US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

What does that even.... I don't... who cares.

TREASON! The obvious treason that we don't even need to mention because it's so obvious the treason that Obama committed daily.

xp fair, but i'm going to steal a bunch of postal votes too to make sure

I'm not gonna lie, I'm impressed by these people's ability to set aside all normal human responses and just stay on message no matter what question is ostensibly at hand

"How do you like the Yankees' chances in a short season?"
"Not as much as I like staying Christian in the face of the AOC/Pelosi mob's demands to ban my faith!"

"Did you want to add fries to that?"
"Well, the only fries we should be concerned about right now are those fried in the depths of Obama's treasonous relationship with Bursima by getting Hunter Biden a job building 5G towers in Wuhan."

I would feel better if most people weren't absolute fucking morons

evergreen quote

my favorite example of setting aside normal human responses and staying on message (and look at this smug, moronic fucker think he's checkmating scott pelley)

“[These] are the White House talking points emailed to the Congress this week.” — great work by @ScottPelley for this masterclass in preparation + persistence as he tries to get McCarthy to identify the Trump defense against impeachment pic.twitter.com/1AV4zmEF11

— jd durkin (@jiveDurkey) September 30, 2019

these people should face legal repercussions and open constant derision from the public and the press

democrats doing a zoom convention

Democrats announced Wednesday that Joe Biden will forgo big crowds, chaotic floor votes and much of the pomp of a traditional political convention when he accepts his party’s nomination over four nights of nationally televised celebrations in Milwaukee in August.

The decision to shift gears and shrink attendance, abandoning the city’s basketball arena for a nearby convention hall, is intended to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus and establish a clear contrast with President Trump, who wants a large and raucous event with thousands of cheering supporters to celebrate his nomination.

“The thing that I believe more than anything is that Donald Trump needs the roar of a crowd to feel he is in charge,” Democratic convention CEO Joe Solmonese said. “And Joe Biden was born to be in charge.”

Democrats are asking the nearly 5,000 voting delegates to participate in Biden’s nomination from home, removing the core audience from the convention hall. The number of media allowed to attend the event in person, 20,000 in a typical year, is also expected to fall dramatically. Official reception parties for delegates, the press and volunteers have been canceled, and all the official business of the convention, including votes on the party’s platform and the nominees, will be handled remotely.

good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UaJAnnipkY

Butbutbutbut don't you SEE?

The left was okay with BLM protests! So the left are hypocrites! So therefore your point is, uh, invalid, or, um...

Did we discuss gohmert banging on his desk and throwing a tantrum today

I think there’s a decent chance things get bad enough that even the GOP convention goes virtual. Imagine how isolated he will feel.

increasingly

XPS

JUST IN: WILD CONGRESS MOMENT --

Gohmert refuses to stop banging on desk as Donald Ayer goes over time limit.

Nadler & Johnson fail to get Gohmert to stop. Johnson asks if sergeant-at-arms could be brought in.

Doug Collins jumps in, insults Nadler. https://t.co/N9VxER8uUx pic.twitter.com/yFu5fs0QfK

— The Hill (@thehill) June 24, 2020

eephus thanks for your take on Madison, I generally agree esp. with "tearing down the relics of a society that has failed them"

What has women’s suffrage done for us anyway.

funny you should ask
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Suffrage_and_Spiritualism

If it's just suffrage for white women, big meh to any hand-wringing.

The original was for the 1893 Columbian exhibition, and a "pamphlet for the event said the female figure was standing at the prow of a boat surging through the water."

Sounds pretty colonial to me but y'know

What has women’s suffrage done for us anyway.

― Boring, Maryland, Wednesday, June 24, 2020

sharpest Janet Jackson song imo

“dozens” of secret service agents in quarantine because of Tulsa rally, per CNN

Just another evening on Fox News, with Laura Ingraham and Lara Logan chatting about race war...

Fox Nation host warns that protesters are trying to start a "race war" pic.twitter.com/P1Euz61ilJ

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 24, 2020

The 20th Amendment is cancelled.

