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Wednesday 5 November 2014

This is where the magic happens (Dark Money)

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rt so this does happen again #votefifthharmony: image via celinie @floridalilos, 4 November 2014 

Kansas Falls to Girl Warriors Without Sin
The time just seems to crawl by when you've scored a billion rts in the past 24 hours
But all the results aren't yet in
The left hemisphere
.........................nothing but haters and deniers
out there
And anyway now that they've all got their own private vaporizers
Nobody in these mountains cares much about politics anymore
And the Court has ruled that money is speech
Even if forty seven percent of Americans don't really object to the idea of government
Implanting micro chips in their bodies




Bloomberg Politics all-nighter! #midtermelections working till 6 am! This is where the magic happens: image via Mia Saini @miasaini, 4 November 2014
 

Empire State Building on #MidTermElections night #NewYork: image via Yuwei Zhang @yuweizhang_CD Manhattan, NY, 4 November 2014


#DarkMoney in Key #Senate Races Is ‘Shattering’ Records: image via MintPress News @MintPressNews, 4 November 2014



Virginia, US. Residents wait in line in the pre-dawn hours to vote in the 2014 US midterm elections at a historic property called the Hunter House at Nottoway Park in Vienna. Virginia voters are choosing between Democrat Mark Warner and Republican Ed Gillespie for the US Senate
: photo by Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA via The Guardian, 4 November 2014



Tehran, Iran. A demonstration to mark the anniversary of the storming of the US embassy by student protesters that triggered a hostage crisis 35 years ago: photo by Atta Kenare / AFP via The Guardian, 4 November 2014

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#voting #elections Lol. Hmm. One to discuss: image via MooreLiberty @NonStatis, 4 November 2014

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Happy #DiaDeLosMuertos!!!: image via Dandelion Dollars @DandelionDollar, 2 November 2014
 
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Feeling ominously like I've arrived at the #Overlook #TheShining
: image via Scott Simmie @scottsimmie, 4 November 2014


Come play with us, for ever and ever and ever. #TheShining #HalloweenParty
: image via Light House Cinema @LightHouseD7, 9 October 2014


#Kubrick is everywhere these days! Have you seen the IKEA ad inspired by #TheShining
: image by SK13Movie @SK13movie, 23 October 2014


10-year-old Gabriella Baiano holds a sign supporting Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who won re-election in Kentucky
: photo by Shannon Stapleton / Reuters via The Guardian, 4 November 2014


Supporters of the Republican Florida governor Rick Scott wait for the start of a midterm elections night party in Bonita Springs
: photo by Steve Nesius / Reuters via The Guardian, 4 November 2014


Alice Butler-Short, a supporter of Virginia Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie, displays her star-spangled shoes at the election night party in Springfield
: photo by Cliff Owen / AP via The Guardian, 4 November 2014
 

A worker cleans a stage in preparation for the victory party of Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo in New York
: photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters via The Guardian, 4 November 2014


The San Juan Valley in San Benito County is said to contain oil deposits. A county ballot measure would ban fracking, steaming and acidizing for oil. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle
 
The San Juan Valley in San Benito County is said to contain oil deposits. A county ballot measure would ban fracking, steaming and acidizing for oil San Benito County's measure would also ban cyclic steam injection and acidization methods: photo by Brant Ward / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 November 2014

Anti-fracking forces claim that the oil industry is removing their signs from peoples yards and placing their own signs on public roads near Hollister, Calif. In the upcoming election, three California counties will vote on ballot measures to ban fracking (hydraulic fracturing) within their borders. San Benito County's measure would also ban cyclic steam injection and acidization methods. Photo: Brant Ward, The Chronicle
 
Anti-fracking forces claim that the oil industry is removing their signs from peoples yards and placing their own signs on public roads near Hollister, Calif. In the upcoming election, three California counties will vote on ballot measures to ban fracking (hydraulic fracturing) within their borders. San Benito County's measure would also ban cyclic steam injection and acidization methods: photo by Brant Ward / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 November 2014


Outdoor movie #TheShining so cool having movies in our yard: image via TY That Kid SIMPKINS @TYSIMPKINSactor, 27 October 2014

4 comments:

TC said...

Guy in ear said four billion spent on the campaigns, one billion of it dark money.

It all rolls past, almost as though we were here, and it were happening.

You don't suppose Team Mitch could have been "consciously" appropriating Kubrick's set design??

Come play with us

Something in the river of blood

Hazen said...

The crew has been changed out, but the ship is still sinking—though now with a more pronounced rightward list. No matter. Cap'n Mitch thinks he can get us up to ramming speed.

Nin Andrews said...

It's all too depressing.

TC said...

And the funny thing about the famous victory of Captain Mitch, in that nest of vipers, where anybody would betray anybody (including of course the suckers who voted your way) at any time for a dime's worth of (additional) private advantage, he'd better enjoy it while it lasts.

Nin, ditto here. What else can one say.

(Somebody asked about the "rts". That has to do with a sort of hashtag-spamming global teen pop award contest virus thing... like y'know? The kids in the audience in top shot are attending a concert of the teen girl band fifth harmony. Yesterday, in stark contrast to the drear US elections, the electronic turnout in this contest, or race or what you will, was intense and furious and unremitting, almost up the levels of #icebucketchallenge or #ebola -- far more impressive in fact than the voter turnout in Capn Mitch's shipyard...#mitchmcconnell, last I checked, was about as cold a celebration as has been iced since the Overlook Hotel freezer lockup scene. At the time that photo of the lads in the theatre was posted, #fifthharmony had just edged into a narrow lead, helped along by massive spam salvos of rts from adoring and highly competitively motivated followers.)