Election 2022: Democrats Are Going To Win Again

[Gregg]

Just got an update from Root Beer and the squad of His Illuminated Majesty's finest Longhairs tasked keeping the Symposium from finding the truth.

Early this morning, Donuts were served at the buffet. It was wiener pandemonium. You just cannot control a squad of hungry Dachshunds offered a table of donuts. Its best just to let 'em go and call ServPro to clean up the mess.

[Foggy]

Oh man, don't let 'em get in the Virtual Drunk Tank.

[Luke]

Thank you to the noble and brave 699th for executing this dangerous Mission behind enemy lines!

While Lt. Root Beer was there, looks like Wiener Pandemonium Phase II happened -- now Mike Lindell's plane is "broken". He says it's God, we say it's Pup-peroni and donuts. Another Triumph for His Illuminated Majesty.

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It's getting Likes but one Trumper is being resistant, we'll wear her down.

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[RTH10260]

Lindell's plane grounded? I know of a spare unit standing around at another airport, just needs some minor refurbishing. Peanuts for a millionaire...

[Gregg]

Trump humper Mike Lindell's Plane disabled in wiener dog raid
"It was terrible! Their were vicious Dachshunds falling from the sky like a demon rain! "

A Spokespup for the 699th Airborne Assault Dachshund Regiment had no comment on the matter.

[Luke]

We know you and the 699th only speak the truth, Gregg!








Some imposters are trying to confuse people but we all know the truth.


It’s a New Dawning for America @QuispMe 4h
Replying to @ZTPetrizzo and @SollenbergerRC
I have actual footage of the demons that Zachary sent to sabotage Lindell’s airplane!

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Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros.








BONUS:

Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut
We no longer have a two party system. We have the Democrats and the Republicans..... and then there’s the majority... that’s US. The Republican have some work to do to win us back.
5:23 PM · Aug 31, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Replying to @atensnut
OrlyLicious @Orly_licious 37s
Exactly, Juanita. Where is the spineless #GOP? #Republicans are doing Nothing. But they expect everybody to run out and vote for them again. They're due for a rude awakening and that includes Ronna Romney. Many people are saying they're boycotting #Election2022, hard to argue.

[Slim Cognito]

Trump humper Mike Lindell's Plane disabled in wiener dog raid
"It was terrible! Their were vicious Dachshunds falling from the sky like a demon rain! "

A Spokespup for the 699th Airborne Assault Dachshund Regiment had no comment on the matter.

The first round of Pupparoni is on me.

[Slim Cognito]

'Lish, you are so bad. But that's what we love about you.

[Luke]

Let's make it happen!!

[Dave from down under]

US politics and political systems are weird...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-10/ ... /100446366

Welcome to your weekly run-down of all the big news, strange rules and interesting happenings from the world of US politics.

It started with a bear, a contestant on an Australian reality TV show, an adult actress and a Democratic governor under pressure.

But next Wednesday AEST, it'll come down to that same Democratic governor under pressure and a conservative talk show host who only jumped in the race a few weeks ago.

Plus, the bear is still there.

[Luke]

Cross posting from COVIDIOTS. On Joy Reid's show, David Plouffe and Jason Johnson talk about the potential bonanza of votes for Democrats in 2022 from those who are responsible about COVID and were vaccinated. Last night's California exit poll shows 65% felt being vaxxed was a Public Health Responsibility. If the GOP is just going to pander to their 35% hard core, there a huge opportunity... as David Plouffe says, instead of 51%, Democrats can go after 2/3 of the electorate. He makes the point that if Democrats can pick up 4-5% on Seniors, that would be massive. And they are all vaxxed and probably not thrilled the GOP wants to spread COVID. While we have to keep fighting the voter supression, #CARecall was a great example of what we may well see in 2022. Democrats will keep the House and Senate.

