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You can just smell the pettiness.

At this point, it is way more important he lives long enough to get crushed in the election. He dies now, and a lot of people won't show up to vote against him (and his enablers) and his supporters will see him as a martyr. After 11/3/2020, I hope he drowns in his own pink froth, knowing that a majority of Americans have rejected him.

Which is why I volunteered to be a poll worker this cycle. Intimidation tactics are less effective if the line is shorter. The election commission website was stupid though in that it said you had to volunteer “120 days (roughly 3 months) before the election.” Yeah, apparently they seem to think each month is 40 days. So I don’t know if I got my app in on time.

I think you will start seeing a change to his approval rating, but not much movement in a head to head with Biden. And that marginal improvement may come at the expense of cooling enthusiasm with his base, many of whom think Covid is just hype. Sooner or later (probably sooner), he’s going to get frustrated and break free from his new campaign manager’s leash and return to his old message.

No one gets paid that way. We will continue to devote a significant part of our federal budget updating our nuke capabilities. We are buying a new Columbia class sub every two years to make sure those pesky jihadists can’t see it when we park a nuke off the coast of Afghanistan.

They are looking for donors, not voters. There is a lot of money in California, some of it held by idiots.

2020 - The year the American public had to rely on the NCAA for moral leadership on a public health issue. Good job, NCAA. I don’t say that often.

I watched Blood of Heroes the other day. (on Tubi) It was complete bomb back in '89. I enjoyed it then, and still do, but can see why it was a bomb. It has all the trappings of Mad Max, but is basically just a simple little sports movie. The action is subpar, but the cast is impressive, albeit difficult to spell: Rutger Hauer, Delroy Lindo, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio. Written and directed by David Peoples, who wrote screenplays for Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Unforgiven, and 12 Monkeys. Between the cast and dialogue, the characters are more natural and believable than you get out of a typical 80's post-apocalyptic flick. Not a bad way to kill a couple of hours on a rainy day. It's basically Bull Durham if Nuke was a hot Asian chick and everyone played in bondage gear.

It's telling how many of those topics are defensive. It's not like they want to bring up Golf, or Mueller, or Hogan.

NE-2 moves from lean R to Toss-up. Kara Eastman doing good work. She raised 715k last quarter, which was around 200k more than Bacon. Of that, 288k were in small dollar donations (<$200 each), and, of course, $0 in corporate PAC donations. Bacon had 59k in small dollar donations. Bacon still has over a million in cash on hand, and will start having a PAC run TV ads for him starting next week. The next 108 days are going to be a battle. Eastman's page

The third point on the above Axios article is just a picture of McEnany's binder. Fitting that is starts with "Absurd."

A know a woman who ran for Senate in Nebraska. She was raised in a small town in rural Nebraska. Her father is a Republican, and she was running for the Dem nomination. He said he would vote for her should she win the nomination, but he wasn't going to change his registration to Dem to vote for her in the primary. He had been registered for x number of decades, and continuing that streak was more important to him than supporting his daughter, who he claimed he preferred over the Republican Senator (Sasse). This is about teams, not policy. The thing about an early development of a vaccine is that it is completely out of line with everything the President has been pushing. If he had told Americans to sit tight for a year, minimize contact, and hold out for a vaccine, then it makes sense that he would be vindicated. Instead, he told people it would disappear on its own. He was clear that the economy was more important than fighting the disease. I don't know if he ever said it directly, but certainly others in the Republican Party pushed the idea that the only path through was just to go on as normal, and eventually herd immunity (from everyone catching it) would cure it. The sooner a vaccine is developed, the more evident that this malpractice has costed 10's of thousands of lives that could have been saved had we just put a greater priority on slowing the virus. I don't expect Trumpstains, or even the casual voter, to see it that way. I'm sure that a quick vaccine development will reduce fear, which helps the incumbent. But, for fucks sake, they killed a bunch of people do just to get a limping economy to move a little faster.

