Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So many bastards, so little time.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

We still have time to mess this up!

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    Captain Mandalorian there is going to get sued by two separate parts of The House of Mouse simultaneously.

  2. 2.

    cope

    Wow, no one has replied yet so I might coulda been first but…really, I have nothing to say looking at Good Sir Knight.

  3. 3.

    Barbara

    My husband has been looking at traffic cams of the area all day and he didn’t see a lot of people.  Maybe we looked too soon, but it’s kind of a raw and gray day here so not exactly a good day for a protest.

  7. 7.

    japa21

    Had to laugh earlier. We follow a relative who is a hard core Trumper on FB.  He posted a photo today that has been going around purporting to show the huge crowds rallying for Trump.  And people are posting how wonderful it is and why isn’t the4 media covering it.  The photo was taken in March, 2018 and it was a rally put together by the kids from FL and others in favor of gun control legislation.  A couple people commented about that but the others just went merrily on thinking it was today.

  8. 8.

    moops

    The RW demonstrations are always so small.    Why are so many politicians so eager to carry water for Trump when his supporters are so disorganized and ragtag in person?  Asking this crowd to embark on revolution seems so pointless.   Is is still jut more StopTheSteal grifting and Trump’s inevitable looting of his campaign funds?

  9. 9.

    jl

    Thanks Cole. I’d appreciate any links of the Trumpster yahoos who used to dress up as tactical Viking ninja-turtle Captain America hybrids. I’ve been wondering what happened to those guys. Haven’t seen them for months now

    Edit: It’s true that the pic is a Viking Captain America hybrid. But I really liked the ninja-turtle theme.

  12. 12.

    Origuy

    With 19% of the vote counted, Ossoff leads 53.8% to 46.2%, Warnock leads 53.1% to 46.9%. The margins have been going down though.

  14. 14.

    cope

    So I looked at the full frame picture of this particular individual.  The entire ensemble includes a boxing glove at the end of his staff, the legally required frog on his shield and catcher’s shin guards on his lower legs.  His shoes do appear to have tied laces so there’s that.

  17. 17.

    jl

    This is interesting. Gonna be some oversight. Hope they look back, as well as present, as well as future. These people like to cooperate too. Will be interesting to see AOC, Porter, Tlaib and Bush tag team a witness.

    @Kate_Riga24

    While we are waiting for news from GA, Pelosi just announced additional committee appointments. New Oversight members caught my eye: Reps. AOC, Katie Porter, Rashida Tlaib & Cori Bush.

    https://twitter.com/Kate_Riga24/status/1346613895432183814

  18. 18.

    jl

    @cope: But no turtle. I don’t think the frog counts.

    Edit: I am a fan of current day amphibians, including frogs. But whole line has become a little beta. I always wondered by they didn’t go Eryops. That, my friend, is an alpha amphibian.

  22. 22.

    prostratedragon

    @jl:  That sounds good. I thought AOC was already on that committee. While I’d agree with many here that she can be questionable at times, I have the impression that she willingly does some homework, and Oversight is certainly a homework-type assignment.

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom 50m
    So it’s going to be a night of CNN declaring a “key race alert“ when there are actually no alerts and no new information.

    I don’t watch CNN, but I don’t know if I can take a whole night of Kornacki doing deep dives on individual precints with 66% of the votes reporting, and we don’t know if the Tuttles on Butternut Lane have voted yet

  25. 25.

    Tony Jay

    Captain LARP needs to pick a fucking theme because right now he looks like someone pranked him into turning up for a Forbush Man audition on three minutes notice.

  28. 28.

    jl

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    ‘ So it’s going to be a night of CNN declaring a “key race alert“ when there are actually no alerts and no new information. ‘

    That is SOP with CNN every day in every way, and teaser to information ratio sometimes below the limit of detectability. I guess Mr. Nichols has only started watching them recently.

  33. 33.

    dmsilev

    Right now, a Dem sweep is the single likeliest outcome, but a Warnock/Perdue split (while still unlikely) is a bit likelier than I would’ve guessed before polls closed.
    — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

    Fingers crossed….

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    @Origuy: I have learned to ignore all of those numbers early on because there’s always some huge caveat – there’s still one/some strong (R or D) county/counties that haven’t reported yet, and those will change everything!

  35. 35.

    Martin

    @prostratedragon: She’s legit great at oversight. A lot of oversight is simply the ability to reject the status quo in defense of what the law says. Don’t give the white males the benefit of the doubt, which they coast into oversight hearings relying on.

  38. 38.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Does anyone know if these early counts include the absentees? Just saw a figure that there are 3 million absentee votes. Is it going to be a repeat of November where we don’t get those figures added in till tomorrow or later?

