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

"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

here's how much mental energy i've devoted to the fucking lincoln project:

youre a new yorker not a liberal, honeychile

i guess i have been here for a decade and hate the mayor

j, that show debuted in '99 and has been a lodestone for a large sect ever since

and we're not even counting spinoffs like The Obama Fantasy

xp that and $29 will get you a mask and a subway token

the Beer Summit was the Obama era's most embarrassing moment, yes, and predictable.

My only concern with Lincoln Whatever is: someone who's an anti-Trumper while remaining a loyal Republican might split their ballot and vote against Trump while voting R downticket. In which case, fuck them slightly less than a straight-ticket R voter, but still fuck them.

As far as the Gates episode goes, were Sessions' comments merely just extreme ignorance or was he knowingly slandering Gates?

One asshole says to another asshole, 'About this asshole...'

It sounded like he heard about it 2nd hand and didn't really grasp what happened, but maybe that's giving him way more credit than he deserves.

How is that giving him credit?

[i]On Wednesday, three Trump confidants told Axios that the president regrets heeding Jared Kushner’s advice to broaden his appeal by embracing milquetoast police and criminal-justice reforms; as one source summarized Trump’s thinking, he wants “no more of Jared’s woke shit.”

This account of Trump’s private reasoning comports with his public actions in recent days. Just this week, the president has:

• Described New York’s plan to paint “Black Lives Matter” down Fifth Avenue as a plot to affix a “symbol of hate” onto the city’s “greatest street.”

• Threatened to end an Obama-era policy that bars local governments from accessing federal housing funds unless they make affirmative efforts to track and reduce racial segregation in their communities. Trump said that he was reviewing this regulation on behalf of the “great Americans who live in the Suburbs,” and lamented that the policy is “not fair to homeowners.”

• Vowed to veto the Defense Authorization Act unless an amendment requiring the renaming of U.S. military bases that presently honor Confederate generals is stripped from the bill. (In announcing this position, Trump made sure to note that the amendment was sponsored by “Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren.”)

If one imagines Trump to be a rational political actor, it is difficult to make sense of these actions. According to Axios, Trump soured on Kushner’s calls for triangulation on criminal justice out of concern that indulging such reforms might be “seen as undercutting police” — as though anti-reform cops and Blue Lives Matter bumper-sticker owners were swing constituencies. George Floyd’s death has created plenty of political challenges for Trump. But one thing it absolutely hasn’t done is jeopardize the Republican Party’s grip on single-issue, “unshackle the police” voters.[/i[

“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”“no more of Jared’s woke shit.”

^ quoting the unnamed source, not Trump directly.

Well, yeah.

Still an amazing collection of words worth highlighting.

Partially because a lot of MAGA chuds have co-opted 'Woke', and Q-followers have gone further with 'The Great Awakening' against the 'Deep State'.

trump is making “woke” hats pic.twitter.com/myOP8itXUe

— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) February 27, 2020

$35!

We've known Trump is Mr. 'Double Down Whenever I Shit the Bed' for at least the past several centuries of his endless misrule.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eb81HY_U4AAhwWv?format=jpg&name=900x900

lol

notorious woke SJW and civil rights extremist Jared Kushner

$35 is crazy. You could get a baseball for 2.5 of those hats.

NEW: Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, the likely Democratic candidate against GOP Sen. Susan Collins, raised an astounding $9 million in the second quarter.

— Kevin Robillard (@Robillard) July 2, 2020

I really deeply want these deniers to get COVID and die, can't be good for the soul

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 2, 2020 4:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

what's funny is I forget how much more jaded most of us are than the rest of the people I know so I'll say shit like this out loud and people say "that's fucked up, you shouldn't wish death on people!"

actually makes me feel bad for a moment.....until I remember my brothers and sisters used to kill each other over squirrel meat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=701nEE_aSlY

I really deeply want these deniers to get COVID and die, can't be good for the soul

the soul yearns for cosmic justice

I mean...they're people who don't give a fuck about their own well being or the well being of others, to the extent that they pose an active risk to the well being and the very lives within their communities-at-large. Given the circumstances, it's perfectly okay to hope for their hasty demise, imo. They're like a quarter step away from being full-on terrorists afaic.

i also hope that every time they try to speak they violently shit themselves

Is that Tennessee mayor actually Thanos or did they manipulate the photo to make him look like that?

talking to my mom in tennessee is scary in that she keeps talking about how hard this is everywhere but tennessee and i can't get her to acknowledge they are in trouble
luckily, she's aware of the danger and seems to be taking it seriously enough not to frivolously go out.

cases were very low in east tennessee until the last 2-3 weeks.

xp, nope, that's really him: Kane! The Undertaker's Brother of Destruction!

Biden Supporters Are More Worried About the Health Risks of Voting

Hey, this is what I said this yesterday! Democrats have better risk-assessment skills than Trump-supporting Republicans! This time there are, like, graphs tho:

Over all, the voters who said they would be too uncomfortable to vote in person back Mr. Biden, 63 percent to 9 percent [for Trump].

Even so, Mr. Biden does not appear to be at a meaningful enthusiasm disadvantage: 65 percent of his supporters said they were “very enthusiastic” about voting this November, compared with 66 percent of Mr. Trump’s supporters. Importantly, the survey question asked whether respondents were enthusiastic about voting, not whether they were enthusiastic about the candidate they supported — where Mr. Biden appears to be at a more significant disadvantage.

(Flip side is that the six battleground states being tracked offer voting by mail.)

I am willing to collapse and die in-line after turning in my ballot if it means getting Derpton Trumpo out of office

vote AND die!!!!

Die and Vote!

many people are saying the demoncrats have already stolen the election by sending in millions of fraudulent ballots from dead people

https://i.redd.it/ejrb79eqog851.png

i wonder how that would play out at a county level, rather than at the state level. i'd guess that even in states that trump carried, the bulk of the deaths have been in cities or more populated areas, including blue counties in red states

Karl OTM - cases and deaths are very correlated with population density for reasons that ought to be obvious. Nevertheless, as the pandemic has progressed, blue and red states (also, roughly, D and R governors) have diverged largely because of different attitude s toward precautions.

Importantly, the survey question asked whether respondents were enthusiastic about voting, not whether they were enthusiastic about the candidate they supported — where Mr. Biden appears to be at a more significant disadvantage.

Why is that "importantly"? Voting is what seals the deal and wins the election. Sitting around watching the campaign ads and thinking 'atta boy, you go!' is comparatively unimportant.

I don't wanna pick on you sleeve but "who's winning the pandemic, team red or team blue" is something I really hate about COVID discourse.

yeah that's fair, it just seemed relevant. I imagine the #s will even out (and deaths are skewed different as noted) but gee what a difference actual state level policy makes

is there a correlation with the relative shittiness of state healthcare in general? i.e. states that have foregone medicaid expansion?

Holy fucking shit:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcBrKUWX0AIOXNq.jpg

Trump Rushmore speech will slam “left wing mob” trying to tear down “our history," campaign official briefed tells @ABC News

POTUS will argue "left wing mob" and "cancel culture" are pushing "totalitarian behavior...completely alien to American life," source said (not excerpts)

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) July 3, 2020

The president will "tell the truth about America’s history and he will tell the truth about those trying to tear it down and divide our country," the senior Trump campaign official said of tonight's Rushmore speech

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) July 3, 2020

Gee, I wonder which "senior Trump campaign official" would say a thing like that? Could it be the skinny, dead-eyed, prematurely bald Nazi? 'Tis a mystery indeed...

AOC-Claudia Conway 2040

cool -- he's expanding his base