No need to even hold the election, Trump admits. RCP average, Cook report analysis, and the information provided in the CHT comment sections are all too damning to bother with an actual election.
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| Trump: the Cook report is an amazing report. Once I realized how amazing that amazing report was, I had to concede the election. |
While some pundits are seeing the race closing down the stretch or otherwise still question whether the polling might have similar issues as it did in the past two elections, those closest to the President have suggested that Trump and his team has finally determined that it is just conservative "slant" and that things are just too grim to continue.
Even when confronted with early voting numbers that appear to show Republicans doing better than 2016 in many important states or an unusual new registration advantage for Republicans in this election cycle in many battleground states, the President (and his inner circle) suggested that we just "look at the RCP average" and stop worrying about anything tangible or empirical.
Trump has even suggested stepping down prior to the election and just "appointing" Joe Biden as President earlier than normal. Apparently the belief is that any incumbent that has already lost (even before the election is held) doesn't deserve to finish out his term. Insider sources suggested that the final straw that broke the camel's back was a cut and paste of "horrible" headlines on the comment section of an obscure blog called The Coldheartedtruth. Had the President not been saddled with having to witness such "truth", he might have had the courage to go on.
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I'll just encourage the President to go to RealClearPolitics.com each day, click on "polls" and then on "latest polls" and either rejoice of despair regarding how he's doing.
(It may not be what his handlers are telling him.)
Dow Drops 700+ Points as Virus Concerns Mount
That just can't be! Trump assures us we have turned the corner on this!
I have to give you credit for being hilarious!
Insider sources suggested that the final straw that broke the camel's back was a cut and paste of "horrible" headlines on the comment section of an obscure blog called The Coldheartedtruth. Had the President not been saddled with having to witness such "truth", he might have had the courage to go on.
You made me laugh out loud!
Scott he believes that he can walk down 5th street and shoot his opponent and still keep his base!
His unwillingness to keep other people safe, leads him to conduct campaign rallies. And keep the cultists happy!
“Covid, covid, covid, covid, covid, covid cases — do you ever notice they use the word 'cases'? Like Barron Trump has a case, sniffles, one Kleenex and he was better,” Trump told a tightly packed, mostly mask-less crowd here in Michigan's state capital, in remarks downplaying the severity of the virus.
Coronavirus cases are only up because of increased testing, he said, and media coverage of the pandemic is being used to make him look bad. Regarding testing, he said, “in many ways I hate it. We test everybody. … If I told them to cut testing in half and we cut our testing in half, they would go crazy because the cases would go down at approximately half, right?”
In the final days of his campaign, Trump is contending with a fall wave of coronavirus infections that he had once predicted wouldn’t be coming, and that people close to the campaign dismissed as an impossibility over the summer as they planned to tout an economic recovery in the homestretch of the race.
Using my phrase "an obscure coldheartedtruthblog.blogspot blog " made me smile.
If you are finally responsible, instead of being a cultist Scott, welcome back!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/battleground-states-trump-grapples-surging-opponent-coronavirus-n1245027
His handlers are afraid of his temper.
Yours are afraid of your senility
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Yours are afraid of your senility
LOL.
Hilarious!
Trump’s humanity is at such undetectable levels he makes literally anyone else look like St Francis of Assisi.
Trump’s humanity is at such undetectable levels he makes literally anyone else look like St Francis of Assisi.
and the alky steals from a comedy writer -
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/27/ronald-reagan-vs-donald-trump
I was going to post it later
His description of the President was not humorous
But your too stupid.
Trump just said that we will have a vaccine immediately
He is panicking
His description of the President was not humorous
But your too stupid.
Ian Martin is a comedy writer. His credits include Veep, The Death of Stalin, Avenue 5, The Thick of it and more
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/27/ronald-reagan-vs-donald-trump
and it's "you're", CAPTAIN PLAGIARISM
Ted Cruz absolutely ripping jack dorsey to shreds. Very much needed.
Top Trending Search
"Biden Corruption"
He is panicking
LOL. i think your psychological projection is kicking into overdrive, alky.
WASHINGTON — Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, was the anonymous author of The New York Times Op-Ed article in 2018 whose description of President Trump as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective” roiled Washington and set off a hunt for his identity, Mr. Taylor confirmed Wednesday.
Mr. Taylor was also the anonymous author of “A Warning,” a book he wrote the following year that described the president as an “undisciplined” and “amoral” leader whose abuse of power threatened the foundations of American democracy. He acknowledged that he was the author of both the book and the opinion article in an interview and in a three-page statement he posted online.
Mr. Taylor resigned from the Department of Homeland Security in June 2019, and went public with his criticism of Mr. Trump this past summer. He released a video just before the start of the Republican National Convention declaring that the president was unfit for office and endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/politics/miles-taylor-anonymous-trump.html
Anonymous Myballs said...
Ted Cruz absolutely ripping jack dorsey to shreds. Very much needed.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/CNET/status/1321496954669428736
And Cruz tried tweeting it immediately afterwards and couldn't...
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
What @jack told the Senate, under oath, is false. I just tried to tweet the @nypost story alleging Biden’s CCP corruption.
Still blocked.
18 USC 1621 makes it a felony to lie under oath to the Senate.
It was fixed less than an hour later.
Election interference and lying under oath...
I'm very confident that Biden will win the election.
Trump's campaign members have told him that he's in danger of defeat and he is panicking.
I watched him a few minutes ago and he's fucking crazy and lying about everything.
Miles Taylor
fucking coward piece of shit.
Kate Hyde
@KateHydeNY
Miles Taylor chose to write as ‘Anonymous’ so no one would know who he was but he could have written under his name and still no one would know who he was.
FACT CHECK: TRUE
just another deep state swamp creature
The stock market is ,-943 :today
Mrs. Brassenstein
@MBrassenstein
Miles Taylor just destroyed any credibility of his writings by coming out & having "CNN contributor" in his bio.
This is one the better self-owns I've ever seen.
ROFLMFAO !!!
But FACT CHECK: TRUE
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The stock market is ,-943 :today
those of us who actually invest, aren't beholden to a goonion for their pittance, and aren't confined to a nursing home call this a buying opportunity alky.
Trump appointed Mike Taylor former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.
Almost every single person who quit working with the President or was fired by the reality show President have said that he is incompetent.
Trump appointed Wray. Doesn't mean he shouldn't fire him just that Wray turned out to be a deep state "plant". He was advised to hire him and it just shows the depth of the DC swamp that Trump had a legion of bad advice from within.
He's making great progress and more deep staters will immediately be departing in Trumps second term.
Else the actual corrupt Biden will be a figure head for a banana republic with no rule of law. And we are close already thanks to the media and dems.
Kambree
@KamVTV
Joe Biden lied about his grades. He lied about getting arrested. He lied about opposing the raid against Osama bin Laden.
Of course he’s lying about his family’s Chinese pay-to-play scandal.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/KamVTV/status/1321465912550150152
Fact Witness
vs
Anonymous
Ted Cruz GUTTED Dorsey.
https://youtu.be/7oeHylP48ws
James and Roger must have lost a lot of money today.
With all the crying in their ��
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The stock market is ,-943 :today
investors believing the polls.
It will shoot up if Trump wins re-election, crash if it doesn't.
Same thing happened when Obama was on his way to being elected in 2007. Market crashed.
* he
Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
Former DHS chief of staff @MilesTaylorUSA is the author of the NYT oped and book by “Anonymous” — more on CNN coming up
Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
I can’t stop laughing. What a bust.
Everyone is like “who?”
Well his title was correct.
but Tapper somehow left off CNN contributor
Is he going to fill in for Toobin ?
Zuckerberg: We Censored the Hunter Biden Story Because an Unnamed Individual at the FBI Told Us to be On the Lookout for Russian Disinformation
Two possibilities:
1. The FBI gave him a general, nonspecific warning about Russian disinformation, and Zuckerberg is just using this as an excuse for his own company's partisan censorship.