1. We don’t really know how many people are dying from Covid. If Grandma is diagnosed with Covid, and dies two weeks later, she is counted. If she’s not diagnosed, she may not be. Eventually we will have an estimate of how many died. When Trump attacks Obama for 13k dead from H1N1, he is referring to an estimate developed by CDC scientists, not the much lower confirmed deaths. There are a lot more than 140k Americans who have died from this disease so far. 2. Trump is stupid/crazy enough to believe this is all just media hype. Confirmed cases are feeding those stories he believes are fake news. The only plan he needs is to counter the stories. The virus will just miraculously disappear one day.

I think that is probably misleading. At this point, the digital campaign is likely more focused on fundraising than turning out the vote. I’m betting a lot of that are ads geared for fleecing the sheep.

No shit. At this point, they might as well just start tweeting Biden campaign materials. Because that stuff connects less effectively than old family photos.

Same pollster had the House in a dead heat 44/44. Montana could go Trump by 8 points, and still have a completely blue delegation.

I would say it's more about companies wanting access to workers, whether that's at a slaughterhouse or a tech company. When you have 4% unemployment, it's just a bitch to grow without immigrants. But, yeah, even though McConnell knows many of his corporate donors would go apeshit if we actually cut off immigration, he will still use the anti-immigrant racism to maintain power.

It's a story that may really encapsulate GOP 2020. Kobach runs for Senate in Kansas after losing the race for governor in 2018. A Republican PAC, tied to McConnell, runs ads for his opponent, including linking Kobach to a white supremacist that Kobach had to fire from his staff. Coulter has always found the white supremacist, anti-immigrant, sheer stupidity of Kobach to be attractive, as it reminds her of herself. So now she is going after McConnell hard. She isn't just calling McConnell a corporate-bought RINO, she is also repeating the McGrath's campaign talking points about her character, the military service, and the small-dollar donors. If and when Trump loses, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party. Wouldn't it be awesome if it started sooner? For folks who pushed Trump for the anti-immigrant rhetoric, what have they gotten? A few miles of border wall. Sure, there is the cruelty of the detention camps and vindicate executive orders, but those will get reversed by February. After the Republicans held the White House, Senate, and House for two years, and 2 out of the 3 for an additional two years, they have gotten nothing that will last for another 6.5 months. The Nativists got their President elected, but the RINOs in Congress prioritized everything else ahead of immigration policy. As Trump's reelection starts to look shakier, you may start to see some idiots like Coulter looking for someone to blame. Burn, baby, burn.

It would horrible if people made broad assumptions about your beliefs based on whether you kneeled.

For four years, they’ve been trying to wait out Trump. At this time, four years ago, they were waiting for him to lose to Clinton. Then they would be able to say, “see, we agree with you, we tried to elect a candidate who would build a racist wall, but that doesn’t win elections.” That way they would keep Trump voters (aka overt racists), but regain control of the party. Now they are patiently waiting for him to get drubbed by Biden. They don’t necessarily agree with Trump, but they won’t risk anything by opposing him. They’re like Vichy France, waiting for D-day.

I don't think it's a shadow campaign. I think it's out there in the open. She wants the job and everyone understands it. Also, her undressing of Cornyn on the "JUSTICE" bill made the rounds, and demonstrated that she can speak convincingly and with authority on that issue.

Shadow campaigns are the ones you never see.

It won’t make a bit of difference to his supporters because they will find some reason to not believe the facts. It will matter to Congressman Don Bacon, who I’m sure is currently working on some toothless statement to hint at disapproval without offending the Trumpstains. Fuck him and every other Trump enabler. Make them answer for their support of traitors.

Regarding enthusiasm.... I absolutely care more about removing Trump than I do about elevating Biden. But my level of passion about removing Trump is higher than any enthusiasm I have had for any candidate ever. JFK could have come out of secret cryogenic freeze, with Lincoln as his running mate, and I’d still would care more about removing Trump from office. It’s not a knock on Biden that my main focus is getting rid of Trump. We are in a dangerous situation and that danger needs to end. Biden is the guy to do it. Cool.

It’s not aimed at them; it’s aimed at the boomers. Nobody lionizes the greatest generation like their kids.