Here's what I'm left wondering:
Why Did Even More Americans Vote for Biden?https://t.co/grW4k1bXGX
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 27, 2020
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Here's what I'm left wondering:
Why Did Even More Americans Vote for Biden?https://t.co/grW4k1bXGX
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 27, 2020
Is there a single diner in the US without a mainstream media member still grasping for understanding of how racism works? https://t.co/cVVdOPcCEC
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 28, 2020
But of course, the thing is, you have to reach out and understand these people, because they're very anxious, and forgotten towns and globalization and shit https://t.co/sfDwbnqhCE
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 29, 2020
they’re just shitty human beings. this is not a mystery to be solved nor a knot to be untied. they are bad, dishonest people. you know this already! https://t.co/Mt5qADLr96
— Normie Transition Team (@CalmSporting) November 28, 2020
Great stuff from @RadioFreeTom here. What's doubly galling is that *even after an unprecedented 80 million people voted to oust Trump,* much of the orientation of commentary is *still* towards understanding why 74 million voted for Trump, not why 80 million voted against him. https://t.co/5UukwfqdQD
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 27, 2020
I'm so f*cking tired of people going to rural Wisconsin like anthropologists on a field trip. Take those same people from Oshkosh and put them on a bus to Boston or LA and say: "You better learn about these people. They're your fellow citizens and they way outnumber you." /3x
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 27, 2020
ding ding ding DING DING DING *bell breaks* https://t.co/NU3KxYjS6T
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) November 29, 2020
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We've fought a nearly year-long battle with COVID-19, but President-elect Biden reminds us that we're at war with a virus–not each other.
We're all in this together. pic.twitter.com/9GxaZy3c4E
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) November 28, 2020
It's almost like Biden is better at politics than many/most of his left-wing critics. https://t.co/dYL1gcqa0V
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) November 28, 2020
Haven’t been able to track down the source of the enclosed quote, but my money’s on a NYTimes writer:
The Biden-Harris cabinet is going to contain all sorts of people when it's done, but if the worst you can say about the picks so far is that they are "too professional," well, you know…. pic.twitter.com/Th2hPWRMDF
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) November 28, 2020
?@ToluseO?: Biden, a state-college graduate who was once the poorest man in the U.S. Senate, is facing accusations of elitism from Republicans after defeating a billionaire incumbent with an Ivy League degree https://t.co/j80OHTz5Mk
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) November 28, 2020
It's not really a gamble.
It's good government.
— #StoicSupermensh (@InformedTakes) November 29, 2020
And since Preznit WATB is due to ‘break his silence‘ later this morning, a pleasant musical interlude:
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Is this why Charlie's looking so rough lately? https://t.co/LEfzjn6C18 pic.twitter.com/Uj7xbGsJWk
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 27, 2020
It was only a year ago that Charlie and Jerry Falwell Jr. were both riding high, announcing their new ‘Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty’ — “a national think tank with the mission of equipping “courageous champions to proclaim the Truth of Jesus Christ, to advance His Kingdom, and renew American ideals.” And yet for some reason (professional jealousy, perhaps), the Falkirk Center was eyed askance by more traditional education institutes.
Then Falwell’s ‘Poolboy Scandal’ broke. If you need a refresher, TPM has an interview with the young dude at the (ahem) heart of the story: “Sex, Lies, And Regret: Giancarlo Granda Reels From Eight Years With The Falwells”.
Now all the GOP Death Cult machers are pointing bony fingers at poor pitiful young Charlie…
… To Trump’s critics, Biden gained ground with young voters because of who his opponent was: a divisive politician with a culture wars playbook that failed to energize audiences outside of his base. But among the president’s campaign aides and allies, the consensus is far less clear. Interviews with more than a dozen people involved in Trump’s 2020 operation revealed rifts, acrimony and a system in which no one would take the blame but everyone had a scapegoat — from the president himself, to the campaign to outside groups like Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk’s conservative campus organizing group…
Others faulted the Trump campaign, accusing the president’s top aides of “outsourcing” his youth outreach program to Turning Point Action, the political action arm of the conservative campus group Turning Point USA.
Led by its 26-year-old founder, Charlie Kirk, the group oversaw myriad door-knocking and grassroots get-out-the-vote efforts this cycle, in addition to working with top White House aides like senior adviser Jared Kushner to plan events that put the president and his surrogates in front of young audiences. People involved with Kirk’s operation claimed his “herculean” efforts to boost Trump’s reelection were done without input or resources from the Trump campaign — much to their chagrin in the months leading up to the Nov. 3 election.
But two Trump campaign aides who have worked closely with Kirk said the campaign had its own youth outreach efforts that went beyond voters who are still in college. These aides described Turning Point’s messaging as too sycophantic to bring in young voters who might align more closely with conservatism but remain apprehensive about Trump himself. Kirk was afforded a primetime speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in August and has a close relationship with the president and some of his adult children…
Another Trump ally described Turning Point Action as ill-equipped to handle youth outreach for a major party presidential campaign “because it’s a relatively new organization without deeper community ties.”
