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

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.

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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.

Truly believe nobody on Earth fully understands modern global economy

the best framework for me parsing “”the economy”” is the realization that Nancy and Chuck will always have more in common with those obscenely wealthy Greenwich, CT MAGA assholes than they do with 99% of the folks who will go to the polls and vote for a Democratic candidate in November. they have an unspoken solidarity that I’m doubtful the working and poor masses will ever achieve in this country.

this sort festered under the surface for me when Obama was in office, but I think it’s all v much out in the open now. and the degree to which one cares, or is inclined to do anything about it, is directly tied to that person’s level of comfort/ wealth.

I say this as an extremely comfortable, healthy, white male who does very little other than vote

It is true enough that no matter how low in society your origins are, when you have risen high enough in the power structure, you acquire personal interests that align with maintaining the power structure. Only genuine idealists can resist that realignment and override their personal interest to seek the good of others at your own expense. Idealist politicians do exist, much more than e.g. idealist business owners, but the erosive forces in Congress upon one's ideals are steady and wearing.

eh, there are very few true idealists, and even fewer who cannot afford such a stance. but aimless is not wrong. "knowing" who is an ally takes a fuckton more than an address, tho keep it in mind.

the greenwich story is so gross i couldn't read it all, plus it's looooong as fuck, and i really think i know how they do. ay part of the "30%" live in greenwich. they also live in burbville. they live in the fuckin sticks. do they live in teh hood, i dunno. their circumstances steer the %s in some places more than others. at the core they're the same self-absorbed shitholes. don't be too surprised. greedy fucking shitbags are pretty universal imo.

“Quite frankly, Mother Nature is not a thinking enemy intent on inflicting grievous harm to our country, killing our citizens, undermining our government or destroying our way of life,” he told Congress in 2011. “Mother Nature doesn’t develop highly virulent organisms that are resistant to our current stockpiles of antibiotics.”

That’s Trump’s top official for public health preparedness, Robert Kadlec, who has been busy getting contracts for his former company and not disclosing it on ethics documents filings. Also cut emphasis on pandemics earlier to focus on bioweapons. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-pandemic-trumps-stockpile-chief-put-focus-on-biodefense-an-old-client-benefited/2020/05/04/d3c2b010-84dd-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html

Nature is healing

Good morning!

it may well have been a naturally occuring virus that escaped from the virology lab. it's most certainly not a bioweapon.

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