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Come On, Georgia

by WaterGirl|  January 5, 202110:28 pm| 312 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Georgia Runoff Races 2020, Political Action, This Fight Is For Everything

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We Now Interrupt Your Georgia Election Related Anxiety With This

I’m gonna take my cue from TaMara yesterday and bigfoot my own On The Road thread with another Georgia post.

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  1. 1.

    Groucho48

    January 5, 2021 at 10:31 pm

    I’d been deliberately pessimistic about the election as I can’t really take having my hopes crushed. But, it’s becoming more and more difficult to be pessimistic. Things are looking good.

  2. 2.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 10:31 pm

    btw, some hilarious ratfucking by the president’s men regarding voting machines supposedly breaking down in GOP districts. These assholes have been doing exactlyt hat in black dominated districts everywhere and have the temerity to make this claim in Georgia of all places.
    https://twitter.com/JaneLytv/status/1346533233056473090

    OMG – I got the coveted #2 slot!! Thank you everyone!!

  3. 3.

    PsiFighter37

    January 5, 2021 at 10:31 pm

    We got this. Once DeKalb drops, both Dems will take the lead and it will be for good.

    Hot diggity dog, we are actually going to pull this off. Awesome. Sally Yates as AG is up next…I am sure Biden was waiting for these races before announcing that nomination.

  4. 4.

    hitchhiker

    January 5, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    I’ve been disappointed so many times that I didn’t even let myself hope, not even when I saw Stacey Abrams radiating energy and confidence.

    I’m utterly verklempt at the very thought of Mitch in the minority. Holy shit.

  5. 5.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 10:34 pm

    @cain:

    You are the new #2.  (Now we’ll see how many people are old enough to get that reference.)

  6. 6.

    Chetan Murthy

    January 5, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    @randy khan: Stop this island, I wanna get off.

  7. 7.

    PIGL

    January 5, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    I think I heard someone say “don’t trust your soul to know backwards southern lawyer.“

     

    Sure hope you’re right PsiFighter, but nothing’s done until it’s done.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    @cain: That was exactly my thought when I saw Trump whining about broken Dominion machines in a Republican district.  After years/decades of that – done deliberately – in black areas in Georgia.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    @PsiFighter37: That was my guess.  Sally Yates if we win both in Georgia, Doug Jones if we didn’t.

  10. 10.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    I really hope we pull this off. I posted a few weeks ago (iirc) that generally in states like FL, GA or TX, if the Dem isn’t up in the polls by 5-10 points going into election day, there’s not much of a shot. Why polling firms miss so many Republican voters isn’t clear, but we’ll see if that plays out this time.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    @cain:

    OMG – I got the coveted #2 slot!! Thank you everyone!! 

    Narrator: It was news to everyone that the second comment was a coveted slot.

    ?

  12. 12.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    I was distracting myself by avoiding twitter, cable tv and watching a New Tricks (a BBC procedural crime drama) and it helped me avoid the doom and gloom. But I am ready to wait for the results. It looks like Georgia will give Mitch McConnell the boot.

  13. 13.

    FelonyGovt

    January 5, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    Ok you are all making me feel better. The news results are looking gloomy.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    @hitchhiker:

    …when I saw Stacey Abrams radiating energy and confidence.

    When did you see that?  Someone in an earlier thread said Stacey Abrams did not look happy tonight.

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: You are number 6.

  16. 16.

    Leto

    January 5, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    @PsiFighter37: per lamh36 in the downstairs thread:

    Dave Wasserman

    @Redistrict

    ·
    2m

    So right now, Perdue is leading by ~115k votes. But, he’s got only a few small pockets of votes out: Bartow, Columbia, Dodge, Forsyth, etc. Meanwhile, Ossoff has a lot of great turf left: DeKalb, Cobb, Chatham, Henry…a little Fulton/Gwinnett…but mostly DeKalb. #GASEN

    https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346660871456641024?s=20

  17. 17.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    TPM, quoting G. Elliot Morris of The Economist:

    Folks, it’s over. We have enough returns to project that both Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff will win their Senate runoffs in Georgia, giving Democrats control of the US Senate.

    He later states that this is his opinion, not his employer’s. I don’t really know who he is, but presumably he’s more informed than your random Twitterer.

  18. 18.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 10:39 pm

    @jonas: I think it’s more to do with the voters they suppress than missing republican voters.

  19. 19.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 10:39 pm

    @PsiFighter37: It’s usually the case that higher-population urban districts tend to report last (and often boost the Dem count) — but does that hold for a year like this when so many already voted early?

  20. 20.

    PenandKey

    January 5, 2021 at 10:39 pm

    So it looks like we’ve got enough info that I can go to sleep cautiously optimistic for the urban centers to pull another slow trickle win. I can take that. Time to check out for the day and watch a couple YouTube videos before a good night rest.

  21. 21.

    Kristine

    January 5, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    @randy khan: “Who is Number One?”

  22. 22.

    japa21

    January 5, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    @randy khan: Don’t worry, he’ll try harder.

  23. 23.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    @Anya: ?? Not sure what you mean. Polling outfits “suppress” voters?

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    @sdhays: I want to see that Ossoff and Rev Warnock got more votes with 100% counted.

  25. 25.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    I think I’ll sign off while everyone’s still optimistic. Maybe will check in later.

  26. 26.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    @WaterGirl: idk who said that, but Stacey has been betting on blue since this AM

     

    https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1346504997991809025

  27. 27.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    @kylegriffin1

    AP: In Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous county, Election Day turnout is higher today for the runoff election than the general election in November.

    9:40 PM · Jan 5, 2021

  28. 28.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    Also from TPM:

    Here’s Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.

    “We kept these races as Toss-ups, and I am glad that we did, but I have to admit that if the Democrats do win — still an if — it has to be seen as at least a little bit of a surprise,” he said. “I am also so impressed by the turnout — this has to be one of the most engaged electorates of any non-presidential races in modern history.”

  29. 29.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    OT – yes, you can make a late night breakfast skillet with tater tots.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    January 5, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    Getting my election coverage via Leslie Jones, as is zhena gogolia, probably.

  31. 31.

    frosty

    January 5, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    @randy khan: I am a free man! I am not a number!

  32. 32.

    guachi

    January 5, 2021 at 10:43 pm

    I was expecting the Republicans to win by a few points, myself. They each had more votes on election day and there’s always been a decrease in Democratic support in runoff elections in Georgia.

    I guess it’s Trump’s magic working this one.

  33. 33.

    marcopolo

    January 5, 2021 at 10:43 pm

    I am pretty sure it was this single ad that helped Warnock beat Loeffler.

    I told you the smear ads were coming, but Georgians will see Sen. @Kloeffler’s ads for what they are. pic.twitter.com/0sgU8ndC63— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 24, 2020

    Watergirl, can you get a clean version up on the Front-page maybe?

  34. 34.

    Leto

    January 5, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: did you bring enough to share with the blog?

  35. 35.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I’m too nervous even for her!

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    @lamh36: I am so happy to see the black rural voters coming out so strong today.

  37. 37.

    delk

    January 5, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    Anybody say ‘skank’ in this thread yet?

  38. 38.

    Chris

    January 5, 2021 at 10:44 pm

    @FelonyGovt:

    Same.  I’m really not sure where the optimism is coming from since the polls I’ve seen have had them in the lead for an hour or two now, but… hope we close the gap?

