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

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Vance has a deep bench of stupid factoids to talk about and I don’t look forward to hundreds of think pieces about the hillbilly book/movie, more people finding out about NRx horseshit, etc

just noise that gets more press coverage!

Vance is the worst possible pick given how much he loves killing women over their decision to get abortions.

"Bad Ronald, however, was a great movie."

very true!

if Biden got shot at the article would probably be something like 'Stupid Old Fuck Got Shot At, Gets Civilian Killed'

Will Trump be granted access to Thiel’s blood boys?

appropriate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth

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Riding to the White House! Witness me, blood bag!

thought it was Styx playing at the convention right now but they are playing a Journey song at the moment so maybe not.

will 2scoops make JD shave that scraggly hipster beard?

nah, Trump needs the creeper vote

First candidate on a presidential ticket with a beard since Charles Evans Hughes in 1916!

idk. still thinking about politics a lot, how it's been. how i am ignorant of basically all news and have been for a while.

most of the places i hang out, talking about politics is literally not allowed. people spiral. people get suicidal. people get into panic attacks. it's not healthy, you know, it's not safe.

and for the most part i'm ok with it because it's about radical acceptance, it's about, you know, i'm on the outside. politics isn't something i talk about, it's something i do, and the way i do politics is by, well, existing. my existence is a political act. for a while i was proud of that, but now i think it's a nuisance. it's stupid. i have other, more important things to worry about than what people I don't know and will never talk to believe about my gender identity.

whoever is in congress, whoever's president, you know, i'm going to go on living my life, caring for myself and the people i care about, until i die. however that happens. maybe that's fatalism, but i prefer another term for it. resilience.

cuz the thing is, even when i an talk about politics, what i find more and more often is that... i just don't have anything to say. yes, i know i've been posting a lot here for the last day or so, i'll go away soon, i promise.

talking about politics, for a while now, has been less and less about horse race stuff and more and more, well, group therapy. that's one of the things... 9/11 radically disrupted the normal way i thought about politics, talked politics, and eventually things went back to "normal" for me. and after 2016, they just didn't. i just talk about, think about politics the way i thought about 9/11 now. politics, to me, politics is a form of trauma, basically.

and maybe that's why donald trump getting shot doesn't make a difference to me. you know, it was what people were afraid of under gwb, the idea of a "perpetual state of emergency" - i mean, that is america today, america is in a perpetual state of emergency. do we even fly the flag at full staff anymore? we shouldn't. and if everything is an emergency, well, nothing is an emergency. just something else to throw on the pile. just more bullshit i have to deal with for some reason. again, that seems cynical, but the point is that no matter what the circumstances, i am _living my fucking life_. electoral politics just isn't a big part of it right now.

also why the fuck are we still calling trump "2scoops" like no offense but it is fucking _2024_ let the fuck go

out of all the cretins slithering into this thing i have to say that mma guy dana white might be my least favorite. he really creeps me out. can't stand him. and MTG will be there! so, that's saying something.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/15/rnc-convention-2024-speakers-list/74406450007/

okay i gotta say the convention band is doing justice to "reelin' in the years". not bad.

It's probably Jeff "Skunk" Baxter himself playing.

Savannah Chrisley, TV personality and criminal justice reform advocate

I'm sorry, but being billed as a "criminal justice reform advocate" is very funny when your parents are in federal prison for bank fraud and tax evasion, which was done to prop up the illusion of wealth for a reality tv show

i guess you can't say i have _nothing_ in common with trump

― Kate (rushomancy)

bottom-of-the-ticket surgery

btw i'm sure "MTG" stands for something other than "magic the gathering" but i neither know or care what human being has those initials

the best thing about politics is not knowing what anyone is talking about and making up my own story

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2021/05/14/marjorie-taylor-greene-confused-with-magic-the-gathering-on-twitter/

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/

since we’ll all be forced to get to know him better than we’d like, I highly recommend this gabe winant essay on the founding myth of JD vance

Half wonder if the exaggerated concern for trumps wellbeing ppl are scorning is a desperate attempt to paint him as weak & fragile, to counter the putative strongman cred that comes from having your earlobe grazed by a bit of glass

This is mostly so Trump can get his claws into Thiel’s bank account, right

it's to discourage further assassination attempts

Vance is the worst possible pick given how much he loves killing women over their decision to get abortions.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 15, 2024 3:23 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he voted against ivf!

Tumescence achieved

Negroni mixed.

buzz achieved

"WHAT MORE DO I HAVE TO SAY!?!?!"

also why the fuck are we still calling trump "2scoops" like no offense but it is fucking _2024_ let the fuck go

I got 2 coups
one for the Don and one for the Vance

DV, a fitting acronym

lol Alfred

I don't know if it matters much — and Lester Holt's questions about Biden's allegedly inflammatory rhetoric are ridiculous — but Biden sounds better in this clip than any time I've heard him in a bit.

In interview with @LesterHoltNBC, President Biden says his "mental acuity has been pretty damn good" in defending his decision to stay in the race. https://t.co/fULztVQTLo

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 15, 2024

It is being claimed that JD Vance is in fact over six feet tall, and the 5'7" thing is a false online rumor. Doesn't matter, he's repellent at any size.

dude looks like a beaver

he's spiritually short

dude looks like a beaver

― I painted my teeth (sleeve)

Never judge a book by its cover
Or who you gonna love by your lover

He looks like the twerp in Once Upon a Time in the West who Henry Fonda shot for wearing both a belt *and* suspenders.

i waver between a stubbly Elmer Fudd vs Tweedle-dum

There's a king in France just as tall as JD Vance

There's a hole in the ground where his remains can be found

I was just reading something about the Vance pick that referred to other VP nominees and I realized I had basically forgotten that Paul Ryan was one. Like, I remember Ryan as speaker and everything, but if you'd asked me point-blank who Romney's veep was I would have had to ponder.

To think Biden pwned him so much in the VP debate Republicans had to pivot to saying Biden was a bully

the beginning of Biden's use of inflammatory rhetoric

Had no idea an assassin was born that night

I was just reading something about the Vance pick that referred to other VP nominees and I realized I had basically forgotten that Paul Ryan was one. Like, I remember Ryan as speaker and everything, but if you'd asked me point-blank who Romney's veep was I would have had to ponder.

― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Monday, July 15, 2024

Biden laughed in Ryan's face several times, shredding Ryan's reputation in front of the Beltway press that worshipped him as a Serious Man. When I think of what he was and what he is now I remember this performance.

Yeah, I remember the debate, now that I've remembered Ryan's run. It was one of those times where it felt like Biden earned his place on that ticket.

If I remember one thing about Paul Ryan, it will be that he lied about his marathon time, by an HOUR.

Biden was able to pull a Lloyd Bentsen in that debate -- play the seasoned statesman to the callow dweeb. He even sorta-quoted the "You're no Jack Kennedy" line.