US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

The World's Unfunniest Man Strikes Again!

obvious point, but the problem with the constant "he was joking" defense is that it's trotted out when he was clearly joking, and it's trotted out when he clearly wasn't joking.

Every time Trump confesses to horrible crimes and the next day wriggles out by claiming it was a joke, it's time for Sartre's famous quote about Nazis. https://t.co/O0IbTK4LUD pic.twitter.com/4u7orI2A2x

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) June 21, 2020

XP ^^Also known as "The Zappa Defense".

lol, now you're just trolling me

funny how Trump always used to use the "fake news never shows the crowds" line. well they're showing the crowd now

which means now he is the most unfairly treated person

...what? i was joking! what?!

btw, another obvious point but the "what? i was joking! what?!" is a signature bully move

🐦[Imagine being the guy who waited in line for five days realizing he could literally have waltzed in ten minutes before showtime and got a spot 40 feet from Trump.
— Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) June 20, 2020🕸]🐦

My takeaway is that the hardest of the hardcore Trump supporters are people who don't have anyplace important to be, or anyone who might need them, for a half a week at a time.

eh, i shy away from that takeaway because there are quite a few protesters out right now, protesting for important things, that are unemployed and have plenty of spare time as well

but haha yeah, that one guy who showed up 5 days early reaaaaaally has nowhere special to be

This is art. pic.twitter.com/ZPJxHu20TV

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 21, 2020

Wonder how long it will be before Trump and Fox start talking about K-Pop Fans like they do Antifa

Trump and Biden really ramping up the campaign

lol the biden entrance guitar music

ahhhahhaa the best part

in their attempts to inspire enthusiasm for Biden, I find the 'Lincoln Project" YAAAS QUEEN-level stoopid

yeah i experienced a lot of secondhand embarrassment watching that

wait that was supposed to be serious!? i thought the whole thing was a vic berge-style goof

I will say, the Democrats (who do not plan ahead) should ... start planning, because these Lincoln Project Never Trumpers really know how to troll, and they're whipping these things up and out super fast.

My takeaway is that the hardest of the hardcore Trump supporters are people who don't have anyplace important to be, or anyone who might need them, for a half a week at a time.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, June 21, 2020 5:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well they actively take pleasure from their own "suffering" and self-sacrifice, whether it's real or imagined/exaggerated. So either their business suffered but it's worth it to Defend Our Freedoms, or they risked their families but it's In Service of the Greater Good, or an orgy of self-harm of standing in line in all weather, as if loyalty is an endurance test. Their pseudo-suffering is the point.

Believe me, I went from evangelicalism to marching band to highland dance--the throughline is the depth of willingness to suffer.

I do believe you. In a group of so many millions, there will be those who don't fit that profile, but there are plenty who do.

Dr Morbius, can you say more about "YAAAS QUEEN" being stupid?

I'm genuinely interested.

it builds character

xxxp

Okay I want to talk about the TikTok/K-pop stan let’s-troll-Trump operation and specifically about the data gathering aspect of it.

— Claire Ryan (@aetherlev) June 21, 2020

A long thread, but worth reading.

you guys I'm p sure that ad's a goof

which isn't mutually exclusive to being "effective"

The Lincoln project stuff is truly terrible but I’m not the target market. Go with god.

I don't think that's a lincoln project thing though...? Not sure but I think they just retweeted it

Yeah they just rt’d it

Almost everything Nadler's done for the past 1.5 year has been a waste of time, except the 15 minutes it took him to knot that tie... https://t.co/0cgVyIAe9B

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) June 21, 2020

oh i didn't realise they were a resistance memes account, i thought they were led by donkeys but for americans.

Lmao

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/trump-tulsa-rally.html

court chronicles part 1,562,199,876

So much coverage of this stupid rally. I get the schadenfreude but man the media just loves this guy. Like COVID I look forward to the day when I don’t think about this stupid troll at all for the whole day.

Enemies of the people journalists deserve to get their full measure of satisfaction from kicking Trump while he's down. May they have endless opportunities from now until the week after he is buried. We can all sing along.

Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt should be exiled to a very small island in the south Pacific but I guess it can wait until late November.

while i also feel like i'm tired of hearing about this rally, i keep reading about it because watching these predator racist pieces of shit running around, obviously scared af that they're all going to be in jail soon is excellent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/coronavirus-poverty.html#click=https://t.co/THLxjC0FmX

watching these predator racist pieces of shit running around, obviously scared af that they're all going to be in jail soon is excellent.

watching sad trump sulk from the chopper after the rally had a very "i guess we're not getting out of this alive" vibe from the final ten minutes of a bleak heist movie.

The final insult:

Saturday's rally in Tulsa was, on the campaign's own terms, a debacle — a meticulously organized and well-protected event that left thousands of seats unfilled in an arena once sold out by Nickelback.

Donald Trump spends 14 minutes at Tulsa rally talking about that time he walked slowly down a ramp

Usually, we would chop up Mr Trump’s monologue into a few short, easily digestible quotes, because that is how the news generally works. Politician delivers borderline incoherent stream of consciousness; reporter picks out the important bits; you get to move on with your life.

In this case, however, I thought it was worth transcribing Mr Trump’s entire monologue, because breaking it up would rob it of its full effect.

I present to you, without further comment, the most powerful man on the planet talking about that time people filmed him walking slowly down a ramp. Enjoy.

Oh, and while I’ve tried to capture tone and inflection as best I can here, I would also encourage you to watch the full excerpt from Mr Trump’s speech. You’ll find it in the video player at the top of the page. It is ... quite something.

I get it, but also, fuck this guy and spending any more time thinking about his stupid shit

check out this incoherent blather! there’s a lot of it

After five years of pretending to you this gas giant of narcissism contained in a thin balloon of hate was in any way sane or coherent, we have decided to occasionally not pretend this.

I feel pretty optimistic when I see Asshole pathetically pandering to his core base like that - gives him false reassurance, while he cements 30% and baffles 70% of the country.

and I spotted a few yawns during the clips