We’re all longing to see Trump suffer a crushing, humiliating, ego-shattering rejection at the end of this interminable election season. I visit those electoral vote map sites and drool over improbable 400+ EC vote scenarios as greedily as I’d eye a plate of warm chocolate chip cookies.
But as much as I loathe Trump to the depths of my soul, I also have bottomless contempt for Jared Kushner. Even more so after reading CNN’s account of Bob Woodward’s April interview with Kushner, in which the whey-faced, noodle-armed nepotism hire discussed the Trump admin’s catastrophic mismanagement of the pandemic like a Dollar Tree-brand Gordon Gekko:
Kushner on the pandemic in April: “There were three phases. There’s the panic phase, the pain phase and then the comeback phase. I do believe that last night symbolized kind of the beginning of the comeback phase. That doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a while, but that basically was, we’ve now put out rules to get back to work. Trump’s now back in charge. It’s not the doctors. They’ve kind of – we have, like, a negotiated settlement.”
The statement reflected a political strategy. Instead of following the health experts’ advice, Trump and Kushner were focused on what would help the President on Election Day. By their calculations, Trump would be the “open-up president.”
I assume the “last night” Kushner referred to during the interview was when Trump took over the coronavirus briefings and turned them into a clown show. It wasn’t the Rose Garden conference when they tried conning Americans about a Google website that would allow people to identify symptoms and find nearby testing — that pack of lies was a month in the future when Woodward had his chat with wee Jared.
More from CNN’s account of the Woodward tapes:
Kushner went on to tell Woodward that Trump did a “full hostile takeover” of the Republican Party when he became its presidential nominee. He also told Woodward, “The most dangerous people around the President are over-confident idiots” and that Trump had replaced them with “more thoughtful people who kind of know their place.”
Sweet banjo-strumming Jeebus, the arrogance of that smug little fuckface. The Lincoln Project (I know, I know) dropped a gut-punch of an ad that brings home what was (and is) at stake while Trump and Kushner were congratulating themselves and angling for political advantage as the virus doomed people:
Vote.
Life’s too important not to. pic.twitter.com/daubuYBDiC
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 27, 2020
Kushner would describe that as the “pain phase,” I guess, and we’re still in it. I wonder what the “pain phase” for Trump and Kushner will look like? I’m afraid it won’t be nearly as acute as they deserve, but let’s do all we can to make sure it starts with an electoral curb-stomping.
Baud
Oh my. You should lock this thread before the comments trigger a call from the authorities. Cole wouldn’t like that.
geg6
There will be nothing painful about this:
https://twitter.com/MollyNagle3/status/1321511722813952011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1321511722813952011%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Flive-blog%2Fthe-final-sprint-campaign-ramps-up-in-closing-days
I have no idea how to embed, so sorry. But this will certainly be some must see TV.
Shakti
I just got a phone call from my mother. She’s freaked out about the container in front of the Supervisor of Elections. I had her send me a picture and it looked the same as last time (when I voted in the primary).
Aleta
SiubhanDuinne
“Gut-punch” is right. I’m drained just from watching it once.
Slappy Kincaid
Kushner is the perpetual cover shot of Punchable Face magazine. He’s the snotty, condescending bully that the kids who wanted to feel elitist sucked up to and everyone else loathed in high school.
Hated that guy from the moment I saw him.
zhena gogolia
Who the hell is “Kennedy”? She had an “interesting” interview with Giuliani on Fox.
Amir Khalid
Jared’s not wrong there. It’s just that the over-confident idiots at the White House, like his FIL and himself, have surrounded themselves with meek and compliant people who can’t save them from their own worst impulses.
zhena gogolia
Obligatory:
burnspbesq
I don’t care where they go or what they do after next week—the Lincoln Project have been fantastic allies in this campaign.
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: The MTV has-been?
LongHairedWeirdo
Wow.
This quote should accompany every definition of the Dunning Kruger effect.
I remember him saying that the free market will fix PPE shortages, which shows a *stunning* deficit in the understanding of economics. The free market can fix “shortages” when the problem is that the price has gone up, and people aren’t yet willing to accept that; but the reason for the quotes is, economically speaking, it’s only a shortage if you can’t buy what you want *at any price, no matter how high*.
