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

He could just save us all the trouble and skip ahead a couple of weeks instead of just a couple of days. What is he so afraid of?

I don't know what that Donny Osmond photo is from, but that's literally a Quibi show.

Trump's footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A

Stahl: "But excuse me, Mr. President.. you never actually won a Nobel..."
Trump: "Get out! Get out! You're a Never Trumper! I'm going back to my room...

how can an interview be 'fake'

Aw.

NEWS: Trump's campaign committee expected to report only **~$63 million** entering Oct.

That's about half of what it had entering Sept.

RNC $78.1m
Trump Victory $90.3m
T-MAGA $20.1m.

Total between 4 entities previously announced as $251.4 million.https://t.co/f6kESRNtmh

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) October 20, 2020

Back on the tax beat:

NEW: President Trump's tax records reveal a previously unknown bank account he has in China, where he's spent a decade pursuing business deals. w/@russbuettner, @susannecraig https://t.co/lklgXCqe9x

— Mike McIntire (@mmcintire) October 20, 2020

this Chris Pratt thing is fucking stupid. who gives a motherfuck. He's also married to Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter, no? I really don't think he's a Trump supporter.

i actually don't know what you're talking about, and i'm going to just savor this moment

I don't know what that Donny Osmond photo is from

Ah, such youth. (Being an older crust like myself means remembering the Donny and Marie show from the late 70s regularly had a 60 Minutes parody called, as you see it, 6 Minutes. No video evidence immediately available but maybe in some best-of clips or something.

this Chris Pratt thing is fucking stupid. who gives a motherfuck. He's also married to Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter, no? I really don't think he's a Trump supporter.

It's dumb but being an avid follower of that awful megachurch would absolutely put him in the Trump demographic.

Don Jr’s closing line: “When we win for America we can also make liberals cry again and, in the process, make America great again, again!”

— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) October 20, 2020

"Again again" is not not a bad slogan

for real? he said the "make liberals cry" part out loud?

Looks like we’re going to sail through covid case record and possibly hospitalisation too right around Election Day.

Why not? I lived it last week.

Looooool

Following his "60 Minutes" interview, Trump did not smile to greet cheering supporters as he departed the White House. pic.twitter.com/1WlcRzdqax

— The Recount (@therecount) October 20, 2020

looooooooooool the big boy

Sad Nixon.

awww I think somebody needs his Filet-O-Fish

he was soooooo unfaiwwy untweated

The mien of a person who got terrible internal polls

terrible internal bowels

don't think these 10 second clips reveal anything really

this clip reveals a sad man

They reveal the fistula he calls his face

Eh, it's just free schadenfreude, enjoy it while you can.

2xp

They would mean more if you could better hear the squishy sounds.

The thing about "make liberals cry" is the people who say it seem to think that it's a tit-for-tat response to liberals who "hate America" and want to destroy conservatives' way of life. But hardly any liberals actually express anything like that. The most radical beliefs and policy positions on the left generally aren't held out of spite or animosity -- but out of a desire to transform society for the benefit of all! Like, I hate Republican politicians, but I want their voters to have free health care.

"Leslie Stahl won't be happy."

Focused like a laser beam. (Actually surprised he hasn't been obsessing over Jeffrey Toobin, who, not surprisingly, has been all over Trump for years.)

don't understand, when I try to post I'm just directed back to the New Answers page

for my third time posting it - I agree, jaymc

(Actually surprised he hasn't been obsessing over Jeffrey Toobin, who, not surprisingly, has been all over Trump for years.)

the fact he hasn't confirms that his dick is on tape

So tonight we have 60 Minutes, secret bank accounts for Chinese business deals, 545 migrant children whose parents can't be located, and the White House pushing a sweetheart deal for DoD 5G spectrum, meanwhile COVID cases are spiking across swing states. Seems bad.

