Looking more and more like a potential Democratic blow-out this November. Let’s raise money for challengers in the House.
Balloon Juice House Tier 1 (14 Republican held seats that are listed as toss-up)
Money goes to: Kate Schroder, Christy Smith, Cameron Webb, Jill Schupp, Hiral Tipirneni, Christina Hale, Wendy Davis, Candace Valenzuela, Kara Eastman, Sri Kulkarni, Eugene DePasquale, Jackie Gordon, and Amy Kennedy.
You can see all the candidates we are supporting here.
gwangung
I feel good giving my leg some exercise.
randy khan
Kennedy would seem to be self-funding, although I really, really, really want her to beat that turncoat.
Crashman06
I don’t know why but I’m now having a total freak out that this superspreader thing is actually going to somehow help the Trump campaign. Pretty sure it’s totally irrational, but I can’t shake it.
Wapiti
@Crashman06: It’s irrational. Hells, man, his campaign manager is having to quarantine and the possible old-hand replacements (Parscale, Conway) are out of commission as well. He’s fucked.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Well, Trump is on video from Walter Reed. Alive and well. I didn’t want him to die, but I did want him to suffer a little bit like being on a ventilator for a few weeks. Like all of the people he killed through neglect
Wapiti
@Wapiti: but work your ass off like Biden’s 3 points behind, just because.
Crashman06
@Wapiti: Yes, you’re right.
Wapiti
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): He’ll be well when he’s back playing golf. eta: without an oxygen bottle.
Sab
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Have you seen who is running against Tim Ryan? Christina Hagan Nemeth, RWNJ. She doesn’t even live in the district, which is quite an accomplishment considering how sprawling the district is.
She lives in rural Stark County (Montclair Twp) and she is running on her maiden name so that people will think she is is a Mahoning Valley Hagan (Democrats). She is actually Christina Nemeth, a rural Stark County plumber’s wife and Republican.
Tim Hagan’s district has two of Ohio’s cities (Akron and Youngstown.) She does not seem to be what we need. //
gwangung
@Wapiti: Rumor is that a lot of Trump campaign workers are refusing to work, because he’s endangering their lives.
Yutsano
Tuberville is trending on Twitter. Doug Jones dropped his scorcher of an ad during the Alabama-Texas A&M game. There is also some heightened scrutiny about how he doesn’t even know the basics of the job. I’m not counting out Jones just yet.
Omnes Omnibus
@Crashman06: Try to think through how it would benefit him. Specifically, what things would happen and why. I would guess that, if you do that, you will see that it is really unlikely.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: Damn. I mean, damn.
Ken
I thought that was a requirement?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Sab:
I’m aware of her. And yes, I think it’s ratfucking bullshit not living in the district she wants to represent AND using her maiden name to deceive people into voting for her. Cook does rate Ryan’s district as D+7. The national political environment is leaning Democratic so that should only help him too. He’s also represented the district since 2001, so he has name recognition and incumbency on his side. Finally, on the ballots, the candidate’s political party is clearly printed
He’s won by 20-30% margins in prior elections. I’m not too worried
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ken:
Unfortunately, it’s not, even though it should be
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Wapiti:
Yeah. I’m sure the WH will try to hide any lingering effects as much as possible
Ken
@Yutsano: Nice. I like the way they don’t quite say “carpetbagger” near the end, but you can hear it anyway. I assume that’s still a touchy point in Alabama, since the entire former Confederacy is still whining about losing that war.
Crashman06
@Omnes Omnibus: This is a helpful thought process. Thanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Crashman06: When I have the panic dream that I am about to take a final in high school for a class I never attended, I use it. I point out to myself that I have a BA and JD, and I could not have gotten those without graduating from high school. It works.
H.E.Wolf
An almost infallible cure for such freak-outs is to find a volunteer task you can do to get out the vote for the election. Volunteering $ is good too, of course, but 30 minutes of phonebanking/textbanking, or 30 minutes of writing postcards, will brighten your mood far more than you think…. and will let you take personal pride in the blue wave when it washes across the USA in 1 month. :)
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Actually, I know a guy who can get anyone those for the right price.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: You are not helping.
dr. bloor
@Yutsano: Jones has been God’s way of telling us to hang on, but his shelf life in the senate is limited. You could do much worse than AG Jones in the Biden/Harris administration.
dr. bloor
@Baud: You know Don McGahn?
debbie
@Sab:
Hey, did you see someone replied to you with a link about feline asthma? If I did this right, it’s here. If not, it’s the Too Soon thread, comment (for me) number 200.
Steeplejack
@Ken:
Re “carpetbagger”: It’s not that, just that Tuberville was away from Alabama for 10 years before returning to the state 18 months ago. Probably a valid point. But he’s a legit Saltine-American, born in Arkansas and worked in Southern football almost his whole career.
ETA: In the South “carpetbagger” (usually) has specific overtones of Yankeehood, not just someone “not from around here.”
