US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

As someone who is forced to watch Fox News regularly, no, no you don't

don't know much about you caek but I can't imagine you watching Fox News

Cop Rock, then

I would rather watch Fox News any day of the week—at least it has comic/shock value.

I find NPR insufferable not just for its patronizing pseudo/neolib politics and desperate both-sides-ing but as w/ caek its relentlessly beige tone and production values...I listen to a minute and feel like my phone has died and I’m stuck in an dentist’s waiting room with the last six issues of Time magazine

At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas. Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them MUCH WORSE. Not fair to homeowners, I may END!

Great timing with this one fuck was

Is it fashionable to dislike NPR?🕸

Hickenlooper wins the primary, will take on Gardner in CO

"I find NPR insufferable not just for its patronizing pseudo/neolib politics and desperate both-sides-ing but as w/ caek its relentlessly beige tone and production values"

right

"I may END!" for July thread title.

This motherfucker has only ever studied a McDonald’s menu

coulda sang the mcdonald's menu song in the 80s

Jfc at that tweet about AFFH and FHA.

he is such a dumbass and such a piece of shit aaaaaaaaaa

I googled AFFH and one of the first returns was some vile trash from earlier today in national review, which presumably was turned into a Fox News segment that became a meme that trump halfway understood

I like NPR

He retweeted a guy who calls himself "Trump's Black Grandson".

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrMichaelBurkes

what does this sentence mean

I know better than anyone that my friend Roger Ailes died 3 years ago, just look at what happened to @FoxNews. We all miss Roger!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

he's saying he killed Roger Ailes and y'all better watch out

"I Killed Ailes With My Mushroom Dick"

xps - It means that no matter how often FOX News tongues his taint, he still can find minor things that sound to him like mild criticism, so that his immediate instinct is to whine about it in the hope they cringe before him so submissively it will make up for it.

i thought i knew roger ailes 3 years ago

but trump knows better than anyone

yea I think I kinda understood the idea of the tweet but, like....that first sentence is something bad AI would write

NPR is a lot more than just measured daily news political coverage. My favorite show was always "1A" with Joshua Johnson. He got poached for something on MSNBC, but he's being replaced by Jenn White, an excellent mainstay of Chicago's public radio.

this rules because 200k people get healthcare and it puts healthcare in the news

🚨 Medicaid expansion referendum SUCCEEDS in Oklahoma.

IT'S DONE, @TheOklahoman_ confirms.

200,000 people will gain access to public insurance in one of the country's most conservative states.

— Taniel (@Taniel) July 1, 2020

FINALLY

(not naive enough to think it will be a big story on its own but there's a developing drumbeat of healthcare stuff)

pretty incredibly and damning follow-up to that by @taniel:

Oklahoma is the 5th state to adopt Medicaid expansion via popular initiative. This one is a constitutional amendment too.

Maine (2017). Idaho, Utah, Nebraska (2018). Oklahoma 2020.

In all those states, GOP leaders blocked the expansion, but immense organizing finally expanded.

— Taniel (@Taniel) July 1, 2020

they're trying their best to kill people, but slowly over the course of several years people in some of the most conservative states in the country are forcing them to do it. i have no idea what is keeping the state legislators from proactively doing it other than denial

they hate obama seriously that is all it is

Any popular expansion of the social safety net is a tax they can’t repeal, that’s even more crucial than Obama’s association with it

i know, but...even their own very conservative constituents are begging them to expand it! at some point, doesn't the weird logic have to swing back around? like, they hated obama and the expansion of the social safety net, ultimately, because they thought voters hated it. but when conservative voters across the country force them to confront the idea that maybe things have changed...why not get out ahead of it and show that they can change their minds too?

i should be a republican consultant. "you guys have to stop being such dicks, is the thing"

in other news,

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/06/30/colorado-rep-scott-tipton-ousted-in-primary-by-gun-rights-activist/

https://i.imgur.com/Q94LHxh.png

Boebert owns a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where the staff openly carry firearms, according to The Colorado Sun. She also grabbed headlines last year when she confronted Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke over his support for an assault weapons ban and his comment in a debate, “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”

“I am here to say: Hell, no, you’re not,” Boebert told the former Texas congressman, The Denver Post reported. O’Rourke dropped out of the race in November.

Boebert has also been associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, which centers on the belief that Trump is fighting a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state.”

According to Colorado Public Radio, Boebert appeared on a “Q-friendly web show” and said, “I hope that this is real. It only means America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values and that’s what I am for.”

I am here to say: Hell, no, you’re not,” Boebert told the former Texas congressman, The Denver Post reported. O’Rourke dropped out of the race in November.

i like the implication there's a causal relationship between these two sentences.

It’s ok, big fella. We know, we know. You got confused. Go to bed. See you in the morning. https://t.co/mheyiM4AmJ

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) July 1, 2020

"Rifle, Colorado" for July Thread Title.

i like the implication there's a causal relationship between these two sentences. Yeah I spotted that, that was nasty.

jeff sessions' obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/magazine/jeff-sessions.html

I made it half way then may have said "who the fuck cares?" out loud. Goodbye, one of five free Times articles!

caek otm re NPR

I was a booster and frequent contributor for years but it became increasingly difficult for me to sit through oh about 4 years ago.

tbf to NPR I don’t know that they changed much, if at all.

I should put this entire NPR conversation on an "examples of white privilege" thread

SoORRY JOSH!

That article was the Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Islands of Dark Soups of political profiles

No typos there, look up the real games

really goin after that black vote

NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

....horrible BLM chant, “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon”. Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

ugh fuck this dude forever

Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon = new thread title

WNYC's local programming is even worse; the midday talk show has a moment of meditation, which at least is a break from the happy-talk host. Bring back [redacted]. xxxxxp

Denigrating This Luxury Avenue

xp since we loves the throes of wite gilt on the npr ilx-psych front-- i stopped listening to npr about 2012-14 ish when more podlike shit became tolerably listenable. i try to get reliable reporting stuff elsewhere. on the downside from this, i now get more commentary shit from EVERYWHERE, and less good news stuff that i'd like, but every half-listen attempt at npr since 2016 has been pretty infuriating. am i gonna listen to inskeep passively swallow bill barr nonsense without serious-ass followups on the regular? no. (i regretted listening to that one).

wow, rifle makes the pages. this front ranger looks at rifle and the hickenlooper candidacy and cynically thinks "oh, you two are fucking secretly made for each other. maybe sen hick will try to shovel $$$$$ at shale-oil again, to make silt happen."

I don't understand why anyone listens to the radio.