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Here's the transcript in spoiler:

► Show Spoiler

MSNBC’s The ReidOut
09/15/21
6:59:42 p.m.
15 minutes and 12 seconds

JOY REID: We begin The ReidOut tonight with a message to Republicans: Okay, we get it! Covid is the precious and you love it. You love Covid so much you want it to spread into schools, in the office, in the Walmart, on the cruise ships, and at the club. That great, spongy ball with the red spikes. You want it pumping through your veins with an ivermectin chaser. Why do you love it so dadgum much? Well, we have absolutely no bloody idea. But here's the thing, you weirdos. Everyone else, everyone else hates Covid. It is ravaging classrooms and hospitals across the nation like in southern Illinois where zero ICU beds are available. Similar shortages are happening all over the south, including in Alabama where a man's family said he died after being turned away from 43 hospitals. While in South Carolina, 20 children need critical care due to Covid-19. And do you see this beautiful couple? They both died in their 30s from Covid, leaving behind five kids, including a newborn daughter. So yeah, the rest of us hate that this is happening. Even the Pope. The Pope hates Covid too, and he loves everybody. He also says get vaccinated. Yet, you — you Republicans seem to be a-okay with Covid running wild. And then you came for California, trying to boot a Democratic governor from a blue state and hand it over to the Covid candidate.

[LARRY ELDER CLIP]

REID: If misinformation could kill. It all helps to explain why Governor Gavin Newsom beat the recall effort and by a lot, winning support from more than 60 percent of the electorate. According to exit polls, the most important issue for voters was the coronavirus and when asked about the governor's job on Covid, 65 percent said his policies were about right or not strict enough. So Republicans, your thirst for Covid is why you lost. Nobody likes your policies that threaten our safety and our kids. You, you may want Covid. You may want to ingest horse dewormer and attend far too many funerals, but we, we don't. And instead of just saying that or tweeting that or fighting about that, California voted that. It is perhaps the first real tangible proof that your creepy little Covid-loving death cult ways are not going to work for you at the ballot box next year. In fact, it's political suicide and also apparently talk radio suicide because your brilliant little Covid plan is killing your right-wing hosts. The majority of us Americans want things like, I don't know, better infrastructure, good schools, gun reform, jobs and the right to vote. You know what else we want? We want to live. Not die from Covid. [INTRODUCES PANE] David, you're the political guru, not me. So, I don't know everything about politics, David, but I do know that being the people on the side of Covid strikes me as bad politics. Are you surprised that Republicans have seemed to embracing Covid as the precious and trying to get it into every school building, cruise ship, job place, Walmart, Texaco, everywhere? They're trying to get it in everywhere. Are you surprised that that turns out to be not so great politics?

DAVID PLOUFFE: Joy, sadly nothing surprises me anymore. But yeah, last night the recall is the first test post-2020 of how this may play out and I know everybody says California is unique, the recall certainly is unique. I hope we never have another one, but if you look at what

happened. So, out here, they're called no party preference voters — NPP, but they're independents. About 90 percent of them, so the exit polls suggest Newsom won them over 2-1. The Newsom campaigns believe they won over Republicans in the Bay Area by over 20 percent and did very well down south. So, if you're looking at '22, I think Democrats should have a more expansive view of the votes that are available to them and it's basically the vaccinated. So, you’re talking — you're not going to get all of them. But when you talk about, hey, you're fishing in a pond of two-thirds as opposed to just like 54 percent, 55 percent, I think, you can make progress. And the Republicans clearly are going to continue to dig in and dig in and dig in. And I think, you know, ultimately it's a tragedy for the country, it's a tragedy for people, for families, for businesses. But this shows that we can never again have leadership in power who doesn't take something like a pandemic seriously. So, yeah, I think last night was really, really important and we have to carry some of the lessons from the recall out to the rest of the country. And certainly in governors' races where you've had Democratic governors doing the right thing, a bunch of Republican governors — with some exceptions — but DeSantis being a good example doing the wrong things, you have to make them pay a price for that.

REID: Indeed. Not even taking the pandemic seriously, Jason, but seeming to embrace the pandemic and seeming to want to push the pandemic and make it worse and say, “we want Covid.” They actually seem to want it in their lives and among their kids. I have to show this heat map. This is an incredible pair of maps. Look at the screen, everyone.