Sab
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): He seems to be. He actually has a campaign this time.
Sab
@debbie: No I didn’t see it. All the links work. Thank you,
Sab
@Baud: I know of someone (cousin of my ex) who practiced law in Minnesota for 15 years before anyone noticed he had no qualifications. Then he went to prison.
West of the Rockies
In my little neck of northern California, I wish Audrey Denney could kick Doug “Fat Ass” LaMalfa’s ass to hell.
Ken
A small chuckle. I’m watching Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and they just had the line “The US Senate has convened a special committee to answer a grave moral question…”
I don’t think the writers meant it to be funny.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: How do you think Baud got his JD?
Roger Moore
@Ken:
Not in every state. The Constitution doesn’t say anything about it, so it’s up to the states. Some states require Representatives to live in their districts and some don’t.
James E Powell
@Yutsano:
Does anyone know what’s in the background behind Jones in that ad? Just curious.
Roger Moore
@dr. bloor:
Jones managed to get elected to statewide office in Alabama and then to get elected Senator. He obviously knows how to win elections there. If he loses in 2020, it would be great to give him a job in the Biden Administration, but if he manages to win he should absolutely serve his whole term.
Omnes Omnibus
@James E Powell: It looks like a thing. Maybe even a big thing. Does that help?
Aleta
From letter today to Cheryl Ringer, Office of the County Attorney Re: Fulton County Board of Elections’ Ongoing Violations of State Law
https://coaltionforgoodgovernance.sharefile.com/share/view/s9214e091f1c45b5a
Morzer
When they go low, we kick them in the teeth. When they go high, we kick them in the ass.
Almost Retired
Definitely supporting Christy Smith with some of the Almost Retired retirement funds in her rematch against Mike Garcia. It was a total low-turnout special election fluke that brought him into office mid-pandemic after the Katie Hill debacle. His wall-loving, abortion-banning, ACA-yanking and Medicaid-loathing positions are quite far out of step with even this relatively Conservative district (by Los Angeles County standards). Also, he seems like kind of a dick.
zhena gogolia
I am really disturbed by how disappointed I am to see the video of Trump looking okay in the hospital.
What have I become?
Marmot
Hey hey don’t forget my man Mike Siegel in TX-10!
James E Powell
@Omnes Omnibus:
True there are things there, but I can’t tell what they are. It’s a place, a building of some kind. Perhaps it is an iconic place that every True Alabaman® would recognize immediately and associate with True Alabamosityness. Whatever it is, Doug’s in the parking lot, by himself, no vehicle in sight.
HinTN
@dr. bloor: If he loses I’ll take that but he ain’t dead yet. That’s a wicked smart ad.
Sab
@Ken: Not in Ohio. Normally I wouldn’t mind. I live in a little housing development on the edge of our district, and the thirty or so houses on the outside of our ring street are in a different district. It’s weird. But Hagen lives miles away in a county that isn’t in the district. The district has at least 4 counties, but hers isn’t one of them.
Calouste
@zhena gogolia: Don’t worry, it’s a lie. They lie about everything.
James E Powell
@Crashman06:
There’s no doubt we will be getting “Chastened by health crisis, Trump pivots to the tone of the leader America needs now” from the NYT and the Dana Bash types. The articles are already written.
But we are past that. Dumb-asses in diners will always be with Trump, but the majority of people have already made up their minds. We just need to make sure they can vote & do vote. Then make sure those votes are counted.
HinTN
DougJ @ top – I still think you ought to cast a glance at Chris (Hale Yes) Hale running to unseat the odious Scott DesJarlais in TN-4.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I love that ad and I love Doug Jones.
Geoduck
@zhena gogolia: He looks good because he doesn’t have the makeup slathered on like usual.
Morzer
Interesting bit of news outta Texas:
https://www.statesman.com/news/20201003/top-aides-accuse-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-of-bribery-abusing-office
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@zhena gogolia: I don’t think I’ll watch it, but I see him being quoted as saying “I’m doing this for you”. I suspect in his broken little brain, if he recovers he’ll have beaten the virus, like St George killed the dragon. And his mouth-breathing howler monkeys will believe it, too.
Roger Moore
@zhena gogolia:
There are a few important points, here:
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: see also:
has he convinced himself he took one for the team, or something?
rikyrah
@Yutsano:
That ad rocks
Doug Jones has left nothing on the table
Steeplejack (phone)
@James E Powell:
Tsk, the demonym is “Alabamian.” Don’t ask me why, but it is.
Crashman06
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He
diedwent to a hospital for our sins.Jim, Foolish Literalist
the phrasing here is a bit dramatic, but maybe the underlying info justifies it. I started to type, “Why are these people talking to the Lincoln Project instead of….” and I couldn’t finish that sentence.
Morzer
@Steeplejack (phone): I thought it was Sabanian?
