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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Lol at Manchin "holding the spending bill hostage won't get my vote" He's a particularly big, dumb idiot because the House was set to pass the infrastructure bill and reconciliation tomorrow, as even the progressives bought into the plan over the weekend to pass both. All he had to do was shut up for two days, *then* have this dumb presser and continue negotiating/loving up the reconciliation bill.
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mlmp08 posted:Beyond the joke replies, there are so many replies of "man, sucks, but you kind of scammed yourself. Anyway, time to get back on the NFT horse, go buy more NFTs!!!!" https://twitter.com/shacknews/status/1455247037469900808 I know why people invest in crypto, but I also don't know why people invest in crypto. It's really amazing how fast the pyramid schemes can be developed, implemented, and cashed out nowadays.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Joe biden sucks? N-no... It turns out it's more profitable to let everyone die Here's the write-up of that conference - Biden's pretty hysterically boned. The overseas countries are all like "eh, we need more time, come back in 2040" while a chunk of his approval rating tanking is people whining about increasing gas prices since a year ago (because nothing was happening a year ago that deflated gas prices!). https://twitter.com/LyndseyLayton/status/1455267007880957960 Mr. Nice! posted:Manchin held a press conference to poo poo on progressives for holding up the infrastructure bill while at the same time saying he's waffling again on the reconciliation bill and wants to cut more out of it. What's really loving weird is that statements like this are coming out from the hardcore progressive wing, not really bothered about Manchin's dumb nonsense: https://twitter.com/MariannaReports/status/1455248045545820168 There have been rumblings that there are also enough idiot Democratic centrists on the House side to torpedo the reconciliation bill even clearing the House. Considering how much everyone is talking to each other, it's not out of the realm of possibility that letting Manchin be his usual idiot self is going to bring those idiot centrists along for the initial reconciliation vote, making the progressive side happy. This is all very stupid and politicians have stupid brains.
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Wrong Theory posted:We got something like that as well. There were already a couple reply-alls of "I will not comply NYPD Union: 10,000 cops aren't going to go with your tyrannical vaccine mandate! NYPD head: lol it was 34 because the other few thousand are being processed for exemptions like usual https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1455287182894194688 Blue Flu: good and saves lives Diarrhea Elemental posted:I don't know how to precisely describe the surge bone-deep contempt that wells up every time I see that "Let's go Brandon" poo poo. Like we get it, you're all a bunch of insane cowardly little quislings, but you're really too afraid of saying "gently caress Joe Biden"? Telling the President to go gently caress himself is a time-honored tradition and is a healthy thing, I just find *that* brand of nonsense particularly brain-breakingly stupid when it's being yelled on the floor of the House. Why yes, I have braingoo leaking out of my ears, why do you ask?
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" even saw one "Let's go Brandon!" One person sent a "I don't have the courage to lose my livelihood 
so I will put something in my body I disagree with." Maybe this is one way to get the boomers to leave the loving work force already and let some of the next generations at least get a chance to make some real money.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Put out a sign outside that says Free Weed and Strippers. It's an elementary school, so it would be a non-stdh version of this: https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1455205413863915523?t=LI-Tu0M08z8Lzvvu-ulMTg&s=19 stealie72 posted:I'm guessing we'd get a ton more poll workers if it was two shifts instead of "share this room with strangers, half of whom hate you, for 14 goddamn hours." Yeah that's a solid point, but I do get $245 for the whole day ($195 for non-pandemic times). I think it's handled that way because a shitload of workers nationwide just don't show up or go randomly missing through the day.
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 THE NEXT VOTER WILL BE VOTER 69 Edit: it was an older guy, enjoy a comic https://twitter.com/Halfempty621/status/1455314240462458881?t=7AIT2ZrmfmvTtcUdTptW6A&s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Really don't know wtf I would do about it at my precinct. There was a guy earlier that came in with gently caress [MAYOR] on the back of his hoodie and we didn't notice until he was past check-in. At the time, we only had three people instead of five, and it's not like there would be a fast response from police if he started up some poo poo. So we dealt with him like the obvious Trumpers last year - let them go and deny them the attention, even though we're technically supposed to stop them. They leave faster and it's really best for everyone. Likely different because this dude's running for NYC mayor, probably way more likely he'd just yell and that's it.
