US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

haha excellent

So does Booker or McGrath have a chance against McConnell?

isn't he the most unpopular Senator in the country

Loved in Moscow tho.

this isolation goes to 11

Trump has started to blame Kushner for campaign meltdown, per source. Also, in private, Mattis told people Trump is a “proto neo-fascist.” My latest:https://t.co/vhnFyAMaCE

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) June 8, 2020

proto neo cryptographist!

preening bozo coprophagist

Today in "would be hilarious if it weren't a fucking tragedy":

I have retained highly respected pollster, McLaughlin & Associates, to analyze todays CNN Poll (and others), which I felt were FAKE based on the incredible enthusiasm we are receiving. Read analysis for yourself. This is the same thing they and others did when we defeated...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2020

...Crooked Hillary Clinton in 2016. They are called SUPPRESSION POLLS, and are put out to dampen enthusiasm. Despite 3 ½ years of phony Witch Hunts, we are winning, and will close it out on November 3rd! pic.twitter.com/4IhuLUZjsv

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2020

Money quote from the letter:

"In their questionnaire between asking about your job approval and the ballot, they had questions including issues like race relations, not job creation, which could have biased the poll further."

But why would that be a problem? Trump is a genius with race relations - best president ever for the blacks! Just ask him, he'll tell you...

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21284096/presidential-election-polls-biden-lead

I am a huge fan of Trump bitching about the 'fake' polls. Hopefully it convinces the base that he's doing so well that most of them can just relax at home on election day and watch his tremendous win unfold.

I heard Trump was doing so well that he probably doesn't even need to campaign or advertise.

he's in a bind -- obviously he can't be losing, because he's a winner

otoh, trailing may encourage the rubes to send him more money

those variety articles are obviously useless, but if trump loses then i absolutely cannot wait for the recriminations. also the prosecutions, but the recriminations are going to be amazing. these people are so messy.

ps. don't forget john bolton's book comes out later this month.

not just recriminations -- trump will probably sue jared and parscale if he loses

Hilarious to think Jared would know a single thing about running a political campaign in the first place.

lol at the idea trump will relinquish the presidency if he loses.

he's got a perfect excuse in the inevitable polling 'innovations' that COVID will require. i.e. voting by mail. he'll shout about democratic governors deliberately opening the door to fraud, demand recounts, activate right-wing legal funds to challenge the results. and he's got a majority in the supreme court.

i honestly never imagined anything like that would happen in the united states and now i can't imagine it NOT happening.

I got torn apart for saying this 3 months ago.

he was in a bind, he was way behind, he was looking for an election to steal

I know there are reasons but still I ask: WHY WOULD HE EVEN WANT TO BE PRESIDENT AGAIN

So he doesn't get indicted...

I think at this point it's mostly because, on some level, he recognizes that he'll wind up eating even more shit in his return to civilian life than he has as president.

Yes

And because he’s a narcissist who can’t stand the fact that he’s not the most popular candidate.

SDNY is waiting with bibs and forks

He doesn’t want to be presidentbut how can he become dictator-for-life if he can’t hang onto power?

i don't want to engage in magical russiagate thinking, but if he loses then he's going to jail, which i guess does increase the likelihood he will do crimes to avoid losing. but also i think he's a very stupid man who sincerely believes he is going to win, so he won't do good enough crimes.

i agree he probably hates all the shit he has to deal with as president but that pales next to admitting someone else beat him.

epistantophus i just read through the replies to your earlier post. while i understand where they're coming from the idea that precedent and rule of law matter to a president like this is... adorable? that's not to say he won't eventually be removed if he loses. maybe even by inauguration day. but it's harder for me to imagine him actually conceding.

if he loses then he's going to jail

no idea why anyone would think so, ever

i bet you one (1) beer

if he loses, he's going to jail, or he's going to die with pending criminal indictments.

I mean no one on this scale of elected miscreant ever went to prison, not even close

i agree he probably hates all the shit he has to deal with as president but that pales next to admitting someone else beat him.