Morzer
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s the latest desperate MAGA line of propaganda. Doubtless we shall soon be graced with poorly painted images of Trump injecting the coronavirus into his manly arm to save America.
Morzer
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1312484575637991425
Raven
@Omnes Omnibus: You could have become a lawyer without going to law school, right?
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The most charitable interpretation is that covid has performed a decapitative strike on the White House. It might be more accurate to say there weren’t any adults in the room in the first place.
TS (the original)
@zhena gogolia:
I read it was recorded before he went to hospital & the coughs were photoshopped out??
Who knows what is true with this administration – actually I’ll rephrase that – nothing is true with this administration.
Omnes Omnibus
@Raven: I think that CA is the only state where that is still possible.
Ken
@Raven: I know you can self-certify as an ophthalmologist, at least in Kentucky, so why not as a lawyer?
Roger Moore
@Ken:
How useful is a decapitative strike on an acephalic organization?
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: The example of the cockroach may tell us.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That’s the gist of what he saying in the video. That he was fighting for everybody, not just in the United States, but the world too. That he couldn’t stay cooped up yadda yadda.
Very self-congratulatory and painting himself up in the best possible light
zhena gogolia
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Lots of people on the Twitter speculating – with some justification – that that video was not recorded today.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@zhena gogolia:
Human. Trump is a monster and you shouldn’t feel bad
eric
Harrison just curbstomped graham. it is amazing how bad a politician graham is. He may win, but wow. Oh did you know graham knows tim scott. he mentioned scott 100,000 in debate with harrison….cannot figure out why.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
А как же?
Percysowner
Jaime Harrison is debating Lindsey Graham tonight. He brought his own plexiglass shield. Now I have to throw him a few more dollars, because that wins the night.
Morzer
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1312554958215020546
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Gin & Tonic:
What are they saying? It looked like (what could’ve been) the offices at Walter Reed
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: My answer to the potential “See, no big deal” stuff is “Tell it to the dead.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
Apparently Jamie Harrison is kicking Lindsay Graham’s ass in their debate.
LongHairedWeirdo
Random thought: why, oh *WHY*, is Trump not using that miracle cure that was suppressed by the medical establishment to harm him politically? He could just take hydroxychlorquine, and show he was right all along!
WaterGirl
@Percysowner: That is awesome. Kamala and Joe need to get a couple of those before Wednesday.
Morzer
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1312446451499196416
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@zhena gogolia: they also don’t have access to a still experimental drug that maybe hasn’t been approved for a reason:
from Sherman’s longer piece
I saw something like this earlier on twitter, something about ‘now we know what arrows Pelosi had in her quiver’. Cause there’s no other possible explanation how the people who refuse to take the virus seriously, to social distance and wear masks would have caught a highly contagious virus that has caused a world-wide pandemic
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus:I thought it was Virginia. Could be wrong. Often am.
Gin & Tonic
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): I’m not in a position to link atm, nor to elaborate. But the wording is completely generic. There is nothing identifiably contemporary in it.
Omnes Omnibus
Arrggh!!! That’s not how it works.
guachi
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I live in Augusta, GA on the GA/SC border and I’m watching the debate. First time I’ve ever actually heard Harrison speak and he’s crushing it. If any Democrat can win in SC, it’s going to be him.
zhena gogolia
So you don’t think he’s going to get sympathy and win the election?
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Despite all the servants, cleaning crews, PPE and tests, medical guidance and his power to control the WH environment, he couldn’t bother to protect the people who keep him afloat. The ones who lie and execute the corruption for him are disposable. The ones who keep donating money for him to waste are just marks.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
we are trapped in all this by people whose ideas of masculinity froze in middle school
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: oooh, is there a link?
Mike in NC
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “What does DM for signal” mean? Got another great postcard from the Lincoln Project today.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: “G7 ally” is pretty meaningless– could be anybody from a head of state to a junior attache at an embassy. I guess Sherman couldn’t resist raising the specter of the would-be dynasty
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Expect crude photoshop jobs showing a drone (emblazoned with the BIDEN/HARRIS logo no doubt) hovering over the “covid club” of the Rose Garden superspreader event.
Speaking of which, any update on Barr?
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: You know what I’ve been wondering?
I am wondering whether Trump’s doctors at the hospital are aware of all the drugs he is taking, that may or may not be on the books.
There could be huge drug interactions if Trump isn’t admitting to whatever drugs they are regularly use to manage him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike in NC: the LP honchos have been telling WH staffers with tales to tell to Direct Message them, which I gather is a thing on twitter (I just look at it through Safari)
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: Why would he?