  41. 41.

    cmorenc

    @jl:

    That is SOP with CNN every day in every way, and teaser to information ratio sometimes below the limit of detectability. I guess Mr. Nichols has only started watching them recently.

    CNN so frequently announces “breaking news” it should hardly be surprising that much of their news coverage is broken.

  42. 42.

    cope

    @jl:Or if we want a more appropriate amphibian to represent these people rather than poor, innocent Pepe, maybe the olm.  “An olm is a blind salamander with transparent skin that lives underground, hunts for its prey by smell…”*

    *Boosted from an article in the Guardian.

  43. 43.

    jl

    @Martin: I wonder how many Trump administration witnesses will have to be dragged before that crew by Marshalls of the Supreme Court under the admiralty flag.

  45. 45.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Anon: and coach? C’mon Mr Couple of Cadillacs (and FTR, I give a shit if Ann has a couple of Bentleys, just drop the act

    ETA: @cmorenc: MSNBC does the exact same thing, and it’s annoying, especially with so rumbling volcanos in the news these days.

  46. 46.

    Martin

    @WaterGirl: I like it, especially when you have a Kornacki or a Chuck Todd (he was actually good at that) doing it. You really start to understand how the districts are made up, how vote counting varies, etc. I don’t need to know off the top of my head how a given county works, but a big part of scientific literacy is gaining an innate sense of how things work so you can constantly calibrate your bullshit detector.

  48. 48.

    Freemark

    Warnock is doing better than Ossoff. Not completely unexpected. Some people voting for Warnock may not want to vote for Ossoff for whatever reason. But it appears those people may be not just skipping over Ossoff but voting for Perdue. WTF!

  54. 54.

    Punchy

    @dmsilev: offshore odds had this as most likey.  How that is possible, I dont know.  Who votes for one Dem and then one Devil? (Shooting daggers at Maine)…

    ETA: looks like several have already noted this oddity

  56. 56.

    cain

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    They got all that special effects out there? They gotta use it on something! You just can’t use it on movies like “When Harry Met Sally” :-) I suppose the orgasm scene could use some special effects.

  58. 58.

    bbleh

    @a lurker: Like the fraud isn’t real fraud, or even enough to be alleged in court, but it conveys the feeling of fraud, and for these jamokes, that’s enough.

  59. 59.

    evap

    I’m trying trying trying not to get my hopes up too much, but Ossoff and Warnock are outperforming Biden slightly in both red and blue counties.

    My day has been awful, dealing with my 93-year-old mom who is very rapidly going downhill, and told me tonight that she is ready to die.   I need some good news, and a win tonight would also cheer her up.

  60. 60.

    Redshift

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Does anyone know if these early counts include the absentees? 

    I seem to recall reading here that it varies by county, grrr. But various Georgia politicos have warned that we shouldn’t assume we’ll have final results tonight.

  62. 62.

    evap

    The counts are mostly early voting at this point.   The same-day vote is likely to be more Republican, so it’s definitely not over.

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Sean Trende is not a liberal, as I recall

    Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende 22m
    I don’t usually delete tweet, but the original was backwards. Votecast had Trump at 49% approval in November, 43% today. The polls started turning against Loeffler and Perdue in mid-December. There’s 100 factors at work here, but I do think Trump’s refusal to concede took a toll.

    also:

    Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende 10m

    Ossoff continues to do more than what he needs to do.

     Absent some dramatic turnaround for Perdue in metro Atlanta, the operatic woman should be warming up.

  67. 67.

    Elie

    @evap:

     

    Hang in there… I have been there… This time is precious even as it is trying.  You won’t remember the bad parts — only that you were with her and that is gonna be more and more precious over the years…

    BTW, I am also hoping for the outcome we all seek…

  68. 68.

    Punchy

    @Redshift: they’ll need time to…uh….”recount” the ballots.  And if still not “acceptable”, then 1,733 lawsuits.

    Can Mitch pull a PA move and decline to swear them in until all suits are exhausted, some time in 2023?

  70. 70.

    gbbalto

    @evap: My sympathies to you and your mom, and may she pass peacefully and with dignity. I will be facing the same soon..

    ETA: Glad that you can be with her.

  71. 71.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Baud: I have some important stuff to do (we started an 850-piece jigsaw a couple days ago, now my wife tells me she needs the table back by Monday) so I’ll probably be up late. Might as well keep obsessively refreshing while I’m at it.

  77. 77.

    brendancalling

    These limp dicks are lucky I am not the chief of police in DC, because I would make the horror rained down on BLM this summer look like a walk in the park.

    Moreover, these proud boy bastards would deserve it, because they are terrorists who hate America. Don’t @ me, as the kids say.

  82. 82.

    Ohio Mom

    evap @ 59: It’s going to be hard missing her, isn’t it? I hope you find comfort in spending these moments with your mom and seeing her through.

