“To launch the final week of the campaign, last night the president held a rally at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, in near-freezing temperatures. The campaign bussed attendees to the site from parking lots about three miles away, but when the rally was over and Trump had headed off on Air Force One, the buses could not navigate the crowded road and rally-goers were stranded. By the time the last people were finally rescued, 30 people needed medical attention.”
But don’t worry...this was followed by Pence going to Wisconsin to hold a big rally, in a state whose hospitals are struggling to cope with cases. It only matters that the candidates are safe, right?
The cheap pen that changed writing forever [Click] The Bic pen is truly quite an invention—but I wrote so much that I developed repetitive stress injuries in my hand from it because of the necessity of pressing down on a ballpoint pen to make it write. Lately I have been using my Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen again. When I first used it, while I was working, I had two or three accidents with it, but that was under circumstances where I had to do multiple tasks simultaneously and quickly, using multiple pens. Now that I write far less, I have no accidents. Not only is the nib retractable, when it is withdrawn into the body of the pen a little operculum closes over it to keep it from drying out. They say that prevents leaking on an airplane flight, but I can’t testify one way or the other about that. It’s a dandy pen. Thanks to the Internet, one can order directly from pen shops in Japan for about a third of the US retail price—a significant saving.
The View from Inside Trumpworld [Click] Underscoring the true uncertainty in Trumpworld, Ashley Parker asked a Trump adviser for their gut sense on what will happen on Election Day. The response: “If you put a gun to my head, I’d say, ‘Shoot.'”
In case you wondered (like me): (Per Wikipedia) Ashley R. Parker is an American journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning White House reporter for The Washington Post, and senior political analyst for MSNBC. From 2011 to 2017 she was a Washington-based politics reporter for The New York Times.
“After talking with him I came away with the sense that Trump is not just toast, but burnt toast. [Click] Click through to the underlying interview in Vanity Fair; it’s a good read. Here’s the money quote:
Bottom line? “Trump would need to win all of the states that are really close in the polls right now: Florida, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina. Those are prerequisites for a Trump victory. And then he’s gotta break through in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Arizona to have a pathway to replicating his success in 2016. And right now that’s just very hard to see.”
A Florida woman in labor made her husband take a detour from the hospital to vote, WFLA reports. Said an elections worker: “She was calm. The husband was a little more nervous.” ===================== Multiple attendees of President Trump’s rally in Tampa passed out due to the intense heat, as a truck blasted water at the crowd, NBC News reports. The event comes two days after seven people who attended Trump’s rally in Omaha were hospitalized due to exposure to near-freezing temperatures. ================================== 21 Endings to the Trump Show [Click]
Vanity Fair compiles 21 fever dream endings to The Trump Show, including this one from Anthony Scaramucci:
“As the results come in on Election Night, it becomes clear that Vice President Biden has won in a landslide. Trump becomes overcome with fear about going to prison for his multitude of crimes. He tries to hide under the Resolute Desk, but he doesn’t fit. Thus, he retreats to the White House bunker, where he stays until Biden’s inauguration. When Trump refuses to leave the bunker, aides coax him out with a Big Mac® combo meal. With his personal plane repossessed by his creditors, he’s forced to take a Greyhound bus down to Mar-a-Lago. He lives out his days tweeting furiously between rounds of golf and bingo.”
With regard to the first part of the post: It continues to puzzle me why people keep going to Trump's rallies. Don't they see the news coverage of what happens at and after them? More broadly, what's the appeal? He's hardly the Great Prophet Zarquon. [click]
Reich says Warren shouldn't get a cabinet post and I agree, since it would mean her seat being filled by our Republican gov. The last time that happened, we got Scott Brown. *shudder*
In the side bar I note a link to the story "CDC warns of aggressive cannibal rats facing shortage of garbage to eat." The coronavirus pandemic isn't causing problems just for humans.
Kavanaugh tweaks voting opinion after Vermont official asks for correction
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/vermont-kavanaugh-voting/index.html?ofs=fbia
Thank you, Jim Condos! Vermont leadership has integrity.
Yep, good on Vermont!
DeleteToday we learned that Condos is dissatisfied with Kavanaugh’s correction, as it didn’t go far enough.
