US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

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.

Tombot’s a more entertaining stalker. He’s got that Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, you’re more Nic Cage in Adaptation.

my humble apologies. i'll try to up my game a bit.

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

I was on here in February and March loudly saying "Bloomberg isn't going to win the nomination, but don't bash him too hardd because he will be plowing millions into the nominee's campaign and also Dem candidates for state legislatures around the country as he did in 2018," and as far as I can see he's totally not doing it, apparently in a fit of pique because Democratic voters didn't pick him, and I'm really mad about it, I thought he was a bigger person than that. Feel free to clown me for thinking so.

didn't he cut his political staff off health insurance too?

I dunno, maybe I spoke too soon and the money will come later, but this could all be spin, I'm going to keep being mad until I see those state legislative campaigns in Pennsylvania, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Virginia cashing checks

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/15/mike-bloomberg-plots-spending-blitz-to-back-joe-biden-campaign.html

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Over the past month, the Trump campaign has spent about $400,000 on cable news ads in the D.C. area.

Two knowledgeable sources tell The Daily Beast that the D.C.-area ads have a specific purpose: to put the president himself at ease.

That's one expensive pacifier.

wow. probably also put them out to troll everyone who lives in the area and knows what a complete piece of shit he is

Why does power turn so many full-grown men into mewling little piddlepants?

i think you've got the cart before the horse there, OL

They know they're going to convince wealthy suburban Northern Virginians to come home to the GOP any second now

i always appreciate @taniel's cheatsheets for election nights:

My quick cheat sheet of what elections I'm keeping an eye on tonight. (May add things as night goes on.) https://t.co/wefR1a8xk5 pic.twitter.com/7WVvsin1tH

— Taniel (@Taniel) June 9, 2020

me too. i want him to do an actblue slate for local DA/sherrif races.

So Stephen Miller's writing Trump's race relations speech!

Great news. It shows Trump has no interest in reviving his sagging numbers.

stephen miller thinks that BLM is bacon lettuce and mayonnaise on wonder bread

This speech will speak powerfully and directly to Trump's most devoted and racist followers, but it will maintain the tiniest of fig leaves in the form of a couple of pious generalities, which his press secretary will then be able to point to when the explosion of criticism ensues.

I got hell for linking to this guy a few weeks ago--not for anything specific, it seemed more like general Trump exhaustion--so I won't embed; a preview of Trump's race relations speech if you're interested.

youtube.com/watch?v=CP-GO2nDeJE

miller may be one of the few staffers left who can actually write a speech

As in stringing together words that vaguely resemble deeply offensive "thoughts"? Sure

Can't wait to see what words of racial wisdom Azrael AbySS whips up.

miller may be one of the few staffers left who can actually write a speech

team, i'm afraid we're going to ask for the impossible. we're going to need....a speech

*all aides except for one gasp*

Put me in, coach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfIewVNFx4g

"Could be a set up?" — Donald Trump

"I wonder if that was a fix" — Richard Nixon on the famous photo of 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running naked down a road in Vietnam after all her clothes had been burned off by napalm https://t.co/cpyMC3Esi2 pic.twitter.com/oDLaEeEtgI

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 9, 2020

Was aiming scanner.

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if stephen miller is writing it then watch him announce no new skilled work visas on the basis that this would ... solve racism?

Given rumors I’m hearing from pretty good sources, if you’re on an H-1B, J-1 or L-1 visa and are outside the US, you should try and reenter the US quickly.

— (((Greg Siskind))) (@gsiskind) June 8, 2020

that's related to https://www.visalaw.com/new-executive-order-f-h-l-j-nonimmigrant-categories-expected-soon-june-9-2020/ just in case anyone reading this has friends/family who might be affected and are able to return (and want to!)

I don't think Biden reads that speech well. I don't know detail about his speech impediments but his voice is not good.

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Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

The demand, coming in the form of a cease and desist letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker, was immediately rejected by the network. "We stand by our poll," said Matt Dornic, a CNN spokesman.

The CNN poll conducted by SSRS and released on Monday shows Trump trailing the former vice president by 14 points, 55%-41%, among registered voters. It also finds the President's approval rating at 38% -- his worst mark since January 2019, and roughly on par with approval ratings for one-term Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush at this point in their reelection years -- and his disapproval rating at 57%.

Soon after the poll was released, Trump tweeted that he had hired Republican pollster McLaughlin & Associates to "analyze" the CNN poll and others, "which I felt were FAKE based on the incredible enthusiasm we are receiving." McLaughlin ranks as one of the least accurate pollsters in the industry, as measured by FiveThirtyEight.

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In the letter to Zucker, the Trump campaign argued that the CNN poll is "designed to mislead American voters through a biased questionnaire and skewed sampling."

"It's a stunt and a phony poll to cause voter suppression, stifle momentum and enthusiasm for the President, and present a false view generally of the actual support across America for the President," read the letter, signed by the Trump campaign's senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis and chief operating officer Michael Glassner.

The campaign formally requested that CNN retract the poll and publish a "full, fair, and conspicuous retraction, apology, and clarification to correct its misleading conclusions."

Retract the poll and replace it with the following: Is the President of the United States of America thin-skinned, impotent, or both?

please file a lawsuit

What a loser.

that cease and desist letter is just so Trumpian it should be put in a glass case in his eventual presidential library

I'll go to my grave failing to understand how anyone can possibly see shit like this as anything other than deeply pathetic.

seconded, OL

yeah I'm in awe of how deeply pathetic that is. its like the Cleveland Browns threatening legal action against ESPN for showing highlights of all the games they lost

"shit like this"=Donald J Trump

lol, I mean this is scary and pathetic in equal measure, but also lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkhrlVq5rVY