People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

Bloomberg bringing sharia law to Florida already I see

lol

he needs to spend another $100 million on restitution

Finally, Bloomberg justifies his existence. Temporarily.

That Bloomberg story is genuinely good. Almost makes me want to drop him out of a two-story window instead of a twenty-story window.

Ive never understood why ex-convicts aren't allowed to vote in the first place. After you've served your sentence, you've repaid your debt to society and should have voting rights reinstated. Nowhere does the Constitution allow this permanent loss of suffrage as a lifelong punishment.

Also: Florida designed the court fees/fines as a way to fund the court system... sounds like a tax to me. Thus, a poll tax.

Racism is the short answer

it's funny how when you, say, attack a beloved right wing figure who served time for something serious like rape or murder, right wingers will scream "he's paid his dues, leave him alone" even when nobody's talking, but when it's a minority or a leeburul, nope, that shit's forever, doesn't ever wash off.

Racism is the short answer

― rob, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:40 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The state with the prettiest name!

Racism?

Sunshine Racism

"Racism," while horrible, is oddly pleasant to say, like the famous fave of non-English speakers phrase "sliding glass door."

Am I the only one who reads this thread's title as Ray Davies singing Celluloid Heroes?

"Some that you recognise, some that you've hardly even heard of"

there is no moral justification for denying felons the right to vote WHILE they're serving their sentences either. and as wards of the state they have a *heightened* interest in who governs them.

Talk to Tallahassee!

I hate that a fucking billionaire has to bail us out, but eh

Yeah, this is where I'm at in general these days: '(state of affairs I would never have explicitly wished for but which I guess make things 0.0001% less shitty than the perpetually-shitty status quo), but eh'

TUNA FISH!

The president on violent protesters: "Cans of tuna fish. They go out and buy tuna fish and soup. You know that, right?...Because they throw it. It's the perfect weight, tuna fish, they can really rip it, right? And that hits you. No, it's true. Bumble Bee brand tuna."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 23, 2020

Bumble Bee brand tuna is now antifa

black bloc cat food

StarKist just doesn't have the bludgeoning power I look for in a canned tuna.

Just a variation of a Trump chart topper from a couple of weeks ago. He leaned more toward canned soup back then, but today he favors tuna. Like all truly creative artists, he's restless and keeps looking to top himself.

Why, in four years, has no one on our side made a concerted effort to feed President Credulous McTwitterhog a line of compromising talking points for him to unquestioningly parrot on camera?

How would you know the difference

Fair point.

He leaned more toward canned soup back then, but today he favors tuna

it was bags of soup back then; presumably Miller or Scavino managed to explain to him that cans are harder than bags, and the phrase "cans of tuna" sparks his degraded neurons, because he has never opened a can in his soft-fingered life.

lol some poor mf who works at Bumble Bee Tuna is having a bad night

They only have like 2,400 followers, so I can't imagine they're well-equipped for rapid-response operations:

Eat em. Don't throw em.

— Bumble Bee Seafoods (@BumbleBeeFoods) September 23, 2020

FBI and Homeland Security and the DEA and the Marines are teaming up & cloning ppl's phones on the street from spyplanes. DHS removed the undersecretary of intelligence for refusing to falsify Mexican invasions, and to stop tracking white supremacists and Russian interference. Everything is very cool and voting for Dianne Feinsteins everywhere will fix any minor irregularities!

The USMS is not the Marines

oops: ta

couldn’t resist. also if the marines were actually involved that would have been an entire order of magnitude more fucked up. the story, of course, is horribly fucked up as-is.

The only silver lining in there is the bit where the call for DHS intelligence volunteers was met with little interest.

We’re now going live to Lafayette Square, where a BumbleBeehived female protester is taunting Trump: I’ll give you fish! A Fred Schneider-voiced protester jumps in: Cans of tuna fish!

You can throw a piano, but you can't tune a fish. Or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hno0cKgRy28

Tbf those tuna pucks are the perfect size and weight for chucking.

Republican sources tell @bartongellman the Trump campaign "is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority." https://t.co/m70OkHOFJU

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 23, 2020

'contingent' on what? losing the election?

the whole article is very well done, worth a read

I feel somewhat confident in claiming that Barry Manilow wrote the Bumblebee Tuna jingle: "bum-bum-bumblebee, bumblebee tooona!"

xpost contingent on losing the election *while* having created enough noise and confusion surrounding mail-in voting to build popular support for the notion that what actually happened is the Democrats created "chaos" and the results are therefore somehow suspect.

obviously flimsy logically and also constitutionally - if the sacred Framers had intended state legislators to just pick the electors, they would have said so, like they did for state legislators picking Senators. instead they articulated the baroque and problematic Electoral College system.

the scariest part to me is the doubletalk non-answers when public officials and politicians are pressed --- no sense that they're obliged to flatly deny an obvious plan for election-stealing, instead taking it as an opportunity to continue muddying the waters about mail-in. a lie repeated often enough, etc. hopefully most non-cultists aren't buying it but, god.

yeah i dunno, my stomach hurts all the time when i even try to think about this

I had to stop reading at some point because it made me enraged. What is the best organization providing election-day monitoring/legal assistance to which to donate?

Alcoholics Anonymous

They'll never get me no matter how hard they try.

Imagine if he put this much work and planning into actual fucking governance.

Trump’s personal capacity for flooding the channel with noise to confuse easily duped morons is his main (only) talent, but to actually fuck with the electors will require the GOP as a whole to function like a reasonably well maintained machine.

When they held the trifecta from 2016-2018 they couldn’t even pass a budget. They got through one tax cut bill. That’s it.

they get their shit together for ratfucking though

the scariest part to me is the doubletalk non-answers when public officials and politicians are pressed

paired with the disbelief that fascism is at the door, among just about everyone. seriously, the last few days have me freaked