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COVID Isn't the Black Swan that Beat Trump, It's the Black Swan that Could Have Saved Him - Lawyers, Guns & Money
It looks as if Biden is solidifying his support in the Upper Midwest, apparently taking advantage of Trump’s utter inability to grapple with the fact that the ‘Rona is getting worse, not better. This has me thinking about the brute fact that Biden’s...
Amanda Marcotte
Trump insists coronavirus is somehow a hoax meant to hurt him. Truth is that I think @drfarls is right: It was a political gift that he could have used to soar to victory, if he'd taken it seriously. But he's bad at this, like he's bad at business.
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Trump White House takes credit for "ending" the pandemic — even as hospitals are overflowing
Trump's latest ludicrous lie isn't some brilliant campaign strategy — it's just ego-fluffing, and it won't work
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Amanda Marcotte
Trump is doubling down on his insistence that he can make the coronavirus pandemic disappear simply by taking credit for "ending" it. But cases are up 39%, hospitalizations are up 46% and 500,000 people got it this past week.
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How Trump Maneuvered His Way Out of Trouble in Chicago
When his skyscraper proved a disappointment, Donald Trump defaulted on his loans, sued his bank, got much of the debt forgiven — and largely avoided paying taxes on it.
Amanda Marcotte
Getting lost in the shuffle, but worth reading how Trump managed to get banks to forgive him $300 million in debt while untold numbers of Americans were facing foreclosure due to the 2008 economic collapse.
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#VoteSaveAmerica
Be a voter. Save America.
Amanda Marcotte
Many states that mailed out ballots have drop boxes you can bring them to. Check out Vote Save America for information on how to drop off your ballot
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Still haven’t voted? Don’t send your ballot by mail.
Tuesday is the last day to safely mail your ballot. Here’s what to do if you missed the deadline.
Amanda Marcotte
If you still have a mail-in ballot, the functional deadline for getting it in the mail and realistically expecting it to be counted was yesterday. However, that doesn't mean you can't vote absentee.
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Now that the Cubs won, does that mean Donald Trump will as well?
Should Donald Trump swap Republican red for Chicago blue? When the Chicago Cubs went down three games to one on Saturday in the best-of-seven World Series, they had a worse chance of winning the ch…
In Swearing In Barrett, Trump Defiantly Mimics ‘Superspreader’ Rose Garden Ceremony
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice only eight days before a presidential election.
Amanda Marcotte
Jesus, even her swearing-in was designed to troll people who have the temerity to think deadly diseases are bad.
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Justice Barrett: Culmination of the right's five-year misogynist temper tantrum
Five long years from "blood coming out of her wherever" to Justice Barrett — but women can finally defeat Trump
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Amanda Marcotte
There is so much to be said about the Supreme Court, but today I'm focusing on how Barrett's confirmation is the culmination of a five year misogynist right wing temper tantrum.
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The Plot to Kidnap Me
Every time the president ramps up his violent rhetoric, every time he fires up Twitter to launch another broadside against me, my family and I see a surge of vicious attacks sent our way.
Amanda Marcotte
This piece is remarkable for how she never says, not once, how it felt to be the target of a misogynist murder plot. The closest she gets is talking about how it impacted her family.
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Republicans Put the Oil Industry Above Economic Growth
The GOP is what it purports to oppose: A party that would rather subsidize its favorite declining industries than promote creative destruction.
Standing Room Only: That pre-election Sword of Damocles feeling
Welcome to Standing Room...
Amanda Marcotte
New Standing Room Only newsletter! This edition is about election dread and Barrett's confirmation, with a song about anxiety by Holy Ghost! (@holyghostnyc). Subscribe to get it biweekly in your inbox. salon45594.activehosted.com/index.php?acti… pic.twitter.com/5SgSBoaO1P
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Justice Bart O'Kavanaugh: counting votes is theft - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Supreme Court has just disenfranchised a significant number of voters in Wisconsin, who will not be able to get their votes counted because of deliberate Republican sabotage. I have a thread detailing Kagan’s dissent here, but these are the key...
Amanda Marcotte
I don't know that I share Trump and Kavanaugh's faith that late-arriving ballots will break big for Biden. Early vote totals suggest Democrats are fired up.
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The radical implications of the Supreme Court’s new ruling on Wisconsin mail-in ballots
The Supreme Court’s new decision on Wisconsin mail-in ballots threatens a century of voting rights law
Amanda Marcotte
Republicans never believed in “states rights”. They only believe in cheating to win.
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With one week left, Trump team rolls out new campaign message: Let the coronavirus win
Over 225,000 are dead, but Trump is still committed to his March theory that it's all a hoax aimed at hurting him
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Amanda Marcotte
With one week until the election, Trump's final pitch to voters is what he wanted in March: That the concern over the coronavirus pandemic is a "hoax" perpetuated by the media to hurt him. There are over 225,000 dead.
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It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class.
Trump voters were actually pretty affluent.
El Paso issues curfew to help curb Covid-19 as cases surge and hospitals reach full capacity
El Paso County in Texas enacted a curfew Sunday as a surge in Covid-19 cases left hospitals and ICUs in the area at full capacity and forced officials to seek additional morgue space.
Amanda Marcotte
I don't get back there much these days, but my heart breaks for my hometown of El Paso, which has been hammered so badly by the Trump era, from the mass shooting to the concentration camp to now the coronavirus.
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Facebook manipulated the news you see to appease Republicans, insiders say
Sources tell us the platform tweaked its code to help right-wing publishers and throttle sites like Mother Jones
Amanda Marcotte
Facebook deliberately tweaked its algorithim to spread right wing disinformation — at the expense of legitimate progressive news organizations.
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Trump Whines To Rallygoers; 'COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID - That’s All I Hear About Now, It’s All I Hear'
Trump had his Marie Antoinette moment during a rally in North Carolina, complaining he's so sick of all the COVID19 talk.
Amanda Marcotte
At this point, I think Trump is simply testing how far he can go and his voters will still support him. The answer is 100% that they'd be fine with genocide, so long as he kept triggering the liberals.
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