  39. 39.

    hitchhiker

    January 5, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    didn’t see her tonight, but for the last week she’s been all over the media like a queen.

  40. 40.

    marcopolo

    January 5, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    @sdhays:  Highest turnout GA election in history after Nov. 2020!

  41. 41.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    I don’t know if this has been posted by any of the front pagers. Its a short satirical piece by Lewis Black and friends about the Georgia senate race. Really well done. I am not saying anything about the race until the military mail ins are counted on Friday.

    https://twitter.com/BoldProgressive/status/1346178334028419074?s=09

  42. 42.

    tinare

    January 5, 2021 at 10:45 pm

    It’s looking good.  Mitch McConnell may not be majority leader and Republicans being split may not allow him to obstruct in the minority. Come on Georgia!

  43. 43.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    @delk:

    Fuck LBJ.

  44. 44.

    Subsole

    January 5, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    @randy khan: They are not a number…

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    @marcopolo:

    I told you the smear ads were coming, but Georgians will see Sen. @Kloeffler’s ads for what they are. pic.twitter.com/0sgU8ndC63

    — Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) November 24, 2020

  46. 46.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 10:47 pm

    Huh…what happened to “respect the blue”

     

    @BGOnTheScene

    Chaotic scene in BLM Plaza as police clash with Trump supporters trying to rush the line #DC #WashingtonDC #January6th
    https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1346658756285894661?s=20

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:47 pm

    @marcopolo: I was thinking about that ad just a few minutes ago.  I have kept it open in a tab in my browser since it first came out, and I watch it again every so often.  Love that ad.

  48. 48.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 10:48 pm

    Ossoff improved on his own margin in Fulton & exceeded Biden

  49. 49.

    marcopolo

    January 5, 2021 at 10:48 pm

    @jonas:  Well, the reason large urban areas tend to take longer to count their votes is they are large urban areas with more polling locations and voters.  This election is so much like elections in MO where the votes from StL come in last & exceedingly D with the caveat (and difference from tonight) that usually the R in MO has an insurmountable lead.

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 10:48 pm

    OT.  Dr. Dre stable, resting and lucid after a brain aneurysm today.  He’s at Cedars Sinai in LA.  Wishing him a full recovery.  He is 55.

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:48 pm

    @delk: Kelly Loeffler deserves that, and then some.  She is a skank.

  52. 52.

    Origuy

    January 5, 2021 at 10:49 pm

    @Kristine: ? is Number One

     

    ETA That is supposed to be a Groucho emoji. If doesn’t display on Windows.

  53. 53.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    January 5, 2021 at 10:49 pm

    @randy khan: The Prisoner?

  54. 54.

    Subsole

    January 5, 2021 at 10:49 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: And well you should!

    The best part of growing up is eating breakfast whenever you damn well feel like it.

  55. 55.

    CROAKER

    January 5, 2021 at 10:49 pm

    I AM NOT A NUMBER.     I AM A FREE MAN !

  56. 56.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    @guachi: Ironically, I kind of think he has been hoping for them to lose as a punishment for letting him lose. He can spin it that they dragged him down in Georgia. But I think he’s going to be unpleasantly surprised by how much blame he gets for the loss, assuming it materializes.

    He had a chance to focus on making sure Republicans held those seats and create a strongish narrative that he was still someone that Republicans needed once he left the Presidency. If Loeffler and Perdue lose, that argument becomes a lot harder to accept.

  57. 57.

    debbie

    January 5, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    @lamh36:

    That’s Stacey’s doing!

  58. 58.

    raven

    January 5, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    Nate Cohn 9m ago

    The G.O.P. lead has grown, but it’s made no dent in our estimate. In fact, Democratic chances have inched upward as the Republicans’ chances to beat our expectations dwindle. See the forecast ›

  59. 59.

    marcopolo

    January 5, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    @WaterGirl:   It is so perfect.  Totally non-threatening AA man in a ski vest (don’t remember the other name) walking a totally non-threatening (and cute) dog along a totally normal quiet suburban street, with a visual pun about his opponent at the end punctuated by the adorable dog barking!

    I watch it and think chef’s kiss.

  60. 60.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    @Leto: I got 2 pounds of potato puffs (as Aldi calls them), probably 20 pork patties in the freezer, and at least a dozen eggs, so I’d say yes. :)

  61. 61.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 10:52 pm

    @Steeplejack: Leslie Jones is hilarious on Twitter. It’s  like reading a funny thread on BJ.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:53 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile:

    BREAKING (SATIRE) NEWS! All-star cast exposes Loeffler & Perdue profiting from COVID + other crazy corruption.

    Thanks to our friends @TheLewisBlack, @YNB, @Aparnapkin, @BethDover1, @AlysiaReiner, @BobWiltfong & Manju Bangalore! Let’s help @Ossoff & @ReverendWarnock win on Jan 5! pic.twitter.com/oPsSr9VqdK

    — BoldProgressives.org (@BoldProgressive) January 4, 2021

  63. 63.

    Subsole

    January 5, 2021 at 10:54 pm

    @lamh36: Shit. The teargas and baton rounds would have been out for us…

    Fuckers rush the line and still get kid gloves.

    Though it would be nice for the viagra-tantrum army to alienate everyone before they fuck off into the wilderness…

  64. 64.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    Kelly Loeffler’s racism should follow her and her husband. These fuckers shouldn’t get away with that level of ugliness. My hope is that will follow them for life. I know they’re super rich and probably won’t see much ramification but we should make their lives at the very least little harder.

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    @lamh36: I believe that was “Respect the blue as long as they are killing and hurting black people“.  That part in italics was understood.

  66. 66.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 5, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    @raven: Other number crunchers agree. Wasserman and the Economist’s data guy are saying the same thing.

  67. 67.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    what is CNN doing?

    stopped watching CNN. It seems to me that they are reporting numbers slower than others cause they are trying to build the “razor thin” drama of it.

    @DKElections

    A CNN report just stated that only 130K ballots are to come from DeKalb, contradicting the GA SoS. However, based on our calculations, the SoS’s figure of 171K is much more plausible.

    https://twitter.com/DKElections/status/1346666142060998656?s=20

    Ga, SoS confirmed 171K

  68. 68.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    January 5, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:
    OK, I see by the other responses that my guess is correct. I love this description of the final episode from the old Straight Dope column. Kind of captures the bizarre feeling of the entire series. Which I nevertheless was addicted to.

    The plot of the finale defies quick summary, but the drift of it is that the Village’s head honchos are so impressed by McGoohan’s indomitable will that they want to make him boss (or something like that — nothing in this show is very clear). A long hallucinatory sequence in the Village’s underground HQ transpires in which Beatles tunes, the song “Dem Dry Bones,” and a gallery of geeks in white cloaks and face masks are prominently featured. Finally McGoohan is taken to see Number One. He pulls off Number One’s mask to reveal an ape mask, which he also pulls off, only to find that Number One is … McGoohan himself.

    While McGoohan-as-Number-One escapes, McGoohan-as-Number-Six finds his way to the control room, where he triggers a missile countdown. Panic breaks out among the Villagers. McGoohan and several confederates escape in what looks like a big moving van. Just as they get past the gates a rocket blasts off out of the center of the Village containing who knows what and heading God knows where, while the Village itself is abandoned (I guess). McGoohan and friends then drive to London, where he resumes residence in the apartment from which he’d originally been kidnapped.