  85. 85.

    raven

    @Leto: Did you see the article about eating white dirt I sent back yonder

     

    eta I’ve been here more that half of my life and I had a confederate ancestor killed at the Battle of Atlanta but I’m from Illinois.

  87. 87.

    Elizabelle

    @cain:   To my knowledge, GOP challenger Nick Freitas has never conceded to Abigail Spanberger.

    But she was sworn in for her second term.

    Nothing should depend on these wankers accepting the results.  Whether they do or whether they don’t … they are not going to achieve/retain the seat.

  88. 88.

    Just Chuck

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    The polls started turning against Loeffler and Perdue in mid-December. There’s 100 factors at work here, but I do think Trump’s refusal to concede took a toll.

    Everything Trump touches…

  89. 89.

    bemused senior

    I wonder how many overseas ballots will come in after today.  There’s going to come a time tonight when we’ll all wonder how worried about those we have to be.

  91. 91.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @raven: I wondered if that was playing into this

    I see Roger Stone, Alex Jones and the My Pillow nutcase are speaking to the dozens (I hope) of protesters in DC. Anyone seen numbers on their turn out?

  92. 92.

    Haroldo

    @evap:

    I’m sorry.  It’s wonderful that you can be with your mom, however.

    I wish you, her, all of us two victories tonight.

  97. 97.

    JPL

    I’m drinking hot chocolate, and hoping that helps to relax me.

    This is good news though

    The first heavily Dem rural county, Macon Co., is fully reporting: Ossoff: +25.0 Warnock: +25.6 Biden (Nov.): +21.3 And turnout is at 91.8% of November levels. Possibly the single best piece of data for the Dems yet.

  99. 99.

    Barbara

    @evap: So sorry about your mom. My mother died very suddenly nearly three years ago and there is just no easy way through this. Sending you good thoughts.

  100. 100.

    Chris

    A Proud Boys dressed as a Mandalorian?

    Is he trying to say that the Proud Boys are an obsessive warrior society that was nevertheless curb-stomped by an enemy with superior numbers and firepower?

    Which is exactly how Proud Warrior Societies tend to end up in real life, including, come to think of it, the Southern United States in the mid-1860s?

    I’m… happy to leave him that association!

  102. 102.

    raven

    @JPL: People were complaining about how many counties we have. There other thing they need to know is they LOVE to have towns and counties with the same name but are not in the same county. Macon ain’t in Macon, Co, Forsyth ain’t in Forsyth Co. . . and so on.

  104. 104.

    Punchy

    @Elizabelle: huh?

    Whoa….shit just got a lot tighter all of a sudden. :(

    ETA: are the early ballots counted first or last?  If the latter, we’re lookin good.  Of not….

  106. 106.

    raven

    Gwinnett County spokesperson Joe Sorenson said they probably will continue counting ballots through Thursday.
    The “adjudication teams” are scheduled to arrive that day, to deal with challenged ballots. Officials don’t expect many to need adjudication, it will hold up the process.
    Gwinnett County is located in the Atlanta suburbs, a Democratic stronghold.
    Right now, poll managers are checking in with their actual ballots and electronic ballots.
    The electronic ballots will then be run through a machine in the back room. He said they will probably convene the election board to call it a night at some point later tonight, knowing that there will still be work to do in the coming days.
    Keep in mind that military/overseas ballots have until the end of the day Friday to arrive and get counted.

  107. 107.

    Leto

    @raven: I did! I responded on the other thread. Most of my people are from NC/SC/GA. My mother’s lineage traces back to the 1650s in SC, and apparently a good portion of the land they used to own was used by Francis Marion during the Revolutionary War as staging/hiding grounds for skirmishes with the Red Coats. I just learned about this about 2 months ago as my mom continues to dig through our ancestry. I have a pretty good idea which side they fought on during the War.

    Avalune’s people are the Ohio/Kentucky boarder people. We met in college in SC. They gave me a scholarship to play soccer, she wanted out of the blizzards. Win/win ;)

  109. 109.

    trollhattan

    Because it’s always, always been about him (and his beautiful bank account).

    “Donald Trump has privately acknowledged he lost the presidency. He knows Joe Biden will replace him. He recognizes Congress will formally certify the results on Wednesday,” Politico reports.

    To one person, Trump even confided he was “just disappointed we lost.”

    “Trump’s acceptance has taken shape in recent weeks, according to three people who have spoken to Trump in that time span, with one conversation occurring a week ago. Trump admits his defeat, but still maintains he would have won a fair election, they said, despite no concrete evidence emerging of widespread voter fraud. He has even discussed his exit plans from Washington with staff, debating when to move to his South Florida Mar-a-Lago resort.”

