US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

.@Acosta: You say you had "broken tests" from Obama -- the coronavirus is a new virus, so how could the tests be broken?

TRUMP: "We have broken tests. We had tests that were obsolete. We had tests that didn't take care of people." (None of this makes sense.) pic.twitter.com/r7oobJNFU2

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2020

Pompeo on TV right now incoherently ranting. A clip was played showing Trump believed the Wuhan virus was manmade, and asking Pompeo if he agreed.

At first, he offered comments in support of this view. Then, when informed that the scientific consensus was that it was not made in a lab, he said he had no reason to disagree with their assessment. When the perplexed anchor asked if he was actually saying he didn't believe it was made in a lab, he made several evasive statements that seemed to say "yes" without actually saying it.

Spent the rest of the time talking about how the Chinese government concealed the severity of the virus, which isn't new news to anybody, perhaps is only new news to him since Donnie didn't read the intelligence briefings saying this exact thing in January.

Fuck us

The absolute state of the libertarian party pic.twitter.com/pHKjW23pYo

— liz (@pseudocia) May 2, 2020

lol OF COURSE they had it at the Rosen in '16. I-Drive fucks.

Got a letter from my congressman (Paul Gosar) today, opened and read it. It said he's a fucker:

"When the dust settles and America comes through this crisis on the other side, I look forward to discussing how we can hold Communist China accountable for their role in unleashing this plague on the world."

Isn't that the guy whose entire family made a campaign ad against him?

guess it didn't work

Yup
I just scrolled hos Twitter feed and man I shouldn't have cuz now I'm mad. Fucking scumbag.

dobby and paul gosar can go fuck of

pompeo is so sweaty and squirrelly

*off

Just tryin to sidestep the whole "US knew about it in Jan and Trump ignored it" news.

When this is done we won't be in any position to talk shit to nobody

it’s not his response in January that bothers me, it’s now, purposely limiting resources and rejecting any kind of national plan to guide us and help us

i'm bothered by both

nothing groundbreaking here but it is a wild ride:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/how-greenwich-republicans-learned-to-love-trump

a reminder that Perlstein will publish his Reagan book this fall

oh man, I will read the hell out of that

good morning!

“Concast” should open up a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough. I know him and Crazy Mika well, used them beautifully in the last Election, dumped them nicely, and will state on the record that he is “nuts”. Besides, bad ratings! #OPENJOECOLDCASE

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 4, 2020

Ah, "Concast," Trump's dreaded secret police!

good luck USA

Is it too late to change the name of this thread to "used them beautifully, dumped them nicely"?

I was unaware that there was a already a pre-existing conspiracy theory that Morning Joe had killed a staffer and then I saw the comment for Trump's tweet.

it's just too late in general

he did use the shit out of them during the last election and they slavered over him like dogs, it’s true

i’m pretty much for anything that would get those two absolute nitwits off the air but I’d still feel weird about it if Trump’s twitting is what actually does reopen a cold case and puts Joe Scarborough behind bars

There is no cold case.

Yea her death was ruled accidental.

Tbf there were plenty of libs behind the SCARBOROUGH KILLED HER theory when Scarborough County was on the air

ye gods, if anything Scarburro was dorkier and more noxious during the Dubya era.

He was horrible. I found it hilarious that he somehow became a sympathetic figure

moving to NYC to become a minor media celeb puts you in different circles than righting radio, and resistance dorks have done180s on worse folks

re “cold case” — yes sorry for the misnomer. even so, Lock Him Up

rightWING radio

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/gilead-gets-emergency-fda-authorization-for-remdesivir-to-treat-coronavirus-trump-says.html

Gilead? where have i heard that name before...?

Conspiracy theorists don't like Gilead, but not for the reason you think!

(China ties)

donald trump believes 1.) joe scarborough murdered an intern and got away with it and 2.) this is just some kind of embarrassing piece of blackmail, doesn't change the fact that he is a dupe and a dunce.

oh yeah and 3.) it is comcast's responsibility to re-open this alleged murder investigation, not the state of florida or the u.s. justice department.

Dan S's fears largely confirmed by internal CDC projections.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-updates.html

If you have any friends or family that are reachable and not completely gone, the message to hammer home is "we are not on the back side of this".

Even one of my anti-Trump friends suggested we were this morning.

The only hope I have from this news is that Dems in Congress seize on it and push for monthly stimulus. Trump and his aides has already been backing away saying it's possibly not necessary.

Now is the time to cut monthly checks and extend the fed unemployment through Oct

Trump was on Morning Joe all the time during the early stages of his candidacy, even when it was abundantly clear that his only strategy was stoking race hate. fuck him.

oy, that nyt news is horrible.

xpost also really need to establish automatic triggers for stimulus that is tied to unemployment rate because if the glory of God finally shines upon us in November and we get rid of Trump, a Republican-controlled Senate will suddenly start to care very much about deficits and will never in a million years sign off on any new aid packages.

oy, that nyt news is horrible.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, May 4, 2020 12:54 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

normalizing a new 9/11 every day to own the libs.