    And that, incredibly enough, is it. No explanations, no nothing. Baffled viewers jammed the switchboards when the show was first aired and wrote irate letters to the newspapers.

  69. 69.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    @WaterGirl: thank you . I don’t know how to do the embed thing.

  70. 70.

    RedDirtGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:57 pm

    This feels like election night all over again and I’m just waiting for morning to see what’s up.  I can’t handle the not-knowing. See you all tomorrow. ???

  71. 71.

    p.a.

    January 5, 2021 at 10:57 pm

    C’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon…!

  72. 72.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Are you telling me that there actually people in the world who do not consider potato puffs (aka tater tots) a staple???

  73. 73.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 5, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    @RedDirtGirl: Ds have it.

  74. 74.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    @Subsole:

    The best part of growing up is eating breakfast whenever you damn well feel like it. 

    LOL

  75. 75.

    Kent

    January 5, 2021 at 10:59 pm

    @WaterGirl:@delk: Kelly Loeffler deserves that, and then some.  She is a skank.

    I’m a little bit behind the kids these days.  But is “skank” a term we can still use?  Or is it sexist and only something that women are allowed to use?

    [asking for a friend]

  76. 76.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:00 pm

    @frosty:

    I am not a number!

    Obviously a person who didn’t go to college at UCLA.

  77. 77.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:00 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile:  Only front pagers can embed with photos and videos.  For everyone else, everything but the text and links is stripped out.  So it’s not you!  :-)

  78. 78.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 11:01 pm

    @Anya: they will because they’re rich and people always suck up to other people for money. I am waiting to see what happens to Steve Mnuchin. He should be shunned in Hollywood but he won’t be because there will always be some poor(literally) creative person who will sell out to get the $$$ to back some movie or other creative project.

  79. 79.

    Stacib

    January 5, 2021 at 11:01 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’ve never had a potato puff.

  80. 80.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:01 pm

    @RedDirtGirl: Goodnight, RedDirtGirl.  Sleep well.

  81. 81.

    Shalimar

    January 5, 2021 at 11:01 pm

    @WaterGirl: There are unfortunately people in the world with high blood pressure and potato puffs are horribly high in salt.

  82. 82.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:01 pm

    @Stacib: It’s another name for tater tots.  Surely you have had those?

  83. 83.

    Layer8Problem

    January 5, 2021 at 11:02 pm

    @Kristine:

    “Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.”

  84. 84.

    guachi

    January 5, 2021 at 11:02 pm

    @sdhays: Yes. I think Trump will get a lot of the blame for Democrats taking control of the Senate. If Trump had brought home the Senate in his final weeks it would have enabled him to have a role in the next few years.

    But Trump is an idiot with no self control.

  85. 85.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Not if Rover has anything to say about it.

  86. 86.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @Shalimar:  That’s sad. :-(

  87. 87.

    Suzanne

    January 5, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @FelonyGovt: Yeah, I’m not feeling good yet. With 91% in, both Ossoff and Warnock are behind. Ergh.

  88. 88.

    CaseyL

    January 5, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @Subsole: Today I had lunch for breakfast (beans and franks), and breakfast for lunch (oatmeal).

    As my grandmother would say, when I was a child, “Your stomach doesn’t know what time it is.”

  89. 89.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @WaterGirl: We always called them tater tots growing up.

    (I wanted shredded hash browns, but they were out, and hash brown patties are ridiculously expensive.)

    ETA – for a staple, fries are a staple around here.

  90. 90.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @debbie: Stacey and folks like LaTosha Brown from Black Voters Matter.  Ms Brown has been putting in some work since the before the general and beyond for this runoff!

  91. 91.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Who is #1?

  92. 92.

    Wapiti

    January 5, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    @marcopolo: Even with that ending, when I first saw the pun, i thought – whoa – is that a pun or more? Is he implying she’s trash, or is he going a step further and implying she’s dogshit? I could have sworn he was throwing out the dog waste that one carries back from a walk.

  93. 93.

    Stacib

    January 5, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    @WaterGirl: Never, and I’ve been severely mocked for it, too. :)

  94. 94.

    frosty

    January 5, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    @CROAKER: Oops, looks like I remembered it backwards.

  95. 95.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    @WaterGirl: lol shows you how dumb I am.

  96. 96.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    @Kristine:

    What do you want?

    Information.

    You won’t get it.

  97. 97.

    Steeplejack

    January 5, 2021 at 11:05 pm

    @lamh36:

    Kornacki on MSNBC is the gold standard. He plays his giant touch-screen like a maestro.

  98. 98.

    Benw

    January 5, 2021 at 11:05 pm

    @Elizabelle: get better Dre.

    Come ooooooonnnn Georgia! You can do this

    No, I have not got my hopes up

  99. 99.

    Kristine

    January 5, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    @randy khan: Rover.

  100. 100.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    @Subsole:

    I am a free man.

  101. 101.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    @Kent: I admit that until Raven used it tonight I hadn’t heard that word since I left Chicago decades ago, but it totally fits Loeffler.  She’s a sleazy lowlife, and where I came from, skank wasn’t a term just for women.

    If we are not supposed to say skank, I didn’t get the memo.  If that’s the case, I might petition to see if we could get a special dispensation to use it for Kelly Loeffler.  My dislike/disgust with her knows no bounds.

  102. 102.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    @Elizabelle: Cedars is a good place to be if you need care in LA.  Most celebs go there or UCLA.

  103. 103.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 5, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    @WaterGirl: I honestly cannot remember the last time I ever ate one, and if I live the rest of my life without another I’m perfectly OK with that.

  104. 104.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    @CaseyL: Today I had chicken soup for breakfast and a cheese and egg sandwich for dinner.

  105. 105.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    She is a skank.

    You’ve been hanging ’round that raven guy, haven’t ya?

  106. 106.

    Steeplejack

    January 5, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    @Subsole:

    And eating whatever the hell you want for breakfast.

  107. 107.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Indeed.  This is either a very erudite group (my choice) or a very old one (but let’s not go there).

    I am old enough to have seen it during its first network run, but really remember it from high school, when PBS ran the series for some reason that I’ve never understood.

  108. 108.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    @randy khan: Was that ever revealed?  It’s not in Maiden’s song, and I’ve never seen the TV series.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    @Wapiti: He was indeed carrying the poop bag, and that’s what he tossed in the trash.

  110. 110.

    Punchy

    January 5, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    Im not seeing this for either D.  ~90% in and both Ds down 1-2%.  Seems like the early callers of these races may have used historical voting trends no longer accurate?

  111. 111.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    So let me make sure I’ve got this right…looking like Chump may have supressed the white vote with his antics.

     

    Dave Wasserman

    @Redistrict

    ·
    3m

    The bottom line in Ossoff/Perdue: Perdue is outperforming Trump in suburbs w/ lots of country club type Rs (no surprise). But he’s underperforming Trump in heavily Black areas, where there’s a slight but significant drop-off in White turnout relative to Black turnout. #GASEN

    https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346669272362315781?s=20

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    @Stacib: That’s okay, we don’t really make judgments about people here based on potato preferences.

  113. 113.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:10 pm

    @randy khan:

    I only have a south park reference for #2. One of my favorite episodes – making fun of Bono. :D

  114. 114.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:10 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile: You are not dumb!

