{"id":175879,"date":"2020-11-03T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/03\/live-drunk-blogging-the-election\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T02:21:00","slug":"live-drunk-blogging-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/03\/live-drunk-blogging-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Live\/Drunk Blogging the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

11:40pm<\/b>:
Massachusetts approves right to repair legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

People do not want to be screwed by their car dealers, at least now without lube.<\/b><\/p>\n

Good night all.
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11:38pm<\/b>:
I am going to leave you with a thought from P.C. Hodgell:<\/p>\n

“That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

11:32pm<\/b>:
<\/a>I’m drunk, and tired, and I’m shutting down.<\/b><\/p>\n

My final thought: America is broken, and Biden was running on a “Return to Normalcy,” and this is unsustainable. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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11:24pm:
<\/b>If we had nominated Bernie, we’d have already crossed the 270 threshold, but the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment), needed to keep their gravy train rolling.
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11:20pm<\/b>:
Florida approves a $15\/hr minimum wage, New Jersey approves recreatinal marijuana. <\/p>\n

The initiatives that I am most interested in are right to repair in Massachusetts, and Uber’s attempt to re-institute gig-economy slavery in California.<\/p>\n

11:17pm<\/b>:
<\/b>I think that I might be too drunk to blog, <\/b>which is WAY<\/b> less interesting than the Dead Kennedys album “Too Drunk to F%$#.”
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<\/a> 11:13pm<\/b>:
I need to note that I am NOT<\/b> going to stay up beyond midnight, so we are probably not gboing to get a final result for this post. <\/p>\n

You might want to check out the cat that went to the beach and hated the wind<\/a>.
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11:11pm<\/b>:
McConnell didn’t just beat McGrath, he destroyed her, and the consultants got a cut of all that money set on fire.
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11:03pm<\/b>:
California, Oregon, and Washington went for Biden, but we knew that this would happen. <\/p>\n

Switching to The Daily Show.<\/i>
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10:57pm<\/b>:
Lindsay Graham (SC) looks to win reelection, but in Georgia, it looks like the Senate race is heading to a runoff.
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10:41pm<\/b>:
Arizona is definitely in play.  Interesting.
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10:37pm<\/b>:
<\/b>McConnell won reelection against the hapless, and anti-ideological campaign of Amy McGrath, favored by the DNC, the DSCC, and the DNC, has failed because, as I have said, , “You can’t beat something with nothing, even if the something is awful.”<\/b><\/p>\n

She lost to a f%$#ing box turtle.
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10:35pm<\/b>:
Remembering 2000, please God, let it not come down to Florida.<\/b><\/p>\n

BTW, it looks like the highest turnout in decades.
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10:34pm<\/b>:
Most of the states out of the Pacific time zone have closed polled.
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10:22pm<\/b>:
Breaking for dinner.  Having some Romenesko Broccoli and cheese soup.
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10:21pm<\/b>:
Doug Jones loses in Alabama.  Not a surprise.  <\/b>He’s not running against a pedophile this year.
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10:18pm<\/b>:
It looks like Florida is going to go for Trump.<\/p>\n

Way to go Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment).
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10:12pm<\/b>:
I have a prediction:  That I will be seriously shicker (drunk) within the next 15 minutes.
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10:09pm:<\/b>
Arizona, which is always just one election away from turning Democratic Party, appears to remain one election away. <\/p>\n

The consultants don’t care.  They get their vig win or lose.
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10:04pm<\/b>:
The BBC is strongly implying that Trump will pull this out.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) appears to have screwed the pooch once again.<\/p>\n

The Iron Law of Institutions<\/a>, which states that power WITHIN<\/b> an organization is pursued at the expense of the power OF<\/b> that organization, may once again end up f%$#ing us all.<\/p>\n

10:02pm<\/b>:
Crap.  It appears that they will be calling Florida for Trump soon. <\/p>\n

I wonder how they will blame the progressives for this.
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<\/a> 9:59pm<\/b>:
I took a break to cuddle with Meatball, because I needed some Kitteh:<\/p>\n

9:53pm<\/b>:
<\/b>For my <\/b>Jewish friends, if you want to make Aliyah to Israel, you can go to this link<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If you are not Jewish, consider getting a circumcision.
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9:47pm<\/b>:
Democratic party stalwarts are sounding remarkably subdued, because this is NOT the blowout that they expected. <\/p>\n

I’ve said this a number of times, “You can’t beat something with nothing, even if the something is awful.”
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9:45pm<\/b>:
Why can’t Comedy Central do coverage of the elections?  It would be so much more pleasant. <\/p>\n

Switching to the Beeb.  (BBC)
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9:43pm<\/b>:
Turning off Taibbi and Halper, mostly they are looking for drinking points for their game.<\/p>\n

9:36pm<\/b>:
Checking the NY Times<\/i> map<\/a>, and it has: <\/p>\n