US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

Middle managers who actually deal with architecture, though, that makes sense. Just realize that the term spread far beyond, to ridiculous situations, and now people like Ivanka use it as a synonym for “build” or “develop”

That was a helluva Best New Artist crop for '88.
Little Richard is god of course.

Do architects say "architect," tho? "I've been contracted to architect an office building!"

Would have thought draft or similar.
Architect using human interaction as structure though, somewhat iffy.

& looking at the comments on the Lincoln Project a few messages back remembering that Abe was a racist who wanted freed blacks to be repatriated to Africa rather than live with them. Maybe it reflects race epistemology of the time but still far from being an enlightened living saint. Didn't he only free the slaves as a tactical move too?

I've heard it both ways. That it was a tactical move to screw the South, and that it was something he cared about and wanted done but the way to do it under the circumstances was to make it a war issue. If he outright tried to ban slavery, the courts would have declared it unconstitutional.

Lincoln had a long history of detesting slavery and wished to see it gone but by 1861 all he could do was contain its spread. At the height of the war, terrified he'd lose the border states, he rescinded military orders emancipating captured slaves; he wanted to hold those states and claim a few victories before releasing the Proclamation. He hung onto repatriation as panacea for way too long. By the end of his life, thanks in part to the influence of men like Frederick Douglass and watching how well the freedmen fought in Northern divisions, he said he wished to extend the franchise to the soldiers and "the very intelligent."

An honest dogwhistle mistake, I'm sure:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/28/politics/trump-tweet-supporters-man-chants-white-power/index.html

ah, The Villages! An STD vector!

I assumed it was something you could hear in the background or whatever but no it’s like, front and center, right at the beginning

You know what that means, time for another round of “I have not seen that particular tweet”

In 50 years this history book chapter is going to be so fucked up for so many reasons. "So there was a pandemic and he did next to nothing?" "He tweeted someone saying white power?" "What's a tweet?" "What's a meme?" "What's a white person?"

In all fairness to Trump, he has never – to my knowledge, and despite his venerable age – owned slaves and/or been involved in a Confederate-era lynching, which can only mean one thing: the libcucks are blowing this out of proportion again, discerning racism where there is none. Maybe they're the real racists here, you know?

And if Biden had retweeted a video of someone shouting 'black power', betcha the SJWs wouldn't have batted an eye – proof positive that there's a deeply entrenched double standard at work in America.

Yeah, the difference is that Trump doesn't mean it, come on. He's just joking.

Such a funny joke, too! Ha ha ha! ROFLMAO!

Knock knock
Who's there?
RACIST
Racist who?
Racist YOU

so now the defense is the old dude was responding to the Nazi accusations with sarcasm

Layers upon layers of symbolic meaning wrapped in an esoteric enigma, how is the left supposed to keep up with such high IQ energy?

Whatta buncha cards, these guys! Irrepressible!

orange you glad I didn't say "white power"

…and he deleted the tweet, which makes it all ok!

👌

Do you think that President Trump is a racist?
Yes 50%
No 36%@YouGovAmerica/@YahooNews 6/24-25https://t.co/lrluZ9Yxw0

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) June 28, 2020

There was some woman caught on the (wrong) side of a BLM protest who shouted something about the KKK and waved a confederate flag, claiming in her inevitable apology that she is not racist and was yelling something about the KKK sarcastically, and she didn't know it was a confederate flag, someone had just handed it to her. Oh, and that she showed up to the protest in the first place just out of curiosity.

A Missouri woman has apologized after a video went viral of her proudly declaring her “KKK belief.”

The clip shows Kathy Jenkins on the bed of a pickup truck holding a Confederate flag and watching Black Lives Matter demonstrators clash with counter-protesters outside of a Dixie Outfitters store in Branson, Missouri, Complex reports.

“I will teach my grandkids to hate you all,” she is heard yelling to BLM supporters.

Jenkins wasn’t ready for the heat she caught over the video that appeared on Twitter Monday. Once the savvy sleuths of the Twitterverse identified her, Jenkins was changing her tune by Friday.