Barbara
@Roger Moore: Many people describe how they start feeling better only to experience a resurgence of symptoms, and sometimes this happens over and over. I do expect him to survive. He is getting the best care, and doctors are more knowledgeable than they were 6 months ago. Odds are in his favor, but that doesn’t mean he will come out of it with the same stamina or level of well-being, certainly not in the next two or three weeks.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
Because that’s how everything happens in this damn country.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: The Obama bros most definitely do not think that. Listen to last night’s podcast if you want a shot in the arm.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: I’m going from what I’m seeing on twitter. The pics seems to be from WIS News in SC. If I find a link, I’ll post it
ETA: It might be over. It started at 8 ET
Steeplejack (phone)
@Morzer:
It’s not a personality cult! And there are a lot of Auburn fans.
sdhays
@Omnes Omnibus: I had the thought today wondering if Dump had modified his will bequeathing the Presidency to Ivanka. Not that it has any force of law, obviously, but Dump lives in a different reality.
gwangung
@Mike in NC: DM (direct message) on Signal, a considerably more secure message application than texting, twitter, etc.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah well, I wonder if the Packers will start my brother at WR on Monday night.
Morzer
@WaterGirl:
How long before Trump wheezes out of Walter Reed buck-naked and proclaims himself Grand Emperor Penguin For Life of the Great State of Greenlandia?
Benw
You can dance if you wanna, you can leave your friends behind
Because your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance then they ain’t no friends of mine
WaterGirl
@Morzer: Nothing would surprise me.
mali muso
@Percysowner: Yeah, I just kicked in a little more for Harrison. I want his numbers to show a surge after that.
Luciamia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I guess I don’t speak stupid. Hey, Huckabee, is your manhood threatened when you use a seatbelt?
Ken
You know that, and I know that, but the last four years have shown that Trump doesn’t know that – and if he tries it, the Republicans won’t tell him it’s wrong.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mali muso: good idea, I’m in
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: I was actually asking a serious question. How do you see that working? Who changes their votes? Why exactly? Otherwise, it’s a reverse underpants-gnome theory.
I just don’t buy it.
Morzer
@Ken: I’d pay money to watch the assassins’ war between the Don Jr. and Ivanka clans. I assume Eric would be an early casualty after trying to lick the pretty metal objects in a minefield.
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus:
If anything, Trump getting sick makes some people realize just what evil nonsense he and his GOP cronies have been peddling for the past 9 months. Much more likely to lose him a couple of points than anything else.
Aleta
@Aleta: If any WH staff got sick because of his reported intolerance of masks (infections before now seem likely), he might be afraid to depend on WH staff if he were to isolate there.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: There’s a lovely video embedded in this tweet. Graham looks incredibly uncomfortable as Harrison whales on him.
WaterGirl
Jaime Harrison, South Carolina Senate
Spanish Moss
@Steeplejack:
I grew up in Alabama, and calling someone a “Yankee” was a huge insult when I was young. In fact, in elementary school I thought it was a curse word!
It has been a few decades since I lived there, but I don’t think that background in the Doug Jones commercial is any kind of special site, probably there to give a “man of the people” vibe.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: can’t wait to see it! thanks
James E Powell
@Benw:
I can see that you left your hat at home.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Why not? After all, he singlehandedly brought back Big 10 Football. He’s a Superhero!
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: He looks like a little kid squirming like he has to go to the bathroom
Morzer
@Spanish Moss:
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
– E.B. White
Omnes Omnibus
That is a perfectly normal thing to do.
There go two miscreants
@mali muso: Thanks for the suggestion, I kicked in some as well.
randy khan
@Barbara:
Considering that his days consist mostly of switching between Fox and OANN, the loss of stamina may not affect him much.
Ken
He coughed up a lung and they replaced him with another clone? I’m assuming the QAnon people would believe it, since they already think he’s a clone. Well, one of their factions, which are fractally complex.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Spanish Moss:
I wondered briefly if the background was outside some stadium, but I looked at a couple of pictures and I don’t think so.
I lived in Alabama from 1972 to 1979—almost a lifetime ago, now that I see it written down.
Spanish Moss
@Morzer: That is great, never saw that before!
Patricia Kayden
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus: That would depend on the pie, surely.
Benw
@James E Powell: everybody’s taking a chance!!
Scuffletuffle
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Early days, keep hope alive…
MazeDancer
The SC debate was only an hour.
60 minutes of Harrison decimating Graham. Slammed. Ethered. Obliterated.
Lindsey was nothing but Trumpisms. Stale Hannity reruns. Jaime was smart, fresh, thoughtful.
People tuned in from around the globe. People are invested in winning the Senate.
There are clips all over Twitter. Just search #SCdebate.
Peale
@Omnes Omnibus: I think Dead Trump gets more votes than living Trump. Jokers who think “both sides” and “a dead president! how funny would that be?” Might be enough to swing Wisconsin. Bunch of UW fratboys who wouldn’t normally bother voting coming out for the LOLs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: Would it?
Peale
@Patricia Kayden: Yeah. I’m kind of bummed that the fever broke. He’ll most likely make it through and I really wanted some kind of breathing tube stuffed up his asshole until he popped.
Omnes Omnibus
Bullshit.
MisterForkbeard
@WaterGirl: I’m in. My wife has been looking for good Senate races to throw money at, so here we go.