Delete“To launch the final week of the campaign, last night the president held a rally at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, in near-freezing temperatures. The campaign bussed attendees to the site from parking lots about three miles away, but when the rally was over and Trump had headed off on Air Force One, the buses could not navigate the crowded road and rally-goers were stranded. By the time the last people were finally rescued, 30 people needed medical attention.”
ReplyDeletehttps://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-28-2020?r=a0zry&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
But don’t worry...this was followed by Pence going to Wisconsin to hold a big rally, in a state whose hospitals are struggling to cope with cases. It only matters that the candidates are safe, right?
Gee, what else could matter?
DeleteIn Florida, today, it was so hot that some people at DT’s rally passed out. The crowd was blasted with a water hose.
DeleteTrump’s job approval may indicate his electoral support. [Click] But the question of whether the country is on the right or the wrong course has historically been a far stronger indicator, and despite some recent improvement among Republicans, Trump remains in the certain doom range on that question. [Click]
ReplyDeleteCertain doom. I like it!
DeleteFight for Senate Tied Closely to White House Race [Click] Few plan to split tickets.
ReplyDeleteYessss!!
DeleteClear evidence that masks decrease COVID spread [Click]
ReplyDeleteGee, d'ya think?
DeleteWell, I kinda had a suspicion.
Delete'Biggest thing to happen to renters since WWII': why this US eviction expert is optimistic [Click]
ReplyDeleteThe cheap pen that changed writing forever [Click] The Bic pen is truly quite an invention—but I wrote so much that I developed repetitive stress injuries in my hand from it because of the necessity of pressing down on a ballpoint pen to make it write. Lately I have been using my Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen again. When I first used it, while I was working, I had two or three accidents with it, but that was under circumstances where I had to do multiple tasks simultaneously and quickly, using multiple pens. Now that I write far less, I have no accidents. Not only is the nib retractable, when it is withdrawn into the body of the pen a little operculum closes over it to keep it from drying out. They say that prevents leaking on an airplane flight, but I can’t testify one way or the other about that. It’s a dandy pen. Thanks to the Internet, one can order directly from pen shops in Japan for about a third of the US retail price—a significant saving.
ReplyDeleteThe Vanishing Point pen also has an excellent pocket clip- an important feature for me.
DeleteSounds like a neat pen.
DeleteEr, do you use pocket protectors, Alan?
/duck and run/
Nope, never did. Had an open-carry slide rule, though.
DeleteOHIO: COVID cases 208,937 and 5,275 deaths.
ReplyDeleteNew Battleground State Polls
ReplyDeleteOctober 29, 2020 at 7:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
From Public Policy Polling:
GEORGIA: Biden 48%, Trump 46%
From NBC News/Marist:
FLORIDA: Biden 51%, Trump 47%
From SurveyUSA:
MAINE: Biden 53%, Trump 40%
MAINE 2: Biden 49%, Trump 46%
More Battleground State Polls
October 29, 2020 at 2:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
From Quinnipiac University:
FLORIDA: Biden 45%, Trump 42%
IOWA: Trump 47%, Biden 46%
OHIO: Biden 48%, Trump 43%
PENNSYLVANIA: Biden 51%, Trump 44%
From Monmouth University:
FLORIDA: Biden 51%, Trump 45%
From New York Times/Siena:
NORTH CAROLINA: Biden 48%, Trump 45%
From University of Massachusetts Lowell:
NORTH CAROLINA: Biden 48%, Trump 48%
The View from Inside Trumpworld [Click]
ReplyDeleteUnderscoring the true uncertainty in Trumpworld, Ashley Parker asked a Trump adviser for their gut sense on what will happen on Election Day.
The response: “If you put a gun to my head, I’d say, ‘Shoot.'”
In case you wondered (like me): (Per Wikipedia) Ashley R. Parker is an American journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning White House reporter for The Washington Post, and senior political analyst for MSNBC. From 2011 to 2017 she was a Washington-based politics reporter for The New York Times.
