US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

"Delete your account!"

"Uh, OK, thanks..."

Also, he'll be back in 2 and 2.

This is an Auto Show-style demonstration, and people do not wash their hands at Auto Shows.

there’s a metaphor here alright but it’s not what they think it is https://t.co/DVCkTIEqMZ

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 16, 2020

Levels of Thought is one of my fax RZA tracks iirc

Trump promises that over the next 8 weeks "you will see levels of detail and you will see levels of thought that a lot of people believed very strongly we didn't have in this country" pic.twitter.com/UN7VL5Gzwg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 16, 2020

canny politics saving the details and thoughts to the final two months of the term

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-hebebpywzr/images/stencil/original/uploaded_images/truman-thumbnail.jpg?t=1532732403

what a fucking idiot.

he’s got a secret plan to end the war

...on Christmas!

Georgia Gov. suing Keisha Lance Bottoms (atlanta mayor) for her mask mandate. unreal.

good luck with that one, bitchnose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/16/how-joe-biden-is-moving-left-while-still-being-seen-moderate/

“It’s like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay,” said attorney Juan Chavez, director of the civil rights project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center. [...] “It sounds more like abduction. It sounds like they’re kidnapping people off the streets.”

this is so enormously fucked up

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/

So is this mainly an intimidation technique?

I mean not for the people actually getting thrown into vans

but yeah I guess so

Hate to say it but the 2nd amendment is starting to look appealing.

shooting federal officers probably wouldn't improve the situation or get us any closer to racial justice

for people worried about ilhan omar see the final item here https://primaries.substack.com/p/issue-73. she's drowning in endorsements (including from pelosi) and she's up 66/29 in her internal polling.

I believe Omar to be good at and have hired people good at maths

Portland shit is legit fucked up and our House committees need to start addressing

our shit mayor here could lift a damn finger rather than just submit to the fucking feds just this man's opinion

"It’s true that our health care system was not designed to handle a pandemic, but it would be more accurate to say that our system was not designed to provide health care."https://t.co/AepGye5OD9

— Laura Marsh (@lmlauramarsh) July 17, 2020

BREAKING: Jamaal Bowman wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New York’s 16th congressional district, defeating 16-term U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel. #APracecall at 11:09 a.m. EDT. #Election2020 #NYprimary https://t.co/n6R7Rw3aYT

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 17, 2020

Nice

:D

Pelosi next

https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/37695-secret-white-house-calls-helped-funnel-tax-money-to-trump-preachers

Flag and god, flag and god

as good as the guy going against Pelosi seems, I don't think he's going to win.

looool

The difficulty of covid-era Trump messaging summed up perfectly in Pence's kicker:

"With four more years of Donald Trump in the White House, we'll make America great again... again."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 17, 2020

Is that a threat?

We'll keep making America great again until you are all dead

No surprise but White House Blocks CDC CDC director from appearing before Congress. What could go wrong?

Are we talking about this anywhere? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html

Read about half of it. Not buying most of it.

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is investigating campaign spending, Parscale contracts https://t.co/FenNuSzuwU

— Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco) July 17, 2020

lol

when did businessinsider.com get paywalled?

Are we talking about this anywhere? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 17, 2020 2:56 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

a lot of this is in this tweet btw

Here's a quick pass of my positive and negative surprises from the last five years. I think on net I'm a little more optimistic about the future than I was in 2015 but not by very much. pic.twitter.com/Zp9gbv9x8V

— (((David Shor))) (@davidshor) May 8, 2020

Grifting? In the Trump campaign? wig flipped

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Friday he would not close gyms in his state during the COVID-19 pandemic because people who go to gyms are “in good shape.” “If you’re in good shape, you have a very, very low likelihood of ending up in significant condition as a result of the coronavirus,” said DeSantis.

Oh Lord, Trump gets momentarily drawn out of the toady/yes-man bubble by Fox News of all places and lord it got weird. pic.twitter.com/1XiBCosMmH

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 17, 2020

xxp who grifts the grifters?

xp but according to Trump, exercise is bad for you and “drains” the body like a battery

David Shor got famous by getting fired. In late May, amid widespread protests over George Floyd’s murder, the 28-year-old data scientist tweeted out a study that found nonviolent demonstrations were more effective than “riots” at pushing public opinion and voter behavior leftward in 1968.

Cancelled, not-cancelled, whatever, it should be embarrassing for one of these political operative kid geniuses to tweet something like that that's so 'duh.'

fwiw he does have a more sophisticated take that is > 280 characters if you keep reading

Anyone talking shit on riots can kiss my left one, data or no data. I'm glad he got fired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvG3is7Bm1w

don't agree with all of it but I did enjoy reading that tweet about positive/negative surprises since 2015

Anyone talking shit on riots can kiss my left one, data or no data. I'm glad he got fired

I mean, do you think the Princeton professor who wrote the paper should get fired?

Writing a paper that explains voting phenomena based on material events surrounding elections seems pretty fair. Citing that paper in an attempt to undercut and diminish the justified rage of people in a different time period, who are protesting many of the same issues as they were half a century ago, seems pretty fucked to me.

Writing a paper that explains voting phenomena based on material events surrounding elections seems pretty fair. Citing that paper in an attempt to undercut and diminish the justified rage of people in a different time period, who are protesting many of the same issues as they were half a century ago, seems pretty fucked to me.