US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

wasn't their a hitler's birthday one?

not a hitler's birthday mypillow sale day, but some code for bikers or whatever.

hitlers birthday 420 lol

well now i feel fucking horrible about these 10 overpriced mypillows

RFK Jr. tweeted those numbers in a complaint about lack of secret service protection last year.

"Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request."

oh, I see it was a fake rfk jr account...

We finally found the solution to a great night's sleep!

“doc i’m having a hard time diffusing my racist fascist aggression.”

“have you tried pillow fights?”

Schlafensraum

*sigh* my cousin started a pillow fighting league in...florida.

Didn't know mypillow guy looks so much like De Niro in King Of Comedy.

“Pillow Fighters of Florida” a great track from one of Pollard’s side projects imho

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/21/brian-fallon-harris-campaign-predictions-00180331

Fallon also suggested that Harris might make some moves in a bid to cut into Trump’s strong support among young men.

“Without previewing any particular shows or outlets that we may end up appearing on,” Fallon said, “I think it’s fair to say that we are going to take an all-of-the-above approach to her appearances, because we think that there’s all kinds of different audiences that are very open to learning more about her.”

so she's gonna go on Hot Ones after all?

Jamelle Bouie was thinking Rogan would actually be a good choice, all softball questions and it’s loose.

Brian Fallow’s Safari Planet

Hot Ones has jumped the shark. David Beckham? Donald Duck!!?? Shane Gillis?? Will Smith?? and you can't ever bring up the slap? Getting a little Trumpy over there.

Kamala has to play slots with Vegas Matt. His star is on the rise and she can corner the hard to corner drunk stepfather vote!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kf_LIR5XW8

scott u know too many shows lol. maybe they are fake made-up shows.

anyhow i did appreciate this piece for addrwssing: trump- not a serious person vs: trump- existential threat to usa.

i mean it’s both (imho) and it’s so fucked that 48% of ppl are like “that’s my prez!” for the guy.

Rogan wouldn’t be softballs IMO, he’s too much of a nut. He wouldn’t be hostile necessarily but it would just be a bunch of questions about classroom litter boxes and and the need to arm chimpanzees with Uzis.

eww, i wouldn't want her in the same room with rogan. yuck. to hell with him. there are lots of places she can talk. i still think she should go on The View. lots of red state women watch it.

Until recently I had no idea Theo Von even had a life post-MTV but I think he could do a better interview with Harris than Rogan for sure. She should also talk to Charlamagne tha God again. They had a contentious interview a while ago but he's endorsed her. I think a second round could really be something.

So many local elections matter too

Dems had a 6-1 majority on North Carolina supreme court just four years ago, but they lost 5 consecutive races in 2020 & 2022 & the GOP ended up with a 5-2 majority.

Dems really want to stop bleeding this fall. If Robinson harms the GOP enough to affect that, that's huge too.

— Taniel (@Taniel) September 21, 2024

https://www.newsweek.com/north-carolina-newspapers-rebuke-mark-robinson-scandal-1957314

"Theo Von even had a life post-MTV but I think he could do a better interview with Harris than Rogan for sure. She should also talk to Charlamagne tha God"

she should try and find people to talk to who are really smart and cool instead. both those people think they are god's gift to the internet and they are both wrong.

a roundtable with smart newspeople would be something i'd like to see. abby phillip, christiane amanpour, laura coates, uhhh, some msnb people. yamiche alcindor. amna nawaz. laura barron-lopez. you know, smart people. and just let them talk. maybe some smart magazine/newspaper people? i don't know who those people are though. alexandra petri!

talk WITH kamala. in case that wasn't clear.

She should send demure nudes to Olivia Nuzzi

“Yet his question—a rip-off of a line used by Ronald Reagan in 1980—assumed many voters would not recall the horror of 2020; he was encouraging them to focus on the sentiments (and high prices) of now, not the mortal dread of then. And to regain the White House, Trump needs to cover not just the pandemic but a lot else with the mists of time, including his attempt to overturn an election and his incitement of January 6’s insurrectionist attack, a trade war with China that cost the US hundreds of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in GDP, his love affairs with dictators like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, his broken vows to boost infrastructure and to replace the Affordable Care Act with a better and cheaper program, his two impeachments, and nine years of chaos, scandals, and mean-spirited, racist, and ignorant remarks.

That’s a lot of forgetting to rely upon, and the fact that Trump still has a good shot at victory is a sign that he can successfully stuff much of this history into the mental recesses of the electorate. Fortunately for him, the nature of human memory plays to Trump’s favor—even, perhaps especially, when it comes to a pandemic.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-pandemic-amnesia/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFcOKpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeSW3DB-uRE_6Wy-b7Vk7FTApkOfqicBZ1kOwTLFTK0LJHglNp_MS-8_Yw_aem_eHXb605aaWvZSRNFm6vtLQ

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So... it's obviously intentional. I get that.

But when they do the 1488 thing, are they saying "I'm down with nazis!" or "LOL loser libs will get mad!"

Is there a special pillow market for nazis? Is it trolling or showing allegiance?

boffum

its hard to tell, trolling is so engrained in their DNA

are they saying "I'm down with nazis!" or "LOL loser libs will get mad!"

It's the second thing. "LOL those stuffed shirt liberals get SO TRIGGERED when you say Nazi stuff, can't those squares just CHILL OUT! Not like us, WE DON'T CARE what the squares think." Basically the same as Sid Vicious's swastika T-shirt.

"it aint hard to tell"

nas

https://wondery.com/shows/pretty-sure-i-can-fly-with-johnny-knoxville-elna-baker/

Harris should go on Johnny Knoxville’s podcast. He’s probably a lib and he probably won’t make her shoot him with a Taser or anything these days.

Harris up 4 and 5 in a couple of new high quality national polls today but this was the bit that stood out to me

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysiafe3423w76elr4haecnjh/bafkreiadw66cmm5gbw2utuu5wf5wgiog4mtjfwcu274facrgtmy4bspqny@jpeg

imo the GOP has a problem in that everyone fucking hates them

yay capitalism!

The vertical symmetry of those poll results is almost too perfect.

project 2025 polling below socialism a sad day for america

kind of amazed how many people have heard of project 2025 enough to have an opinion either way.

I thought it was mostly politics-brained people.

I guess this explains why e.g. Walz is doing those "this carburetor has a manual, which reminds me I wanted to talk about the manual the GOP have for government" segues.

ha is he really

yeah dems dem leaning media have really been banging the drum re project 2025

Once a few celebrities latched onto it - one in particular, her name escapes me, not someone I’m super aware of, alas - it really took off. People KNOW now.

ha no I meant, is Tim Walz riffing on carburetors

During the debate, search queries about Project 2025 surged by approximately 900% compared to the period before the debate. Trending searches included “Project 2025 website,” “Project 2025 key points,” “Project 2025 summary,” and “What is Project 2025.” These queries trended in several states, with the highest activity coming from swing state Pennsylvania as well as Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Ohio.

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/september/abortion--immigration--and-project-2025-drove-online-topic-searc.html

yeah he said a clean air filter is a sign of a pure soul or something xp

Capitalism is doing well now, but I don't think it can keep up with Taylor's pace of output.

Like, when even was Capitalism's last charting single?

Project 2025 needs to drop an EP stat.

"ha no I meant, is Tim Walz riffing on carburetors"

i posted the ad on here. its good!

think hes been doing car maintenance videos for a while

Tim Walz, can you check under my hood