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

how do we think Trump actually dying would affect him in the polls

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal)

i think he'd get a good 3-4 point bump from that

DFW and Moore share almost nothing in common other than the fact that lame-o online hipsters find people who like them smelly.

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes)

i mean i'll cop to being a lame-o online hipster

right now i'm probably more smelly than most of their fans, though

it's the depression, showering is hard

i admit that i'm more emotionally invested in the question of whether or not dfw and alan moore have similar traits as writers than i'm invested in donald trump getting shot

This looks like another Stephen Paddock situation where the motive is entirely unknown.

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, July 15, 2024 12:33 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

IIRC, assassins (would-be or otherwise) with muddied motives are more the rule than the exception. My mind was blown, for instance, when I found out that George Wallace was shot by a guy who was just looking to become famous. You kinda just assume with a raging asshole like that that there had to be ideological motives but nope.

Hinckley was in love with Jodie Foster, the first person I think of when I see Ronald Reagan.

dfw more clearly wanted to be thomas pynchon imho

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ok hold on, is this the same YouGov poll from above? if so keeping Biden in is political malpractice and everyone who donated to Biden ought to be working on a class action lawsuit right now

#NEW @YouGovAmerica/@thetimes Senate Polls:

MICHIGAN
Elissa Slotkin (D) 49% (+9)
Mike Rogers (R) 40%
.
PENNSYLVANIA
Bob Casey (D-Inc) 51% (+12)
David McCormick (R) 39%
.
ARIZONA
Ruben Gallego (D) 49% (+7)
Kari Lake (R) 42%
.
NEVADA
Jacky Rosen (D-inc) 47% (+6)
Sam Brown (R) 41%…

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 15, 2024

took a half day from work, it's all getting to me too much right now. but also fuck work.

dfw more clearly wanted to be thomas pynchon imho

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― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, July 15, 2024 10:51 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah say what you want about him but I doubt DFW was looking much to comic books for inspiration

You kinda just assume with a raging asshole like that that there had to be ideological motives but nope.

Yeah i was thinking abt that yesterday. Are Booth and Czolgosz the only US presidential shooters who had purely political motives?

Hinckley acted on purely cinephile grounds

feels a smidge like 2020 before biden swept super tuesday

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/super-tuesday-takeaways/index.html

whoever the eventual democratic candidate is -- biden, harris, clooney -- seeing the name "trump" on a ballot i'd very eagerly wager will gross out more voters than not, no less after yet another climate crisis (hurricane season!) summer has only weighed heavier on reasonable adult minds

i will say that my reaction to picking up infinite jest a few times and looking in it was similar to my picking up watchmen a few times and looking in it. both of them looked really boring. so i put them down. or maybe not boring. confusing. but not intriguing.

This guy always fascinated me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Zangara#

ok hold on, is this the same YouGov poll from above? if so keeping Biden in is political malpractice and everyone who donated to Biden ought to be working on a class action lawsuit right now

― frogbs

see this has always been my main concern about biden. i don't give a fuck if he loses. i _am_ concerned that he will take the entire fucking democratic party down with him.

feels a smidge like 2020 before biden swept super tuesday

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/super-tuesday-takeaways/index.html

god that was just before lockdowns began -- what a time

whoever the eventual democratic candidate is -- biden, harris, clooney -- seeing the name "trump" on a ballot i'd very eagerly wager will gross out more voters than not, no less after yet another climate crisis (hurricane season!) summer has only weighed heavier on reasonable adult minds

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, July 15, 2024 1:02 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

and yet Trump is polling way higher than everyone else in the Republican party

I don't understand, all the numbers in that poll post show Dems ahead?

Zangara is all time for his bit in Sondheim's Assassins

First I was figure I kill Hoover
I get even for the stomach
Only Hoover up in Washington
Is winter time in Washington
Too cold for the stomach in Washington—
I go down to Miami, kill Roosevelt

I don't understand, all the numbers in that poll post show Dems ahead?

