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

I agree. Burn all trees!

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Rick Wilson is a disingenuous douche, but he posted this 4 hours ago:

_4/ By later today, you'll see a million posts about law and order backing a lawless and orderless Administration led by a criminal. Bannon, Miller, and the rest of the alt-reich Trumpers ADORE this culture war. Irony has been dead for some time now and is stinking up the place.

5/ Only a jury can bring justice to the murderer of George Floyd, but he's about to become a hero of the Trump world, a symbol of the poor, oppressed cops (sarcasm tone, people) who just have so much stress they have to murder an unarmed black man on the street.

6/ This is the culture war at its most cynical and dark, and Trump and his allies will be talking about the "long, hot summer" any time now.

They're ALREADY modeling how the rioting plays for campaign messaging, I promise you. _

(Post in error, sorry)

Biden just spoke for five minutes on George Floyd and Minnesota. I think it's the first time this campaign I can say without reservation he was really good. Just words, but ultimately that's what the presidency is sometimes.

he was good in his recent covid19 rememberance for the 100,000th (undercounted) death in the US, too

I missed that.

yeah I've defended him on the Biden thread as avatar and anti-Trump, but the brief speech was the first time I found one of his addresses effective.

now watch him pick klobuchar as his running mate

It was good too just to see him out there right away. Even though the lay-low strategy (if it even is a strategy and not just self-preservation) seems to be working, I think he needs to just forget about that at crucial moments and speak up.

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.

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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