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The Jolt: Donald Trump engineered his own defeat in Georgia, says secretary of state

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On Tuesday, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger continued his scorched-earth campaign against fellow Republicans who question his oversight of the Georgia’s election and make baseless accusations of widespread fraud. But this time, he’s aimed higher. Rather than swipe at U.S. Rep. Doug Collins and other Georgians who have targeted him, he shot back at President Donald Trump, who has labeled him a phony Republican and has encouraged his...

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Rather than swipe at U.S. Rep. Doug Collins and other Georgians who have targeted him, he shot back at President Donald Trump, who has labeled him a phony Republican and has encouraged his supporters to pile on.

 

On NBC’s Peacock network, Mehdi Hasan asked Raffensperger if Trump should be considered the author of his own defeat in Georgia -- because of the way he encouraged his supporters to shun absentee ballots. The secretary of state’s reply:

 

“I believe so, because the numbers show that. There were actually 24,000 Republican voters that voted absentee in the June primary, and those same 24,000 voters did not show up to vote in either absentee or in-person on the day of [the Nov. 3] election or the 15 days of early voting we have. So they just disappeared and they were ripe for the picking, they were there in June for the primary and they should have come home and voted for President Trump in the fall. So that’s 24,000. That’s his difference right there.”

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Brad Raffensberger had more to say to The Wall Street Journal for its Tuesday podcast. On U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who called for his resignation, citing vague allegations of mismanagement:

 

“I’m surprised that (the Trump team) put a little bit of pressure on them, they just folded like a cheap suit, but that’s OK. You know, we move on.”

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On his claim that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested that Raffensperger throw out legal absentee ballots:

“Senator Graham implied for us to audit the envelopes -- I thought he was saying throw out the ballots in counties that had the highest frequencies of [signature mismatches]. That’s similar to that lawsuit they filed in Michigan. And so, really, my take-away from that was that Senator Graham and obviously President Trump and his attorney -- they’re all on the same page…”

Gotta add vital now

12 hours ago, Vitalsign said:

While licking vag from the back, do you say anything or just huff the scent of Downey fabric softener for the duration?

OMG WHERE YOU BEEN MESSAGE ME

15 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

I believe that Conan achieves his greatest success when he does "Conan in public" bits. He is so clever and quick-witted, he can riff off of anything when he's around people. I will never forgive NBC and Leno for what they did to him.  He's such a standup guy, and how he treated his crew was fantastic.

Conan is great, and he was screwed, but as time has gone on, I honestly don't think it was Leno's fault. I think this was more of an NBC thing now. In Leno's case, I don't think he was actually ready to end his career in the Tonight Show, and NBC seemed to force him out so they could put Conan there since Conan was thinking of moving somewhere else if he didn't get to host it since it was a dream of his. So Leno gave it up, but I think he really missed it, and when they came back to him and asked him to host again, it's a hard offer to say no to. Conan wasn't ready to give it up either because he wasn't really given a chance to make it his own.

That seems like why the transition to Fallon had no drama; Leno seemed emotional since it was a huge part of his life, but he seemed ready to move on and give it to someone else at that point.

I say all this as someone who thinks Conan is significantly more talented and funnier than Leno and as someone who thinks Conan seems like a good guy.

On 11/15/2020 at 2:48 AM, Xbob42 said:

Beat Astro's Playroom, or at least saw credits. Not sure if I'll go back and get all the artifacts and puzzle pieces. Was a fun little semi-tech demo, but wasn't exactly mind-blowing like some people were talking about. I guess it's because for me none of these features on the controller are exactly new. The adaptive triggers just reminded me of a slightly more advanced version of old racing wheels that could provide resistance and even move themselves, the "super omega HD rumble" feels exactly like the haptics that the Steam Controller has been using for 5 years now, and otherwise it's just kind of a nice, normal controller.

Not that any of those are bad things, mind you, putting them all into one modern controller (as opposed to the Steam controller that no one uses) makes for some very cool possibilities (almost undoubtedly for first-party exclusives only unless MS adopts them for a mid-gen controller refresh) but each individual feature wasn't very new to me.

 

The most memorable part for me wasn't any of the controller stuff, it was the dumb GPU-themed song which I found very amusing, if for no other reason than someone wrote a song about the concept of a GPU.

 

Demon's Souls has been pretty fun. The fast loads feel really impressive, but when I sat down and thought about it, it didn't make any sense. From my memory, it didn't load any faster than I remember Souls games on PC loading. But it felt... different. So I loaded up Dark Souls 2 on PC (I didn't have 3 installed and didn't feel like installing it just to test this, but I remember its load times being very similar if not identical) and lo and behold, loading into the game, teleporting between bonfires was just as quick, quicker even as you don't have to wait for an animation to play out.

Then it hit me, it was the animation that made it feel different. Because these consoles will have real SSDs, games will have to take that account when dealing with loading. On PC we've had super fast loading for what feels like an eternity, but it's always jarring because the games aren't designed around it. So you get a cut to black, or a split second of a loading screen filled with text meant to entertain some poor sap who has to start at it for 45+ seconds if they've got nothing else going on. The animation of you turning into ectoplasm or whatever and the fog rolling in and then the animation completing on the other side makes it feel like a smooth transition, rather than a hard cut. I can't wait for those kinds of animations to come to multiplatform games because it will be a nice change of pace from me desperately trying to read the first sentence of 4 paragraphs in a loading screen, or critical hints/tips being only shown in said screen.

