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

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

biden talk is exactly what you'd expect though I wish he'd go after guns more here.

they make me feel like I'm going crazy like one day it's "you need to give us $10 and help us defeat the next Hitler" and then next it's "praying for a speedy recovery for former President Trump, whose entire family is in our thoughts tonight"

do they not remember about how he teargassed American citizens, or tried to literally overthrow the government, or got something like 300,000 Americans killed from a preventable disease because he disassembled Obama's pandemic response team out of spite? do people not care that this man is all over the Epstein files and has almost certainly raped children? fucking hell.

yeah they dont care, keep in mind these are the same people currently pumping weapons into a genocide

frogbs, you forgot that he stared directly at an eclipse and was not harmed

If big donors pull out of the Presidential race that means more free cash to filter down to Congressional races. Consultants got bills to pay, man.

did biden seriously almost say 'make america great again' and then catch himself

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.”

White House is flatly denying this and a senior aide says it "will not age well." https://t.co/J9RS260gJV

— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) July 14, 2024

biden talk is exactly what you'd expect

the purport of the speech will be "no one wants things like this to happen. he's ok. it's over now. so let's all keep calm and carry on", but the real purpose is "hey look at me! I'm the guy who's president and I'm showing you my leadership chops!" - except nobody was needing that from him and as far as his approval goes it will be water of a duck's back.

this feels like not as big of a deal as it should be maybe the country is just too tuckered out to care

We've entered the Cool Story, Bro era of imperial decline.

lol Yashar Ali, unimpeachable source

it's not just that the democrats deserve to lose. it's that every goddamn one of us deserves better than what the democrats have to offer. they have nothing and no-one. they're the empty suit party.

"It's time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do that."

President Biden delivers an Oval Office address after yesterday's assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. pic.twitter.com/UmhSC4rO31

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 15, 2024

it's become a truism that biden's good when he has a teleprompter, but he's not actually that good right? you can tell that he's looking at a teleprompter in this clip. the focus of his eyes just ever so slightly off-center to the camera, at times slightly straining to read, voice modulating in non-natural ways

wanna throw some of you in the gulags for defeatism. You don't have to be all "Dark Brandon has got this, trust the plan", because WE DON'T KNOW THE FUTURE

We've entered the Cool Story, Bro era of imperial decline.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, July 14, 2024 8:25 PM (twenty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

for a while after the fall of rome they were still following the forms having an emperor and whatnot then one day they packed up all the emperor stuff and mailed it to constantinople

it's not just that the democrats deserve to lose. it's that every goddamn one of us deserves better than what the democrats have to offer. they have nothing and no-one. they're the empty suit party.

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, July 14, 2024 8:27 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

they do have the suits, or rather the suits have them, which imho is the root of the problem