Honestly, he probably earned another $100 for bringing his own plexiglass shield.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: What if they’re really drunk?
The Thin Black Duke
@Peale: Actually, I’m glad he’s not dead. I want Trump around long enough to lose everything he owns in November.
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus: There are heretics among us who willingly consume horrors in pie form. For breakfast.
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: I like mincemeat.
Spanish Moss
@Omnes Omnibus: I am an equal opportunity pie eater, but I don’t understand how you have any left over to eat for breakfast.
debbie
@The Thin Black Duke:
Absolutely!
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus:
Little Cousin Masha will be visiting Uncle Gerontius with three baskets of mushrooms.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Not enough of them. And they’d probably spoil their ballots.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MisterForkbeard: the O’Bros have a fund that divides money up into just about every viable Dem Senate campaign Get Mitch or Die Trying. They added Mike Espy after their post-RBG fundraising surge.
mali muso
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
@There go two miscreants:
Great! Let’s get that ActBlue ticker spinning a little higher and DougJ’s thermometer even bluer.
@WaterGirl: Thanks for embedding the BJ fundraising link!
Omnes Omnibus
@Spanish Moss: Grandma hides one.
ETA: One of my great-grandmothers actually baked a pie for each of her sons to avoid fighting over them. And she wasn’t even from the good baking side of the family.
Peale
@The Thin Black Duke: I like the idea of Bill Barr coming to his deathbed with a stack of pardons per “the plan” only to have him spew one last COVID infused hack upon them and pass on. Barr later succumbs to COVID himself as he is too busy forging the signatures to properly wash and sanitize after signing each one.
Morzer
@Peale: I could see Trump pardoning Bill O’Reilly by mistake and Barr attempting to argue in court that O’Reilly is a common spelling of his own family name.
Scuffletuffle
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): also too, Trump is not Jesus, his having Covid 19 will not protect any of the rest of us from having Covid 19. You cannot bargain with a virus…
Roger Moore
@Peale:
Against that, you have to look at the number of occasional voters who went for Trump because they see him as fundamentally different from all those regular politicians. I bet that’s a much larger number than the number of people who would vote for dead Trump for the LOLs.
WaterGirl
@MisterForkbeard: I may have to donate because of that tomorrow.
I really want Joe and Kamala to each get their own. Two each, with one backup in case something happens to the first one.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: There is no pie that I would eat, that I wouldn’t eat for breakfast.
I ate mincemeat when I was a kid, and now I shudder at the idea.
But to each their own.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The Obama Bros also have two new funds that sound really good, too. I forget the details because I listened while I was falling asleep, but I thought they sounded great at the time.
WaterGirl
@mali muso: It’s so easy, it was no trouble! But thank you.
Omnes Omnibus
That’s fundamentally my point. Pie for breakfast is a reasonable thing.
BeautifulPlumage
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Absolutely! Even chocolate cream pie.
Though I suppose one gets bonus points for eating a fruit pie for breakfast, because it’s always good to start the day with fruit.
Ridnik Chrome
@Morzer: And in Vermont a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast…
I like pie.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Amen to that.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: FWIW I also like the British pies like steak and kidney, etc.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Cromulent, even.
hueyplong
1. Pie is the breakfast of champions.
2. Trump’s people lie about everything. We have no idea what his condition might be. The nature of the virus is such that, even if we did, it would give little hint as to what will happen to him tomorrow or a week from now.
3. We do know that Trump isn’t a healthy guy and that he’s got comorbidities out the ass.
4. Catching it after saying nobody gets it is not a good thing for Trump politically and cannot be made a good thing for Trump politically. The only people who will feel compelled to vote for him in this scenario were going to vote for him in any scenario.
5. Sleep the sleep of the righteous, secure in the knowledge that he will not.
Morzer
@WaterGirl:
I have just eaten a slice of walnut pie for breakfast. I mention this purely as a contribution to civilized discourse.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: All this love of pie, and you hate the pie filter.
Barbara
@BeautifulPlumage: Any serious illness requires your body to expend energy healing that isn’t available for other things. I had mononucleosis when I was in high school, and even after I was well enough to go back to school, I still found myself going to bed at 8 or 9 at night for quite a while. When you are old, especially after the age of 70, you do not have the same reserves that you do when you are younger. You don’t bounce back from a serious illness.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Never had them.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@zhena gogolia: What did you expect? And the reports said they rushed Trump to the hospital because he had a panic attack, which causes a shortness of breath.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Life’s a funny old thing really.
@WaterGirl: They are what chicken pot pies, etc., want to be when they grow up.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Trump’s been saying all along only the weak get it and implying to his asshole base he is to manly for the Chines Virus. This isn’t a good thing for him politically.
Morzer
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Love the sin, hate the sinner. Two Corinthians taught me that.
dogwood
@MisterForkbeard: Harrison has a lot of money. Don’t know why no one is interested in Mike Espy in Mississippi.