24-hour news cycle drawing down to 12

The thing about "make liberals cry" is the people who say it seem to think that it's a tit-for-tat response to liberals who "hate America" and want to destroy conservatives' way of life. But hardly any liberals actually express anything like that. The most radical beliefs and policy positions on the left generally aren't held out of spite or animosity -- but out of a desire to transform society for the benefit of all! Like, I hate Republican politicians, but I want their voters to have free health care.

yeah it's a continuation of the entire Trump/McConnell operating procedure: Democrats aren't Americans and as such they don't deserve any representation

Yes and i suspect even worse tax revelations to come.

From that Proud Boys thing earlier

https://www.wuft.org/news/2020/10/20/fbi-investigating-threatening-emails-sent-to-democrats-in-florida/

The FBI and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office were investigating, according to sheriff’s spokesman Art Forgey.

Forgery has two "r"s fyi

don't think these 10 second clips reveal anything really

yeah it's a continuation of the entire Trump/McConnell operating procedure: Democrats aren't Americans and as such they don't deserve any representation

This has been the Republican Party line for 50 years now.

many xp, who cares about Toobin, like at all.

and nobody gives even a half a shit about what's on Hunter Biden's laptop

this Chris Pratt thing is fucking stupid. who gives a motherfuck. He's also married to Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter, no? I really don't think he's a Trump supporter.

have no idea why he came up itt or what he thinks about Trump but

Pratt is also married to a Schwarzenegger, and an adherent of an Australian evangelical mega-church that obstructed police investigation into their founder's multinational child molestation, and runs (or ran) conversion programs for lesbian teens, and pregnancy consultation centres that recruit teens to work camps.

― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, September 16, 2020 10:53 AM (one month ago)

the Australian PM tried to bring the head of the church (son/head-cover-upper of the child sex abuser as his +1 to the White House but was knocked back

Wild in my lifetime we’ve gone from presidents who fuck (and are hated) to representatives who game (and are extremely loved)

When you're a New Yorker staff writer, they let you do it

That shit about wanting to make liberals cry had me all like 'what kind of monsters exist just to try (in utter vain, but still) to make people who disagree with them cry?!?' but then I saw that clip of Trump looking like he was about to cry and realized that I am precisely that kind of monster but just specifically wrt Trump so hopefully I'm not too terribly monstrous. But boy do I want to see him fucking cry. Big heaving sobs.

many xp, who cares about Toobin, like at all.

That was the point.

Old Lunch otm, but alas, my soul is a bit darker and yeah, I kinda do want Trump, Trump enablers, and Trump supporters to suffer and repent and reflect on the harm they have done. (I know this is a futile and vain and pointless wish, but I harbor it nonetheless.)

Sorry not sorry

Why does Pelosi do dicknose?

U.S. House Speaker Pelosi hopes for coronavirus aid progress by end of week https://t.co/nXpGGKwTQL pic.twitter.com/s9qLNkDiTO

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 21, 2020

She didn't spring for a mask with the little piece of wire in the nose to make it fit better.

According to a person with knowledge of what happened during the interview, Trump was unhappy that Stahl asked him tough questions regarding his rhetoric about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the size of the crowds at his rallies and his disputes with Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert. Stahl also told him during the interview that allegations about Biden’s son Hunter were not verified and that the Obama administration did not spy on the Trump campaign. Many of the questions were about the coronavirus pandemic and his handling of it, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the interview frankly.

When Trump first walked in, Stahl looked at him and said, “Are you ready for a tough interview?” The president believes “60 Minutes” will cut the interview in an unflattering way and has been talking all afternoon about how to preempt the footage, said the person familiar with the circumstances.

After 45 minutes, Trump looked at staff members and said, “I think we’re done, do you guys agree?”

Stahl believed the walk with Pence was still going forward, but Trump left the room and later complained to aides that Biden would have an easier interview and that “60 Minutes” would “cut it up to make him look bad,” according to an aide.

The person familiar with the interview said that there are no bombshell revelations, but that Trump complained about it all day and wants to take the air out of it by releasing it early. Three aides, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said the president overreacted, and one suggested that he might actually boost the ratings of a tough interview.

A senior White House official said Trump had told aides he wanted to go after Stahl and brainstormed ideas after the session with a group of aides in the Oval Office.

“The interview was not that bad,” a White House staff member said. “It wasn’t a bad interview. She just had a tone he didn’t like.”