Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

In my day, never was longer.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Second rate reporter says what?

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

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

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Stand up, dammit!

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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Late Night Open Thread: Not An Election Season for the Childish

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… or the perpetually adolescent.

To quote John Rogers:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

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  3. 3.

    VeniceRiley

    Twitter is all, erm, atwitter about Trump’s Omaha rally leaving everyone stranded in the cold and unable to get back to their cars.

  4. 4.

    piratedan

    @VeniceRiley:  a real life personification of Trump/GOP policy writ large… I feel bad for the families of his supporters, how many will be infected and gone by Thanksgiving…

  11. 11.

    Jay C

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Don’t worry: I’m sure Team Trump will find some Democratic official to blame for the cockups in Omaha, even if only the fire marshal or traffic director….

  18. 18.

    jl

    Wiki says Green Party has enough ballot access to win 270.
    So, an example of the quality of work I expect from libertarians. They’re an odd bunch.
    Sometimes I wonder whether there should be a medical term for it. (Edit: sorry, that was uncivil, and from a libertarian perspective, probably fascist hate speech and on slipper slope  to eliminationism).

  20. 20.

    jl

    @Geoduck: Nice straightforward title. Is it an anthem? Retitle it Trump Spangled Banner and we could get rid of the one we have now, which is low class, not top, not best.

  21. 21.

    tokyokie

    @Geoduck: It would be bad enough to stand in line for hours on end in subfreezing temperatures, but then having some especially crappy musicians sing their idiotic songs when you can do nothing other than listen would compound the misery. Hope everybody had a really good time.

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    JoyceH

    A fellow tweeted that he worked one of the shuttle buses and they were contracted to take the rally goers TO the rally, but not back to their cars. Said the dispatcher called to confirm the contract was one way, and got confirmation!

  24. 24.

    lgerard

    @VeniceRiley:

    Best part

    Some started shouting for the line to move faster, and some began saying they needed to use the restroom and threatened to relieve themselves while waiting in line.

    Pee tape 2020!

  25. 25.

    Sloegin

    @JaySinWA: The Spokesman-Review has historically been one of the most conservative papers in the country.  They’re not quite the fire-breathing rag they used to be (and let’s just skip over those 4 years where the editor’s kid was a serial rapist that terrorized the town)… but even so, the Review pulling the plug on a Trump endorsement is pretty impressive.

  26. 26.

    Chetan Murthy

    @JoyceH: So these Trump voters got to experience the side of Trump we see: uncaring, grasping, selfish, and incompetent.

    That “buses TO the event, but not FROM the event” — that’s *Trumpian* in its naked brutality!

  27. 27.

    BethanyAnne

    Someone a few weeks back mentioned a site where one might watch a little MSNBC online.  Anyone know offhand a reliable place? Mom’s asking me if there’s a way for us to get the election night coverage without upping our cable subscription tier.

  28. 28.

    Sebastian

    @JoyceH:

    Chef’s kiss. That’s so fucking Trump. Brought them there and then left them to freeze to death because it’s the last time he’ll interact with them.

    Instead of protesting Dems should wait for the shitshow at the end and work the line “you were good while he needed you. The moment he didn’t he dropped you.”

    Up and down the line. Bonus if they pretend they are pissed off MAGAts.

    Where is the next one?

  32. 32.

    TS (the original)

    @VeniceRiley:

    What a clusterf..k –  just a very small example of what happens to anyone who depends on Donald J Trump.

    After jumping into Air Force One and departing the state, many of the attendees, some of whom waited more than four hours to listen to him speak, stood in the freezing temperatures on a private road in the middle of the airport. …..

    police officers located two groups of elderly Trump supporters shortly after the event ended who were struggling in the cold. One group was reportedly frozen in the cold and unable to move.

    Queue to park, queue to get a bus, queue to get to the rally. It is a cult, a dangerous idiotic cult that exists to make dear leader feel good.

    Some started shouting for the line to move faster, and some began saying they needed to use the restroom and threatened to relieve themselves while waiting in line.