Another Scott
@hueyplong: The BBC News report I just watched on the TV showed his full video from Walter Reed. 4 minutes of how great he is in making America great again, how everyone around the world is wishing him “condolences”, etc., etc.
He sounded deranged even when he wasn’t ad-libbing. Of course, that’s his normal state.
The BBC played the whole thing and their reporters were talking about how he was taking back the initiative and being his own best spokesman, etc.
“We’re through the looking glass and off the map!!” – A. Silverman
Cheers,
Scott.
zhena gogolia
@hueyplong:
Thanks.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dogwood: Espy’s been featured here a couple of times, and the O’Bros added him to the list of races, which probably kicked a couple of million his way
zhena gogolia
@Another Scott:
This is what I mean. The media is going to convince everyone this is a big win for him.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: And whose votes will that change? Even assuming it’s true.
WaterGirl
@dogwood:
Mike Espy, Mississippi Senate
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could destroy what remains of the Voting Rights Act: And Republicans are poised to gain a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m just traumatized because there’s a Trump sign right across the street from my house.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: I have no idea how to respond to that.
hueyplong
@zhena gogolia: All that means is than an asshole lives across the street. There is an asshole two doors down from me.
sdhays
@Barbara: Not to mention that we have strong evidence that he had some kind of stroke-like event earlier this year, and COVID can damage a whole lot of stuff while it’s being fought. Even if he recovers from COVID itself, his risk factors from other things have shot up.
It’s highly unlikely that he’s going to be well soon, or even “ever again”. I just hope he’s well enough to watch the sad faces on Pox Snooze on November 3rd as they announce he has lost in a landslide and the Republicans have lost their Senate majority.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m assuming zhena is afraid it will change just enough for them to steal the election
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer:
They do seem to get around.
piratedan
per Rollingstone.com apparently the cast of Dazed and Confused is going to perform a table read to benefit Texas Voting Initiatives….
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/dazed-and-confused-cast-virtual-reunion-1070648/?fbclid=IwAR3sF7Qvsvxe8-bhybU9wcP2pJGVAUlLTbvr36xApDj2XWcxtwi-pcD_oOE
Martin
@Omnes Omnibus: Learned that from my grandfather. As a kid, when your grandparents tell you to eat pie for breakfast, you listen.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Is it the same two every time or are they like Mormon missionaries and they travel in pairs?
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: By the time Nov 3 comes, I bet we’ll be at 250,000 dead.
People told not to go to the hospital until your lips are blue or until you can’t breathe, and the president gets a free 8 million dollars worth of a drug that normal people can’t get.
People who weren’t going to vote for him before are going to be pissed off at the hypocrisy. “it’s not big deal like the flu” and then he gets rushed off to the hospital on day 1 (or 2 or 3 or 10) with hims own room and his staff (if you can believe them) coming in and out, while people can’t even be with their loved ones when they are dying.
And some people are going to feel like fools for believing him and then seeing the turnaround when it’s Trump who gets sick.
opiejeanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: They’re both dumb tweets from DeAnna something who ran against Pelosi. I think she might be running again. She is truly stupid and is getting dragged royally on Twitter for those comments.
Omnes Omnibus
@Martin: And carrots are best when just pulled out of the ground and washed off with a garden hose.
Kattails
@WaterGirl: I have a delicious canning recipe for green tomato mincemeat, with apples and pears, raisins, bit of lemon and orange, RUM, spices. Not that gloppy crap out of a can or grocery store. Double crust or lattice, made with mostly butter plus some shortening. Although I did find a decent jar from England once, in a moment of desperation.
James E Powell
@hueyplong:
“Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can ever be permanently vanquished” – Some guy in the NYT back when the NYT was good.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I believe it’s the same two.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kattails: No venison?
James E Powell
@Goku (Amerikan Baka):
I realize that many of us – me included – have not yet recovered from 2016, but we are not in “close enough to steal” territory.
Raven
@Omnes Omnibus: that would explain how I knew that
Omnes Omnibus
@James E Powell: All of this is true.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Busy dudes.
Aleta
One set of my grandparents were CT farmers with a 200 acre fruit farm outside a little town, now an elite bedroom community for NYC. My mother said the Sunday night supper was always fruit pie, cobbler or shortcake of whatever fruit they were picking. The leftovers, kept in pie boxes, were the pre-dawn breakfast for the next few mornings. Pie for breakfast was a farm custom, according to my mother, who kept it up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@James E Powell: I think a lot of folk felt that way in 2016, we were wrong then and are concerned we might be wrong again.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@James E Powell:
I know that. I was just giving a possible explanation for zhena being worried
MisterForkbeard
@dogwood: This is a good point. We’ll put some there as well.
