US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

while talking to my mom last night she mentioned how she initially fantasized shooting DT, which then evolved into him just having a massive stroke so as to prolong his misery That's my mama!

he's also tweeted OBAMAGATE about 30 times today and yesterday

christ what an asshole

And he hasn't even gotten around to the "leaked" audio of Obama calling his (Trump's) COVID-19 response a disaster, or whatever phrase he used. I guess that'll be next week's fixation.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly why he's doing it now

At this point I'm less pissed about Trump making this shit up than I am the legions of maga-idiots that will not stop talking about it and the media that will start reporting on it as if it's actually a thing. Predictable and obnoxious.

yeah I'm already seeing the "Trump accuses Obama of biggest scandal in political history" headline in a few places, either these idiots never fucking learn or they're all in the tank for him

it's just unacceptable that this is the president

What are the odds that the Coronavirus task force was dissolved ahead of the media learning that there was an outbreak in the WH?

christ what an asshole

^epitaph

not to get all sic here but there's no need to share his tweets

A reminder that may not be obvious: amplification on social networks has monetary value. Twitter’s algorithm counts it as engagement even if you shared a tweet to criticize it or mock it, and uses that signal to amplify the tweet further. Only RT what you would pay to promote.

— Anil Dash 😷 (@anildash) March 1, 2020

Do not reply to, retweet, or quote a tweet from a fascist unless you would give them your money. Apparently some people would rather make that gift than change their behavior online, and I don’t know what to do about that.

— Anil Dash 😷 (@anildash) March 1, 2020

how hard is it to take a screenshot and include it in an image, that's what i do when i can't resist the urge to dunk on one of these bozos

sorry ya'll

i have been trying to do the 'copy + paste the text of the tweet only' thing lately, but every once in a while in the heat of the moment i loose my cool and BLAMMO!

I don't think that Dash argument really applies to someone as famous as trump, but definitely for the bottom-feeding chem-trails enthusiasts that he retweets

pre-emptive defense of calling any attention to trump's tweets, via embed or otherwise:

...sometimes the news he is making is ON twitter, so i'm interested in what he actually said. there's a separate discussion to be had (which probably has been had many times here) about the importance of what he says on twitter. should it be completely ignored? most of the time, yes. every once in a while, though, he does publicly command his army of trolls and non-journalist media to carry out an attack, and i don't think we should pay attention to it

every once in a while, though, he does publicly command his army of trolls and non-journalist media to carry out an attack, and i don't think we should pay attention to it

uuuuugh, i meant we SHOULD pay attention to it, on occasion

i'm just going to dangle my legs out of the Self-Own trashcan, where i belong

i'm just tired and hate his stupid face and all of the stupid things he says which add nothing of value to my experience of life

^now that's an irrefutable argument

leadership

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXwoLNaXsAA6EEJ?format=png&name=large

lol

they used to say he was a germaphobe?

once a month, I think about how I learnt of Donald Trump as a kid from an American newspaper comic strip which featured him semi-regularly as a fatuous, incurious, repugnant, destructive, acquisitive, bloviating, stupid oaf with no capability for respecting other beings, who was utterly contemptuous (if not abusive) of women, and whose primary characteristic above all else was a massive, misplaced confidence in his own judgment

i'm just tired and hate his stupid face and all of the stupid things he says which add nothing of value to my experience of life

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, May 11, 2020 11:02 AM (one hour ago)

yeah

how about this added value:

"transition into greatness"

I don't think that Dash argument really applies to someone as famous as trump, but definitely for the bottom-feeding chem-trails enthusiasts that he retweets

― dip to dup (rob), Monday, May 11, 2020 1:56 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

well it doesn't apply now. could have done with it around july 2015.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-ends-coronavirus-briefing-female-reporters_n_5eb9c144c5b6a0e85a758f36

Can't spell snowflake without white supremacy.

Can't get to that huffpo page in plain link, private browsing, or via Outline - what's the salient issue?

I posted The Guardian's report to the rolling 'is this racist?' thread:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/11/you-should-ask-china-trump-terminates-press-conference-after-clash-with-reporter-video

Donald Trump's press conference on coronavirus testing ended abruptly after a terse exchange with two female reporters. Asked by CBS's Weijia Jiang about his focus on international comparisons rather than US deaths, Trump snapped: 'Don’t ask me, ask China that question'. After being asked by Jiang, who is Asian-American, why he had directed the remark at her, Trump cut off the CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins as she asked a question and walked away from the podium.