JASON JOHNSON: Yeah, yeah.

REID: This is a map in which you can see the blue, it's counterintuitive, but the blue on the map on to my left — the screen left is where people voted yes, recall Governor Newsom. On the right side, my screen right, the red down the middle is the Covid hot spots. So basically, Jason, where people wanted to recall Newsom is where's the most Covid. So, they’re like, “give us more.
Inject it in us. Is there a way we can drink it in a kool-aid cup? Because we want it. And we want it bad and we want this man to get out of our way and we want our Covid.” It's insane.

JOHNSON: They — they want their Covid, they want their iodine, they want their ivermectin, they want it injected into their rears. Whatever it is that these people want, I don't entirely understand. And — and Joy, look, I am — I am — I am stressing my brain to go back throughout history. I don't know if it's the old Republican Party, the old Democratic Party, the wig party, I don't remember a party being successful saying, “we're for smallpox.”

REID: Exactly.

JOHNSON: “We're for scurvy.” REID: Smallpox! Smallpox!
JOHNSON: I don't know that's ever happened. Right — right. A pox party, yes. Pox upon all houses, right? I don't think that's a good plan. But — but here's the caution I have to have about California so people understand. It is incredibly easy to vote in California. They — they sent mail

ballots to everybody, right? There were apps that you could use. There was information available. So, yes, in an equal measure on a neutral playing field, the failure of Republicans to address Covid should be a huge boon for Democrats in 2022 —

REID: Yes.

JOHNSON: — but that's only in a state where voting is reasonably easy and accessible. So, that’s not going to be the case in Florida, it’s not going to be the case in Texas, and it won’t be the case in Georgia.

REID: Well, that's why they're going to make it hard because I think that Ron DeSantis — look. He may be — may be a sociopath. We don't know what his pathology is, but he's not stupid and I think that he understands that if he is going to inflict death on schoolchildren, he's going to have to make it real hard for their parents to vote, right? And they're going to do, Republicans, anything they can in the states where they, for whatever reason, these governors love Covid. They heart Covid. This is how they feel about Covid. They want to spread it but also know they can't get re-elected because the majority of people probably feel like this. This is a California exit poll but I doubt that it's different in any other state. 65 percent of people in that exit poll said that they believe getting vaccinated is a public health responsibility. Only 32 percent said they think it's a personal choice. That exit poll also showed people wanted more strict policy, not less strict policy cause most people want their lives back. You had this — what is the guy's name here, who said that he wanted — Dan Crenshaw. Dan Crenshaw, Republican, said: I’m “honestly curious,” he said “why Californians wouldn't want some balance in their government. Works well in deep blue states like Massachusetts and Maryland, both with Republican governors.” Charlie Baker and Larry Hogan are the governors of those states. But David, they're not insane. They're not saying, “more Covid. Covid in your schools.” They're not -- they're not pushing Covid. So the divided government —

PLOUFFE: Right.

REID: — argument in my mind won't work for Republicans this time around. Do you agree?

PLOUFFE: Well, by the way, Joy, any Republican who's been responsible in the pandemic is at great risk of losing a primary. That's where we are.

REID: That too.

JOHNSON: Yeah.

PLOUFFE: Yeah. So, I think that there's a third of the people out here in California who voted for the recall. There's a third of the people who say it should be a personal choice. Yes, the Republicans are making it harder to vote so that third has more power in general elections. But let's make no mistake, that third or 30 percent, that hardcore MAGA base, they're going to drive Republican politics and, therefore, a big part of our country's dynamic for a very, very long time And they're not going anywhere.

JOHNSON: Right.

PLOUFFE: But I think at the end of the day, Jason makes a good point about voting. But I think the other thing to watch carefully, listen, when you're in a swing district or a swing state and you think the race is going to be like 51-49, you've got to scratch and claw for every advantage. And one thing to watch is let's look at Florida. I think we're not even at 55 percent, 58 percent fully vaccinated. But 90 percent of people over 65 are.

REID: Yes.