  115. 115.

    Steeplejack

    January 5, 2021 at 11:10 pm

    Thank God Brian Williams is mostly keeping his big yap shut. Or maybe they cut his mike.

  116. 116.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:   I hope he does not come in contact with COVID there.

  117. 117.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    It’s really hard to get! ??

  118. 118.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    @WaterGirl: Sausage, egg and cheese on an everything bagel = yummo!

  119. 119.

    japa21

    January 5, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    I just love those who really don’t even want to believe what the experts are telling them. Warnock is a lock and Ossoff is as close to a lock as you can get.

  120. 120.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    @cain:

    Aren’t there a lot of references to #2 in South Park?

  121. 121.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: They are an occasional guilty pleasure.  We have a food truck here:  Cracked (which came first, the chicken or the eg) and they have amazing deep fried tater tots.  It’s been years since I had them, but I can still remember how great they were.

  122. 122.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    I prefer hash browns to tater tots. I would like to think hash browns are less bad for you but that’s probably like saying peanut m and ms are better for you than regular m and ms because peanuts have protein.

  123. 123.

    Vince

    January 5, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    @Chris: Most of the outstanding vote is in heavily Democratic areas.  The NYT currently has the range of outcomes for Ossoff’s race between Ossoff +2 and Perdue +0.5.  The range of outcomes for Warnock’s race is between Warnock +0.7 and Warnock +3

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/forecast-georgia-senate-runoff.html

  124. 124.

    randy khan

    January 5, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    I have two emails asking me to congratulate Warnock on winning (oh, and to make a small contribution).

  125. 125.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 5, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    I am remaining staunchly pessimistic until this is sealed.

    I have no trust in the process at this point.

  126. 126.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    Eric Trump is out there in one of the Trump tv shows throwing threats around. Imagine being a United States Senator and being threatened by Eric Trump.

  127. 127.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    @marcopolo: I understand that — in normal years, where there’s not a ton of early and absentee (mostly Dem-leaning) voting. But there was this year, so can we expect that the typical “late Dem surge” from urban precincts will be enough?

  128. 128.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    @frosty:

    Hey! I have you know that my #2 is the most #1 comment in all the #2s we’ve had here!

  129. 129.

    Repatriated

    January 5, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    @japa21:

    I just love those who really don’t even want to believe what the experts are telling them. Warnock is a lock and Ossoff is as close to a lock as you can get.

    You want to tempt the wrath of whatever from high atop the thing?

  130. 130.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    @WaterGirl: I do.

  131. 131.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: If it helps, the Trump spawns are claiming Democrats have cheated so I took that as an indication that we’re winning.

  132. 132.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    @Punchy: Turnout.  Relative to the November election, Dems had a much higher turnout than Republicans.

  133. 133.

    guachi

    January 5, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    @Punchy: The remaining vote is almost entirely in and around Atlanta. It’ll play out like Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania did in November for Biden.

    Democrats win in the end.

  134. 134.

    Comrade Colette

    January 5, 2021 at 11:15 pm

    @Steeplejack:  Agree, but why even is there a “Kornacki cam”? Let the poor dude practice his hand wiggles and updates alooooooone

    ETA: this is the first time since 2016 I’ve been able to bear watching election returns on TV, and I only tuned in after reading some hopeful stuff here. And now I regret it. I haven’t had dinner yet, and my stomach is in a knot.

  135. 135.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:15 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: My sandwich was on my homemade bread.  Yum.

  136. 136.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:15 pm

    @randy khan: Who’s on first.

  137. 137.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:16 pm

    @lamh36:

    It’s happening here in Salem, OR as well. The Trumpers are somehow aghast that the cops are not with them – trying to get them to “switch sides”. heh.

  138. 138.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:16 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I hope he does not come in contact with COVID there. 

    My thought too.  Hope Dre makes a full recovery.

  139. 139.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:16 pm

    @japa21: Could be PTSD from 2016.  Could be not wanting to get hopes up and then have them dashed.  Could be pessimism.  Could be an excess of caution.

  140. 140.

    CROAKER

    January 5, 2021 at 11:17 pm

    @frosty:  YOU ARE NUMBER SIX

  141. 141.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:18 pm

    @marcopolo:

    That’s oregon as well. We’ve had squeaker gov races and in drops Multinomah County and boom! It’s over and goes straight to D.

    Multinomah is the most populous of the counties. But Washington County is also purple/blue’ish. Between the two of us, rural Oregon has no chance. Plus now we’ve almost have a super majority but we still need Rs for quorum which they’ve been doing the “run away” when bills they don’t like come around.

  142. 142.

    Laurel Ann

    January 5, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: That summary misses the fact that one of the subtle features of the Village is that all the doors automatically close, and when he arrives in London, the door still automatically closes, implying he is still in the Village in some sense.

  143. 143.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    @Elizabelle: Probably one of the better hospitals in the county to not get the ‘rona.  I know the staff has been getting the jab.

  144. 144.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    Vox just called it for Warnock!

  145. 145.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Who’s on first.

    What.

  146. 146.

    Martin

    January 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm

    That’s one. Might be tomorrow before we get two.

  147. 147.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:   Yea!

    @sdhays:   Yea!

  148. 148.

    Vince

    January 5, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, because NYT has the range of outcomes for that race as Warnock winning by +3 or Warnock winning by +0.7.  The NYT needle isn’t giving Loeffler a chance anymore.

  149. 149.

    Comrade Colette

    January 5, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    yes, you can make a late night breakfast skillet with tater tots

    But, but, but – tots are NOT moshed potatoes! When matter meets anti-matter, you’ll just disappear*!

    *I am the opposite of a physicist.

  150. 150.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    @sdhays:

    Vox just called it for Warnock!

    Fake news! Dominion! Yugo Chavez! Saul Alinksy!!!!

  151. 151.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    @Anya:

    Eric Trump is out there in one of the Trump tv shows throwing threats around. Imagine being a United States Senator and being threatened by Eric Trump. 

    Who is that twerp threatening?

  152. 152.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 11:23 pm

    Perdue’s lead is down to ~3k. I don’t think he’s going to hold on.

    ETA: I could have sworn I saw a difference of 3k, but it looks now like 15k. Still not great for Perdue.

  153. 153.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 11:23 pm

    The skank has been skunked.

  154. 154.

    marcopolo

    January 5, 2021 at 11:23 pm

    @jonas: SATSQ: Yes

    Slightly longer answer, the election nerds have a number of ways to know how many votes to expect out of a given jurisdiction.  They then track the votes as they come in on election night. There are a shitton of heavily D votes in jurisdictions around ATL that they know are out there and that have not been posted yet.

    Or as Nate Cohn notes:

    The fundamental GOP problem at this point: the Republican vote is basically exhausted. Ossoff favored to win what’s left by 36 points (he needs to win by 26 to win) pic.twitter.com/ktxTrsXM1F— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 6, 2021

  155. 155.

    patrick II

    January 5, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    @cain:

    So, you’re the Mike Pence of comments?

  156. 156.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 5, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    “Tomorrow’s gonna tell you a lot about the country,” Eric Trump said. “Because I can tell you, Sean, any senator or any congressman that does not … fight tomorrow, their political career is over. Because the MAGA movement is going nowhere.”

  157. 157.