And PPE is the sort of thing that people who need it won’t resell, *at any price, no matter how high*, when there is limited production, and a perceived need for more than can be produced.
And you know, I’m a genius (no reason to hide it!), but for all that I sometimes assume people are my intellectual peers, when I’m *way* over their heads, I *know* this isn’t difficult reasoning. Econ 101 will tell you about shortages (and, in fact, Krugman/Wells’ textbook did exactly that for me); and if anyone thinks that the Trump Administration has gotten *better* people by now, they aren’t even paying attention to reality (much less part of the “reality based community”).
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
She’s a former MTV video jockey and game-show host who took her skill set to the next logical place: Fox News.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
“If you’re looking around the table and can’t figure out who’s the overconfident idiot, it’s you. Or maybe you’re all overconfident idiots.”
burnspbesq
The markets see through Trump’s bullshit about a V-shaped recovery. At this hour, the Dow is down over 800 points.
If you want your 401(k) balance to bounce back, YKWTD.
trollhattan
@Aleta:
David Bernhardt is the most dangerous member of Trump’s cabinet who nobody knows about. He’s competent, connected, has an agenda, is not finished.
Jim Appleton
Let’s not forget Ivanka telling the hoi polloi that her dad is completely and infallibly bestest at all the science stuff.
Fuck all of them into one giant grease spot.
Xavier
“The most dangerous people are the overconfident idiots”
As Jim Wright points out, no more self-awareness than a dog licking its own balls in public.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So Mr Only the Best here thinks he can cut a deal with a force of nature. So he though if he offered the Virus the Blue States as a sacrifice it would be satisfied?
kindness
I look forward to Trump’s kids being despised by their peers in Manhattan for the rest of their lives. Oh sure, Ivanka & Jared will have a couple of suck ups to bolster their loneliness but they will be openly scorned when they show their faces at polite society functions.
Just imagine charities and foundations sending their checks back. That will be delicious.
Searcher
Incidentally, that press conference kicked off a firestorm inside Google of frantic work to make sure things worked as well as the could on Maps/Search for COVID related queries.
Not because there was a plan or a desire to make true the lies, but because it was clear there was no plan and people would soon be looking to Google for answers they really should be getting from elsewhere.
VeniceRiley
Yeah I saw him called elsewhere “pot sticker skinned” and “embaled pen*s” and there are not enough insults in the universe. He literally looks like his soul: And uncanny valley made flesh.
Ksmiami
@Baud: hanging upside down on scaffolding. You’re welcome
Aziz, light!
In a just world, when Jared and Ivanka have returned to whatever is left of their New York social circuit, everyone they encounter gives Jared a swift kick in the balls
ETA or what Kindness said above.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
I can’t get past his wax doll-like appearance. Where’s the guy’s five o’clock shadow?
BR
@burnspbesq:
My bet is it’s going to fragment. Wilson and Galen I think will flip to running primaries for GOP upstarts in 2021 and then run those candidates against Dems in 2022 if they win. I think Nichols and Stevens and maybe Schmidt (and some others like Frum) are chastened and may sit out GOP politics for maybe 4 years or more.
debbie
@burnspbesq:
Seconded. They are artists.
fancycwabs
If the numbers follow historical trends, we’re looking at 2.35M early votes, total, in TN. Add another 700k on election day (vs 900k in 2016), and we might top 3M total votes cast in 2020.
Trump got 1.5M votes in 2016 in TN, and looks to pick up precisely two more with Tomi and Ben moving to Nashville, but other than those two, I don’t see someone looking at the last four years and saying, “yeah, I want some more of that.”
In any case, since there’s precious little polling in TN, I think it might be closer than folks think.
West of the Rockies
@Steeplejack:
Didn’t Kennedy try to come off as the “adorkable nerd girl” on MTV who really was just awkward and not bright (unlike a true nerd)?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
My god. Trust fund princeling with the degrees daddy bought him thinks he’s Zuckerberg, but I suspect Zuckerberg makes sure extreme medical protocols are followed in a hundred yard perimeter of every space he does or might find himself in.
SiubhanDuinne
I just got back from casting my votes for Joe ‘n’ Kamala, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, Carolyn Bourdeaux, and all the down-ballot candidates with a D after their name.
