US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

Hegar back to polling 10 points down. Friendship ended. Doug Jones is my new best friend.

I’m guessing the almost psychotic role college football plays in Southern states means these burns are especially great, yes?

Biden still rolling with a 13 point lead in Pennsylvania, 53-40, among RVs in new Monmouth poll. https://t.co/FUA7EiBhTP

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) July 15, 2020

Not that you should judge polls this way, but surely the poll unskewers will be disappointed to learn that this sample is even by Party ID and Trump+5 on recalled vote

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) July 15, 2020

I'm just gonna say it: Trump actively trying to get his voters killed will backfire

"But Many Anticipate Secret Trump Vote" is a thin fuckin' reed in 2020.

'11am jefferson-pilot game' is a nice detail

college football, especially Bama/Auburn, is perhaps the only thing that every single Alabama voter knows and cares about, and since Tuberville doesn't have any other record to run on, it's not even gratuitous to keep dragging him about it ... chef's kiss

Kanye West has ended his presidential bid per Fox News

Kanye, we hardly knew, umm, ye.

wait, are we entertaining the idea that because the republican candidate has nothing of substance to run on, in the state of alabama, they might be in trouble in the election? iirc you can be an openly slimy pedophile with nothing of substance to run on and still nearly win the election as a republican

It's almost to your benefit, afaict.

lol @ nickn

things that are real:

Just posted on the president’s Instagram pic.twitter.com/kAs4f3QaB0

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 15, 2020

he thinks his followers are as dumb as he is

remember how a few years ago this would've been a huge scandal b/c it's blatantly illegal to do this

most of them are! xpost

when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.

goya . . . chocolate wafers?

goya coconut milk is the worst!

chocolate wafers are popular in Latin America

that's ridiculous - goya has a sterling reputation for quality, all patriots love the taste

xp

The Best Taco Bowls Are Made With Goya Chocolate Wafers!

I Love The Mexicans!

most people would've forgotten about the Goya thing in a month or so but of course Trump/the GOP stupidly made it into a lifelong boycott thing.

It is flabbergastingly sociopathic that he's doing this, even more so while a thousand people in this country are dying every day from a pandemic.

I've always thought of Goya as the brand you get when they're out of Herdez and La Preferida

*frontline voice*

"in july 2020, the trump campaign seemed to be at an all-time low, with little hope for recovery. but then along came a little can, with a short name, packed with big flavor, and long lasting political ramifications that you're not gonna believe COMIN' UP

i limit my intake of Stupid Grifter Stories so i literally dont know what thats all about

Goya guy gave Trump money, boycott ensued, Trump doubled down.

tl,dr - Goya CEO is big Trump supporter and said we're "blessed" to have him as a leader; people rightfully pointed out this is dumb given Trump's treatment of the Latinx community and talked about boycotting, Goya CEO called the boycott "suppression of free speech", Trump, Teddy Cruz and others suddenly developed huge Goya boners and won't shut up about them to the point of Cruz flat out lying about his grandparents eating them in Cuba for longer than they even would have been available there

or what DJI said

xpost it might also be a regional thing due to where their headquarters is located but Goya is like the only thing I see when I buy beans.

Goya guy gave Trump money, boycott ensued, Trump doubled down.

A donation would probably have slid by - he sucked Trump's dick from a Rose Garden podium. That was what sparked the boycott.

xpost - anyway, here's a data point:

NEW QUINNIPIAC National Poll. Biden leads Trump by 15% (52-37%). In June Q poll, Biden was +8. Trump's job approval is down to 36% approve, 60% disapprove.

— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) July 15, 2020

hilarious to me how the Right immediately and fervently latches on to anything or anyone famous that voices any sort of support for them, without realizing how pathetic it looks

The Right understands reward and punishment for political friends and foes as a fundamental tenet of politics and observes it ferociously.

El Ebro = best frijoles negros, as I learned for the 10,000th time last night.

I say the more boycotts the better. Facebook, Washington's football team ... go figure the thing that finally gets results is people or companies threatening to pull financial support.

Trump's average approval rating on March 27th was 47.2%, disapproval at 49.5%, for a net of -2.3%, some of his best numbers in years. Today he's at approval of 41.5, disapproval of 56, for net of -14.5. He's backsliding.

also while Biden's polling an 8+ point lead, Hillary at this point only had a 2.7 point lead nationally and was struggling. and she wasn't against an incumbent.

None of this PROVES anything, but encouraging and proves if we do the work, it's winnable.

Trump losing will be like holding your bladder for the duration of a long plane landing and finally getting to the bathroom once you enter the terminal.

well there's a pretty good chance there will be several days between the polls closing and a result, given all the postal voting, so you may want to time your bathroom trips with that in mind.

Trump's going to declare victory after the first red state announces results

And then probably wet himself.

RBG out of hospital

Best of all possible wishes to RBG, but let's not get too scared, because I am reliably informed that we NEVER replace a Supreme Court justice in an election year.

Mitch assured us of this. Relax.

How to immigration policy pic.twitter.com/qxjmIXPZkL

— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 15, 2020

I don't care how clever Sarah Cooper is (and she absolutely has been in other contexts), but I am so tired of hearing his voice even if it's meant to mock him.

Assuming Trump loses, we probably oughta buckle up and strap on our helmets for those last two months of his presidency.

I wonder where Bill Barr is going to land his lucrative after-AG sinecure? If he's offered a cozy academic position in a major law school I may puke.

Might I recommend Bill Barr's face as a receptacle for your puke?

maybe buckle up now if you live in a "left wing" city

President Trump is planning to direct federal law enforcement “help” for Democratic-run cities that have seen a rise in violence this summer, calling them “war zones.”

In a meeting with Attorney General William Barr and other federal officials at the White House on Wednesday, the president said he’ll make a “very exciting” official announcement next week.

“The left-wing group of people that are running our cities are not doing the job that they’re supposed to be doing,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office, adding that he will soon announce “what we’re planning to do to help them.”...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/15/trump-plans-send-federal-authorities-cities-break-/

he's been threatening to help LA with law enforcment for literally years