PLOUFFE: So here's people who have been vaccinated. And this is true all over the country. You know, Joy, Florida very well, joy. They're safe, they're happy to be vaccinated.

REID: Yep.

PLOUFFE: They like their kids and their grandkids to be vaccinated and I think you could make some inroads with seniors over this issue. You know, Biden did better than Hillary did in 2020, but I think now we might have an opportunity. I don't want to overstate it, I'm not saying we're going to win seniors by 20 points. But if you just overperform there by four or five points, because these are people who are less, I think, sensitive to disinformation because they took the vaccine.

REID: Right.

PLOUFFE: Even if they had questions, and they are healthy, and they're safe. REID: Yes.
PLOUFFE: And so I would watch this very carefully. Can Democrats overperform with voters over 65 just by two or three points and that could make an enormous difference in a midterm election.

REID: Yeah, Jason, you know I'm the biggest Florida skeptic when it comes to elections there because they are difficult. And we know David knows how to win it because he did it before with President Obama. But Florida can be won but it is always close. And that is my question to you, Jason. Because the Democratic Party in Florida is not exactly always super savvy about these things, right? But there is a case that could be made, it's about also candidate choice, potentially Charlie Crist is on the ballot or potentially the current agricultural secretary, Nikki Fried. Both of them are very aggressive about making the case about kids and that might be the case that needs to be made. Obviously, Val Demings being on that Senate — on the senate side of that race, have Democrats maybe stumbled upon the right issue and the right potential candidates who could make that case? Charlie Crist used to be in charge of education in Florida, you know, in addition to being governor. So if it's about children, that might be a smarter way to play it.

JASON JOHNSON: I wish I could say that Americans in general cared about children, but after

Parkland, not seeing massive gun control in that state doesn't necessarily lead me to believe if you're not concerned about random maniacs coming in and shooting kids in school, most people aren't going to be as concerned as they need to be about a virus that makes kids sick and makes them, you know, possibly be in a hospital and some of them actually dying. I will say this, though, about Florida. Little Marco, Sleepy Joe, Slick Willie, there is no worse nickname in politics than Ron DeathSantis, right? Like, like that sticks.

REID: Fair.

JOHNSON: It sounds terrible and that is a name that he has earned for himself. REID: Yeah.
JOHNSON: If the Democrats can turn, and this is what didn't happen in California, that if the Democrats can make it a referendum on DeSantis rather than a choice, between DeSantis and whoever the Democrat is, they might be able to pull it off. You never want a referendum on yourself as the incumbent especially when you fail the way he has.

REID: I gotta let — let our expert here, David, what do you think about that — about that strategy?

PLOUFFE: Well, listen, we have to improve our performance in Miami-Dade, as you know. That being said —

REID: Yeah.

PLOUFFE: I think it's way too early to give up on Florida. First of all, in a presidential race, it's too many electoral votes. And I think you can piece this together with the right candidates. And I think you’re right. I think we have some interesting ones. But yeah, I think these governors, legislative leaders who have stood in the way of vaccinations, who belittled Covid, who don't want masks in school. I mean, here's the thing, we're basically two-thirds of the country in support of mask mandates in schools. So again, they're speaking to their sick, perverted one-third of the country, you know, that gets injected by Fox News and Sinclair and Breitbart, all this stuff.

REID: Yeah.

PLOUFFE: Listen, I believe today, Joy, the only country that has a worse Covid outbreak than the United States is Mongolia. So if you can't make something of that politically as tragic as that is, maybe you don't deserve to be in politics and I think one thing is Newsom made this campaign about vaccines and Covid.

REID: He did.

PLOUFFE: And I think Democrats need to make these campaigns. Of course, because it's not just Covid, it's the economy, it's education —

REID: It’s the economy.