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Virginia goons - this sound right based on your anecdotals? Looks like any weird end result isn't going to be due to low turnout. https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455625211362095111?t=h-aR5SNLwYXgBPcg7ifQpg&s=19
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Woopsiedoodles. https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1455640284386185216?t=K-4DMQI5AMKHJjVPcUT6uQ&s=19 Guess they're victims now!
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Yep, currently awaiting CDC Director final approval. If y'all got kids, I'd be F5ing poo poo hard tomorrow morning.
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I've given out so goddamn many Future Voter stickers that I'm going to get investigated by QAnon. And I gave 25 to a teacher for her class 
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Start F5ing your pharmacies, counties, grocery stores, etc. https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1455682705929162758?t=OW2tuyv30vqESFTJAe07MQ&s=19
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:How chuddy is Youngkin, on a scale of 1:Trump? Donnie in a sweater with a better attitude. Soylent Pudding posted:Trying to keep myself from frantically f5ing every few seconds to get Va results. Especially since Fairfax accounted a delay in reporting their early voting tallies. Everything I see is that it's going to be a VERY long night. Advantage Youngkin though. Looks like everyone's pissed about Virginia schools being shut down for so long - Democrats at/performing as expected in non-Virginia areas. Still very early. Edit: probably Youngkin by 2, non-existent needle probably at 90% per NYT Nate. Probably not worth watching for anymore. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Wasserman called it: Yep, basically prepare for Takeageddon when a Biden +10 state flipped like that with all the statewide offices. It's basically the norm for Virginia off-year elections to flip, but that's a pretty heavy flip. 2022 is going to be non-stop economy sucking ads, blended with CRT nonsense and it'll be Democrats' jobs to convince the suburbs it's all nonsense. lol https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1455695924290891781?t=HiNgSAnKayDPg9Z0c0y2vg&s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Midjack posted:McAuliffe was unimpressive the first time around and I have no idea why they decided to run his dumb rear end a second time. Democratic Base / DNC figured you could run Generic Democrat in a Biden +10 state in an off-year election. He cleaned up in the primaries as the "safe" choice, then the general environment soured post-delta. People thought the economy sucks, jobs suck, and there's this weird educational poo poo going on as the schools have been closed forever. Democrats probably have to hope for an economic rebound and COVID getting under control by next year, because this environment is a full Congressional flip.
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golden bubble posted:It seems entirely this + Youngkin being better at campaigning. Looking at the preliminary breakdowns, Youngkin is outperforming Trump in one area (White voters who have not completed a bachelor's degree), and performing the same as Trump everywhere else. But sadly, getting that extra +15% on white, low-education voters was enough to carry the day. There's pretty clear erosion too in New York burbs and NJ Governor still remains a toss-up/lean Democratic (partially because the vote-by-mail numbers are all goofy). The fact that NJ-Gov is even in the neighborhood of close is more proof that this environment is absolutely god-awful for anyone "in charge" - and that's Biden and his ~40% approval ratings. It's an easy story to tell - Biden promised normalcy and got elected because of it, has both houses of Congress, then Delta happened and hosed everything up. Voters don't much care that it's not in his control and he's doing drat-near everything to mitigate it (and Republicans are actively resisting). They don't even care much right now about Donnie's Comeback Tour. Democrats are "in charge" and everything still "going to hell", so the burbs are eroding and rurals are turning out at never-before-seen levels. Just caught a 73% Latino, Biden +14 local seat in San Antonio flipping to a Republican. It's very much an election where you'd have to be a good Democratic candidate to win and hoooo boy TMac wasn't. He actually is going to get more votes than Northam did in 2021, but got absolutely swamped. Edit: at least all my local poo poo came through fine. The usual democratic clean-sweep, even when Republicans had a solid slate, covered the city in yard signs, and even ginned up a bullshit controversy about a Veterans Memorial that got moved a whole 40 feet. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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fknlo posted:Things are going to continue going to poo poo and next year is going to be an absolute bloodbath politically. https://twitter.com/edburmila/status/1455886735657869317?t=FXwO5Tbpw-9hrscgkZxwiA&s=19 It's really too early for full-blown panic, but that is on the horizon. A year is a long drat time and it's very plausible that Delta recedes from dominating everything by mid-2022 and the economy gets bonkers-level good. Hell, Florida voters seem to not care about the COVID fire that burned out a few months ago - voter memories are goddamn short. I do like this quote: https://twitter.com/LesserFrederick/status/1455760687473565698?t=udDHlcDyndaPxnbuPtIo2g&s=19 Also, the 2024 nomination remains Donnie's if he wants it, and the country's mood is still "jesus christ not that rear end in a top hat again", so the 2024 competent authoritarian is a ways off 
