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I normally would vote in-person, and this year in particular I am worried my vote won't count if it is not in person, but I am voting mail-in as some of my family is too high-risk for me to go and possibly catch it.

Meanwhile he was already exposing people at the White House yesterday: Someone on Twitter compared the whole damn mess to this scene (aside from their wearing masks...):

I wonder how much the reports that their money is going into the pockets of grifters and the dealers of grifters also affected their choices. They used this argument in 2016, and it worked. I just hope people don't fall for it this time. I have no patience with "we need divided government because then everyone will work together!" people. Unfortunately, that is Beltway 101, so expect a lot of gushing press pieces extolling this idea. Speaking of that, I have no idea why Tom Davis, who accomplished nothing of value in office and worked under some of the most repulsive figures ever in Congress (Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert) continues to be trotted out. Get some new cocktail party friends, people.

So we are where we always were - nothing happening, McConnell and Trump never planning to do anything, but the media happily chasing its own tail and ignoring many other more serious problems because their Republican overlords dangle doggy treats. I'm sure they're satisfied with themselves, but maybe now they can move on to actually caring about the people.

Mushmouth Greta Van Susteren, long-faded from any relevance, has decided to get attention by doing what Republicans do best - pretending to care about sexism. The only upside of this is the exposure of just how dangerous her money remains, even if she now has about as much influence as that moron Ken Bone who also decided to suck up headlines today. And of course, she's a hypocrite:

@Vee

Terrible aftermath, with the factory war and that ghoulish DVD of him in the hospital that convinced Alya to give the factory back.

I would have paired her up with someone age-appropriate, like the drunk teenager Faith counseled who disappeared after the strike. (the strike people actually tried to give Faith something interesting to do...we couldn't have that!!!) Everything that Labine and Mayer gave Kim to do tended to gross me out.

Yes. As @amybrickwallace said, Labine mentioned being very upset about his being killed off, as she seemed to have a high opinion of the triangle. Personally it all made me feel gross and I loathed Michael and Kimberly, but I guess most loved them, I don't know.

Mitch put the initial bug in his ear in their phone call, and then he flails around as he can never be fully controlled. It all ends up in the same place though - some nebulous fantasy world where these men ruin everything but the window is always left open enough to where the "both sides" or "out of touch elite Democrats don't care about us" people can point fingers for their own motive and profit. Ideally, his very clear statement earlier will make most people finally see sense - I'd like to think that when I still see morons on various boards or Twitter who claim to hate Trump but still try to blame Pelosi, they are running some sort of con.

It's all just a sick game he and McConnell are playing. Yet that it keeps going around, even though none of them want to actually pass the bill, means that the possibility even existing allows the nonsense idea that it's all Pelosi's fault to continue to be in the air. It's their ideal way of making sure Democrats get blame for what happens now and if Biden is in office, then as well. Let's just hope people, beyond the usual fauxgressives anyway, don't fall for it.

Kate Oates did a terrible job with the Aidan story and likely would have done a terrible job with Ashley's too. She is overrated and overextended.

That's pretty much what I said before, that McConnell was doing this to replay what they did to Obama. I don't think we were in disagreement. Where we disagreed was the idea that Trump was just doing this on his own because of mood swings or what have you.

I knew it. I knew it. It's a sick game designed to give Biden and Democrats in the next Congress the worst possible hand, blaming them for Trump's failed economy and all of the people who are suffering and dying and will continue to suffer and die until January. McConnell gets endless gushing and fawning for how brilliant and clever he is, and why can't Democrats be like him, and so on, but this is why. He is a monster. He is murdering thousands and thousands of people, killing them in cold blood.

The other speculation I've seen - and I think it may be true - is McConnell and Trump know that if they get that seat, they can easily steal the election, even in a landslide win. So if Covid Barrett gets on, then nothing else may matter. If that is the case, then making people even more poor won't matter.

I see what you're saying, but McConnell and Mark Meadows have been trying to shut down any relief talks for a while, haven't they? McConnell has seemingly just only cared about getting Amy Covid Barrett and other judges through, nothing else.

I have to wonder if McConnell, who never wanted to pass this, egged him on, assuming Trump will lose - this way the economy will be desolate by the time Biden is in office, and they will, along with the media, spend 24/7 blaming him, just as they blamed Obama for W's dead economy.

I don't understand why all of the joint chiefs of staff being quarantined would be publicized - that's kind of dangerous.

I think an address is inevitable, as are the "Trump's back!" hot takes. His cultists and many in the press will eat it up. I can't begin to guess about the overall public. The biggest problem is he's repulsive - he's always looked like something that got caught in a toilet, but now he looks like something that was yanked out of the toilet and left to bake outside. He can barely speak. He gives off skeevy vibes. And the "trolling" persona that the Jonestown residents love falls flatter when you see how visibly exhausted he is and has been for some time now. Whatever he says or does, I do expect things to tighten, especially if, as I am seeing some speculation about on Twitter, the recent poll results are mostly just his supporters not responding rather than a larger shift toward Biden. They will come back. But Biden does still have a steady lead, and hopefully that can be maintained if voter suppression does not carry the day. There are so many voter suppression stories we aren't even hearing about.

She doesn't need to have closeups of her face.

I laughed when I saw the usual hatemongers going on about "now who's divisive?" That's being honest, not divisive. Michelle has always been honest about this country, and she likely only held her tongue more when Obama was President because of the racist hatred she, her husband and their children received. I hope she keeps being so blunt and they can just choke on it. As for the polls, my main worry right now is all the voter suppression and how many people are voting by mail, which can easily be thrown out. Hopefully Trump is so clearly dangerous at this point that even the people who constantly need to remind us that they are morally superior and hate both candidates will see the need to vote for Biden.

Oh that liberal media.

Please tell anyone you know in SC. (any Democrat, anyway...)

Meanwhile, "Team Trump," that fatheaded, closet case sot Gaetz, and Blair Warner's ugly sister who was handed a Senate seat in Georgia are all tweeting out grotesque memes that essentially call all the people who died from COVID losers. This is the party that runs all levers of power. This is what we are. And there is no bottom.

The grand return for the media, as likely planned for days now. And the media will likely replay these images over and over and over and over, even as they claim to be appalled. Biden needs to cancel the remaining debates.