"Will you shut up, man?" US Politics October 2020

The fact that the entire GOP minus like one or two people fell in line behind him is something I don't think people are going to forget in 2 years.

I can't even begin to formulate the kind of amnesia and backflips and rationales these people are going to try to sell when Trump's gone. I really can't, or how successful they'll be.

If you’re more worried about @realDonaldTrump unmasking on a balcony with no one close to him than you were by the Obama/Biden administration unmasking (aka illegally spying on) their political opponents, my diagnosis is you have TDS, & my prescription is to put down your phone.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 6, 2020

This bootlicking worm! Remember when daddy was the cool rebel Republican for people who didn't know they were fascists yet?

Assuming this is a high water mark for the democrats in the short term but that demographics make it hard for republicans to form a majority for a while then the goal should be to bake in structural reform that makes minority government harder. So passing this is a good place to start https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act_of_2019

xp he forgot to address that to "my friend," otherwise excellent post in character from Baby Doc

Rand Paul seems like someone who's been a burden on everyone who's ever had the misfortune to interact with him since the day he was born.

I do have The Dangliest Shlong tho

'I generally love children but, ugh, this fucking baby sucks shit.'

Rand Paul seems like someone who's been a burden on everyone who's ever had the misfortune to interact with him since the day he was born.

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Ted Cruz iirc

Saw Cruz aggressively defending Trump last week. Trump called his wife ugly and his dad an accomplice to the JFK assassination.

Paul, I think Trump called him ugly too, in one of the debates, and ridiculed his 1% in the polls. (Which, I'll admit, I found funny in the moment.)

Clearly, they both owe him a debt of gratitude.

Don’t cry for my White House staffer. pic.twitter.com/AvF1pZleOE

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 7, 2020

May everyone who owes Trump a debt of gratitude take a note from big man himself re: payment of debts.

the GOP will turn 2022 into 2010, i.e. Koch-funded local insurrections based, this time, on COVID spending. We'll be back to those February 2010 arguments about DEBT and OUR CHILDREN WHAT WILL WE DO

^^so much otm and i'd suggest keeping that white hot animus for Trump and his enablers alive even if/when he eats it in the general, and visiting it upon every single person in the media and congress--regardless of party--when they start this mewling bullshit. because it's coming and fuck that.

y'all remember this

https://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2008/1101081124_400.jpg

lol yup like it was yesterday

We need to have a handy booklet printed up listing everyone who enabled this fuck so that, when he's gone and they try to elbow their way back into the society they helped to cripple for short-term gain, we'll all know at a glance who can eat shit.

If there’s no stimulus until Jan 22, that might force Biden/Pelosi/Schumer to not jerk off over the deficit at least.

why I am I seeing murmurs that he's acting crazier than usual?

he must've just re-read The Art of the Deal

If I am sent a Stand Alone Bill for Stimulus Checks ($1,200), they will go out to our great people IMMEDIATELY. I am ready to sign right now. Are you listening Nancy? @MarkMeadows @senatemajldr @kevinomccarthy @SpeakerPelosi @SenSchumer

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2020

lmao dude is lit

Twitter is like wall-to-wall Simpsons quotes right now, it owns

we should keep tweeting at him to declassify everything right now

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/trump-dexemethasone-steroid-covid-andrew-leahey-1071822/

Recreational dexemethasone is going to become a thing on the alt-right.

Do it now! I need to make a down payment on a @RamTrucks before Trucktober ends!

— Dodge Ram Owner (RamLover69) (@GetRammed69) October 7, 2020

DO YOU HEAR ME, PRESIDENT TRUCKNUTS?

FEELING GREAT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020

actual lols

either someone got to him or he died

I'm operating under the assumption that this shit is all Scavino until proven otherwise.

I know this is many many xposts, I was facilitating a workshop, but I'm not going to lie: I think I have unfriended a total of two people since Trump was elected. One of them was an early mentor of mine who turned into an insane conservative 'rebel' type who works for The Federalist, and the other is his wife.

I know absolutely no one who supports the guy, or ever has. I've lived in areas surrounded by his supporters, but never cared to get to know them too well.

Maybe it's my demographics or just my political persuasion, but I've always been mystified by people saying they had to cut off a friend because the person turned out to be a Trump supporter. Just nowhere near my experience in any way, shape, or form.

It’s like 40% of the electorate dude, good for you though?

Grain of salt, don't believe it, etc. But

I can’t overstate the significance of this. Two red-state Rs, on consecutive days, telling me they’re seeing poll numbers they never thought were possible.

Their shared conclusion: Trump’s standing w/ white college+ women threatens to tank the entire party down-ballot on Nov 3. https://t.co/6HGhHtR3DI

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) October 7, 2020

“and dan s, i would also appreciate you toning down the kumbaya stuff esp. since you've revealed you're not exactly working class”

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, October 6, 2020

that's condescending. you don’t know me

“fwiw I do think trump is destroying himself and the republican party with hate.”

is he? 2008-2009 would like a word.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, October 6, 2020 

2008 is not at all the same as 2020

esp. since you've revealed you're not exactly working class

Is this something new? Are we declaring incomes around here now?

i'm declaring deez nuts

fork pulls up in the phantom with a briefcase full of pottery money

wheels keep spinning

This is the ultimate version of Trump: tweeting constantly while out of his mind on drugs and no one can take the phone from him because he’s a biohazard

— Ambooent 1: Music For Scareports (@pixelatedboat) October 7, 2020

OMG

So what's Pelosi gonna do re this stand alone stimulus check demand....I think journalist David Dayen is right. He’s been saying since the negotiations for the first Cares Act , that McConnell would want big corporate aid, and once he got that he could care less about anything else. Therefore Pelosi should have pushed harder for more in the first bill — state and local aid ( for all states), election and school assistance, unemployment supplement and small business aid till a vaccine, etc. But she gave up some of those items and now McConnell and Trump don’t care because the Fed and the first Cares Act took care of corporate America already.

Meantime, the only voice of wisdom

Anyone who has taken steroids such as dexamethasone in far smaller doses than the president is receiving (I have) will tell you that side effects include agitation, euphoria, paranoia and on. It is DEFINITELY not a time for decisions or making an accurate assessment of situations

— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) October 6, 2020

I think the House should immediately push a stimulus bill exceeding what he’s just publicly agreed to and call his bluff. Duh?

Acting like Pelosi is the one on the back foot now is some serious Murc’s Law bullshit

But he just wants the individual checks and now does not care about Lib stuff like small business aid, states and local governments, school aid, Covid testing and tracing etc. If she pushes for a larger check than 1,200 he may say yes as he will want his little note in there again that says its from him. Pelosi should say her name has to go on a letter with the checks as well this time!

But yeah, maybe she should stick to the already approved House plan and try to win that pr battle

He can have his note because mailed checks probably wouldn't arrive until after election day.

It’s not even “try to win the pr battle” at this point; polling would indicate Dems just need to stick to their guns

There’s just no indication that the Democrats need to go back into the defensive crouch they basically held from 2000-2018.

NB I consider the calls for the Biden campaign to continue attack ads after Trump shit himself in the first debate and got COVID to be part of the aforementioned defensive crouch, because attack ads always come from a position of weakness imo

i.e. i don't think a powerful cynic like mitch mcconnell could stop this being true, even if he wanted to https://newrepublic.com/article/158977/madison-cawthorn-future-republican-party.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, October 6, 2020 6:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol pic.twitter.com/zN4Kc8HR3c

— Dell Cameron (@dellcam) October 7, 2020

The RESTART Act must be passed. On its own, as part of a package...whatever it takes.