    CROAKER

    January 5, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    @frosty: apparently I have to await moderation from the Village

     

    FROSTY YOU ARE NUMBER SIX

  158. 158.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 5, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    To primary any Republican who doesn’t show up tomorrow for Trump.

  159. 159.

    Benw

    January 5, 2021 at 11:25 pm

    @SFAW: I don’t know

  160. 160.

    Chetan Murthy

    January 5, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    the MAGA movement is going nowhere.

    English!  Do you speak it, motherfucker?

    What?

  161. 161.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    @SFAW: you forgot Soros and Deep State.

    I just saw Stephen Breyer trending on Twitter and almost had a heart attack. Its just left wing Twitter pushing him to retire if the Dems take both seats. I swear I’ve aged 15 years in the past 4 years will age another 5 years in the next 15 days.

  162. 162.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    @Comrade Colette:

    But, but, but – tots are NOT moshed potatoes! When matter meets anti-matter, you’ll just disappear*! 

    Well, if someone would sneak some potatoes into an Anthrax concert…

  163. 163.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 5, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    Ossoff and Warnock are both on track for victory with a greater than 95% chance to win, according to our estimates.

    This is not a projection, but the remaining vote–including another 18k DeKalb early votes and nearly 100k absentee votes–overwhelmingly favors the Democrats pic.twitter.com/SLaECHdFeT

    — Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 6, 2021

  164. 164.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    The MAGA movement is going nowhere.

    LOL.

  165. 165.

    Punchy

    January 5, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    Latest chances on Ossoff

    ETA: I see Davids update.  With 100K absentees yet to count, I feel much more confident.

  166. 166.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:26 pm

    @Vince: Yeah, I had figured that out after I made the comment, so then I deleted it.

  167. 167.

    CROAKER

    January 5, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    To  the Village – Frosty is number six

  168. 168.

    Steeplejack

    January 5, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    @sdhays:

    They had a momentary glitch with some badly entered numbers.

  169. 169.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Basically, any Senator who doesn’t help his father steal the election.  “I can tell you, Sean, any senator or congressmen — meaning on this side, that doesn’t fight tomorrow, I am telling you, their political career is over… MAGA movement is going nowhere, they will get primaried”

  170. 170.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Got to agree with Eric Trump.

    the MAGA movement is going nowhere.

  171. 171.

    John S.

    January 5, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    I am so looking forward to Moscow Mitch being impotent as Biden picks sail through with Harris as the tiebreaker.

  172. 172.

    Aziz, light!

    January 5, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: That works for me, Eric. If you are successful, all Republican candidates will have swastikas tattooed on their chests.

  173. 173.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 5, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    @randy khan:

    I am old enough to have seen it during its first network run,

    As am I.

  174. 174.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    @guachi:

    I disagree, Trump can gaslight the GOP just as easily – those voters follow Trump not GOP. They will follow him and if he says that it’s because of not enough loyalty to him – they will believe it. They really dig him – just look at that last crowd where he tried to talk about the senators they got bored.. they are addicted to his screeds.

  175. 175.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    Votes still missing are in ATL and surrounding counties!  Dem strongholds that will likely put Ossoff over the top!

  176. 176.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 5, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    Jesus, take the camera off Kornacki for a while till his numbers are actually updated. Bring in some talking heads, call Leslie Jones, prank call Chris Matthews….

  177. 177.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    I hope that we get both these seats because I would really like to see some Supreme Court rebalancing.

    And I believe we’ve been told that 2022 looks even harder for Republicans?

    Anyway, come on Georgia.

  178. 178.

    croaker

    January 5, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    Frosty – the Village has decided to moderate.

     

    YOU ARE NUMBER SIX

  179. 179.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    @SFAW: What’s on second, have you heard the rock band version?
    The Credibility Gap – The Rock Festival (Who’s On First?)

  180. 180.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    What does Iron Maiden have to do with anything here?!

  181. 181.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    @CROAKER: You accidentally (I presume) had a “k” at the end of .com in this comment.  I fixed it, but you’ll want to fix that before you post a comment again.

  182. 182.

    Vince

    January 5, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    @Mai Naem mobile: Honestly, it’s fair.  If RBG had retired at a reasonable time we wouldn’t have Amy fucking Barrett on the court.

  183. 183.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    @Elizabelle: I know!  I had to read that twice before I figured out how HE meant it.

  184. 184.

    marcopolo

    January 5, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 

    Because the MAGA movement is going nowhere.

    I do believe this is one of those rare cases where a fool drops a pearl of wisdom.  Or he could be acknowledging the DC Police keeping forcibly blocking the MAGAts from entering BLM Plaza tonight.

  185. 185.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    @randy khan: Aren’t there a lot of references to #2 in South Park?

    Indeed – but this one is dedicated to #2 :-)

  186. 186.

    croaker

    January 5, 2021 at 11:32 pm

    @cain:  greatest band in Universe

    The Prisoner

  187. 187.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    If Kornacki was worth a shit he’d be commenting here live on TV whilst working his maps and numbers. Pffftttt!

  188. 188.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

     Bring in some talking heads

    Here ya go

  189. 189.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @Vince: Oh, please don’t go there  That has been hashed and rehashed double-rehashed already.  No one is every going to change sides, so maybe we can skip that fight tonight?

  190. 190.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: And leave out the tire rims?

  191. 191.

    Chris

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @Anya:

    Imagine being a United States Senator and being threatened by Eric Trump.

    What’s really pathetic is how many politicians have shown exactly the same supine deference to Trump all through the last four years – in too many cases, even now! – as they would be if they were the sock-puppet legislators of a regime like Russia or Syria, who actually do have a very likely expectation of being physically threatened by the Dear Leader if they don’t toe the party line.

  192. 192.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @Vince: It’s a reasonable discussion to have, but tonight feels like the wrong time to have it. Can’t we win first (and bask in the glow for at least a day) and then count our chickens? Not directed at you, but at whatever Twits were making that a big deal today.

  193. 193.

    Subsole

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @randy khan:

    WHO

    DOES

    NUMBER

    TWO

    WORK

    FOR?!?!

  194. 194.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @patrick II:

    How dare you! How dare you sir! Pence is not a #2, he’s a #3, you gotta give Trump space.

  195. 195.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @Elizabelle: Rick Wilson said on his podcast today that Ivanka is in discussion with FL Republicans about a 2022 Senate run. He said it’s bad news for Marco Rubio in the primary, and Republicans in the GE.

    Seriously, watching Kornacki talk to his producer or whatever is really bad TV

  196. 196.

    croaker

    January 5, 2021 at 11:33 pm

    @WaterGirl:  thx iPad  dim lighting cat under arm

  197. 197.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    January 5, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    Eric: “Because the MAGA movement is going nowhere.”

    Instead of saying that the MAGA movement is “here to stay”, Dumb Eric states that the MAGA movement is a dead end and going nowhere.

    What a dipshit.

  198. 198.

    NotMax

    January 5, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    cain

    this one is dedicated to #2

    Phrasing!

    (Are we doing the whole deuce thing again?)
    :)

  199. 199.

    Cacti

    January 5, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    Even though Eric Trump is an idiot, I think what he’s hitting at does reflect the messy divorce that’s on the way for the GOP.

    Trump is the unabashed white trash pride candidate.