    Just die already, jerk.

  111. 111.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I always try to avoid counting chickens, but seeing the pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist in the Senate, in a seat held by a string of confederates, segregationists and Zell Fucking Miller…. my god.

  112. 112.

    Leto

    @Chris: I think it was posted here on BJ a few days back that a women’s group tried to start a Proud Women thing, and the Limp Dick’s basically just blasted them to hell. Told’ em to get back in the kitchen, have babies, etc. Misogyny > racism > everything else.

  118. 118.

    raven

    @Leto: We stopped a couple of years back and it’s a great little park with a wonderful display

     

    “In the opinion of John Marshall, “Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.”

  120. 120.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Elizabelle: There’s an old saying where I come from, and probably everywhere else too:

    Winners are grinners, losers can please themselves.

  122. 122.

    Martin

    @jl: Very long overdue. Trust someone who works in government, if you don’t root out the abuses, they both continue and escalate.

    At work we finally turfed out some bad actors that everyone knew about for years, and were deemed untouchable, but eventually our demands were heard and then it was WAY more painful to get rid of them because they gained in prominence and now the institution also needed to answer why it was silent for years.

  123. 123.

    Kattails

    @evap: So sorry to hear about your Dad and Mom, with everything else going on.  Too many emotional drains.

    Ninety three is a good long time. She may be coming to the space where she feels she has resolved everything she could resolve and done everything she needed to do, and will be able to do, with this life. She may also be concerned with leaving your Dad and you behind. Hoping we get the kind of news tonight that lifts us all up.

  125. 125.

    Martin

    Warnock has got this. Pretty sure Ossoff does as well. Remember, Biden never lead in GA until after election day. I’m looking at all of that atlanta vote outstanding.

  127. 127.

    Kent

    @Martin:Warnock has got this. Pretty sure Ossoff does as well. Remember, Biden never lead in GA until after election day. I’m looking at all of that atlanta vote outstanding.

    Except that they are not counting the ballots in the same order as November.  They are counting them in the opposite order this time around.  They are processing mail-in ballots first this time.

    I mean I’m cautiously optimistic because that’s just my personality.  But I don’t think you can use November as a pattern for the election count this time.

  128. 128.

    japa21

    @Martin: I think so too.. FTFNYT assesses each batch of votes as they what was expected and what happened. The Republicanshave not exceeded the expectation at all whereas the Dems have.

  129. 129.

    Kattails

    It seems that the city of Detroit, Democratic National Committee, and Michigan Democratic Party have asked a federal judge to refer Sidney Powell, Lin Wood et al for disbarment.  (retweeted by Hoarse)…

    ohpleaseohpleaseohplease. I want to carry on in life with the sense that the law actually has some benign meaning.

  131. 131.

    John S.

    @Kent: It’s not really about the pattern, it’s about the percentage of votes that have been counted in the red areas vs. the blue areas. Once the red areas hit a certain point, there aren’t as many Republican votes left to count. And if there enough votes left in the blue areas, the Democratic votes can tip the balance.

  132. 132.

    jonas

    @Origuy: It’s going to be a total nail-biter. I expect recounts, lawsuits, the whole megillah we’ve come to expect from American electoral politics these days…

  133. 133.

    Richard

    @Just Some Fuckhead: no shit. These guys think they are game of thrones superheroes. They watch way too much television. It will rot your brains.

    Why do we have so many brain dead young white guys? I have some thoughts, but i just took my daily dose of Phucomol so nevermind.

  134. 134.

    Brachiator

    A bit of a lull with work I am doing.

    Oh well, the election ain’t a blowout, and I can’t stand suspense and tons of predictions, so I will try to avoid the news until tomorrow.

    Good thing that January 6 will be a slow news day.  Nothing of importance happening at all. ;)

  135. 135.

    marcopolo

    @Kent:  Saying there are a ton of votes left to count in ATL has nothing to do with how votes were counted in Nov.  That is where there are lots of votes left tonight.

    Remember the elections folks have a lot of data to work from (including especially all the Nov data).  They know how many votes were cast down to the precinct level.  They know how the Nov election turned out.  They are looking to see how the candidates tonight are doing compared to Nov.  So far the Ds (Warnock moreso) are outperforming their Nov numbers (no matter what the actual vote count is at any given moment).  D turnout is also great.  Rs are generally performing at or slightly under their Nov performance (and so far their turnout numbers are running ~10% lower than Nov.).  If the turnout percentage and R/D splits that are being seen so far carry over to where there are votes still not counted it appears the Ds will win with Warnock getting a bit more votes than Ossoff.

    It will be close, sure, but actually not quite as close as Biden’s win in Nov.

