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

The problem is 130,000 tried and failed to live with it

yes a bit easier said than done

Is that "Claudia Conway" twitter account really the daughter??

I don’t think McQueen was abused but he was HIV+ and had likely passed it to a couple of other designers I won’t name, although one of them also died a few years ago.

i don't see the relevance of that but thanks for making sure we all know that you know people who got HIV from Alexander McQueen, I was really wondering.

Melania is signaling that Trump is HIV positive?

"Is that "Claudia Conway" twitter account really the daughter??" yes, she's been all over social media recently supporting BLM

Fuck off, akm.

US absolutely fucking it

McQueen's family talk about the abuse in the doc from a couple of years ago

We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States 🇺🇸! #2020VISION

— ye (@kanyewest) July 5, 2020

"...The Aristocrats!"

We must stop the spread of pic.twitter.com/iy2XDqVw35

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 4, 2020

lol

From a friend:

"good golly, is kanye seriously running for president? why couldn’t he announce this nightmare fuel at a decent hour? he is literally going to guarantee trump stays in office another four years if he runs. 💀💀💀💀💀"

How's that, exactly? I couldn't imagine him getting more than 0.05% of the popular vote or any Electorals. This was a dude who wasn't popular with the Gen Public pre-MAGA.

dude he can't even get on the ballot

Yup. I'm not even taking it seriously, but my friend's logic is baffling.

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2020/7/4/21313625/election-2020-kanye-west-running-for-president

it’s late, I’m tired, my whole neighborhood still sounds like a war zone, and I misread that as “he can’t even get to the toilet” which made we wonder what hilarious kanye news I had missed

if anything wouldn't he siphon votes away from the dude whose base he's been pandering hard to the last few years

xpost it's what "All Falls Down" is about

toe tally terry tizzim

Kanye is Tommy Westphall and we are all just inanimate figures within the snowdome he cradles in his hands

Sometimes I wonder how different our reality would be if Ye's mum hadn't died and he hadn't gone absolutely fucking batshit

I'm happy for you, and I'ma let you finish. No ... seriously, go on!

was really looking fwd to Kanye-T Carlson primaries in '24

Why is our feeble news media legitimizing his manic episode? He may as well have declared himself the new Burger King.

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Watch the Throne

This seems like insane electoral politics

Campaign aides said they expect backlash against the progressive “cancel culture” movement to help Trump's standing w/suburban female voters frightened by images of chaos in the streets.

That backlash has yet to reveal itself in polls.https://t.co/rk0UbG0S4I w/@maggieNYT

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) July 4, 2020

It’s ‘high on your own supply’ thinking. That’s the only frame of reference they have.

Donald Trump's Shrinking Electoral Map

Gone are the days of forecasting a landslide victory. The president’s team is looking not for where Trump can win more, but how he can lose less.

Donald Trump’s campaign once spoke of expanding his electoral map into blue-leaning territory like Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and New Hampshire.

Now, winning at least a handful of those states has become a matter of survival.

States that top campaign officials had said they had the luxury of pursuing are no longer considered add-ons to the president’s electoral vote tally but backstops to keep him afloat, according to multiple people close to or involved with his reelection operation.

The most telling sign of Trump’s defensive posture is his recent mammoth TV ad buys. The campaign is spending big to retain states he won in 2016 and to shore up support in places a Republican should already dominate in, like Georgia or Florida’s Panhandle.

Publicly, the Trump campaign asserts their candidate is still competitive in each of the 30 states he carried in 2016. They say presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden faces an enthusiasm deficit among his party’s likeliest voters and that public polling — much of which has shown the president trailing far behind Biden nationally, and more narrowly in battleground states — does not jibe with their own internal numbers.

“President Trump plans on winning every state that he did in 2016, plus picking up others. We’re in a great position to be on offense and would rather be in our shoes than in Joe Biden’s,” said senior adviser Jason Miller.

But privately, campaign aides, senior administration officials and GOP donors have begun to acknowledge what they call a more plausible scenario: a pair of losses in the Rust Belt, most likely Michigan and Wisconsin. That would mean the president has to win some proven Trump-averse states to crack the 270-vote threshold needed to clinch a second term.

Gone are the days of forecasting a landslide victory, said one person close to the Trump campaign. The president’s team is now recasting its expectations to identify not where Trump can win more, but how he can lose less.

