US Politics, August 2024 -- "Unburdened By a Has-Been"

i’ve had conversations like that with taxi drivers at 3am

I like the line about making choices "about heart and home"

reclaiming family and country as talking points from the GOP is a big win. She's completely believable when she speaks too. She does not come across as disingenuous.

"get the government out of your life" became a GOP tentpole for the past 20 some years

Gotta give it back to dril here:

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got em

Hit em!

I like it that she’s turned the right-wing call for government to get out of our lives back around on them. They’re only anti-regulation when it comes to lightbulbs, guns, and money.

dril baby dril

They’re only anti-regulation when it comes to lightbulbs, guns, and money

Don't forget low-flo showerheads, Trump had a serious problem with those

Heard a bit of Trump’s presser today. Between boasting that he “gave everybody what they wanted, Democrats and Republicans” re: Roe v Wade and insisting that Harris is now the Dem candidate because she’s a woman and from a “special group,” my level of “fuck this guy” is at an all time high.

solid hit from dril there, hope they listen

Don't forget low-flo showerheads, Trump had a serious problem with those

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, August 8, 2024 5:41 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gotta stand with trump on this one

standing in the shower with Trump

thinking

lol

I like it that she’s turned the right-wing call for government to get out of our lives back around on them. They’re only anti-regulation when it comes to lightbulbs, guns, and money.

― Cow_Art, Thursday, August 8, 2024 5:38 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've been trying to get Dems to do this for decades. "Hi, we're the Republicans and we think government should stay out of your life. Well except for deeply personal decisions regarding childbearing, enjoying some cannabis, or reading any book at a library that we don't like, for that and more we might throw you into prison"

Completely deranged.

Watters: Here’s twitchy Tim on stage, waving profusely in a very unsettling manner. Men should not move this way. It’s not the way we move. pic.twitter.com/hhMMBhl7L5

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 8, 2024

Turns out you just need a guy who reminds you of your nicest neighbor growing up to completely break the reactionary political sphere.

Trump’s original bit was on the water efficient toilets, but he kept doing the “we’re having trouble flushing — not me, you. because they took away the good toilets” variation. Which gets the laughs, but it’s also funny that audiences were like “yeah I keep clogging my toilet!”

Trump's campaign strategists are trying the usual conservative move of co-opting whatever progressive messaging is working. that 'twitchy tim' gambit is their feeble attempt to co-opt "weird", but it looks more like they're breaking into a flopsweat.

Trump’s original bit was on the water efficient toilets, but he kept doing the “we’re having trouble flushing — not me, you. because they took away the good toilets” variation. Which gets the laughs, but it’s also funny that audiences were like “yeah I keep clogging my toilet!”

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, August 8, 2024 5:33 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

good reminder of how much of Trump's shtick is just "I'm better than all you swine", allows him to get away with shit that people like Vance or DeSantis or Cruz absolutely could not, take that away and you basically get like, Marjorie Taylor Greene. idk how they're gonna replace that once he's out of the picture

I hope they jump on the 'tampon tim' thing which will strongly engender them to female voters everywhere

theyre really going with the ol you think were weird well show you weird

this election season, we're all gonna found out what that weird shit on that guy's finger is

dem toilet

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I don't understand the length thing, you should be able to poop as long as you need

Don’t be an oaf, pinch the loaf.

i'm having trouble articulating this but when biden dropped out of the race it was like a fever broke and people saw, for just a glimmer of a moment, that life was not some crushing inevitability, that everything was not just on rails and trundling towards yet another dispiriting conclusion. all the smart people said this sort of thing just wasn't done, it was unprecedented, and that's why it would never happen, and they were all wrong. (i was one of these people briefly.) they said the incumbency was so valuable that etc etc. - all the conventional wisdom - and none of it mattered, he dropped out anyway, and it's like we've shaken off a nightmare, and what's funny about it is that trump is part of that nightmare. the little window of insight that conventional wisdom isn't fate, that things can change, feels like absolute kryptonite to trump, who maybe at one time represented insurgency and change but who now feels like he's woven into same fabric that's just been cast aside

and maybe this is a reach but fox news too - it all feels like it's just been revealed to all be cardboard scenery and props

great posts, Tracer Hand

young people are often of outsized importance as political activists when it comes to running successful campaigns

Average graduation year of Kamala HW staff is... 2020

* HQ

Tracer OTM

2020 grad date was for five members of the social team per the tweet upthread fwiw xp

it's a nice moment for sure and fun to feel the energy and optimism, but i think maybe it's easy to overlook the continuum underneath it, the fact that fundamental conditions are basically the same, or that change happens glacially and not as the intended outcome of willful events. that being said i feel like there are a few real openings appearing but like it's too early to tell how far they go. not to get all galaxy brained or anything.

agreed

Sometimes change happens as the intended outcome of willful events....

would be nice to see the particular bozos were currently dealing with get wrecked tho

I hope they jump on the 'tampon tim' thing which will strongly engender them to female voters everywhere

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 8 August 2024 22:42 (thirty-five minutes ago) link

If he can help to stop the red wave then he should wear this nickname like a badge of honour IMO

:D

Re earlier Joe Rogan discussion

Thought this was one of the smartest points that @ezraklein made in his interview with @IChotiner five weeks ago, and it’s been completely vindicated pic.twitter.com/CYdI1oxf27

— Robinson Meyer (@robinsonmeyer) August 8, 2024

Found the lead for Heat 2:

Kamala Harris approaching reporters: Whatcha got? pic.twitter.com/baE1mFIYar

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 8, 2024

Pure Tim Heidecker:

Trump: It's possible that I won't do as well with Black women. White males way up. White males have gone through the roof. White males way up. pic.twitter.com/lPmVPjq7vF

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 8, 2024

You’d think, given that he sounds like he packed a kilo of cocaine into his sinus cavities before the presser, that he’d have been able to muster just a little bit of energy there. Cripes. Although it sounds like he’s really into white males, so.

he meant "white rails"

White Jails, Black Jobs

Harris takin' questions from the press!

Reporter: Can you comment on some the criticisms he made today?

VP: I was too busy talking to voters. I didn’t hear them. pic.twitter.com/8iERvbFNN6

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 8, 2024

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER 1: Why do you think he pulled out of the debate with you?
HARRIS: I am beyond trying to speculate about how he thinks.

UR2: Can you comment on some of his other criticisms? He made a whole litany of them today... [DO YOU FUCKING SEE?]
HARRIS: I was too busy talking to voters. I didn't hear 'em.

good stuff not too bad

it's a nice moment for sure and fun to feel the energy and optimism, but i think maybe it's easy to overlook the continuum underneath it, the fact that fundamental conditions are basically the same, or that change happens glacially and not as the intended outcome of willful events. that being said i feel like there are a few real openings appearing but like it's too early to tell how far they go. not to get all galaxy brained or anything.

― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, August 8, 2024 6:20 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

sometimes changes happens pretty fast though! I mean I do remember when Trump really started winning primaries, and then it was just him and Cruz, and when it became clear that Cruz wasn't coming back there was this feeling of "holy shit, we're actually doing this", and it seemed politics in general just turned really toxic and nasty overnight. Trump losing won't undo that but I think the quicker his base turns on him the quicker we can get to a place in US Politics that doesn't completely fucking suck