It must infuriate him that nobody else cares about his insipid obamagate tweetstorm

imagine what this fool is going to be like in a month when US numbers are over 150k.

He's going to be like what a great victory, many people said we'd be over 200k, fake news! Then we'll get over 200k...

Trump is trying really hard to make "transition into greatness" the slogan for whatever he's trying to convince his knuckle-walking hordes is going on, but in typically half-assed fashion, he forgot to lock down the domain first.

Can't get to that huffpo page in plain link, private browsing, or via Outline

Dude I cut off all the Facebook hkdu?/ojlknrliudlid8nkjh garbage are you never satisfied?

yahoo asked me to clickthrough three screens, then from there to individually click on, individually read and individually approve the privacy policies, on nineteen external sites, of:

Active Agent AG
Amazon
Atlas / Facebook
dataXtrade GmbH
DoubleClick / Google / Adx
eBay
Ensighten
Flashtalking
Forensiq LLC
Jivox Corporation
Mediametrie
Microsoft
Pixalate, Inc.
PopWallet
Qriously
Quotient
Unruly Group Ltd
White Ops, Inc.
zeotap GmbH

Even if I had been prepared to approve these nineteen separate privacy policies, once I'd reviewed them, just clicking on them seemed like a awful lot of effort to go to merely to find out what the link was about, at all, let alone read the article.

I tried two other methods of getting to the link in good faith, assuming that you'd posted it as being worthy of awareness, but neither of those worked either.

In giving up after all these attempts, I wasn't berating or holding any individudal itt responsible for this. But by this stage, it was genuinely easier to ask what the article was about. It almost certainly took pom much less time to reopen, copy and paste three sentences than it had already taken me to attempt to simply open the link. (ta pom!)

I gotta say I admire your stance sic and it influences what I do online.

(tbc I think of asking what a link is about, if that link isn't public per se and the URL doesn't indicate, as just general conversation. I nearly always try and give context for links, but eg a few months ago quoted & linked a Pet Shop Boys interview in the Hun that I had read in private browsing, but others couldn't reach it, or chose not to, & asked for a full C+P. fair fucken 'nuff! I would have gone back and copied the specific relevant excerpts in full, but someone did the whole thing before I saw the requests.

(ppl posting links that actively attempt to turn ILX into a monetisation factory for an enterprise that has hugely contributed to gutting journalism worldwide, and is actively working illegally to manipulate electoral democracy every day, is a completely different matter that is frustrating in general, and mindboggling when linking to journalism on politics threads.

(bummed that stevie thinks they're both me being personally prissy or w/e, huuuuugs to Matthew!)

No dude i'm not thinking you're being prissy about stopping the gutting of journalism, it's because f your efforts that i consciously try to strip links of all the FB bollocks. It's just, I thought I had done that here! I didn't have to click on any stuff to get to this story, iirc (certainly not three clickthroughs)

Will precis links in future tho, it's definitely a thoughtful process to get in the habit of

huuugs to stevie

huuuugs as ever gratefully received

No hugging in here this is the politics thread

rand paul.

https://i.imgur.com/yQwVKFk.png

(btw, his comment/question for fauci was, rather than saying "there's no evidence for immunity" for people who have had coronavirus, shouldn't we instead be saying "there's no evidence for non-immunity"?)

also, dr rand paul would like to reprimand those who have warned about surges in cases and deaths after re-opening up parts of the country. he says that most of the models have been wrong. also, he wants everyone to pledge, right now, that if the re-openings do NOT lead to surges in deaths, that they'll admit they were wrong.

he's turning into a werewolf

he proposed that each school district should have a different plan

sorry, i'll quit remote liveblogging the remote hearing. but interesting that lamar alexander (chair of committee) seems to hate rand paul's guts. at the end of his 5 minutes, fauci interrupted (which is rare) and asked to use the remaining 32 seconds of paul's time to address all the bullshit he just spouted. alexander granted the time to fauci, and also asked him to respond to a particularly dumb thing Paul was saying about never opening up schools again. then alexander grinned and laughed at someone else in his home.

you gotta feel for the libertarians out there, though. coronavirus is an especially time for their dumb ideology