Well…damn, it’s only 10:30 and I’ve accomplished everything I wanted to already…so, I thought I’d come here for the next to last one of these…or the penultimate one…can’t remember ever using that word before….so, let’s go…new polling is out today that shows very little movement in any of the states other than one that shows trump up by 12 in Iowa when every other one has it tied or with Biden ahead by one…I’ll take that one as an outlier since the sample size is only 200 and that makes it easy to not be representative…Biden looks good in the states that idiot boy needs to win, Pa, Wi, and MI with near double digit leads in those states where Hillary was even to up only around 2%….so that looks good for Joe and us…and many of the pollsters have started to convert these percentages into EV’s that all look pretty good for Joe…not one of them have trump winning with Joe having a floor of 280 EV’s without any states that are really swing ones anymore…it appears they are being conservative and I like that…they have also put the swing states in and with a Biden win in those states, it could be a landslide with up to 400 EV’s…but I am just hoping for any kind of a win even if it’s 270 and I am still nervous about the voter suppression that the repubs are doing openly now when they used to do it in the shadows…in Georgia, there was march of mostly AA people going to the polls who were attacked by police using pepper spray when they did nothing but walk….I think there will probably be more of that in the next two days but I don’t get the mindset of these morons…I mean, if we win all three branches of government, many of them will be held accountable and will be out of jobs…but past that, how much of an asshole do you have to be to pepper spray someone just wanting to vote? Okay, I’ll stop editorializing now…just get out to vote if you haven’t already…we need all of you…and we need you right now…
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Countdown…3 days til the election..
Well…yeah, I’m sure you noticed that I skipped day 4 until the election…I decided to stop counting election day itself so that makes it three days…and I’m writing it so I can change if I want…if you’ve been here on the weekends, you’ll know that I usually slack off some with the political ones on the weekends but with the election so close, I thought I’d try some discipline and make sure I do one…so, here goes…after the past four years of stress every damn day with waking up to some new outrage that the orange asshole has foisted on the US and the world, it has gotten considerably worse over the past month or so and I think my stress o meter is pegged at 11…it sure feels like my body is reacting to the news with ever greater nervousness as I see the repubs abandon democracy to try to cheat in the election with their willing enablers on the SC and other courts across the country….I remember when when there was a repub party that was somewhat honest and listened to the will of the people….or at least they didn’t cheat so openly or so widely…but now it appears to be all cheat, all the time across the entire country since they know that 70% of the country don’t want the policies they are selling…and that includes repubs who think that every vote should be counted no matter how long it takes…I mean how does counting mail in ballots a few days after the election proper in accordance with state law make them invalid? But that is the attack that they are going to make…and since some states, like Michigan, can’t start to count the votes until election day (another repub law that is designed to allow some votes to not be counted) we may not have the entire count done until a few days after the election with the huge increase in mail voting due to the pandemic. It is so disheartening to have one of our major political parties abandon democracy to try to protect their power and abandon the principle of “one person, one vote” that has been the bedrock of our country…okay, yeah…that sounds naive and I know that the history of the country is spotty at best giving everyone qualified the vote…but, isn’t it an ideal to aspire to? This is going to be a tough three days….
