US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

that the only two options for scott fucking walker are reform or defund is itself progress

i'd agree, but "reform" is one of those malleable terms that can be bent into absurd shapes by people like walker.

in his eyes it means 2 hours of virtual compliance training

that washington post video summarizing the assault on protesters outside the white house to make way for trump's photo-op with jesus is really powerful. lots of footage i haven't seen, very disturbing. be warned if police acting like cold-blooded assholes is too much:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/a-video-timeline-of-the-crackdown-on-protesters-before-trumps-photo-op/2020/06/08/0d107cb4-bf2b-4ba4-906a-d59800a32146_video.html

Has anything been said anywhere about where Martin Gugino got the police helmet he was returning? Was it just something he found on the street. I tried googling it but haven't found anything so may be using wrong search terms.
Just seems even more disgusting that his reward for an act of goodwill was the violence he received. Bad enough if he was jus a passerby who greeted officers.

I'm not the audience for them, but those Lincoln Project ads have pretty much all been really sharp. I liked this one, which pokes him about inauguration crowd size vs protest crowd size

📺 @realDonaldTrump, the American people are speaking directly to you with a simple message: it’s time to start packing your bags. pic.twitter.com/6MMrA2c8L4

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 9, 2020

Couple of really good lines. "Donald Trump has finally gotten the crowds he wanted" and "Imagine how big the crowds will be when he's gone." The second one in particular is a keeper.

I don’t see how Trump rallies will be more likely to spread illness than the other mass gatherings from the past few weeks? (Besides psychic illness)

They're typically held inside, for one.

Also, perhaps his fans are less likely to wear masks?

Plus they pick their noses.

Older demographic too.

The president is tweeting about the old man in Buffalo pushed by police last week.

I won't post it here.

Trump rallies are generally bigger than any other mass gatherings that are allowed to happen right now (aside from protests, I guess).

We can't have spectator sports, concerts, movies, theatre etc., but we can have Trump rallies.

Remember too, these rallies are gonna have like zero-enforcement of masks, social distancing, hand-washing and so on.

Also horney White trash sex

Well, yeah.

Martin Gugino the 75 year old attacked in Buffalo appears to have been returning a police helmet to the police. Its seen in his hands before he is attaked and lying next to him afterwards. I haven't heard how he came by it.
Have heard taht he wasa longterm activist. Really hoping that didn't make him a target. Would think that a calm 75 year old who wa sout after curfew would not be giving police a target for attack.

Jimmy, FP'd u for putting the image of hot nekkid MAGAnaut action in my head.

Pass the brain brilliant please

* brain brillo

i'm glad one-line zingers against Trump are our most powerful weapon

*bashes head against wall, passes out*

"he fell harder than was pushed"
"he fell harder than was pushed"
"he fell harder than was pushed"
"he fell harder than was pushed"

*head explodes*

How badly does a president have to fuck up to make Jacobin say an election matters.

— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) June 9, 2020

morbz - actually our most powerful weapon is electoral defeat, but the election is still a ways away so in the meantime people make joeks; sorry that is a problem for you

also ridicule irks him, which provokes him to be more insane, which can aid in persuading people away from him. Plus it aids progressive morale, which may aid in GOTV and in myriad other ways

but carry on with being exasperated, as that is clearly your jam

i accept my FP xp

I thought Dennis Perrin was our most powerful weapon?

Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise. Two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Dennis Perrin!

I'm guessing Trump's Martin Gugino tweet was triggered by yesterday's horrible polling news. Don Draper's "If you don't like what is being said, then change the conversation"--did Mad Men take that from somewhere else, or did it originate with the show? This is the 10,000th example, but that really is the beginning and end of so many of his more bizarre outbursts.

ridicule irks him

Christ, u ppl deserve the Democrats

xxpost I laughed.

this is such an obvious distraction from a number of things he is freaking out about

I honestly think he's the only one truly distracted.

I'm guessing Trump's Martin Gugino tweet was triggered by yesterday's horrible polling news.

No, it was triggered by a segment he just watched on OAN. "Changing the conversation" implies that it's strategic, which gives him too much credit.

Buffalo Police Request Reinforcements Until Elderly-Man Rampages Fully Contained https://t.co/H0IuvJvuxn pic.twitter.com/JqgKsXsMRi

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 5, 2020

in the meantime people make joeks; sorry that is a problem for you

dude that's a bit "juggling in front of a man with no arms"

There is no forethought with his tweets or attempts to distract, he literally shits out whatever he is spoon-fed by FOX or OANN. The distraction is a happy bonus for the rest of the GOP.

Are we supposed to misread that dumbass ''''news'''' org as ONAN? Like, is that intentional?

yes because their interests are...self-serving

Profiles in courage:

GOP senators ducking on Trump’s deranged tweet about elderly Buffalo man, to my colleague @mkraju:

Rubio: “I didn't see it. you're telling me about it. I don't read Twitter. I only write on it."

Cornyn: “You know, a lot of this stuff just goes over my head."

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 9, 2020

'it's four lines long; how about you stand there while i read it to you'

No, it was triggered by a segment he just watched on OAN. "Changing the conversation" implies that it's strategic, which gives him too much credit.

― jaymc, Tuesday, June 9, 2020 10:14 AM (fifty-three minutes ago)

He's done this time and time and time again, jaymc. Maybe both are true? I'm just crediting him with the most transparent, clunky strategy possible. Not eighth-dimensional chess or anything; one-dimensional checkers, barely.

I mean, maybe he engages in a general "flood the zone" strategy, but that also just seems consistent with his own natural inclinations as a pathological shitposter. I don't buy the idea that his tweets about one thing are specifically driven by an attempt to shift attention away from another.

Also, there are always a million things happening at once these days. I know Trump was irked by his polling numbers, but it's not like that was the single story that dominated the headlines yesterday. (Also, he was the one who elevated the CNN poll by tweeting about it.)

My guess is that he has internalized the second lesson over time. I don't dispute his childlike impulsivity. But the headline on the CNN site yesterday (or part of yesterday, anyway) was about Biden's double-digit lead; today, at some point, I think it'll be Trump's tweet, and for him, that's a good trade.

I shouldn't be surprised anymore by anything Trump says, but jfc

Christ, u ppl deserve the Democrats

No one deserves Nancy Pelosi in Kente cloth but sometimes the universe gives us the belly-laughs we weren’t expecting

'it's four lines long; how about you stand there while i read it to you'

Reporter has printed out Trump tweet that Republican Senators are pretending not to have seen so as not to have to comment on it https://t.co/BYHX0jzQj6

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 9, 2020

lol he deleted the tweet

sorry my bad still there

has anyone ever printed a tweet before

the president has, yes