― I painted my teeth (sleeve),

in Senate races

plus IRL

As he was led out of the courtroom, Zangara told the judge: "Four times 20 is 80. Oh, judge, don't be stingy. Give me a hundred years."[17]

the parts about non superhero comic Kirby in Jerusalem)

This was of course actually about awesome 50's comic HERBIE, wouldn't want the fine folks of the US politics thread to sit down with Jerusalem expecting a chapter about Jack Kirby's work in romance comics or indeed the recent manga featuring the

I don't understand, all the numbers in that poll post show Dems ahead?

But the presidential poll by the same outfit does not. And "split-ticket" voting is a real but rare phenomenon, which means that not all that many people are really going to vote for a Democrat for Senate but Trump for president. And since the presidential race drives voting — or non-voting — more than any other race, the Democratic fear is that people turned off by Biden will just stay home and not cast those needed down-ballot votes.

but yes there is a good case to be made there - the debate, the calls for Biden to drop out, the ABC interview, the SC immunity ruling, the NATO speech, the assassination attempt, and now the documents case getting dropped - all this happened in the span of about 2 1/2 weeks. so what little hope I have now leans on pure chaos theory, so much insane shit is bound to happen over the next few months that trying to prognosticate anything is a fundamentally useless exercise

aliens scheduled to attack next week

whatever chaos ensues in the next four months or so what will remain constant is if 2scoops "wins" life will be objectively worse for the majority of americans come (project) 2025

Paul McCartney dies.

events, dear boy

Alfred is the Campari in the Negroni of ilx

i want them to announce that biden is stepping down and kamala is taking over right when trump is accepting the nomination. i don't know why i want that. but i do.

Best to do it right after the convention ends, so days of attacks on Biden are suddenly obsolete.

that would be the smart thing to do

events, dear boy

well played

From today's Garbage Day email:

On stage at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear. The attack happened while I was on a plane back from the Garbage Day Live show in San Francisco and, as news broke, a man behind me told a flight attendant, “Trump’s been shot,” to which she sort of laughed and excitedly said, “really?!” She then waited a beat and said, “wait, sorry, that came out wrong. That’s scary.”

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum have each been told they won't be former President Trump's choice as vice presidential nominee, Axios has learned. Trump is expected to unveil his running mate on Monday afternoon.

Why it matters: Rubio was on Trump's shortlist but there were concerns over the two sharing the same state of residency, which would draw constitutional concerns and legal challenges. Trump previously said he was concerned by the severity of a near-total abortion ban that Burgum signed in 2023.

Doug Burzum

ohmygodwhoisitgonnabe?

vance has shown proper fealty and absolute unthinking loyalty, my two bits on him

many men (wish death) (on themselves, after reading this news)

CNN reporting that 50 Cent may make an appearance during the Republican National Convention

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 15, 2024

The RNC Monday line-up is pretty dire. Amber Rose? Charlie Kirk?

yeah, I don't remember who's left on the short list besides Vance. Tim Scott is speaking tonight so it's not him.

when does Larouche speak

They bring out the Ouija board at 10pm

Are they just inviting everyone who has ever dissed Kanye?

I remember confronting some LaRouchites in san francisco who had a poster of Obama sporting a hitler moustache.. they had a difficult time explaining what it was supposed to mean

Did Tim Scott get married for nothing?

NEW: Trump picks JD Vance as VP pic.twitter.com/EEfVrLhUsI

— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) July 15, 2024

Vance is the best possible VP choice...if you're rooting for the Democrats. He's a repellent little shit (he's 5'7") who drives normal humans out of the room almost as fast as DeSantis. Maybe faster, because while DeSantis will give you nightmares when he tries to laugh or smile like a human, Vance never seems to express pleasure or joy at all.

Peter Thiel will be a heartbeat from the presidency. (He's working on that part, I'm sure.)

my new running mate jd vance will help me stick it to the elites! do not research where he went to law school.

i once got randomly hounded for a few blocks by a pack of Larouchies in DC, it was pretty scary. they saw me taking pictures - on the national mall, can you imagine?! - and decided I was a "Cheney asset" who was surveilling them. they surrounded me and started following me, (confusingly) trying to get me to take pictures and video of them, screaming "hi President Cheney!" at me. it got pretty scary, i had to sprint away like i was in a zombie movie

Hang JD Vance!

Just tryin' it out.