Tuesday, October 20, 2020

14: Two Weeks

 

THE SUN IS SETTING!


30 comments:

  1. Sorry, all in one big lump:

    The Big Role That Big Donors Still Play for Joe Biden [Click]

    Biden Keeps Raising Money [Click] “. . .in case the trove of ‘fuck you’ money needs to become ‘see you in court’ money.”

    Rural Infections Run Out of Control [Click]

    Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorses Joe Biden for president. [Click]

    USA Today Breaks Tradition to Endorse Biden [Click]

    How Trump Plowed Through $1 Billion [Click]

    Trump Found It Harder to Raise Money from Small Donors in Recent Months [Click]

    Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball moved the Iowa U.S. Senate race from Toss-up to Leans Democratic.

    Today’s polls:

    Florida: Trump vs. Biden UNF Biden 48, Trump 47
    Georgia: Trump vs. Biden Emerson Biden 47, Trump 48
    North Carolina: Trump vs. Biden ABC News/Wash Post* Biden 49, Trump 48
    Kentucky: Trump vs. Biden Mason-Dixon Trump 56, Biden 39
    General Election: Trump vs. Biden vs. Jorgensen vs. Hawkins NY Times/Siena Biden 50, Trump 41, Jorgensen 2, Hawkins 0
    General Election: Trump vs. Biden vs. Jorgensen vs. Hawkins IBD/TIPP Biden 48, Trump 46, Jorgensen 3, Hawkins 1
    Georgia Senate - Perdue vs. Ossoff Emerson Perdue 46, Ossoff 45
    Georgia Senate Special Election - Open Primary Emerson Warnock 27, Loeffler 20, Collins 27
    North Carolina Senate - Tillis vs. Cunningham ABC News/Wash Post Cunningham 49, Tillis 47
    Utah Governor - Cox vs. Peterson Deseret/RMG Research* Cox 50, Peterson 26

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    1. Michael Steele endorsing Biden doesn't surprise me. An intelligent, sensible man, Steele.

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  2. OHIO: COVID, 185,639 cases and 5,083 deaths.

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  3. The Atlantic:The [Rotten] World Order That Donald Trump Revealed [Click] Well, things can’t be put back together the way they were— there probably are some alternatives now available that were not available before.

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  4. VT: 1956 +10)
    58 deaths (83days)
    207active cases
    Recovered:1701 (+5)
    In Hospital 0 ( 0)
    Tests 179,703 (+106)

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  5. Retired Navy Adm. William McRaven explains in the Wall Street Journal why he voted for Joe Biden. [Click]

    President Trump is expected to do three or four rallies a day starting this weekend, the Washington Post reports. I should be most surprised if he has the necessary stamina. Unless he takes stimulant drugs.

    Pat Robertson Says Trump Will Win—and that will begin The End Times. [Click]

    Utah gubernatorial candidates Spencer Cox (R) and Chris Peterson (D) appeared together in a joint ad to call for civility among voters.

    More people have now voted early in Texas than the number of people who voted for Donald Trump in Texas in 2016.

    Tech Donors Unleash $100 Million In Ads Against Trump [Click]

    CDC: Pandemic Has Caused Nearly 300K Excess Deaths in US [Click] Told ya so.

    Trump calls for assassination of Adam Schiff [Click] In the classic method of a mob boss.

    “Melania Trump is canceling her first campaign appearance in months because she is not feeling well as she continues to recover from Covid-19,” CNN reports. I really don’t care do u?

    Trump’s case against Omarosa exposes another problem: Unpaid legal bills [Click]

    Party-switcher puts Kansas Senate seat in play for Democrats [Click]
    Endorsed by Nancy Kassebaum! Only one published poll so far, August 5-9, and that was close (R 46, D 44).

    McConnell Warned White House Against Stimulus Deal [Click]

    Schumer Had ‘Long and Serious’ Talk with Feinstein [Click]

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    1. Thinking about Donald's three or four rallies a day---there isn't room in the news cycle to cover that many. But presumably if you've seen one of them, you've seen them all. It sounds frantic rather than effective.

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    2. It sounds desperate and mad.

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    1. Surely, it must be illegal for the President of the United States to have offshore bank accounts? Besides which, what kind of idiot has a bank account in China? It's a communist country, for Pete's sake. What the hell do they know about banking?

      ...unless that's where he's planning to seek asylum. Pretty sure no one else will take him, not even Uncle Vlad. I donno. Leavenworth's probably more comfortable than anything the Chinese can offer.

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    2. He has to have a place for people to deposit their graft payments.

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    3. Cat~~Have you really not noticed that these days China has some of the biggest, richest, most powerful companies in the world? Trump is trying to get 5G built without Huwei technology, and it's a challenge. Domestically, it's my impression that China is more classist than even the US.

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  7. Senate Will Vote on Barrett’s Confirmation Next Week

    October 20, 2020 at 3:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced he will call a vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court next Monday, October 26, Axios reports


    ^ That's my brothers 70th birthday. He's gonna be bummed.

    Hey, any good ideas for a gift for a 70 year old guy who's a Democrat?

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    1. A HALF pint of good whiskey?

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    2. A fifth of vodka? Or a pint of Ben & Jerry's, flavor of his choice?

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  8. Art Cullen: Feeling down about the state of America? Me too. But good news may be coming. [Click] But a small bottle of good (or even so-so) Scots whiskey still sounds good. Just to have on hand in case—of whatever. Maybe Irish as a nod to Joe Biden?

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    1. My personal recommendation would be Laphroaig Triple Wood. Especially if you like peat, although that is a little less peaty than regular Laphroaig, "the world's most controversial Scotch."

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    2. Purchased in small quantities on very rare occasions the price would be of little consequence. Thanks for the suggestion--I had never before heard of it.

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  9. New Battleground State Polls
    October 20, 2020 By Taegan Goddard

    From New York Times/Siena College:
    GEORGIA: Biden 45%, Trump 45%
    From Data Orbital:
    ARIZONA: Biden 47%, Trump 42%
    From Rasmussen Reports:
    OHIO: Biden 48%, Trump 47%
    From ABC News/Washington Post:
    NORTH CAROLINA: Biden 49%, Trump 48%
    From University of North Florida:
    FLORIDA: Biden 48%, Trump 47%
    From Reuters/Ipsos:
    MICHIGAN: Biden 51%, Trump 44%
    NORTH CAROLINA: Biden 49%, Trump 46%
    From East Carolina University:
    NORTH CAROLINA: Biden 51%, Trump 47%
    From Insider Advantage:
    IOWA: Biden 45%, Trump 44%
    From RMG Research:
    ARIZONA: Biden 47%, Trump 46%
    From CNBC/Change Research:
    ARIZONA: Biden 51%, Trump 45%
    FLORIDA: Biden 50%, Trump 45%
    MICHIGAN: Biden 51%, Trump 44%
    NORTH CAROLINA : Biden 50%, Trump 47%
    PENNSYLVANIA: Biden 49%, Trump 47%
    WISCONSIN: Biden 52%, Trump 44%

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  10. A Perfectly Cromulent Word | Merriam-Webster
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-cromulent-mean
    The word cromulent ended up in the script courtesy of a showrunner's challenge to the writers. According to the DVD commentary for The Simpsons, the showrunners asked the writers to come up with two nonce words that sounded like words that could be in actual use. Writer David X. Cohen came up with cromulent as one of those words. It means "acceptable" or "fine."

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  11. Vietnam is fighting Covid without pitting economic growth against public health [Click] Tran Le Thuy: My country seemed to have all the ingredients for a coronavirus disaster, so what has it done right?

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