US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

in blood-red rural Montana

so much makes so much more sense now

at the redneck donut shop this morning it was nothing but people talking about how katy perry is raising the price of gasoline.

It's only mid-July, we're going to see some hall of fame posting by late October.

I think it's nice that Biden has his own H. A. Goodman

https://imgur.com/a/MO4Qob6

no one around me is even talking about trump

The only people around me talking about Trump are friends (and my mom) wishing that he got capped, the only conclusion I can draw is that Joe Biden will win the Electoral College unanimously.

i actually think the image of the fist bump is going to redefine his legacy and all but erase his decades of criminalty, misogyny, racism, and self-serving mendacity in the minds of a huge swath of the public. i am not a cynic but images are powerful.

― treeship., Sunday, July 14, 2024 1:06 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think all the negative trump stuff is going to be memory-holed. even on the nytimes and washington post they will be critical but not in the way they were before.

― treeship., Sunday, July 14, 2024 1:12 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

These posts are so deluded it makes me wonder if this is what you actually *want* to happen

Hi, deej!

I think it's insane to believe that this will erase the vileness of Trump from anyone's mind. Maybe it gives him a boost, sure. But it's erasing nothing.

Would-be Trump assassin tried to join high school shooting club, was rejected for being ‘comically bad’ shot

"high school shooting club"

jfc

fwiw, my grandpa was a co-founder of Veterans for Peace Connecticut— and was also the Rifle Club faculty advisor at the prep school where he taught for 25+ years.

I was kicked out of my high school serial killer club for being too sloppy with DNA

I got kicked out of my high school sex club for the same reason

Don't like hearing that, obviously--I will say that that clip is really funny. I was hoping Letterman would pull Streisand out from behind a tree right at the end.

Wrong thread!

That would certainly be a surprising thing to happen right after Trump got shot.

Streisand Effect!

No, wait...

It was Babs on the grassy knoll.

People Who Shoot People...

Don't Rain Bullets On My Parade.

Why can't Joe Biden be like this man it sucks

Mick Jagger performing last night at his concert in California with The Rolling Stones.

This man is super human. In a week he's going to be 81 years old and still as active as ever.

What a Rock N' Roll legend. pic.twitter.com/jCjb6gWlpy

— 🎸 Rock History 🎸 (@historyrock_) July 14, 2024

No More Ears

"We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency." –– a senior House Democrat https://t.co/OO06KCAoVA pic.twitter.com/OdDjPmRRGj

— austerity is theft 🇿🇦 (@wideofthepost) July 14, 2024

The last election huh?

Biden's speaking tonight from the White House. Not sure what he'd add to what he's already said--I guess it'll be an update on the investigation.

Dude this just happened yesterday and the election is still four months away no one knows what will happen

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 July 2024 1:56 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i’m not clairvoyant but it dies not feel suspenseful to me anymore at all, ymmv

If you accept the rough accuracy of polls (vs. Trump, general attitudes about Biden), what's going to change in the next 3.5 months to change things in his favor? He can't pass anything, Republicans can get only marginally crazier, the Fed isn't going to slash interest rates, he's not going to stand up to Israel, Ukraine isn't going to break out and end the invasion, he's not going to get younger, etc..

One thing obvious is that if anything good happens, or if things are less bad than they could be (House, Senate), it's going to be because of women voters. A massive turnout of women voters is pretty much the only chance for anything, because men are going straight strongman. We'd vote for Andrew Tate if he was on the ballot probably.

I expect more than marginally crazy at the RNC this week.

The desire to be seen as decent human beings by people who aren't decent human beings makes me wonder if every D Congressperson got beat up in school regularly

They just invited Nicki Haley to speak, so it seems like they’re trying to stay on a leash

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If you accept the rough accuracy of polls (vs. Trump, general attitudes about Biden), what's going to change in the next 3.5 months to change things in his favor? He can't pass anything, Republicans can get only marginally crazier, the Fed isn't going to slash interest rates, he's not going to stand up to Israel, Ukraine isn't going to break out and end the invasion, he's not going to get younger, etc..

I’m still thinking Trump might pick an alienating freak as VP. A meteorite could hit us, JFK really is alive and he exposes the baby eating Democrat agenda, etc.

they're all alienating freaks

#giantmeteor2024

Biden sticking around is a done deal at this point, not worth fretting over the possibility of an alternative. He survived the first week after the debate and Trump's glass mishap is a nail in the coffin as Congressional Dems have to playact unity now.

They don't have to, they're choosing to

Wait till you see what I have planned for October 27

I call it “The Freshmaker”

Have read some coverage of WH sources, this is definitely the way to win Michigan and the youth vote:

“Rather than verbally attacking Trump in the coming days, the White House and the Biden campaign will draw on the president's history of condemning all sorts of political violence including his sharp criticism of the "disorder" created by campus protests over the Israel-Gaza conflict, campaign officials said on condition of anonymity.”

Oh just wait for the teargas in Chicago. We have so much fun left to come.

Yeah I agree with all this I've just accepted that the will of the universe is always gonna bend Trump's way, the man will always get everything he needs just when he needs it and will never suffer an actual consequence in his life. I mean he really is the luckiest fucker on the planet. Dude was dead to rights in 2016 until Comey decided to just unilaterally break protocol to throw the election his way. He committed a ton of crime in office but never took a hit for it because he had enough loyalists on board to ensure nothing would happen to him. RBG dies right near the end of his term giving the GOP what will probably be permanent control of the Supreme Court. He contracts COVID and nearly dies from it only for lifesaving medicine to be invented just in time to save him. He attempts to overthrow the government and nobody cares. He steals piles and piles of government secrets, the sort of thing which would get you or I life in prison, but the case is likely not even going to be tried since the presiding judge is a Trump loyalist. He is charged with 34 felonies and the American public does not care. He runs again on a terrible and totally unpopular platform and will absolutely succeed because the Democrats insisted on propping up a man who can barely speak anymore, who will not bow out of the race despite having zero path to victory. And just when you think "eh, maybe people will be reminded of how awful and obnoxious he is" he survives an assassination attempt by a mere inch which instead makes him look like a hero. I hate to sound like this but it really is proof that being a good person and actually caring about the future means absolutely nothing in this world. Maybe it was stupid of me to have any hope in the first place.

sorry for that, just terribly depressed right now

We were inches away from a more entertaining world. Maybe not better but definitely more entertaining.

frogbs — Being a good person means a lot to the people you're good to! It just doesn't necessarily protect you or them. But we already knew that.

I'm still hanging in here!

Biden on. This should be "good".

He should just say "I did it"

i have to say that if the Dems fall into this trap, they deserve to fucking lose.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, July 14, 2024 1:28 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

theyre born to lose its their purpose in our political system