US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

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

I agree with you Karl, my comment was dumb and muddled, sorry.

Which is uh...pretty understandable, in many ways.

oh no, not at all circa! honestly lately i've been having lapses of total stupidity (at least 1 SD above the mean) and i'm pretty sure i just psyched myself out.

also happy 4:20, totally unrelated i'm sure

by total stupidity, i mean "repeatedly tweeting insults @politicians on twitter"

tweeting on twitter in general, just a bad scene for me lately

BREAKING— (thread)GOP operatives are for the first time raising the possibility that @realDonaldTrump could drop out of the race if his poll numbers don’t rebound. Over the weekend I spoke to a sample of major players; one described Trumps current psyche as “fragile.” I’m

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) June 28, 2020

lol

you can't really devise a 'virtuous'? -- 'good'? -- US national security strategy when no one living remembers one

one if by land, two if by sea??

Lmao Trump is not dropping out they ran these same stories after the Access Hollywood tape

so fragile

...and isolated!

saw a post on Twitter earlier with screenshots of a popular commentator announcing confidently that the trump admin was "falling apart" four seperate times right through the last few years.

But it has been. He just hires a new set of jabronis every year

I think the left has a couple of totally legitimate concerns with focus on Russia (and trumps criminality more generally).

1. That the neera tandens of this world will use Russia to stay in control of the Democratic Party by blaming their loss on a purely foreign intervention, rather than an extremely poor campaign and candidate and a preternatural misunderstanding of what voters want.

2. From a purely tactical electoral POV it’s not a good thing to focus on if your goal is to get rid of trump.

The difficulty is that it probably is worth worrying about at some level. It’s not fake news. There does need to be a legal reckoning.

It's easy to say Russia has run a steady psy-op operation with the full acquiescence of the American government without getting complacent about Joe Biden's chances.

when your college friend who has just announced they're "starting a novel" asks you which photo they should use for the cover https://t.co/5gYHwbvRvK

— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) June 28, 2020

But it has been. He just hires a new set of jabronis every year

― Nhex, Sunday, June 28, 2020 6:47 PM

but this election season, a new set of jabronies...
https://i.imgur.com/B4pLi5t.jpg

are taking over the operation...
https://i.imgur.com/2a2WrMZ.jpg

in one wild ride...
https://i.imgur.com/yuTtTzL.jpg

they'll never forget...
https://i.imgur.com/VRscowF.jpg

and a surprise visit...
https://i.imgur.com/4XsD2VW.jpg

from someone you'll never expect!
https://i.imgur.com/lbR67BU.jpg

well, as usual, that distractingly large group of christians has ruined everything

(who's the jabroni 'shopped into the first photo?)

i don't know! i figured he was an extended member of the trump family, he seems like he would be involved in the strategy for siphoning as much money out of this to their family as quickly possible, or at least contributing to that effort

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K8eZ7yuGJFo/maxresdefault.jpg

I don't believe this shit for a second, but at least they're discussing it, which shows the shape they're in.

A stretch of lackluster polling for President Trump has some Republican operatives nervous about the president’s reelection prospects in November – with some even floating the possibility for the first time that Trump could drop out if his poll numbers don’t rebound.

“It’s too early, but if the polls continue to worsen, you can see a scenario where he drops out,” one GOP operative who asked to remain anonymous told Fox News.

“I’ve heard the talk but I doubt it’s true,” another said. “My bet is, he drops if he believes there’s no way to win.”

Well, he is selfish and immature, but my reaction to such loose talk is that it has zero connection to reality until it is confirmed by his dropping out. Otherwise, it sounds like gossipy clickbait to me.