US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

Or maybe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?sks0x_GJIDs

fuckit never mind

Trump's all out of faith
This is how he feels

You're a little late
He's already torn

DONALD JOHN TRUMP is all out of faith. This is how he feels. He's cold and he is shamed, lying naked on the floor.

goddamnit!

heh. it was gonna be that or "Torn Between Two Lovers"

Now somebody work him into Creed's "Torn"...

same energy as this (https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/ct-xpm-2011-03-21-ct-talk-huppke-hookup-20110321-story.html):

"Some students at the University of Chicago are cheating. They are cheating at having sex."

It's like teaching a young man to hunt by having him hold an arrow and then throwing the deer at his hand.

Trump misquoting Santayana this morning ("THOSE THAT DENY THEIR HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!"--I haven't read Santayana, but I'm guessing he didn't write in all caps); the correct version not ideal for him heading into an election anyway.

you can't fool trump; there ain't no Santa Yana!

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/11/21283836/protests-libertarian-dc-interview-truck

It was the bumper stickers on the back of the late-model Toyota Tacoma that made me do it. They showed what seemed to be a political evolution of sorts, mirroring one that many Americans may be having in 2020: from a 2000 sticker for John McCain’s failed presidential campaign to a sticker supporting Mitt Romney’s candidacy in 2012 to ones supportive of then-Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson in 2016 and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2020.

And in the middle, a handwritten sign stating “Black Lives Matter.”

This week, 26-year-old Nathan, the owner of the truck, gave me the answers.

ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

It's actually a good interview!

I know a few people like this: McCain and Romney voters who have been "fucking internal screaming for almost four years."

xp does it explain why he was driving a truck and supporting McCain aged 6?

yes it does

'The Republican Party's 2020 platform is exactly the same as its 2016 platform. That means it condemns the “current” president — who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama — and calls the White House a risk to "the survival of the internet."'

It actually does but the original image as presented in this thread is still hilarious

that makes me smart

SHORTER: If you get #COVID19 at President Trump's Make America Great Again Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it's your own damn fault. pic.twitter.com/QqYdUWAIcJ

— David Gura (@davidgura) June 11, 2020

what about if you get erectile dysfunction

Oh, Trump gets it, for sure.

up or down it's a terrible image

^^^ best line in "Temptation" imo

zomg, Melania hung back in NY at the start of this administration because she was renegotiating her prenup! zomg, John Bolton's book will be packed with revelations that Trump did shitty things! zomg, Trump is an isolated relic! So much reporting going on right now, so much!

God what a relief it will be (for a week at least, I hope) when this motherfucker is dead and the whole country can just take a shower and a nap.

he'll make 90 and we'll be living in Mad Max. So enjoy that.

tbf I'm surprised Trump hasn't yet suggested Thunderdome.

now that is the art of the deal

you don't suggest thunderdome. you suggest beyond thunderdome, so you can settle for thunderdome

otm

Lots of options, though
https://media1.tenor.com/images/3faa3a99b2cc527e64ca2d6d19a4d20e/tenor.gif?itemid=14239953

Here we go, the first of the probabilistic election models

https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president

I am a fool fools these but I know they drove some people crazy. Should we silo the polling/models/betting discussion on a separate thread?

https://apnews.com/bae1456be55955aab379a3541391f93b

fuck the religious right forever

On the anniversary of Pulse, no less.

And Loving Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_Day

fuck the religious right forever

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, June 12, 2020 4:38 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hope they all fuckin explode

Trump is not bae1456be55955aab379a3541391f93b

yeah, we in Orlando are pretty pissed

Imagine being this filled with baseless hate. Utter scum.

What does the Bible say about being transgender anyway?

(This is a rhetorical question.)

Weak, cowardly, caving to public pressure. The Asshole is playing defense a lot lately.

We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal. Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2020

Many of my African American friends and supporters

Of which he has many

re the polls, they predict Biden winning WI, MI, PA, FL.

Presumably if he does that he will indeed win the electoral college.

I note that OH is still considered undecidable.

DRAIN THE SWAMP FINALE COMING SOON!

— Greatest President Ever! (@realTrumpForce) June 11, 2020

ritual suicide a la Jonestown?

how shook does this pockmarked globule of cowardice have to be where he's actually backpedaling

(re: Juneteenth tweet, not fake Trump tweet)

wtf, how shook is this dude

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/trump-says-will-leave-office-peacefully-if-he-loses-315736

^^^ I'm telling you, he's on defense. He moved one of his rallies — and his asshole campaign manager is out there talking about how they've had 300,000 ticket requests...for an arena that holds 19,500 people (and will be about 1/4 full, is my bet). I'm wondering if the rally will even be televised, if the turnout is especially low. If it turns into one of those things where a band that had a big hit a couple of years ago doesn't realize that it's over, and books an arena tour when they really should have downsized to 1000-seat theaters.

I want to linger on this paragraph written in an American news outlet in 2020:

Though the president has never given any serious indication that he might not leave office if he were to lose reelection, his comments aired Friday appear to be the first time he has publicly committed to doing so.

Re unperson's story: Trump's satraps must have shown him terrible internal polling.