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Squishable What The Fucking Fuck Morning Thread

by Betty Cracker|  November 6, 20245:56 am| 150 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics

Well, fuck. This fucking sucks.

Where to go from here? Fuck if I know.

Here’s something I do know: The people responsible for this fuckery are the folks who voted for it. Period.

I know some will feel a burning urge to claim this outcome proves their pet theory of the case and express their rage by castigating fellow Dems.

That’s bullshit, in my opinion. We picked great candidates who did the best they could under difficult circumstances, and we came up short because tens of millions of our fellow Americans are shitheads.

It fucking sucks, but here we are. I don’t know what comes next, but for now, ignoring the bullshit and doing what we can to protect the most vulnerable people in our lives from the coming shit tsunami seems like the best use of our time to me.

Your mileage may vary.

Open thread.

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Wee Hours Election Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  November 6, 20242:28 am| 360 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics

Well, shit. CNN called Pennsylvania for the convicted felon. Looks like Republicans will take back the Senate. It will probably be days before we know the fate of the House.

Votes are still being counted, but the nightmare scenario seems to be unfolding. I’m not a doomer, but realistically, it ain’t looking good.

This sucks, and I’m sorry that those of us who did the right thing will have to suffer alongside the morons who are driving us over the cliff.

We’ll need strength and courage in the days ahead to protect the vulnerable among us. People are hurting, so please try to be kind to each other.

Open thread.

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Late Night Election Post

by WaterGirl|  November 5, 202411:37 pm| 332 Comments

This post is in: Elections 2024, Open Threads

I was thinking that it seemed like a good time for a new election post, wondering if I should put one up before I head for bed, and this rotating tag came up.

So I’ll just leave this here.

Auto Draft 118

Open thread.

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Election Open Thread

by John Cole|  November 5, 20249:09 pm| 375 Comments

This post is in: Elections 2024

I am a basket case and watching the Rings of Power.

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War for Ukraine Day 986: A Brief Election Night Update

by Adam L Silverman|  November 5, 20248:24 pm| 30 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Military, Open Threads, Russia, Silverman on Security, War, War in Ukraine

Two quick housekeeping notes. First, Rosie is doing very well. Thank you for all the good thoughts, well wishes, prayers, and donations.

Second, since I know everyone is focused on other issues tonight, we’ll just run through the basics tonight.

Let’s start with Russian interference in the US election:

Russia doesn’t want an open conflict with the US or NATO & is trying to remain below Article 5 thresholds. But it is actively testing the line with increasingly provocative and dangerous steps, and finding little resistance. https://t.co/WIWvQvUh2Z

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) November 5, 2024

You – and this includes the US National Command Authority – may not be interested in being in a world war with Russia, but Russia and its world war are definitely interested in you.

The Kursk cross-border offensive:

North Koreans want porn!

A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on pornography.

— Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman) November 5, 2024

DoD can’t confirm whether North Korean troops in Russia are ‘gorging on pornography’ https://t.co/v2ItH1Y21J

— Jeff_Schogol (@JSchogol73030) November 5, 2024

From Task & Purpose:

North Korean troops deployed to Russia may have discovered online pornography, and really gotten into it, the chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times newspaper posted on X.

“A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before,” wrote Gideon Rachman. “As a result, they are gorging on pornography.”

Rachman did not specify who his source was or how this person would be in a position to know whether roughly 10,000 North Koreans deployed to Russia had figured out how to find such adult sites, considering the country’s tight controls on internet use, but this is social media, and “some guy” on Twitter (ahem, I mean ‘X’) posting about whether North Korean troops are spending their downtime watching porn is enough to drive 1.5 million people to read the post, as of publication time.

Now, as the puppet musical “Avenue Q” taught us, the internet is for porn. But if North Korean troops now in Russia are indeed spending their time away from home in that fashion online, who’s to say what damage that could cause to the computers in their tactical operations center, once they become overrun with pop-ads for erectile dysfunction medication?

Given the enormous signals intelligence capabilities that the Defense Department has, one might assume that the Pentagon would have a good idea of whether horny North Korean troops are at risk of bringing down the entire Russian network.

Alas, a brave Pentagon spokesperson had little to say about the matter.

“As entertaining as that sounds, I can’t confirm any North Korean internet habits or virtual ‘extracurriculars’ in Russia,” Army Lt. Col. Charlie Dietz told Task & Purpose. “We’re focused on the more serious aspects of North Korea’s involvement, if any, in Russia’s military operations. As for internet access, that’s a question best directed to Moscow. Right now, our attention remains on supporting Ukraine and addressing the more significant regional security concerns.”

There’s a reason DIA stands for Do It Again…

Here’s President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Vote Counting

by Anne Laurie|  November 5, 20247:26 pm| 297 Comments

This post is in: Elections 2024, Kamala Harris for President, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republicans in Disarray!

Good sign for our side:

PELOSI: "Hakeem Jeffries will be the speaker of the House. I don't know what the margin will be, but I know that we have the votes to win the House."

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) November 5, 2024

Consider this as confirmation Democrats have won the House. Hakeem Jeffries is the next Speaker Of The House. [And Mike Johnson will probably be tossed out & they’ll likely have an even more extreme minority leader.] https://t.co/r8yk7ef6gA

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 5, 2024

Looking at midday turnout numbers and, even in non-battleground states, tracking towards a turnout that is going to come very close to the historic record set in 2020. This is not a repeat of 2016, by any measure.

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 5, 2024

Don't count your chickens before they hatch, but I hear the hens are breaking for Harris

— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) November 5, 2024

"I'm looking at you and you're looking at me? Oh, there's a live camera somewhere. Which camera — this is? — OK, I'm waving at you."

— Kamala Harris at DNC pic.twitter.com/VMTvlc6Lo5

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) November 5, 2024

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How I’m Doing This

by @heymistermix.com|  November 5, 20247:24 pm| 8 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

I’m going to be watching a show on TV and then following these sources on occasion:

The Downballot’s downballot race tracker.

TPM Live Blog.

Guardian News.

I’m going to take the calls from the AP or whomever the Guardian uses rather than trying to drill into county-by-county results, but that’s just laziness on my part.

Nothing’s going to happen for a couple more hours other than the overdetermined races (Kentucky, Indiana and Vermont at the moment) so we just wait.

Watergirl added this resource from Bolts, a guide to the ballot:

Also LOL three posts in 10 minutes…

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