I know voting in Georgia has a terrible reputation — deservedly so, in many instances — but this is my fourth time of voting in person during the 2020 cycle, in three different locations, and I have to say it’s been quick, easy, and efficient every time. And although I live in a northern suburb of Atlanta, it’s a demographic hodgepodge, so the efficiency is not about being a white area getting preferential treatment — it’s true anywhere in sprawling, racially-diverse Gwinnett County. (I will admit to checking the average wait times online for each location and waiting until today when I found one that was showing about 10 minutes. A week or two ago the lines at every advance voting location were much longer.)
And yes, Water Girl, before you ask, I’ll add my report to the “I Voted” tally. I’ll even email you a picture of my sticker and the little stylus they gave us to use on the touch screen instead of our nasty germ-laden fingers. By the way, everyone was wearing a mask, everyone was social distancing, and all the poll workers wore masks AND face shields AND gloves, AND were behind sneeze guards! Taking as few risks as possible, for sure.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
I’m going to quote you:
Or put their heads on pikes and display them on Pennsylvania Ave. Or tumbrels and guillotines.
Otherwise, they won’t ever have a “pain phase”.
HumboldtBlue
I want this sign!!!
lgerard
Sweet banjo-strumming Jeebus has now joined my rotation of go to expletives.
Thanks!
patrick II
The guy I can’t stand the sight of right now is DeJoy. His goal is to destroy democracy in 9 months. As much as any of them, I would like to see him go to jail for the rest of his life.
Martin
@zhena gogolia: She used to be an MTV VJ back in the 80s. Now hosting a program on Fox Business.
That should tell you enough.
Searcher
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I’ve booked my trip for the inauguration. I expect the mob to be more joyful and peaceful, but it is very important to me that the crowd equals or exceeds Obama’s, to really bookend the Trump administration on both sides.
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
Do we even know if he has whiskers to shave? There are grown men e.g. Barack Obama, who can’t grow a beard.
Gin & Tonic
Yesterday I posed a question to the jackaltariat about Seresto flea/tick collars. Well, I took the collar off shortly after reading a few of the comments and doing some more reading on the interwebs, and the dog slept through the night and had a completely normal-looking bowel movement this morning.
Now, I majored in math and spent the first decade of my working life as a statistical analyst, so I know full well that one data point gives you insufficient information for any conclusion; correlation is not causality; all that stuff. But not having to deal with explosive diarrhea from the dog affects your analytical faculties. I know some wise guy will say “you have to put the collar back on and see if it recurs” but, you know, no thanks. I’ve cleaned up enough shit for a while.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@geg6:
Jesus Christ, the replies to that tweet:
“Nobody will show up!”
“Desperate times…”
“You can SMELL the fear!”
“Too little too late”
And the one positive reply I can see gets drowned out too, encouraging Biden and Obama to campaign in TX, NC, and SC:
“Ya, so we can shoot em lol”
“Yes, divert resources to states he has no chance of winning”
What planet are these people living on?
LongHairedWeirdo
@kindness: If there is justice, their friends will be new friends they make in prison. Ooops – they will probably act all entitled and too-good-for-the-masses to make friends.
And that *wouldn’t* happen to nicer people. Damn shame; but their own doing.
OGLiberal
My wife is having trouble sleeping at the thought that this fool is going to still be president after the election. (Both of our kids have pre-exists so that makes it even scarier.) She doesn’t think he’ll actually win but that he’ll use the courts to stay in power. I told her that if the polls we’re seeing now are even remotely close to being accurate and the good folks in this country go out to vote like they should then it won’t be close enough for any court decided tomfoolery*. I think and hope I’m right.
Anyway, we’re in deep blue NJ and still dropped our ballots off at the drop box in our very blue town, just to be safe. Confirmed the county got them. At the Congressional level, unfortunately, our rep is Chris Smith and he’s not even going to come close to losing. Good news is that next year he’ll likely to go back to being NJ’s only GOP rep after that jerk Van Drew loses.
*Judicial fuckery in the face of a clear Biden win – and it could happen! – might be the proverbial straw.
A Ghost to Most
@Baud: The only thing authorities would fear from here is getting bombarded with postcards.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Searcher:
How will that work during The Plague Times? I’ve often wondered exactly how a Biden inauguration would look like. In normal times, it would be mobbed beyond belief. Now…
John S.
