Trump said within “weeks,” and then when called on it, says, “by the end of the year.”
“Until it disappears,” Trump STILL says. He really thinks it’s going to disappear at some point. In October 2020.
Biden is on tonight.
“Perhaps to finish this,” Trump says, wanting to be done talking about COVID-19?
“All he talks about is shutdowns,” Trump lies.
“These are businesses with no money,” Trump says, running a government that has failed to pass a second stimulus for MONTHS.
Biden gives a great answer about reopening. Trump continues to talk about Whitmer and says Michigan has been “like a prison,” which frustrates me on many fronts — b/c it’s continuing to attack her, it’s a lie about shutdowns, and it shows he doesn’t know the criminal system.
This is Trump’s storytime. You can ignore it.
“Maybe you can do it right now.”
Biden says he’s not taken any money from foreign governments, then goes on the offense against Trump: “The foreign countries are paying you a lot. ... Release your tax returns, or stop talking about corruption.”
Joe Biden lifting his eyes to the heavens is my mood, if you were wondering.
Trump is literally just repeating his same bullshit attack against Hunter. Which is bullshit. And is also not the person on the ballot.
If you had “vacuum cleaner” on your Bingo card, congrats, I guess?
Trump whining, “I have to respond to that,” just comes across so weak.
Biden: “It’s not about my family or his family, it’s about your family. ... But he doesn’t want to talk about that.”
Trump is fighting in the Supreme Court to end Obamacare now, and at the end of his four-year term he’s saying he “will” come up with a “beautiful” plan to address preexisting conditions and more. It’s completely unbelievable.
“He’s a very confused guy. He’s running against Joe Biden.”
Trump lying about data leads to some of the most offensive things he says because he knows he’s just bullshitting. Just now it led to Trump saying that only low IQ people in immigration court return for their court dates. He’s just so incredibly offensive.
“I am the least racist person in this room,” Trump lies.
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“Little tiny windows — and other things.”
TRUMP TILTING AT WINDMILLS!
A great conclusion, with a reminder from Trump that he’ll never reach out to all Americans. And Biden, that he will.
Anyway, that’s that, and @kwelkernbc was clearly the best moderator of the debates. Insightful questions, good pushback, keeping it on track.
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“We hope this decision will set an example for other organizations and students [people] in general: It is OK to not be OK. By refusing to accept our own limitations, we fail to actively participate in the habits we claim to prioritize.”
I’m not the best (read: not good) at this. I definitely have physical manifestations of my stress and depression. I’m on multiple stomach medications right now. It’s not good! And yet, here I am, still working through it all. It’s not healthy. These students get it.
Today's reminder that Bill Barr is a menace who refuses to look at facts and evidence in his effort to cage people.
[Barr is giving a fear-mongering speech to police chiefs (again) because his biased law enforcement panel was declared as such by a federal judge (who also declared the panel’s meeting process illegal) and so now he doesn’t get to put out a biased report.]
#protip: Don't take your advice on law enforcement and public safety from this guy. He's talking about lots of cops, private enterprise, and religious schools. Seriously.
Thinking about Harriet Miers tonight. I don’t know what sort of justice she would have been, but it wouldn’t have been Sam Alito, so I’d have been willing to give her a shot.
That was such a brief moment in time. How many of you had to google?
My favorite side-story of the short-lived Miers nomination was the even shorter period of time when we thought she was involved in an ex-gay ministry — but it turned out to be a totally different organization with a similar name.
I am so grateful, every day, that I have been given my unique queerness. Alas, this year, my theater-going has been limited — but, as always, we adapt. For ex, I’ve joined some of those queer friends in a remote DND game since this summer!
I am so grateful, also, that I’ve had mentors and friends who taught me that it was OK to be me, as queer as I am and with the varied interests I have, and that I’d find other queer people with similar interests to help me along the way and who I’d try to help along their way.
Outside of the Biden side of this: Has anyone asked Pence about his failure to answer about a dozen questions at the debate — including how Trump-Pence will protect people with preexisting conditions? The case is at SCOTUS now; they took a side. It’s not a hypothetical.
Pence also wouldn’t answer what he would want Indiana to do if Roe was overturned. That should be getting as much attention as the court-packing question. Both are conditional, multiple-steps-removed questions.
The problem is there are a thousand things the reporters covering Trump/Pence can and should be questioning them about, whereas there are few Biden topics. So, the Biden reporters are flooding the zone on this one story because they’re all thinking “Ooh, something interesting.”