VT: 2141 (+21)
ReplyDelete58deaths (93days)
296 active cases
Recovered 1778 (+10)
In Hospital 6 (-1)
Tests 188,102 (+1065)
California projected an October surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. It didn't happen. [Click]
ReplyDeleteGoing back in time a little:
ReplyDeleteAlan in CA10/26/2020 11:00:00 PM
“After talking with him I came away with the sense that Trump is not just toast, but burnt toast. [Click] Click through to the underlying interview in Vanity Fair; it’s a good read. Here’s the money quote:
Bottom line?
“Trump would need to win all of the states that are really close in the polls right now: Florida, Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina. Those are prerequisites for a Trump victory. And then he’s gotta break through in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Arizona to have a pathway to replicating his success in 2016. And right now that’s just very hard to see.”
Encouraging, I admit.
DeleteThree items from politicalwire.com:
ReplyDeleteA Florida woman in labor made her husband take a detour from the hospital to vote, WFLA reports. Said an elections worker: “She was calm. The husband was a little more nervous.”
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Multiple attendees of President Trump’s rally in Tampa passed out due to the intense heat, as a truck blasted water at the crowd, NBC News reports. The event comes two days after seven people who attended Trump’s rally in Omaha were hospitalized due to exposure to near-freezing temperatures.
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21 Endings to the Trump Show [Click]
Vanity Fair compiles 21 fever dream endings to The Trump Show, including this one from Anthony Scaramucci:
“As the results come in on Election Night, it becomes clear that Vice President Biden has won in a landslide. Trump becomes overcome with fear about going to prison for his multitude of crimes. He tries to hide under the Resolute Desk, but he doesn’t fit. Thus, he retreats to the White House bunker, where he stays until Biden’s inauguration. When Trump refuses to leave the bunker, aides coax him out with a Big Mac® combo meal. With his personal plane repossessed by his creditors, he’s forced to take a Greyhound bus down to Mar-a-Lago. He lives out his days tweeting furiously between rounds of golf and bingo.”
Lord help me, it's cruel, but I can't help laughing.
DeleteHaving read the lot of them, I think that is the best.
DeleteWith regard to the first part of the post: It continues to puzzle me why people keep going to Trump's rallies. Don't they see the news coverage of what happens at and after them? More broadly, what's the appeal? He's hardly the Great Prophet Zarquon. [click]
DeleteJim Jones was a lot better looking, too.
DeleteHi guys,
ReplyDeleteFeeling much better today. Thanks for the good wishes on the last thread.
Also, Listener, thanks for the numbers on the last thread.
Yay!!
DeleteIt’s Wil’s turn for a flu shot tomorrow.
Walmart removes guns, ammunition from store displays ahead of election amid concerns of civil unrest [Click]
ReplyDeleteBut you can still buy them, right? So it's just window dressing, or undressing. :P
DeleteAvalanche of Fraud Buried Small Business Relief Program [Click]
ReplyDeletePerdue Bails Out of Final Debate [Click]
ReplyDeleteFake ‘Intelligence’ Document Set Up Hunter Biden Story [Click]
ReplyDeleteIt's too late. Still, I'm glad that has been established.
DeleteWarren Wants to Be Treasury Secretary [Click] OK by me, as long as Bernie gets Labor or Commerce.
ReplyDeleteMaybe for geographical balance, a Texan for some other cabinet post? Jim Hightower or Kinky Friedman, for instance?
DeleteReich says Warren shouldn't get a cabinet post and I agree, since it would mean her seat being filled by our Republican gov. The last time that happened, we got Scott Brown. *shudder*
DeletePoint well taken.
DeleteOn a somewhat different note:
ReplyDeleteHe couldn't move': New York City man falls into sinkhole full of rats [Click]
Dear God! That poor man!
DeleteI certainly hope whatever agency is in charge of sidewalk maintenance will cover all his expenses! And then some.
DeleteIn the side bar I note a link to the story "CDC warns of aggressive cannibal rats facing shortage of garbage to eat." The coronavirus pandemic isn't causing problems just for humans.
Delete2 people who attended Trump's rally in North Carolina have tested positive for coronavirus
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/politics/trump-rally-covid-north-carolina-trnd/index.html
Many counties that hosted Trump rallies had a significant increase in Covid-19 cases
Deletehttps://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/health/covid-trump-rallies-counties-cases/index.html
Ya don't say. :P
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