One. More. Day. GO GEORGIA!

102 thoughts on “One. More. Day. GO GEORGIA!”

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2. wash.examiner:

   Facebook removed a paid ad by the anti-Trump Lincoln Project on Monday after the social media platform concluded the video featuring lawyer Lin Wood and far-right activist Nick Fuentes violated its rules against delegitimizing elections.

   The 90-second sponsored video was an effort by the group to discourage Republicans from voting in Georgia’s Senate runoff on Tuesday, with Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler up against Democrat Raphael Warnock and GOP Sen. David Perdue facing Democrat Jon Ossoff.

   “We don’t allow ads that delegitimize the outcome of the election, so we’re rejecting these ads for violating this policy,” a Facebook spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.

   The Lincoln Project ad — titled Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election? — included footage of both Fuentes and Wood saying Republicans should withhold their votes on Tuesday. It showed Fuentes proclaiming that “we are going to destroy the GOP” during a December event in Washington, D.C., and Wood at a rally in Georgia telling the crowd that “we’re not gonna vote on your damn machines made in China.”

   The ad went up on Jan. 2, and the Lincoln Project put between $10,000 and $15,000 behind it, potentially reaching between 100,000 and 500,000 people. It was deactivated Monday evening, according to Facebook’s ad library. The group has spent $7.1 million total on Facebook since it was created.

   Facebook also pointed the Washington Examiner to its election ad policies.

   [continues]

    

   here’s that ad facebook removed appeared and was viewed by more than 465,000 on twitter without an election  warning label  according to the wash. examiner:

   https://twitter.com/i/status/1345103627803877377

3. adage also reports another LP ad out yesterday:

   WATCH THE LINCOLN PROJECT ‘TRAITOR’ AD THAT USES AUDIO OF TRUMP’S STUNNING CALL TO GEORGIA’S SECRETARY OF STATE
   On the eve of Tuesday’s runoff election, the conservative PAC uses the president’s own words against him
   As Georgia state residents get ready to vote in Tuesday’s special election (for context, see the latest edition of Ad Age’s Campaign Ad Scorecard: “Ad infinitum: spending nears $500 million in Georgia’s Senate runoffs”), conservative PAC The Lincoln Project is out with an ad (below) that minces no words. “DONALD TRUMP IS A TRAITOR” appears in all-caps white type against a black background at the start of a 69-second video the group released late Sunday night on Twitter.
   Throughout the ad, additional statements—“TRUMP LOST,” “HE KNOWS IT,” “HE DOESN’T WANT YOUR VOTE TO COUNT” and “ON JANUARY 6TH DONALD TRUMP WILL LOSE AGAIN”—are silently flashed on screen, but the core of the piece simply consists of audio excerpted from a Jan. 2 Trump phone call in which he tried to convince Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, to somehow reverse the state’s presidential election results to hand Trump the win instead of Joe Biden. [continues]

   #TrumpLost … he knows it. These are the words of a #Traitor. pic.twitter.com/iISGhIcqqg

   — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 4, 2021

4. not that any of that will matter to the average GA voter who made up his/her mind months ago and by this time just wants the whole mess over never wanting to see another election ad ever again.

6. Democrats May Make History In Georgia’s Senate Runoff

   Poll of the week: My average of Georgia polls shows the two Senate runoffs on Tuesday are within the margin of error and way too close to call.

    

7. I’ve been sequestered for too long.  Every headline makes me jump to a musical sound track.  Craig & Patd got a twofer this morning with “One Day More” and “Who Am I”.  It must be a miserable day.  

8. Kessler fact checking Dumbass’ LAST CAMPAIGN RALLY BS at WaPo.  

   President Trump’s campaign rally Monday night in Dalton, Ga., on behalf of Sen. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, whose Senate term expired Sunday, was filled with his usual collection of scores of falsehoods. We will focus mostly on his election-related claims, along with a selection of statements that turn up at virtually all his recent rallies, as documented in our database of Trump’s false or misleading claims. (We are still trying to catch up but as of Nov. 5, the count stands at 29,508 claims.)

