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

obrien had some good bars (all of which got zero applause) but he’s an enormous asshole. democrats recently bailed out the entire teamster pension structure, which passed congress with zero republican votes

Who but an enormous asshole is going to be president of the Teamsters?

I think it's good to have any kind of labor message there, not that anyone was probably listening except to make fun of him.

“Unless they came back and said, there's no way you can win, me. No one's saying that. No poll says that.”

New YouGov polls (July 4-12) has Trump gaining ground, & ahead in the 7 battleground states.

But in the same poll, *among the same samples,* Dems lead all Senate races (margins between 6% to 12%). pic.twitter.com/HfJpxEaevy

— Taniel (@Taniel) July 15, 2024

starting to wonder what *would* constitute the evidence he needs to see

xps - even for a teamster that was a p reckless thing to do imo. just his appearance here is giving them infinitely more credibility than they deserve

the full answer is soooooo bad https://t.co/GTUMgO4J0e pic.twitter.com/SOVK3FNMeF

— ... (@adamvolo) July 15, 2024

what’s going on here. does this scan as normal talking to montana voters perhaps

He sounds ok.

Donald Trump's new running mate JD Vance says the UK may now be “the first truly Islamist country to get a nuclear weapon... since Labour took over" pic.twitter.com/wchcPYg2m5

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 16, 2024

Hilarious.

just a thick racist prick reminding the UK that it is a colony of the US, incredible thing to say after Labour have worked so hard on alienating Muslim voters by being just as islamophobic as the Tories and Lammy is taking selfies with Bibi.

Trans: "Look over there! Big scary thing! No, don't look it's too scary!"

tbf no-one expects any US politician to know anything about or be interested in any countries other than the US and Israel.

I just saw a photo of Trump with his bandaged ear at the Republican thing and it is ridiculous

You know the Van Gogh self-portrait is going to get repurposed in 5..4...

Oh that happened days ago.

That narrative about a minority group in a nation, with no loyalty to the nation in question, wielding disproportionate power and influence, remind you of anything?

where is Biden being interviewed, the Actor's Studio?

Jack Black turning his back on Kyle Gass. We live in unprecedented times. pic.twitter.com/tLvUWs4RzR

— Variable Slothrop (@moviesaredreams) July 16, 2024

This kind of chickenshit showbiz move really takes me back to the early 2000s.

Republicans have this weird habit of cosplaying as lefties, stealing their rhetoric and vernacular whenever it suits them

― rick beato meato manifesto (Neanderthal)

almost like leftist ideas are actually popular, despite the democrats' assurances that nobody actually believes any of that leftist claptrap

Trans: "Look over there! Big scary thing! No, don't look it's too scary!"

― Mark G

you had me confused for a sec lol

Me too

Well, if this whole thing has rid the world of Tenacious D, then it's all been worth it.

fp'd

sorry, never found Tenacious D funny either

amazing that the same people who remain friends with toxic Trump supporters because "they're really a good person deep down" are the ones who are zero tolerance about Trump shooting jokes.

I posted a joke about it 5 minutes after it happened, fuck him, Kyle Gass otm

Whoops. Seems like RFK Jr.'s son posted and has since deleted video of a call between RFK Jr. and Trump after the shooting. In the video Trump repeats his old (false) claims about childhood vaccines, suggesting the vaccine schedule causes injuries in babies. https://t.co/K4RWXfoudS pic.twitter.com/KZcSBVtxWE

— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) July 16, 2024

Trump rambling about vaccines to RFK Jr.

