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That stinks. The neighborhoods that will likely suffer the destruction already have more than their share of problems. Hopefully the expected destruction doesn't materialize.
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Final Vote—All States, Progress in counting
Taro T replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Funny, pretty sure the bolded can be said about you. But if you don't realize that polling questions can be, and are, tailored to get a preferred result very often, Biden has a bridge to sell you. -
Final Vote—All States, Progress in counting
Taro T replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
They aren't "faking" the numbers in so much as they are (presumably) actually getting these results. But, pretty sure they are tailoring the Q's in a way, and also tailoring their samples, to still end up with only slightly more people than 50% to say they'd choose Biden. Which is effectively faking the #'s. Prior to the conventions, they just needed to oversample D's to get there. Now, it appears, they have to oversample D's and also ask very tailored questions that they'll still get D's to say 'yes, they'll vote for a senile man that they know won't last 4 years' without getting R's to tell them to go #### themselves. Because a poll showing Biden up by 50 points + would not be believable to anyone but Biden & Clinton. Watching clips of both candidates, have to believe that is a very fine line to walk. And they have to keep Biden close in the polls to have any chance of people believing their "no, no, no, it only LOOKS like 45 won because every single Democrat in the country voted by mail because it was too scary to enter the voting booth" gambit to have any plausibility at all. -
So, the DC committee that recommended "removing, relocating, or recontexualizing" the Washington & Jefferson Monuments (among others) WASN'T bullschiff? Saw that story yesterday and thought there HAD to be something wrong about it because even Tibs wouldn't be dumb enough to call for that. People are nuts.
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The Thread To Vent On Nancy Pelosi & Her Hubris
Taro T replied to 3rdnlng's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Right track. Wrong defense. She was SET UP! She trusted her hairdresser. How could she have POSSIBLY been expected to know the regulations governing commerce in a state so far from her base in WDC? She's simply a trusting soul that was duped by someone that hasn't worked on a regular basis in months. Poor, poor, naive, trusting Pelosi; it's not her fault. (Maybe somebody could make that into a T-shirt for rioters to wear when they grow tired of the all black clothing look.) -
But 44 DEMANDED everyone working for him to do everything always "by the book." SURELY, had he known about the salacious Steele dosier prior to Crossfire Hurricane beginning, he would've demanded his IC to corroborate the info from a 2nd independent source prior to opening a FISA based investigation into a major candidate for president, right? So, was 44 not quite the choir boy he made himself out to be & his crew a little less ethical or has the left's favorite IC department head now become persona nongrata? Decisions, decisions.
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What unfriendly press? Chanel Rion, Catherine Herridge (who comes across as a Tim Russert Democrat, btw), & Kimberly Strassel are the only ones in the mainstream that immediately spring 2 mind & only 1 of those is in the WHPC.
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Surely you have a link to this "lovely" speech, right? Presumably, you are trying to convince people to vote for Biden and a speech that was as effective as you effusively claim surely would move some to your conclusion, right?
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Domestic terrorist attack in Wisconsin
Taro T replied to Penfield45's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Please tell us that question is rhetorical. -
Final Vote—All States, Progress in counting
Taro T replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Ummm, RCP is showing 4 GE polls on August 26 including Rasmussen w/ Biden +1. It also shows a GE poll yesterday w/ the typical Biden lead & an Emerson GE poll w/ Biden +2. Not sure why your info is showing nothing since 8/25. -
Why, the audacity of that Literal Super-Mecha Hitler! How DARE he make his AG instruct the FBI that they if they try to get a FISA warrant on a government official, staffer, candidate for office, or staffer they have to provide the FISA Court ALL the evidence including that which is exculpatory. Talk about UNAMERICAN! You'd never see an AG for 44 pulling a stunt like that! Stuff like that's almost enough to make one mad enough to want to randomly destroy a government building. For reelz.
