US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

From https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/isnt-hillary-clintons-polling/613690">the Atlantic:

Which scenario is more likely: that Biden will blurt out something in the next few months that alienates women voters whose support he needs, or that Trump will express support for white supremacists that alienates almost everyone? That the economy suddenly kicks into high gear after a few months, or that millions of people remain unemployed? That America gets the coronavirus under control, or that new outbreaks tear through state after state? The escalating number of infections and hospitalizations, as The Atlantic’s Ronald Brownstein recently pointed out, is wreaking havoc in the very suburban counties of Arizona, Georgia, Florida, and Texas that Trump needs to carry.

Even before the pandemic, the American political landscape had changed dramatically since Trump’s election, and not in ways that favor the incumbent. Biden’s big poll lead should not make Democrats complacent, but neither should members of my party shake their heads and think, Here it comes again. Rather, the current polls should persuade Democrats to work for the greatest possible rejection of a widely distrusted U.S. president and the political party that enables him.

Broadly agree but “almost everyone” is doing a lot of work in that first sentence considering Trump already has expressed support for white supremacists many times.

He's not even trying to hide it:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eb4NNZGUEAEKLXx?format=jpg&name=medium

An amusing aside from this Reuters piece:

Trump's falling poll numbers worry some fellow Republicans they will lose control of the U.S. Senate, having already lost leadership of the House of Representatives in 2018.

The source said perhaps as soon as August, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have to advise Republican Senate candidates to distance themselves from Trump if needed to win election and keep their majority.

McConnell's office did not respond to a request for comment.

It would be incredible to see Asshole spend the last few weeks/months of his "campaign" raging at Republicans on twitter.

So another job for Kushner, aka the Dauphin.

Some areas that were very hard hit are now doing very well, some were doing very well and we thought they may be gone but they flare up and we're putting out the fires, but other places were long before us, and they're now...it's like life, it's got a life, and we're putting out that life 'cause that's a bad life that we're talking about.

Like maybe someone smarter than me can confirm, but these super great and historic jobs numbers...they're like if someone chopped all of my limbs off and then I came across a wayward arm and had someone sew it on my flailing torso and then trumpeted the unprecedented rise in the number of new limbs I have, no one in history has ever seen me acquire so many new limbs in such a short time, it's really something else.

he current polls should persuade Democrats to work for the greatest possible rejection of a widely distrusted U.S. president and the political party that enables him.

yes, this. he's going to say it was all rigged, either way. might as well put him on the defensive so he has to say "i didn't lose by the widest margin in american history! it's fake!"

Politico headline I had to read twice:

Donald Tusk: ‘I pray for Joe Biden’s success’

sorry, what is he not trying to hide with the baseball?

88 = HH

"heil hitler"

maybe he's a Dodgers fan

there are other items in the store that end in 8, such as $38, or $78, so it's possible it's just a coincidence (though what an insane price for a baseball), but naturally, context matters, and his constantly not wanting to condemn White Supremacists while having other invocations of "88" having previously appeared in his campaign, yeaaaaaaaa....

ah ha, I completely missed it, was looking at the baseball and trying to understand how that color was 'navy' when it just looked like muddy murky grey to me.

i've never been into the 88 thing just because he loudly and overtly proclaims his white supremacy in a million other ways

*looks beyond hitler's nazi armpatch, heil hitler salute, and ongoing speech to the nazi masses gathered to watch him*

"...wait is hitler selling commemorative socks for 88 reichspfennig?"

it's probably members of his own team that either

a) ARE white supremacists, and taking an opportunity to show this off or
b) assholes who are trolling, but to be honest, i see no distinction between b and a at this point

I've mentioned this before but after that "14 out of every 88 immigrants" press release I have no doubt they're doing this shit on purpose, for the same reason they do the "OK sign" thing, it's just a game that generates a ton of 'oh NUMBERS are racist now!?' fake outrage