  136. 136.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Election Betting Odds  9:34PM EST

    Warnock 91.5% of winning

    Ossoff 83.3% of winning

  140. 140.

    marcopolo

    @raven:  Well, it’s not over till the fat lady sings (all the votes are actually counted), so yes, appears.  Perhaps you’d have preferred me to say they are “on-track” to win?

  141. 141.

    Barbara

    @marcopolo: I don’t dare to hope.  I am not staying up as I did in 2006 until 3:00 am to see Virginia’s senate seat go from red to blue as Fairfax finally delivered its last votes.  It was pretty damn sweet but I don’t have the energy anymore.

  143. 143.

    Comrade Colette

    @raven: California does a bit of the same – Placerville is not in Placer County, Yuba City is not in Yuba County, Alpine is nowhere near Alpine County, and King City wants nothing to do with Kings County (it’s probably mutual, they’re both dumps).

    I always thought that when Obama had a slip of the tongue and said something about 58 states, he was just mixing it up with our 58 counties.

  144. 144.

    Kent

    @marcopolo: Yeah, I know nothing.  I’m just spit-balling like everyone else.  We can construct all kinds of complicated vote counting scenarios one way or the other.  I’m happy just to be cautiously optimistic and ride it out.

  145. 145.

    Yutsano

    @planetjanet:  I’m listening to Bryan Tyler Cohen and he just announced that. You beat me to the announcement. :P

    EDIT: this means we’ll be chewing nails over Ossoff.

  146. 146.

    WaterGirl

    @Kattails:

    It seems that the city of Detroit, Democratic National Committee, and Michigan Democratic Party have asked a federal judge to refer Sidney Powell, Lin Wood et al for disbarment.

    I literally clapped when I read that.

    edit: consequences, bitches.  (I am using the non-gendered bitches, of course)

  147. 147.

    mali muso

    Can’t bear to follow the Georgia results so am instead watching “The History of Swear Words” on Netflix. A jackal appropriate show if ever there was!

  148. 148.

    Leto

    @Yutsano: as a former maintenance guy for those radio systems, the freq’s are public knowledge, anyone with a frequency analyser can pick them up, and you can buy old transmitters that’ll broadcast on those freq’s with no issue. These aren’t secure transmission sources. But we also have the means to be able to triangulate these transmissions if it keeps happening. I know they’re saying they’ll strike tomorrow, but not much you can do atm. Vigilance and all.

  150. 150.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    The biggest dump of remaining Democratic vote is the ~170k DeKalb County in-person early vote, which we expect to break for Ossoff by an 85-15 margin

    — Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 6, 2021

  152. 152.

    marcopolo

    Dave Wasserman just made a call for Warnock as the winner in the first race.

    I’ve seen enough. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in GA’s special Senate runoff. #GASEN— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

    Remember this is based on the vote tally now plus how many votes are still out and how those uncounted votes are expected to break.

  154. 154.

    pat

    I don’t get it.  Aren’t they all on the same ballot in all counties?  How can anyone vote for one republican and one democrat?  Huh??

    Are they not listed as being members of a particular party?

    I am not getting my hopes up.  At all.

  155. 155.

    Barbara

    @marcopolo: Loeffler is such a repulsive person, I assume that accounts for at least some of the disparity in results between Ossoff and Warnock.

  156. 156.

    Poptartacus

    Oh lord Jesus

    baby jesus

    god

    creep and scar

    Plese let the us win

    i have invoked the supernatural

    I can do no more

    Amen

  158. 158.

    marcopolo

    @pat:  Misogyny, anti-semitism, etc…  I can see folks voting for Warnock over Loeffler due to the first, for Perdue over Ossoff for the second.

  159. 159.

    Ella in New Mexico

    It made me laugh.

    As it should have because these morons are clearly just Cos-playing the coup.

  161. 161.

    Barbara

    @raven: Oh yeah, there is that.  Maybe that still matters in Georgia.  It matters less and less in Virginia, and a lot of us get our back up if someone tries to use that against a candidate.  Lots and lots of people have moved into both Virginia and Georgia over the last 30 years.

  162. 162.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    The biggest source of remaining vote, as we’ve said, is the in-person early vote in DeKalb, which alone could break to Democrats by a 120k vote margin

    — Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 6, 2021

    Yes, Democrats remain heavily favored, despite their deficit in the tabulated vote. They’re favored to win what’s left by 9 to 10 points https://t.co/0j5ZRAkGmI

    — Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 6, 2021

  163. 163.

    lamh36

    Warnock would be the first Black Dem Senator from the South!!!!

    If Ossoff pulls it out…he’ll become the YOUNGEST Senator since Joseph Robinette Biden!!

    ETA: Biden was 29, Ossoff is 33

  165. 165.