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All Roads Lead to the Ukraine
Taro T replied to Deranged Rhino's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Definitely, we shall. Would assume that the embassy routinely classifies all documents & would definitely be unwilling to freely release something as embarrassing as checking up on what people like Don Jr. & Ingraham were saying- especially when trying to claim Hunter Biden's Ukranian business dealings were completely on the up & up but 45 asking (upon being prompted) Ukraine's top dog to look into corruption was purely political. -
All Roads Lead to the Ukraine
Taro T replied to Deranged Rhino's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
If that is what they were monitoring, yes, that would/should be illegal. But the article only says she & the embassy (& their contractor - wtf do we the taxpayer always have to pay extra fur this bullschiff?) were monitoring social media accounts rather than mining them. "Monitoring" a social media account sounds about as nefarious as collecting newspaper articles about the subjects. (Not saying there isn't more to it, clearly there must be. But on the surface, not sure how it's illegal.) -
All Roads Lead to the Ukraine
Taro T replied to Deranged Rhino's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Monitoring e-mails or phone records, which are by essentially by definition private, absolutely illegal. Is it actually illegal to follow someone's Twitter or Facebook posts (if they aren't made anonymously and the person is doxxed)? Totally get that it unseemly for a "non-partisan" ambassador to be tracking the social media accounts of Americans on the other side of the world. And also that it highlights her partisanship. But, again, how is that actually illegal? -
RIP Mr. Boseman.
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Everything Joe Biden--Gaffes, Miscues, Touching, Songs
Taro T replied to 3rdnlng's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
That poor Bidenese to English interpreter... -
“Cancel” / Knee-Jerk Culture of 2020 and beyond
Taro T replied to RiotAct's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It probably won't, but it would be REALLY nice if stuff like this would cause journalists to get back to TRYING to report things neutrally. It also would be really nice if journalism schools would require all students wanting to get into political reporting to have to watch about 200 hours of Tim Russert's MTP to see how that can actually be done. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Taro T replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Not using the medical ship nor Javitts for all intents & purposes & keeping the nursing home directive in place into May are the 2 things Cuomo absolutely deserves criticism for. Cut him slack for March & early April, but those 2 choices were majorly poor decisions and cost 1,000's of lives. Thought they should've sanitized the subway sooner, but not as certain now that that was as important for limiting transmission as would've initially thought as NYC was most likely up to about 20% exposure by the time that happened. -
2020 Election is officially Trump vs Biden
Taro T replied to transplantbillsfan's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Beat me to it. No way Nevada's in play. They'll manufacture as many votes as they need to keep it in Biden's column. -
At the very end of one of his statements during the RNC Biden said something to the effect of 'rioting is bad.' So, TECHNICALLY his supporters can say he's "taken a stand against rioting," but it was equivalent to a NYT page 37 retraction. Yeah, he walked it back, but nobody's going to see it & it doesn't make up for nearly 3 months of implicit support of rioting.
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2020 Election is officially Trump vs Biden
Taro T replied to transplantbillsfan's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Thing is, could see with all the chaos going on currently and the implicit support many D's have for it and the explicit support that a handful of D's have (looking at you Mssrs. Wheeler & DeBlasio) had for it, can see where non-highly partisan NYers could simply want for the destruction to end & consider not voting for Biden. BUT, as soon as 45 does something they feel is "outrageous" and he'll have at least 5 tweets between now and the election & probably closer to 20 that are outrageous and they'll have their cover to go back and vote for the previously moderate senile plagiarizer. Similar to how that idiot Lazio was actually appearing to make the race with Clinton competitive until he had the audacity to "attack" her on the debate stage by walking over to her podium & handing her a document. So, while NYS appearing to be in play today may be mildly surprising, really don't see the D's needing to spend any money to turn that trend. Expect that 45 will take care of that himself for them. Which stinks, because if 45 could truly be competitive we could possibly maybe see the state senate flip back to R control (or at minimum R plus disaffected D control) and slow our continual slide towards Californication. -
Ftfy.
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Hoping there is more to the story, but on the surface that seems like either a painfully dumb decision by the judge or a reason to suspect the judge is possibly corrupt. Wonder what the over/under is for how long it takes her to get back to China? Going with 10 days and taking the under.
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While that's definitely a concern with term limits, a bigger concern IMHO is that if you are forcing the politician out of office after 6, 8, 12, or however many years but not limiting how long a staffer or lobbyist is there, then you are necessarily giving people with no direct oversight from the voters a leg up over those that actually do have oversight. There are additional issues with term limits, but again IMHO that's the big one.
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2020 Election is officially Trump vs Biden
Taro T replied to transplantbillsfan's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Well, he was pretty much the only person that truly expected 45 would/could become the 45th president before that election. Not counting a couple of people like Ingraham who also claimed that but who also would've been claiming Dole had a legit chance back in '96. The D's would be wise to heed his concerns, but doubt they will.