Too Late To Start Thinking About 2018?

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:58 pm

Some of Claire McCaskill's ads have been the opposite of attacking Trump. They're touting her independence and ability to work with both Dems and the GOP. The last image of one of the ads is her sitting next to Trump. It's gross.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:00 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:58 pm Some of Claire McCaskill's ads have been the opposite of attacking Trump. They're touting her independence and ability to work with both Dems and the GOP. The last image of one of the ads is her sitting next to Trump. It's gross.

I mean, she's running in Missouri, and Missouri loves them some Trump. If she's going to win she can't be seen as a straight democrat, she has to be seen as a "different kind of Democrat".

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:00 pm

Honestly, that's probably the smart move.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:01 pm

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:13 pm

It's a veritable smorgasbord of unlikeability.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:23 pm

Another missed opportunity was to keep Menendez on the ticket here in NJ. He has basically retreated into his keep and is waiting until the last minute to charge the siege at the gates. His primary challenger came in at 40%. Had she succeeded she at least wouldn't have been awash in corruption allegations and been battered by a corruption trial. The Dems sure do like to stick by people even when they shouldn't.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:29 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:00 pm Honestly, that's probably the smart move.

I understand why she's doing it and I'm of course still going to vote for her, but it doesn't make the ad any less nauseating.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 2:08 pm

Cruz is bucking for a pardon for all those Zodiac murders.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 2:12 pm

What if he gets re elected and the killings start again?

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:38 am

El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:46 am I do worry that the migrant caravan is likely to give Republicans a short term boost. Nothing fits Trump's political messaging to his base better than thousands of central American migrants moving en masse to the border.

Yeah, they have found their 2018 election strategy: straight-up racism.

The administration is casting the asylum seekers as the plot of the grotesquely racist French novel (pushed by Steve Bannon in interviews) where an army of brown migrants descends on Europe and cause the end of civilization.

It would be hard for them to be more obvious than this.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:47 am

I’m curious why they think a giant wall would somehow be a deterrent for this caravan. Do they think that if a wall were in place, they’d all just say “oh, never mind then” and simply turn around?

The narrative that these people are going to just show up and swarm in over the border World War Z style is just absurd....yet here we are.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:02 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:47 am I’m curious why they think a giant wall would somehow be a deterrent for this caravan. Do they think that if a wall were in place, they’d all just say “oh, never mind then” and simply turn around?

The narrative that these people are going to just show up and swarm in over the border World War Z style is just absurd....yet here we are.

Trump has already suggested deploying the military to close the border, so, yeah, we're here.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:02 am

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:38 am
El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:46 am I do worry that the migrant caravan is likely to give Republicans a short term boost. Nothing fits Trump's political messaging to his base better than thousands of central American migrants moving en masse to the border.
Yeah, they have found their 2018 election strategy: straight-up racism.

With all the levers of power and no reason to not be successful might as well strip down to the basic essentials they've used for decades - just now out in the open since it is 'safe'.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:02 am
Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:47 am I’m curious why they think a giant wall would somehow be a deterrent for this caravan. Do they think that if a wall were in place, they’d all just say “oh, never mind then” and simply turn around?

The narrative that these people are going to just show up and swarm in over the border World War Z style is just absurd....yet here we are.
Trump has already suggested deploying the military to close the border, so, yeah, we're here.

This is his opportunity to blatantly interfere with the mid-terms. Let's hope someone talks him out of it.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:49 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:47 am I’m curious why they think a giant wall would somehow be a deterrent for this caravan. Do they think that if a wall were in place, they’d all just say “oh, never mind then” and simply turn around?

The narrative that these people are going to just show up and swarm in over the border World War Z style is just absurd....yet here we are.

I don't even get this caravan thing. Are they monitoring a group of people acting like locusts migrating in unstoppable weather pattern fashion north over the course of years where only a billions of dollar wall will stop them?

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:51 am

Holman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:38 amIt would be hard for them to be more obvious than this.

The North Carolina GOP Vice Chair: Hold my beer

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:00 am

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:51 am
Holman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:38 amIt would be hard for them to be more obvious than this.
The North Carolina GOP Vice Chair: Hold my beer

And then there's the gesture from the Republican hand...

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:23 am

The Hack Gap.

Or: why the media focuses so much on shit like "deplorables" and not about Trump's random shit.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:05 am

Defiant wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:00 am And then there's the gesture from the Republican hand...

The lily-white GOP hand, as opposed to the... swarthy... Democratic hand? Seems OK to me...

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:08 pm

Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican.

Tweet from the orange one. -Oct 24, 2018 07:45:10 AM

His universe is completely out of alignment.

TEXAS v. AZAR

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:10 pm

This could be useful.

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Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:08 pm

stessier wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:10 pm This could be useful.

Every candidate and referendum, explained.
Enter your address to research every name and issue on the ballot with BallotReady.