Every dem should be asking this question…
Well…I think I’ve decided to take the day of riding today with the cold and wind so to keep the guilts at bay, I decided I’d do another one of these since this just popped into my head…why aren’t the dems asking the age old presidential campaign question: “Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?” We all know the answer to that one…NO! I’m sure the 250,000 dead from the virus would agreee…I’m sure the 8 million plus who have contracted the virus would agree…and I’m sure the 30 million people out of work (including the 1.1 million out of work in just the past week) would agree…along with the hundreds of thousands of business owners who have gone bankrupt or closed…and every damn dem should be asking that at every campaign stop, every press conference, and every debate. And the bullshit shouting by the idiot trump about the strongest growth ever in the economy needs to be met with…that may be true but we are still well below the economic activity that was given to him by Obama….and all idiot boy did was screw it up….so dems, if you are listening, ask the damn question and the watch the faces of the repub idiots as they try to lie their way out of answering…
Countdown…5 days til the election…
Well…there is quite a lull in polling right now so there is no movement to talk about but there is one thing that I do want to talk about and that is turnout. News reports from across the country are reporting record after record turnout…in Texas, they have already passed the entire turnout of the 2016 election with one day of early voting to go and election day to add…and this is being repeated in Georgia, NC, and other states including here in Michigan. But, what does this mean? There are some good results for the good guys with a million people voting in Texas that have never voted before (much of them the under 30 crowd) but there is no way to tell which way they will break in total…I think the other side is almost as motivated as ours and that is seen in Florida where we are only up by 2% in early voting and that has come down from almost 25% up….one thing that I see as important is the young, democratic county clerks in some locales who are being very creative in getting around the repub restrictions on voting as in Texas where their repub governor limited ballot drop boxes to one per county, even in counties with 5 million people in it…so Chris Hollins the country clerk opened 100 early voting locations, kept some of them open 24 hours a day for shift workers, and even instituted drive in voting for people who were concerned about voting in person…and this has led to an explosion in people voting who just couldn’t swing it with the restrictions that the repubs had in place. So, should we be optimistic that this explosion is going to help our side? Cautiously, probably…that is how I’m looking at it with the hope in the back of my mind that there is a landslide in the making for our side…and that we can finally drive a stake through the heart of the repub party…after all, and I’ve said this before…we outnumber them…and if we vote, we win….keep it up folks…vote!
Countdown…5 days to the election…
Well…a few good, high quality polls for Joe today that put him up by 6 in Florida and that means that he has an 89% chance of winning the EC according to 538, and a 95% chance of winning according to the Economist…if trump loses Florida the game is over and we should know that late on the third or the early hours of the 4th…and crucially, Joe is over 50% and that leaves only the undecideds that trump could get and he would need to get all of them to even get close…okay, I know we on the side of good have a habit of seeing the worst and remembering 2016 when Hillary was ahead (but by about 2/3rds less than Biden is now) and got almost 3 million more votes but still lost…so we need to keep working up to the night of the 3rd and then be ready to take to the streets if idiot boy and his minions try to steal the election…but, let’s also take a breath and think about all the work that has been done so far…have a drink, and get ready for the pull all the way to Tuesday…we are saving this country and that is damn hard work. Think of how good it is going to feel when we kick trump and his cronies to the curb…I have the cocktails ready…
The dog ate my homework…
Well….with the “wet laptop” smear of Joe Biden that was found out to be Russian disinformation that was given to the idiot Rudy Guiliani to push falling flat because it was just so ridiculous…we now have the moron Tucker Carlson going on his show last night to say that he had a “huge” packet of information that would destroy Joe and “prove” that he was a crook…but, here’s the catch…he then said that the packet had “disappeared” during transit from one of the “major” carriers that deliver packages…yeah right, just like the dog ate my homework dodge that every kid has used when he didn’t do his homework…look, Tucker, I have one question to ask: “what’s the tracking number from the package?” Every one of the “major” carriers routinely e-mails a tracking number when a package is on the way…even the USPS has started to do that so you can tell when the package will arrive and where it is in transit…and my second question goes to his assertion that there is no electronic copy of the information anywhere…yeah, Tucker we are not in the 80″s anymore…everything has an electronic record…where is it? I f this “information” is so important, there has to be an electronic copy of it somewhere…so, where is it? Look, we all know that tucker is a liar…he even got a court case thrown out by a judge BECAUSE he is a liar and the judge said you couldn’t trust anything he says…so, another try at smearing Joe crashes and burns…I wonder when these morons are going to realize that you can’t smear an honest man? They are so used to dealing with people on their side who are liars and cheats so they think everyone does it…but not Joe…tick tock….your time is coming to and end…
Countdown…6 days til the election…
Well…with the election coming up fast, I thought I’d do a countdown post every day until then to talk about what I see happening and what the state of the race is. So, here goes…in the overall, it appears that Joe has a pretty good chance to win with being up around 10% nationally but, as every pollster says, it not the national polls that mean anything but the state polls that are the important ones….so, if we look at the state polls for the swing states that idiot boy won by 77,000 votes in 2016, Joe is up by 7 in Pennsylvania, up by 9 here in Michigan, by 9 in Minnesota, and by double digits in Wisconsin….so what does that mean? It means that I would much rather be our side than the repubs…especially since the Cook political report just moved Texas from lean r to tossup…and that means that Joe has a 50-50 chance to win Texas…I’m not sure I really believe that yet but there have been a few good polls for Joe lately that puts him up by 3-4% so maybe…and if Joe wins Texas, it’s all over for trump. Even Florida has started to turn for Joe in the latest polls that have him ahead by maybe 2% there….so there are many paths to get to 270ev for Joe but as the days go by and we get closer to the election, the doors appears to be shutting on idiot boy…can we breathe a little yet? I think so, but damn it…get out to vote to make sure we are smiling on the 4th…I can’t go through another night like 2016….
