Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby momadance » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:02:49

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You mean they are just now finding votes in Florida and Georgia – but the Election was on Tuesday? Let’s blame the Russians and demand an immediate apology from President Putin!

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby Phred » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:11:50

thephan wrote:Interesting twist is apparently he answered something about Whitaker with the 'barely know the guy', and 'acting' language while relying on his (flawed) past as he is highly respected as why it was a good move to stabilize things in the short term. That seems all well planned to distance himself from the guy.


This from the guy who has said about 1000 times that if Sessions had just told him that he would recuse himself that he never would have given Jeff the job.

And we are supposed to believe that he wouldn't ask the new guy, even an acting AG, if he would recuse himself?!?
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby thephan » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:15:05

One decent thing, DJT did say he wished RBG the best, a speedy recovery, and for her to serve a long time on the bench. I am not sure there was a single other nice moment in his sparring session with the press (then again I tripped into it late, and definitely left before he choppered out).
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby traderdave » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:34:40

Sanda Smith (Fox News Host):
You bring up the shooting. This gunman was 29 years old, he drove his mother's car to this bar before he walked in and opened fire killing 12, including the Sargent who charged in to try to protect those college students. Many of those college students young people. As a senator-elect now, what can we do? This was the deadliest shooting that we've seen in this country since Parkland. What do we do?

Senator-Elect Marsha Blackburn:
Ah, what we do is say, how do we make certain that we protect the Second Amendment and protect our citizens. We've always done that in this country. Mental health issue need to be addressed.


Blackburn then went on to talk about the House voting to put a "red flag system" in place before throwing out the good 'ole "thoughts and prayers" line. It should come as no surprise that the NRA spent over $600,000 supporting Blackburn's re-election.

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby jerseyhoya » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:39:12

MoBettle wrote:If these Florida votes aren't counted without any hard evidence that they're fraudulent it may be time to give up on this whole democracy thing.

Broward county elections supervisor was appointed by JEB! btw.

She was appointed by Jeb as an interim after he removed her predecessor for gross incompetence in handling the 2002 FL primaries, and has been reelected four times as a Democrat since. And she appears to be an incompetent clown.

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby thephan » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:45:34

Since a teacher found a locked box of provisional ballots (box label, she did not touch it) in her school, I would say that the word incompetent clown is an undersell.
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby MoBettle » Fri Nov 09, 2018 13:01:03

jerseyhoya wrote:
MoBettle wrote:If these Florida votes aren't counted without any hard evidence that they're fraudulent it may be time to give up on this whole democracy thing.

Broward county elections supervisor was appointed by JEB! btw.

She was appointed by Jeb as an interim after he removed her predecessor for gross incompetence in handling the 2002 FL primaries, and has been reelected four times as a Democrat since. And she appears to be an incompetent clown.


You've convinced me, these people's votes shouldn't count because of this lady appointed with bipartisan approval :D

How much of this lady's incompetence stems from not getting the proportionate resources as people in smaller areas?

I'm not even sure why counting these votes matters when theyre already well within range for a recount. Just count them as part of the recount.
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby thephan » Fri Nov 09, 2018 13:16:32

So where facts stack up, Obama's last 21 months of "job creation" versus Trump's first 21 has Obama in the +300,000 column over his successor.
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby jerseyhoya » Fri Nov 09, 2018 13:26:12

MoBettle wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:
MoBettle wrote:If these Florida votes aren't counted without any hard evidence that they're fraudulent it may be time to give up on this whole democracy thing.

Broward county elections supervisor was appointed by JEB! btw.

She was appointed by Jeb as an interim after he removed her predecessor for gross incompetence in handling the 2002 FL primaries, and has been reelected four times as a Democrat since. And she appears to be an incompetent clown.


You've convinced me, these people's votes shouldn't count because of this lady appointed with bipartisan approval :D

How much of this lady's incompetence stems from not getting the proportionate resources as people in smaller areas?

I'm not even sure why counting these votes matters when theyre already well within range for a recount. Just count them as part of the recount.

What votes aren't being counted that you would like to have counted?

Dade is more populous than Broward, and it counted its votes. Broward is higher income than Dade as well so it should have plenty of resources.

They've been refusing for the past few days to say how many ballots they have left to tally. There is no transparency to anything she is doing, and as this morning's Florida Playbook lays out there's a lot of previous incompetence/malfeasance on display that raises questions about how her office is doing its job.

There’s a reason the Miami Herald before Election Day called Broward the “most controversial elections department” in South Florida. Actually, it’s the most controversial in the entire state, if not the whole country. And there are numerous reasons, not just one: Unlawfully destroying ballots, secretly opening absentee ballots before they’re canvassed, leaving a medical marijuana question off some absentee ballots, sending some voters too many ballot pages, leaving behind a “PROVISIONAL BALLOTS BOX” that was discovered by a teacher (the box apparently did not have votes in it), designing a ballot that may have led to tens of thousands of undervotes in the Senate race.

At this point certainly she's hurt Nelson more than Scott, but that doesn't change that she appears to be terrible.

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby thephan » Fri Nov 09, 2018 13:32:28

@PressSec

We stand by our decision to revoke this individual’s hard pass. We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.



and a reply is...

@jk_rowling

‘And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.’ — George Orwell, 1984



Now waiting for @PressSec to swoon that J.K. Rowling knows who she is.
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby thephan » Fri Nov 09, 2018 13:35:11

There is a roar of laughter that Gov. Scott in his 8 years has not managed to address Broward's problems at all, and, in fact, has never even tried. But now he's all pissy. That is some seriously weak cheese Mr. Scott.
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby JUburton » Fri Nov 09, 2018 13:49:10

Kinda hoping for a Mueller friday today tbh.

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby 06hawkalum » Fri Nov 09, 2018 13:55:00

thephan wrote:There is a roar of laughter that Gov. Scott in his 8 years has not managed to address Broward's problems at all, and, in fact, has never even tried. But now he's all pissy. That is some seriously weak cheese Mr. Scott.


Scott has always been a clown. He has been remarkably adept at failing upwards. He is a classic example of the Peter Principle, assuming he was ever competent in some lower level job.
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby Bucky » Fri Nov 09, 2018 14:13:07

probably not, so it would be the Dilbert Principle.

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby JUburton » Fri Nov 09, 2018 14:16:58


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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby CFP » Fri Nov 09, 2018 14:27:08

That’ll be forgotten about by Monday

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby heyeaglefn » Fri Nov 09, 2018 14:34:07

JUburton wrote:https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/1060956945937563648

we got him!

Friday afternoon news dump.

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby CFP » Fri Nov 09, 2018 14:39:50

JUburton wrote:Kinda hoping for a Mueller friday today tbh.


If I've done my readings properly, Whitaker can kill any indictment. We might not hear anything for a while.

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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby slugsrbad » Fri Nov 09, 2018 14:42:27

I don’t know if there is an after life, but if there is I have to feel sorry for Sen. McCain. It must not be easy to see his good friend Lindsay Graham fully go off the deep end.
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Re: Election week: Blue wave or blue balls? (Politics)

Unread postby philliesphhan » Fri Nov 09, 2018 15:01:29

traderdave wrote:Sanda Smith (Fox News Host):
You bring up the shooting. This gunman was 29 years old, he drove his mother's car to this bar before he walked in and opened fire killing 12, including the Sargent who charged in to try to protect those college students. Many of those college students young people. As a senator-elect now, what can we do? This was the deadliest shooting that we've seen in this country since Parkland. What do we do?

Senator-Elect Marsha Blackburn:
Ah, what we do is make sure this can easily happen again!




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