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

What is the best organization providing election-day monitoring/legal assistance to which to donate?

― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:28 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I just looked to see if Marc Elias (Democratic lawyer who has been filing lawsuits to expand ballot access) was recommending anything, and it turns out he has an organization called Democracy Docket, which you can donate to: https://www.democracydocket.com/

60% of the country really really hates this guy. That is not going to change between now and January. That can’t be waved away by half-assed attempts at ratfuckery conducted by a caucus of buffoons.

they get their shit together for ratfucking though

well, while getting blown up pieces they managed to pick up some Senate seats

I'm not even sure Trump wants the job; he just doesn't want anyone else to have it. The humiliation of being the first one-term president in 30 years is too much to bear.

he'll get a higher % votes than GHWB in '92. I'm sure he'll tell us that.

_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

Actual defenses of the President's hateful statements
-He's not as much of a racist as Woodrow Wilson
-He's not smart enough to understand white nationalism
-He also says hateful things about women and is abusive toward many groupshttps://t.co/ZDdEJ3J4fV pic.twitter.com/2vobbwa3mI

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 23, 2020

lots of batshit justifications but my favorite one is that trump isn't smart enough to by an ideological white nationalist. sure, man, white nationalism is sooooo complex.

coming soon: 100 Smartest White Nationalists

If all the fears expressed in that Atlantic article come to pass, I am forced to conclude that the fate of the nation would be determined by the loyalty and sense of duty among the US armed forces, particularly the general staff officers.

to by *to be

If all the fears expressed in that Atlantic article come to pass, I am forced to conclude that the fate of the nation would be determined by the loyalty and sense of duty among the US armed forces, particularly the general staff officers.

the guys who lack the courage to go on the record with their honest opinions of Trump's presidency?

that is not filling me with confidence

(xpost) No idea, but if it ever did come to that, my hope is that a) there are clearly many retired military people who despise Trump (they're on cable news all the time), and that b) although they're retired, the upper echelon of the military is filled with their friends.

maybe it was the Portland paramilitary hysteria that did it, but I'm extremely dismissive of hypothetical liberal doomsday scenarios. vigilance is fine of course

that is not filling me with confidence

it doesn't fill me with confidence, either. but this is not such a slender reed upon which to base one's hope as you might think. the military cultivates a particular kind of patriotic ideology that genuinely elevates loyalty to the traditions of democracy and rule of law above whoever occupies civilian office.

atm, Trump is seen as the democratically elected idiot they are bound to serve. if the election aftermath is Trump-generated chaos with Biden winning the popular vote but the Electoral College result undermined by subterfuge, Trump's claim to authority will not be clear and until it is clear he will revert to just an idiot they loathe.

Way more worried about the antisocial elements unleashed by this POS.

State Senate, pro-Biden rally canceled after threats of violence

The rally was called off Saturday after an anonymous caller warned organizers that "shots will be fired" if the event was held in downtown Gettysburg, said Rich Sterner, a Democratic candidate for the state's 33rd Senate District.

We're going to be cleaning up after this c**t for years.

"maybe it was the Portland paramilitary hysteria that did it, but I'm extremely dismissive of hypothetical liberal doomsday scenarios"

having honestly not followed it much beyond the superficial, what was the outcome of people getting pulled off the streets and into vans, etc? were they just released? we don't have people permanently disappeared, do we?

Both sides, people. BOTH. SIDES.

Here's what's happening, 41 days until #Election2020:

• 200,000 in U.S. dead from virus. Trump gives himself "A+" on pandemic

• Joe Biden battles being chronically late

• Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware defends Ginsburg memehttps://t.co/8T8pYkG9na

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) September 23, 2020