I'm installing Spider-Man now, I can finally get around to it now that it's 60 FPS. It just felt bad to me in 30. I've also got Sackboy ready to go, but I'm not sure if I care to try it any time soon. Mostly got it because there wasn't much else to get. I also plan to check out Ghosts of Tsushima sometime after I'm done with AC: Valhalla. Don't want to overload on open world games, but I'm also interested in it now that it's also at 60. Might wait for a sale, though. Still pretty expensive. And I still have Cold Steel 4 to play through. Juggling way too many games right now.

 

All in all while my mind hasn't been blown, it's been WAY better than the PS4 at whatever point I got it (shortly after Bloodborne launch) at least in terms of the console itself and new features. It doesn't feel like an underpowered laptop like the old consoles did at launch and it's bringing some genuinely new and neat stuff to the table. I hope this generation proves fruitful.

As someone who hasn't been able to play his PS5 yet (been moving, but I'm planning on FINALLY hooking it up tomorrow) and has pretty much the same games you do (Spidey, Demon's, Sackboy, and Astro by default), this was a very informative summary. Thank you.

20 minutes ago, gamer.tv said:

Really looking forward to RE8 and just slightly related, I've just started Ace Attorney on the DS for the first time. It's been good - though a fair bit of reading and clicking to get through after a long day of work..

It's good shit and is carried by the hilarious characters and crazy twists. The initial cases are going to be pretty standard. In the original game, Case 3 gets more in-depth, and 4 and 5 have more elaborate mysteries surrounding them. I love Case 5 in particular.

Even though most people I see rank the second game below the first and third, Justice for All's final case is possibly the best of the first trilogy.

18 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said:

 

 

12 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

That's quite the plot twist!

This somehow popped up when searching 'zero'

So is Harris showing up?

This is a good description, I think, of the problem:

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As Rick Wilson, a longtime Florida-based Republican consultant, put it: “Socialism broadly speaking in the United States is a bad brand. In Florida, it is a horrific brand.” Wilson, who is now a leading “never Trump” voice through his perch at the Lincoln Project, noted that to south Florida Hispanic voters “socialism isn’t universal health care and day care, socialism was secret police knocking at their door and shooting a family member in the head.”

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Republican messaging tying Democrats to the hard left was not new this year. Fernand Amandi, a veteran Democratic pollster in the state who has long warned about Republican gains with Hispanic voters, noted that it was first unveiled to great success in 2018, when “they defined the Democratic Party as being the brand of socialism and communists.” Amandi said Democrats then “dismissed the charges as absurd on their face. Through that dismissal of the charge and inability to adequately refute it that allowed those impressions to harden especially in the minds of low-information voters and new voters.”

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The question is whether the results in 2020 will represent a more permanent shift in voting patterns in south Florida or if it is just a blip. After all, as Shalala put it, “We didn’t lose the entire Hispanic vote, we just lost enough to lose.”

 

Curbelo noted that while “there is fear or concerns that a lot of Latino voters have about Democrats moving sharply to the left … Joe Biden is kind of the perfect Democrat to fight that image or that characterization but they actually have to make the effort.” Shalala echoed this: “Joe Biden is going to need a big Latin American strategy.” Combined with stronger organizing efforts, she thought that “Biden demonstrating his firmness against communism and socialism and getting something done in Venezuela will make a big difference.” In addition, she pointed to the need to invest in Central America for the new president to and “put conditions on every negotiations on Cuba [so that] he’s tough with the leaders of Cuba, but soft on the people, it will make a big difference.” But these efforts need to be made. As Amandi argued, “If Democrats don’t admit that [their identification with socialism] is a real problem that needs to be confronted … it could be permanent.”

It goes to the "defund the police" thing: why are Democrats so bad at this messaging thing? I actually think Green New Deal is fantastic messaging, tbh, and fighting for that is a winnable argument.

Democrats' weakness also seems to be separating Denmark/Canada/Norway from Cuba/Nicaragua/Venezuela and I don't get what's so hard about that.

Some observations about polling errors:

A little more about Joe-gia:

There were also some incredibly unique multiplayer games I really dug last gen, from Fall Guys to Rocket League to silly coop like Overcooked.

The latter reminds me of some of the smaller games I used to play on Genesis.

Detailed Turnout Data Shows How Georgia Turned Blue - The New York Times

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Huge gains in the Atlanta suburbs make up for a decline in the Black share of the electorate.

Shades of blue = more Democratic than 2016

Shades of red = more Republican than 2016

29 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

When you finally meet Ludwig after the game drops hints about his role in all this fuckery, what a glorious shitshow. I still can't wrap my head around some of those enemy designs, lunacy I say. 

And it's easy to miss that boss.

No weakening as of the 4pm advisory

3 hours ago, 69los said:

It's like Bizarro Undertaker at Wrestlemania.

Bless you.

Also I've been moving so I've had 0 time to play. Can't wait to start this.

57 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Dude...Bloodborne...

 

 

And if you like a challenge, the Bloodborne DLC is not only manda-fucking-tory in terms of quality and adding to the base game but the bosses are top-tier From lunacy. 

I loved those bosses. Maria is a damn marvel but they're all great.