Some good schadenfreude: preliminary viewer numbers are in for election night coverage, and Fox is near the bottom. Total viewers between 8 and 11 pm in millions:
And especially tasty, CBS News way behind them all with 2.629 million viewers.
NBC is now the Kornacki network.
A couple of weeks ago, he bragged about how much money the oil and gas industry was making as a result of the disruptions in the Middle East due to the war. “Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars because of what’s happened in the Middle East.” “I can just see the fake headlines. President Trump is talking about all the money they’re making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.”
A few months ago, he said, “The word ‘affordability’ is a con job by the Democrats.”
Never mind that gas prices are really high, diesel especially.
He didn’t name an irrelevant issue, certainly. The war is part of it, but so is the corruption and the immigration-related brutality and the stupidity of the tariffs and the general ineptitude.
But JD is hoping that everyone will remember that he’s been lukewarm about Donald’s War of Choice, and therefore grant him the Presidency.
Dream on, JD. No one is giving you credit for not being a cheerleader for the war—because you have been a cheerleader for all the rest of it.
Fox usually can boast that they win the rating wars because its got a near monopoly on the 30-40% of willfully disinformed Republican voter, while the other networks divide up the remaining viewers between them.
However, nobody likes spending time watching their vision of America go down in flames, so they are down to drop ins by left winger slumming for some MAGA tears.
Last night they had an scrolling comment page open, and it was probably 80% liberals or never-Trumper conservatives celebrating or saying good riddance, and 20% conservatives literally praying to a higher power to deliver their country from evil.
Well, this isn’t good. The Democrat’s lead is down to 1 point with 86% of the vote counted.
Or maybe not. That number was from CNN.
The New York Times has Laubacher (the Democrat) leading 48.89% to 47.91% with more than 95% of the vote tallied. Anyway, that’s a margin of 3,483 votes. Close, close.
You’re off by 3,000.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | PercentPct. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eileen Laubacher | Democrat | 174,860 | 48.89% |
| Lauren Boebert | Republican | 171,377 | 47.91% |
Sorry, fixed. Don’t know where that 3 went.
CNN now has the vote at 87%. I don’t understand the discrepancy.
If the margins by counties hold up, it looks like Laubacher wins by between 3,200 and 4,000 votes (depending on what “<100 remaining votes” means).
I don’t know why I’m watching this so closely. It doesn’t matter, really. I just want to see that knucklehead gone.
In other schadenfreude news, former Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira won his seat in Texas district 21, but when he announced, I’m sure he wasn’t planning on being in the minority. You were a very MLB player, Mark (except in the postseason). You know what you can do with your maga hat.
The New York Times puts Boebert’s chances at around 6%. With an estimated margin of 1.3%.
Extra special schadenfreude after her switching to a “safer” district. You can run, lady, but you can’t hide.
A former Navy admiral who was fired by Pete Hegseth for serving while in possession of a vagina has flipped Nancy Mace’s House seat.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6192130-lacore-wins-south-carolina-house/
I hope one of her first official acts after being sworn in and seated in the House of Representatives is submitting a motion to impeach Hegseth.
She’ll never be 100% gone. If you accidentally say “Beetlejob” out loud three times she’ll appear.
Well I’ve successfully caused a few people to think I’ve gone loopy.
I was just leaving the changing rooms in our building. Near the door is a TV with the sound quite low, set permanently to a news channel. Point being, I could hear what was being said but probably most people in the changing rooms couldn’t.
Just as I walked past MTG was being interviewed and said something to the effect that Trump was a trojan horse and had only been pretending blah blah and then she said proudly, “I called it early”. At which point I literally burst out laughing and everyone looked at me like I was a crazy person.
Lady, most of the world “called it” as soon as the horse came into view. You realising he was a Trojan horse after you’d ushered him through the gates was not, by any definition, early. It was just earlier than people slightly more slow witted than you, numbnuts.
This is almost certainly part of the emerging campaign to blame Hegseth for the war and thus the election result. I mean, he’s right that the war and the effect on gas prices was a big factor, but Vance is already distancing himself from the current administration in an obvious strategy to run in 2028. I’m sure it will be as successful as we all think it will.
Also, “The stock market is booming because the GOP is being swept from office” is not quite the win he thinks it is.
Although if you’ve been following the thread on the stock price of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (“DJT” - NASDAQ), not every stock is booming…
currently at $4.49 and falling
Uhm, a “Trojan Horse” placed by which army?
The Greeks used the wooden horse to defeat the Trojans via deceit.
Greeks: 1, Trojans: nill.
But, if, in this telling Trump was the Trojan Horse (and, yes, he is full of horse-shit) - then he was placed by the Greeks.
The same Greeks at war with the Trojans.
This leap - no - full ballet-suite jeté or sissonne - of logic implies that the Democrats are responsible for the eight years of Trump, not the Republicans who actually voted the imbecile in. The Trojans (aka Republicans) allowed the Greeks (aka the Democrats) to install Trump.
So blaming Democrats for Trump.
I say, with this very inept and twisted metaphor, good luck, Republicans. Your MAGA followers are not exactly educated in mythology, and you already failed the pre-requisite “hand-holding-through-the-metaphor” part of the political blame process.
Also they don’t watch ballet.
I think she said something about “Deep State”.
I was only half listening as I walked past, till she said “I called it early” and I lost it.
To be fair to this lady, I have also on occasion shouted “own goal!” in disappointment as my own junior school soccer team headed towards yet another self-inflicted defeat.