@BR: Or they can start a new party. Hell, call it the Lincoln Party. It’s long past time this country bucked the two-party system. The GOP has already dipped a toe into the water, so they might as well take the plunge.
West of the Rockies
@Amir Khalid:
Yes, but Kushner’ no-shave summer vacation look is smoother than a newborn’s rump.
BR
@John S.:
Yeah, they may have to, but I think party adherence is too strong and they’ll find it easier to just primary everyone. I don’t expect them to be allies come February, though they may be preoccupied with intra-party squabbles for a year or two before they turn back against Dems.
LongHairedWeirdo
@Gin & Tonic: That *is* spot-on statistical analysis. The MLE is that the collar was the cause.
Yes, you’re right, with a single data point, the MLE can be horribly wrong. Sample the single red ball in an urn with a million green balls, and the MLE is “they’re all red”. (If you’ve only sampled one ball, and it’s red, how the *heck* could you guess anything else?)
But for your purposes, and your goals, the MLE gives you the data you needed, and you’d be better to wait for more, uh, *problems* before considering that your analysis might be incorrect.
different-church-lady
So has Trump told us why it’s all his frozen fans fault that they missed those buses that never came for them?
Matt McIrvin
@LongHairedWeirdo: “You now own a 70% share in ‘Prisoner of Love’!”
Betty Cracker
Oh goody! I’ll admit I’m curious and have been amazed that no one ferreted the arrogant shitstain out. I hope it turns out to be Kellyanne Conway.
Brachiator
I always suspected that Young Jared had no soul. His conversation with Woodward confirms my suspicions.
It says much, none of it healthy, that Trump let Ivanka marry this cocky little sycophant.
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic:
“The Difference”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: I honestly can’t decide if I care, ETA: I mean, beyond the “Is You’re So Vain about Beatty or Jagger?” level. I guess if nothing else it will provoke The Beast into ever more incoherent rantings at his 60 Minute Hates, which some people think dig him a deeper grave with ‘suburban’ voters
Humanities Prof
@kindness: Low-hanging fruit here, but the obvious flaw in your logic is the assumption that either of them would write a check to a charitable organization in the first place.
MisterForkbeard
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): The ones where they have to believe that everyone hates Obama and Biden and that Trump will win. Because they bound up all of their own self-worth in Trump and hating Democrats.
Just remember that they’re cultists, shrug and move on.
Barbara
@Brachiator: “Overconfident idiot” is such an apt description of Jared.
Geminid
@SiubhanDuinne: How is it looking for Carolyn Bordeaux in the Georgia 7th District? Do you think the blue wave will carry her to Congress?
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’ll be after the election, but that doesn’t mean the rallies will end and Trump can’t alienate “suburban housewives” even more!
JCNZ
Jared will turn out to have been “Anonymous” (I hope). He and his hideous wife had a private dinner with the Times’ publisher a month before that piece was published.
Calouste
@Betty Cracker: George Conway tweeted this morning that he had spoken to “Anonymous”, so Kelly Ann would indeed be the shortest connection. Whoever it is, the shitgibbon’s rage is going to be off the charts. Hope Hicks is probably the one that would most likely cause him to actually stroke out. (I think it’s going to be someone relatively not well known though)
MisterForkbeard
@Betty Cracker: I’m curious, but I bet it’ll be someone non-senior. In this administration, an interim deputy secretary of undereducation and cockwaffling or something.
In terms of sheer schadenfreude I hope its Kushner. That would be so, so amazing. Kellyanne makes some sense, as we know she shit-talks constantly and feeds the press news, and she doesn’t work in the Admin any longer.
EDIT: Wait – like, TODAY wednesday? Neat.
surfk9
The pain phase will be learning how quickly power goes away once you are a lame duck.
zzyzx
@BR: yeah but what happens when they primary everyone and Q-anon people keep winning? I don’t see how the Lincoln Project people end up recovering the Republicans.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: one of the lesser unpleasant versions of future trumpism is charging admission for those rallies. Cash and applause!
LongHairedWeirdo
@Betty Cracker: Ah, yes, the famous “don’t worry too much about Trump, we’re all insubordinate, and no one is exactly sure *what* would happen in a crisis, because we’re all so used to ignoring his orders, if we don’t agree with them. So, ‘Don’t Worry; Be Happy!'”