The 20th Amendment is cancelled.

“Everyone should just wear a damn mask, like you guys are, like I am right now,” Rubio said as he left a GOP lunch where Vice President Mike Pence gave a coronavirus update, according to CNN.

every once in a while, the guy is right

ok, but everyone who's sentient has been saying wear a mask

I'm continually astonished by the number of people on the street who don't care enough to wear one though

This angry Florida woman argued today against the mask mandate, while bringing up the devil, 5G, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, "the pedophiles" and the deep state.

Enjoy... pic.twitter.com/yqKUZNQYLQ

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 24, 2020

saw a video of another view of her and other crazy commenters. insane

i prefer the LA "fuck you i yield my time" guys

That Florida woman sounds exactly like Cecily Strong’s “girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party” on SNL.

didn't think 'masks' would be a lightning rod. I don't get it, thought people would care enough about each other to wear one

surprise! many don't.

of all of the weirdnesses of this lockdown the idea that people really don't care about each other only about themselves has been the most dispiriting

Childish "you can't tell me what to do" + paranoid conspiracy theorism + US education system

i think a lot of people are also probably pretty psychologically traumatized right now in ways they don't understand/realize and it causes them to act out?

jeez, she's completely nuts and not much of an outlier

And this lady with how the mask mandate “throws God’s wonderful breathing system out the door”.
(So I guess when she needs a ventilator she’ll decline one because you know, it may interfere with “God’s wonderful breathing system.”) pic.twitter.com/M78hIbnlDi

— De (8•24) (@HummBaby40) June 24, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4

there were others at the meeting as bad

An underappreciated moment

Florida woman "I don't wear a mask for the same reason I don't wear underwear, things gotta breathe" pic.twitter.com/ww1EiZDP99

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) June 24, 2020

That Florida woman sounds exactly like Cecily Strong’s “girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party” on SNL.

― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson),

First thing I thought of too. "Read a book, Seth!"

I'm seeing comment from people I know on Facebook about states shutting down again meaning their travel plans have had to be scuppered.

Which states? (and where were they travelling from?)

The new nyt state polling.

Joe Biden opens up a considerable 9 point lead across the battleground states likeliest to decide the presidency
MI: Biden+11
WI: Biden+11
PA: Biden+10
NC: Biden+9
AZ: Biden+7
FL: Biden+6https://t.co/OTskdebCrM

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) June 25, 2020

wau

Mr. Trump’s once-commanding advantage among white voters has nearly vanished, a development that would all but preclude the president’s re-election. Mr. Biden now has a 21-point lead among white college graduates, and the president is losing among white voters in the three Northern battleground states — not by much, but he won them by nearly 10 points in 2016.

This is gobsmacking remembering how things stood in 2014:

A majority of voters, 63 percent, say they would rather back a presidential candidate who focuses on the cause of protests, even when the protests go too far

With a little more than four months to go until the election, there is still time for the president’s political standing to recover, just as it did on so many occasions four years ago.

This statement, and all the variations on it that appear in every campaign-related piece, makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Donald Trump has never had even the barest majority of the American public on his side. In FiveThirtyEight's tracker, his highest approval rating ever was 45.8%. If his "political standing" were to "recover," what would that look like?

Seriously. Once again he's so anomalous that he even makes a 4-year term seem like an overpowered oversight by the founders, since they never envisioned someone so shitty (and enabled by so many shitheads) you wished they'd have to answer to voters again after, like, a month.

It's the economy. I've muttered this before but I've said this over the past few years: if the economy was doing well, he'd likely be reelected. There's a whole swath of people -- and yeah, pretty white overall -- for whom that's all that matters, not in some sort of Ayn Rand sense, just in a 'well I'm doing fine, I don't care' sense. That's been blown out of the water so comprehensively it's very much still being processed. All businesses are adjusting one way or another, the complexities of what that means is still playing out, and Trump's response is now found consistently wanting; even the market's not buying it any more. Add to that the events of the last five weeks, and there you go.