2. More chillingly -- the FBI, which was sitting on the laptop for a year and thereby keeping the story bottled-up, took the extra step of poisoning the well and claiming that the story was Russian disinformation to Zuckerberg, to make sure it got censored if it did come out.
If Zuckerberg's telling the truth, it's #2.
Who is this person at the FBI doing extra credit homework for the Biden campaign? If he's assisting in censorship of public information, we have the right to know who he is.
Is it Christopher Wray, by any chance?
"One of the threats that the FBI has alerted our company and the public to was the possibility of a hack and leak operation in the days or weeks leading up to this election," Zuckerberg said. "So you had both public testimony from the FBI and in private meetings alerts that were given--at least to our company, I assume the others as well--that suggested we be on high alert and sensitivity that if a trove of documents appeared, that we should view that with suspicion that it might be part of a foreign manipulation attempt."
The FBI has had the computer and hard drive of Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden in its possession for almost a year.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/391015.php
it's looking like Wray is the traitor we suspected him to be.
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Trump said the fake news media is the enemy of the people--and the media has spent four years proving him right.
FACT CHECK: TRUE
any reporters asked Biden about Hunter's CEO of his China venture yet.
He claimed, and had documentation, of 2 sit-down meetings with Joe.
Joe said he has never talked about Hunters overseas work. Obviously a blatant lie. And kind of important.
And the also described some significant money flow to Joe. Joe must have accidently forgotten to report that on his taxes. Shouldn't that be of interest to at least the IRS if not the American people ?
And he's not anonymous.
And VERY credible.
More on Tucker tonight.
it's looking like Wray is the traitor we suspected him to be.
FACT CHECK: TRUE
Miles Taylor, chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security under Kirstjen Nielsen...
LOL. he carried her fucking purse.
rrb said...
Miles Taylor, chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security under Kirstjen Nielsen...
LOL. he carried her fucking purse.
I probably should have been more clear, his book title was correct.
anonymous.
Nobody outside of his little world knew of him and the NYT made him out to be a big player.
FAKE NEWS
The Cook Report is a non partisan website.
NATIONAL POLITICS
Biden’s Path to 270 Widens, Trump’s Path Narrows, as Texas Moves to Toss Up
Amy Walter
October 28, 2020
Less than a week out from Election Day and President Donald Trump is playing catch-up. In 2016, he won 30 states (and Maine's 2nd Congressional District) and their 306 electoral votes. Today, just 20 states, worth 125 electoral votes, are safely in his column. Former Vice President Joe Biden is holding 24 states worth 290 electoral votes in his column.
October 2020 Electoral College Ratings
To win the election, Trump will need to win every state we currently have in the Toss Up column: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, Maine's 2nd CD, as well as the newest addition, Texas. Even then, Trump would be 22 electoral votes short of 270. He would need to win at least two of the seven states currently sitting in Lean Democrat: Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and New Hampshire. Trump carried all but Minnesota, Nevada and New Hampshire in 2016.
At this point, Ohio and Maine's 2nd District are probably the most promising for Trump, followed by Texas and Iowa. If he were to win all of those, he'd be at 188 electoral votes, still 82 votes shy of 270. Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina are pure Toss Ups with Biden ahead by anywhere from 1 to 2 points in those states.
Even if Trump were to win all of those states, he'd then need to move into the Lean Democratic territory where Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania offer the best opportunities. If you just looked at polling averages, Arizona would be the best opportunity for Trump. Biden has a small — but steady — 3 point lead. Even so, given Trump's unpopularity among suburban voters, it's hard to see how he makes up needed ground in Maricopa (Phoenix).
Trump is in danger.
technically Dorsey lied to congress today.
arrest the piece of shit.
make him fucking sweat.
and rip the fucking fishing lure out of his nose.
Here’s the one I love
[WashingtonPost] We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation ‐ even if they probably aren't.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The Cook Report is a non partisan website.
only to partisan hacks like YOU, Captain Plagiarism.
Roger Amick said...
She's the director of the CIA and was appointed by the President.
You are one of the deep state conspiracy theorists nutcase.
As President Trump would say "WRONG"
Get Help !!!
https://cookpolitical.com/index.php/analysis/national/national-politics/bidens-path-270-widens-trumps-path-narrows-texas-moves-toss
I will say the "alky" makes Biden appear less demented.
Plagiarism
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/28/dorsey-just-lied-to-congress-and-claimed-twitter-never-censored-president-donald-trump/
alky, i posted the fucking Ted Cruz - Dorsey C-SPAN video, you fucking imbecile.
wtf are you talking about with "the federalist'?
drunken fucking sot.
rrb said...
alky, i posted the fucking Ted Cruz - Dorsey C-SPAN video, you fucking imbecile.
wtf are you talking about with "the federalist'?
drunken fucking sot.
It's all over twitter and the internet today. Alky probably just did a google search and got a search result.
fucking idiot.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Trumpism members have a high emotional investment
The conditions for the spread of mental disease is emotional investment. Folie à deux describes shared madness within a pair, but here we will focus on folie à groupe, or the spread of mental symptoms in a group. The group can be a household (folie à famille), a prison dormitory or cell-block, a religious or other highly emotionally-bonded group, a community, or a nation. Members may have high emotional investment in the primary person because of family relations, gang affiliation, cultic programming, or similar symptoms to start. Pathology in the primary individual facilitates transmission: a compulsive drive to "tweet", a desire to deny reality coupled with propaganda, intolerance of uncertainty leading to pressures of conformity, and an insatiable need for adulation driving addiction-inducing, hypnotic rallies. These symptoms create the ideal conditions for additional transmission of symptoms.
As symptoms spread, cognitive distortions, delusions, and other manifestations take on an emotional power that are difficult to match with normal responses. Induced delusions function like primary delusions, wherein resistance is too great for evidence or truth to gain traction. Those who try to maintain their grounding in reality experience stress, anxiety, ostracism and exhaustion and may eventually submit. When it originates in disease, it is different from culture but is more aptly called a "cultural disorder."
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/22/trumps-psychosis-has-infected-his-followers-heres-how-to-get-them-better_partner/
A Yale professor
Mollie
@MZHemingway
Oh I guess it is true? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. That is so bleeping BEAUTIFUL I can't possibly be more thankful. I love this so much. The person that the NYT strongly insinuated was, like, the VP or WH Chief of Staff, or Cabinet Member was literally "Miles Taylor." HA HA HA
and alky thinks his boss was the director of the CIA !!!
Can't make this shit up !!!
I don't drink alcohol and I don't take any drugs other than the anti rejection medication.
3 per day.
You obviously drink alcohol all the time!
Roger Amick said...
I don't drink alcohol and I don't take any drugs other than the anti rejection medication.
Boy you must have drunk alcohol like a camel earlier to have such a long lasting effect.
Amazing you have any brain function left at all then.
And combined with TDS it must have had a devastating effect on your life.
Sure shows.
Alky you still hyperventilating over this?
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https://on.msnbc.com/34yPiZJ
LMAO
Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
Anonymous was another media hoax!
Salon.
as BWAA would say...
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
good one alky.
LOL.
Captain Plagiarism , do tell us why you and James posted all day the drop of the Dow?
You two brought the issue here, but Why?
Don't run away from the it.
Russia never stopped messing with our elections
OPINION
How do Trump's extraordinary betrayals stand up against history? He could be the worst.
Putting Trump in context is the best way to highlight and understand his betrayals. History is the highest court, and its verdict can't be appealed.
DAVID ROTHKOPF | OPINION COLUMNIST | 9:21 am EDT October 27, 2020
It is not a small thing to call the president of the United States a traitor. But it is an even greater offense to fail to call him one if he has betrayed his country as often and as egregiously as Donald Trump has done.
