US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

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

https://i.redd.it/9fjjvjdzf5201.jpg

I'm not the audience for them, but those Lincoln Project ads have pretty much all been really sharp.

The best anti-Trump ads I've seen so far this year have come from the Lincoln Project and the Bloomberg presidential campaign. I don't know what that means exactly, but other people need to pick up the slack.

What can I say? GOP knows how to attack.

I know every time someone says this it's met with a chorus of "it's fake, don't fall for it," but it is still wild that, going off public statements, mitt romney is now to the left of joe biden

Guess he's ruled himself out of Biden's VP picks.

where *has* mike bloomberg been for the last three months? is he, like noisey, doing the work?

okay lol

having utterly embarrassed himself with that presidential run, i assume he is sitting in a cabin made of $100 bills and laughing at deblasio

Maybe Mitt has been possessed by the ghost of his father

where *has* mike bloomberg been for the last three months?

Literally said this to someone yesterday. "Hey, remember that Mike Bloomberg guy? Ran for president? What ever happened to him?"

Biden's remarks from George Floyd's funeral:

Joe Biden’s remarks at the funeral service of George Floyd:

"We cannot leave this moment thinking we can once again turn away from racism that stings at our very soul, from systemic abuse that still plagues American life."

-@JoeBiden
pic.twitter.com/7OoFmbadcm

— Kamau M. Marshall (@KamauMandela) June 9, 2020

What a senile old fool he is, right? I can't believe people let him get anywhere near cameras or microphones, the way he embarrasses himself and America every time he opens his mouth.

you know that he's reading something, right?

Yes, I am. Have you ever watched the current president read something into a camera?

"i watched you speak from ecclesiastic last week"

almost aced it, too

what does this have to do with "the current president"?

If only there weren't 359,999,998 people in the country aside from the two senile old fools...

Um...

NEW. INSIDE Senate GOP lunch today, @TomCottonAR stood up & said:

Young black men have a very different experience with law enforcement in this nation than white people and that’s their impression and experience and we need to be sensitive to that and do all we can to change it

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 9, 2020

lol someone is shook

where *has* mike bloomberg been for the last three months? is he, like noisey, doing the work?

― mookieproof, Tuesday, June 9, 2020 2:19 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

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What a senile old fool he is, right? I can't believe people let him get anywhere near cameras or microphones, the way he embarrasses himself and America every time he opens his mouth.

I think people might hear you better if you gave the aggressive sarcasm a rest (which I was subjected to yesterday).

I mean, this is what I get when I say anything remotely moderate so I think you can deal

let's see what the clown DOES, unperson, idgaf what his staff wrote for him

meaning Bidenclown, not Cottonclown

that cuddly cotton clown they call the sandman

be cool, clemenza. milo is just deep into his project to radicalize ilx, by opening our innocent eyes to the fact that Joe Biden is old and he won't fix most of what is wrong with the USA.