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

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

Lol. Truly was an autocorrect.

but let's just linger there for a second

ahhhhhh....yes this is what we have all been needing

yes...he's dead....it's a sunday....the spontaneous worldwide celebrations are starting...

"we shouldn't celebrate someone's death", they are saying, but the sound becomes more quiet as i keep logrolling down the lightly declining grassy hill, logrolling so smooth and free

I admit I fantasized about throwing an incendiary device at neckbeard's Trump shop.

U2 then showed up to do a free concert and played the most obvious song to commemorate it....

that's right, "Discotheque"

UNO DOS TRES CATORCE!

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.

U2 then showed up to do a free concert and played the most obvious song to commemorate it....

I can't believe the news today...

I’ve seen more rebel flags in rural Pennsylvania than I ever have in rural Maryland. Truly baffling.

Historically speaking, Maryland's confederate sympathizers were concentrated in Baltimore; rural Western Md. had independent farmers who resented the south's free labor. It was a CSA miscalculation that Marylanders would welcome them as liberators.

West Virginia is a weirder case - it was quite literally formed due to anti-Confederate sentiment.

And yet in my 1970s/80s childhood, that fucking battle flag was on every third towel for sale in roadside emporia, and on half the truck bumpers. If asked, its fans said it was about resisting Federal power, and government in general, but there is really no mystery to the appeal.

Proof (as if it were needed) that the 20th century usage of that flag was always WAY more about 1965 than 1865.

I cannot speak with authority about Pennsylvania. But there is an old saying about Pittsburgh at one end, Philadelphia at the other, and Kentucky in between.

I've often wondered if he suddenly died would there be celebratory parades and marches.

Yes

and lots of cum

good morning!

honestly, when he dies i cannot imagine doing anything other than screaming YES!! cracking a beer and heading out to the porch to see who else heard the news

if that somehow translates into a spontaneous worldwide celebration, what can you do.

i think the chances of this scenario happening get pretty low after he's been out of office for a bit, though. but if he died any time between now and january 2021, maybe even may 2021? you may just see some

https://i.imgur.com/4c0Q6GF.png

people doing things they may later regret out there, but also a lot of JOY and happiness and maybe a bit of hope as well

man, y'all have been here all day!

We had a pretty well-attended party the day that Thatcher died, and that was in Oakland.

I predict lots of parties no matter when it happens

I was out for two hours! just driving, naturally.

it seems a bit gauche to celebrate a death publicly, but I'd probably risk the roni to get in on some street parties if this happened.

He's the horrifying spider who currently sits at the center of the web of wrong, bad and evil. The bigger problem is all the people who love this man. And who love people like Bolsonaro, Modi, Duterte, and Netanyahu. There will be another Trump after Trump, but at the least we must keep them out of the White House.

"If asked, its fans said it was about resisting Federal power"

someone explain to me why the federal government is so bad but apparently the state government is fine with these people?

or why 'feds' are bad but the military is great?

or why the fBI is evil but all cops lives matter or some shit?

tell me over and and over and over again my friend

You don't believe that you're in a honky death cult?

if you ask the libertarians they'll say some shit about the state government being closer to you, more accountable to the people. of course those guys are sort of quaint now

Just get me an ARP 2600 and I’ll be set 😜

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 6, 2020

those people know cops and veterans and nurses and teachers, they’re their kids and neighbors and people they went to high school with

they don’t know any FBI agents or federal employees or doctors or professors in real life and anyone they went to high school with who might work in these careers moved away a long time ago

^^^

That sounds kind of weird to me. You don't know elitist libertarians? I sure have...

Self-described libertarians are more likely to not like the cops or military much either.

Not pretending otherwise conservatives like cops because they harass and kill the people the conservatives don't like, they also generally hate local and state government when it's not actively enforcing their worldview. Damn zoning rules keeping me down! I have to get a PERMIT to build my backyard GUN RANGE in this suburban cul-de-sac? TYRANNY.