US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

chocking on my covfefe over here

I mean yes just give him an opponent

quick reminder as we barrel toward a potential pandemic of the likes unseen in a generation that the president of the united states is more or less undeniably a raving moron who has severe difficulty spelling common english words.

I'd forgotten. Thanks!

wait a second, the president doesn't even know wtf he's talking about!

today is the day Donald Trump became president

And the wormssss ate into his brain

deeply fucked up:

ABC News suspended David Wright for saying this to an undercover right-wing “journalist”: “I would consider myself a socialist; there should be national health insurance. I’m fine with reigning in corporations, I think they’re too many billionaires, and there’s a wealth gap...”

— Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) February 26, 2020

That liberal media at work

It was a Project Veritas video. Of fucking course

"Any action that damages our reputation for fairness and impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News and the individuals involved,” the network said in a statement. “David Wright has been suspended, and to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned away from political coverage when he returns.”

He committed the crime of being a living being that has opinions outside of work

to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned
to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned
to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned
to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned
to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned

After threading the 2016 Electoral College needle, Trump has acquired an almost mythic aura of invincibility for most people

wtf? I am the prototypical anguished white middle-aged Democrat and I don't think Trump is invincible at all, I think he was incredibly lucky to win once. He is very popular with declared Republicans but there just aren't that many declared Republicans. The House candidates he promoted lost in 2018 and he can lose too. I don't know anyone who thinks he can't lose; I also don't know anyone who at this point is stubborn enough to think he can't win.

Xpost I hope ABC gets raked over the coals about this.

Let's face it. It's not that mainstream journalists like conservatives. They're just afraid of them.

the only good news reporters are ones who don't have human empathy, and believe that financial crimes should be unfettered

Guessing the Veritas folks probably wanted and expected people to say "ignore them, they're liars" so the narrative would pivot to "oh, so you agree what he is quoted as saying is bad"

Trump has acquired an almost mythic aura of invincibility for most people

a lot of polls out indicating majority of Americans think Trump is going to win re-election. I think this is good for the Democrats, actually. Because fears like that will drive turnout.

Project Veritas always struck me as very pynchonian org, from the name on up

That ABC thing is Disney corporate policy. I have a lefty friend that recently moved out to LA for an office job at the Mouse, and they straight-up told him he couldn't post political stuff on social media or he'd be fired.

it doesn't sound like this was about social media though, right? it was a private conversation?

so if Wright would have said that he considered himself a capitalist, that there should not be national health insurance, and that he was ok with the existing regulations on corporations and the wealth gap, it wouldn't have been a political statement and he would be fine?

but if you express the opposite of those views, it is a political statement and you must be reassigned

“There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die,” Mr. Trump said about the outbreak at a news conference in India on Tuesday. https://t.co/vQpmSTaf5L

— Mike Forsythe 傅才德 (@PekingMike) February 26, 2020

March thread title confirmed

Fact-check: There is a 100% certainty everybody will die

allegedly

counterpoint: Millions Living Now Will Never Die

you hear it more and more

All of the people I know are not dead, he might be on to something.

shucks i ain't never talked to a man t'was dead in my life

we give this claim 4 pinocchios

The Trump administration is refusing to fund emergency preparations for a coronavirus pandemic until House Democrats agree to cut home heating aid for the poor by $37 million. https://t.co/hcdn3qOhd8

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) February 26, 2020

honestly how do you lose to this guy

so if Wright would have said that he considered himself a capitalist, that there should not be national health insurance, and that he was ok with the existing regulations on corporations and the wealth gap, it wouldn't have been a political statement and he would be fine?

^^^ this. It's only a matter of time before my Question Authority bumper sticker lands me in Guantanamo.

those tax and spend democrats just want to waste us taxpayers money on (checks notes) preventing the spread of a potential global pandemic

Biggest cuts in HHS plan to transfer $ to coronavirus response:
- $37.4 million: Low Income Home Energy Assistance
- $12.3 million: National Cancer Institute
- $7.5 million: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program management
- $7.3 million: National Institute on Aging

— Jack Fitzpatrick (@jackfitzdc) February 25, 2020

lmao targeted directly at boomers

Nicole Bitecofer is the new Nate Silver

many xps

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said she would be comfortable with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the Democratic presidential nominee in November.

The congresswoman was asked the question as she was leaving a closed-door meeting in the House basement Wednesday morning.

She replied with one word: "Yes."

Other congressional Democrats have balked at the idea of Sanders, a longtime independent and self-proclaimed democratic socialist, being the party's nominee in the general election.

Boom.

Did Morbs' head just explode?

is that news? what the hell else wd she say

she could've expressed "nervousness" like various other Senators and Dem party apparatchiks (Rahm Emmanuel, etc.) have

BUT

Pelosi is a) better at counting votes/reading polls than anybody else in the federal gov't and b) doesn't give a fuck about Senate "comity" or "perogatives" or whatever else worries the Dem Senate caucus

She could shriek "GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO well okay sure"

I'm pretty sure Morbz could imagine some other things she could've said lol

It also means she's ensuring -- as is there's any doubt -- that there will be no "brokered" convention.

I know the Dems have pretty bad political instincts but even they know that if Bernie keeps up these margins and the DNC still finds a way to give the nom to Bloomberg they'll be signing their own suicide pact

most of them know it even if the donors don't

It's very unsurprising, the issue has never seemed to be with elected Democrats (who he's worked with amicably for 30 years) but the consultant/donor class.

the 'donor class' i meant xp

but Hillz said nobody liked him!

the donut class also isn't fond of Bernie