   “There’s no way we lost Georgia, there is no way. This was such a rigged election.”

   From his first sentence, Trump starts to lie. He lost Georgia, narrowly, to Joe Biden.

   (Continues, and guess where it goes from there…to end up here)

    
   It’ll be the largest tax increase in the history of our country.”

   Biden has proposed an estimated $4 trillion tax increase over 10 years, according to the Tax Policy Center, which said that three-quarters of the increase would be paid by the top 1 percent of households.

   But Trump is wrong to claim this would be the biggest tax increase in history. When comparing revenue bills over many decades, percentage of the gross domestic product is the correct measure, not nominal dollars. Calculations by the Treasury Department show that tax increases in 1941 and 1942 were a larger share of the economy. Tax increases in 1951 and 1968 were also larger, but were designed to be temporary so are harder to compare to Biden’s proposed tax hike.

   “In the first year, Biden’s tax plan would increase federal revenue by 0.68 percent of GDP [gross domestic product], making it the tenth largest tax increase since the 1940s,” according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation. “In the second year of Biden’s plan, when the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit expires, the plan would increase federal revenue by 1.52 percent of GDP, tying for the fourth largest tax increase as a share of GDP since the 1940s.” The biggest tax increase, the Revenue Act of 1942, boosted revenues 5.04 percent of GDP.
    

   Dumbass finishing his time in DC as he started it – lying out his ass. 

9. George Will on the “domestic” in Enemies domestic and foreign  in the Constitutional Oath of Office.

   Hawley, Cruz, and their Senate cohort are the Constitution’s  most dangerous enemies.

    

10. The purple hands of Yertle are slipping from control.   Go, Georgia, go!   Let’s hope Schumer is at the helm, tout suite. 

11. scotland has declared a lockdown.  does this mean that the fleeing felon will not be allowed to land and not able to hole up in his turnberry hide-away?

    civilrightsmovement :

    President Donald Trump appears to be planning to flee to Scotland one day before Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20, but he now has an additional problem: the leader of Scotland’s government just announced a new coronavirus lockdown.

    First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in a speech Monday announcing her country’s new, expanded lockdown measures noted “it remains the case that no-one is allowed to travel into or out of Scotland unless it is for an essential purpose.”

    It’s hard to call fleeing a country because you lost an election by 7 million votes an essential purpose. [continues]

12. And in matters of life and death. 

    New daily reported cases rose 23.1% 
    New daily reported deaths rose 19.7% 
    Covid-related hospitalizations rose 6.1% 

    Among reported tests, the positivity rate was13.6%.
    The number of tests reportedfell6.5%from the previous week.
    Deaths now above 352,000. Vaccine rollout at about 25% of target  

    The picture of irresponsible management of the pandemic. Heckuvajob Dumbass. 

13. Gonna miss the old coot’s rallies, i’ve watched nearly all of them

14. Poobah, I miss headaches when they are over, but I’m glad they’re gone.

15. OMG Craig…  you be brave.  I can’t stand to watch 5 minutes of trumpty dumpty.  Yesterday on MSNBC, Claire McCaskill suggested that everyone should listen to the entirety of trump’s phone call.  Think I’d rather eat maggots!
     
     

16. and now for a humorous interlude….
     