    NotMax

    @pat

    Loathsome though he may be, the Perdue name (one of the clan was governor) carries the weight of recognition with it.

  166. 166.

    WaterGirl

    @raven: I will happily sit here all night and hear you call Loeffler names.  My favorite so far: skank

    edit: If you are taking suggestions, you could go with fucking carpetbagging skank.

  169. 169.

    Anya

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Seconded

     

    @jl: So far I am not impressed with Cori Bush and I am rooting for her so hard. I hope she follows Lauren Underwood. She does the work and doesn’t get involved in twitter drama.

  177. 177.

    different-church-lady

    I have no idea if Wasserman is right, but it sure is fun to see that “Say the line, Dave!” meme over and over again.

  178. 178.

    WaterGirl

    @Elie: Someone needs to tell her that it’s not 1982 anymore, and she’s not in high school.  i despise her personally and everything she stands for.  (everything = money + power)

  181. 181.

    Yutsano

    I feel like we should have the original tweet here.

    EDIT: which of course I was beaten too! Also: Brian is very bullish on Ossoff.

    I’ve seen enough. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in GA’s special Senate runoff. #GASEN— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

  184. 184.

    Bnad

    No matter how loud and dead serious the Parler Army seems, simple human nature and inertia will keep the weight and impact of their actions from exceeding the weight and impact of their cause.  That cause being nebulous hurt fee fees and the sport of owning the libs, I’m not too worried about armed revolution tomorrow.

  185. 185.

    marcopolo

    @jl:  Dunno if anyone has mentioned this but the only new member listed here is Cori Bush, my congress critter.  She is replacing Lacy Clay (who she also beat in the primary) on the committee.

    Katie Porter, AOC, and Rashida Tlaib were already on the committee last session.

  186. 186.

    Anya

    Ossoff is behind because he’s running against a a good ol’ southern boy. But also think the carpetbagger lady attacking the black church motivated a lot of black people. From what I’ve seen, she’s been a lot uglier than her corrupt running mate.

  187. 187.

    Leto

    @Anya: Soros Chinese Burisma bucks! Everyone’s check is in the mail… (because Soros still won’t spring for direct debt…)

  190. 190.

    TruthOfAngels

    Both ABC and NYT have the races at 80% reporting.

    NYT has both Democrats leading.

    ABC has both Republicans leading.

    I do not understand, but then again I am a foreigner.

  192. 192.

    WaterGirl

    @Anya:

    Ossoff is behind because he’s running against a a good ol’ southern boy.

    But also think the carpetbagger lady attacking the black church motivated a lot of black people.

    From what I’ve seen, she’s been a lot uglier than her corrupt running mate.

    Total agreement with all three assessments.

  193. 193.

    Anya

    It feels weird to feel this optimistic… such a weird feeling. I haven’t felt this way in a long, long time…

  194. 194.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    Election Betting Odds  10:05PM EST

     

    Ossoff 90.6% chance of winning

  195. 195.

    cain

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    That’s good, but it’s kind of like the white nerd has been put in charge. I want a Pelosi type! I also want someone who has no fucks to give and has no problem smacking GOP.

    Not one fucking bill of theirs should be up for consideration – fair is fair. (not that they’ve done anything policy wise in awhile)

  196. 196.

    Mary G

    @Comrade Colette: It’s 57 states and territories, with Guam, Puerto Rico, etc. He just left the “and territories” unsaid and the Rs ran with it.
    I’m waiting for this guy to say he’s seen enough, but this is encouraging:

    About an hour ago, Republicans badly needed a Dem letdown in the outer suburban ATL ring. But, there's no sign of that happening; as more votes have come in the pattern of GOP underperformance has looked even more consistent.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

     

    Democrats are the favorites in the Ossoff/Perdue race as well, which means they're currently favored for Senate control. Still a ways to go there. #GASEN— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

  197. 197.

    WaterGirl

    @TruthOfAngels: Welcome!

    What I read is that the Republicans have higher vote counts at the moment, but there are way more votes still out in the Democratic counties than there are in Republican counties.  

  198. 198.

    Elizabelle

    LA Times:  LOL.  Tell us about it.

    Berlin singer Terri Nunn apologizes for playing Trump party on New Year’s Eve

    She was shocked, shocked to find out Florida is a COVID hotspot and those at Mar a Loco will not mask up during a pandemic. Does not address the little issue of accepting an engagement on behalf of a man who is trying to tear the country apart.

    Terri Nunn is really sorry for her New Year’s Eve gig. She had no idea it would upset people — or be seen as political.

    That’s what the lead singer of ’80s hitmakers Berlin said after performing at President Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. Nunn said she “would not have done so if I’d known what I learned while I was there,” referring to what she called a shocking “lack of regard for the pandemic.”

