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

Isn’t this it?

don't get the buffy joke?

All the tweets shouting about how people need to be indicted etc really do feel like a real-life version of the Hitler meme scene.

i see that Amy McGrath is way down in her race against McConnell, or at least she was last month at this time (53 to 41, from Quinnipiac)

big fucking surprise. if you're to go down, wish we could go down swinging (booker) in KY

yup :(

Fuck Amy McGrift imo

running a losing campaign against a hated GOP senator is such a great scam to vacuum up donation money

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amy-mcgrath-pro-trump-ad-kentucky-ohio_n_5f77a05bc5b649e564b2b758

don't get the buffy joke?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, October 9, 2020 2:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Graham deserves presents and thanks for his work. I'll be damned if he's getting them from me, though.
(Ironically, I was going to buy him something off of his wishlist right before this spectacularly unimpressive hissy fit. I'm sorry to rain on everyone's parade, but no one's going to blackmail me into telling them they've done a good job. If this post pushes him over the edge and he deletes ILXOR, I apologize to everyone else.)
-- Dan Perry (djperr...), March 27th, 2003 3:12 AM

What happened here?

Threads like this always make me feel like I know nothing about ILX. Never heard of Graham before.

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Friday, November 3, 2006 2:48 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

yah thats why this is all so facinating now. all this shit happened right under our noses.
― chaki (chaki), Friday, November 3, 2006 3:01 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

So much for forgiveness ey? I don't know, I liked Graham. He never did anything wrong to me so I guess that makes it easier to forget/forgive? Probably.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, November 3, 2006 4:04 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

He threw a massive hissy fit of the "you all hate me and don't appreciate all the work I've done for you" then promptly started removing features from ILE to prove a point, with the intention of slowly dismantling it until people sent him Buffy DVDs. IIRC Andrew neutered his admin powers after that.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, November 3, 2006 4:25 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was not yet on ilx at this point but remembered hearing the story in the past.

Amy McGrath also running ads distancing herself from the rest of the ticket incl biden that are being shown over the border in Ohio.

ok lol that buffy thing is a deep ILX cut, don't think i ever encountered that one before. bravo.

it's a cool story for sure

MN, WI, and VA already past 20% of the 2016's total votes cast. FL (14%) and MI (17%) close to that marker.

Data from @ElectProject's fabulous tracker: https://t.co/tzjiaBH1cp

— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) October 9, 2020

lol og admin beefs

https://i.imgur.com/LiS0Q07.mp4

ok lol that buffy thing is a _deep_ ILX cut, don't think i ever encountered that one before. bravo.

Sometimes I'll tell my family I'm not doing something until I get Buffy DVDs and have never explained the joke. After a few years my wife said "I guess this is some ILX thing."

"Did you know virus floats down? Anyway stay down there."

"Trump according to a source is expected to address the crowd from the balcony of the White House." https://t.co/KZ91oi6Skq

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 9, 2020

for Ceausescu, but relevant

https://deadstate.org/watch-the-exact-moment-when-a-brutal-dictator-realizes-the-crowd-has-turned-against-him/

Blexit is the worst Fred Williamson movie

xp i was thinking more like mishima

Address *what* crowd?

or maybe just norma desmond

for Ceausescu, but relevant

https://deadstate.org/watch-the-exact-moment-when-a-brutal-dictator-realizes-the-crowd-has-turned-against-him/

― sleeve, Friday, October 9, 2020 2:45 PM

just watched the full version of that for the first time, about 20 minutes long. the whole thing is chilling. i knew most of the context, but it was very creepy to watch him carry on for a full TEN MINUTES after that moment happened, improvising blatantly false promises ("uhm, the communist executive committee met just this morning and approved an increase in your wages from 2000 to 2200!"). His comrades on the balcony and the first couple rows of the audience (where his stooges were positioned) continued to clap along and chant and smile, even after the collapse must have been evident...or maybe it wasn't, yet?

at any rate, it's wishful thinking that trump could ever face such a moment

you may say I'm a dreamer

but I'm not the only one

It's quite something to realise what it means that he was in power for 24 years. Imagine another 20 years of Trump. Actually, ew, don't.

feeling safer now

“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.” — the President of the United States pic.twitter.com/RfDKchaw7i

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiT_O90jkUI

Finally, getting back to what's really been on every American's mind for months, Iran.

what was rush's response to that? i'm assuming it was "yes sir, mr president you're exactly right"

I think I've said this but I really do worry (assuming a Biden win, etc) that one of the first foreign policy challenges faced by a new administration will be an Iranian-sponsored assassination attempt against Trump

I think I had just watched a Ceaucescu doc around the time of the 2016 election and I remember thinking that he might be a good analog for Trump.

Biden should appoint Trump ambassador to Somalia or something. You know, in the spirit of reconciliation.

@tombot are you serious or do you mean an "Iranian-sponsored" assassination attempt?

iran would try to assassinate the ex-president? why?

Ask Saddam Hussein!

I should have said "Iran-sponsored" and not "Iranian-sponsored"

but yes I do think Iran might be extremely interested in seeing Trump dead and seeing what the US is willing to do about it

I would say it's more likely that there are a ton of people in the US govt that would love to get rid of Trump and start a war with Iran at the same time.

Wait, he's gonna speak on a balcony?? What year is this, 1937?

but yes I do think Iran might be extremely interested in seeing Trump dead and seeing what the US is willing to do about it

Why the former part, if not solely to provoke the latter?

Iran has behaved a lot more rationally than the US in the last 4 years, seems very bizarre that they’d try something that brazen, esp if they think they could get some sanctions lifted through Biden.

natsec brain worms will be sweeping the country in a couple of months

if iran was going to do that why would they wait until now

The balcony thing makes perfect sense. He stage directed his return t the WH by way of the balcony so probably thought he looked really cool and wants to do it again. And again, everyone will broadcast it because that is what they do. Hopefully he passes out and shits himself on-mic.

He'll come out with a mask on then dramatically remove it and chuck it down to the crowd, who of course will fight tooth-and-nail for it.

Forgot to mention the chants of "take it off!" and "show your face!"

https://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/014/245/8d8.gif

The Walk of Shame. pic.twitter.com/GoIjL271SW

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 9, 2020

Breaking on @MSNBC: The second presidential debate has been canceled.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 9, 2020