    His ignorance, bigotry, and brazen criminality were completely authentic.  Most Republican politicians are elite, 1 percenter snobs like Loeffler and Perdue.  They can’t fake the white trash aspect of Trump with any authenticity.

  200. 200.

    Chris

    January 5, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    @Vince:

    Fingers crossed.  Fingers crossed.  Fingers crossed.

  201. 201.

    cmorenc

    January 5, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    With Dekalb county now 95% in, there’s a substantial possibility that Ga may produce a split result, with Warnock narrowly winning and Ossoff narrowly losing.  That said, there are still enough outstanding votes in D-leaning counties for Ossoff to possibly win – Perdue’s lead is down to under 5k at the moment, while Warnock’s lead is 30k – with 5% of the vote remaining to be counted, mainly in D areas.

  202. 202.

    Punchy

    January 5, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    O/U on fraud/disenfranchisement lawsuits filed by Thursday, if both Ds are declared winners…13.5?

  203. 203.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 5, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    I’m not counting any chickens, but if indeed the D’s pick up both of those seats, and the conventional wisdom becomes (as it is already appearing to) that Trump’s insane conspiracy theories are the proximate cause, the bloodletting in the R’s will be a true joy to watch.

  204. 204.

    Chris

    January 5, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    @Repatriated:

    Seriously!  A friend of mine texted the whole group “I think we’re winning the Senate” about five hours ago and I had to restrain myself not to write back “GOD DAMN IT HILLARY STOP FUCKING JINXING THINGS FOR US!”

    (She already predicted that Texas would go blue on election night in November, so…)

  205. 205.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I had to stop watching CNN they were obviously being slow with the numbers. Muted MSNBC cause I rather Kornacki give solid numbers than try to listen to his producers and try to post the numbers on the fly…it was too aggravating

  206. 206.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    @HumboldtBlue: Gonna be tough in NY state prison, Errorick.  You stupider of you two 80’s used car salesmen.

  207. 207.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    @croaker:

    I’m not familiar with their discography – I’m more of a prog rock kinda guy – but I do like some of their stuff. But it’s just all radio hits.

  208. 208.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    @kylegriffin1

    Kornacki: More Fulton County votes came in. Perdue’s lead over Ossoff is now down to just 3700 votes.
    @MSNBC

    10:35 PM · Jan 5, 2021·Twitter Web App

  209. 209.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    @Chris: It’s pathetic. But at least they’re not Kelly Loeffler or Jeff Sessions.

  210. 210.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I haven’t heard that one in at least 30, maybe 40 years. Heard it on radio, never saw the Shearer vid version. Thanks.

  211. 211.

    Mai Naem mobile

    January 5, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    @Vince: I totally agree that Breyer needs to retire. Hell, I bet he’s been wanting to retire . It was just seeing his name trending that  had me imagining Mitch and Orange Dbag rushing through his replacement in 15 days.

  212. 212.

    Steeplejack

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    Damn, should have bought a lottery ticket tonight. This could be our luckiest day in a while.

  213. 213.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @lamh36: A bunch of raucous white douchebag rioters getting pepper sprayed by cops? What’s going on? Did we lose a war?

  214. 214.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    Just catching up on earlier news from today.  The WaPost story over Trump traveling to Scotland; Nicola Sturgeon warning golf is not essential.

    The most liked reader comment:

    What does Trump wear under his kilt?

    Devin Nunes.

    I laughed.

  215. 215.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @Chris:

    You’re friends with Hillary Clinton?

  216. 216.

    Chris

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @Subsole: 

    THAT’S RIGHT!  YOU SHOW THAT TURD WHO’S BOSS!

  217. 217.

    patroclus

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    Woo hoo!!!!!!  I just got home from work to see Kornacki covering the Fulton and DeKalb drops.  Warnock looks like a lock and Ossoff is looking good too!  I can hardly believe it!!  We might just take the Senate!!!!!!!!!!

  218. 218.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    So they are negotiating a loss of a senate seat then, eh? Watching lil Marco (it’s amazing how that name has stuck) get fucked over after so much dick sucking – (ok, I realize that might be a natural progression) is a lot of win.

  219. 219.

    Kent

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    Wow, I walked the dog for a half and hour and suddenly things look a little better.

  220. 220.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    prank call Chris Matthews….

     

    Now that would be hilarious.

  221. 221.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Possibly the truest thing he has ever said!

  222. 222.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:38 pm

    @Chris:

    (She already predicted that Texas would go blue on election night in November, so…)

    Well, in fairness, it would have, if not for the voter fraud committed by the Rethugs and their TX statehouse enablers.

  223. 223.

    trnc

    January 5, 2021 at 11:39 pm

    @Vince: If RBG had retired at a reasonable time we wouldn’t have Amy fucking Barrett on the court.

    What if RBG was planning to retire early Summer of 2016, which would have safely given her time to be on the bench for as long as possible and still gave Obama time to get the next nominee through? That would have been a perfectly reasonable plan up until March/April 2016.

  224. 224.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:40 pm

    @cmorenc: Where are you getting that information?

  225. 225.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 11:41 pm

    @Aziz, light!: Sounds good. Like SS blood-type tattoos, makes the war criminals easier to identify.

  226. 226.

    Mary G

    January 5, 2021 at 11:41 pm

    @lamh36: The Proud Boys leader being arrested for tearing down and burning a BLM banner, and having illegal cartridges in his pocket seems to have ruined the bromance. What a shame.//

  227. 227.

    Kent

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    456 votes separate Ossoff and Perdue?  Wow

  228. 228.

    patroclus

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Ossoff only trails by 456!!!

  229. 229.

    Steeplejack

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    @SFAW:

    This ain’t no disco!

  230. 230.

    Ruckus

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    Dipshit is the best you can say for him?

    I think it is the very least that can be said for him. There are far more nasty things that apply as well.

  231. 231.

    NotMax

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Kornacki gonna sprain his tongue if he doesn’t slow down.

  232. 232.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    The FTFTFNYT has Perdud’s lead down to less than 400.

  233. 233.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    @kylegriffin1

    ·
    1m

    Kornacki: Raphael Warnock now leads Loeffler by more than 31,000 votes following the new Fulton County batch.
    @MSNBC

  234. 234.

    Punchy

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Skinny O down 400 now.  What a flip.  Yup, the pros who know this shit nailed this late surge.

  235. 235.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    @lamh36: Well, I’m convinced. What’s left is in heavily Democratic, voter rich, counties. I think Ossoff has this. I’m going to go to bed.

  236. 236.

    Elizabelle

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Another reader comment on the Trump to Scotland story.

    “Hi, this is Donald Trump.  We’ve been circling for hours waiting for permission to land.  We’re almost out of fuel!”

    “Yeah, sorry about that.  Good luck.”

  237. 237.

    marcopolo

    January 5, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    So a couple things then I’m happily to bed:

    1) I am feeling pretty good about the ACA continuing to exist (and maybe even made better) going forward. Kinda important as that is where I get my health insurance.

    2) If there is a betting market out there allowing you to put money on whether Neera Tanden gets confirmed as OMB head, you might want to drop a little money on it being a successful nomination. We are probably looking at Bernie Sanders as the new chair of the committee that will be vetting her nomination.

    Good night everyone.

  238. 238.

    cain

    January 5, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    No doubt – it seems Perdue’s gap is only 400 votes. He’s dead.

  239. 239.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    Per MSNBC, Statewide; Ossoff is 456 behind Perdue!!!

