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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Burt posted:

So if Biden does win, how long will it be before ICE is disbanded and your concentration camps shut down?

I really don't know. He could just reset poo poo back to 2008, he could shut it all down, a lot of it probably depends more on the Senate. A lot of the asylum restrictions, immigration caps, and general racist garbage policy will immediately be gone.

One way or the other, the smart thing to do would be to immediately order all of camps to allow cameras in. Broadcast the images of what the gently caress we were doing.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

antimatt posted:

Here's a tweet to get the Nov thread started:

https://twitter.com/votevets/status/1322680366143078403

That's my excuse to post this:

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1322569017412997122?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/1322944067416842240/photo/1

I've never seen a worse picture of him.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Pine Cone Jones posted:

I want to be hopeful going into this week, but I still feel like we'll have the worst possible outcome. I just hope Biden can manage to win strong enough and not too many people get killed.

For what it's worth, I've been watching the new polls like a fuckin' hawk with anxiety and there has been literally zero movement. The polls caught 2016 late tanking, though most don't remember it that way. NBC/WSJ's polling was particularly hilarious this year because:

https://twitter.com/CarrieNBCNews/status/1322901957028257800

It looks like FL/AZ/NC will report quick, with GA/OH probably Wednesday. Likely none of the Trumpy states will get called on Tuesday due to the lack of polling and lovely margins. There's a decent chance that we know a winner on Tuesday night / Wednesday-ish and a lot of this dumb garbage gets defused. Any dumb Donnie lawsuits will probably get tossed too, quickly.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Also Trump is on an enraged tweet storm right now, throwing everything he can think of at Biden. Not gonna link to it save for this one tweet:

It's quite impressive that over four years, he took arguably his strongest asset, his twitter feed, and completely pissed it away in a flood of shitposts.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

I *think* what happened here is that Atlas got really, really mad at Fauci trashing him (and Trump campaign health measures) to WaPo yesterday. So Atlas, having a mad after being fully exposed (again) as a herd immunity idiot, was like HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME ON THIS TV SHOW TALKING ABOUT HOW MASKS SUCK and he was too stupid to realize what the gently caress he was doing.

So, the Trump campaign settled for releasing an angry letter and Atlas was chucked under the bus for being stupid. Which he may/may not have been.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Firing Fauci would give him immense freedom to say whatever the gently caress he wanted (with the exception of anything classified) to whomever he wanted, and it's not like there aren't ways around that by degrees of separation.

Donnie Goodbrains never can quite make that leap. It's the end of the drat campaign and he's attacking someone with a 65% approval rating because the mob and Fox News told him to.

It's quite impressive how bad he is at all of this.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/JulieNBCNews/status/1323140942623313920?s=19

https://twitter.com/JulieNBCNews/status/1323144589448916993?s=19

Hot.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Spoggerific posted:

Is this the third time in just a couple of weeks?

Surely there's got to be some point where Trump so obviously not giving a poo poo about his supporters starts to drive people away from him, right?

Yep, third time.

It probably won't, there are enough available built-in excuses that maybe the crowd was bigger than they expected or the airfield location wasn't great. I try to not think about it that hard - it's just inherently funny.

Edit for below: I'm aware of Omaha, then Pennsylvania the other day, then this one from Georgia.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Nov 2, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
There's a nonzero chance that Donnie's bullshit moved most Republicans to vote on election day tomorrow, then Donnie's campaign didn't bother to put together the turn-out-the-vote efforts.

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1323235640742432769?s=19

Looks like they're moving merch and trolling with trucks instead of trying to do vote turnout.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Anyone ever volunteer to do door-to-door political canvassing? I've got a question from this story:

https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/1323246861084483591?s=19

They were apparently trailing a Donnie door-knocker and in the door-knocks, they found some Biden voters. I always thought campaigns had a solid list of prospects versus just randomly hitting up every door on the block.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
gently caress YOU, RICHARD

https://twitter.com/eyokley/status/1323250484715622401?s=19

IMMA SAVE DEMOCRACY WITH MY ARMY OF KARENS


Edit: Georgia clusterfuck update

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1323255904611966976?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Nov 2, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Non-political :stonk: alert

https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1323265823109193728?s=19


quote:

A train that went careening over the end of elevated tracks in the Netherlands on Monday was left teetering about 30 feet above the ground. But no one was injured or killed in the accident — thanks to a sculpture of a whale’s tail that stopped the train from plunging.

“It’s like the scene of a Hollywood movie,” said Ruud Natrop, a spokesman for safety in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond area, where the accident occurred. “Thank God the tail was there.”

The derailment, in the city of Spijkenisse, happened around 12:30 a.m. on Monday, according to local news outlets. The driver was the only person on the city train and was unharmed, Mr. Natrop said, and was taken to the hospital for an evaluation and then to the police station for questioning.

https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/1323274199239135241?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Nov 2, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Russia fired up their Assassination Mad Libs Generator again:

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1323279998640361474?s=19

"robbery"

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Crosspost because it's a big one:

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1323360824753270785

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1323361529694167040

The Texas lawsuit trying to toss out the drive-through votes in a Democratic county got chucked due to no standing.

(for any comments, please go to the election thread tia)

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

As Nero Danced posted:

Didn't he write up a resignation letter right after election day?