The level of dis-reality a person needs to accept to support the Trump administration truly *is* astounding.
Brachiator
@different-church-lady:
Did you see the CNN story on these last Trump rallies? Trump is like a kind of Bizarro Political Jesus at the Last Supper. Trump keeps telling his door supporters that he is better than they are, that he is doing them a favor by even bothering to show up, and that they need to vote for him or else he will go away forever, presumably to the heaven on earth that is Mar a Lago.
And yet, his base continue to eat this stuff up. They want the abuse. They see Trump as powerful. And his grievances are their grievances. They drink from his poisoned chalice and feel satisfied.
Link to CNN story
Keith P.
@Betty Cracker: SOunds like it is Kellyanne, with the news the identity is being released today being broken by….George Conway, who referred to this person as “a patriot”.
hueyplong
It’s way past the time when I cared who Anonymous was. The only thing it means to me today is that Anonymous obviously thinks Trump will lose.
Jared and Ivanka both look just like mannequins. Surprised they are not so described more often.
patroclus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Definitely Warren Beatty!
JCJ
Driving this afternoon I saw a sign that at first looked like a Trump sign, but underneath his name where “Pence” would be instead it read “$0 and $750” and then below that “Make Tax Fraud Great Again”
Karen
What’s wrong with the Lincoln Project? It’s kept me sane.
rp
If it’s Kellyanne…blah. She’s still vile and the reveal isn’t that interesting. OTOH, the equation might change if it’s someone still in the admin. Mnuchin is a possibility. He’s not a true believer or an idiot. He was also trying to negotiate with Pelosi.
James E Powell
@Betty Cracker:
Sure, I’m a little curious, but I’m mostly thinking too little, too late. Should have said who you were and what you knew before the ship hit the iceberg.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I can’t tell how much of this is snark
So, a man who was lower tier Cabinet secretary? a low-wattage non-cabinet advisor? Rick Perry? McMaster? John Fucking Bolton? that Pence aide who used the term lodestar or north star or something?
Searcher
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: It’s certainly going to be a risk, and if we’re in the middle of another upswing like we are seeing right now I admit I’ll probably chicken out.
But I figure that I’ll be outdoors essentially the entire time, aside from the train ride in (and masked train rides don’t currently look to be as risky as churches or restaurants), and I can mask up the entire time outside.
Aside from that it is mostly rationalization; so far the riskiest thing I’ve done this pandemic is work at a food pantry and go into a hardware store a half dozen times. I figure I’ve earned a risk from all of my good behavior, and ensuring a peaceful transition of power (by having 1-2 million of the new President’s most fervent supporters [although to be fair, I’m not sure I make the top 1-2 million; I’d like to think I’m at least in the top quintile] in town to cheer him and Harris at every opportunity, boo Roberts when he comes out to administer the Oath, and glare angrily at anyone who wants to delay or contest the process) is worth the risk.
After I get home I can self-isolate for 1-2 weeks and take a couple of COVID tests to make sure I don’t spread anything around if I do get sick.
Calouste
@Betty Cracker: It will be today, not next Wednesday. These people have a book to sell and no one will
give free publicitypay attention to them next week a day after the election.Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Brachiator:
I’ll never understand (well, I do actually, it’s because their grievances are also his) how they could see such a pampered manchild who always whines about how mean and unfair everyone is to him as being strong
Gin & Tonic
@hueyplong:
You and me both. Could not care less.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@MisterForkbeard:
Oh, I know. It’s still bizarre to see it though. And all over that tweet too, so soon. I guess they follow that account, but still, don’t they have anything better to do? I doubt all of them are bots or paid trolls
Betty Cracker
@Keith P.: I didn’t see that Conway tweet — off to look at it now! Also, according to the Twitters, it’s TODAY Wednesday, not next Wednesday, and the person will be giving interviews between now and election day. Also, possibly related, David Corn says a source told him to stand by for news at 4 PM, so maybe that’s when the big reveal will occur? Hmmm.
Betty Cracker
Well, I am disappoint…
Cheryl Rofer
Anticlimax
Patricia Kayden
narya
@kindness: What I want for them is prison, but I doubt I’ll get that joy. My second choice is that all of the money is gone–no more access to the properties, nothing. Some RWNJ foundation will likely throw them some bones, but that’s it. And I want them shunned. I never want to see their smug faces again, and I want them to have zero access to the NY and DC society to which they think they are entitled.