File an ethics complaint against Barrett…
Well…cripes Barrett is just sworn in an is already breaking the norms and ethics of the supreme court…last night, in her swearing in ceremony, she did a commercial for the idiot trump and his campaign by going along with the WH ceremony and then thanking only repub senators who voted for her. Isn’t his a judicial no no? Okay, yeah, I can hear you laughing from here…she has shown that she is just a political hack who is going to do her best to try to get trump elected and then take away voting rights and a woman’s right to choose as soon as she takes her seat…shouldn’t there be a way to file an ethics complaint against her since justices are not supposed to be political or take part in political activities? This spectacle has just shredded any legitamacy that the court had and makes it even more urgent that we win the senate and expand the court to 15 members…and then reverse any damage that these unqualified right wing assholes do in the next 3 months….then impeach Kavanaugh for lying during his hearings….look, the repubs are the ones who have destroyed the court by their bullshit packing and they have only themselves to blame for whatever happens next…and we need to just tell them to shut the hell up since they set the precedent of doing whatever the hell they wanted on judges, ignoring rules and conventions that have been observed for a hundred years or more…now we just need to win the senate to make this all happen…get the hell out and vote!
Can we have hope yet?
Well…I think this next week is going to be one of the most stressful in my life after enduring 4 years of bullshit from the idiot trump and his criminal minions….maybe just one more week and we can have hope…can we start that now? It appears that all of the lying of trump and his cronies trying to tar Joe with something, something Ukraine….no China…no..fracking, no…you get the point…none of these lying smears have stuck and Bill Barr has disappeared so what’s the next “October surprise?” It appears that even Putin and Netanyahu have given up on trump by pointedly saying that they haven’t seen any evidence of Biden wrongdoing and they look forward to working with “anyone” who can repair relations in the world. Yeah, does that sound like idiot boy? Nope. Oh, and my ballot has made it to the city clerk and will be counted on election day…so, now is it time to have hope? The polls have mostly been good for Joe across the country this past week with him being up almost 12% here in Michigan and Gary Peters is up by 5…by only 5? Have you seen the lies that John James has been spewing about Gary? Oh, and don’t watch Pluto tv until after the election…it appears it is really cheap advertising since every damn commercial is a political one and I got tired of turning it off when the idiot boy and his cronies come on and lie and lie and lie. Look, I think I’ll continue to do some more of these freeform posts since I need it to lower my stress level…I remember election day 2016 vividly and I’m not sure I can survive another day like that one….I just hope that my fellow progressive have gotten out to vote and we can eradicate the moron next Tuesday….I need to have some hope…
“we’re not going to control the virus”
Well…hey, undecided voters…and even you trump supporters…this is what the idiot boy’s chief of staff said on one of the news shows this morning…that they have just given up doing anything about the virus that is killing more than 1,000 Americans a day and infecting over 80,000 a day…they are just going to wait and do nothing until there is a vaccine or other treatments…but until then? Not a damn thing…everyone is on their own and it’s perfectly acceptable to them that there will be another 150,000 dead before a vaccine is ready…how is this not manslaughter? Or reckless endangerment? How the hell can anyone be undecided when this news comes out every damn day…do you really think that trump is a better president than Joe Biden will be? I just saw a cartoon that puts the undecided voters in perspective…it has a child in a cage being asked by a woman with a cup of coffee in her hand…”who do you think I should vote for?” If you are still undecided you are one ignorant son of a bitch if you haven’t seen how atrocious idiot boy is….and if you can consider voting for trump after he has killed over 225,000 Americans by his inaction, you are dumber than a box of rocks and probably shouldn’t vote anyway…geez…