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Open Thread! 10-29

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 10/29/21, 8:00 am

Gosh, it sure is raining. I like a good 5 months of drizzle. But this is not great. Come on, rain. Be cool.

Seriously, though don’t forget how to drive just because it’s been rainy. Be kind to other people on the bus. Just everyone be cool.

And please wash your hands right now. For all that’s correct and good, get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.

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  1. 1

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 8:32 am

    Oops.

    James Hohmann
    @jameshohmann
    Our new Washington Post poll shows that EDUCATION is now the No. 1 issue for Virginia voters in the governor’s race, edging out the economy.

    In September, education voters favored McAuliffe by 33 points, but now they tilt toward Youngkin by nine points.
    washingtonpost.com
    Virginia governor’s race a toss-up as Election Day nears, Post-Schar School poll finds
    Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are locked in a tight race for the Executive Mansion.
    7:11 AM · Oct 29, 2021

    That’s an even larger shift than the one yesterday’s Fox News poll identified in voters who are parents, which was 24 points but in just two weeks.

  2. 2

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 8:43 am

    Moreover, a squeaker of a McAuliffe victory will tell centrist House Democrats to either start pushing back against Jayapal and The Squad, or expect their retirements to come via the ballot box and to be involuntary.

    Dan McLaughlin
    @baseballcrank
    · Oct 25
    If McAuliffe wins by <3 points in a state Biden won by 10, Warner by 12, Kaine by 16, & Northam by 9, progressive pundits will be triumphalist & Democratic operatives will imitate his tactics, but House Democrats will quietly step up the pace of retirements.

  3. 3

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 8:57 am

    Ironic, isn’t it, that the path to victory for a Democrat in Virginia now requires that education voters stay home on Tuesday.

  4. 4

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 9:01 am

    If Youngkin wins, he’s one-and-done in 2025. Then Democrats have another problem. Mark Warner won his 2020 race 55-43.

    Can you say Senator Youngkin?

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 9:25 am

    Y’all libbies sound more and more like Palestinians every day.

    Andrew Solender
    @AndrewSolender
    Moderate Rep. Stephanie Murphy, frustrated about the BIF delay, dubs progressives the “Never-enough Caucus” and accuses them of “moving the goalposts,” arguing there should be enough for them to pass BIF.
    4:31 PM · Oct 28, 2021

    That’s moderate Democrat Rep. Stephanie Murphy.

  6. 6

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 9:25 am

    Pelosi to The Squad: Don’t embarrass the president.

    The Squad to Pelosi: Burn this bitch down!

  7. 7

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 9:54 am

    “Virginia’s number one issue”:

    “Starting in the 17th century African laborers began to immigrate to the colonies to work on large southern agricultural plantations performing farm chores. When northern state lawmakers tried to pass laws interfering with this employment market the southern states began to organize their communities and seek independence.”
    – The American Pageant

    Most of us were taught lies.

    One of the two major parties has devoted itself to the defense of those lies. It’s the same major party that claims the 2020 election was “stolen” by massive ballot fraud involving Hugo Chavez and that shoving a flashlight up your butt will cure COVID.

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 10:24 am

    @ 7

    No results found for “Starting in the 17th century African laborers began to immigrate to the colonies to work on large southern agricultural plantations performing farm chores. When northern state lawmakers tried to pass laws interfering with this employment market the southern states began to organize their communities and seek independence.”.

    I assume you found this in something Kendi wrote. Do you have a link for that? And I’m asking because Holy Shit. Really?

  9. 9

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 10:54 am

    The people protesting at Northern VA school boards are Q.
    And now so is Bob.

    Really.

  10. 10

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 11:21 am

    So a buncha Dems dressed up as 2017 Charlottesville “Jews Will Not Replace Us” dudes and stood in front of Youngkin’s bus this morning. Button-down shirts, tiki torches, ball caps. The full meal deal.

    Problem is, they’re recognizable, ’cause their day jobs have them really, really close to McAuliffe.