Normal stuff, really, this is fine

Trump in full-on Grandpa Simpson mode there

DNC & Biden campaign trying to act early way before Dem convention

I've actually heard from one source that the plan is for a week EARLIER than this. Starting July 22 (next Monday) and ending July 29.
This will be confirmed this Friday with a Rules Committee vote. https://t.co/47eAgjNuur

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 16, 2024

Online vote of delegates to vote to nominate Biden

Online vote of delegates to vote to nominate Biden

― curmudgeon

woah, i feel like they're jumping the gun on that a little bit, shouldn't they have a vote on whether to do that first?

my understanding is that the order of operations affects what happens when a candidate bows out, and having the nomination in place before they abdicate makes it a different ballgame

as in, it might not just be beneficial for Biden, it might allow the party to easily replace him without it becoming a chaotic open convention

Nate… you can call me a lot of things but a liar is definitely not one of them.

I know you THINK you know every thing but class is now truly in session.

Pull up a chair:

* The DNC started this process in May in response to the OH Secretary of State stating that our… https://t.co/TWOB46Wmas

— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) July 16, 2024

tl dr: it's about Ohio law, I guess.

.@HawleyMO is 100% on point.https://t.co/8qicWLhtGf

— Sean M. O'Brien (@TeamsterSOB) July 16, 2024

the order of operations affects what happens

BEDMAS: bunker-mentality, evasiveness, denial, meetings, acceptance, step-aside.

#New General Election Poll

🔴 Trump 46% (+1)
🔵 Biden 45%

Poll before Trump shooting was Trump +2

Morning Consult #C - 2045 RV - 7/15

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) July 16, 2024

other polls show Trump winning Virginia so idek

smart people are more inclined to vote for someone who isn't being constantly shot at

I prefer the candidates who don’t get shot

looks like you can still be convicted of corruption in this country

*SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ CONVICTED BY JURY AT CORRUPTION TRIAL

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) July 16, 2024

fuck josh hawley, and fuck sean o'brien

that oughtta hold that teamster SOB

lol apparently the Trump campaign thinks Vance will appeal to suburban women 'cause his life was in the moving pictures. That's how little they think of women.

Fuck Gaspar Gomez and fuck the Diaz Brothers

Teamsters holding up their reputation as the most corrupt union. The Trump Admin will do to them what Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers Union (who endorsed Reagan!)

looks like you can still be convicted of corruption in this country

If you're a Democrat, sure.

O’Brien gives us the roadmap to go even further in 2025. And we should. I have stood on the picket line with the UAW and the Teamsters—all Republicans should do it. I voted to stop Amazon’s labor exploitation, give more sick days to rail workers, and worked across the aisle to limit bank-executive pay. Republicans can begin there. But if given power, we should embrace even more. Let’s cap credit-card interest rates, take the fight to Big Pharma, end exploitative forced labor, and rid politics of corporate money once and for all.

O'Brien is a rube if he thinks Josh Hawley, the Republican Party, and their donors are going to do any of these things.

The Democratic Party's loosening and then shunning unions beginning in the Carter years and continuing through the heady days of Clinton's DLC is the most mortal sin it's committed: a full renunciation of the New Deal.

But Biden's support for unions has been imo one of his top three strengths. I joined our faculty union in February and one of the first things their leftist comm chair told me was that "thanks to this NLRB" we're in the strongest negotiating position in years.

Republicans (pretend) adopting the Paul Wellstone platform is a bizarre turn in politics

and rid politics of corporate money once and for all

ha! I just spit tea all over my lap

never forget

https://i.imgur.com/P6SDBIM.jpg

lol apparently the Trump campaign thinks Vance will appeal to suburban women 'cause his life was in the moving pictures. That's how little they think of women.

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland)

my mom was really into that book. i mean she's not gonna vote for trump but she really was into that book.

most people _aren't really politically informed_ and if there's a popular motion picture about your vice presidential candidate, that's going to _help_. if someone looks at him and is like "oh, that's the hillbilly elegy guy! i loved that book/movie/whatever", that doesn't make that person _stupid_.

but also i don't know anybody whose decision on who to vote for has been changed by who they pick as their vice presidential candidate. i could be wrong on this, but the feeling i get is that it's not as important as the media makes it out to be.

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also i know it's the angle but that dude's chest gives me real "six months on estrogen" vibes