Patricia Kayden
sdhays
@WaterGirl: There’s also a brewing story about how many people Dump personally infected even though he knew he was infected as well. They knew about Hope Hicks on Wednesday, at the latest, but Dump didn’t get tested until he had some symptoms on Thursday? And then the doctor today said that Dump was diagnosed on Wednesday, before Dump met with donors on Wednesday and Thursday. McNinny claimed that they determined that “the President would not be at risk”, which pretty much confirms, to me, that they decided that they didn’t give even one shit about the safety of their top donors.
One of those jackasses who plopped down a quarter of a million dollars to meet with ol’ Dumpy Dump just might die of COVID that he contracted directly from the President, who knew he was infected and contagious, right before the election.
Kay
@Luciamia:
They’re too vain to wear a mask. It’s really no more complicated than that. These are people who can no longer leave the building when it’s raining. Their hair dissolves and their makeup melts.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: One last thing before I head out for the night. It’s much better for our democracy if Trump makes it through this and recovers at least to some extent.
From everything I’ve read, despite how you feel on any given day, with COVID you don’t really know if you are out of the woods for maybe 3 or 4 weeks after you get it.
We just don’t know what’s going to happen.
We don’t know if Joe got infected at the debate, We don’t know if Trump will recover.
It’s “one foot in front of the other” time – time for us to dig in and donate and make calls and text and volunteer to staff phone lines or anything else we can safely do. A month seems like forever, but we are going to blink and suddenly it will be Nov 1 and there won’t be much left we can do.
The real question then is whether we will have done everything we could to vote Trump out and get Biden and Kamala elected. Everyone one of us will need to ask ourselves that.
So when we all start to spin, we should stop and take action instead. Just like Doug Jones, we need to leave it all on the field. That’s my approach anyway, for what it’s worth.
lgerard
Has Tuberville agreed to debate Jones, or is he still hiding behind Pence’s skirt?
Steeplejack (phone)
@sdhays:
As long as the check clears . . .
catclub
is he singing and dancing and having a party? cause I heard that is whats happening two doors down.
Another Scott
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks for the pointer to Sherman’s piece at VF. It’s disturbing that nobody is willing to go on the record (so far) about his actual condition. I guess we’ll know more by the 15th – one way or another.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/how-might-president-donald-trump-be-treated-covid-19 (from 10/2):
Cheers,
Scott.
Patricia Kayden
J R in WV
@Steeplejack (phone):
You sure it isn’t Alabamyan???
TS (the original)
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Thanks. Finding lots of tweets with debate clips. Graham doesn’t have a record to work with & Jaime Harrison is making that 100% clear.
Lying about SCOTUS, refusing medicaid, not wanting unemployment benefits – and there must be much that I haven’t yet seen. Think I’ll check the replay on cspan.
Brachiator
@sdhays:
If so, it’s just Karma biting these people in the ass. Many of them had settled on the idea that life needed to get back to normal and the economy must be re-started, even if people died. I’ve had conversations with these people, who believe that the country has become weak because it excessively fears death.
Of course, these people always assumed that somebody else would die while they remained safe.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Patricia Kayden: 24
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Why does it always seem like you tend to ignore me unless you want to correct something I said?
I mean, if you simply don’t always see my replies, that’s fine
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): That’s not true.
ETA: Wasn’t it you who kept trying to get Corner Stone to admit that he had you pied?
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Which one?
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “Bodyman” is (thank God) not what it sounds like.
JaySinWA
In West by God Virginia a house delegate resigns to spend time with his family after Facebook group membership exposed:
Referenced article
The Thin Black Duke
Ignore the noise from the usual suspects, folks. There is no way does this monstrous clusterfuck translates as a political win for Trump. From now until November, COVID-19 is going to be the major story in the news, and the prevelant narrative is going to how Trump and the GOP failed to protect in people in the country from the pandemic. Even worse, it’s painfully obvious that if these assclowns stay in power, nothing will change. That doesn’t sound like a successful campaign strategy to me.
Mike in NC
@zhena gogolia: Every third house on our street has either a Trump/Pence yard sign (Republicans) or a huge Trump flag or banner (cult members). In response some Biden/Harris stuff is now on display. We live on a golf course in a retirement community of affluent 99.9% white people, mostly from NY, NJ, and LI, mainly in their 70s and 80s, so statistical we have our fare share of racists.
Peale
@Brachiator: yep. Which is sad really. They figured they’d get herd immunity and only us wee folk would suffer. A decent elite would have volunteered to be first in line to get sick. I mean if anyone can afford the 500,000 hospital bill if you get really sick but manage to survive, it’d be these rich assholes who have so much money they’ll hand it over to someone who’ll just steal it.
Steeplejack (phone)
Lindsey Graham post-debate (video):
He looks like Ricky Gervais in The Office.
Ken
Oh, Graham picked up on that? Damn, looks like I lost a bet.
Edit: And I love this in the twitter responses:
“Yeah, that’s how voting works.”
“Right — it’s kind of the whole point of an election. He’s carrying on as if the peasants are plotting to overthrow him.”
