US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

The Democratic Party has finally begun to fight dirty like a real Resistance™ movement...against Bernie Sanders.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) February 3, 2020

good morning to Bernie Sanders and to everyone who plans on voting for Bernie Sanders

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) February 3, 2020

I just realized that the Democratic SOTU response is being broadcast from the high school three blocks from my house.

Is the mascot delivering it?

Herr Arschgeige's Super Bowl gaffe was mildly amusing, but the number of people who have emerged that thought the KC in both states is the same city are much more rewarding.

I never thought the leopards would eat my face

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/its-sickening-2016-trump-voter-turns-on-the-president-after-his-wife-gets-deported-to-mexico/

things only matter when they happen to me personally. never change, conservatives.

I saw my first Trump campaign ad during the Super Bowl, with a weeping older black woman thanking Trump for releasing her from prison. He's a regular progressive hero!

i thought that commercial was v strong

alice marie johnson, that is. It is a good ad, just not for Trump. I wonder where AMJ actually stands on this election?

the number of people who have emerged that thought the KC in both states is the same city are much more rewarding.

They're not legally the same city, but they are physically, so it's a reasonable way for non-residents to think of 'em. It's cute and fun that two states share a city!

I mean purely legally, in this case. though i'm aware they're both part of the same metropolitan area

They're not legally the same city, but they are physically

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81TGiXq4iRL.jpg

nothing like a good 'love child' blurb

I've found they're never quite as good.

lol nothing matters

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump's job approval rating has risen to 49%, his highest in Gallup polling since he took office in 2017.

The new poll finds 50% of Americans disapproving of Trump, leaving just 1% expressing no opinion. The average percentage not having an opinion on Trump has been 5% throughout his presidency.

Trump's approval rating has risen because of higher ratings among both Republicans and independents. His 94% approval rating among Republicans is up six percentage points from early January and is three points higher than his previous best among his fellow partisans. The 42% approval rating among independents is up five points, and ties three other polls as his best among that group. Democratic approval is 7%, down slightly from 10%.

The 87-point gap between Republican and Democratic approval in the current poll is the largest Gallup has measured in any Gallup poll to date, surpassing the prior record, held by Trump and Barack Obama, by one point.

The Jan. 16-29 poll was conducted in the midst of the Senate impeachment trial that will likely result in the president's acquittal. The poll finds 52% of Americans in favor of acquitting Trump and 46% in favor of convicting and removing him from office.

In addition to possibly reflecting sentiment regarding his impeachment, Trump's increased approval rating may also result from other issues, including:

The recent military action in Iran. More Americans in the new poll approve (53%) than disapprove (45%) of the U.S. military action that resulted in the death of a leading Iranian military general. Iran retaliated but, despite fears of escalation, no further military action has been taken by either side.
Foreign trade. During the poll's field period, Trump also signed the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The economy. Americans' confidence in the economy is higher than at any point in the past two decades. Similarly, national satisfaction is the highest in nearly 15 years.

Sixty-three percent of Americans now approve of the way Trump is handling the economy, up six points from the prior reading in November. It is the highest economic approval rating not only for Trump, but for any president since George W. Bush enjoyed stratospheric job approval ratings in the first few months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Trump's ratings for handling foreign affairs (47%) and foreign trade (50%) are also his best to date.

I guess Pelosi's political genius has peaked

the rest of the article goes on to say that the gop is more popular than it's been since 2005, it's very encouraging

I maintain my belief that a disproportionate number of people just want to be dead and are willing to do whatever they can to hasten that without having to take any direct + immediate action toward that end.

i still take 538's word for this, which shows his approval ticking upward but he's still around 43-44%

which fwiw is higher than he’s been since winter of 2017

Yea, never overreact to one poll. Gallup also skews right, though 49% is much higher than he's been in a while.

Also Trump has had several temporary bumps that never last, much as his dips don't last

Also the poll ran from 1/16 - 1/29. Polls ran only last week by other pollsters look quite diff

I think the lesson here is that if he reins it in just a touch and tries flying under the radar just a little bit (as he seems to have done at least since the impeachment trial started, at least relative to his usual tack of cranking it to eleven), he doesn't tend to stoke quite as much fervent hatred among his constituents. Thankfully, Trump has never met a lesson that he didn't stubbornly flip off.

Wait til he either debates or refuses to debate

I wish the fact that he's consistently his own worst enemy actually mattered. He could've come into office, put his head down, been an incurious bag of shit in relative privacy, and probably coasted to an easy second term. Instead, he spends four years being an amalgam of every intolerable human quality every single goddamn day and...isn't exactly a shut-out wrt reelection.

It's pretty depressing having the few ppl I know who are ""independents"" say "yeah Trump is obv a dumb piece of shit...but my 401k has been doing well"

Somebody kidnap all mutual fund managers for ten months

After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct & subversion of the Constitution.

None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it.

Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 4, 2020

good. she's awesome.

good decision. the right is going to lose their minds

of course, the proper way to register opposition to the president is to attend and shout "YOU LIE!" in the middle of the proceedings

aoc otm imo fwiw

Massive booing through the whole speech would be pretty cool.

aoc fucking rules

I'm thrilled she's not going, but not in a million years would I click and read the replies to that tweet.

Wise decision

how many times will OG say "socialism" tonight?

there's got to be at least a 50% chance that he has an utter brain meltdown and let's the speech devolve into nothing but ad libbed inanity

The other scenario is that he monotones his way through it like he's being forced to stay on message

Pressley out too:

Ayanna Pressley is boycotting SOTU pic.twitter.com/GknxipIgru

— Alana Abramson (@aabramson) February 4, 2020

Meanwhile, the Democrats' guests include Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee and one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims.

