NJ: First things first. Hudson County fixed the math. 94% Trump and 6% Write-In.
About 3/4 of the vote counted, and Trump has 98%. Write-In is only 2%. Hard to tell anything from these numbers. Looks like Convicted Felon's conviction makes zero difference.
"Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass noted it's not Cohen who is on trial, but Trump, the man for whom Cohen worked for a decade. "We didn’t choose Michael Cohen. We didn’t pick him up at the witness store. Mr. Trump chose Mr. Cohen for the same qualities his attorneys now urge you to reject,” Steinglass told the jury."
"We can't let him pull off this fraud as being a strong man as opposed to a weak man." - Simon Rosenberg
This comment is in a segment about brand architecture.
"We cannot obey advance. We cannot allow their attempt to spook us into believing that they're going to win this election. There is nothing that we can do."
Trump must appear strong, and many others need this election to be a horserace.
GA Supreme Court results: Too close to call according to NBC. Only half of the votes counted, and over 500K remaining. The Democrat, John Barrow, is down by 68K.
While there are outstanding votes in Democratic counties like Fulton, I don't see how Barrow makes up 68K.
There is no way that Trump is going to step foot on the debate stage. Sean Hannity lost his mind tonight.
Ingraham was saying that Trump could handle Biden. Trump just needs to remain calm and let Biden ramble. I think Hannity understands that unless Biden completely screws up, one of their last remaining narratives is gone.
Trump also needs chaos to prevent any discussion about policy.
Ingraham was trying to make the best of it saying that he'll be fine. Hannity lost it. He clearly thinks Trump accepting the offer was the wrong thing to do.
"In the letter on Wednesday, Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said the campaign is proposing an altered schedule because the original dates are “out of step with changes with changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters,” pointing to the timeline of early voting, the way the commission has built debates as an “entertainment spectacle” and the commission being “unable or unwilling” to enforce rules in 2020 debates."
All three reasons are excellent. The commission's proposed dates are too late to be meaningful, the debates are just about one-line zingers and gotchas, and it took a shitshow for them to turn off Trump's mic.
Yesterday, I was told by my son's teacher that he got upset when another child answered the classroom door as he was the door monitor. My son said that he hated the fucking school and disrupted the class.
He not only got in trouble for this at home, but he had to sit in the office and miss two recesses today.
The story didn't end here, however. I went to school to pick him up today, and I saw several kids walking around with tiny pots with marigolds. I immediately realized these were Mother's Day gifts. We don't celebrate Mother's Day. Too hard on my son. He was adopted from foster care, and he is working through a lot with his biological mother.
The teacher handed me the citation from the day before. No big deal.
Then I saw one of my son's classmates with a potted marigold. And I realized what happened. I asked the classmate when they made the gift, and he said yesterday.
So, I went to talk to his teacher and aide. Yep, the outburst happened after they made Mother's Day gifts, and...
The district's failure to provide trauma-informed training has been one of the issues derailing our IEP meetings.
And here we are again. With another IEP meeting set for May 21, and another incident in which the staff has not been adequately trained.
And the most frustrating part? The school has a consultant coming to the site to provide behavioral support. The district hired a consultant to give a two-hour training on trauma, but no one will approve of her coming into my son's classroom and working with his teachers directly.
She is at the site several hours a week working with teachers on school-wide issues concerning behavior, but no one will contract with her to work with our son's individual teachers.