@patrick II: I second that.
@Gin & Tonic: But was there naked mopping involved?
My parents mailed in their ballots (in Eastern PA, so they are especially useful ballots!) and today, while on the phone w/ mom, I checked to make sure they’d been accepted, and they have been.
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: That dipshit?
Kent
Folks….
I’m cheering for a landslide as much as anyone. But let’s not forget what the Republicans taught us in 2000 and 2016. It’s that even a 1 point electoral college win while losing the popular vote confers every bit as much power as a complete landslide. Bush and Trump were by far the two most authoritarian presidents we have seen in the past 100 years. The governed with zero compromise or conciliation to the other side. Bush rammed through his tax cuts and war. Trump has utterly destroyed the executive branch and turned it over to the businesses in which it regulates.
I expect Dems to ruthlessly use power if they win, regardless of what the vote is. You don’t get MORE executive power with a landslide. You get every bit with just a 1 vote electoral college margin.
hueyplong
Gives off an Al Capone’s vault vibe, don’t it?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Betty Cracker:
I think it could be Kirstjen Nielsen, especially after reading that (apparently) she was opposed to the “locking up kids” thing. (But, yes, that still continued to happen on her watch.)
I add: if it’s someone that high up. It could be some second-tier bureaucrat we’ve never heard of.
Gin & Tonic
@narya: If you’re wearing rubber gloves and a mask, can you really be considered naked?
narya
@Gin & Tonic: I don’t think I want to think about that question.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Kent:
I agree. I am a little concerned about FL. I think it’s going to be very close. Not necessarily needed, but it would secure Biden’s victory early on Election Day night
Aleta
Kushner left out the phase where he and his companies buy or are investors in distressed hotels and rental properties after Republicans blocked the Covid relief they requested from Congress.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Betty Cracker:
Who?
geg6
@patroclus:
Yeah, Jagger sang backup on the song, so I doubt very much it was him. She did date Warren Beatty, I believe, but not Mick.
Gin & Tonic
@Goku (Amerikan Baka):
:)
lgerard
@Betty Cracker:
I put my money down on this longshot a while back
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cheryl Rofer: Even less than my skeptical imagining…
and I believe he was defending family separation as a policy just a week or so ago
adding… I mean, is he even enough to draw The Beast’s ire?
pamelabrown53
@West of the Rockies:
Hah! I always thought that Kushner had his first shave at @ age 30. Damn, he is pasty!
In the political dictionary, his picture will be cross-posted in white boy privilege and failed vampire.
Aleta
@Betty Cracker: It’s time! Follow my lead!
HumboldtBlue
everything is bad today so instead of yelling about how bad things are I am going to introduce you to some of ollie’s friends from doggy daycare:
JAFD
So, I got a postcard in today’s mail. From Essex County Clerk,
“THANK YOU FOR VOTING!
Dear Voter,
Thank you for returning your mail-in ballot… Your ballot has been received by the Essex County Board of Elections. If you have any questions, please visit EssexClerk.com, or call…”
And below, phone numbers for Essex County Clerk (“Responsible for: Mailing of Ballots, Certification of Results’), Superintendent of Elections (‘Voter Registration, Maintain Voter History, Voting Machines’) and Board of Elections (‘Counting of paper ballots, Poll workers and locations, Drop boxes’).
Also got my internet bill, a flyer from Domino’s Pizza, and a statement of ‘prescription drug claims for September’
Hope y’all got some good news today.
Xavier
@Searcher: maybe we can organize some distributed inauguration crowds across the country.
Cheryl Rofer
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes, he was defending family separation and then deleted the tweet.
We can wait until the Truth and Reconciliation commissions to hear any more from him.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Steeplejack (phone):
This is what I get for being slow on the thread.
patroclus
@geg6: Well, Carly did “reveal” that the 2nd verse was about Beatty, but that Warren “probably thought the whole song was about him.” According to wikipedia, it’s about 3 different men, definitely including Beatty, but also two others, possibly David Armstrong. Not Mick.
