I'm so angry about Trump and Fox News playing the pandemic as a partisan plot. You can't put that genie back even if you reverse course later. The virus isn't fucking playing politics.
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'Life of the Party'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 5:05:07 am PDT #24802 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:06:13 am PDT #24803 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
The fact that it's been politicized to this extreme degree is depressing.
It would be just dandy if only the anti-mask idiots got sick, but it unjustly doesn't work that way. I am totally okay with all these idiots getting sick. Also, I hate this change in my previously peace love dove personality.
billytea - Aug 13, 2020 5:20:22 am PDT #24804 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Fivethirtyeight has released its forecasting model:
(I'm not entirely sold on the design, it feels like dumbing it down.) It currently gives Trump a 28% chance, which sounds about right to me. If the election were held today, it'd give Biden a 93% chance, which also sounds about right.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:35:24 am PDT #24805 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Can we please have the election today? I want this over with so very much.
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2020 5:37:51 am PDT #24806 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm more worried about what happens when Biden wins and Trump refuses to leave office.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:56:55 am PDT #24807 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
It isn't going to be pretty, but I don't think the GOP or Justice will stand with him at that point. I hope.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 5:58:55 am PDT #24808 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I think the election will be won or lost in the courts this year.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 6:02:58 am PDT #24809 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
It isn't going to be pretty, but I don't think the GOP or Justice will stand with him at that point.
I dunno. If Fox News and its like are out there pushing how the Dems are an existential threat to the country and that the election was fraudulent, that may cow the GOP in backing not accepting the results. Barr already has voiced his opinion that the Dems are an existential threat.
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2020 6:15:47 am PDT #24810 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
It isn't going to be pretty, but I don't think the GOP or Justice will stand with him at that point.
I think the GOP absolutely will support him. Because he's their only means of staying in power, and they know that.
Calli - Aug 13, 2020 6:21:30 am PDT #24811 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I believe the someone high up in the military—I want to say one of the Joint Chiefs—indicated they would not be backing any further extra-Constitutional shenanigans from Trump after his walk to the church debacle last month. And if it comes down to a showdown, I'll back the Marines over anyone Homeland Security can dig up for physically controlling the White House. I mean, Homeland Security got their asses handed to them in Portland by suburban Moms and old vets with leaf blowers. (No disrespect to moms or vets—I just think most Marines are better armed.)
But it sucks that this is even a consideration in an alleged democracy.