We have seen him use the power of his office to reward and celebrate the Russians and to condemn Americans in the CIA and the FBI and elsewhere who would seek to impede the Russian attacks on our democracy. We have watched him undermine the rule of law in the United States and alter U.S. policy in ways that empowered the Russians and, specifically, enabled them to interfere yet again in our elections.
Relentless adversary: Russia never stopped trying to sway elections and sow mistrust. Best thing to do is vote.
The Russia betrayal is the original sin of the Trump presidency. And since Russian President Vladimir Putin helped Trump win office, not a week has gone by that we have not been confronted by its consequences — attacks on our allies, classified information handed over in the Oval Office, hacks put atop the intelligence community to suppress warnings about Russia, messages from the president validating Putin propaganda over the findings of U.S. national security professionals, embracing Russian positions on issues like Ukraine, giving Russia a free hand in Syria, pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in a way to give Russia more freedom to develop its defenses.
3:55 (Roger's)
Trump is in danger.
Sure is!
And THIS JUST IN
Biden Holds Wide National Lead
4:29 pm
A new CNN poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by 12 percentage points nationally,
54% to 42%.
Dopies NOC Stock was worth $384.87 at the first part of this year, today it has fallen out of bed @ $293.66.
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Don't invest like a Dopie.
Oh, and the kicker, HD returns a larger Dividend.
"Biden Holds Wide National Lead"
And so did Hillary.
Will Hillary be a Faithless Electoral College Voter, IF Trump Wins New York?
The 2020 election presents us with an existential choice. If we reelect this wannabe authoritarian, this puppet of foreign autocrats, he and they will be not just validated but empowered. Whatever Trump’s motivation, we have seen him remake our judiciary and undermine our system of justice. He has degraded America on the global stage and profoundly weakened us.
All that is the price of his betrayals to date. Should he be given four more years to carry them forward, our democracy might never recover. We must see him for the traitor he is and see that because of the high office he held and his complete absence of character or care for the country, he may well be the worst of all those who have betrayed America in the past.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/27/trump-betrayals-stand-out-even-next-to-benedict-arnold-column/6040603002/
Henry Rodgers
@henryrodgersdc
SCOOP: @DailyCaller has learned that The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has SUCCESSFULLY verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski. Read more here:
https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/28/senate-committee-successfully-verifies-bobulinski-materials-to-date/
So homeland security has verified Bobulinski is not "russian disinformation"
If we weren't so far towards becoming a banana republic this would be headlines everywhere. Way more credible than the 3 years of russia/trump collusion hoax.
But our unbiased legacy media is silent...
Looks like they are in the tank for Harris. and want to pull a lethally damaged Biden across the line.
Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer
@ksenijapavlovic
Exactly. This tells you how quick they are to turn against a veteran who served and defended America and call him “Russian disinformation “ while calling an anonymous opinion maker who did not even have the courage to attach his name to his opinion, the “American patriot”.
PICTURES:
https://twitter.com/ksenijapavlovic/status/1321562810057433089
Tony Bobulinski vs Miles Taylor
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
The Hunter Biden laptop just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse.
It implicates the DOJ/FBI for doing nothing about it.
It implicates the corporate media for ignoring it.
It implicates the social media companies for suppressing it.
All that is the price of his betrayals to date. Should he be given four more years to carry them forward, our democracy might never recover. We must see him for the traitor he is and see that because of the high office he held and his complete absence of character or care for the country, he may well be the worst of all those who have betrayed America in the past.
oh my God. there is NO shortage of fucking drama queens suffering from psychological projection in the MSM.
Trump in historical context
The best way to convey the extraordinary nature of Trump’s abuses and the damage he has done is to let the facts speak for themselves against the backdrop of history. It is essential to objectively ask, how do his acts compare with those who have come before him? Where does he stand alongside Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jefferson Davis, John Brown, the Rosenbergs, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen?
Jeff Flake Cuts Ad for Biden
3:59 pms
Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) cut an ad for Joe Biden to run in Arizona.
Said Flake: “I’ve been a conservative Republican my entire life. I’ve never before voted for a Democrat for president. But this year, principle and conscience require me to do just that. I’m voting for Joe Biden.”
He also said that the most conservative thing you can do this year is vote for Joe Biden.
The author of the article
David J. Rothkopf is a professor of international relations, political scientist and journalist. He is the founder and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for ... Wikipedia
Born: December 24, 1955 (age 64 years), Urbana, IL
Nationality: American
Children: Joanna Rothkopf, Laura Rothkopf
Organization founded: Intellibridge
Education: Columbia University, Columbia College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Vermont Asks Kavanaugh to Correct Opinion
6:26 pm
Vermont’s secretary of state formally asked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to correct an opinion he wrote Monday that mistakenly said Vermont had made no changes to its election rules due to the coronavirus pandemic, CNN reports.
Traitor
6:21 pm
Just out:
Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump
by David Rothkopf.
“Donald Trump is unfit in almost every respect for the high office he holds. But what distinguishes him from every other bad leader the U.S. has had is that he has repeatedly, egregiously, betrayed his country. Regardless of how Senate Republicans have let him off the hook, the facts available to the public show that Trump has met every necessary standard to define his behavior as traitorous.”
Republicans Now Resemble Autocratic Parties
6:33 pm
The Guardian:
“The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study.
“In a significant shift since 2000, the GOP has taken to demonising and encouraging violence against its opponents, adopting attitudes and tactics comparable to ruling nationalist parties in Hungary, India, Poland and Turkey.
“By contrast the Democratic party has changed little in its attachment to democratic norms, and in that regard has remained similar to centre-right and centre-left parties in western Europe. Their principal difference is the approach to the economy.”
Breaking911
@Breaking911
BREAKING: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has successfully verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski
Joe lied
and profited
NEW: Former Vice President Joe Biden has gained the edge over President Trump in Georgia, as a new poll less than a week before Election Day shows Biden garnering 50 percent of voters' support to Trump's 45.
REMINDER for Joe
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1316375525364035584
WOW - TRUMP now LEADS Biden in Rasmussen National Poll
2016 Hillary ended up leading by 2...
Deneen Borelli
@deneenborelli
Wow! Head-to-head matchup @realDonaldTrump is getting 30% of the Black vote via @Rasmussen_Poll
@BlackVoices4DJT #BlackVoicesForTrump
https://twitter.com/deneenborelli/status/1321546251851235330
I'm still more of a believer of the voters rather than polls though
The Chief Justice is going to get attacked by the President.
The Supreme Court refused Wednesday to take another look, on a lightning fast track, at the issue of late arriving mail ballots in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, leaving intact a lower court ruling that said the state must count ballots that arrive up to three days after the election.
It was the second time Republicans asked the court to roll back the deadline. They lost Oct. 19 on a 4-4 vote, when the justices denied their request to put a hold on a lower court order extending the deadline.
Wednesday’s vote was 5-3, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch saying the court should have taken the case immediately.
Justice Barrett recuses herself from Pennsylvania voting case
In trying again, the Republicans apparently hoped that newly appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett's arrival would help them prevail. But she sat this one out, taking no part in the consideration or disposition of the motion. A court spokeswoman said that was "because of the need for a prompt resolution of it and because she has not had time to fully review the parties’ filings."
The issue could be pivotal in Pennsylvania, where more than 3 million people have requested mail ballots, nearly half the number of total votes cast four years ago. President Donald Trump won the state in 2016 by just over 44,000 votes, a margin of less than 1 percentage point.
Because Democrats have asked for three times the number of mail ballots this year as Republicans, any rejection of late arriving ballots would likely hurt Joe Biden more than Trump.
Voters in the state can request a mail ballot as late as seven days before the election, and it must be delivered to them within two days after the request is received, leaving only a short time for the completed ballot to be delivered.
