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Sep 13, 2020 36 tweets 10 min read Read on X
Dear @WisDems:
And here...we...go!
Technical glitches aside, this is awesome. #PrincessBrideReunion Image
As an aside, how the hell does @RealRobinWright look EXACTLY THE SAME as she did 33 years ago??
.@joshgad as Fezzik, @PatinkinMandy and Wallace Shawn. Image
"THOSE ARE THE SHRIEKING EELS! THEY ALWAYS GROW LOUDER WHEN THEY'RE ABOUT TO FEED ON HUMAN FLESH!"
"You keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means!" Image
"I will say to him...'Hello...my name is Inigo Montoya...you killed my father. Prepare to die." Image
"Please understand that I hold you in the highest respect." Image
"You mean...you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll kill each other like civilized people?" Image
😳
"Oh, it's just that they're very comfortable...I think everyone will be wearing one in the future..." Image
"Have you ever heard of Plato...Socrates...Aristotle? MORONS!" Image
"Truly, you have a dizzying intellect." Image
"Never go up against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!" Image
Christopher Guest and Chris Sarandon look VERY different... Image
"I DIED THAT DAY! AND YOU CAN DIE TOO FOR ALL I CARE!" Image
"The Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist." Image
"We are men of action. Lies do not become us." Image
"BOOOOOO! BOOOOO! BOOOO!" Image
"I am waiting for VIZZINI!!"
"Meanie!" Image
"We need the man in black!" Image
"NOT TO 50!!" Image
.@robreiner is perfect as The Grandfather. A wonderful tribute to Peter Falk. Image
"You ARE the brute squad!" Image
"Hello in there...what's so important?? What'cha got here that's worth living for?" Image
"LIARRRRRRR!!! LIARRRRRR!! I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!" Image
"Have fun storming the castle!!" Image
"Let me 'splain. No, there is no time. Let me sum up." Image
"MAWWWWWWAIGE!!!" Image
"MAN AND WIFE!" Image
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Image
"I WANT MY FATHER BACK YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Image
"I'll explain...and I'll use small words so you'll understand, you warthog-faced buffoon!" Image
"Perhaps I have the strength after all...Drop. Your. Sword." Image
"Hello Lady!" Image
"As you wish." Image

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More from @charles_gaba

Nov 10
Here's an updated version of my "Dem Stop the Steal!" conspiracy theory thread which hopefully is less scattershot.

There's 3 main claims:

1. "How could there be 20M fewer voters than in 2020 w/"record-breaking turnout?"

2. "How could 15M fewer voter for Harris vs. Biden?"
3. "How could so many swing state voters vote for the Dem for Senate but not for Harris for POTUS?"

There's a few others, but these are the biggest ones, so let's tackle them first:
1. There weren't 20M fewer voters.

I've been compiling the data as it's being updated by CNN's tracking center via a Google spreadsheet. As of this writing, total POTUS turnout is ~147.6M, or ~10.8M lower than 2020's 158.4M.

cnn.com/election/2024/…

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Read 46 tweets
Nov 8
Yesterday I posted a thread digging into the actual data behind the "20M missing votes!" and "15M fewer than Biden!" conspiracy theories being tossed around the past few days.

I've updated my spreadsheet using the latest data from CNN:
cnn.com/election/2024/…Image
Short Version:

Via CNN, as of this writing, total 2024 POTUS votes are only down 13.9 million vs. 2020...with a likely 11.5 - 12.0 million ballots still to be counted across 30 states.

Total 2024 turnout will likely be ~156M or so...just a couple million fewer than 2020.
Again, using CNN's data & estimates, once every legitimate ballot has been counted, Trump will likely have around ~78 million votes to Harris' 75-76 million.

That'd mean he added ~4 million vs 2020 while she lost ~5-6 million.

Both of these would still suck, of course.
Read 14 tweets
Nov 3
As the guy who obsessed over precisely this data for nearly 3 years, let me address this:

My best estimate is that around 150,000 more Trump 2020 voters than Biden 2020 voters died between Nov. 2020 & Nov. 2022.

That's a lot of people. HOWEVER... 1/

acasignups.net/22/09/17/eleph…
...the vast majority of this discrepancy happened in districts/counties which were heavily red to begin with, which is why the MAGA COVID Death Cult factor only ended up making a decisive difference in exactly one statewide race: Arizona Attorney General:
acasignups.net/22/12/29/updat…
At the House district level it didn't make a decisive difference in any races at all. To understand why, let's look at two extreme examples...

acasignups.net/22/12/13/updat…
Read 10 tweets
Oct 31
People have started asking why I'm still pushing fundraising for Dems just 5 days before Election Day. All the ad time has been purchased & the lit pieces printed & mailed out already, right?

There's several reasons: 1/
1. For state legislative races in particular, a last-minute cash infusion of even $50 can mean an extra few pizzas for tired & hungry canvassers or an extra burner phone for phone banking.

Blue24.org/state-leg
2. After the polls close, there's going to no doubt be some races which require recounts...which may or may not have to be paid for by the campaign requesting it, depending on the state and the margin. That's gonna cost money.

Blue24.org/endgame
Read 4 tweets
Oct 31
🧵THE DEAD POOL: Since @MikeJohnson and @JDVance are promising to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk about that. 1/
acasignups.net/24/10/04/dead-…
Let's go back to the pre-ACA healthcare landscape. This is what it looked like in 2012...*before* the ACA's major provisions went into effect.

Half the US had employer coverage. Another third had Medicare or Medicaid. ~11M had "individual" insurance; ~48M had nothing at all. 2/ Image
The ACA had 2 main goals:

1. Reduce the number of uninsured Americans as much as possible by making coverage more affordable & accessible;

2. Provide protections from insurance industry abuses, *especially* for the individual market where the abuses were the most blatant. 3/
Read 40 tweets
Oct 6
(sigh) OK, here we go again: Trump's Butler, PA rally crowd size.

Here's the best aerial view shot I've seen of the crowd at its peak. (the arrow shows the stage). 1/ Image
A standard dry U.S. trailer van is around 53' long. 2/
schneiderjobs.com/blog/semi-truc…
As it happens, the aerial shot shows several presumably standard trailer vans lined up neatly in a row just outside the perimeter in the lower right.

By copying & pasting one of them, it looks like the venue runs around 7 trailer vans x 4 trailer vans. 3/ Image
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