So, losing badly while shouting that it was RIGGED! FRAUD! FAKE NEWS! is basically a win-win for him. I say let him have it. He can start a cable channel all about how unfair the world is being to him. The people who watch it can just sit and agree and fume, and all get heart attacks and die. The world may be a better place.

that booker guy is damn impressive... would be pretty sad if he loses to amy mccgrath, the 'pro trump' democrat

i will gladly buy caek a beer if trump goes to jail

out of curiosity, can he pardon himself of everything on the last day, like receiving christ as lord on yr deathbed?

lmao McLaughlin is one of the worst pollsters in the history of pollsters, please trust this man sir

He'll be issuing executive orders long after he's out of office.

And because he’s a narcissist who can’t stand the fact that he’s not the most popular candidate.

tbf trailing that much to fucking Joe Biden has got to sting

Prosecutors aren’t going to do shit to a former President out of power.

if he loses, he's going to jail, or he's going to die with pending criminal indictments.

A rare moment where I get to agree with Dr. Morbius. The entire political class will find it much more pleasant to "look forward not backward" and let Trump live out his life in freedom, should he lose the election.

I feel like it must be embarrassing when you write these memos to Trump in the humiliatingly abased language you know he responds to and then he shares it with the world.

remember how Obama made the W gang pay

… by becoming George's friend

Isn't this Obamagate week? It can be done!

imo, Trump would have to do some truly heinous new shit between now and January to be indicted, let alone tried and convicted on leaving office. His present level of criminality wouldn't suffice, unless there were a protest movement demanding his head, equal to or stronger than the present protests.

The entire political class will find it much more pleasant to "look forward not backward" and let Trump live out his life in freedom, should he lose the election.

There's plenty of precedent for presidents pardoning their criminal cronies on the way out the door, but other than Ford -> Nixon, presidential criminality has never even really been an issue. But Trump is an actual criminal, not just a political adversary — if he was a private businessman, he'd be in the dock for about 75% of the moneymaking schemes he's engaged in over the last three years. And he has not been absorbed into the "political class" — they all hate him, even the ones who spend all day licking his taint because it's in their interest to do so. So I think if SDNY decides to continue going after him, for shit he did before he was president, the "political class" is likely to let them. There's also a very strong chance that once he's a private citizen, he'll be sued into penury by people who were materially harmed by his policies or statements. All someone has to do is make a case that one of his tweets caused their store to be burned down, or caused them to be attacked on the street, and that's it.

imo, Trump would have to do some truly heinous new shit between now and January to be indicted

if we believe in him enough, he can get it done

speaking of Mitt Romney taking the streets before Obama is kind of a surprise

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― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, June 8, 2020 12:42 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thank you to House democrats for bringing me lots of laughter today

The entire political class will find it much more pleasant to "look forward not backward" and let Trump live out his life in freedom, should he lose the election.

There's plenty of precedent for presidents pardoning their criminal cronies on the way out the door, but other than Ford -> Nixon, presidential criminality has never even really been an issue. But Trump is an actual criminal, not just a political adversary — if he was a private businessman, he'd be in the dock for about 75% of the moneymaking schemes he's engaged in over the last three years. And he has not been absorbed into the "political class" — they all hate him, even the ones who spend all day licking his taint because it's in their interest to do so. So I think if SDNY decides to continue going after him, for shit he did before he was president, the "political class" is likely to let them. There's also a very strong chance that once he's a private citizen, he'll be sued into penury by people who were materially harmed by his policies or statements. All someone has to do is make a case that one of his tweets caused their store to be burned down, or caused them to be attacked on the street, and that's it.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, June 8, 2020 4:46 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I very much want to see this administration to pay for every single crime.

Sorry about that 2018 article yesterday

All someone has to do is make a case that one of his tweets caused their store to be burned down, or caused them to be attacked on the street, and that's it.

Making that case would be like climbing Mt. Everest w/o oxygen, while facing backwards. I usually like your level headed analyses, unperson, but this one has too big a pile of unlikely assumptions. By virtue of being president, Trump is now of "the political class" for all time and he can't be expelled, especially now after the impeachment failed.