Troll
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-won-t-immediately-consider-whether-pa-can-count-n1245175
Appearing on on Fox Business Network’s Kennedy Tuesday night, President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani became enraged after being compared to Christopher Steele, the man behind the infamous, and questionable, Steele dossier. The host, whose full name is Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, made the comparison as Giuliani repeatedly pushed uncorroborated allegations about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, allegations that originally appeared in the New York Post. Giuliani supplied the Post with the story that most news outlets passed on over concerns about credibility. Fox News passed on the story for those exact concerns, and it was even reported that the New York Post writer refused to put his name on it. Despite pushing unverified, salacious allegations, as did Steele, Giuliani took the comparison as a personal affront.
“Some could say that you are acting like Christopher Steele,” Kennedy said. “That you are abstracting information, and because…” “You gotta be kidding me,” Giuliani interrupted. “I was acting like Christopher Steele?” “That’s what it sounds like,” Kennedy retorted. “When you look at…” “You better apologize!” Giuliani cut her off once more. “You better apologize for that!”
From that point on, the interview was pretty much off the rails.
“What you are saying is an outrageous defamation of me. Of my reputation. Every single thing is here, and I want you to look at it and then apologize to me!” Giuliani screamed at Kennedy, later adding, “I came on your show in good faith to give you evidence that is being withheld from the American people, and I get defamed! That’s outrageous!”
Kennedy tried to move on, asking, “Are you still working on behalf of the president?” But Giuliani had had enough, saying, “I think our interview — I think our interview is now over.” “I haven’t even gotten to the part about Borat,” Kennedy responded.
Giuliani may wish he had actually ended the interview right then because Kennedy did eventually get to the part about Borat. Giuliani unwittingly became the target of one of Sacha Baron Cohen’s pranks in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, released last Friday. In it, Giuliani finds himself in a questionable situation with Borat’s 15-year-old daughter Tutar, played by 24-year-old Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova.
“Do you regret your interaction in the Borat movie?” Kennedy asked. Giuliani replied, “Now that’s a stupid question, isn’t it?” “No, it’s not stupid at all…” “That’s really a stupid question,” Giuliani interrupted. “I have a 15-year-old daughter,” Kennedy said. “I watched that and I was kinda grossed out by it.”
Byron York
@ByronYork
Important to note that Miles Taylor was not DHS chief of staff on September 5, 2018, when he published 'Anonymous' op-ed in NYT. He was a DHS policy adviser, which NYT characterized as a 'senior official in the Trump administration.'
So he was even lower level back then
ROFLMFAO at alky
But they left open the possibility that they will reconsider their decision.
Zach Parkinson
@AZachParkinson
There were 64 names listed as "Leadership" on DHS' website on September 5, 2018 - the day the Anonymous op-ed was published
Not a single one of those names is Miles Taylor
https://web.archive.org/web/20180905123021/https://www.dhs.gov/leadership
Well he could have been number 65 man at DHS.
Now wonder the FAKE NEWS NYT characterized him as a senior level official.
They can't recognize real news when it hits them in the face.
HERE'S REAL NEWS AND REALITY COMBINED
THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Trump’s Closing Argument Clashes With Reality
8:23 pm
“As an immense new surge in coronavirus cases sweeps the country, President Trump is closing his re-election campaign by pleading with voters to ignore the evidence of a calamity unfolding before their eyes and trust his word that the disease is already disappearing as a threat to their personal health and economic well being.
“The president has continued to declare before large and largely maskless crowds that the virus is vanishing, even as case counts soar, fatalities climb, the stock market dips and a fresh outbreak grips the staff of Vice President Mike Pence.”
Matt Whitlock
@mattdizwhitlock
The NYT answered a bunch of written questions about why they decided to publish the op-ed, and defended the use of "senior administration official."
They used the phrase "upper echelons of an administration." But Taylor wasn't even upper echelons of DHS.
https://nytimes.com/2018/09/08/reader-center/anonymous-op-ed-trump.html
FAKE NEWS NYT and anonymous now a FAKE NEWS CNN contributor.
And they wonder why the only people who trust them anymore are TDS infected morons.
Justices Leave North Carolina Ballot Deadline
8:31 pm
The AP reports,
“The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to nine days after Election Day, in a win for Democrats.
“The justices, by a 5-3 vote Wednesday, refused to disturb a decision by the State Board of Elections to lengthen the period from three to nine days because of the coronavirus pandemic, pushing back the deadline to Nov. 12.
SO SORRY, CH, BUT------
Little Sign of a Tightening Race
8:24 pm EDT
Nate Silver:
“After a surprisingly sluggish weekend for polling, the floodgates have opened, with a mix of high-quality polls, low-quality polls and pretty much everything in between. And although there are some outliers in both directions, they tell a fairly consistent story, overall:
A steady race nationally, perhaps with some gains for Joe Biden in the Midwest.”
VERY DISTURBING
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Damning Hunter Biden documents suddenly vanish
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1321608055549775872
Unbelievable but not over I hope.
Biden does obviously have friends in very high places as did Hillary.
Joe Concha
@JoeConchaTV
Tucker Carlson delivered more than 7.5 million viewers for his interview with Tony Bobulinski on Tuesday night. Have never seen a cable news number like that for a singular program outside of a big event (debate/town hall/election). Happy to correct if the memory is off here.
probably more tonight.
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Everything that is happening right now is because Trump was right about the swamp, the media, and the ruling class families who have been selling out America for decades.
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
Corporate media outlets have been warned not to cover Tony Bobulinski & Hunter Biden’s laptop or they will be blacklisted by any future Biden/Harris Administration - according to several media sources.
There was a time long, long ago when the media stood up to power.
Now they take a knee.
Thank God for the few legit journalists left and President Trump.
Coronavirus hospitalizations are rising much more dramatically in places that don’t require people to wear a face mask, according to a new Vanderbilt University analysis.
The big picture: The findings reinforce what experts have been saying for months: Masks — and mask mandates — work. They will not vanquish the coronavirus on their own, but they help. A lot.
Coronavirus hospitalizations are up across the board, both nationwide and in Tennessee. But they’re rising far more modestly in places that require masks.
By the numbers: The Vanderbilt analysis compares Tennessee hospitals based on how many of their patients come from counties with mask requirements.
In hospitals where at least 75% of patients are subject to a local mask requirement, COVID hospitalizations are at about the same level now as they were July 1.In hospitals where fewer than 25% of patients are subject to a local mask mandate, however, hospitalizations are more than 200% higher than their July 1 levels.
Where it stands: Roughly 43,000 people are in the hospital right now for coronavirus infections, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Many states are seeing more hospitalizations now than they have at any other point in the pandemic, and some localized areas are beginning to worry about running out of beds.
The bottom line: Masks are not a silver bullet; nothing is. As the Vanderbilt analysis notes, places with mask mandates may also see better adherence to other safety measures, including social distancing.
This is one more piece of evidence that those interventions work. They reduce the risk of transmitting the virus at all, and may reduce the risk of serious illness when some transmission does occur.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-hospitalization-masks-work-e2e4b7eb-d07e-47cb-b7d3-93bfc88aca93.html
Assistant Secretary of Health Adm. Brett Giroir, who leads the federal government's coronavirus testing response, pushed back on Wednesday against President Trump's continued claims that rising coronavirus cases are a product of increased testing.
The big picture: Every available piece of data shows that the pandemic is getting worse again across the country. Hospitalizations are on the rise — and some hospitals are warning that they could soon be overwhelmed — while 13 states set new highs last week for coronavirus infections recorded in a single day.
What he's saying: "But, between July, August, September, October now, we do believe and the data show that the cases are going up. It's not just a function of testing. Yes, we're getting more cases identified. But the cases are actually going up. And we know that too because hospitalizations are going up."
"And we do know that deaths are increasing, unfortunately."
