US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

Watch the clip. She was hired to fight with the press. When the press shows up to be fought with, it helps complete the logic of the appointment.

Alternative: Suspend normal relations with the Trump government. Quit the access game entirely and shift to outside-in reporting. https://t.co/zO79nXQJ47

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) June 22, 2020

these people do not think that term is racist. they don't think lots of things are racist. they are absolute, literalist dumbasses and if it's not in a white hood carrying a noose, they won't call it racist, ever. THis is also why they deny that 'structural racism' is a thing. they believe only individuals can be racist and that racism is defined in extremely narrow and literal terms. Why do they think this? because they are racists.

A megachurch is hosting Trump's rally on Tuesday in Phoenix. These two con-men falsely claim they've installed a system which kills 99.9% of COVID-19.

Arizona's Coronavirus numbers are surging. Madness...pic.twitter.com/6mgM8BLhO9

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 22, 2020

man those guys are dangerous

Anyone having to do with a megachurch is dangerous tbf, but yeah, those guys are dangerous and evil

Electric Sun Desert MAGA Festival

Trump increasingly preoccupied with defending his physical and mental health

The early June meeting in the Cabinet Room was intended as a general update on President Trump’s reelection campaign, but the president had other topics on his mind.

Trump had taken a cognitive screening test as part of his 2018 physical, and now, more than two years later, he brought up the 10-minute exam. He waxed on about how he’d dazzled the proctors with his stellar performance, according to two people familiar with his comments. He walked the room of about two dozen White House and reelection officials through some of the questions he said he’d aced, such as being able to repeat five words in order.

At the time, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment — which includes animal pictures and other simple queries aimed at detecting mild cognitive impairment such as dementia — was intended to quell questions about Trump’s mental fitness. But in recalling it, Trump said he thought presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden would never be able to pass it and suggested challenging him to take the test, said the people familiar with Trump’s comments, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private details.

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Another sign of Trump’s unease came Saturday night in Tulsa, when the president devoted more than 14 minutes to regaling a campaign rally crowd with the tale of “the ramp and the water.” Eager to dismiss questions about his fitness after he struggled with a glass of water and walked unsteadily down a ramp following his June 13 commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Trump offered a revisionist history.

The ramp on that sunny day, Trump asserted, was as slippery as “an ice-skating rink.” But he “ran down” it nonetheless, he claimed, despite video evidence showing him shuffling down the incline haltingly. As for the water, Trump said, he used two hands to drink because he didn’t want to spill on his expensive silk tie.

“Anyway, that’s a long story, but here’s the story,” the president said, finally winding down. “I’ve lived with the ramp and the water since I left West Point.”

He had previously obsessed about the episode to aides in private and during a Wall Street Journal interview, when he brought the incident up unprompted and offered to produce the leather-bottom shoes he had been wearing that day, which he said were “not good” for ramps.

“In the middle of the worst economy in a century and with more than a hundred thousand Americans dead this guy is primarily concerned with not looking weak,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), referring to the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. “And his endless, bottomless insecurity was onstage, in three dimensions, during that storytelling moment, for everyone to see. I’ve seen a lot of crazy things in the last four years but that display of juvenile behavior and self-regard will go in the Trump time capsule.”

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loooooool xpost w/crut, it's sad because it's true

Arizona’s Republican Senator is proposing a $4k per person vacation tax credit. Gotta make sure to spread the COVID to whatever ski resort she favors I guess?

^she's still down in the polls. AZ could have 2 Dem Senators soon...

yeah, this will help

Looks what’s going on here. Where are the protesters? Was this man arrested? https://t.co/2E1UbU5vNN

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2020

Will Anybody Think of Whitey?

“I’ve lived with the ramp and the water since I left West Point.”

july thread title

the only solution is for biden and trump to do an academic decathlon like in billy madison

I'll take Business Ethics, Jack

“I’ve lived with the ramp and the water since I left West Point.”

Underrated REM lyrics I have loved...

Parscale OUT

Trump definitely told someone to tell someone to tell him he's fired, right?

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/105484675_4311156538901978_7132946253322699313_n.png?_nc_cat=106&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=oV3ajU18peIAX--T-hD&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=22372ded4ffb61f0deaba53e4d2abcf2&oe=5F15DB04

three hours ago: Parscale can't be fired because he's paying Eric's wife and Don's mistress $180,000 a year in stolen campaign funds

one hour ago: Parscale might fall on his sword, Kushner might be removed from running the campaign

Haha

I don’t know if any of that is true, but yes, I believe all of that and it is true

Where are the protesters?

who is supposed to be protesting and wtf are they supposed to be protesting?? god they're all such simpletons.

Xxxp The 2 Arizona church hucksters look like an impro turn they need to add the jokes into.
Hope they prayed the vid away.

thank the lord for science

This is the water and this is the ramp
Drink full and descend

https://i.imgur.com/YpsEMr4.jpg

Asked on June 23 whether he was kidding about slowing coronavirus testing to lower the number of cases, President Trump said, “I don’t kid.”

Let's see Kayleigh McEnany talk her way out of this one! Oh wait...

6 hours pass

"the president was completely joking when he said 'i don't kid', everyone but the fake news media can see that"

Hmm, I wonder what the man who believes in nothing actually meant when a series of word-like sounds escaped from his face anus.

facnus?

one of my favorite peter saville designs

Follow up to Power, Corruption and Lies.

Currently cracking myself up pronouncing face anus as "fosha noo."

pro-tip: you don't need to engage with him on the "i was joking" stuff. you just let normie PACs run that clip in every advert from now until november.

Honestly though, the point about why someone would be joking about an increasingly lethal pandemic is a reasonable one to make

Oh, it's because he's a psychopath who doesn't care about a single non-Donald Trump human life, is why. In case that wasn't clear, people of earth.

Clear to me, but I see no reason not to make his toadies explain that

Looks like Parscale is stepping down to count his money.

one of the plethora of come-to-jesus moments trump is forcing on america should be the discontinuation of the phrase "I was joking"

it is a useless, bullshit cop out every time. the user presumes it should be taken as "you misunderstood me" and it always actually means either "I presented my argument poorly/ignorantly" and/or "I refuse to take responsibility for the things i say"

it's also a signature technique of abusive people

Looks like Parscale is stepping down to count his money.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:49 PM

source?

Republicans sent John Cornyn out to troll @SenKamalaHarris while she explained in detail why their bill is a transparent effort to derail actual police reform. It did not go well. pic.twitter.com/gFn5JddH8g

— Chris Harris (@chris_p_harris) June 23, 2020

Looking forward to voting against this fucker

lol

i can't believe he had to do a dramatic pause in order to give himself enough time to come up with that gotcha attempt

That expression is what a goat fucker looks like.

harris: your criticisms of the process are pointless because your own majority leader has already said that republicans won't participate in good faith on police reform

cornyn: .....but we should be on tv, where americans can see us

harris: we are on tv. and the senate judiciary committee hearings are on tv.

cornyn: .....im fuckn a goat

Hmm, I thought I saw reports that Parscale is out. Maybe not? But if he's not, I saw some report that Jared and Ivanka are also mad at him, which means they are throwing him under the bus for the sake of their own access, since there were also reports Trump was mad at Jared.

Anyway, fuck all these horrible assholes.

no thanks