US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

xp -- I live in one. The mayor of Jackson would say fuck off, but the casinos/convention infrastructure on the coast would probably jump at the chance.

Like a lot of his bullshit, he no doubt only wanted North Carolina because someone smarter or more educated/organized than him found some tangential campaign benefit to it

Was it even his choice? I assumed it was chosen by RNC leadership, not by Trump himself.

He def. pretended like it was his preference.

i believe mar-a-lago might be available to host the RNC convention. no masks or other PPE allowed

Is the DNC still happening or is that unknown as well?

zoom DNC iirc

I found a 2018 article about how the RNC was having trouble finding a city willing to host the convention in normal times. Charlotte was the only one actively lobbying for it.

Someone should print up Zoom DNC shirts a la the Run DMC logo.

Nashville is apparently under consideration now. Yay.

Music City DOA

Lol

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/esper-insurrection-act-protests/index.html

Nashville is apparently under consideration now. Yay.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:33 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh hell no

Something every movie fan knows: Nashville + politics does not end well.

How has Trump not 'volunteered' Mar-a-Lago? They could set up tents on the fairways.

Didn't he try to have the G6/7/8 there 1000 years ago, and got shot down?

I wonder if he hasn't volunteered Mar-a-Lago because ... management recommended against it, due to health concerns and potential liability?

Mar-a-Lago has bedbugs, and if I were the exterminating company I'd insist on conventioneer stay there while it's under fumigation.

a big tent party indeed

"The Lying About Donald Trump is Now Completely Out of Control"

He said that he didn't want to do it at Doral because the ballroom isn't big enough.

I have zero interest in moving the Republican National Convention to Doral in Miami, as falsely reported by the Fake News @nytimes in order to stir up trouble. Ballroom is not nearly big enough & would like to stay in N.C., whose gov. doesn’t even know if he can let people in? https://t.co/nqBBPv4VXS

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020

Well, between the conventioneers and bedbugs, how would they fit in one space?

Lots of terrible, bloodsucking, smelly, shit-leaving insects....and also bedbugs.

polyticks

if he wants to 'dominate' he should demand the target center in mpls

more lols:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump and Kushner pushed the National Enquirer to investigate that bogus Joe Scarborough 'murder' story. The tabloid dug — and found it was total bullshit. https://t.co/siMc6tvUO3

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) June 3, 2020

xp

if he were a true leader he would wear a hat and shirt with a large target logo on it

“If there was something there we would’ve bit into it and stayed with it,” this tabloid veteran insisted, requesting anonymity owing to AMI’s notoriously ironclad non-disclosure agreements and reported retaliation against staffers who have publicly spoken out about the company.

“The basic direction we were given by the editors was since you’ve gone left and focused on the dead girl and that hasn’t been fruitful now go right and focus on the affair,” the ex-staffer recalled, referring to Scarborough’s romantic relationship with his co-host Brzezinski, which was the subject of rumors before the pair finally made it public following her divorce. “It was clear there was an agenda driving it but it wasn’t clear to us by who and what the big picture was.”

The Enquirer reporters were unable to meet the tabloid’s notoriously low bar for publication even after consulting with tabloid-friendly experts such as forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht and private investigator Paul Huebl, who once claimed to the supermarket rag that actor Verne Troyer, best known for portraying “Mini Me” in the Austin Powers film series, was murdered after cops ruled his death a suicide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/steve-king-iowa-primary.html

we shall fight in the bunkers and the twitters and we shall never give up

McEnany says Trump's visit to St. John's Monday is on par with Churchill visiting war bunkers and W throwing out the first pitch during the World Series after 9/11.

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 3, 2020

It's definitely up there with H.W. puking on the Japanese prime minister.

Everytime Ford fell down.

It's up there with the time Dubya read a children's book on 9/11

At least he was pretending to read.

i'm a 9/11 truther

to be clear, i mean that i believe GWB really did read that book. he fucking nailed it!

Thing is, it's completely impossible to imagine Trump successfully reading a children's book to a kindergarten class.

Thing is, it's completely impossible to imagine Trump successfully reading a children's book to a kindergarten class.

oh man I'd love to see him try

oh no I wouldn't.

Thing is, it's completely impossible to imagine Trump successfully reading a children's book to a kindergarten class.

He'd shoo away Secret Service as it would prevent him from hearing through his earpiece, which contains the kids book on tape

Love to give 4 year olds PTSD

Then he would bomb the Tower of Terror

Thing is, it's completely impossible to imagine Trump successfully reading a children's book to a kindergarten class.

shouldn't you have a sign that says "fresh fish sold here today"

I know this will be greeted with derision by some of you, but I'm all for it.

http://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/obama-george-floyd/index.html

I especially hope Trump immediately schedules a press conference or Oval Office address or "Zooming with DJT" forum at the same time, and CNN and MSNBC cover Obama instead (which they obviously would, so he won't).

A data point.

RCP poll leads on this day in history:

2020: Biden +8.0
2016: Clinton +1.5
2012: Obama +1.3
2008: Obama +1.4

I think people generally remember the Obama wins as much easier and more predictable than they were.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 3, 2020

My only sliver of doubt about Obama's eventual 2008 victory came exactly ten hours after Sarah Palin's RNC debut.

In 2012, most doubts dissipated after the spring. I wasn't much rattled by Obama's first debate performance.

I had no doubt Clinton would win in 2016.

Kerry was +1.6

I disassociated for the latter half of 2003 and all of 2004 so I can't remember what my expectations were that summer.

dissociated*