US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

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

he is his only audience.

that said he has better chops than some I witnessed in NYC comedy clubs circa 1990 (not sayin much)

I’m being baked. I’m being baked like a cake! I said, ‘General, there’s no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, general. I have no railing.’ True. It’s true!

^ July thread title

"that is how the news generally works. Politician delivers borderline incoherent stream of consciousness; reporter picks out the important bits"

funny, this is not actually a common characteristic of politicians, both the decent ones and the absolute ghouls. though it does describe the only two people who might be president this time next year.

note that from the outlet, it's probably a specific assigned day-to-day task for him to deceive the public about the competence and honesty of George Christensen or Peter Dutton or Barnaby Joyce

derp, i didn't even click on the link, didn't realize it was Australian.

The writer's name is Sam Clench, so he's either Australian or a Fox News weekend anchor.

a name too Dickensian for Dickens

The political arms of the Murdoch press in Australia are not especially subtle about being a marketing project for the LNP.

There was some other Aussie journalist who made a blip a few months/years ago by attending a Trump press conference and writing some piece afterward describing how insane and stream of conscious it actually was, and how shocked she was that American journalist shaped it into something approaching coherence.

He's spending the morning on Twitter going all-in against Vote By Mail.

at first the levels of DARVO behavior with Asshole were shocking, and now i'm completely unsurprised by it.

Also-not to keep harping on the non-turnout in Tulsa, but such tight framing in these pics!

THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/AoIcroQUQd

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2020

have we considered LORI HENDRY's counterpoint?

1 million Americans requested tickets to the Trump rally in Tulsa. This is the largest request in political history.

President Trump's support is at an all time high.

— LORI HENDRY (@Lrihendry) June 21, 2020

all this focus on the rally is pathetic and not just from the Trump side tbh

some other Aussie journalist who made a blip

Lenore Taylor.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/20/as-a-foreign-reporter-visiting-the-us-i-was-stunned-by-trumps-press-conference

President Trump's support is at an all time high.

No worries about him getting re-elected then. Job done!

I wish British TV would stop inviting crackpot Trump supporters onto our screens and interviewing them like they're anything other than worthless scumbags. I don't want to have to look at these arseholes, let alone listen to their garbage.

all this focus on the rally is pathetic and not just from the Trump side tbh

imagine it to be a tv show that everyone watched

did you see the super bowl? yeah, me neither. sure is annoying how everyone talks about it though

Yeah, it's just a high profile season premiere that people are now dissecting.

I wish everyone would stop inviting these assholes anywhere, but you know when the Trump circus leaves town all these shitheads are just going to linger, doling out coy behind the scenes stories while being rolled out as experts on What Happened. And that's not even including America's Top Asshole, who will continue to tweet and fart at full volume until he is dead. His kids, they might be a different story. No one really wants to talk to DJT2.

I don't see the Trump brood making many waves after pops gets his saggy ass chucked onto the front lawn. They're very low energy, a total snooze. Sad!

They're the Jeb!s of the Trump clan.

Simon H. otm. I'm all for haranguing Trump until he has a stroke, but do it for shit that matters like the Berman firing, not water glasses and ramp stumbles.

I'm all for haranguing Trump until he has a stroke, but do it for shit that matters like the Berman firing, not water glasses and ramp stumbles.

What matters is the stroke, not how it's induced.