     

17. wapo:

    Trump warned by Scottish leader to stay away amid reports he might travel to his golf resort to skip inauguration
    […]
    Could the American president, on his last full day in office, wing his way to his ancestral Scotland to hit the links at his shuttered resort, possibly missing the inauguration?
    Unknown and unconfirmed.
    But on Tuesday, the leader of Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, was asked if Trump was headed her way and what might be her message to him?
    At her daily news briefing, Sturgeon said, “I have no idea what Donald Trump’s travel plans are, you’ll be glad to know.”
    Then she added, “I hope and expect that his immediate travel plan is to exit the White House, but beyond that I don’t know.”
    Finally, Sturgeon warned Trump he might be breaking the law if he came: “We are not allowing people to come into Scotland now without an essential purpose, which would apply to him, just as it applies to everybody else. Coming to play golf is not what I would consider an essential purpose.”
    [continues]

18. for mitch

19. and a stormy (as in sturm und drang) one in D.C.

    wapo:

    Far-right online forums are seething with references to potential violence and urging supporters of President Trump to bring guns to Wednesday’s protests in Washington — in violation of local laws — as Congress meets to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

    Many of the posts appear to be direct responses to Trump’s demands that his supporters pack the nation’s capital in support of his bogus claims that November’s national vote for Biden resulted from election fraud. Congress’s largely ceremonial role in confirming Biden’s victory has emerged as a catalyst for expected unrest that has D.C. police and the National Guard deploying on city streets to quell potential trouble.

    Talk of guns and potential violence is rife on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, the conservative social media site Parler and on thedonald.win, an online forum that previously operated on Reddit before the company banned it in June after years of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and calls for violence.

    […]

    Discussion in the thread followed about how most effectively to sneak guns into Washington, laced with occasional references to using them. D.C. has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws: Openly carrying guns is banned, concealed-carry licenses from other states aren’t recognized, and all firearms in the District must be registered with local police.

    Of carrying guns in D.C., one poster in the thread wrote, “Yes, it’s illegal, but this is war and we’re clearly in a post-legal phase of our society.” Wrote another: “LIVE AS A FREE AMERICAN AND BRING YOUR ARMS!”

    [continuies]

20. patd, what could possibly go wrong?  All I can say is that counter protesters need to beware – those folks are crazy. 

21. post-legal phase of our society

     
    He ain’t wrong

22. Marcia Blackburn. Yikes.  Scary and stupid

23. I absolutely love about Craig’s place:  Patd using “Sturm und Drang” and expecting others to know what is being discussed.  You sure can’t get that regularly anywhere else.

24. exit polls on CNN in 40 min.

25. i predict that evil (Smelly and the Chicken) wins the day

26. don’t worry though it’s like day 2

27. I love this banner from today’s Wapo:

     
    The Trump roadshow whines to a close with a grasping, wistful last hurrah

    Ain’t that the truth?
     
    “… Just an old, sweet song keeps
    Georgia on my mind….”
     
    Here’s hoping the record turnout is not as a result of record RetRUMPlican turnout.
     

28. CNN exit poll in Georgia: About 3/4 of Republican voters say the presidential election in GA was not conducted fairly; more than 9 in 10 Democrats say election was fair

29. Gandalf on Shadowfax could almost fly, but let’s hope Aragorn doesn’t allow the dead to vote.

     

30. oooh look at you with the deep LOTR refs💪👍

31. There’s a whole gen of LOTR fans that have never read the books😐

32. 2003’s “Charles II: the Power and the Passion” starring a young(er) Rufus Sewell on britbox is really good btw

33. Early exits, similar to November electorate GOP: 39 percent Democrat: 36 percent Independents: 25 percent

34. omg just wait a few hours for the call
     
    i’m more nervous about tomorrow, then the 20th

35. 29% black, 61% white — same as November

    18-29yo vote down, 13% compared to 20% in November

36. youth turnout bodes ill

37. Well, Poobah, that’s not the most encouraging news I’ve heard.  Sounds like the early voting is going to determine the outcome of the two races.

38. The early vote has a much higher youth vote

39. yes i did not like that youth turnout, but those interviews were done with 2 hours of voting to come. So maybe the young folks voted late

40. Optimists will never understand the joy associated with things not being as shitty as imagined🤞

41. Bink

    I was a telephone operator on the all night shift in the 1960s.  Naturally there was a lot of reading while waiting for a light to appear on the switchboard.  I broke down crying when Gandalf fell to the Balrog.  lol

     

42. i’d wake up early, read LoTR for an hour, and walk to school in the moonlight, through farms, avoiding orcs and balrogs  

43. The first wave of returns will likely show GOP leads from today’s voting. But some counties pre-processed early vote and will release those fairly soon, which lean Dem.

