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

"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

Wax Poetics, RIP.

xxp

“It’s not just pissing off Donald Trump. Anybody could do that,” Galen said. “It’s, to what effect? Like, why are you doing it? And the point is to take him off his game and take his campaign off their game, strategically and tactically, so that the Biden campaign and Joe Biden can have the freedom of movement and the green air to do the things that they need to do.”

This is an absurdly self-aggrandizing argument. The idea that the Biden campaign needs the aid of a group of former Republicans to “take [Trump’s] campaign off their game” doesn’t track with anything that has happened over the last three-and-a-half years. The president is constantly distracted and disheveled. The Lincoln Project may be the flavor of the month, but the president would still be rage-tweeting about minor slights if the PAC had never come into being. There is an argument, moreover, that advertisements mocking the president’s physical fitness and calling for attacks on Russian troops distract from the Biden campaign’s core message: the economy, the coronavirus, and Trump’s temperament.

What, then, is the Lincoln Project up to? Going viral is, more than ever, its own reward, something surely not lost on a group of political consultants who have been sidelined as Trump and his allies have taken over a GOP that used to listen to them. The success of their ads on social media is a claim of relevancy and could easily lead to more work—which is to say, more money.

Well, duh. All political ads are ultimately about money. But I'm sure the Biden campaign would rather have their help than have them try to hurt him, not least because I don't exactly see people circulating Biden campaign ads. If they can do better, they should.

yeah, duh is right. I read that article the first time it was posted and it's bracingly dumb. How the argument they're making applies any more to these Lincoln Project ads than any other stupid low-rent throw-them-off-their-game ads is entirely lost on me.

Just say it pisses you off that Republicans are doing it.

anyone arguing it's not "helpful" to Biden that Republicans are spending money sniping at Trump is just being disingenuous and should instead spend that energy making the case for publicly funded elections

of course it fucking "helps" him, if only to the extent that it doesn't hurt him

I remain convinced that the “beer summit” was the effective end of the Obama administration, whether they knew it then or not. That was the moment Republicans looked at the Obama WH and said “oh shit, this is how they’re going to handle our bullshit, happy days are here again” https://t.co/eg0MfFU62O

— August J. Pollak (@AugustJPollak) July 1, 2020

I dunno. Jedd Fessions sure seemed mad about it.

I might be generous enough to grandfather in some people who've left the flock but I'd never trust any motherfucker who currently identifies as a republican no matter how they may try in the future to kick dirt over their current affiliation with abject evil.

totally agreed, just not sure what that has to do w/ the efficacy of these ads

"liberals trained on years of west wing believe that if biden wins the gop will have a come to jesus moment"

afaict some bot absorbed twitter and spat out this sentence

there aren't actually that many years of west wing

am i allowed to suggest that the left have been brain-poisoned by resistance pundits