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Cenen posted:I’m kind of surprised there isn’t more talk about the New Jersey governor race honestly. It’s neck and neck and has flipped multiple times and is almost certainly going to end in a recount but that it’s this close is wild. The republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli straight up ran on a platform that the people of New Jersey don’t know what they want and that he would lead them with an iron fist by expansive use of police force…. And people voted for him in droves?!?!. Like I get how that appeals to some people and how the republican nominee is going to draw in votes regardless but like I seriously can’t wrap my head around how enough people thought that sounded good to make the race still uncalled. The NJ-GOV race is over, New Jersey just can't get its vote-by-mail counts done in a reasonable amount of time: https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455903514748760075 The outstanding votes are almost all in Biden +60 areas. Bernie Sanders mentioned something that I didn't know about - as long as the Murphy votes come in as expected, he will be the first Democratic governor to have been re-elected in *40 years*. Obama carried NJ by +15 in 2008, then Chris Christie won it by +3 in 2009. Obama carried NJ by +18 in 2012, yet Christie got re-elected in 2013 by +22. The general story across-the-board is the Democrats showed up, but Republicans REALLY REALLY showed up, which cut into Democratic suburban margins. Like the tweet I sent earlier, the median American voter is a psychopath with the memory of a goldfish and a submissive kink, so they want BIG TOUGH STRONG DOMINANT PEOPLE. Now the open question is why NJ shifted even more than VA, is it just standard off-year defections against the president in charge, or are things really hosed? It'll take a few weeks to know, as exit polls are terrible and saying poo poo like Youngkin won hispanic voters by +15 or TMac won hispanic voters by +30.
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shame on an IGA posted:People keep saying they wish Hunter S. Thompson was around to see this, but he already was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGofoH9RDEA&t=243s ASAPI posted:Thanks, I’m surprised this hasn’t been more of a story. A likely operating theory of the TMac campaign was that in a Biden +10 state, all you had to do was nationalize the race and you win. So, you send out that mailer to every Democrat and/or Biden-voter that you have data about (obviously not the chuds) and they realize that Youngkin = Trump and they turn out. The trouble is that in 2020, the Republicans had a *really good* down-ballot year and ran ahead of Trump's numbers in a ton of places. So the pitch probably fell completely flat in this environment/economy, though again, TMac is going to get more votes than Northam did in 2017. Mostly just need to hope for an economic turnaround in 2022 and Democrats never shut up about how it was because of them.
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It appears that the NJ Senate Leader got beaten by a GOP truck driver that spent about $200 on the campaign, but nobody's really sad to see him go as he was always fighting with progressives and the governor. https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1456289734490271749?t=OMlLNJhkuzWo2wYGm0KLgA&s=19  at least it's funny!
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maffew buildings posted:Maybe I'm just a super doomer gloomer but one rich idiot getting 60 days while members of Congress who actively aided this poo poo are getting a pass does not make me feel good Correct, but I will always laugh and feel better at variants of this story: 
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The guy that beat the NJ Senate President has Standard Republican opinions on Islam and so on, but he has also been horny on main: https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1456398200856879115 powerful new jersey energy
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Crab Dad posted:But what if the body actually is sexy? Powerful truth. Speaking of truth https://twitter.com/edwarddurr1/status/1271446250177650689 NJ still is majority-Democratic by like 24-19 so really this will just lead to comedy as the QAnon truck driver that ran because he got denied a concealed carry permit suddenly has to do Legislative Things.
