US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

Alfred you think Gillum's gonna do the thing or nah

couple polls showing him +1 to +5 but anything under +10 makes me nervous

he's consistently lead, by small and large margins, since winning the nomination in August

I won't deny that Florida electing its first Democratic governor since 1994 would exhilarate me more than anything since 2008, despite my lack of illusions.

if bolsonaro wins in brazil today, does anyone think that trump is NOT going to praise him as a strong leader?

re. trump, imagine the worst thing you can imagine him doing. he will do that, or worse.

I used to be the White House lawyer responsible for the Hatch Act. If any taxpayer funds were used to pay for this event, given what Trump said, that would be illegal. Press should demand to know if campaigns will reimburse taxpayers for this event. https://t.co/HK8vZRItLq

— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) October 28, 2018

THIS will be the thing that brings trump down!

https://i.imgur.com/twsE1BF.gif

meanwhile, once trump learned about a new potential enemy that had a pipe bomb last week, he decided he needed to do some research and make clear where he stands

Just watched Wacky Tom Steyer, who I have not seen in action before, be interviewed by @jaketapper. He comes off as a crazed & stumbling lunatic who should be running out of money pretty soon. As bad as their field is, if he is running for President, the Dems will eat him alive!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28, 2018

Projecting out the ass

I thought I understood what hatred for a human being was before, but it turns out that I really didn't. It's so deep and consuming and multifaceted, and it's sometimes triggered by the simplest things. Like for example an umbrella carelessly left outside an airplane door. Such an utterly contemptible person, of no worth whatsoever and a complete burden on everyone.

― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Sunday, October 28, 2018 10:53 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ this

― Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:45 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ this

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:54 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah.

He genuinely doesn't know how to open or close umbrellas imo

He should ask for help then

The Baltimore Sun nails it sometimes.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bs-md-rodricks-better-country-1028-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3wCOu_BjD6Nif1cEfhANHy8k-iB2uqAgoZ_llhexHD2sZD8uoHijMkbHA

Borgby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is not immigration, it is invasion. #GOPDebate

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) August 6, 2015

I agree Treeship

the umbrella thing is a perfect trumpism because it could be a sign of brain leakage or he could just be THAT lazy, or both, and it's impossible to tell which (nor should anyone care to distinguish)

We need an investigation into how many millions of dollars are being wasted on discarded umbrellas.

I would bet a sizable sum of money that toilets used by Donald Trump almost always have to be flushed by someone else. He gives no thought to the impact his existence has upon others. He's the concept of manspread taken to its horrifying logical endpoint and given human-esque form.

Isnt Bobby Jindal a fucking immigrant himself?

Yes but he’s fully assimilated with the Seminole nation, obv

(he’s not)

(erm, not an immigrant.)

i don't understand what "non-assimilated" immigrants he is talking about. the talking point is xenophobic obviously but it also doesn't represent anything i am seeing. latin american commuities in america aren't these hostile enclaves or something

Jindal is first generation. His mother was pregnant w/him when his parents immigrated.

Oh my fucking God Brazil

yeah it's BAD.

yeah, it's really horrifying

210 million people

and so much of the amazon :/

i hope his regime doesn't turn out as bad as it looks like it's going to be

kind of a futile thing to say i guess

uh

the umbrella thing is a perfect trumpism because it could be a sign of brain leakage or he could just be THAT lazy, or both, and it's impossible to tell which (nor should anyone care to distinguish)

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Sunday, October 28, 2018 4:39 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly think it was because he couldn't figure out how to close without getting his hair wet

and yeah, this brazil news seems very, very bad.

I feel a weird connection to the Brazilian election because a few years ago I found myself working on a Lava Jato/Petrobras-related lawsuit, a miniscule one in the scheme of that whole scandal, but nonetheless the more I learned about it I found myself thinking "Ok, this kickback scheme was kind of fucked up but the way it's being used against the PT is far far worse and more dangerous." And here we are.

i don't know. couldn't he have stepped inside the plane doorway, leaving the umbrella still outside, and closed the thing like any decent human being who didn't inherit $400,000,000?

xpost

people i know in brazil are freaking. the military dictatorship is not a very distant memory.

do they have a strong constitution that could rein him in or is the path pretty open for bolsonaro to just re-establish the dictatorship?

somehow i saw "assassination" in that Jindal tweet and i'll stop right there

Bolsonaro is scary, thats a comprehensive margin.

I can live with the umbrella thing, umbrellas are dicks, cant blame a man for say ah fuck it sometimes. he did try, theres a president in there somewhere

the minion that followed though? who does he think he is, didn't even try. this administration is rotten to the core

i thought this thread was excellent. not inspiring, depressing. but excellent

The idea of people who subscribe to a moral universe that is truly counter to our own, that considers what we believe to be good as evil and what we consider as evil to be good, is so foreign to many of us as to be incomprehensible.

— Ari Ne'eman (@aneeman) October 28, 2018

(that's just one tweet; read the rest of the thread to see what i mean. i guess i don't know how to link entire tweet storms)

eh, better off not linking tweet storms. would get unwieldy.

i have class this morning and i prepared a test review, but it seems shitty to do that given what's happened the last few days. i think i'll figure this out at about 8 AM.

xp yeah that's good but I think this should be obvious to most people by now. can't stress enough that both the MAGABomber and the synagogue shooter were repeating Trump talking points verbatim. 46% of the country voted for this man and 43% approve of the job he's doing.

speaking of, this here feels like literal fascism:

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018

I'm right on the cusp of explicitly endorsing a very particular form of extralegal political action at this point. Enough is fucking enough.

Like, how is that tweet anything less than a million-decibel dogwhistle saying, 'hey, will somebody with better bombmaking acumen go finish the job at CNN?'

what the mother fuck. that tweet only has credibility if he's talking about FOX news

“The true enemy of the people”

i thought this thread was excellent. not inspiring, depressing. but excellent

The idea of people who subscribe to a moral universe that is truly counter to our own, that considers what we believe to be good as evil and what we consider as evil to be good, is so foreign to many of us as to be incomprehensible.
— Ari Ne'eman (@aneeman) October 28, 2018
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 29 October 2018 05:54 (eight hours ago) Permalink

I think his take is subtly wrong and dangerous. Yes, there are people in the world who genuinely believe things we find repugnant and have reasoned and "informed" justifications for those beliefs, and will not be convinced by "facts." At the same time, most people who vote at all just walk into a booth and pull a lever. Many of them are not all that politically engaged and not what you would call a "supporter" of another candidate, let alone hardcore subscribers to an ideology. Conveniently, that take fits very well with the Israeli narrative of its struggle with the Palestinians -- there are people on the other side of the wall who believe everything the opposite of what we believe, they love violence more than their own children, they want to see all Jews dead, they celebrate death etc. etc. And sure enough, a little ways down, I found a RT of a tweet to that effect about Hamas (which is not, in itself, a good organization, but tends to just become a stand-in for the Palestinians at large in Israeli discourse).

Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018

what, are there white people in there