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

I’m still chortling at a recent discussion postulating that a collective sublimated shame among the non-ride-or-die GOP has handicapped that party’s campaign vitality.

Their claim to fame is that they show no shame, so I don’t think that’s it. grab the jersey keep swinging basically.

Jacksonville’s NBC News affiliate reports:

The convention to nominate President Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president is going to happen in Jacksonville, but be much smaller than originally planned.

Rather than the 15,000 people originally scheduled to attend the event in Jacksonville next month, the communications director of the Republican National Convention announced Thursday that only about 2,500 people — mostly the regular delegates — will attend the first three days of the event, Aug. 24-26.

On the final night, Thursday, Aug. 27, delegates and alternates can attend with one guest as Trump delivers his acceptance speech.

lol parscale got demoted for dating Trump’s favorite diaper changer

RNC will take a tip from pro sports and pump recorded crowd noise and cheering in during Trump's speech.

Gonna use the crowd noise from The KLF's "3 AM Eternal" iirc

Campaign mgr fired for using audio from Showtime at the Apollo, so the booing is intense

I'd support the RNC having a Mork & Mindy-style laugh track.

morbius, that Pareene tweet is in response to what?

not aware of anything specific, besides general "we/they can't do anything" Dem bleating

I read Pareene's tweet as observing that people who think that particular thought are so vanishingly few that it is nearly impossible to locate them.

2020 is wild. https://t.co/0Qx9nMfNYS pic.twitter.com/w2uaXAFAha

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 16, 2020

Apparently the press secretary literally just said that science should not stand in the way of schools reopening.

"Delete your account!"

"Uh, OK, thanks..."

Also, he'll be back in 2 and 2.

This is an Auto Show-style demonstration, and people do not wash their hands at Auto Shows.

there’s a metaphor here alright but it’s not what they think it is https://t.co/DVCkTIEqMZ

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 16, 2020

Levels of Thought is one of my fax RZA tracks iirc

Trump promises that over the next 8 weeks "you will see levels of detail and you will see levels of thought that a lot of people believed very strongly we didn't have in this country" pic.twitter.com/UN7VL5Gzwg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 16, 2020

canny politics saving the details and thoughts to the final two months of the term

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-hebebpywzr/images/stencil/original/uploaded_images/truman-thumbnail.jpg?t=1532732403

what a fucking idiot.

he’s got a secret plan to end the war

...on Christmas!

Georgia Gov. suing Keisha Lance Bottoms (atlanta mayor) for her mask mandate. unreal.

good luck with that one, bitchnose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/16/how-joe-biden-is-moving-left-while-still-being-seen-moderate/

“It’s like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay,” said attorney Juan Chavez, director of the civil rights project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center. [...] “It sounds more like abduction. It sounds like they’re kidnapping people off the streets.”

this is so enormously fucked up

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/

So is this mainly an intimidation technique?

I mean not for the people actually getting thrown into vans

but yeah I guess so

Hate to say it but the 2nd amendment is starting to look appealing.

shooting federal officers probably wouldn't improve the situation or get us any closer to racial justice

for people worried about ilhan omar see the final item here https://primaries.substack.com/p/issue-73. she's drowning in endorsements (including from pelosi) and she's up 66/29 in her internal polling.

I believe Omar to be good at and have hired people good at maths

Portland shit is legit fucked up and our House committees need to start addressing

our shit mayor here could lift a damn finger rather than just submit to the fucking feds just this man's opinion

"It’s true that our health care system was not designed to handle a pandemic, but it would be more accurate to say that our system was not designed to provide health care."https://t.co/AepGye5OD9

— Laura Marsh (@lmlauramarsh) July 17, 2020

BREAKING: Jamaal Bowman wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New York’s 16th congressional district, defeating 16-term U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel. #APracecall at 11:09 a.m. EDT. #Election2020 #NYprimary https://t.co/n6R7Rw3aYT

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 17, 2020

Nice

:D

Pelosi next

https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/37695-secret-white-house-calls-helped-funnel-tax-money-to-trump-preachers

Flag and god, flag and god

as good as the guy going against Pelosi seems, I don't think he's going to win.

looool

The difficulty of covid-era Trump messaging summed up perfectly in Pence's kicker:

"With four more years of Donald Trump in the White House, we'll make America great again... again."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 17, 2020

Is that a threat?

We'll keep making America great again until you are all dead

No surprise but White House Blocks CDC CDC director from appearing before Congress. What could go wrong?

Are we talking about this anywhere? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html

Read about half of it. Not buying most of it.

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is investigating campaign spending, Parscale contracts https://t.co/FenNuSzuwU

— Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco) July 17, 2020

lol

when did businessinsider.com get paywalled?

Are we talking about this anywhere? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 17, 2020 2:56 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

a lot of this is in this tweet btw

Here's a quick pass of my positive and negative surprises from the last five years. I think on net I'm a little more optimistic about the future than I was in 2015 but not by very much. pic.twitter.com/Zp9gbv9x8V

— (((David Shor))) (@davidshor) May 8, 2020

Grifting? In the Trump campaign? wig flipped