US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

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.

i think the dropping out rumors themselves are whatever, but the fact that it's on the foxnews website is notable and good

/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...
🖼

sidebar: how does Bottle Rocket hold up? I've never seen.

problematic

The polls on election day 2016 showed him with what, a 2% chance of winning? This fucking numbskull is convinced polls are fake news and silent majority wants to tongue bathe his balls for eternity.

538 had him around 25% on election day

turns out the Comey thing really did change the numbers

*sigh*

btw 538 got shit on a lot in 2016 but I feel like they were one of the only aggregators that actually treated Trump like a normal R candidate (after the first few GOP primaries at least) and they were sounding the alarm pretty loudly about Trump losing the popular vote but still winning the EC, which a lotta people didn't pick up on because Trump was constantly insisting the opposite would happen

i don't think trump reads 538

it would be interesting to hear his opinions on polls-plus vs nowcast, it's true

if you want to hate-read the election results thread for some analysis of how wrong 538 was in real-time, please be my guest. They were still propping up Hillary hopefuls well into the evening after the dread had already set in from pretty much every other data-driven outlet.

How is bottle rocket problematic (real q)

btw 538 got shit on a lot in 2016 but I feel like they were one of the only aggregators that actually treated Trump like a normal R candidate (after the first few GOP primaries at least) and they were sounding the alarm pretty loudly about Trump losing the popular vote but still winning the EC, which a lotta people didn't pick up on because Trump was constantly insisting the opposite would happen

― frogbs, Sunday, June 28, 2020 11:32 PM bookmarkflaglink

I was one of those naysayers :(

i thought 538 gave trump 30% chance of winning, the night before?

ttt (chances of trump winning)
ccccccc (chances of clinton winning)

randomly pick one. whoa it was t! 538 are idiots!

he did. he was always the most cautioned re: Clinton, as NYT had 85%, and...well we all remember what Sam Wang did.

My opponent pulled a gun on his first wife & shot it, pressured her and a mistress into three abortions, & illegally prescribed pills to a patient he was sleeping with.

Me? I didn't do any of that.

I'll give you health care though.

Chip in right away. https://t.co/2QPqJ83j9k

— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) June 28, 2020

if you want to hate-read the election results thread for some analysis of how wrong 538 was in real-time, please be my guest. They were still propping up Hillary hopefuls well into the evening after the dread had already set in from pretty much every other data-driven outlet.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, June 28, 2020 8:51 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think their system wasn't set up to respond to realtime results until a state was called, so they didn't change the probability until Hilary lost Florida

that's correct symsymsym, and Nate Silver stated this in the blog itself: https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2016-election-results-coverage/

Albert, what are you even talking about? I'm reading the election night thread, and Silver's own model had gone to 55% Trump by 10:25 pm ET, and as stated above, that only utilized called states. He'd been pointing out the betting markets were strongly shifting towards Trump long before that and other writers of his were pointing out the vote was much closer than expected.

it jumped around a bit, but every time the Bot spat out new odds after that that favored Clinton, Nate was quick to warn people not to get excited, stating it only included called states, and that many of the not-called States were favoring Trump. by 10:30, he and Harry Enten were starting to get bearish on her chances.

guess I'm not feeling quite masochistic enough to read those threads

this was actually the first time I'd been able to open the 2016 election night thread since the night itself. and now having done it, I will never do it again :/

were there any notable findings? i tried to go back in once but came back coughing a minute or two later

mainly from the site of my own toxic goo on the scene

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"OMG, Trump...President? this can't be fucking happening"

https://i.ibb.co/hKNryZf/109507692-people-panicked-fleeing.jpg

"relax, how much damage can he really cause?

https://i.ibb.co/XtXQTPt/download-2.jpg

4 years pass...

https://i.ibb.co/BCzGBN1/gettyimages-1005970146-e1532808553102.jpg

"sorry I fucking asked"

https://i.ibb.co/yR3nrg1/5xxb02e1ew131.jpg

The polls on election day 2016 showed him with what, a 2% chance of winning? This fucking numbskull is convinced polls are fake news and silent majority wants to tongue bathe his balls for eternity.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, June 28, 2020 11:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

dunno how we get from this to the usual 538 conversation, other than a sincere belief trump reads 538.

How is bottle rocket problematic (real q)

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, June 28, 2020 11:55 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hero is obsessed with stranger, stalks her, etc. gets the girl.

who is also a voiceless woman of colour working in a service role

yup

So not worth checking out then? Or is it good enough to overcome that (I can deal with problematic to a degree)?

if you like Anderson then sure

I mean it's not like his other movies don't have plenty of problematic elements

Yeah. I still like Anderson's work but you pretty much start to just accept that he sees people of color as peripherals within a couple movies.

Fair xp

Yeah Danny Glover in a bit part, then ... one narrator?

CNN’s Van Jones Secretly Helped Craft the Weak Trump Police Reform He Praised on TV

Jones went on CNN’s Inside Politics with John King and Anderson Cooper 360 to enthusiastically commend Trump’s executive order—even as it was being criticized as cynical and unproductive by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and “delusional” by the Color of Change, an influential racial justice organization that Jones himself co-founded in 2005.

CNN viewers weren’t informed that he had actually attended secret White House meetings with his new friend Jared Kushner, discussing ways to frame the presidential project.

According to a knowledgeable White House source, who expressed satisfaction that there were zero leaks, Jones and California human rights attorney Jessica Jackson, who runs #cut50, a prison-reform group that Jones also founded, actively participated with law enforcement officials and White House staffers to help fashion the order and guide the politics of the discussion to what they considered “the sweet spot” between law enforcement and “the reasonable middle” and “the reasonable left.”

Skyping from his Los Angeles home, with a biography of Nelson Mandela and a Black Panther graphic novel visible on the bookshelf behind him, Jones told viewers of CNN’s noon show Inside Politics: “The executive order is a good thing, mainly because you saw the support of law enforcement there... There is movement in the direction of a database for bad cops. We have never had a federal database for bad cops, that’s why all these cops go all over the place doing bad stuff… The chokeholds, that’s common ground now between Nancy Pelosi and Trump. Good stuff there.”

Hours later, Jones doubled down on Anderson Cooper 360—again without disclosing his role advising the Trump White House. “What do you make of this executive order?” Cooper asked him.

“I think it’s pushing in the right direction,” Jones told the CNN anchor. “What you got today is, I think, a sign that we are winning,” he added. “Donald Trump has put himself on record saying we need to reform the police department… We are winning! Donald Trump had no plan a month ago to work on this issue at all. The fact that we are now in the direction of moving forward, I think, is good.”

He's an asshole, always has been.

That should be a dealbreaker for a news career.

Of course we live in an era of no shame.

remember when Jones said "Donald Trump became president tonight" or some shit after Trump bombed a base in 2017

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/iran-issues-arrest-warrant-for-trump-over-killing-of-qasem-soleimani.html

Wanted: DJT, Dead or Alive (I Suppose)

I know, I know, nobody wants to hear anything with the word "Russia" in it, it's so boring and nobody cares and blah blah blah...

Donald Trump can take all his empty words about respecting our service and shove them. #TRE45ON #TraitorTrump pic.twitter.com/7vxGxLBYh0

— VoteVets (@votevets) June 28, 2020