Friday Stuff

David Doel explains here why the 2020 presidential race is effectively over; it sounds like the AP got burned a bit for calling the Arizona vote a little early, so that’s why they’re all waiting until the very last minute now, and I’m fine with that (with the AZ call raising the ire of the Trump gang, which is less and less of a concern with each passing second, happily)...



...and yeah, this is pretty damn hilarious – David Pakman tells about the Gropenfuhrer’s alleged spiritual counselor Paula White trying to cast some kind of a spell to turn electoral defeat into victory...yeah, you just keep trying that and let me know if it works somehow, OK?...



...and John Iadarola and Brett Erlich tells us that there will be 2 runoff U.S. Senate contests in Georgia coming up next January; I can’t stomach the thought of ANOTHER election any time soon, but it’s nice that we have a shot, however slim, of denying the Senate to “The Grim Reaper” (more here...to help, click here)...



...and this Now This clip tells us that African American support may have slightly increased for Our-Soon-To-Be-Departing Orange Pustule-In-Chief, though apparently the data is in dispute somewhat (great ideas about improving voting in this country, and I would add a federal motor-voter law with immediate voting registration when you register for a driver’s license)...



...and speaking of Arizona, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 11/5/08; what follows is the concession speech from Republican U.S. Senator (and war hero of course) John McCain after his presidential loss to Barack Obama; I don’t believe you will EVER see such class epitomized by a member of his party in a similar circumstance again (love to be wrong, but I’m not holding my breath)...

...and at some point soon, I'm going to come up with an admittedly long, boring meta post on the 2020 election, but I'm holding off for now because some stuff hasn't been decided yet (or at least, not been officially pronounced). However, there is ONE contest where I can speak my mind for sure, and it has to do with Alabama. And I have a special message for everyone who had anything to do with sending Tommy Tuberville to the U.S. Senate (someone who, aside from Trump himself, might be the furthest removed from John McCain in terms of courage, character and intelllect as anyone from his party); do you seriously know what you fools have just done?

Yeah, yeah, I know the odds were very long against Dem incumbent Doug Jones, who won a special election because even Roy Moore hanging out in shopping malls in pursuit of teenage girls a third of his age was too much for you. But I think I should familiarize you with the guy who soon will step down, after serving commendably, since apparently (for some reason) his story is unfamiliar to you.

As noted here, before elected to the Senate, he served as a federal prosecutor; his most successful cases involved obtaining guilty verdicts for two Ku Klux Klan members accused in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls. Jones also secured the indictment of domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph, convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay-motivated bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed three people and injured 150 others, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

THAT is the guy you just effectively fired, you meat heads! And in his place, you elected a college football coach notably infamous for quitting on his teams and who didn't even know what the Voting Rights Act was (here).

So this goes out to all of you "Cotton State" knuckle draggers. Prepare to reap the whirlwind of your monstrous ignorance for the next six long years (sorry, no Lynyrd Skynyrd today - actually, I'm NOT sorry).



Update 11/8/20: Just add this to the pile - sigh.

Update 11/13/20: So far beyond an embarrassment (here) - I have a feeling there will be A LOT of updates.