  240. 240.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    @Punchy: Oh, it’s going to be close regardless and (esp.) if Loeffler or Perdue lose, they’re going to try to tie it up in court until the end of time and McConnell will use it as an excuse not to seat the Dem winner even if they’re certified, just like happened today in PA.

  241. 241.

    Kent

    January 5, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    @trnc:@Vince: If RBG had retired at a reasonable time we wouldn’t have Amy fucking Barrett on the court.

    For fuck’s sake.  RBG didn’t fail us.  We failed her.

  242. 242.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Ain’t no fooling around, neither.

  243. 243.

    Martin

    January 5, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    I need Kornacki, Maddow, Reid, and Wallace to do an ASMR. They’ve turned into my anti-anxiety soundtrack. Gentle voices talking about voting precincts, early vote, turnout, etc.

  244. 244.

    OGLiberal

    January 5, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    @WaterGirl: The NYT dials are actually not bad and they’ve got both Warnock and Ossoff at 95%+ probability of winning.  They know where the outstanding votes are – they wouldn’t report that level of probably with over 95% reporting unless they were pretty certain.

  245. 245.

    Vince

    January 5, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    @sdhays: Sorry, pretty out of the loop on the fighting.  Definitely don’t want to darken the mood, this is absolutely a time for celebration.  We’re going to have a somewhat functional government that generally tries to help American citizens for at least the next 18ish months!

  246. 246.

    cmorenc

    January 5, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Getting that info from CNN live coverage.  And since my post, Ossoff’s chances have improved – he’s only down just over 400 votes, while Warnock is up 34k, with 97% of the vote in and mainly D-leaning counties still to be counted.

  247. 247.

    Ruckus

    January 5, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Now that is worth a chuckle. And a hardy one at that.

  248. 248.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think they’re keeping the camera on Kornacki for Leslie Jones. She loves him.

  249. 249.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    Election data Twitter has been talking about this election in the past tense for a little while now. What a relief. It’s funny, Biden with 306 and a tied senate is basically what I expected in November.

  250. 250.

    frosty

    January 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Wonderful! I heard or saw this sketch years ago, (maybe KPPC?) and just remembered the names of the 3 acts: Who, Guess Who, and Yes. A great update of Abbott and Costello. And look at young Harry Shearer!

  251. 251.

    Kent

    January 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    @jonas:@Punchy: Oh, it’s going to be close regardless and (esp.) if Loeffler or Perdue lose, they’re going to try to tie it up in court until the end of time and McConnell will use it as an excuse not to seat the Dem winner even if they’re certified, just like happened today in PA.

    It’s not up to McConnell.  He doesn’t have a choice.  It’s up to the Georgia Secretary of State who certifies the result.  McConnell doesn’t have the power to refuse to seat a Senator.  The fight will be entirely within the state of GA with possibly federal courts stepping in on questions of Federal law.

    When these things drag out forever like in MN years ago with the 2008 recount between Franken and Coleman the seat stays empty until the winner is certified by the state.  Then it is over.

  252. 252.

    patroclus

    January 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    Calling out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat?  The summer’s here and the music’s on, they’ll be dancing in the street!!  It doesn’t matter what you wear, just as long as you are there!  C’mon, every guy, grab a girl for some dancing in the street!!

  253. 253.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    I stayed the hell away from election results for the past 5 hours – it looks like we’ve got it? Is that it?

    Warnock is up by a pretty insurmountable amount, and Ossoff is down slightly but remaining ballots are mostly from Democratic areas? That’s what I’m inferring, please tell me it’s true.

  254. 254.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    @Punchy: Who or what is Skinny O?

  255. 255.

    croaker

    January 5, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    @cain:  if you grew up in Essex it was a requirement by law.

    Hopefully tonight the black queen chants her funeral march

    and some cracked bell rings

    cause we need the fire witch j

  256. 256.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    The nutjobs are harassing Mitt Romney in airports and on airplanes. They are such scum.

  257. 257.

    Subsole

    January 5, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    @Steeplejack: This ain’t no foolin’ around!!

  258. 258.

    zhena gogolia

    January 5, 2021 at 11:46 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Ossoff.

  259. 259.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2021 at 11:47 pm

    Interesting

    The media market discontinuities here are strong evidence that ads work and that the hundreds of millions in ad spend that Democrats put into this race bought something! https://t.co/OEFZm3WqUp

    — (((David Shor))) (@davidshor) January 6, 2021

  260. 260.

    dmsilev

    January 5, 2021 at 11:47 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: That’s basically the gist of things, yes.

  261. 261.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 5, 2021 at 11:48 pm

    I’ve been watching 11Live in Atlanta and they’ve done a great job.

  262. 262.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: yep!

  263. 263.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: That is all true!

  264. 264.

    Subsole

    January 5, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    @croaker:

    Bring the pattern juggler and the purple piper, and it’s a party!

  265. 265.

    jonas

    January 5, 2021 at 11:50 pm

    @Anya: Imagine being a United States Senator and being threatened by Eric Trump.

    If you’re a Trumpy GOP senator, you’ve obediently placed the collar and ball gag on yourself and have gotten used to this kind of political BDSM play by now, whether it’s from Trump himself or one of his idiot spawn.

  266. 266.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 5, 2021 at 11:50 pm

    Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn 20m
    Ossoff’s lead is still just slim enough that you do want to make sure that some of these late absentees and provisionals really materialize to the extent we expect. I’d think we could see some projections in the Warnock race tonight

    But the remaining early in-person votes in DeKalb, alone, will give Ossoff the kind of lead that Biden had in the final count, and there’s a lot more for him beyond that. So there may not be a call there tonight, but it’s not serious doubt

    My impression is that Cohn is a pretty sober and fairly cautious guy, as is Wasserman. As I recall from election night, the network decision desks are even more cautious, a couple of hours (or more) behind the twitter quants.

  267. 267.

    trnc

    January 5, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    @Elizabelle: If Ms. Sturgeon really loved us, she’d let him go to his club on the 19th and then block the exit road.

  268. 268.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 5, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    @SFAW:

    Perdud

    That’s either very clever wordplay or the best typo I’ve ever seen.

  269. 269.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    SMH…If Kornacki nem would stop posting numbers on the fly and wait until the counters add them…you wouldn’t ahve to worry about this confusing damn numbers…smh And CNN slow rolling their numbers…smh

    And CNN slow rolling their damn numbers…smh

  270. 270.

    WaterGirl

    January 5, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I don’t understand the conclusion that ads made a difference. ???

  271. 271.

    Chris

    January 5, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    On the one hand, yeah.

    On the other hand, y’know, Mitt Romney.

  272. 272.

    Barbara

    January 5, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Cohn was the guy who set up the data scraping tool for ballots that I looked at obsessively to follow returns from swing states in November.

  273. 273.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 5, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    @Ruckus: Except, to spoil the humor, if the pilot declares an emergency he has to be allowed to land. They can refuse to let anyone off the plane, but they can’t refuse an emergency landing.

  274. 274.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    Amazing

    Wow, any updates on this https://t.co/lEwfUcQyHh

    — Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 6, 2021

  275. 275.

    Anya

    January 5, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    @jonas: I am convinced Loeffler will cut her losses and just leave. It’s just gonna damage her more if she continues. She’s a gazillionaire why would she subject herself to more humiliation? I am not sure about Purdue, specially since it will be closer.