    Jewish Deplorable
    @TrumpJew2

    ·
    8m
    BREAKING: Financial director for Young VA Dems has gone private after being exposed for posing as a white supremacist

    and

    John Cardillo
    @johncardillo

    ·
    30m
    Hey
    @TerryMcAuliffe, your staffers are morons.

    #Caught

    How desperate does McAuliffe have to be if he has to resort to imbecilic pranks like this?

  11. 11

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 11:28 am

    More @ 10

    This guy, being an officer in a “vote early” Democrat organization in Virginia, @VAYD, must already know that early voting did not go well for McAuliffe.

    Alec Sears
    @alec_sears

    ·
    1h
    Let’s take a look at this gentleman. He bears a strong resemblance to one Camden Layton, otherwise known as the finance director for
    @vayd
    .
    Coincidence? I report, you decide.

  12. 12

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 11:57 am

    “…the growing crowd.” There’s, like, 20 people, plus media. Even free beer won’t bring people out for McAuliffe.

    Elizabeth Holmes
    @holmes_reports

    At Champion Brewing waiting for @TerryMcAuliffe to speak to the growing crowd.
    @NBC29
    The following media includes potentially sensitive content. Change settings
    10:30 AM · Oct 28, 2021

  13. 13

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:02 pm

    So this is four of five Unite the Right pretenders now linked to McAuliffe’s campaign or its supporters.

    Alec Sears
    @alec_sears

    ·
    18m
    I am now confident that we have identified the woman in this group of political actors as Colleen Wachenfeld, with
    @vademocrats

    And she just made her Twitter page private.
    .

  14. 14

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:16 pm

    I’d like to wish Evergreen Railfan a very happy pre-Halowe’en Friday!

    The Post Millennial
    @TPostMillennial
    ·
    5h
    Video shows train carrying tankers full of ethanol derailing in Fairmont, Minnesota

    Footage by: Tracie Schumann / Fox News

  15. 15

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:22 pm

    If your daughter looked like this you’d be protective of her, too.

    Which would make you a domestic terrorist, in the eyes of a liberal.

  16. 16

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:30 pm

    I heard about this when it happened. I think it’s important that all my HA libbie friends understand Terry McAuliffe’s priorities.

    The Time Terry McAuliffe Left The Delivery Room For A Washington Post Party

    I went flying out the door and drove to the party. I kept calling Dorothy to make sure she was fine. I made the rounds at the party and ran into Marjorie Williams, who was writing a story on me for Vanity Fair, magazine. She was shocked to see me at the party. ‘Isn’t Dorothy having a baby today?’ she asked.

    and

    Dorothy was starting to well up in the backseat. She was having trouble understanding how I could be taking my wife and newborn baby to a fund-raiser on our way home from the hospital. We got to the dinner and by then Dorothy was in tears, and I left her with Justin and went inside.
    …I felt bad for Dorothy, but it was a million bucks for the Democratic Party…

    What a guy. A “breeder”, to some of you. The worst kind of breeder.

  17. 17

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:40 pm

    10-16,
    Were they all “very fine people”?

  18. 18

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:43 pm

    10-16,
    Or maybe there were a few hundred Trump supporting Crying Nazis?

    Still very fine?

    Mmkay!

  19. 19

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:44 pm

    Maybe Bob’s “FB friends from CO” made it C’ville and can offer us an “eyewitness account”?

  20. 20

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:45 pm

    Youngkin up 17 points with independents.

    Echelon Insights
    @EchelonInsights
    ·
    1h
    New #VAGOV poll from Echelon: Glenn Youngkin holds a 3 point edge in the likely electorate, and a similar advantage among all voters.

    GOV:
    @GlennYoungkin
    49
    @TerryMcAuliffe
    46

    LG:
    @WinsomeSears
    48
    @HalaAyala
    46

    AG:
    @JasonMiyaresVA
    48
    @MarkHerringVA
    47

    https://echeloninsights.com/in-the-news/vagov/

  21. 21

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 12:59 pm

    The WaPo poll has McAuliffe up over Youngkin, 49-48.