People close to Kirk rejected these claims, suggesting the young activist and his group did what they could to help the president, and accused the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee of lacking the organizational skills and resources needed to reach broad swaths of young voters in the critical 2020 battlegrounds…
He’s young, I’m sure we’ll be hearing about his ongoing grifts for many years to come. Meanwhile, here’s some context for the picture at the top, because hre really does sound bitter & defeated:
He looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks. https://t.co/OsTgxvzOq7
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) November 17, 2020
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i do appreciate the trump campaign’s strategy of codifying, in multiple courts across the nation, how fair and well run the election was. coulda just taken the L but instead has allowed everyone to lay out in meticulous detail how clean the election was. thanks buddy.
— Normie Transition Team (@CalmSporting) November 27, 2020
WATCH: President Trump misses a putt while golfing in Virginia on Friday. pic.twitter.com/lHTWPV1N08
— The Hill (@thehill) November 27, 2020
Mr. "If I was president, I'd never leave the White House" spent more than an entire year out of his four years in office at his own properties and almost a year golfing, all of it a planned grift funded by the American taxpayer for him to make money off the office. https://t.co/wqT8pIfGVq
— Michael Hattem (@MichaelHattem) November 26, 2020
Shit, Trump is worse at dictatoring than he is at presidenting!
See, if Putin were doing a paid recount, the money would be paid to Putin, and nobody would know what the results were because Putin would kill them all. https://t.co/i1Gx3TIXTR— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 28, 2020
Which will be very appropriate in the coming years when he haunts Mar-a-Lago like Norma Desmond, rambling to a shrinking member roster how it was impossible that Sleepy Joe got 80 million votes.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 28, 2020
I’m ready for my close up, Mr. Dobbs. pic.twitter.com/A7ddvJ3u7U
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 28, 2020
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I had cheesecake for breakfast because I'm an adult with access to cheesecake in the morning and I can do that.
Texted mom that decision & she replied:
"Crust = cereal
Cream cheese = milk
Fruit on top
Cheesecake = breakfast of champions"Cheesecake 4 breakfast = mom approved
— Normality Failed (@NormalityFailed) November 27, 2020
Pie passes the donut test.
Donuts are acceptable breakfast.
Is <<insert name>> as nutritious as a donut?
If yes, it passes the donut test and qualifies as breakfast.
— Jim Gon (@DrJamesJTeeth) November 27, 2020
SHAMELESS BIPARTISAN PANDERING:
And now some breaking news on #SundayMorning…
President-elect @JoeBiden and his wife @DrBiden won’t just be bringing their German shepherds, Major and Champ to the White House. The Bidens tell us exclusively that soon they’ll be joined by a cat. #sundaypets pic.twitter.com/KCkNV6jNpH
— CBS Sunday Morning ? (@CBSSunday) November 28, 2020
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the right wing grievances are now “I’m totally allowed to do a thing and I’m totally going to do that thing but I’m totally furious that some people refuse to make me feel good about the thing” https://t.co/s18rPiAgth
— kilgore trout, four seasons appreciator (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 25, 2020
I can understand the thrill of competitive shopping, but not the aggressive ‘conservative’ whinging about how everyone has to publicly applaud your every action. Ooooh, you get to do what you like, with only the tiniest modifications to your usual routine! What a bold free spirit! Yay, snowflake!
Medieval proverb: Take what you want, and pay for it, says God.
Best Buy has doorbuster deals on ventilators. https://t.co/50XKa7p2fy
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) November 27, 2020
Speaking of pissy little snowflakes…
Whoever did this OWNS the internet ????
— Jay Arnold ?? (@jadedcreative) November 23, 2020
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Breaking from The Post:
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Trump’s request for an emergency injunction to overturn the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals said that the Trump campaign’s challenge of a U.S. district court’s decision had “no merit.”
The court’s sharply worded opinion was written by Judge Stephanos Bibas, who was appointed to the court by Trump.
“Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” Bibas wrote.
Emphasis mine. I haven’t been following the sore loser litigation closely, but I think the only concession Team Trump has won out of dozens of tries was that Republican poll watchers in one state were permitted to advance four feet toward ballot processors, i.e., they’d been told to stay 10 feet back but were allowed to move to within six feet. Miranda v. Arizona it was not.
The shitgibbon and his sycophants have essentially pivoted from trying to prove anything (because they can’t) to asserting that it’s preposterous that Biden got 80M+ votes without inspiring boat parades and rolling pickup truck rallies. The answer is blindingly obvious — something related to the “Italian food vs. tire rims and anthrax” entrée dilemma famously proposed on this blog.
But to bastardize another quote, this time Upton Sinclair, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary the survival of his gigantic fucking ego depends on his not understanding it.” So, the losing will continue.
Open thread.