fox News- in relatively unedited clips. So they have to move on from “he’s senile and can’t string a sentence together” to “he’s senile and can only talk about this stuff because he’s on drugs”. Of course Conservative voters can be counted on not to ask reasonable follow-up questions like, “Why can’t Trump speak coherently, even though he has access to the same drugs?” or “Won’t he be able to keep using those drugs when he’s President?”
gwangung
@Roger Moore: You have to be amused at the mental contortions they have to go through to get to their pre-ordained conclusions.
Careful there, Bub. Yer gonna strain something fierce with all that bending and twisting.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
hahaha, “The power of Christ commands you!”
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9DviHyzebo
Benw
Political media sux rox
lamh36
I have a feeling this is exactly what they gon try to do too.
But Kamala wasn’t prepared for GOP talking points in a Dem debate and THAT is what Tulsi azz did. You best believe that Kamala will be ready for that bullshit from Pence.
planetjanet
@zhena gogolia: So that link sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea Peter Cushing on was so many of the classic horror movies. I probably only knew him as Grand Moff Tarkin.
Mike in NC
Apparently the wingnuts have been encouraged to hold rallies for Fat Bastard tomorrow, 45 days from Election Day. Expecting a few elderly bigots to gather on their golf carts here. Maybe we’ll hang the Nazi banner that my wife’s father brought back as a souvenir in 1945 on the front door with a big note: Trump’s Favorite Flag!
Dopey-o
it was obvious from the first seconds that Trump was using the Bible as a prop, and it was probably the first time he had held one.
anyone who has ever read the Bible holds it by the spine, ready to open to the bookmark to (acccurately) read a significant passage.
trump held the bible as if he was going to chuck it onto a bonfire. His disdain for God’s Word is clear. But we knew that.
And no, he wasn’t holding it upside down. But he wouldn’t know.
Sab
My dad’s nurse’s aide says that in her neighborhood everyone wants Chuck Taylor shoes now, since Kamala Harris wears them.
lamh36
different-church-lady
@Mike in NC: Don’t forget to capsize a few boats.
bluehill
@lamh36: Read that as Soros at first and thought that George is everywhere.
L85NJGT
@Roger Moore:
The pay out is when they start hawking this new wonder drug to cure pop-pop from yelling at FOX News.
Those email blasts are worth jack all for electioneering, but damn, that’s a near perfect hot lead list for cure-alls and other bags of magic beans.
Wyatt Salamanca
Jesus Fucking Christ!
RBG is dead. Can things get any damn worse?
CNN is reporting this story
Comrade Scrutinizer
NPR reports Ginsburg died.
Kathleen
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87
emrys
Just in that RBG has died.
JPL
@Wyatt Salamanca: fkfkfkfkfkfkfkkfkfkf
Leto
FUCK, RBG has died.
NPR reporting. Holy fuck.
Baud
Well shit.
Percysowner
@Kathleen: We are SCREWED
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Yep.
Poe Larity
FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK
HumboldtBlue
Fuck
JPL
I assume he won’t be able to confirm someone before the election, because Collins and Gardner would certainly lose.
Sab
Luddite so cannot link. Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC was ranting a tad this morning on MSNBC about Joe Biden’s anti-elitism. She doesn’t live on Park Avenue but she lives near, and she wasn’t born there but she worked her but off to get there. How can she comfortably vote for Biden?
????
Trump was born filthy rich. Biden worked his way up.
Pandemic, with Trump sabotaging sensible public health responses. I personally am sick to death with being stuck at home. Want to hug my grandkids. Want to hug Dad’s nurse’s aide. Want kids safe in school and at school sports and activities. ( Not there yet.)
Before VP for Obama, he was denigrated in Dem circles as the senator from MBNA (credit card company managed from Ohio but incorporated in Delaware.)
There ain’t no pleasing these pundits.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Leto: That autopsy had better check for poison.
Fair Economist
Well, looks like we will have to take to the streets to defend the election result. #whateverittakes
Anya
Damn. RIP Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
pat
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.
Jeffro
Many thoughts tonight:
Ok, more seriously: many DC pundits and even a few folks with brains are starting to realize that no matter what the turnout, mail-in votes, etc….trumpov & Co clearly think they can litigate/intimidate/incite violence until we give in/give up and let them stay in power. No. Way. I don’t care how low this scumbag goes, what he says, what he threatens to do: he’s gone on Nov 3rd.
Which brings me to my final question for the DC punditariat class: when Biden wins and wins big, but trumpov refuses to ‘accept’ the results…how will you report that? Gonna give it oxygen or call it out for the attempt to avoid jail that it is?
bluehill
RIP RBG
lamh36
SHITTTT
It’s not a fuq’n game now MFers.
Rest in Power RBG!
Poe Larity
There is no god.
TheronWare
Oh gods, RBG has died.