    It included 34% Democrats vs. 30% in its September poll.

    And yet the result moved 3 points further toward Youngkin.

    Jus’ sayin’.

  22. 22

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 1:36 pm

    For sale:

    Set of five brand new tiki torches

    Five button-down white shirts, each worn only once.

    Five baseball caps with various pro-conservative messages.

    Five pairs khaki pants, each worn only once.

    Five pairs of sunglasses.

    Best price for someone purchasing the lot. Direct questions to @VAYD, or to the Terry McAuliffe for Governor campaign.

  23. 23

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 1:41 pm

    Enforcement is always easier when the effort is unconstitutional.

    Goldy Retweeted

    David Gura✔
    @davidgura
    In an @NPR interview, @UCBerkeley’s @gabriel_zucman told me a billionaire tax “could be one of the easiest taxes to enforce.”

    Why?

    “There would be so few taxpayers, it could easily have a 100 percent audit rate.”

    47m

    It’s why the Founding Fathers decided that being an American should not always be easy.

  24. 24

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 1:44 pm

    Terry McAuliffe makes Martha Coakley seem politically skilled.

  25. 25

    Eleven Time Person Woman Man Camera TV Cognitive NOBLE Prize Winner in Dropping Humiliation Bombs on "FB friends in CO", Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 1:53 pm

    It included 34% Democrats vs. 30% in its September poll.

    With absolutely no weighting?

    Oh wait.
    “So this year, Post-Schar School polls adopted a survey method that measures and adjusts for the rate at which partisan groups participate in the poll.”

    Other than that, it’s a really, really good point you are making there, Bob.

  26. 26

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 2:01 pm

    @ 25

    They weighted it twice, probably once for each polled group. So, absolutely not an unweighted poll.

    The non-panel group was contacted only via cell phone, so there’s that factor to consider as well.

    I can wait.

  27. 27

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 2:22 pm

    I can wait.

    Bob keeps saying this, every time he’s busted.

    And then the next morning, just like a broken clock, he soothes his crippling DTs with a few shots, tears off his “FUCK YOUR FEELINGS” tee shirt, paints a red, white, and blue Q on his chest, dons his bright red TRUMP/LINDELL 2024 hat, and begins performing another endzone dance at mid field.

    Dance, freak. Dance!

  28. 28

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 2:26 pm

    The Democrats’ last secret weapon to save McAuliffe is now a campaign event with Hillary Clinton and Anthony Weiner.

    American Principles Flag of United States
    @approject
    ·
    1h
    Virginia Democrats KNOW that they’re losing the arguments in this election.

    Instead of doing something about it, they decided to try and smear Glenn Youngkin by sending people to LARP as Charlottesville marchers.

    This is not a winning campaign

  29. 29

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 3:46 pm

    @4 Rolls off the tongue easier than “Senator Tuberville” or “Senator Hawley” if we gotta have Republicans in the Senate.

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 3:48 pm

    @24 You make a horse seem intelligent.

  31. 31

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 5:10 pm

    Be sure and thank the Lincoln Project for helping to elect Glenn Youngkin.

    Sean Davis
    @seanmdav
    According to state campaign records, Terry McAuliffe’s campaign has received $264,000 in campaign assistance from the Lincoln Project, which coordinated with the state Democrat party and McAuliffe’s campaign to perpetrate a race hoax in Virginia today. https://vpap.org/candidates/180223/indexpenditures/list/?election=9913&candidate=180223&position=oppose&spender=367571

    The crowning achievement occurred earlier today:

    Fake Republicans dressed Democrat operatives and activists as racists in order to claim that Republicans are racist.

  32. 32

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 5:11 pm

    The Lincoln Project people are like David Hogg, in that there may have once been a time and a place, but that’s no reason to continue paying any attention whatsoever to either of them.

    Watch what happens now.

  33. 33

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 5:16 pm

    This is what I have been telling YLB for years.