Giroir emphasized that "wearing a mask, avoiding crowds, especially indoors," and increasing testing are all crucial strategies against COVID.
“What I would want to emphasize is that we will have a vaccine. We will have a safe and effective vaccine," Giroir said. "But until that time we have to do what we can do.”
It's not just around the corner like the President falsely claimed.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-case-surge-trump-5cf102c0-89e0-4fb7-8b61-05cf92f6f14f.html
Everytime the President speaks you take a knee and suck his mushroompenis.
Oh ohhhhhhhbb
NEW: A new CNN poll found Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a 12-point lead nationally over President Trump. The figures show that Biden has greater support heading into Election Day than Hillary Clinton did before the 2016 election. Biden has a 61 percent to 37 percent lead among women and a 71-24 percent lead among non-white voters.
"Trump's now back in charge. It's not the doctors." The President is not a doctor!
In a taped interview on April 18, Kushner told legendary journalist Bob Woodward that Trump was "getting the country back from the doctors"
"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," Kushner said. "Trump's now back in charge. It's not the doctors."
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Trump just bragged about the military's "Hydrosonic" missiles. Hydrosonic is a toothbrush brand.
Dementia squared
For at least the fifth time this weekend, Trump just bragged about the military's "Hydrosonic" missiles. "Hydrosonic" is a brand of toothbrush. https://t.co/nupohu8dn4
PHOENIX — Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris held rallies 30 miles apart Wednesday, six days before Election Day, in this battleground state poised to shape the outcome of the race.
But voters could be forgiven for thinking they were running in two different universes.
In Trump's world, the coronavirus crisis is exaggerated and the biggest danger to the country is a threat of socialism or communism, while top-of-mind issues include allegations of corruption by Joe Biden's son Hunter and a "deep state" of government officials plotting against the president.
In the Biden-Harris world, the pandemic is an overarching issue that is crushing middle-class pocketbooks, health care access is threatened by an incompetent president and the country is on a knife's edge between a return to normalcy and a march to authoritarianism.
I will prefer normally
Biden and Harris are normal.
Vox
Manufacturing job growth in Ohio has been stagnant under Trump. The president’s much-hyped Foxconn project in Wisconsin, which he once promised would create 13,000 jobs, had employed fewer than 300 people by the end of 2019; the building that was supposed to be a new factory is now, according to a recent Verge report, “an empty shell.”
The trade deficit is up. He’s appointed Supreme Court justices who have ruled against organized labor rights.
“THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS NOW YOU’VE GOT A RECORD TO RUN ON. THE DONALD TRUMP RECORD HAS NOT BEEN A GOOD RECORD FOR WORKING PEOPLE.”
Trump’s record on health care and Covid-19 could hurt him with these voters too. Union members are sensitive to the same pocketbook issues as everybody else. Those workers generally secure their health insurance through collective bargaining, but they tend to be more progressive on the issue, even if they identify as Republican, according to a survey analysis by Miami University’s Kevin Reuning and union activist C.M. Lewis.
Workers are certainly aware of rising health care costs. Totty said his union went on strike last year because the company wanted to raise their premiums to cover higher prices. They will likely be arguing over health care again in a few years when their current contract is up, he said, unless costs are restrained.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/one-battleground-state-two-rallies-radically-different-versions-reality-n1245204?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2qYG8RvCh3TS7IOfLQsr5iK_HcIJdqfMdpzjKbrluJAroltxDYCedqmMM
SO SORRY, CH, BUT------
Little Sign of a Tightening Race
8:24 pm EDT
Nate Silver:
“After a surprisingly sluggish weekend for polling, the floodgates have opened, with a mix of high-quality polls, low-quality polls and pretty much everything in between. And although there are some outliers in both directions, they tell a fairly consistent story, overall:
A steady race nationally, perhaps with some gains for Joe Biden in the Midwest.”
THE FIRST HONEST DEMOCRATIC PARTY CAMPAIGN AD
https://youtu.be/3UvavR4AhLk
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-first-honest-democratic-party-campaign-ad.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since Great Depression
6:42 am
“Nationwide, the U.S. state budget shortfall from 2020 through 2022 could amount to about $434 billion, according to data from Moody’s Analytics, the economic analysis arm of Moody’s Corp. The estimates assume no additional fiscal stimulus from Washington, further coronavirus-fueled restrictions on business and travel, and extra costs for Medicaid amid high unemployment.
“That’s greater than the 2019 K-12 education budget for every state combined, or more than twice the amount spent that year on state roads and other transportation infrastructure.
“Deficits have already prompted tax hikes and cuts to education, corrections and parks. State workers are being laid off and are taking pay cuts, and the retirement benefits for police, firefighters, teachers and other government workers are under more pressure.”
from last night
WHAT WILL TODAY BRING?
Battleground State Polls
From Mitchell Research:
MICHIGAN:
Biden 52%, Trump 42%
From SurveyUSA:
MINNESOTA:
Biden 47%, Trump 42%
From Ipsos:
FLORIDA:
Biden 48%, Trump 46%
From Justice Collaborative Institute:
ARIZONA:
Biden 49%, Trump 43%
POLITICO:
Trump Stokes Suburban Fears After Police Shooting
6:51 am
“Donald Trump is making a last-ditch effort to rattle the suburbs. In the wake of civil unrest sparked by a fatal police shooting here Monday, the president returned to fear-mongering about big-city chaos and violence, leaning hard on law-and-order rhetoric in the hopes of winning back the suburban voters who have deserted him.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Philadelphia under curfew.
THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Texas Is a Toss Up But Trump and Biden Stay Away
6:49 am
"They may be on opposite sides of the partisan divide, but Texas Republicans and Democrats alike believe the long-awaited moment has arrived: The state is a true presidential battleground, and either candidate could prevail next week.
“Although a Democrat has not carried Texas since 1976, recent public and private polls suggest a highly competitive race, with some surveys showing Mr. Biden up narrowly and others showing Mr. Trump enjoying a small lead.
“Yet even as leading figures in both parties urge their respective presidential nominees to take Texas seriously, the campaigns are still reluctant to spend precious remaining time and money there. Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Biden is expected to appear in the state before the election, the president has not spent a cent on television commercials, and until this week Mr. Biden had resisted advertising in Texas’ two largest markets, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.”
Washington Post: Can Democrats win Texas?
POLITICO:
Trump Needs to Suppress the Vote to Win
6:56 am
“Donald Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote. His approval rating, according to Gallup, has never hit 50 percent. He remains under 50 percent in national polling averages.
“The president’s inability to capture a majority of support sheds light on his extraordinary attempts to limit the number of votes cast across the battleground state map — a massive campaign-within-a-campaign to maximize Trump’s chances of winning a contest in which he’s all but certain to earn less than 50 percent of the vote…
“Never before in modern presidential politics has a candidate been so reliant on wide-scale efforts to depress the vote as Trump.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Trump, Biden Appeal to Last-Minute Florida Voters
6:54 am
“President Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden are set to chase votes in Florida, a state all but essential to the Republican’s pathway to another term as both nominees turn their focus to encouraging voters to turn out on Election Day.
“More than 73 million Americans have already voted, absentee or by mail, and Trump and Biden are trying to energize the millions more who will vote in person on Tuesday. While the Election Day vote traditionally favors Republicans and early votes tend toward Democrats, the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 227,000 Americans, has injected new uncertainty about the makeup of the electorate.”