  276. 276.

    Punchy

    January 5, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: slim lead?  Im seeing him a skosh behind.  My data might be delayed, however.

  277. 277.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 5, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    It’s over.

    I've seen enough. Jon Ossoff (D) defeats Sen. David Perdue (R) in GA's other Senate runoff. #GASEN

    Democrats win control of the Senate.

    — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

  278. 278.

    lamh36

    January 5, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    !!! fingers crossed!

     

    Dave Wasserman

    @Redistrict

    ·
    1m

    I’ve seen enough. Jon Ossoff (D) defeats Sen. David Perdue (R) in GA’s other Senate runoff. #GASEN Democrats win control of the Senate.

    https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346681326934650880?s=20

  279. 279.

    SFAW

    January 5, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That’s either very clever wordplay or the best typo I’ve ever seen.

    There’s an “engineering” school in West Lafayette, Indiana, sometimes (un)affectionately called “Purdud.” I was riffing on that, thought it fit well.

    I am sometimes witty — well, half, I guess — but this one was not original with me.

    ETA: But I’m glad someone spotted it, and glad it was you.

  280. 280.

    croaker

    January 5, 2021 at 11:58 pm

    @Subsole:  let the keeper of city keys put some shutters on the dreams

  281. 281.

    sdhays

    January 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    @trnc: Her constituents come first.

  282. 282.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    @Anya:

    Even during commercials, they have the “Kornacki Cam” in the corner of the screen!

  283. 283.

    Yutsano

    January 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    AND THERE IT IS!!!

    I've seen enough. Jon Ossoff (D) defeats Sen. David Perdue (R) in GA's other Senate runoff. #GASENDemocrats win control of the Senate.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

  284. 284.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    @frosty:

     And look at young Harry Shearer!

    Just a number(fellow UCLA alum).

  285. 285.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    @Martin: Kornacki calms you?

  286. 286.

    tokyokie

    January 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    @SFAW: Other takes include “Perdon’t” and “Perdoodoo.”

  287. 287.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 6, 2021 at 12:01 am

    @Kent: Exactly, unlike in PA, the Supremes ruled you have to seat the certified winner.

  288. 288.

    Mary G

    January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am

    A really good sign:

    2/ As Warnock leads and Ossoff ties their races, @FoxNews has abandoned coverage of the Georgia Senate Special Runoff and has moved on to shouting about the vaccines.@aishahhasnie pic.twitter.com/9OXUANUIUd— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) January 6, 2021

  289. 289.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 12:03 am

    @WaterGirl:

    Ossoff. I have no idea where the nickname came from. People getting a little giddy in here tonight.

  290. 290.

    Anya

    January 6, 2021 at 12:05 am

    @Major Major Major Major: insert victory dance gif

    I won’t be able to sleep from excitement. I just woke my parents up to tell them the news.

  291. 291.

    WaterGirl

    January 6, 2021 at 12:05 am

    @Steeplejack:

    People getting a little giddy in here tonight.

    With good reason!  I feel calmer.

  292. 292.

    SFAW

    January 6, 2021 at 12:08 am

    @tokyokie:

    Hadn’t heard those before (being a Right-Coaster). Thanks for edumacating me.

  293. 293.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 6, 2021 at 12:08 am

    @SFAW:

    Well, it works beautifully for the once-but-hopefully-not-future Senator from Georgia, so well played you!

  294. 294.

    Ruckus

    January 6, 2021 at 12:10 am

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Oh I know, it’s just a good line, even if it isn’t true.

    But they have already told him he’s not welcome, don’t come. And they sure don’t want him sitting on the tarmac without being able to leave, unless they decided to refuel the plane, so it could take off and get the hell out of their country, which is what I expect them to do. They do have his golf club for collateral for the fuel and expenses.

  295. 295.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 12:11 am

    @Steeplejack:

    ? Getting giddy with it .. parapa pa pa pa pa pa ?

  296. 296.

    SFAW

    January 6, 2021 at 12:12 am

    Has GA counting for tonight? The FTFTFNYT hasn’t updated its numbers in at least 15 minutes.

  297. 297.

    cain

    January 6, 2021 at 12:12 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Maybe they have ADHD – and activity calms them? :D

  298. 298.

    tokyokie

    January 6, 2021 at 12:12 am

    @SFAW:

    Hadn’t heard those before (being a Right-Coaster). Thanks for edumacating me.

    Your not having heard them before could be a function of my having just made them up.

  299. 299.

    SFAW

    January 6, 2021 at 12:13 am

    @tokyokie:

    Your not having heard them before could be a function of my having just made them up.

    It’s not nice to play tricks on old farts, ya know.

  300. 300.

    tokyokie

    January 6, 2021 at 12:15 am

    @SFAW:

    It’s not nice to play tricks on old farts, ya know.

    Well, if I try them on the cats, they just look at me weird. If they’re even awake. Same with the spousal unit.

  301. 301.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 12:16 am

    @WaterGirl:

    It ain’t over till it’s over. I’ll feel calmer when all the votes are counted.

  302. 302.

    patrick II

    January 6, 2021 at 12:17 am

    President Biden should create a new Voting Rights and Enablement Commission and have Stacey Abrams lead it.

  303. 303.

    Steeplejack

    January 6, 2021 at 12:18 am

    @SFAW:

    Kornacki is still spittin’ rhymes on MSNBC with the latest.

  304. 304.

    SFAW

    January 6, 2021 at 12:19 am

    @tokyokie:

    Well, if I try them on the cats, they just look at me weird.

    Do you try it in English? Or Nihongo? Might explain the problem.

    Or, it might be that they’re thinking “WTF? Does he think we understand him?”

  305. 305.

    SFAW

    January 6, 2021 at 12:21 am

    @Steeplejack:

    The FTFTFNYT just updated. Ossoff is still behind by 1200 or so.

  306. 306.

    briber

    January 6, 2021 at 12:24 am

    @randy khan: … but really remember it from high school, when PBS ran the series for some reason that I’ve never understood.

    Because… British TV, therefore high minded and cultured. (and, cheap to syndicate while also not competing for domestically produced programming.)

  307. 307.

    Subsole

    January 6, 2021 at 12:25 am

    @croaker: Hope the wise men are still sharing a jug…

  308. 308.

    NotMax

    January 6, 2021 at 12:25 am

    @tokyokie

    Ahem.

    ;)

  309. 309.

    Subsole

    January 6, 2021 at 12:26 am

    @cain: Bienvenidos a Atlanta!

  310. 310.

    Kent

    January 6, 2021 at 12:38 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:@Kent: Exactly, unlike in PA, the Supremes ruled you have to seat the certified winner.

    Yep.  The constitutional principal is that STATES get to determine who their OWN Senators and Congresssmen are, not Senators or Congressmen from OTHER states.

    Senators and Congressmen can subsequently be expelled.  But that takes a 2/3 supermajority vote (or some other supermajority that I’m too lazy to look up).

  311. 311.

    Kent

    January 6, 2021 at 12:39 am

    To be a fly on the wall in McConnell’s living room right now.  I expect he has that same sour glare at the TV that he gave McConnell when he thumbed-down Obamacare repeal.

  312. 312.

    croaker

    January 6, 2021 at 12:43 am

    @Subsole: they must just want to satisfy the hoax

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