Nice to see all the candidates listed, but it's missing any ballot measures for my area at least.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:42 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:37 pm Early voting starts today in Texas. I plan on going out on Saturday.

Texas Tribune is reporting that 2 days in, the early voting turnout in El Paso County has already exceeded the entire early voting turnout for the 2014 midterms. Overall in the state, the turnout is now expected to approach that of a presidential election year.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:00 pm

gilraen wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:42 pm
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:37 pm Early voting starts today in Texas. I plan on going out on Saturday.
Texas Tribune is reporting that 2 days in, the early voting turnout in El Paso County has already exceeded the entire early voting turnout for the 2014 midterms. Overall in the state, the turnout is now expected to approach that of a presidential election year.

Just to point out, Texas's had one of the lowest (or maybe the lowest) turnout in 2014 and 2016, so this might not be as impressive as it sounds.

Captain Caveman · Post by **Captain Caveman** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:49 pm

El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:00 pm
Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:58 pm Some of Claire McCaskill's ads have been the opposite of attacking Trump. They're touting her independence and ability to work with both Dems and the GOP. The last image of one of the ads is her sitting next to Trump. It's gross.
I mean, she's running in Missouri, and Missouri loves them some Trump. If she's going to win she can't be seen as a straight democrat, she has to be seen as a "different kind of Democrat".

Ugh.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:27 pm

Where's the giant eye roll emoji when you need it?

GungHo · Post by **GungHo** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:20 pm

We did our civic duty today but only one of us got a sticker

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:24 pm

I'll be talking to the wife about her voting tomorrow on her day off, while I plan on going Saturday.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:41 pm

I mailed my mostly symbolic (as a liberal in Utah) vote in last week. Need to remind Mrs Skinypupy to get hers in the mail as well.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:58 pm

Gillum with the zinger!

msteelers · Post by **msteelers** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:16 pm

Gillum should have this in the bag, but the document dump this week in the FBI investigation has made for some terrible headlines. Essentially, the documents imply he knowingly received Hamilton tickets paid for by a lobbying group. Gillum claims his brother bought him the ticket, not the lobbyists.

Whatever the truth is, the headlines have been brutal. I fear it might be enough to kill the enthusiasm a little.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 2:17 am

GungHo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:20 pm

We did our civic duty today but only one of us got a sticker

That dude don't look 18 to me.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 7:09 am

Surprise! Trump just tweeted that he is sending the military to the border to keep us "safe". Hopefully Congress can Chand the laws to save us from brown.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:13 am

I like the phrase "Democrat inspired" laws. I guess people just look at the Democrats and then write bad laws?

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:00 am

MUST BE CHANDED

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:21 am

Oooh, goody, we get to define a new word.

Chanded - v. To welcome foreign visitors with tea cakes and Super Big Gulps.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:48 am

The Georgia NAACP filed complaints Tuesday with state election officials alleging that some voting machines mistakenly showed votes cast for Democrat Stacey Abrams registering for her opponent Republican Brian Kemp.

The state conference of the NAACP filed the complaints electronically with the Georgia Secretary of State Office saying some voting machines in two counties, including Bartow and Dodge, didn’t initially register the correct votes.

"We’ve experienced this before," said Phyllis Blake, president of the Georgia NAACP. “They ended up taking these old dilapidated machines out of service. The ones giving the problems. They should have been replaced about 10 years ago."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 741406002/

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:49 pm

Fox is now reporting that "hundreds" of the military are going to defend the border. From the caravan...that is about a 1000 miles away. Cool.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:53 pm

Not just Fox. The AP has a story:

The Trump administration is planning to dispatch 800 more troops to the border at the direction of a president who has declared illegal immigration a “national emergency” and has been stoking fears about it ahead of the fast-approaching midterms just as he did before his own election.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to sign an order as early as Thursday sending 800 or more troops to the southern border to support the Border Patrol, according to a U.S. official. The official was not authorized to speak publicly because the details had not yet been finalized and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:59 pm

Fears of voter suppression were again ignited in Georgia on Thursday after state Democratic officials said that more than 4,700 vote-by-mail applications were missing in DeKalb County, one of Georgia’s most populous and liberal-leaning regions.

ttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/politics/ ... tions.html

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:53 am

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:53 pm Not just Fox. The AP has a story:

The Trump administration is planning to dispatch 800 more troops to the border at the direction of a president who has declared illegal immigration a “national emergency” and has been stoking fears about it ahead of the fast-approaching midterms just as he did before his own election.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to sign an order as early as Thursday sending 800 or more troops to the southern border to support the Border Patrol, according to a U.S. official. The official was not authorized to speak publicly because the details had not yet been finalized and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Well, if he feels that 800 more troops will secure the border against the horde rapidly approaching horde then we could cut a deal with him. Simply fund 800 more border patrol agents and stick his damned wall up his ass.