“We don’t need 306. We just need 270. We can lose Michigan and lose Pennsylvania and still win,” said a top Trump adviser, noting that a win in New Hampshire, combined with one in Nevada or New Mexico, would provide enough Electoral College support to prevent defeat even if Biden wins big in the industrial Midwest.

Trump is going to try to speed up global warming so that states will be submerged and removed from the voting process

I'll say this, if he does end up winning somehow, he's going to be so insufferable about it it'll make his first term crowing seem downright modest in comparison.

Trump is going to try to speed up global warming so that states will be submerged and removed from the voting process

He's from New York City and he lives in Florida.

he'd be dumb enough to sink his own states

How is "The wall" getting on, btw?

keeping out the virus iirc

A privately funded part of it is falling down.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/02/texas-border-wall-private/

How is "The wall" getting on, btw?

I saw that some Mexican leaders are calling for stricter enforcement of its borders to prevent sick Americans from spilling in, so maybe they'll pay for it after all.

this is behind a firewall, so don't click this if you're afraid of using one of your precious 5 free articles for the month on content you do not feel to be "5 free articles" worthy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/hundreds-of-armed-men-went-to-gettysburg-to-defend-it-from-a-phantom-antifa-flag-burner-created-on-social-media/2020/07/04/206ee4da-bb05-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html

it's really quite a story, though. some small-time trolly facebook page put up a bogus "flag burning" "antifa" event in gettysburg for july 4, with a stock photo of some guy from germany as the event leader, and rightwing facebook trolls overreacted and hundreds of racist nationalists showed up to counter-protest it. finding nothing, they instead surrounded a guy wearing a black lives matters shirt. there's no physical violence in the video (plenty of verbal abuse), but it's terrifying. and of course, a cop shows up and protects the old racist white men and asks the (very calm, lone) protester to "de-escalate" and leave the park

most of the story focuses on the online aspect - who posted the bogus event, and who are the very real racist blowhards who organized the counterprotest. fascinating, very dystopian stuff.

good morning!

Almost posted this email in the outbreak! thread:

Bob,

Have you stopped checking your email?

You’ve been invited to join my father at the 2020 Convention Celebration in Florida, but our records show that you’ve IGNORED all of our emails.

The truth is, we’re ONLY offering this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to the President’s MOST LOYAL supporters, like YOU*, and I know he’ll be really disappointed if you don’t enter to win. We can only accept 100 more entries today - make sure yours is one of them.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to enter to win a FREE trip to the 2020 Convention Celebration in Florida. >>

My father really wants this opportunity to go to one of his TOP supporters, and we can’t think of anyone more deserving than Bob from New Jersey.

If you win, we’ll cover your flight and hotel, you’ll get VIP PASSES, and you’ll get to bring a guest of your choice.

We’re giving the President an updated list of entries soon. I hope he sees your name.

Please contribute ANY AMOUNT by 11:59 PM TONIGHT to win a trip to the 2020 Convention Celebration and to get on the list my father sees.

Thank you,

Donald Trump Jr.

*If I've ignored all your emails, and I've never donated any money to you fuckasses, am I really one of your MOST LOYAL supporters? That's kinda sad...

There's an amazing graphic of Trump displaying what he thinks is a smile, at a podium in front of a jam-packed crowd with no masks on at all (it's clearly from the 2016 campaign), and an arrow pointing to the middle of the frontmost section saying "You Could Be Here." Uh...no fuckin' thanks.

Get with the program, Bob.

the fake antifa flag-burning-party posters are pretty funny

We can only accept 100 more entries today

this is the good stuff right here

I was camping in the Michaux this weekend-- very close to Gettysburg-- and there was a neckbearded dude selling rebel flags and Trump shot by the side of the highway, a few stickers on cars in the populated parking areas, and one very young man driving a pickup truck with a US flag, rebel flag, and Trump flag that also had blue lives matter stickers and gun rights shit all over the windows.

That said, the Walmart in Chambersburg had many black and white people wearing BLM shirts.

Drove through Gettysburg this morning and it looked about the same as I remember it from my last visit nearly thirty years ago.

Trump shot by the side of the highway

Cannot tell you what a serotonin spike this typo just gave me.

Trump shit....sorry.

Trump shot = Diet Coke, pureed hamberder (well done, of course), dash of lib years

Serve lukewarm

*lib tears

Garnish with covfefe

Trump shot by the side of the highway

...a place where nobody knows