    “My goal in performing was not to support a political party,” the “Take My Breath Away” singer said Monday in a statement posted on the band’s Facebook page. “I see now that that’s not the way it appeared and I am apologetic for that as well.”

    On social media on New Year’s Day, people were disavowing their fandom for the band and for the singer, with many misunderstanding that it had been a Nunn gig, not a Berlin performance.

    She’s in hot water with members of her former band, too.

    Berlin cofounder and keyboardist David Diamond tweeted Friday, “I want to make clear that I was not at this show, nor did I ever plan to attend. I spent the evening at my home in #Truckee. Happy new year everyone!”

    Nunn said on Facebook that the event was pitched to her in the contract as a small, COVID-safe New Year’s Eve event for club members. Other performers on the bill were Vanilla Ice, Taylor Dayne and the Mike Love-led incarnation of the Beach Boys.

    “Unfortunately it was not Covid-safe anywhere in Florida. I had no idea masks and social distancing were not required. I thought I was current on all Covid news everywhere, but clearly I was not,” Nunn said in the statement. “I was shocked by Florida and Mar-a-Lago’s lack of regard for the pandemic and if I’d known I would never have gone.”

    Nunn also apologized specifically to LGBTQ fans “who thought my performance was a statement against them,” promising she was always a supporter.

    Put a sock in it, Terri. What a dumbass.

    Although.  Future historians are going to love that “Take My Breath Away” was sung at a party during a pandemic.

  199. 199.

    Anya

    @WaterGirl: She also attached herself to Trump like a  limpet. I am beginning to think Perdue faked COVID risk bc he didn’t want to appear with Trump.

  202. 202.

    Comrade Colette

    @Mary G: Excellent point, I’d forgotten about that (although not about the territories themselves).

    I am trying so hard not to hope, because it would be so painful to be let down. But come ON, Georgia!

  203. 203.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    So when does Mitch have to start packing up his personal items from the (I am given to understand) very fancy Majority Leader’s office?

  204. 204.

    TruthOfAngels

    @WaterGirl: Heh, have been reading the blog for 14 years, but I only make a comment once every blue moon. But thank you. And also, I noticed that the NYT’s figures putting the two D candidates ahead by 1% or so aren’t quite based on tabulated votes so far as ABC’s are, which accounts for the discrepancy.

  207. 207.

    Yutsano

    There’s always an MVP in these elections. I found one of them.

    Tonight in DeKalb County I met 25 y/o Rachael Tropper. The recent college grad woke up this morning in Virginia. A Georgia resident, she never received her absentee ballot. At 11a she made a last minute decision to fly to Atlanta & vote in person. “It was that important to me.” pic.twitter.com/XdKGcUGRwK— Nick Valencia (@CNNValencia) January 5, 2021

  209. 209.

    Chris

    @TruthOfAngels:

    I’ve been watching the Washington Post website and just the Google result for “georgia election” and all they’ve had for the last hour is a steadily widening gap with the Republicans in the lead.  Would really like to hope they’re wrong.

  212. 212.

    marcopolo

    @Anya:  Cori, my new congresswoman, will do just fine, thank you. I guarantee you she has more shared life experience with average Americans than the vast majority of elected folks of either party on Capitol Hill.  If you need an indication of her ability to be pragmatic (as opposed to dogmatic), she voted for Pelosi for Speaker, which probably disappointed some of her DSA supporters.

  213. 213.

    Punchy

    So, according to TPMs count-meter thing, the Ds keep slippling further behind (albeit its close).  Yet this Dave guy is convinced Big W is a bagger and Skinny O is likely?  With 80-ish% counted….must be nothing but dark blues left to tally…

  216. 216.

    WaterGirl

    @TruthOfAngels: Well, I had to manually approve your comment, so either your screen name or your email must have been new, and I assumed you were new.

    But you can never go wrong in welcoming someone, right? :-)

  219. 219.

    pat

    @Elie:

    I will never understand how anyone can carry around that much hair.  Creepy.

    Can’t imagine shampooing that mess, but she probably has some poor slob who has to do it for her.

  222. 222.

    raven

    The biggest chunk of outstanding votes is the early in-person voting numbers from DeKalb County, said Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems implementation manager for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
    The county played a key role in handing President-elect Joe Biden a victory in the state in the presidential election.

    “The largest number of outstanding votes is still right here and those are early in-person votes for DeKalb. This could be good news for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock,” CNN’s Nick Valencia noted tonight.

    Incumbent Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue currently have a razor-thin lead over the Democratic candidates.
    DeKalb surpassed in-person, Election Day voting from November today, a spokesperson for the county told CNN earlier this evening.

