US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

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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.

https://movieposters2.com/images/1593234-b.jpg

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.

Voice-ist

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

"Tucker Carlson Is Mad At Elmo For Caring About Racism" <-- this is a Panic! At The Disco song, isn't it?

It suddenly occurred to me today that the reason Asshole took aim at that 75-year-old protester with suspicion is because he's basically the same age, so *of course* that old dude was actually a highly trained secret ninja genius in super good shape with x-ray vision and so on.

It is hard to fathom how they could think that everyone in the world in working together on a false narrative and only Trump is telling the truth, but I doubt that they even get to that level of critical thinking. It's just blind faith fueled by hatred I guess.

Trump took aim at that dude because he became famous for getting hurt while being critical of Trump. It's really not that complicated.

Duh. Just also saying, there is no way Asshole won't think of an old man his age as an imposing threat, because of course Asshole thinks of himself as a huge imposing threat. He's as always all about projection.

It is hard to fathom how they could think that everyone in the world in working together on a false narrative and only Trump is telling the truth

Eh. You can scan through r/asktrumpsupporters any day, and see some version of "Yeah, he says stupid shit. Get over it. It doesn't affect my support - he's better than the alternative and I like what he's doing."

I mean you can also see the "the lying media is lyingly lying to you" attitude, but the "Trump's gonna Trump" faction is also strong.

he pisses off the right people, that's all it's ever been about

trump's first rally since march will be . . . on juneteenth in tulsa

holy shit

nailed it

Miller all over scheduling these, huh?

This Canadian just got a mini history lesson on the meaning of Juneteenth and the significance of Tulsa. That's as bad as Reagan's 1980 kickoff.

(Worse, considering present circumstances.)

sadly like many people in the US I credit the Watchmen series for even informing me of Tulsa.

Hopefully he will be met with massive demonstrations.