In an interview with KOLR10, she apologized for her remarks and claimed she “blacked out” and doesn’t remember initiating Nazi Karen-mode. She also wants her haters to believe that, at the time, she wasn’t aware of the history behind the confederate flag.

“I mean, if it would help for me to stand with Black Lives Matter, I absolutely would do that,” she said.

“I was chanting Black Lives Matter… and that’s not even on video,” Jenkins continued. “It’s like I blacked out. I don’t even remember.”

She insists she was only on the scene because she was curious about the protests.

Because whoops:

https://twitter.com/BiggCeezer/status/1276540331220058114

A racist woman snarled: ‘I’ll teach my grandkids to hate you all’ at a group of Black Lives Matter protesters – then danced with a Confederate flag. The woman, who is said to be Kathy Bennett, was also filmed saying ‘KKK belief’ at the protest in Branson. SMFH 😡😡 pic.twitter.com/nZIvGRjK1q

— Christopher Ellis (@BiggCeezer) June 26, 2020

branson and the entire lake of the ozarks area is a terrible place to be, one of the very worst places in america, a "family-friendly" place to take small children so that their parents can subtly fuck them up for life

hey kids! we're not going to the church where we ALSO try to fuck you up for life this weekend...because we're taking you to an entire TOWN that will subtly fuck you up for life!!! HAHAHAHHHA, and silver dollar city is half off if you get the waterpark/go-kart package!!

palette cleanser - i didn't realize bolton was involved in the 2000 hanging chads stuff

https://i.imgur.com/C5i98oZ.jpg

Bolton looks like he wants to much on the counter's hand.

Bolton looks like an actual cartoon character in every picture ever taken of him.

https://i.imgur.com/xQVgDFS.png

terrible taste in dress shirts

imo

the effect of this nonstop circus really is going to be putting the average (white) Dem back to sleep for 4 years if Trump loses, i don't see how it can't

"wake me when the virus and the cops are fixed"

hope they die in their collective sleep!

Do Demdroids Dream of Collective Sheep?

otm, saw this tweet the other day and sigh:

When Biden is president, I intend to go days at a time not giving him a second thought.

— Benjamin Dreyer 🏳️‍🌈 (@BCDreyer) June 26, 2020

Honestly weird that this Russia thing is a few lines down from the headlines in most places. Seems like a pretty fucking big deal. Such a total shitstorm that even this is an aside.

conservatives don't care in the first place, and half of the left thinks that anything to do with russia is dumb and doesn't want to hear it

there will be plenty of time to review these things during the biden presidency, a time of great healing when none of the principal villains in the trump administrations will be indicted for anything

a time of great healing when the principal villains in the trump administrations will be invited to appear on Meet the Press with clockwork regularity

but not Pence, he'd put a goldfish to sleep

and half of the left thinks that anything to do with russia is dumb and doesn't want to hear it

Then refute it

I don’t get that take either.

i can't tell which take is embarrassing or needs refuting or isn't gotten, sorry. gonna a do-over

i'll re-do my take. i'm just saying there's a large portion of the left (why did i say "half"? i don't know. bad take) that doesn't want to hear anything about russia ever again and feels very burned by the whole mueller investigation and how it played out. i very much sympathize with this take. it overwhelmed everything, it did, and people who i previously liked (like rachel maddow) were instrumental in turning it into the OJ trial again (in terms of media obsession and speculation).

i guess possibly the root of the "take" confusion is that i'm referring to this as my take, but what i'm actually doing is summarizing a broad "take" of a group of people that i don't 100% agree with, and then criticizing that take. so that's confusing. sorry about that.

but anyway, the problem with the take in my last post is that athere really was/is a bunch of crazy shit with russia, and it leads large parts of the left to roll their eyes/ignore at real things that are happening, and a general habit of dismissing things with a wave of a hand without actually engaging with them

There's also a thing that I've seen in some acquaintances' feeds that gets really panicky about the left blaming everything on Russia, which I understand, but sometimes seems to want to wave away actual fuckery.

Also recognizing that Russian “antics” demand a foreign policy response stronger than “lol u got me Putin, hilarious!” means having a national security strategy in the first place, which a substantial portion of “the left” find unacceptable