MattF
So, Anonymous is a no-name bureaucrat. IMO, the only endorsement that could make a difference at this point is from GWB, and I really don’t expect that. That said, it could make a difference because most Democrats have already voted, so most of the remaining potential voters are Republicans.
Patricia Kayden
Idiot
Cheryl Rofer
Dagaetch
Anonymous is Miles Taylor, former CoS to John Kelly. Meh. No one cares.
piratedan
@Betty Cracker: i look at it this way, in comparison to others in this administration, he’s at least cleared a bar that is within sight of common decency, the others, not so much.
I won’t crap on him for at least doing what he did which was a damn sight more than a whole shitpotful of other people…. in a way, I’m disappointed that so few stood up even as much as this guy did (and maybe not so much stand up, but maybe crouch)
Sebastian
God forgive me but I want to see them boiled alive.
Calouste
@Dagaetch: It would only be interesting if he had tapes, which it seems he doesn’t.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Gin & Tonic:
Sorry! I feel good overall about Tuesday. I just really want to head off any court fuckery by the GOP is all
Jim, Foolish Literalist
the petty authoritarianism of the woman who put an end to the question: Who is the dumbest Senator, Johnson or Cornyn?
just that question is an abuse of office
Anya
I share your loathing of Kushner and his psychopath Barbie. My loathing is so intense that sometimes I worry about my sanity. I hope they never comeback to New York because they are chased away from everywhere.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Trump is rubbing off on them, I guess
Ruckus
@Slappy Kincaid:
He’s the guy who thought he was the bully everyone feared. He’s the moron who would get in the face of the geeky kid with glasses, and get his ass beat. And never learned any different.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@A Ghost to Most: Don’t underestimate the problems paper cuts can cause, those things get infected real easy.
Anya
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hope they shamed her and told her that it’s was inappropriate question to ask and an abuse of her office?
Anya
@Cheryl Rofer: meh… but I think he was the least problematic person in that administration.
Ruckus
@burnspbesq:
How much is the dow down since the first of the month?
Anya
@Betty Cracker: Why? Did you expect it was someone else?
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Especially for diabetics.
Toes have fallen off the feet of people with diabetes who don’t get adequate blood flow or have much feeling in their feet. This is common with improper fitting shoes.
danielx
God, but Kushner is a smarmy little fuck. If ever someone was possessed of a backpfeifengesicht…..
Keith P.
@Keith P.: Oops. Turns out it was
deceased jazz legend Miles Davisrando Miles Taylor.Ruckus
@Xavier:
Less. The dog knows he’s licking his genitalia, and doesn’t care if he knows what to call them or that you are wishing you could do it. The people in the WH who are supposed to be smarter than a bag of manure, but are assuredly not, make that dog look like Albert Einstein.
laura
That wax faced gormless entitled sociopath and his vapid side piece should expect a lifetime or two’s worth of shunning. I hope their children will turn against them for ruining their lives and expected social standing. I’m not calling for Caucescu style outcomes but if that should occur, dont expect me to organize the funeral luncheon.
Also, where exactly did patriot hero Myles Taylor step up when Kelly and Neilsen were implementing child separation? He might move a few steps back in the tumbrel line, but he’s no patriot hero. Fuck every last one of these homegrown monsters.
catclub
@lgerard: in the ‘sweet fancy moses’ school of expressions. Bucky in Get Fuzzy
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker:
Too fucking little, too fucking late.
JMG
Local TV news did a story on early voting in Mass. and used my voting town (still registered there because we haven’t sold our house there yet). Town clerk said as of today, 64 percent of its registered voters have already voted. So turnout is going to be higher than the usual 75-80 percent.
Jmaloney
Dear Betty,
Your command of language, keen observations and irreverent wit make my heart sing!
Aleta
After Taylor says “rest assured, we will challenge (Biden’s progressive reforms),” he imparts his advice to us:
Quotes Lincoln about being friends and about our better angels.
Reuses Lincoln’s words as his own thoughts. Then emphasizes his inspiring advice:
So brave. He just had to let us know what suddenly matters now. As long as progressive policies are opposed.
Matt McIrvin
Remember when Ivanka and Kushner were supposed to be the “moderating influences”?
Everyone associated with this administration gets stink all over them and it won’t wash off.