There's at least one other person blowing it off, but I can't remember who.

oh, you're probably thinking of people itt who will be proud to not watch this tonight. way more than one

as a true patriot i plan on facing the other way from the screen as the president talks

i, on the other hand, will finish a job interview, fix myself a manhattan and get ready to hatewatch

i’m going to see poppy

i mean, he's dead, so

sotu = shit on the union

don't look, at the pulpit
i excreted something, awfulonit

i'm really into the song puns today, what else do we got

did anyone notice a difference though?

lol exactly how can you tell

haha this is the ideal situation for a germophobe to be president in, i hope he never sleeps again

Someone put a Filet o Fish in his mouth.

hard to imagine anyone more susceptible than these Dem candidates right now, several flights a day with all the crowds and handshaking (+ their generally advanced age)

wonder what kind of campaigning we're going to have in three or four months

otoh maybe this will put an end to Trump rallies

lol this will absolutely not stop Trump rallies, half the people who attend those believe Coronavirus is a deep state plot to make the President look bad

maybe for the best, actually

anyway we're talking about a guy who runs screaming at the sight of blood and bathes in Purell, is *he* going to show up?

half the people who attend those believe Coronavirus is a deep state plot to make the President look bad a Mexican beer

https://nypost.com/2020/02/27/americans-are-avoiding-corona-beer-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-survey-finds/

There was also some confusion as 16 percent of those surveyed said they were not sure whether the virus is related to Corona beer.

and 15% were POSITIVE it was related to corona beer

this is like 2003 when no one would go to a Peter Sarsgaard movie

ah the New York Post

the drinking of Corona by South Florida tourists is a virus.

The spread of the coronavirus couldn’t have come at a worse time for Constellation, which is spending $40 million to launch its new Corona-branded hard seltzer.

Part of the promotion includes a sponsored tweet that has sparked criticism for using the phrase “coming ashore soon.”

https://presswatchers.org/2020/02/big-media-is-covering-up-trumps-terrifying-incoherence-in-a-time-of-emergency/

I don’t think it’s inevitable. It probably will. It possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, we’re totally prepared. We have the best people in the world. You see that from the study. We have the best prepared people, the best people in the world. Congress is willing to give us much more than we’re even asking for. That’s nice for a change. But we are totally ready, willing, and able to — it’s a term that we use, it’s “ready, willing, and able.” It’s going to be very well under control. Now, it may get bigger. It may get a little bigger. It may not get bigger at all. We’ll see what happens. But regardless of what happens, we’re totally prepared... View this the same as the flu. When somebody sneezes, I mean, I try and bail out as much as possible when there’s sneezing. I had a man come up to me a week ago, I hadn’t seen him in a long time, and I said, “How you doing?” He said, “Fine, fine,” he hugged me, kissed me. I said, “Are you well?” He says “No.” He said, “I have the worst fever and the worst flu.” And he’s hugging and kissing me. So I said, excuse me, I went out and started washing my hands. So you have to do that.

and I said, “How you doing?” He said, “Fine, fine, sir” he hugged me, kissed me.

fixed

I try and bail out

never forget

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-time-donald-trump-turned-away-in-disgust-while-a-man-bled-to-death-in-front-of-him

What happens is, these 10 Marines from the back of the room… they come running forward, they grab him, they put the blood all over the place—it’s all over their uniforms—they’re taking it, they’re swiping it

Mike Huckabee says Trump "could personally sick the virus out of every one of the 60,000 people in the world, suck it out of their lungs, swim to the bottom of the ocean and spit it out, and he would be accused of pollution for messing up the ocean." pic.twitter.com/X7xbC5ebDz

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 28, 2020

now we know who was hugging and kissing Trump

someone tell Trump the bottom of the Pacific Ocean smells like coronavirus vaccine

someone tell Trump the bottom of the ocean is made out of well-done steak

Put ketchup bottles down there too

The real world version of the Joker, like the dude in the high-security psychiatric hospital who fancies himself a stand-up comic but actually just sounds fucking batshit all the time, that's Huckabee. What a lugnut.

Also let's just say it in case it needs to be vocalized: yes, Donald Trump, as the POTUS the fucking buck stops with you, you sniveling little bitch.

it's a public responsibility this guy's in office. "the market" always crashes when republicans have the white house. how can enough people keep pretending not to notice that?

I see that you wrote a post, and I understand what you're saying and nod my head vigorously in agreement while I'm reading it, but once I've reached the end I forget what I've just read and start chanting 'Trump! Trump! Trump!' It's weird!

life is weird

Jesus loves the little children
Just not yours
Fuck their feelings

Good news, everyone!

WaPo: Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout

Trickle down vaccines

Maybe next time don’t vote for Iran sanctions, the “humanitarian” exemption was always bullshit as any anti-war activist could have told you. Sanctions are designed to kill and here, again, this is what they’ve done. https://t.co/kqTSGbLZqd

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) February 28, 2020

oooh burn

Anti-war activists often consulted before votes in the Senate

they will be when we perfect this thing

Anti-war activists often consulted before votes in the Senate

... maybe that's the problem?

WATCH: President Trump encourages South Carolina Republicans to vote for a Democratic presidential candidate in tomorrow's open primary.

He takes a poll: "Who the hell is easier to beat? Crazy Bernie or Sleepy Joe?" The crowd cheers.

"I don't know. I think Crazy Bernie has it." pic.twitter.com/hC1dD5IwRt

— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) February 29, 2020

Trump trying to bring the conversation back to himself as usual

US Politics, March 2020 — There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die.