Miami Herald:
Florida Democrats look to increase Black voter turnout.
it is so heart-warming and inspiring to see that the newest spontaneous african-american street festival in Philly has brought such joy and comfort to the community.
and to think that if Slow Joe an da Ho win on tuesday, these uplifting celebrations will not only continue in Philly, but the outpouring of love and hope will wash across America like a blood-red tsunami, complete with raging fire and enthusiastic drive by's. and perhaps the harassment of those dining at outdoor cafes who are simply minding their own business and have done nothing wrong.
the looting you see? well, that's simply the collection of long-overdue reparations, liberating those goods from those who produce them, to, well, those who produce nothing of value at all.
brought to you by true "patriots" who view the film "Idiocracy" as a documentary, and Orwell's classic "1984" as an instruction manual.
so rejoice America, and marvel at the wonder of what life will be like under a Harris/Biden regime:
Black Lives Matter rioters in Philadelphia threaten, assault, and chase out Jewish residents claiming "you don't live here" and call them members of the "Synagogue of Satan."
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1321505221911236608
As riots spread in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following the police-involved shooting of a knife-wielding suspect, 11 people were shot while looting businesses.
Fox 29 reporter Steve Keeley was filming the scene outside one looted business when Philadelphia police told him “Looters were shooting looters.” Police also told the reporter that a 50-year-old man who had filled up his car with stolen goods was then carjacked and had all the stolen items stolen from him. In the midst of all this, 11 people were shot.
“11 people shot while looting in Philadelphia so far since last night. ‘Looters were shooting looters.’ ‘50 yr old man that had his car filled then was carjacked and had all his stolem stiff re-stolen from him’from @PhillyPolice on scene of looting tell FOX 29. @FOX29philly,” Keeley tweeted (sic throughout).
https://www.dailywire.com/news/looters-were-shooting-looters-11-people-shot-in-philadelphia-overnight-during-riots
ICYMI:
the message emanating from the "religion of peace" continues to be one of love and compassion and comfort and understanding; bringing heart-felt joy to worshippers of every faith, as we all seek to "co-exist" in peace, love and harmony...
NICE, France (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police and officials said.
Nice’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as terrorism, said on Twitter it had happened in or near Notre Dame church, the largest in the city.
Estrosi said the attacker had repeatedly shouted the phrase “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greatest, even after he had been detained by police.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-nice/three-dead-in-knife-attack-in-french-church-woman-beheaded-idUSKBN27E17D
i take great comfort in knowing that under a Harris/Biden administration (peace be upon them), followers of islam will flourish, with the knowledge that they will be able to continue their time-honored practices like those in Nice without fear of retaliation. and in those states with the coveted "bail reform" those moose-limbs who do engage in the mostly-misunderstood ceremony of separating one's head from one's body will NOT be persecuted for their beliefs and customary practices, and will be released back into the community post-haste, to reunite with family and loved ones.
FOX NEWS
Sen. Dick Durbin:
I'm voting for Joe Biden because America needs him as president
America needs a president who will restore trust and accountability to our government
By Sen. Dick Durbin | Fox News
There’s no doubt you’ve heard this before, but 2020 really is the most impactful election of our lifetimes. Our country is in the middle of several crises: the coronavirus pandemic, economic recession and civil unrest.
Time and again, President Trump has proven that he does not have the temperament, preparedness, or judgment to lead our country. Former Vice President Joe Biden is the right person at the right time. I am proud to cast my vote for him as our next president.
America needs a president who will restore trust and accountability to our government. Biden will be that president.
From the very beginning of this global health crisis, Trump dismissed the severity of the coronavirus, called it a hoax, shifted blame, and contradicted the advice of our nation’s medical experts.
Biden will listen to science and the experts. With 4% of the world’s population, the United States has about 20% of its reported COVID-19 deaths. Had President Trump taken this seriously from the beginning — as Joe Biden and many others encouraged him to do — we would have been able to save lives and save jobs.
Our country needs a president who understands that most Americans worry more about the supermarket than the stock market. Families struggling paycheck to paycheck need a leader who remembers them every day.
Even before the pandemic, the Trump administration supported policies that put corporations ahead of working families. Biden knows we need to reverse many of Trump’s tax cuts for large corporations and the ultrawealthy, which have cost Americans $2 trillion.
America needs a president who will expand the protections of the Affordable Care Act so every family, every person has access to affordable, quality health care. Joe Biden will be that president.
I worry about returning to the dark days when insurance companies charged more, denied coverage, imposed lifetime limits, excluded basic benefits from plans, and prohibited young adults under the age of 26 from staying on their parent’s coverage.
If the Affordable Care Act is overturned — which President Trump is still trying to do in the middle of a pandemic — the more than 8 million Americans who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 could be discriminated against by insurance companies because of their preexisting condition. This is what is at stake.
We need a president who can start to heal the wounds of this divided nation — someone whom we can tell our children is a good, caring, honorable person who will lead our nation in the tradition of our best leaders in both political parties.
Joe Biden will be that man and will be that president. He’s taken his own experiences with loss and hardship and used those lessons to give people in America reasons to hope and ways to heal.
Biden has the personal experience, the plans, and the character to be a president for all Americans. We need new leadership, and that leader is Joe Biden.
hey pederast,
is blatant plagiarism the only contribution you and the alky can make to this blog?
apparently it is.
fuck off, you piece of shit.
ICYMI:
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Yep them moose limbs are still a problem rat....why does that surprise you?????????
is blatant plagiarism
While your cut and pasts are wonderful you fucking loser, rat?????? BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! It ain't plagiarism ag school drop out.....he never claims it to be his own......which seems to elude you !!!!!!
Rat does not like our freedom of speech here in America. He wants to elect a Prez who would do away with that.
Bit plagiarism is when you put your name on something you didn't write.
I don't do that.
New Battleground State Poll
From NBC News/Marist:
FLORIDA:
Biden 51%, Trump 47%
North Carolina Won’t Allow Election Observers
7:34 am
“The North Carolina Board of Elections has denied international observers access to polling sites on Election Day, a decision that caught members of the mission by surprise as they prepared to arrive in the state,” McClatchy reports.
“North Carolina had allowed election observers to monitor their polling sites in the past, but decided against it this year, forcing the international team to cancel its visit at the last minute.
NOW THAT'S STRANGE. WHAT COULD THE REPUBLICAN DOMINATED LEGISLATURE HAVE BEEN THINKING?
HOORAY!
Biden Leads Trump by 12 Points Nationally
7:42 am
A new University of Texas Dallas poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race,
56% to 44%.
WE HAVE ROUNDED THE CORNER!!!!!! 500 k cases in th past week......took 3 months to reach the first 500K!!!! Yeah, we rounded the corner and heading straight to hell!!!!!! Fauci recommends mask mandate.....trump shows us he is a brave man and won't!!!!!!!
NEW YORK TIMES:
Bank Case Showed Erdogan’s Influence With Trump
7:46 am
“Geoffrey Berman was outraged.
The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Mr. Berman had traveled to Washington in June 2019 to discuss a particularly delicate case with Attorney General William P. Barr and some of his top aides:
a criminal investigation into Halkbank, a state-owned Turkish bank suspected of violating U.S. sanctions law by funneling billions of dollars of gold and cash to Iran.
“For months, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey had been pressing President Trump to quash the investigation, which threatened not only the bank but potentially members of Mr. Erdogan’s family and political party.
When Mr. Berman sat down with Mr. Barr, he was stunned to be presented with a settlement proposal that would give Mr. Erdogan a key concession.”
THE ECONOMIST:
WHY IT HAS TO BE BIDEN
8:00 am
The Economist endorses Joe Biden for president.
“The country that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was unhappy and divided.
The country he is asking to re-elect him is more unhappy and more divided.
After almost four years of his leadership, politics is even angrier than it was and partisanship even less constrained.
Daily life is consumed by a pandemic that has registered almost 230,000 deaths amid bickering, buck-passing and lies.
Much of that is Mr Trump’s doing, and his victory on November 3rd would endorse it all…
“However, our bigger dispute with Mr Trump is over something more fundamental.
In the past four years he has repeatedly desecrated the values, principles and practices that made America a haven for its own people and a beacon to the world.”
