"The August 2020 US Politics Thread is highly thought of, but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That's all."

They had to blur out the right wings, iirc.

I hope after the election he can get back to finding a cure for Tilt Shift

that's a good and effective ad, I think. But also I can't believe that guy was Chief of Staff of anything, he looks 15.

Weird tic of mine but when I'm speaking to people with shifty eyes like that, it makes me very skeptical of whatever they're saying.

Amazing!! https://t.co/P5gep9YdxQ

— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) August 17, 2020

it makes me very skeptical of whatever they're saying

can you identify any statement he makes that you find difficult to believe is true or is your skepticism entirely untethered from anything he said?

he does look kinda shifty in this video

Weird tic of mine but when I'm speaking to people with shifty eyes like that, it makes me very skeptical of whatever they're saying.

that's how you can tell he's not singing the heart music

Echo and the Bunnymen?

DJP i have no opinion about whitman but ... did you work for her or something? you seem like a fan.

huh i saw that in twitters, not here, and my feeling was less "he's unserious and incompetent," more "he's a fucking monstrous undemocratic tyrant," but it's fine, they all true.

DJP i have no opinion about whitman but ... did you work for her or something? you seem like a fan.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)

when i was in middle school the way you got elected to class council was by giving out the best candy, whitman and her samplers makes her the only candidate to take that idea and run with it

Only because Fritz Haribo isn’t eligible for office.

is this the right thread for this?

The St. Louis couple who became famous after wielding guns at protesters on their private street will be part of the largely digital Republican Convention next week, party officials said this week.

The couple -- Patricia and Mark McCloskey -- will appear on behalf of the president during the virtual weeklong event and express their support for him, the officials said.

Every generation gets its own Joe the Plumber

i was happier that I forgot they existed

only wish I woulda told them
in the Biden years

Seems bad! (Yeah I know this isn’t a surprise to any of you).

What Trump is saying here is that he modified an important US foreign policy stance toward Israel in service of an end-of-days biblical prophecy credited by Evangelical Christians that features the great battle at Armageddon and ends with the Jewish people in hell. https://t.co/iDKbVTkNHk

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 17, 2020

XP Ken Bone just bought a gun.

what did his daddy do

I think the convention and its branding/messaging is done Th big relatively few people care about. Ditto Joe Biden in general. The election is going to come down to how many people are tired enough of Trump’s shit that they’ll make the effort to vote. Regardless of whether those are people who voted for him in 2016 or who didn’t vote at all (though my guess is the latter group will be far larger) and regardless of whether they’re energized by the Democratic Party or whether they just want a a president they don’t have to worry about every eight minutes.

Goddamnit I meant this for the dem direction thread

Because Biden is fairly certain not to announce any big dramatic policy initiatives between now and November, unless his position in the polling starts to turn seriously bad, I agree that his announcement of Harris as VP is likely to be the final piece of whatever branding/messaging we'll see out of his campaign.

I'm not sure how fiery Harris will be on the hustings, either. I anticipate all the appeals to high emotion will be coming out of the Trump campaign and Biden/Harris will stick to relatively bland pronouncements about how dangerous Trump is to 'our democracy', which are about as pointed as a dishrag. Mainly, they'll let this be a referendum election on Trump and be satisfied with that approach.

SAVE THE POST OFFICE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2020

oops, meant to hide that behind the new feature

I'm still getting emails from the Trump campaign, and I just got the saddest one yet - it was allegedly sent by Diamond and Silk.

Bob,

President Trump is our only hope.

The future of our Country is at stake and we’ve come too far under this President to let things go back to the way they were before. Do you REALLY want another Obama? We didn’t think so!

Because of YOUR support, this movement CRUSHED Sleepy Joe and the Radical Democrats by $25 MILLION in July, and now we need to go even BIGGER in August if we’re going to do it again.

We’re already halfway through the month, and President Trump asked us to reach out to make sure we stay on track.

This is SO important that he’s activated a 600%-MATCH for the NEXT HOUR.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT HOUR to help CRUSH our Mid-Month Goal and your gift will be 600%-MATCHED.

DEADLINE: 1 HOUR

CONTRIBUTE $5 = $35

CONTRIBUTE $20 = $140

CONTRIBUTE $15 = $105

CONTRIBUTE $10 = $70

CONTRIBUTE $5 = $35

CONTRIBUTE ANY AMOUNT

If you care about our children and their future, then it’s time to step up and add your name to the list of mid-month contributors who helped us CRUSH our goal.

President Trump asked us to let him know who contributes to this email. We hope we can include your name.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT RIGHT NOW for a 600%-MATCH and to get on the list of supporters we give the President.

Thank you,

Diamond and Silk

Can't hide Twitter or YouTube embeds

xp

all of it. the world is now out of cocaine. https://t.co/dw1uOtLajX

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 18, 2020

Speakers at the RNC:

6-7: Scott Baio
7-7:30: The St Louis Gun Couple
7:30-8:30: MyPillow Guy
8:30-9:00: 1/4 of the original Marshall Tucker Band plays
9:00-10:00 (keynote): Robosaurus
Afterparty: Curt Schilling reads Ayn Rand

— Clue Heywood (@ClueHeywood) August 18, 2020

overnight: live shot of Clint Eastwood's chair from 2016

That would probably be more entertaining than the DNC line up

xp

dig Marshall Tucker

Sanders' speech last night was awesome btw.

For dumb reasons i had to miss Sanders after hearing the likes of Klobuchar. Link?

lol I turned on the convention to see the Bernie speech and Klobbo was onscreen laughing at at some joke in her head

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/08/17/bernie-sanders-dnc-2020-speech-full-video-vpx.cnn

lol

BREAKING NEWS: Brock Turner, Stanford Student Athlete Who Assaulted Unconscious Woman, Will Speak At RNC.

— Jena Friedman (@JenaFriedman) August 18, 2020

zero clue which of these RNC speakers are real or not, but I believe that smirking MAGA teen from Kentucky is scheduled?

That's the craziest thing, I'm not sure who they could announce that would make me question the plausibility.

Hitler hologram?

Dubya.

where's the "Get a Brain, Morans" sign guy these days?

Herman Cain

St. Louis gun couple are actually scheduled to speak.

or maybe just hired for security

Wednesday August 26
7:30 Bernie Goetz
8:00 George Zimmerman
8:15 John Wick
8:30 Clive Bundy
8:45 Charles Bronson, Jr.

John Wick is a Catholic Worker House volunteer.

list of comedy criminals omits Biden

it's a big tent xp