DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024
I don’t know who first said this or where it originally appeared, but I’ve seen it referenced a couple of times in recent days, and I think it comes closer to anything I’ve heard to explaining why, win or lose, so many people will vote for Trump.
His life is a masterclass in white privilege. He can’t say enough racist things to be a racist. He can’t commit enough crimes to be a criminal. He can’t fail enough times to be a failure. He can’t say enough stupid things to be stupid. The idea of him overshadows any reality. The “Christian savior” who doesn’t know the Bible, the adulterer who fucks porn stars and steals from charities. It’s the promise of the protection of whiteness he represents.
The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, who’s been covering it from the start, has a pre-mortem for the Trump campaign, detailing the infighting surrounding the chaos-inducing candidate.
Have you heard about P’Nut the euthanized squirrel, who has become a rallying cry for desperate MAGAts? If not, Vox explains how a gay Only Fans model with a pet squirrel became an unlikely right-wing hero. Tl;dr: The story first appeared in the Murdoch-owned New York Post, which is so blatantly biased that even its own readers assume it only prints right-wing propaganda.
The Trump campaign fired someone for expressing white nationalist views, which I suppose is a lame attempt to deny the campaign’s blatantly white nationalist views. I’m only linking to this so you can see for yourself the sort of fine specimen who thinks that, because he shares a melanin level with some people of accomplishment, they together constitute a master race.
The floor’s yours.
Good turnout — voted at Talley Middle School. At about 9:30, line was about 20 deep and staying that way. One of the election workers told us when they opened the line went around the building and stayed that way for a very long time.
Adding — the lined moved swiftly, despite 1 of the machines not being used. There were at least 2 more machines than during the primary. Election staff had great system of greeting, registering, and giving you your sticker as you left.
Was brisk, but manageable, at Maple Lane in Claymont.
Larry Lambert was there to greet those in the long line that had formed before 7.
The line moved swiftly once the doors opened.
I was greeting for both Larry and Kyle Evans Gay. We were soon joined by Shay Frisby. I had my Kyle shirt on, and Shay wore her Larry shirt. Once Kyle’s campaign brought Shay the really good blue shirt that I don’t have (hint hint), Shay switched to that, and I switched to a Larry shirt that Shay had brought me.
We had a lot of fun. People are generally in a great mood, especially when the lines move smoothly like they did today. Shay is very discerning (as in she laughs at my jokes).
Larry left to go to other polling places. We were joined by John Cartier just before 10.
A good time was had by all.
Shay is cool. Haven’t seen her in years. Once upon a time my wife worked with her, trying to organize daycare providers.
She worked with AFSCME in organizing daycare providers.
If there’s any justice, this won’t be the last time her name is mentioned here.
Kyle’s seat?
Out the door and stretching into the parking lot at the new polling place on Rt.13 , massive crowd, packed parking lot and cars waiting to get in. They combined a few of the old tiny polling places into one big one. Must admit they had it together and the line moved fast, still there for fifteen twenty minutes.
You lucked out. There was a power outage in Smyrna that delayed voting for about an hour. Generators have been brought in and they will run on backup power the rest of the day.
At the risk of stating the obvious, I think we are looking at one of the highest voter turnouts in recent history both in Delaware and Nationally. I have seen and experienced lines at many of the polling places I have been to in the greater Middletown area. Glad they got the generator in Smyrna.
Georgia and North Carolina are likely to post results early.
I’d love to be able to pop the bubbly tonight!
Turnout in Slaughter Beach is 75% and counting – insane!
Saw a chart showing that Delaware, Rhode Island, and South Carolina had already exceeded the early voting marks that were set during the Covid election of 2020.
Trump is spending election night in Mar A Lago with his new best bud Elon Musk:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dlg1v7jevo