Ossoff Rips Into Perdue Over Pandemic
8:03 am
Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff (D) launched a blistering attack on Sen. David Perdue’s (R) record on health care and the coronavirus pandemic at a televised debate.
Said Ossoff:
“It’s not just that you’re a crook… you’re attacking the health of those you represent.”
He added:
“You did say COVID-19 was no deadlier than the flu,
you did say there would be no uptick in cases.
All the while, you were looking after your own assets, and your own portfolio.
And you did vote four times to end protections for pre-existing conditions.”
___________
Ossoff has been trailing in the polls. Will this put him ahead?
Blogger James said...
Rat does not like our freedom of speech here in America. He wants to elect a Prez who would do away with that.
as google, fuckbook and twatter work overtime as a DNC super PAC silencing conservatives at every turn.
even LYING to congress about censoring news unkind to Joe Lid.
spare me, pederast. everything, and i mean EVERYTHING you accuse Trump of having done, doing, or planning to do the left has done in fucking SPADES.
you lies are well documented around here, and your inability to honestly debate your opinion against myself, the blog host and others is duly noted.
Max Boot:
We Have to Destroy the Republican Party to Save It
8:12 am
“‘We had to destroy the village in order to save it.’ That famous, if probably apocryphal, quote from the Vietnam War describes how I feel about the Republican Party. We have to destroy the party in order to save it.
“As a lifelong Republican until Nov. 9, 2016 — and as a foreign policy adviser to three Republican presidential candidates — it gives me no joy to write those words.
It’s true that the party had long-standing problems — conspiracy-mongering, racism, hostility toward science — that Donald Trump was able to exploit.
But he has also exacerbated all of those maladies, just as he made the coronavirus outbreak much worse than it needed to be."
Rat's a sore loser.
For the latest polls, check in here:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
LOL.
i haven't lost anything, pederast.
especially to an assclown like you.
"He wants to elect a Prez who would do away with that."
Wow, fake Pastor bearing false witness, again.
Must have gotten beaten badly in a debate, again.
And the goat fucker flies the white flag of trump bearing complete stupid comments because he is losing!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!
i haven't lost anything, pederast
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!! Correct rat....your mind has been gone for years!!!!!!!!!!
Ossoff has been trailing in the polls. Will this put him ahead?
No pederast it won’t
Senate Campaign Staffer for Jon Ossoff: Candidate Campaigns As ‘Low-Key Progressive’ To Sway ‘Not Us Georgians, But All the Rednecks’ … ‘Our State Isn’t Progressive’ … ‘Keep This on Low Key’ … ‘The People Here Are Not Open-Minded’
rrb said...
hey pederast,
is blatant plagiarism the only contribution you and the alky can make to this blog?
apparently it is.
fuck off, you piece of shit.
They have gone completely off the rails.
But the "pastor" is just an ignorant waterboy who doesn't realize that copying entire blog posts from Goddard's political_lire is plagiarism, even thought Goddard himself takes credit for his posts ("by Taegan Goddard") which is carefully omitted when copied over.
Or more likely he is just lying like usual.
Non-stop, everyday.
What a fucking loser.
Like his BUTT BUDDIES.
Mario Loyola
@Mario_A_Loyola
As a former Trump official who is often critical of him, I want to say that this @MilesTaylorUSA is a traitor to the Constitution and a bawd in way of public service. If a soldier had done what he did, he would be court-martialed. If you can't serve the president loyally, resign
And if papers like the NYT can't report about him truthfully they need to get out of the business.
The GDP jumped 33% this last quarter. Spin that James.
Not anonymous
Jack Nicklaus
@jacknicklaus
Get out and vote. I did!
Statement:
https://twitter.com/jacknicklaus/status/1321631802004541440
As Ohio goes so goes the nation
Miles Taylor - a low level douche nozzle whose only claim to fame was carrying the DHS secretary's tampon satchel.
and he lied directly to anderson vanderbilt's face on TV, and XiNN keeps him on as an "anal"yst anyway.
LOL.
So Taylor was neither a senior administration official nor a principled conservative. The only thing that is really known about him is that he is capable and willing of lying, as he did on air when asked by Anderson Cooper if he was “anonymous.”
If The New York Times was willing to lie about how high-level its anonymous source was for their very high-profile September 2018 information operation, imagine the lies they’re willing to tell about all the other anonymous sources they use. If the New York Times is willing to deceive readers about how high this author’s perch was, imagine how much other papers and media outlets are willing to lie in support of their anti-Trump narratives.
Every time you read in an outlandish Big Media narrative that an anonymous source is “senior,” interpret it as “junior.” And if the reporters don’t even bother with that level of characterization, assume it’s someone they met on the street.
Anonymous sources have occasionally been necessary for journalists. Their overuse, mischaracterization, and lack of accountability in the age of Trump journalism is clearly out of control.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/new-york-times-miles-taylor-op-ed-shows-everything-wrong-with-anonymous-sources/
Denise, signed in to troll me.
Trump won election four years ago in part by exploiting long-running divisions within our body politic. He gave voice, and presence, to some of the darker themes and elements of American society, past and present.
As Americans rose in protest over police officers killing Black people — which should outrage any real political conservative — the president, rather than seeking to understand and address the systemic problems that propelled people to the streets, instead disparaged the protesters. He seized on scattered acts of vandalism and violence to dismiss the rightful and righteous demands of tens of thousands of Americans that their government recognize the problems for which it had long been partially responsible and try to fix them.
Great leaders through history often emerged by being the right person at the right time. Abraham Lincoln, with whom Trump so falsely compares himself, was such a leader. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who helped pull the nation out of the Great Depression and the world through the rise of fascism, also comes to mind.
Trump, though, not only is the wrong person for the crises of the time — the pandemic, the deep recession it triggered, global warming and a society fraying under the stresses of racism, personal financial hardship and a dangerously widening gulf between the haves and the have-nots — he is the wrong person for any moment.
And now is the moment to bring the sorry Trump saga to an end. Fearing a true verdict of the American voters, the president has actively sought to game the outcome of Tuesday’s election by undermining public faith in the voting system — our democracy — itself, serving a similar end to that pursued by Russian meddlers and other foreign interests who see their own gain from a disunited United States. That is not leadership. It is the flailing of an immoderate mind, and, we can only hope, the frustration of a desperate politician who finds himself running in sand.
In the final week before Election Day, new coronavirus infections have soared to an all-time high — virtually guaranteeing that the pandemic will be the most prominent issue in America as voters prepare to choose the next president.
The big picture: Cases are surging and local hospitals are straining at the very moment that voters are choosing between President Trump, who continues to insist that the pandemic is almost over, and Joe Biden, who has made the crisis a centerpiece of his campaign.
Where it stands: On average, nearly 72,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus every day over the past week. That’s the highest seven-day average on record.
Twice in the past week, the U.S. has set a new record for the most cases in a single day.
The virus gained strength over the past week in 41 states, including nearly every important battleground state.
New infections were up 16% in Arizona, 21% in Florida, 22% in Ohio, 23% in Wisconsin, 25% in Michigan and 33% in Pennsylvania.
The only exception was North Carolina, where infections held steady at about 2,200 per day.
What’s next: This third wave of infections is already beginning to strain hospitals’ resources in some parts of the country, and will inevitably lead to more deaths. It has already killed nearly 220,000 Americans.
Wisconsin, for example, reported new single-day records for cases, hospitalizations and deaths — all in the same day.
This will almost certainly get worse before it gets better. The virus is expected to spread more easily as colder weather causes people to move their socializing indoors.
The bottom line: Eight months into this pandemic, not only has the U.S. failed to contain the virus, it’s spreading faster than ever.
It's just going to disappear up your ass.
Enemies of the People
Raheem Kassam
@RaheemKassam
New York Times defrauded the public with claims of a senior admin official working against @realDonaldTrump.