PLOUFFE: — it's all the things we care about. REID: Yes, yes. It's getting your life back — JOHNSON: Right. Schools and everything.
REID: — and that has always been Biden's best issue. It is every Democrats' best issue. I've got to go to you on this, Jason. Cause the one thing I'm expert in, is what West Indians — older West Indians rebuking and scolding you in the — and this happened in Trinidad where — do we have the audio of it or do we just have a headline? We might just have a headline. Trinidad and Tobago's health minister said unfortunately we wasted a lot of time yesterday running down this false claim. That’s the best I can do in my Trinidadian accent. And he said, you know, we wasted a lot of time. He rebuked the idea that somebody's cajones were extremely largo in Trinidad and Tobago because of the vaccine. Your thoughts.

JOHNSON: Can I just point out how ridiculous — like I said, I tweeted this. No one can ever say disinformation isn't real. They wasted government resources because of a crazy story that Nicki Minaj told and now she’s sitting here, cozying up with Tucker Carlson. This is why she lost to the people’s champ, Cardi B. Because nobody who cares about their fans, supporters or Covid would want to align themselves with tucker Carlson, especially against some nonsense that’s killing black people at a higher rate than any other group — any other people in this country.

REID: So, I’m going to be just contrarian a little bit. I actually, you know, Tucker Carlson said he wanted to do a deep investigative report on the — the cajones.

JOHNSON: On swollen something?

REID: On the swollen cajones. And I think he should do that. I want him to go down there like he went to Victor Orban and I want him to talk with that gentleman and find out why it is that the — that his future wife left him and just how large these melons were. I think he should find out.

JOHNSON: Right.

REID: It's an investigative report that we need. Go and do it, Tucker. I know you wanna. You really, really wanna. Alright, thank you very much. David Plouffe, Jason Johnson, let me stop before we get in trouble. Thank you guys.

Here's the MSNBC segment:

[Uninformed]

The linked article contains a breakdown by party.

[Uninformed]

Continuing with the glum approach:

[Luke]

Thanks Uninformed, hadn't heard Beau before (his Twitter is at https://twitter.com/BeauTFC for those that don't know).

Think Beau is missing the big psychological boost for Democrats and deflating for Trumpers/GOP. Trumpers bet the farm on this in many ways, they made the Recall happen and ginned up the base to believe it was possible. Thousands of "Elder is a LOCK" were posted on Twitter. The "rigged election" nonsense started happening before the election. And then BOOM, the Recall was defeated 70% to 30%, way too far for a "rigged" claim to follow, even for Trumpers. While sure it's a bit of hyperbole to rub some Trumper noses in it, it also goes along with their insane strategy that "unless we fix 2020 no elections will be valid". Just like with the GA Senate races, discouraging voters has tangible results. So if between:

* Highlighting this (in their minds) huge defeat
* Reminding them "it's all rigged, why bother voting" (seeing a lot of that)
* Knowing so many of them are only committed to the Disgraced Loser's Cult and without him on the ballot, those previously soft or non-voters may not show up
* Seeing many of them dying of COVID or old age (the GOP base knows that the irrevocable demographic shifts are a nightmare and it's truly happening in Red States that are showing Purple and even Blue like AZ)

It wouldn't be surprising to see at least a 10% reduction at least in GOP turnout in 2022. The Trumpers also hate a lot of Republicans they call RINOs. Will they turn out massively for these folks they can't stand? Watching the party rip itself apart and split will be an issue. Add to that that the 65+ demo is still favorable for Biden (even with the temp drop to 40% approval, which is still higher than the disgraced loser who was in the 30s. On approval, 65+ is 54-39 (and they're vaxxed). White 4 year college is 56-39. Black voters are solid at 69-18. This is from a new poll.

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For Democrats, hopefully, this resounding victory will fire folks up (or at relieve some bedwetting, although with control of the House, Senate, and White House, only Democrats would still be worried). But it's another sign that Twitter is not real life, and the majority of real people want to help America by being vaxxed and moving forward to rid the nation of COVID, whatever it takes. There's been huge support for the new Child Care payments, which aren't factoring in yet, along with the biggest increase in history in EBT/food stamp benefits and other relief. When Infrastructure starts to roll, the next Stimulus (Budget Reconciliation) happens, and when the current outrages du jour subside, we have more than year to organize and get our voters out like we did in California. That was beautifully done and credit for such a turnout in an off-year, mid-Sept election. Lots thought the GOP was far more motivated, but that was wrong. They will be replicating that all over.

