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

it's not like there's a "btw, we quietly condone more tax breaks for the 1%" voiceover at the end

if you think it makes no difference to the outcome of the election and you agree it's an attempt to make money and launder the reputations of extremely bad people, can you see the problem?

I don't think those things. Or rather I don't think in the latter case it will do that, nobody cares.

Anyway the reputation laundering comes w/ the Biden nomination. Whose forgiveness are they looking for?

To the extent any political ads "make a difference" I believe they are "effective."

they have bought TV advertising in DC only (zero electoral votes). they have a total ad spend of $400k. they don't care about persuading persuadable people of anything, and it shows.

it's not like there's a "btw, we quietly condone more tax breaks for the 1%" voiceover at the end

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, July 3, 2020 5:29 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no, they are a group of national security hawks.

I think these people are genuine in their disdain for and indignation abt Trump. So no, I don't think it's primarily about reputation laundering and money. I think they are sincere in their small differences.

That doesn't mean they aren't also shitty people whose whole legacy should go up in flames.

they 100% want the biden admin to feel like it owes them something

the reason they spend that money in DC is because they know the real value in these ads is getting written up and talked about

i'm not saying they aren't doing a good job of getting talked about!

if anybody thinks the clincher for Joe Biden and the DNC feeling indebted to people like Joe Scarborough and George Conway is anti-Trump TV commericals I have a credit card lobby to sell you

i ... ok. i give up.

advertising in DC only (zero electoral votes)

? DC has electoral votes.

granted, it's only like, 3, but....

xp DC gets the shaft in Congress but they do have electoral votes! (Though the disposition of those votes is not going to be affected by Lincoln Project ads....)

Whether or not some anti-Trump republican operatives manage to rehabilitate their reputations among DC insiders via the Lincoln Project is a problem so small in my personal scheme of things that it is no more than a pocket handkerchief-sized cloud in a sky spawning multiple tornados. My political job as I see it is to do what I can to render the specific rung these operatives occupy in the republican hierarchy irrelevant, through denying the entire GOP power for as long as possible in as many places as possible.

i was aware of that! xp

*not!

the rare double waynes world reference, you love to see it

NEW: 'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus https://t.co/KsVb76v1cd

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) July 3, 2020

maybe Eva Marie Saint will show up packin' at Mt Rushmore

Donald Trump, the Neville Chamberlain of the Covid war.

they have bought TV advertising in DC only

Is there a person in that market who watches TV

And whose worldview is uniquely susceptible to things seen on the TV

And who has relatively few other information sources

Hmmm

I think trump is distracted and doing a bad job running his campaign for reasons other than a single very small ad buy. There’s literally an episode of the west wing about this logical fallacy. You’d think the west wing fans who retweet this shit would spot it.

Texas GOP Powerbroker In Being Fascist SHOCKAH!

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/03/steve-hotze-texas-greg-abbott-rioters/

"I want you to give a message to the governor," Hotze told Abbott's chief of staff, Luis Saenz, in a voicemail. "I want to make sure that he has National Guard down here and they have the order to shoot to kill if any of these son-of-a-bitch people start rioting like they have in Dallas, start tearing down businesses — shoot to kill the son of a bitches. That’s the only way you restore order. Kill ‘em. Thank you."

The voicemail, which The Texas Tribune obtained Friday via a public information request, came on the weekend of June 6, several days after Abbott activated the Texas National Guard as some of the protests became violent. It is unclear whether Saenz responded, and Abbott's office declined to comment on the voicemail.

Haha, DJTJ's blow-up doll has tested positive for Covid-19.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/kimberly-guilfoyle-trump-campaign-coronavirus.html

"When you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas."

-- Albert Einstein --

look at this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkGHdJIwiHg

right now it's a brass band playing popular patriotic hits from the late 1800s while the camera shows a zoomed in shot of mount rushmore lit up by lights and occasional birds flying by in the night

oh, maybe it just concluded. that would explain the c-span after the speech vibe

not watching this but I'm hearing it's like a Vic Berger edit in real time

be a shame if the fireworks became sentient and started destroying people

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-mount-rushmore.html

Under the granite gaze of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump announced plans to establish what he described as a “vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live,” an apparent repudiation of the growing pressure to remove statues tied to slavery or colonialism.

As he arrived, Air Force One performed a flyover of Mount Rushmore. His campaign promoted the stunt online, calling him “the coolest president ever.”

It’s called the hall of fame and it’s in upper Manhattan and no one goes there and it was never “finished”

will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live,

it will include both andrew jackson and donald trump, 100% guarantee

No, but Scalia!!

This is the proposed list of statues in the National Garden of American Heroes from Trump's executive order. pic.twitter.com/l918TFdgnq

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 4, 2020

(I mean, I guess it could also include Trump and Jackson. But they're not mandated in the EO.)

Under the granite gaze of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Trump announced plans to establish what he described as a “vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live,”

Finally, what this nation needs: inert symbols of nostalgia

John Wayne

— Kem Kromik (@KemKromik) July 4, 2020

captain kirk

xposts

i can't believe there's actually a list! in the EO!

loooooool it's like a 7th grade class project

where the hell is ayn rand

she's as american as they come

sorry. there's a list of greatest americans for the new statue garden in an executive order? ahhahahah

and scalia is on it

would rush limbaugh be in the garden if he died?

the answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind

billy graham

The only religious nutjob Steven Miller can remember the name of.