{"id":180975,"date":"2016-11-08T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/08\/drunk-blogging-the-election\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T02:01:00","slug":"drunk-blogging-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/08\/drunk-blogging-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Blogging the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you on Facebook, please click through for updates.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9:00 PM:&nbsp; I just turned on the TV, and I am alternating between MSNBC and CNN.<\/li>\n<li>9:02 PM: I just hard that Evan Bayh lost his race for the Senate.&nbsp; Good.&nbsp; I hate that smarmy entitled asshole.&nbsp; He is the archetype of a preening corrupt conservative Democrat.&nbsp; Joe Lieberman with a bit more charm.&nbsp; Take a drink in celebration.<\/li>\n<li>9:07 PM: CNN is doing a county by county breakdown.&nbsp; I love it on the screen or on paper, but on the TV, not so much.<\/li>\n<li>9:09 PM: On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow is unbelievably chipper.&nbsp; She really loves this stuff.<\/li>\n<li>9:15 PM: Reports that Tammy Duckworth has beaten Mark Kirk.&nbsp; Take a sip.<\/li>\n<li>9:21 PM: Trump is definitely outperforming polls.&nbsp; Take a shot.<\/li>\n<li>9:30 PM: Florida is too close to call.&nbsp; Not again!&nbsp; Take a shot.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>9:35 PM:&nbsp; My cat, Meatball, is demanding my attention.&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard to focus on politics when a cat is demanding your attention, particularly when I am already a little bit toasted.<\/li>\n<li>9:41 PM: The crawl on MSNBC says that Fl, PA, OH, GA. MI. NC. VA. MN. NH, ME.&nbsp; This is going to be a long evening.&nbsp; Take a sip.<\/li>\n<li>9:50 PM:<a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6cPwqsD.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6cPwqsD.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a> A picture for your perusal.<\/li>\n<li>9:55 PM:  I hate listening to listening to Chris &#8220;Tweety&#8221; Matthews.<\/li>\n<li>10:16 PM: Rubio beat Murphy.&nbsp; Not a surprise.&nbsp; You cannot beat an incumbent, even an incumbent nothing like Rubio, with a nothing like former Republican trust fund baby Patrick Murphy..<\/li>\n<li>10:20: Trump wins Ohio.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>We are&nbsp; completely f%$#ed.&nbsp; Take a drink.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>10:24 PM: This is as close as it is because the status quo is&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>10:26 PM: MSNBC just called Virginia for Hillary Clinton.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>10:33 PM: I hate Steve Schmidt on MSNBC, but I hate everyone on CNN more.<\/li>\n<li>10:36 PM: I should note that the entire Democrat Party establishment really needs to be fired.&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 Out of a cannon, into the Sun.<\/li>\n<li>10:39 PM: If you are Jewish, here is the link for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishagency.org\/aliyah\">aliyah<\/a>, if you want to trade Netanyahu for Trump.<\/li>\n<li>10:41 PM:&nbsp; Dow Jones futures are down by something like <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/08\/investing\/global-markets-stocks-trump-clinton-us-presidential-election\/\">600 points<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-11-08\/mexican-peso-fluctuates-before-make-or-break-presidential-ballot\">Mexican Peso is in freefall<\/a>.&nbsp; People are panicking, which means that people with level heads are doing them like a drunk sorority girl.<\/li>\n<li>11:03 PM: Russ Feingold was defeated by the wingnut Ron Johnson. A truly decent man lost to a walking piece of sh%$.&nbsp; Take a shot.&nbsp; I am bumming.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>11:05 PM:&nbsp; Sh%$.&nbsp; The <i>Daily Show<\/i> is on.&nbsp; Changing Channel.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>11:15 PM: Meh. On today&#8217;s <i>Daily Show<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>11:30 PM: Trump is called to win Florida and Utah.&nbsp; I am drunk and depressed, and I think that Donald Trump will be President-elect in the morning.&nbsp; I am done for the evening. <\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you on Facebook, please click through for updates. 9:00 PM:&nbsp; I just turned on the TV, and I am alternating between MSNBC and CNN. 9:02 PM: I just hard that Evan Bayh lost his race for the Senate.&nbsp; Good.&nbsp; I hate that smarmy entitled asshole.&nbsp; He is the archetype of a preening &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[808,837,799,823],"class_list":["post-180975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-food","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}