Steeplejack (phone)
@J R in WV:
Will accept “Alabamdamnian.”
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The list just keeps on growing. All these people drank the Kool-Aid and really believed that the virus was no big deal. I had expected more hypocrisy. Most of these people will probably recover with few serious problems, but I hope they have not passed anything along to more vulnerable friends and family.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The White House has released official photos of the “President” “working” in the hospital.
He’s so unfamiliar with what the job entails he can’t even pretend to be making notes in the margins of a document he’s pretending to read.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
What happened with Corner Stone is in the past and if he’s reading this I wish him the absolute best.
I apologize if I was wrong. I like to think of you along with the other regulars here as a friend
Luciamia
@Steeplejack (phone): Well, duh!!
Kay
@The Thin Black Duke:
The people saying that are the same people who watched that absolute train wreck of a debate and were seriously wondering if perhaps Trump won it. They can no longer tell the difference between Donald Trump’s version of the world and reality.
Now that we’re concerned about covid victims though- now that the President is allowing us to admit this virus is real and is demanding sympathy, but only for himself- I wonder if we’ll get around to worrying about the hundreds of thousands of victims who are not the President. The people who didn’t get a private suite of rooms at a medical facility and team of physicians. The people who were told to go home and only come back if they were gasping for air. The people who had to have “drive by” funerals, thinking that was the responsible thing to do, while the Trump’s were busy planning parties for judges where no one even bothered to wear a mask.
The first thing we should do when the Trumps and their whole gang of low quality incompetents get fired is hold a memorial service for the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who had to be ignored because the fact that they died was politically problematic for the President and his garbage employees.
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): If I can offer you some advice…. Don’t worry so much about what people think of you and and whether you offended them. You have things to say, so say them. If people take offense, think whether what you said was actually hurtful or offensive and, if it was, apologize – if it wasn’t, don’t. Remember what Oscar Wilde said, “A gentleman never gives offense, unintentionally.
Also, some, maybe even many of us switch from serious to snarky and back very quickly. You can’t take everything seriously. Now go get your shinebox.
Ken
@Kay: A memorial service might be tricky before the pandemic is over. Perhaps a single suitable symbol, like a display outside the White House, would be better. Or Biden could order all flags lowered to half-mast until some milestone is reached, like under 1000 cases per day nationwide.
Kay
@Brachiator:
I don’t know though- do they get it yet, I wonder? Has it sunk in yet that he does not care whether any of them live or die? Because that’s the truth. Is it MAYBE starting to dawn on them, and WHY did it take so long?
Kay
@Ken:
It is just amazing to me that now that the President and some of his low quality hires have fallen ill we’re all ordered to show sympathy. We HAVE shown sympathy. The whole country has been in a kind of mourning for months. In fact, the ONLY people who haven’t been taking part in this national tragedy are the President and his low quality hires. The rest of us know it’s sad. We’ve known for months. THEY are the people who deliberately and selfishly ignored the loss, pretended people weren’t sick and dying, not us. These obtuse, venal lunkheads are six months late to this funeral. We’ve been there for months.
Jay
Kay
Go try to “check yourself into” a hospital with covid as a precautionary measure. See how far you get.
I know this is rude but I’m just wondering why we seem to have this superior class of people who get extraordinary care for this virus, while the unwashed masses are lucky if they don’t lose their jobs and get evicted. He’s not a even a governor. He’s a part time low quality Trump hire and political pundit.
Chris Christie is the pundit who told people they’re just going to have to toughen up and get used to dying. What happened to that?
Can’t help but notice this whole conversation changed the moment the Trump people recklessly placed themselves at increased risk and caught the virus. All of a sudden it’s a national emergency instead of a test of manliness.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Kay:
Amen! I almost joined Twitter just so that I could remind Christie that most people are not on the “precautionary measures” hospital plan but are on the “come back when you’re coughing up blood” hospital plan.
JaySinWA
@Steeplejack (phone): If I read it correctly, he got his personal physician to admit him. His insurance might not pay for it in the end, although having Christy as an enemy probably isn’t good for business.
Steeplejack (phone)
@JaySinWA:
Point taken. Still not good.
frosty
@Ken: This isn’t lawyering, but it’s possible to get a Professional Engineering license in Maryland without a certified engineering degree, if you have the required credits in science and engineering and 8 years of experience. I did it. It was awhile ago, it might be different now.
frosty
@zhena gogolia: Only one? Lucky you!
frosty
@WaterGirl: Excellent analysis and advice!
Misswhatsis
Can we take a look at the NH 9th District Senate race between incumbent Jeanne Dietsch (D) and challenger Diane Ricciardi (R- batshit wing)?
Jeanne’s not cuddly and the district is severely gerrymandered. NH’s Senate is blue but only barely.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): “Any Barrett’s going to own the court.”
Ugh. That felt like a cross between a bad pep rally, a used car salesman and an auctioneer talking really fast.