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5 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Jake Tapper just reported that the Trump campaign just declared that Trump intends to participate in the October 15 debate. That's a week and a half from now.
And yeah, it's scheduled to be a Town Hall.
The good news is that a week and a half is an eternity at this point, and what the Trump campaign claims he (or they) will be doing on October 15 is utterly meaningless.
The even better news, I guess, is that the fact that Trump and his people keep making up absurd bullshit and flinging it at the public is hurting them horribly at the polls, and that this is yet another example of that.

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7 Oct
Republicans hyping a vote-by-mail tutorial by outragedly proclaiming that there are naked ladies in it is ... well, let's just call it shortsighted.
Y'all understand that this isn't Imagine Take Two, right? That it's a primer on how to take concrete steps to avoid having your ballot invalidated, specifically in a crucial swing state where vote by mail is going to be overwhelmingly Democratic?
The more attention the video gets, the more likely it is that Biden wins Pennsylvania. Period. Thirst attention, outrage attention, making fun of Josh Gad for being fat attention. Doesn't matter. Fewer vote-by-mail ballots get invalidated, and Democrats get more votes.
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Lack of enthusiasm should not be our concern in these final weeks, and neither should complacency. Everyone's energized. Everyone's engaged. Nearly everyone's made their choice. It's time to GOTV.
Don't worry that excitement over good polls will discourage voting. It won't. Worry that voter suppression and the virus and complicated, changing policies will discourage voting, and do what you can to counter that in a practical way.
And if you really want to make sure that people know what's going on and know what the stakes are, volunteer for a down-ballot candidate. That's where the action is right now. votesaveamerica.com/adopt-a-state/
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The "families" in this tweet are Gold Star families—families who lost relatives fighting America's wars, and were honored by the White House for doing so nine days ago.
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Good thread on the ways in which people replying to (particularly but not exclusively viral) tweets wind up confusing and offending OPs without intending to.
I've got a policy of blocking anyone who speaks abusively toward me here, in no small part because if you're going to talk that way to me, you're probably going to do the same to people who reply to me, and I try to keep my mentions free of that kind of bullshit.
So if I tweet something about someone being horrible, and you reply with "Asshole." without any context, there's a good chance you're just going to get blocked on the spot. Even if you intended to agree with me that the person I was talking about is horrible.
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Less than 48 hours into being hospitalized with a life-threatening airborne disease, Trump staged a photo op that required a subordinate to drive him around in a car with the windows closed.
At least two people were in the car with Trump, neither one of them six feet away from him. So much for "going to school" on the disease.
Just yesterday morning Trump was, according to his intimates, freaking out at the prospect that Covid was going to kill him. Now he's choosing to expose others to the disease for no reason other than his own self-aggrandizement.
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I had a covid scare in April—no real cause to worry, in retrospect, but alarming given what was known at the time—and the idea that I might die in the next few weeks was terrifying. I don't think it's weird or a sign of weakness that Trump is (by various accounts) freaking out.
And if Trump IS freaking out, I can understand why his doctor would feel it was a legitimate medical decision to present a brave face to the public, even at the expense of the truth.
At the same time, though, all of that is fundamentally incompatible with the public's legitimate expectations of how his doctor should be behaving—and, as we're seeing, basically unsustainable in practice.
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