Instead, it’s a junior staffer who had no face time with POTUS.
Enemies of the people media disrupted an entire administration for clicks
The NYT knew it was a 31 year old kid and hid it.
And the MSM spread the lies
Abigail Marone
@abigailmarone
The mainstream media doesn’t want you to see this. That’s why you should watch it.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1321657368581734400
tens of millions of people are now bypassing the FAKE NEWS legacy media because of state media players like the NYT and CNN
The strong GDP figure also camouflages the K-shaped nature of the recovery that has caused economic sectors such as housing to rebound strongly, while other industries like airlines and restaurants remain moribund.
“The utility of a number like GDP is to get it all in one shot,” said Ross Mayfield, an investment strategy analyst at Baird. But a single number doesn’t reflect the breadth of economic circumstances American households and businesses face today, he said. “Particularly in a recovery like this, it’s really hiding the fact that there's a bifurcation.”
For President Donald Trump, this isn’t great news. Market observers say the GDP bounce is too little, too late to move the needle with voters. “The advantage given traditionally to President Trump in respect of economic performance has now totally disappeared,” said Ludovic Subran, chief economist at Allianz SE. “Despite some progress on the job front, the lead of Biden compared with Trump has rather increased.”
Staking his claim to a second term on record-low unemployment and steady — albeit slowing — economic growth might have looked like a winning gambit for Trump at the beginning of the year, but the pandemic upended those plans. In a year when the news cycle whipsawed from one crisis to the next, and with less than a week to go before a historically high-stakes election, Wall Street and voters alike are more focused on what comes next, and on the economic threats that still cast a shadow over the recovery.
Kerri Kupec DOJ
@KerriKupecDOJ
“The Justice Department is requesting more data on COVID-19 deaths linked to New York nursing homes after receiving figures that indicate a significant under-count of deaths at publicly run nursing homes in the state.”
Cuomo's horrendous numbers are even much worse !!!
The Justice department is looking into ??
Surely this will be Headlines !!!
GDP soars by record 33.1%
jumped 33% this last quarter. Spin that James.
Which is still 1/3 under pre pandemic levels......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! millions still out of work and Jowls has the senate on recess after the heavy lifting of the bitch to the court.....yep, mitch is working too hard!!!!!
10 million workers still idled and have yet found jobs from the original shut down.... The economy flourished because of the govmt pumping money into the economy to keep people solvent,.....Jowls is on recess IOW's no new money is coming.....The economy will continue to sputter until the virus is controlled.....sad, just did a grocery run to replenish the floriduh homestead....panic buying again on many items as store shelves empty again of bleach, cleaning supplies and paper towels.......I'm sure many will continue to think we have turned the corner but 80k new cases yesterday says otherwise!!!!
Market has a big yawn to those wondrous GDP numbers!!!!
Red states now winning the virus count!!!!!!!! Yep.......trumps lack of leadership now permeating through the country in his bed hope of remaining on top!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!
Howard Schneider
Tue, October 27, 2020, 6:21 AM EDT
By Howard Schneider
(Reuters) - In the early days of what became a historic public health crisis, the novel coronavirus was, in the lexicon of U.S. politics, a "blue state" problem - centered in East and West Coast areas, particularly New York and New Jersey, that voted against President Donald Trump in 2016.
It remained so for weeks, and that fact defined what became battle lines between mask wearers and skeptics, and between those convinced restrictions on commerce were needed to save lives versus those who wanted less government intervention.
Now, though, it is squarely a "Trump country" issue.
Trump trails in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election, partly on the basis of his handling of a pandemic that saw him feuding with state governors, questioning government scientists, and hesitant to frame a national response to a crisis that easily spread across state lines. He refused to change course even after catching the disease himself and requiring hospitalization.
COOK POLITICAL REPORT:
Democrats Favored to Win the Senate
9:02 am
Democrats remain the clear favorites to take back the Senate with just days to go until Election Day. A lack of tightening in the presidential race as President Trump continues to be a drag downballot is set to doom many Republican incumbents. At this point, many GOP strategists just hope to keep their losses to a minimum and prevent a blue tidal wave.”
Spin that, James.
Don't have to spin it, just balance it with this:
New York Times:
“Already, there are signs that the recovery is losing steam.”
Demented Donnie
Trump, Oct. 26: That’s why Romney got almost zero. When Romney in Philadelphia, remember he got almost zero votes. How did he get zero votes in a city?
In fact, Romney received 96,467 votes in the city, about 14% of the total cast.
That’s not a large percentage, but Philadelphia is a heavily Democratic city.
POLITICO:
Third Party Candidate Urges No One Vote for Him
“Bill Bledsoe, the third-party candidate in the hotly contested Senate race between GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democrat Jaime Harrison, has a message for South Carolinians:
Don’t vote for me.
“Harrison’s campaign and several Democratic outside groups opposing Graham have elevated Bledsoe in TV ads this month, an effort to siphon off conservative voters who may be dissatisfied with Graham, potentially boosting Harrison’s chances against the three-term senator in the deep red state. It’s not an unusual tactic to elevate third-party candidates in tight races, where just a few percentage points could make the difference, and public polling this month has shown the race to be highly competitive.
“But the effort in South Carolina has come after Bledsoe suspended his campaign on Oct. 1 — too late to be removed from the ballot — and endorsed Graham.”
DO VOTE FOR HIM! DO VOTE FOR HIM!
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:
Jockeying for Jobs In a Biden Administration Intensifies
10:23 am
“Senior advisers and allies of Joe Biden have been bombarded with emails, texts and phone calls from Democrats looking for jobs in a potential Biden administration as the jockeying for key positions shifts into high gear ahead of the election,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Mr. Biden, long superstitious about elections, has so far avoided making detailed plans about who will serve in his administration if he wins, leading to a waterfall of speculation, but little concrete information about what his cabinet and administration might look like. A Biden transition official said he isn’t making any personnel decisions pre-election.”
Trump’s Job DIS-Approval May Hint at Outcome
10:03 am
First Read points out the direct correlation between a sitting president’s job rating and his ballot position:
In 1984, Ronald Reagan’s job rating was 58%;
he got 58.8% of the vote.
In 1992, George H.W. Bush’s rating was 36%;
he got 37.4% of the vote.
In 1996, Bill Clinton’s approval was 56%;
he got 49.2% in that three-way race.
In 2004, George W. Bush’s approval was 49%;
he got 50.7% of the vote.
And in 2012, Barack Obama’s approval was 49%;
he got 51.1% of the vote.
President Trump?
His job rating in our most recent national NBC/WSJ poll was
44%.
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Wisconsin Republicans Claim Hackers Stole $2.3 Million
9:55 am
Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican party’s account meant to help reelect President Trump in the key battleground state, the AP reports.
Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt said the hackers “were able to manipulate invoices from four vendors who were being paid to send out direct mail for Trump’s reelection efforts and to provide pro-Trump material such as hats that could be handed out to supporters. Invoices were altered so when the party paid them, the money went to the hackers instead of the vendors.”
Trump Campaign Tries to Make Voting Harder in Pennsylvania
9:30 am
“President Trump’s campaign in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania is pursuing a three-pronged strategy that would effectively
suppress mail-in votes in the state,
moving to stop the counting of absentee votes before Election Day,
pushing to limit how late mail-in ballots can be accepted
and intimidating Pennsylvanians trying to vote early.”
Georgia Senate Races Are Toss Ups
9:12 am
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball moved both U.S. Senate races in Georgia to Toss Up.
TIME:
Joe Biden is Positioning Himself to be the Modern FDR
https://time.com/5904569/joe-biden-fdr/
AMEN! A really great President whom made American really greater!
A 2nd and 3rd qtr GDP chart shows precisely the V shaped rebound Trump said we would see. You don't ignore the entire economy because Royal Carribean and Boeing are still struggling.
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