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    Oh my. Just learned of the religio-fanatic gun worshiping whackaloon running for lieutenant governor in NC.

    As the locals here are wont to say, “Lucky live Hawaii.”

  37. 37.

    mrmoshpotato

    @jl:

    Wiki Random dumb fuck bomb-throwing shitstain says Green Party has enough ballot access to win 270

    Fixed.  Oh and “ballot access” LOL!  Someone inform the stupid children that votes are what you need.

  43. 43.

    Chetan Murthy

    @NotMax: This all transpired starting at 8ish NE time.  I suspect was over within a couple of hours.  But I take your sentiment: these voters might wanna think about how little he cares for them, that he didn’t even make sure there were shuttles in both directions.  But they won’t.  B/c they’re garbage human beings.

  45. 45.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax:

    Local Biden campaign office ought to scramble to put together a van parade. 

    What sensible person, no matter how charitable, would want to be in an enclosed space with idiots who think a deadly respiratory virus is a “democrat hoax!”?

    Pickup trucks and high-sided trailers.

  47. 47.

    Baud

    @Jay:

    After Trump’s rally tonight, he left thousands of supporters stranded in the blistering cold miles away from their cars. @omaha_scanner is currently reporting at least 30 patient contacts and 7 patient transports to the hospital. Elderly supporters were hit the hardest.

    I blame Obama.

  51. 51.

    Ian

    Ok, when I was doing laughing I googled who the author was.  Turns out she is the libertarian candidate.  I laughed more.

    Came across this gem

    Cohen ran as the proposed running mate of presidential candidate Vermin Supreme

    That’s her VP on her oh so serious ticket.  And as for that fourth one?

    Blankenship said he was “Trumpier than Trump”

    Big coal magnates, for the win.

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    @VeniceRiley: From the article:

    Another complaint included a call for a medic to assist a 68 year-old man who complained of hypothermia and possibly had an altered mental status.

    That’s…a wee bit on the nose methinks.

  54. 54.

    John Revolta

    @Chetan Murthy: Well, the rally happened at 8ish, yeah. OTOH,

    “I heard they opened the doors at, what they say, 4:30, so what time is it now? It is 1 o’clock, so three and a half hours ain’t nothing. We got lots of great people. We get to stand close to each other and talk,” said Robert Borer, a Trump supporter from Lincoln.

  56. 56.

    David ?Booooooo!? Koch

    Remember when Obama leaned over the counter at chipotle and the same people who refuse to wear a mask during a pandemic freaked out over him “spreading germs”? pic.twitter.com/sb2FcopkKd

    — Zach Svobodny (@ZachSvobodny) October 27, 2020

    Who can forget where they were when Obama’s Katrina occurred.

  57. 57.

    Mary G

    I put a couple of OmahaScanners tweets in the last thread. The traffic was all snarled up; a team of police officers was completely overwhelmed and called for help. However, the new set of police was on a different channel so couldn’t talk over the radio and were run off by the original group. One ambulance called in a possible victim of hypothermia but couldn’t say his temperature because their thermometer was broken.

  60. 60.

    Platonicspoof

    From a MidasTouch thread:

    “It’s only cold because there’s so many thermometers.”

    10:30 PM · Oct 27, 2020
    And I grimly laughed even though my fingers turn pink inside my gloves when temps in 40’s because of diabetes and too many years.

  61. 61.

    Geminid

    The Omaha story reminded me of some reporting here about low paid trump campaign workers in Iowa who were treated like shit by the top state campaign officials. I thought at the time, I bet those officials are making a pile of money.    The trump campaign was a gravy train. After the train wrecks, when the blame shifting starts, a lot of stories are going to come out, and they won’t be pretty. Some people will be anonymous sources, because of non-disclosure agreements. But if the campaign is broke, who is going to enforce those NDAs anyway?

  68. 68.

    ab_normal

    @JaySinWA: Now if they’d run somebody other than Parker and Thiessen on the Sunday editorial page (with a conservative editorial cartoon on top) we might get somewhere…

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