44. i lived 5 miles from school💪

    (yes, there were buses, but fuck the bus)

45. i’ll eat my hat if Dems win both races 

46. All you had to do was walk.  I got to work full time all night and go home to deal with two children under four after hubby strolled off to work.  Life did not involve a whole lot of sleeping.  🙂

     

47. Encouraging … from

    @CNNValencia

    Dekalb County says they have exceeded their in-person election day vote total with 90 minutes left until the polls close. Dekalb went 83-16 for Biden in November.

48. So Bink, was that uphill in both directions?

49. …wasn’t complaining, loved every minute of it, trespassing is fun

    (the fantasy was creating an easement)

50. The damage is done, faith in the electoral process sufficiently eroded- Trump wins, we lose

51. Pogo

    He was being chased by orcs.  It sped up the trip. 🙂

     

52. Folks waiting in line just before closing are looking younger with more females.  Fingers crossed.

53. Bink, just kidding – 5 miles is a hump in good weather, helluva hump in iffy weather – what’d it take you, hour & 1/2 each way?  I had a 10 minute walk to school.  High school was a drive except in really good weather, then it was a 1/2 hour walk, past Fuqua Dairy, which on warm days was quite fragrant.  No buses, no Orcs.

54. yeah 1.5 hours of moonlit solitude

55. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/pennsylvania-state-senate-gop/index.htm
    Trickle-down idiocy.

56. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/us/jacob-blake-police-shooting-kenosha-emergency/index.html
    Paralyzed from being shot in the back multiple times, but no charges against the officer.  WTAF?

57. ~Breath of sunshine here.~ So far today there have been 3478 deaths reported – excluding 9/18, which was a delayed reporting bolus of deaths, today has the 2nd highest death rate of the pandemic in the US SO FAR, with 5 hours to go in the East, 8 in the West. Record is 3,862, last Wednesday.  Yup, turned the corner and it’ll just go away one day.  

58. With 5% of the vote in can’t we just stop the counting and extrapolate?  It’s about 68-32% Dem at this point in both races.

59. I’m all signed up to receive vaccine if WA can get any, but the medical folks come first, then nursing homes, and then independent aged such as myself.  There isn’t enough for the first two groups.

     

60. Let’s see, MSNBC or CNN? Damn, I want McConnell gone.

61. The last known civil war veterans widow has passed away at 101 yrs old. 
    Her story.

    only 17 years old when she was wed to Union veteran James Bolin in Niangua. Bolin, who was 93 years old at the time of the nuptials, proposed to the high school-age Jackson as a way to repay her for taking care of him in his advance age. Bolin, who was a friend of the Jackson family, needed daily care, which was provided by teenage Jackson after school each day.

    Jackson recalled, “Mr. Bolin explained that he did not have any money to pay me for taking care of him. Therefore, he asked for my hand in marriage so that he could leave his pension to me.” However, Jackson never applied for the pension and kept the nuptials secret since the time of Bolin’s passing in 1939, until Dec. of 2017. They were legally married from 1936-1939.

    The only records from the wedding day were safely stored in her possession in the Civil War-era Bible that Bolin had given Jackson, shortly before his passing. Since sharing her story, a witness (Dr. Tommy Macdonnell) has been identified and  signed an affidavit at the 2018 Cherry Blossom Festival to the wedding day timeline of events. 

62. Jack

    There was an excellent novel from several years ago was “Oldest Living Confederate Widow tells All” by Allan Tiffany’s.  Definitely worth reading if you like well written and researched historical novels.