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https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1456603976468684802?t=Q-IhRhwl0n_puj4sOwZg5g&s=19 https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1456579233933938691?t=3rgBxibrGrdcOUdyqPkvcg&s=19 Lotta good news this morning - it's not just Merck that figured out how to make an anti-COVID pill (that isn't ivermectin ). Very possible that we get one more lovely winter of COVID then it goes endemic for 2022.
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US Berder Patrol posted:What do you mean by "goes endemic," exactly? It sure seems like it lives here now Yeah others have basically said most of it, but turning COVID into a seasonal/hotspot problem instead of year-round domination. We'll never get to zero COVID, but we'll get to a point where it doesn't dominate our lives anymore. Get vaccine boosters/reformulations for variants, pills when you get sick, hospital treatments if things are real bad, and society carries on without the massive death toll we're still taking.
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QAaron Rodgers https://twitter.com/nickbaumgardner/status/1456677716829351936?t=N2n9ilUPXOBkQLEtyY08Lg&s=19 https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1456681964442996747?t=5N9RM-GKvOVblPoZSYACdA&s=19 https://twitter.com/StevePopper/status/1456677479435972616 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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mlmp08 posted:I want the slides, man. It's pretty funny because Rodgers has always been one of those "I'm a free thinker" types, much like Kyrie Irving and his flat-earth thing where you really couldn't quite tell if he was trolling or outright believing the nonsense. Then, once given enough time, they make it obvious that they've fully inhaled their own farts to power their galaxy brains: https://twitter.com/bomani_jones/status/1456674136563015686 https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1456710385638256648
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maffew buildings posted:Rodgers is a product of UC Berkeley, the epicenter of Soros Woke Mob conditioning and is a deep state plant attempting to trick REAL PATRIOTS You joke, but https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1456692067258839040?t=OO5WQz40V9PQB2T5heQt8Q&s=19
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Looking like Infrastructure Week is FINALLY ending! The Bipartisan bit is likely to pass in the next 2-3 hours, along with a rule governing the Build Back Better rule. The full BBB bill will be a few weeks, pending a CBO score that six Democratic shitmods want. The progressives' compromise is getting a statement out of the shitmods, with Biden's backing, that the shitmods will vote for the BBB bill if the CBO score is close to the JCT/White House estimates. Once that's done, the BBB will get Manchinized in the Senate and punted back, so maybe that bit gets done by Thanksgiving.
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INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK IS OVER https://twitter.com/pkcapitol/status/1456826163427483652?t=ExlsqGd8av5s6n82vY3U5Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1456826435734327301 https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1456826334781575170 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Nov 6, 2021 |
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RIP Infrastructure Week, born June 5th, 2017, Died November 5th, 2021. https://twitter.com/axios/status/1456828319157075970
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bird food bathtub posted:Looking forward to the inevitable stab in the back when the other bill gets sliced, diced, pureed, folded, spindled, and mutilated in hideously drawn out bullshit negotiations before finally being ignored and not passed. This will, conveniently, take up the entirety of the remaining legislative agenda before midterms and ensure nothing gets done before dems lose it all. I mean this sincerely - I have no loving idea if this improves/decreases the chances of BBB passing. Shitmods have been searching for a reason to kill BBB for a while, but the SALT deduction rides on BBB passing and a lot of the SALT-loving Democrats are the shitmods. Sinema is drat near fully on board at this point, but Manchin has been making noises like he wants to kill the whole thing while also saying it will likely pass by Thanksgiving. Progressives are pissed because they think the shitmods/Manchin got what they wanted (the beloved half loaf) and will now kill BBB, but conservatives are pissed at the Republicans that helped pass the infrastructure bill because they think that leads to a better chance of BBB passing. Meanwhile, Biden will not stop talking about all of the stuff in the BBB that he wants, so it's not like he's going to just sit idle either. So I'm not trying to think about it too hard - there's a lot of good, good loving money in that Infrastructure bill and Donnie couldn't even do any of it in four years with a megacongress.
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Naramyth posted:doesn’t this still have to pass the senate Infrastructure Week is on Biden's desk, as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework bill cleared the Senate months ago. The Build Back Better bill (reconciliation) absolutely is going to get skullfucked by the Senate if it ever clears the House because it hasn't passed anything yet 
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