Trump was on Morning Joe all the time during the early stages of his candidacy, even when it was abundantly clear that his only strategy was stoking race hate. fuck him.

Yes

Costco is limiting how many steaks shoppers can buy.

freedom under siege

also, 'cornering the steak market' entrepreneurship under siege

donald trump believes 1.) joe scarborough murdered an intern and got away with it and 2.) this is just some kind of embarrassing piece of blackmail, doesn't change the fact that he is a dupe and a dunce

He only believes #2

xpost also really need to establish automatic triggers for stimulus that is tied to unemployment rate because if the glory of God finally shines upon us in November and we get rid of Trump, a Republican-controlled Senate will suddenly start to care very much about deficits and will never in a million years sign off on any new aid packages.

otm

sad to say, right now is the probably the peak of republican empathy on this issue. this is how they do their best to help, with a GOP administration and senate. as soon as they're no longer officially in charge, heightened deaths will be a good thing for republicans, as an example of incompetent democratic leadership. it's fucked up all too probable

"y'all were told to save between 6-9 months of monthly bills up for emergencies. This is an emergency."

assuming the executive branch changes hands, anyone—be they R or D or a serious media person just delivering Hard Truths—who suggests that we really have to tighten our belts what with all this deficit should be immediately and in no uncertain terms be told to [ redacted] themselves immediately. and anyone who gives this advice one iota of thought other than to point and laugh and shame should also be written off forever. period.

Otm

Everyone uses money every day. Because of this everyone thinks they understand what it is and how it works. Almost none of them understand what money is or how it works.

so Trump's really gonna try the whole "I was actually talking about the protestors shooting people" thing

'today we are terminating our relationship with the world health organization'

Not that I think he should pick Klobuchar, but her role in this Minnesota disaster appears to have been greatly exaggerated.

Uh, maybe I'm not up on most recent developments but what do you think has been "exaggerated"?

that Biden address is very good.

The case in 2006 happened right before she became a Senator, and she was never involved with it.

xp

Wasn't there some bullshit from Brad McTrumpTech or whatever about launching their campaign Death Star? Did that ever happen? Because I have been getting served tooooons of Trump ads on youtube, and I can only assume his tech guy's brilliant strategy is ... tooooooons of online Trump ads.

But she was the county attorney in 2006 though, prior to the election, and was widely criticized for not prosecuting cops. So, while it looks like she never previously dealt directly with Chauvin in his previous cases, she certainly did enough damage in granting cover to the MPD for years which pretty directly ties into where things evolved since. Not ready to grant her a free pass just because she didn't directly pass on prosecuting this guy in the past.

Covfefe was three years ago.

fuck, everything is fast and slow at the same time during this administration

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden clearly ahead of President Donald Trump. Biden's up by a 53% to 43% margin among registered voters in this survey.

But it's important to put individual polls into context, and that context continues to show Biden's in one of the best positions for any challenger since scientific polling began in the 1930s.

There were more than 40 national public polls taken at least partially in the month of May that asked about the Biden-Trump matchup. Biden led in every single one of them. He's the first challenger to be ahead of the incumbent in every May poll since Jimmy Carter did so in 1976. Carter, of course, won the 1976 election. Biden's the only challenger to have the advantage in every May poll over an elected incumbent in the polling era.

Why?

A look at the fundamentals shows why Trump continues to trail. Simply put, he remains unpopular.

His net approval rating (approval - disapproval) in the ABC News/Washington Post poll was -8 points. That's very close to the average of polls, which has it at about -10 points. At no point during the past three years has Trump ever had a positive net approval rating.
The only other two presidents to have a net approval rating this low at this point in the campaign were Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992. Both of them lost reelection.

But I'm not predicting anything here. Between the coronavirus pandemic and now the protests and riots taking place nationwide, we're obviously in a volatile news environment.

haha a volatile environment environment

Trump and advisers calculated that he shouldn’t speak to the nation because he had nothing to say, no tangible policy or action to announce, nor did he feel an urgent motivation to try to bring people together. So he let his tweets speak for themselves. https://t.co/JjcIC8oxiD

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) May 31, 2020

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Biden talking to protesters today in Wilmington, Delaware.

maybe Trump will try to one-up him and go on the streets and

Biden is going to eat his lunch if this keeps up. The difference is so stark and obvious.

Knowing the lunches Trump likes, maybe he's hoping that'll kill Biden.

https://media.giphy.com/media/saIMMAiIv2NdS/giphy.gif

Felder really should have brought the doubleneck.

Glenn's doing it on his own.

You lost me there: what do the eagles have to do with this?

well, yeah

leaders of the NWO iirc

"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

--Q

Bunkerboy hiding in White House basement fortified bunker

https://apnews.com/a2326518da6b25b4509bef1ec85f5d7f

ay golf boy, use the rut niblick now and play short away from the bunkers from now eh

"He has a bunker" for June

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do we have a June thread?

US Politics, June 2020 — Positively towards negative