This is my hat. Anyone know any good recipes?
My usual method of political prognostication is twofold: 1. Imagine the worst. 2. Watch it happen. This tactic works often but not always. As this night began, I had zero doubt that my method would prove accurate -- yet it failed. May it fail even more spectacularly in the future!
From Meghan McCain:
Suck it, BannonI've always liked her.
Thank you, Alabama, for not choosing the kind of man who would attend a girl scout camp just to show off his pup tent.
A dark cloud still threatens: Fox News is talking recount. I cannot fairly deny Moore's right to demand a recount, since I personally believe that recounts should be conducted frequently. Still, one shudders to think of what might happen.
Now let's see if we can talk Franken into staying!
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Nice hat, Joseph.
But in all seriousness, nope, I don't know any recipes. :) But I also followed your method--I expected the worst. But when that doesn't happen, you feel an immense amount of relief.
This is very, VERY good news. Of course, the usual gang of assholes (Goodman, Bragman, et al) are whining about how a "centrist" won and how horrible it is, blah blah blah. Seriously...fuck these idiots.
About Franken
The Republican talking point about sexual harassment relating to Trump has been that people knew about it and voted for him anyway. The same strategy was repeated about Moore. Let the people of Alabama decide.
I heard a talking head say, Franken can use the same strategy to re-claim his seat.
Resign, then run for his seat and let the people re-elect him.
It could work.
Personally, I prefer for him to say, I will resign when Trump does.
M
BTW
I share your concern about the recount possibilities.
I will ask you about how good the eggs on your face tasted in a few days.
M
I have never been happier to be wrong about an election outcome. I've also never been happier to have cast a vote that truly mattered.
I'm excited, but I'm being superstitiously touching wood... It feels good to believe in the sense of basic decency winning for a change.
Moore wants a recount, but that occurs at .5%, and the split (at this point, late in the eve) is 1.5%. Yet earlier in the day, the 100% Republican AL Supreme Court overturned a ruling to save digital copies of ballots for any possible recount... did the 100% Republican AL Supreme Court just bet on the wrong scenario? Did turnout (especially of black people, and more especially of black WOMEN) actually overwhelm a "F-up the vote" attempt? Or is it something else entirely? Still, if this election isn't a plea to the DNC to support its smaller races, I don't know what is.
Still, Moore's non-concession speech ends (after some Biblin') like you might expect from a Jesus-shielded sociopath. Who knows what twist is up Steve Bannon's sleeve...
"And that’s what we’ve got to do is wait on God, and let this process play out. I know it’s late, we can’t wait and have everybody wait ‘til after 11 o’clock. Uh, but the votes are still coming in, and we’re looking at that. May God bless you, as you go on, may he give you safe journey, and thank you for coming tonight, it’s not over, and it’s gonna take some time. Thank you. Let's go home and sleep on it. We'll get up... we'll take it on the 'morrow. Thank you."
(Transcribed by a patient person on reddit. The video's worth checking out in full https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/df1a4d44-dfbf-11e7-b2e9-8c636f076c76)
Reminded of this bit of advice from W.S. Burroughs: “Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit — not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.”
Waiting with baited breath til the 'morrow, as with every hour of this Shitocracy.
Meanwhile, apparently, and irregardless of the election, Luther Strange is gonna be the sitting senator voting on the tax scam bill... and you KNOW how much the Big Red R Tribe would be howling about it were the situation reversed.
(There is precedent for Republican special-election hypocrisy in the past, natch... Could be fodder for some media retaliation against the fascist forces.)
—Mac Tonight
Mitch McConnell will use every procedural trick in the book to avoid seating Doug Jones before the tax cut reconciliation vote. Start the chant "Seat him now!".
Turn it back on Mitch da Bitch if President Obama couldn't appoint a Supreme Court justice McConnell should wait until the next session for a tax cut vote.
Alabama's Supreme Court basically burned Moore's attempt at a recount--digital voter tallies were okayed for dumping. The only credible recount would require a manual count. Alabama's Secretary of State said Moore and his folks would need to pay for that since the margin exceeds the half point spread.
LOL. Losers got to lose sometimes. Alabama did the country a big favor last night. Hallelujah!
Nice to wake up to good news and the hilarity of the Trumpster's excuse machine.
Peggysue
Mr. Mike:
This is true, and thankfully, Dems aren't having it. Schumer and Harris are already saying the Jones should be seated immediately. I also saw the AP report that all of a sudden, the House and Senate have agreed on a tax bill. I guess "regular order" John McCain will vote against such a rushed process? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
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