    Josh Kraushaar
    @HotlineJosh
    ·
    1h
    “It’s easy to be for something that places a burden on others. But human nature suggests opinions will change rapidly when people have to share the burden in ways they don’t like.”

    In YLB’s case, it’s even easier when she demands something paid for by people other than herself, while hiding behind Goldy or Darryl.

  34. 34

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 5:18 pm

    Perhaps a little less happy Tuesday evening.

    Glenn Greenwald
    @ggreenwald
    ·
    17m
    Democratic Party operatives, MSNBC analysts, and their Lincoln Project allies got caught perpetrating a deliberate fraud today, all with racism and racist discourse as their plaything. None will suffer any career consequences because their circles are happy they did this.

    I can wait.

  35. 35

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 5:24 pm

    Hey Terry McAuliffe, would Heather Heyer have approved of the cheap stunt your people pulled today?

  36. 36

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 5:33 pm

    In the RCP averages, Pelosi’s unfavorables are now higher than Cocaine Mitch’s. Her unfavorables are now 5 points higher than Trump’s.

    What a way to go out, Nancy.

  37. 37

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 6:50 pm

    No communion for Pussy Graber Rapists!!

  38. 38

    Ggggggeeee Money! spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 6:52 pm

    It’s easy to be for something that places a burden on others. But human nature suggests opinions will change rapidly when people have to share the burden in ways they don’t like.”

    The anti-Vaxers found that out.

  39. 39

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 7:11 pm

    After First Vegetable Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan to the Taliban and to a resurgence of ISIS, Terry McAuliffe is absolutely thrilled to see a terror threat in northern Virginia, attributed to ISIS, on the weekend before his gubernatorial election.

    Regarding Afghanistan and the embarrassment of how he handled it, First Vegetable Joe Biden responded, “That was nine, ten weeks ago!!!!”

  40. 40

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 7:24 pm

    Questions not asked by Democrats:

    Does Terry McAuliffe deserve to be governor of Virginia?

  41. 41

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 9:21 pm

    I thought LGB referred to the LGB Alliance.

    Nope. Referred to something else.

  42. 42

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 9:55 pm

    30)He thinks I am required to respond to everything accident involving a train. Hate to break it to him, cars are unsafe. Just as I’ll occasionally use Uber, I’m aboard a LINK Train now headed home for work. It’s an older one, the Japanese design. I prefer the German one, closest thing we have to an American one, the Siemens S700 is assembled in Sacramento. Also, I’m always MIA from about 10AM to 8pm, doing something called work. I wonder how the troll expects a janitor to respond to every rail incident.

    One thing I miss at work, the train horns from Balmer Yard reverberating off Magnolia and Queen Anne. Not as many because of slow port traffic. If it was a real economic downturn I would notice it. When I was just a temp filling in at where I now work, I had a few assignments during 2009-2010 when the previous janitor was visiting family in another country. When waiting for the 15/18 I saw a long line of out of service locomotives on the Spurs leading to Coastal Transportation. Don’t see that now.

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 9:58 pm

    @42 “cars are unsafe” depending on who’s behind the wheel, so …

    … if you’re on Whidbey Island and see an F-350 with a horse trailer behind it coming down the road, jump off the embankment and swim for it.

  44. 44

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 10:21 pm

    43)One of the things I miss about the older buses, they were battleships when they came to structural integrity. Still, prefer low-floor anyway, they help able-bodied people save some time. The industry agrees, it’s been a decade since the old fashioned, high floor transit bus was in a major builders catalog. Will be another decade or two before straight diesel goes the same way.

  45. 45

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 10/29/21 at 10:41 pm

    43)Also he loves to antagonize me about foreign elections because I post about them from time to time. My interest is in how they are conducted, not who wins. Sometimes, in other countries, the Conservatives are to the Left of our Democratic Party.

    As for Sunday’s election in Japan, it’s not if the Liberal Democratic Party wins, but by how much. Japan uses a parallel system, that is similar but different to the German Mixed Member system.

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Saturday, 10/30/21 at 1:28 am

    @45 Political labels are fungible.

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