Jeffro
@Anya:
@pat:
@bluehill:
@lamh36: Just saw this…wow. All the marbles, then. Ok.
PsiFighter37
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck
JPL
RGB
Steeplejack
Re R.B.G. successor: No worries! Remember, Mitch McConnell said we have to leave it up the voters because it’s an election year. ?
Wyatt Salamanca
Prior to hearing this breaking news about RBG, I believed Trump’s victory would be a DEFCON1 situation.
Her death now makes defeating Trump a trillion times more important, plus defeating those rat fucking enablers like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.
Baud
Which side will this inspire more? The GOP won that battle in 2016.
Jeffro
If they replace RBG before Jan 20th, 2021…obviously, that’s three more seats we are adding. At least.
Mary G
RIP Notorious RBG and I’m putting everyone on notice that anyone who blames her for not retiring in 2016 is getting blocked on Twitter and pied on here.
Matt McIrvin
@Mary G: You’ll have to block Erik Loomis first.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
And even institutionalist Dems have said they would pack the court if the GOP did it.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Dump: murders baby with chemical weapons
Obama: wore a tan suit
Media: BOTH SIDES!
Luciamia
@bluehill: Fuck, the darkness just keeps growing.
Sab
@JPL: Does Mitch McConnell think he is a brass monkey?
Anya
Hopefully we’re not fucked because the election is less than two months away. Would Collins and other endangered republican senators vote confirm someone this short and without interviewing them? Would there even be a time to hold confirmation hearings?
anyone know Senate procedures? I feel awful even thinking about this at this sad time but fucking hell… the court is lost and America with it if they manage to confirm someone.
TS (the original)
And the news hit the headlines in Australia & I’m still not seeing it on my version of the Washington Post???
Sab
@Mary G: Agreed. No way in hell was a replacement getting through the Senate. I admire her for hanging in there.
ETA: Otherwise I just admired her.
randy khan
The RBG news is the worst thing I’ve heard in a long time, and I’m counting COVID-19.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: That’s right, the Biden rule.
bluehill
@Luciamia: She showed us how to fight so up to us to see it through to victory.
Jeffro
@Baud: Yup. Three seats, minimum. We’ll keep it to two if for some reason they leave RBG’s seat open for the next president to fill.
Sab
I might put a flag in my front yard in order to half staff it.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
They won’t confirm before election, they want to use this to drive out fundies to polls; but they were going to drive out anyways, as they’re cultists. The key has always been suburban women and the thought of the Zodiac Killer on the court won’t encourage them to return.
This will change the headlines for a week, but it will be subsumed by Dump setting himself on fire, again and by the growing mass covid graves.
Mary G
@Matt McIrvin: Thanks for the heads up; I was following him and now have blocked.
In the latest event in the annus horribilis that is 2020, a firefighter has died in the El Dorado fire, started by the gender reveal party gone wrong.
Matt McIrvin
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: They will fast-track the hack most likely to overturn the presidential election result when Biden wins. They know they’re behind–stealing it is the main way to win, and this is the golden opportunity.
Jay Noble
Any new justice must be confirmed before January 3, 2021. Not confirmed equals empty seat until Biden makes nomination.
Expect a Trump nomination by as early as tonight, at latest next week. Then the Mitch Express takes off. They may wait until after the election but they don’t care.
And don’t start with all that “She should have resigned under Obama!” crap!
Aleta
@Sab: excellent idea, and fitting
Kathleen
@Percysowner: Yep.
Kathleen
@Sab: FFS. Dems are either latte swilling elites who have abandoned Real White Heartland Americans or fist shanking riff raff railing against its Betters. Will you media scat spreaders get your narrative straight? It’s much easier to copy and paste when you are all on (ahem) “the same page”.
Matt McIrvin
OK, what’s the most likely possible mechanism for a hack-dominated SCOTUS to steal the presidential election? Stopping the count of late mail ballots in MI/WI/PA? Hope Biden’s been thinking about it for a while. If Democrats get in, they could at least threaten to pack the Court, but the big thing is now to January.
J R in WV
RIP RBG !!!
Glad she didn’t linger in misery, actually. My paternal grandparents both had strokes, and lasted, and lingered. Grandmother was aware of her disability, and was very upset, for 18 months or so. Grandfather was unaware of his disability, but lasted several years. Very Glad Justice Ginsburg did not linger, really.
What a champion for righteousness; a hero for the ages, really !!!
She will live forever in the memories of true Americans.
bmoak
@Matt McIrvin:
Loomis has already started slagging RGB on his twitter feed….
zhena gogolia
@planetjanet:
Oh, man, you have some treats in store.
zhena gogolia
@bluehill:
Me too!
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
OH NOOOOOO
bmoak
Just as Republicans replaced Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas, they will replace RBG with Amy Coney Barrett….