"The August 2020 US Politics Thread is highly thought of, but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That's all."

Every generation gets its own Joe the Plumber

i was happier that I forgot they existed

only wish I woulda told them
in the Biden years

Seems bad! (Yeah I know this isn’t a surprise to any of you).

What Trump is saying here is that he modified an important US foreign policy stance toward Israel in service of an end-of-days biblical prophecy credited by Evangelical Christians that features the great battle at Armageddon and ends with the Jewish people in hell. https://t.co/iDKbVTkNHk

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 17, 2020

XP Ken Bone just bought a gun.

what did his daddy do

I think the convention and its branding/messaging is done Th big relatively few people care about. Ditto Joe Biden in general. The election is going to come down to how many people are tired enough of Trump’s shit that they’ll make the effort to vote. Regardless of whether those are people who voted for him in 2016 or who didn’t vote at all (though my guess is the latter group will be far larger) and regardless of whether they’re energized by the Democratic Party or whether they just want a a president they don’t have to worry about every eight minutes.

Goddamnit I meant this for the dem direction thread

Because Biden is fairly certain not to announce any big dramatic policy initiatives between now and November, unless his position in the polling starts to turn seriously bad, I agree that his announcement of Harris as VP is likely to be the final piece of whatever branding/messaging we'll see out of his campaign.

I'm not sure how fiery Harris will be on the hustings, either. I anticipate all the appeals to high emotion will be coming out of the Trump campaign and Biden/Harris will stick to relatively bland pronouncements about how dangerous Trump is to 'our democracy', which are about as pointed as a dishrag. Mainly, they'll let this be a referendum election on Trump and be satisfied with that approach.

SAVE THE POST OFFICE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2020

oops, meant to hide that behind the new feature

I'm still getting emails from the Trump campaign, and I just got the saddest one yet - it was allegedly sent by Diamond and Silk.

Bob,

President Trump is our only hope.

The future of our Country is at stake and we’ve come too far under this President to let things go back to the way they were before. Do you REALLY want another Obama? We didn’t think so!

Because of YOUR support, this movement CRUSHED Sleepy Joe and the Radical Democrats by $25 MILLION in July, and now we need to go even BIGGER in August if we’re going to do it again.

We’re already halfway through the month, and President Trump asked us to reach out to make sure we stay on track.

This is SO important that he’s activated a 600%-MATCH for the NEXT HOUR.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT HOUR to help CRUSH our Mid-Month Goal and your gift will be 600%-MATCHED.

DEADLINE: 1 HOUR

CONTRIBUTE $5 = $35

CONTRIBUTE $20 = $140

CONTRIBUTE $15 = $105

CONTRIBUTE $10 = $70

CONTRIBUTE $5 = $35

CONTRIBUTE ANY AMOUNT

If you care about our children and their future, then it’s time to step up and add your name to the list of mid-month contributors who helped us CRUSH our goal.

President Trump asked us to let him know who contributes to this email. We hope we can include your name.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT RIGHT NOW for a 600%-MATCH and to get on the list of supporters we give the President.

Thank you,

Diamond and Silk

Can't hide Twitter or YouTube embeds

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all of it. the world is now out of cocaine. https://t.co/dw1uOtLajX

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 18, 2020

Speakers at the RNC:

6-7: Scott Baio
7-7:30: The St Louis Gun Couple
7:30-8:30: MyPillow Guy
8:30-9:00: 1/4 of the original Marshall Tucker Band plays
9:00-10:00 (keynote): Robosaurus
Afterparty: Curt Schilling reads Ayn Rand

— Clue Heywood (@ClueHeywood) August 18, 2020

overnight: live shot of Clint Eastwood's chair from 2016

That would probably be more entertaining than the DNC line up

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dig Marshall Tucker

Sanders' speech last night was awesome btw.

For dumb reasons i had to miss Sanders after hearing the likes of Klobuchar. Link?

lol I turned on the convention to see the Bernie speech and Klobbo was onscreen laughing at at some joke in her head

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/08/17/bernie-sanders-dnc-2020-speech-full-video-vpx.cnn

lol

BREAKING NEWS: Brock Turner, Stanford Student Athlete Who Assaulted Unconscious Woman, Will Speak At RNC.

— Jena Friedman (@JenaFriedman) August 18, 2020

zero clue which of these RNC speakers are real or not, but I believe that smirking MAGA teen from Kentucky is scheduled?

That's the craziest thing, I'm not sure who they could announce that would make me question the plausibility.

Hitler hologram?

Dubya.

where's the "Get a Brain, Morans" sign guy these days?

Herman Cain

St. Louis gun couple are actually scheduled to speak.

or maybe just hired for security

Wednesday August 26
7:30 Bernie Goetz
8:00 George Zimmerman
8:15 John Wick
8:30 Clive Bundy
8:45 Charles Bronson, Jr.

John Wick is a Catholic Worker House volunteer.

list of comedy criminals omits Biden

it's a big tent xp

john wick is in Mill Neck DSA

this dude got to speak with joe biden at the dnc along with eric garner's mother. https://t.co/siFsSsQ4dd

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) August 18, 2020

hey, maybe he and John Kasich can have a beer summit

The DNC needs to get that guy who picked up Obama in a restaurant

BREAKING: USPS will suspend any policy or operational changes until after the 2020 election, Postmaster General DeJoy says. https://t.co/FHVuZrgK2S

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 18, 2020

Of course, given the assholes involved, this is truly a "trust but verify" situation, minus the trust.

Note the impersonators there to throw off would be assassins.

FWIW anybody who’s thought about the meaning of “trust but verify” for more than a few minutes should realize there’s never actually any trust involved whenever that gets invoked.

also there has been som ereal damage done taht needs to be undone.
Things ned to be restored to previous state not just halted as is.
Wouldn't halt as is include having locks on postboxes still, or is that undone by suspension of initiative?

Things ned to be restored to previous state not just halted as is.

Quite right.

Sure hope they kept the assembly instructions on those sorting machines.

My understanding was that the stuff they removed/destroyed/moved couldn't be reversed/replaced/repaired, for some reason.

uh, are they going to put the collection boxes they recently removed back?

oops, xp, josh already answered

oh and big thing, he NEEDS to resign surely

I'll settle for protesters never allowing him another good night's sleep until he fukkin resigns his post.