And Field Operations are back! Newsom knocked on over 2 million doors and sent over 31 million text messages. In 2020 Democrats held back, in 2022 that is not going to happen.

There are a lot of jobs open for organizers and field reps: https://www.indeed.com/q-Democratic-Fie ... -jobs.html

‘We don't have the luxury to not knock on doors’: Dems embrace field work after 2020 absence
Though Covid-19 is still afflicting the nation, Democrats in all three of the upcoming gubernatorial contests have extensive field operations.
By ZACH MONTELLARO and DAVID SIDERS 09/12/2021 07:00 AM EDT

After abandoning their ground game for much of 2020 because of the pandemic, Democrats across the country are back knocking on doors. Though Covid-19 is still afflicting the nation, Democrats in all three of the upcoming gubernatorial contests — in the California recall this week, and in Virginia and New Jersey in November — have extensive field operations, as do down-ballot candidates and battleground state parties preparing for competitive 2022 elections.In Wisconsin, where Democrats went fully virtual as Covid raged ahead of the 2020 election, state Democrats last month were back knocking on doors, canvassing in neighborhoods around the state. Staffers are required to be vaccinated, and staffers and volunteers are required to wear masks and, after knocking on a door, to step back six feet.
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“If you look at the numbers in Wisconsin in the fall of 2020, when no one was vaccinated and we had one of the biggest outbreaks in the country, it made sense to not knock on doors,” said Ben Wikler, the state Democratic Party chair. Wisconsin Democrats are defending first-term Gov. Tony Evers and trying to oust GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, who holds one of two Republican-held Senate seats in states Biden won in 2020.

However, Wikler said, there are likely thousands of sporadic Democratic voters who likely never answered a phone or looked at a text message and who Democrats can now reach in person. One advantage of the shift to virtual organizing last year, he said, is that the party now has a stable of organizers who are familiar not only with door-to-door canvassing but with virtual tools used less frequently before.

“One upside of how we adapted to the pandemic is that we have a larger arsenal of volunteers who are familiar with more, different tactics,” he said. “You’re more likely to reach somebody if you try different things.”

There's a lot in this article: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/1 ... ons-511355

So while sure, seeing a Democrat win in CA is not blockbuster news like winning TX or FL, it's a nice, solid win, sets the stage for Virginia to replicate action to buck the VA Governor's curse/trend, and prepare for Nov 2022. So much is going to happen that have no doubt Biden's approval will go back up (the media will love writing those stories) and by insisting on continuing to be an attention whore, the disgraced loser will be a gift that keeps on giving, reminding voters why he and the GOP are not worth voting for. That's my/our take on it anyway and still totally confident we'll sweep 2022.

[Uninformed]

[AndyinPA]

The recall election was in California. Everyone was mailed a ballot. It's not the same in Texas, or Alabama, or a lot of other R states.

[Luke]

Between the antivaxxer deaths and the absolute division of the GOP, more confident than ever about the midterms. 402 days is an eternity before November 8, 2022. Look how they hate each other. Trumpers v Republicans mean two small minorities. Let's give them a hand.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

You are a merry warrior!

[Slim Cognito]

Seconded.

[Lani]

[bill_g]

Lani ninja'd me.

That's a good story and a great ad.

[Slim Cognito]

I needed that.

[Uninformed]

Regarding the ad by Charles Graham, Democrat candidate in North Carolina, and the Battle of Hayes Pond:

[Lani]

Here's a pending crisis.

From blackouts in China’s provinces to coal shortages in India to record-high electricity prices in Europe, the world is seeing its first serious energy crisis in decades. How are these crises connected, and can countries worldwide find a long-term solution to their energy woes?

s Europe’s Energy Crisis a Preview of America’s?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/05/en ... tpcc=36730

[Gregg]

I got a Solar Roof to power my electric car.

Y'all are on your own.