Yeah, Trump is not setting the price of anything on that website. But $88 exactly? It's pretty conspicuous, especially coming right on the heels of that America First shirt. I mean, the phrase America First itself is problematic. Throw in the logo, however much it might look like the Marines logo, and benefit of the doubt starts to carry more weight than it can handle.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if he said that Hitler had some great ideas.

i mean there's no way to prove this so this is dumb, but can there be any doubt that if the nazis were running across europe right now, trump would be sending them missiles and trying to join the axis powers? empire, power, fear, strength, lies, propaganda, white supremacy! these are trump's people!

https://i.imgur.com/n5hGJGL.jpg

it's probably members of his own team that either

a) ARE white supremacists, and taking an opportunity to show this off or
b) assholes who are trolling, but to be honest, i see no distinction between b and a at this point

― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Thursday, July 2, 2020 10:41 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, a trolling online cosplay Nazi is a fuckin Nazi, period, leave us not equivocate.

if you’re a woman supporting trump, i feel bad for you. you must really hate yourself. lots of internalized misogyny... yikes

— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) July 2, 2020

I love the implied ", MOM" at the end

do you think the three of them ever have dinner together? kellyanne fucking conway, project lincoln george conway, and antifa claudia

i think it's just a game to all three of them

There's a reality show pitch.

on november 4, the elder conways will be doing this (probably before fucking)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dv5G7pTt7DY/hqdefault.jpg

zero attention being paid to the (superficially good) job numbers. people get it.

(i mean granted it's the top story at the NYT because they are a Serious Paper read my captains of industry, but no one else thinks the nubmers mean anything and running on these is not going to work)

tbf the graph is pretty clear

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/07/02/reader-center/final-jobs-promo/final-jobs-promo-master1050.png

https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01523/ski_jumper_1523754c.jpg

Trump baseball at $88 is crazy!

the 88 shit is above all there to trigger the libs. stop linking it breathlessly every time

Hmm:

Online donors poured a record $392 million into campaigns and causes via ActBlue in June, a sign of surging activism and political enthusiasm on the left that smashed the previous monthly high, from just before the 2018 election, by a whopping 50 percent.

The eye-popping numbers on ActBlue, the favored digital fundraising platform for the Democratic Party as well as a growing host of left-leaning nonprofits, make for a startling split-screen next to Great Depression-level unemployment and spiking coronavirus cases across the country.

But the left’s online giving surge is blunting one of President Donald Trump's remaining advantages in the presidential election, as his poll numbers sink: his financial edge. Small-dollar donors are filling up Joe Biden’s campaign coffers, giving Democratic Senate and House candidates a financial cushion in many of the biggest 2020 elections, and pouring resources into newly emboldened civil rights organizations, which are scaling up rapidly amid rising support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

newly emboldened civil rights organizations

peculiar turn of phrase there

who the fuck is gonna pay $88 for a fucking baseball is the thing

I think you can get a signed Pete rose for 50

Yeah, but he's been disgraced, unlike Trump.

Herman Cain Hospitalized After Testing Positive For Coronavirus Ten Days After Attending Tulsa Rally https://t.co/P8Nw7Aig7h via @TPM

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 2, 2020

(cough)

Here’s just a few of the #BlackVoicesForTrump at tonight’s rally! Having a fantastic time!#TulsaRally2020 #Trumptulsa #TulsaTrumprally #MAGA #Trump2020 #Trump2020Landslide pic.twitter.com/27mUzkg7kL

— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) June 20, 2020

I'm kind of worried about myself spiritually
I really deeply want these deniers to get COVID and die, can't be good for the soul

when you’re up 28-3 in the Super Bowl with 2 mins remaining in the 3rd quarter pic.twitter.com/J1CX8W4tvy

— Donté Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) July 2, 2020

ok, i just noticed the original poster and lol'd hard

Herman Cain's temperature was reported to be nine nine nine

ok come on just for pure comedic/trolling value this is vg, I say keep 'em coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBAAeuBpPQ

Not strictly politics but yikes
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/us/china-hair-uyghur-cpb-trnd/index.html