63. looks like the plan with regard to the cult’s D.C. protests is to create enough violent uprising and civil disorder that it can trigger the insurrection act and empower D’ump to declare martial law.     cohen & the other former DOD secs apparently were taking that into consideration when they signed their letter warning the pentagon to keep their powder dry.   

    for letter see  10 former Defense secretaries call on Pentagon to stay out of election fight | TheHill

64. I think both the dems win

65. Hate auto correct.  Allan Gurganus. 

66. Im feelin good

67. Craig

    I know by tradition a tied Senate would mean the VP’s party would be Leader.  So would this be McConnell until the 20th and then Democratic as of  21st?

68. That’s my understanding Jamie 

69. Things could get “Chinese Curse” of living in interesting times until the Inauguration!

70. See all tomorrow for results

71. Alabama Crimson Tide wide receiver DeVonta Smith wins Heisman Trophy
    Ya done good, DaVonta. Congratulations on a job well done. 

72. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/politics/cleta-mitchell-resigns-trump-georgia/index.html
    Why do folks keep helping SFB?  

73. Now, let’s hope Ossoff and Warnock do the same. 

74. BiD Cleta hopped on the wrong horse and fugged her retirement as a partner in a mega firm to suck up to Dumbass. She got kicked off the golden twilight sleigh today. Absolutely fucking stoopid. Good, screw her. 

75. Watching this stuff I’m seeing both dem candidates over performing compared to Biden county by county versus Biden, but it is one up, one down. What am I missing Poobah?

76. Pogo, im counting on metro Atlanta and Savannah. Plenty of Democrats left to count

77. Pogo… Steve Kronacki on MSNBC says what Craig said.  It’s largely Democratic counties where the vote is still being counted.

78. This exactly like November. Dekalb, Cobb and Savannah put Joe ahead at the end 

79. 🤞👍🏻👍🏻🤞‼️

80. 170k early votes and 40k in person today votes left to report in dem stronghold Dekalb

    That’s enough to get this done 

81. i’m looking here for the call, plz report

82. Hi Craig;  I am nervous!

83. Georgia Democrats as the state turns blue

    

84. Outstanding Dem counties can put Warnock over the top, Ossoff closer but doable 

85. lol Jamie ill repost the stand-up i posted yesterday if you missed it, relevant to your post

    here:

86. Georgia’s top elections official Gabriel Sterling tells CNN there are enough votes left to report soon in Atlanta Dekalb County to put Ossoff and Warnock ahead.

87. Dekalb in. Perdue now just 15k ahead, Warnock up 32k. Still 18k outstanding votes in Dekalb

88. Perdue lead down to less than 4k

89. Are there enough unreported mail in votes or unreported Dekalb county votes out there to put Osoff ahead of Perdue? 

90. wow these margins are so thin

    politico has Ossoff down <2000

91. Relatively, looks like Warnock has it???  Up 35k???!?

92. In a rational year both of the races would have been called a couple of hours ago.  It is over, Democrats win!
    Looks like there will be a lot of pork flowing into West Virginia.
    Jack

93. Ossoff down 1200

94. Something to sleep well on: There are more than 90,000 votes left to count in Dem counties. Warnock’s and Ossoff’s estimated shares of those uncounted votes should be just under 80%. That’d give them each a net gain of 70,000 votes. If true, Ossoff would win by nearly 70,000 votes and Warnock by more than 100,000. 

95. well hot damn

96. Bink 
    It is under 500, has been for 45 min. Probably lower now. I follow Dave Wasserman, Cook political report, on twitter. He called Warnock 2 hr ago and Ossoff half an hour ago. It’s over, pour a drink celebrate.
    Jack

97. May not even be a recount for either race.
    Jack

98. well double dog damn

    👍👍👍

99. gonna be some pissed-off proud bois tomorrow

100. GOP turnout in the Georgia county where Trump rallied Monday went DOWN and the Democrats outperformed their November results there. Donald Trump is a Big Fat Loser!

101. Georgia saving our democratic bacon twice in one year, thank you

102. NEW THREAD

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