Matt McIrvin
@Aleta:
Oh, like
SiubhanDuinne
@Patricia Kayden:
I couldn’t tell from the video, but I assume Trump’s comments are all from the 2016 Republican primary. AFAIK he hasn’t thrown Lindsey under the bus recently — or have I missed something in the endless, constant firehose of “breaking news”?
Kay
Good number!
MattF
@Matt McIrvin: Well, I can guess who were the presumably anonymous source(s) for those stories.
Ruckus
@Gin & Tonic:
And none of us are really done cleaning up the shit. It’s just that the shit generators we all have to clean up after have 2 legs and don’t bark, they speak in bullshit.
Mike S
Jesus! I had to stop that ad because that was me in May. Thankfully my mom’s place let me in safely to say goodbye but fuck man, that is a brutal ad.
Litlebritdifrnt
@hueyplong: Was just watching the most recent episode of Spitting Image where they really skewer Javanka. It was brilliant.
Ksmiami
@Matt McIrvin: except for the forgiveness of the Confederate Army thing….
Ruckus
@Goku (Amerikan Baka):
What makes you think they are all that much different than him, with the exception that they don’t inflate their net worth to the same extent?
catclub
@JCNZ: I would be surprised at that.
Ksmiami
@Aleta: Fuck that low quality family destroyer – he’s just trying to avoid a tumbrel ride
There go two miscreants
We’re all longing to see Trump suffer a crushing, humiliating,
egobone-shatteringrejectionbeating with a tire iron.FTFMe
Miss Bianca
@Aleta: Fuck these fucking fuckers.
Fucking forever and ever, amen.
I mean, it just has become so obvious that the only point to his actions is to be the world’s largest Dick With Ears.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Ruckus:
I don’t. It’s clear they share the same grievances he does
Geminid
@Kay: polls are trending Biden’s way, same polls month over month, week over week.
burnspbesq
@Ruckus:
It closed at 27,817 on 10/1. It’s been as high as 28,837 (10/9 close). It closed today at 26,620. So it’s off 4.3 percent for the month. If you had half a million in your 401(k) on 10/1 and it was all invested in the Dow, you’ve lost $21,500.
VOR
You think they actually donate to charities and foundations? IIRC, the WaPo ran a series during the 2016 election trying to track down Donald Trump’s charitable donations and could not substantiate many. He held a fundraiser as an excuse to skip a debate and promised $5M to a veteran’s charity. They ran it down months later and found he had never made the donation and had to be shamed into it. This stuff on his taxes found worthless land he donated at inflated valuation after he was unable to develop it. Ivanka and her two brothers are not allowed to run a charity in New York because of their past charity mis-management.
Bill Arnold
@zhena gogolia:
I keep a Rogues’ Gallery of tabs of image search engine results for various … Rogues.
J. Kushner’s image collection is by far the weirdest. He does not present as human.
Bill Arnold
@kindness:
I look forward to Trump’s kids being despised by their peers in Manhattan for the rest of their lives.
Nice; consistent with your nym.
I want them to fall (howling) into the middle class, and to feel deep sadness about their (justified) loss of influence, and to experience total social shunning.
And that is … self-censored.
Ruckus
@burnspbesq:
Well thank goodness that my retirement account was eaten in the last republican fucking recession so I no longer have to fucking worry about my fucking portfolio.
And thank you for the info.
Ruckus
@burnspbesq:
Oh, and half a mil? I bought a machine once that cost $256K, but that’s as close as I’ve ever been to a half a mil.
Shana
Having just watched the end of The Good Place (OMG – great finish!) can we at least include some butt spiders?
LadySuzy
I was hoping for Barack Obama to go to Michigan. But the tandem Biden-Obama is even better.
They’re not taking any chances. Good polls , but they need a good turn-out. It’s also about the Senate Seat.
Uncle Cosmo
@HumboldtBlue:
Firefox wouldn’t let me access the website. “Did Not Connect: Local Security Issues”
Says there’s nothing I can do about it.
bupalos
Jesus. How does Cracker do this? She’s the goddam Lebron James of word-dunks
No One of Consequence
@geg6:
as I recall, wasn’t that song directed at James Taylor?
I could be wrong. It is not unheard of.
Peace,
NOoC
WaterGirl
@Searcher: In a pandemic?
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Thread is long dead, but I am happy to hear the followup from yesterday.