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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bw1a_O2m48

I'm being naive about Iran assassination plots, but I'm going to need more convincing of the downside, lol.

if they really wanted to rustle everyone's jimmies, they'd assassinate the skateboarding cranberry juice dude.

Trump withdrew from the P5+1 JCPOA and then authorized the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. Trump’s done everything he can to inspire hatred from the Iranian government. It might be worth their time to remind the USA that an ex-President is just as vulnerable as one of their most senior military officers.

Get her done!

Tom, are you saying Iran would deliberately wait until he's an ex-president (why, because he's easier to get at?) or just that they might try at any time, during or post presidency?

You do you, Iran!

i might be really out of the loop here but has Iran assassinated somebody i should know about?

i found a wikipedia page about it and listing a whole bunch, but it starts with an alert block declaring "This article does not cite any sources"

And it was written by Le Bottomo.

Wasn't there recently a foiled Iranian assassination attempt on ... the ambassador to South Africa, or some dubious shit like that?

Big balcony speech today. Besides everything else, that's a great image to send out, a balcony speech.

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

Meanwhile in uhhhhh

Lindsey Graham, facing a Black challenger: "If you're a young African American...you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative not liberal." #SCSen pic.twitter.com/5PfdIoYyJQ

— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) October 9, 2020

To voice a cliché, what does that even mean?

It means nothing and everything.

Freedom of movement & association limited to whites & cons due to the “black commies stay put” act of ‘70

The amazing first half I get--basically, be thankful you get to move around freely like the rest of us--it's the "you just need to be conservative, not liberal" part that's perplexing.

i heard it as an immensely terrible attempt at a joek more like "you can be any color as long as youre not a lieberal" thing, but i wouldn't bet against any level of racist shit from that mfer. hope he gets destroyed.

It's very "I like both kinds of music, country *and" western." That is, you can come from any background and we will totally accept you, as long as you think and act "conservative," which is to say, in 2020, like an old white southern man.

it means he's a fascist

i mean

are we seriously getting a fascist speech from a balcony tonight? holy shit this year is something else. i know that's the joke this year. i don't watch late night talk shows any more but i can picture it being a recurring theme: "2020! what else do you expect, haha!" but here i am, checking to see what time that i can look forward to watching my president watch out on a balcony, heroically take off his mask, and spit covid on his fans below as he tells them that they must dominate covid19 and never be afraid and also that kamala harris is a monster communist who is running the whole show. especially because he obviously thinks it will look really cool but doesn't realize he picked it up from footage of 1930s fascists

meanwhile stephen miller is popping his spooge into his triumph of the will import dvd for the 400th time, as the steroids really take hold

i opened up the refrigerator this morning and a large empty glass bottle fell off the top and hit me hard on top of my head. i'm not bleeding, but that is my excuse for today. vote or die

Yes, and I hope they stick to that. If other ILXors are allowed to have their irrational fears about Trump invalidating the election and starting a second civil war then I’m allowed to have my own scary thoughts about Biden having to deal with a huge foreign policy nightmare his first few months in office.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 9 October 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Great post.

Lindsey overtaking Rand Paul and TED FUCKIN CRUZ on my personal list of most hated during the Trump era was not something I anticipated

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I have no doubt that Biden will endure a foreign policy nightmare during his presidency but I’d feel comfortable betting it will be of our own making

Can't wait to hear him sing Don't Cry for Me, USA

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balcony speech is simply because the guy cannot stand not being able to have rallies and get his instant feedback from his howling sycophants. His continual belief that this subset of people represents the entirety of the US is bewildering to me but then he is a fucking idiot.

Last fall, Trump picked The Villages to promote his support for Medicare and its private insurance option

But on Wednesday, an armada of 500 golf carts gathered there to caravan to the nearby elections office, so folks could drop off ballots for Biden https://t.co/PMxqF8BXOm

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) October 10, 2020

Great post.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, October 10, 2020 5:06 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I really don't think people who share Turning Point USA tweets to the thread get to decide what are good contributions or not

The amazing first half I get--basically, be thankful you get to move around freely like the rest of us

And the second part meant "being a liberal will hold you back".

yes I agree w Alba that they was exactly what he meant.

but imo there’s some heavy dog-whistling there, however conscious of it dear Lindsey may be

My wife has said she suspects he’s drinking heavily

Want to know what's at stake this election? If we lose the Senate, socialist Bernie Sanders will become Budget Committee Chairman. If we hold the Senate, and I am re-elected, I will be Budget Committee Chairman.

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 9, 2020

I hope a shitload of people read that tweet and make their decisions accordingly

i want that piece of shit gone so bad. craven on a shakespearean level. politics attracts people like this, i realise, but i still can’t understand how they get the votes.

flashbacks to adolescent discussions of race with old white ppl who’d say stuff like “yes of course there some ‘good ones’ and btw I’m def NOT racist bc I don’t say that tacky word so nyah..”

i truly don't understand why ANY REPUBLICAN supports him, and i say this despite my parents calling him "our Lindsey" and loving everything he does. i have gained no understanding of why they support him, but they just like him being around, on their tv.

if you liked him before, you probably liked john mccain and the military, too. so why would you like him now? is trump the new "maverick" for graham to be a sidekick for? but trump has no respect for the military, so...huh

Karl, do they know about his ladybugs?

yeah i mean that's the only thing that pops into my head whenever he comes up

but is it ok to shame someone for their anal freckles

Republican voters are gonna suddenly sit out 2020 bc they find their inner deficit hawk, turn on Trump at 11th hour bc he ok’d more spending?

C’mon:

This would be “the deal knell for our majority if Pelosi gets this win,” warned Sen. Marsha Blackburn https://t.co/Yiv7OcIjAq

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) October 10, 2020

*Sawyer from Lost voice* frackles

This would be “the deal knell for our majority if Pelosi gets this win,” warned Sen. Marsha Blackburn

wait, what's the deal knell

Biden is dodging the court packing issue. There’s electoral downsides to taking a position either way so that may be all he has in mind. But he’s doing it in such a way (explicitly refusing to take a position rather than just saying it’s a question for the senate or whatever) that it seems like he might actually support it.

I really don't think people who share Turning Point USA tweets to the thread get to decide what are good contributions or not

― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Saturday, 10 October 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Please help me remember this, then I'll tell you nothing whatsoever matters.

xp Yeah, Ezra Klein made that point after the debate:

Which made it all the more notable that when moderator Chris Wallace asked Biden to “tell the American people tonight whether or not you will support either ending the filibuster or packing the Court,” Biden refused. “Whatever position I take on that, that will become the issue,” he replied.

On the merits, this is a dodge. Those are consequential questions of governance, and Biden is running for president. His views are supposed to become flash points in the election. But in the context of all the sharp positions Biden did take, both for and against controversial policies, it was telling. Biden could have dismissed both ideas. At another time, he doubtlessly would have dismissed both ideas. That he refused to do so now reflects how far he’s moved, how far he believes his party has moved, or both.