  227. 227.

    janesays

    @lamh36: True. There have been 3 African-American senators representing the South in our history – Tim Scott currently, and two Republican African-American U.S. senators in Mississippi in the 1870s. But that was during Reconstruction when senators were still elected by state legislatures rather than direct popular votes from the general public.

  228. 228.

    Shalimar

    @raven: That would explain why the New York Times has Warnock and Ossoff favored.  Would be nice to get those numbers in.  So tired of seeing the numbers increase in the other direction with every update.

  229. 229.

    John S.

    @raven: Tell us how you really feel! She really is fucking awful, but at least it looks likely you’ll get rid of her.

    I’m stuck with Little Marco and Red Tide Rick.

  237. 237.

    Kent

    Any theories as to why Warnock is out performing Ossoff?

    Some tens of thousands of people are filling out a ballot for Warnock and Perdue. Maybe some are conservative black folk who are fine with Perdue but aren’t going to miss a chance to vote for Warnock?

    Maybe some Republicans who are annoyed by Trump and the GOP and are picking Loeffler to take their rage out on because she is the newbee carptbagger and a woman?

    I haven’t seen any theories.

  240. 240.

    marcopolo

    @Kent:

    TLDR: please don’t call this a natural experiment on the effect of demographics on electoral performancehttps://t.co/c21vBv9xWw pic.twitter.com/y1xjF7OfS2— Laura Bronner (@laurabronner) January 6, 202

    That did not turn out how I expected.  Here is the quote:

    It might be tempting to think of these two races as something like a “natural experiment” about how demographics matter in elections — if Perdue does better than Loeffler, was that because of sexism? If Warnock does better than Ossoff, was that because he did a better job appealing to Georgia’s Black voters? But of course, there is a lot going on in each of these races — not just candidates’ gender and race, but also their religion, incumbency status and ideological positioning differ across the two races, complicating attempts to use them to identify the effect of any one of these characteristics.

  242. 242.

    Mary G

    Twitter warning, but the Cook Report doesn’t usually make mistakes:

    I’ve seen enough. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in GA’s special Senate runoff. #GASEN— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

    ?????????
    Perhaps running such an openly racist campaign, darkening Rev. Warnock’s skin on Facebook ads, etc, wasn’t such a great idea, huh, Kelly?

    Loeffler may have just retaken the lead in the count, but she's behind in the race considering what's left. #GASEN— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

  246. 246.

    JR

    @Kent: More likely it’s Perdue with Loeffler blank that explains the discrepancy.

    Perdue is corrupt, but Loeffler is next level. Also, Perdue is a candidate who did win an election before, whereas Loeffler was appointed. And there’s sexism, of course.

  248. 248.

    marcopolo

    Btw, here is the underlying story of tonight: Once again, the US is saved by AA voters.

    Stacey Abrams will be running for GA Gov in 2022 and this middle-aged white guy is here for her.

  249. 249.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Kent: I incline to two theories: Biden winning the state, and the two Dems making the run-off gave people a sense of possibility they might not have had; and the jumped-up Real Housewife came for the Black church. As Lamh said above, rural black turn-out seems to have increased dramatically

    Dave Wasserman  @Redistrict·1h
    Tiny, rural Randolph Co., GA (59% Black) is at *97%* of its November turnout. It’s going for Warnock by 13.2 pts and Ossoff by 12.8 after going for Biden by 9.2 pts in November. This is a clear pattern now.

    third reason, as I type: I believe I’ve heard about 40,000 new voters who have turned 18 since ED.

  251. 251.

    Wapiti

    Somehow.. somehow all of the Flag Etiquette Wankers in my Facebook feed who were up in arms about Kaepernick seem just fine with these people wearing the American flag like fucking capes.

  252. 252.

    TruthOfAngels

    @Chris: I’m reading the NYT forecast and, even as the GOP lead grows, they only grow more confident of a D victory. All I’m certain of is that it’s going to be 2-0 either way.

  254. 254.

    cain

    @Kent:

    I was told that Warnock is very well known in Georgia and Ossoff is not so well known and is competing against a man whose father was Governor of Georgia – so the man has deep political roots in Georgia while Ossoff is a relative unknown.

  256. 256.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Anya: Here’s something to help temper that optimism. If Democrats get to 50+VP, one of the Senators is Joe Manchin. :)

  257. 257.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @cain: Yep, that’s why I said Warnock’s slogan should have been, “I’m going to work my ossoff for you!” Positive statement and gets Ossoff more recognition.

  258. 258.

    Freemark

    Ossoff now officially ahead. Has a good chance to stay that way. I’m crossing every body part I can. I may be even more excited to ditch Mitch than even Trump…..nahhh, but it is close.

  260. 260.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Elie: She must have 20 lbs of someone else’s hair on her head…

    Could it be “The Gift Of The MAGA?” ‘Tis (or was) the season after all…

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