That's was basically a bullshit story, it was a standard end-of-term resignation letter, versus an "I'm resigning now" kind of letter.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Well, son of a gently caress.

https://twitter.com/Jeopardy/status/1325490106329751553?s=19

Inevitable after that pancreatic diagnosis, but at least he got time.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I'm actually not that sad about it, really.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1103764408285556736?s=19

Dude lived a long drat time and had a high-quality life. Solid guy.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Pfizer (not part of Operation Warp Speed) put out a presser from early data they got on their vaccine candidate, and it's real good:

https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1325785269400973318?s=19

Based on the statnews article, this doesn't seem to be company bullshitting, but it *is* just a press release at this point. Probably means we'll have a good vaccine eventually, it's just about getting to the eventually.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/09/covid-19-vaccine-from-pfizer-and-biontech-is-strongly-effective-early-data-from-large-trial-indicate/

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

CommieGIR posted:

I don't think Trump was aware of what pfizer was doing, because pfizer was not involved in the Government Covid vaccine push.

Apparently Pfizer got this data at like 3AM this morning from the vaccine review board, so the system oddly worked.

If it still turns out good, it'll be a funky world when we got rid of Donnie, the poo poo COVID numbers allowed a solid test of the vaccine, and chuddy fucks will be likelier to take Donnie's great big huge vaccine.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Mad because bad and sad.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325859407620689922

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Gonna be a bloodbathy kinda day!

https://twitter.com/rtmradio/status/1325861798575284227?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

RFC2324 posted:

The next few months are going to be interesting while he flails around lashing out to punish the world for not giving him what he wants.

3 year old tantrum, but with nukes where he can reach them

YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1325870591619035138

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Looking like the ACA will be fine - Kavanaugh and Roberts at a minimum voting with the liberals. Individual mandate will be dead and severed from the rest and nobody will miss it :toot:

https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1326193829381353474?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

RFC2324 posted:

Wasn't the mandate a huge deal that is required for the ACA to actually work? I know it was pushed as such back when we were trying to pass it

(joining the flood, woops)

Best description I've seen so far: the ACA needs people to buy into the exchanges it to make it function. Because everyone had Obamaliberal brain, they designed it to have carrots (subsidies) and sticks (individual mandate to buy insurance).

In 2017, the Republican Congress set the individual mandate to $0, effectively eliminating it. The net effect on the ACA was nothing - people still kept signing up (though it's still too expensive).

So the ACA's subsidy carrots let the exchanges work and get enough people. The sticks as part of the mandate turned out to not be needed, or at least aren't needed anymore.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I'm in this weird position where I'm back to normal, but doomscrolling is still a thing. So I'm trying to cut the doomscrolling, but if I didn't doomscroll, I wouldn't have absolutely exploded laughing at this:

https://twitter.com/pashulman/status/1326246036076113921?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Woofer posted:

Just a lil fascist authoritarian humor guys ;)

Joe had a p. good response to it

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1326251906939936768?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

GoGoGadget posted:

Whatever this was, it's gone

He forgot that he wasn't logged into his sockpuppet account.

https://twitter.com/amyspitalnick/status/1326267519804596225?s=19

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Missed this yesterday. GiP favorite Derek Lowe thinks that the Pfizer press release can be trusted (Fauci was saying so too), so that's a positive.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/09/vaccine-efficacy-data

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Apparently the recap is:

https://twitter.com/OliviaMesser/status/1326296338611449856

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Dude's probably the next Senator from Pennsylvania if he wants to be.

https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1326311204923576321

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/Megan_Nicolett/status/1326298113343156227

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Has this ever happened before in any degree?

Bush v. Gore wasn't "settled" until December 12th. Very few states have actually posted finalized results yet, they still have a few weeks. Most states are still counting, right now.

Past presidents always conceded when poo poo was obviously over. Donnie's just being a bitch about it. I'll be worried once it gets to the point that the states certify and he's still going on. That's half the reason why his most recent lawsuits are about stalling state certifications with bullshit fraud claims.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
If you want some comedy, there's an ongoing tweetthread of Republican poll-watcher complaints about the Detroit absentee ballot count. They were waiving this 233-page thing on Fox News today.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1326411030063362051

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I'm kinda done with the election thread, and the election is kind of done too. Arizona's recount is *only* if the election is within 200 votes.

Dave just said the thing.

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1326726087133581314

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1326728766438117378

Good insurance if Wisconsin and/or Georgia gets fucky. MI/PA are safe.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Nov 12, 2020

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
https://twitter.com/MattDevittWINK/status/1326875263947436032?s=19

https://youtu.be/DQ2djvdR9HE

absolute unit of a dinosaur

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
It appears that Donnie's Arizona "Marking Device" lawsuit is being run by a real brain genius.

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1326929342543310851

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1326932348349374469

"everyone signed these affidavits to confirm they were legit, then we tossed the obvious bad ones"

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

MA-Horus posted:

corey lewendowski or however you spell his stupid name has the covid

get hosed

COVID's on loving fire, but I will never not celebrate when some shitter gets it.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Not the stormtroopers' fault that their blasters don't work against plot armor.

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Going out swinging. Good for them.

https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1327023283062124545

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