US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

good speech for a celeb!

i like how he looks like he can kick ass. we need a president who can kick some ass!

He definitely looks like he could dominate. And you have to...well, you know.

he's rich, he can kick some ass, AND he's an actor! god, if some old footage came up showing that he looked good in a tight trunks, you may as well call the 2024 election

He's so right. If Trump showed even an iota of humility, empathy or responsibility, he would get way more credit than he would deserve. And of course he'd win the election.

watch eric trump DEMOLISH liberal bed-wetters in this epic tweet!!

Never forget that we still live in the greatest country on earth! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2ZUZ8rtM0q

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) June 3, 2020

Date night. pic.twitter.com/b6bIswO5OT

— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) June 3, 2020

i was actually thinking about dwayne johnson earlier this week because my terrible son makes me watch moana two (2) times each day.

i was thinking, he was generally assumed to be a republican right? the idea of him running as a republican currently seems preposterous. this is a measure of how far the GOP has gone (i.e. from super racist to openly super racist).

are they gold hamburgers in that photo?

yeah but they were cooked in a toilet

i was thinking, he was generally assumed to be a republican right?

I would have 100% assumed The Rock was a Democrat. But I don't know that much about him.

most WWE people are Republicans

the rock is totally a republicans buy shoes-type guy

i mean if i thought about his politics for the first time today then yeah i guess he's a democrat, but he spoke at the GOP convention under GWB iirc?

he's also a big fan of the troops

That photo from the church is just ... like, aside from everything else, these people are so goddam weird.

yes

It's very "American Gothic."

that blue curtain in the background seems out of place, almost lynchian

Plenty of USO show regulars / “big fans of the troops” are Democrats

the President of the United States seems very fired up about a 13% unemployment rate

Trump's popularity is plummeting with both evangelicals & catholics, how many more awkward photo-ops where he has to pretend to be religious are we gonna see in the next few months?

There are many more significant reasons to hate the guy, but I can't wait to have a president again that doesn't do 90% of his communications with the public while he's sitting on the shitter every morning.

who's ready for their blood pressure to rise

Trump said that hopefully George Floyd is looking down from heaven and saying today is a great day for the country.

“It’s a great day for him and it’s a great day for everybody,” he says.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 5, 2020

Good morning!

Trump employs a not very subtle strategy of hook-and-bait with communication.

He'll say something attention getting and sharable even if it's something that makes him look bad (desecrating the memory of George Floyd) that contains a hook (good jobs numbers) he wants spread.

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) June 5, 2020

People accuse me of giving Trump too much credit for cleverness, but you absolutely do not have to be smart to execute this maneuver. Trump is not proving he's smart but if you're continuously falling into this trap, he's proving he's smarter than you are, at least.

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) June 5, 2020

And it could be soeone smart who's telling him to do it

The Trump trap is actually him spewing bullshit so extreme or beyond the pale that everyone is compelled to respond, which sucks up all the air and dilutes outrage, all while he has moved on to the next bullshit, because like a goldfish floating up to the top of the tank for food but forgetting why he went there, all he knows is the fleeting moment.

yeah it doesn't matter if he's actually smart, or if someone is telling him to do it, or even if he does shit like this deliberately. the observable fact is that it works.

it's all about him

you have to dominate

the observable fact is that it works.

to be clear, "works" here is "people know jobs are up", not necessarily he's going to win in november, which i suppose is the main thing. but still.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/d-c-mayor-bowser-has-black-lives-matter-painted-street-n1225746

troll level: proficient

Renaming Pennsylvania Avenue "George Floyd Way"? expert.

performative

I'm not really a religious person but I am starting to think this man might be the antichrist

The Piss Christ in human form.

we were warned

remember that nyt tom cotton op-ed?

From New York Times town hall: op-ed team pitched the piece TO Tom Cotton. Not the other way around.

— quarantine toddler task force (@PatrickCoffee) June 5, 2020

wow, they were REALLY desperate to present a wide spectrum of thoughts and opinions on the op-ed page, such dedication

wow

please, please, will someone fill up this page with the most hateful and fascist thinking possible? preferably a US senator? pleeeeeeease

I'm not really a religious person but I am starting to think this man might be the antichrist

honestly, peak times for straight up unchristian words and deeds

https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/new-york-times-public-editor-sen-cottons-op-ed-was-dishonest-not-only-reprehensible.php

remember when nyt actually had a public editor?

They fired her iirc

Well, the last NYT public editor, Liz Spayd, wasn't great. But her predecessor, Margaret Sullivan, was excellent. (And she continues to be insightful as WaPo's media critic.)

My son just looked at the television and said "Daddy, do you think these rioters will register to vote?" He's a 46 year old Vox journalist and I hate him so fucking much.

— Socialist Alternative Rock & Pop Punk (@MildCuthbert) June 4, 2020

fantastic

General Mattis Condemns Trump As Threat To Constitution https://t.co/Y5NLuFN9nC #WhatDoYouThink? pic.twitter.com/5crIX7m2fJ

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 5, 2020

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janeese-lewis-george-districi-of-columbia-police-reform-city-councils_n_5edaab12c5b6dc3de7b95082

Normally, a local council race would have little resonance outside the city or district where it took place. But the mailers and the protests in Washington and nationwide transformed the election into the “first major referendum on policing” in the country since the demonstrations began, said Tahir Duckett, a civil rights attorney in Washington.

The result was clear: On Tuesday, just 24 hours after federal and D.C. police violently cracked down on protests across Washington, Lewis George appeared to have easily defeated incumbent Councilman Brandon Todd ― although the election hadn’t yet been officially called by Friday, she held a seemingly insurmountable 12-percentage-point lead in the Democratic primary race, which in D.C. serves as a de facto general election.

The resounding victory will give Lewis George a powerful voice over a police force that ranks among the nation’s largest, relative to the local population. But it’s also a reminder, criminal justice reform advocates say, that although city councils are often overlooked, perhaps no level of government has more direct power to affect the immediate and sweeping changes to American police departments that protesters and activist groups, including Black Lives Matter, have demanded.