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

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— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) July 5, 2020

Honestly, I could not care less about what Flynn is doing with his time right now. Let him go full wackjob. I'd rather worry about how this administration is working overtime to even kick out the immigrants doing things "the right way".

...i don't think i will capable of explaining even partly wtf happened to this country in the past few years

i can't face reading it, but i see this suggested as good background https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/

International students who are pursuing degrees in the United States will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their universities switch to online-only courses, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced

This is insane. Surely this is a feint of some kind. Classes start in two months, they’ve already been paid for.

I absolutely agree that it is insane. But I'm also going to venture that no one in this administration or at ICE gives one flying fig about how much a student may have paid for their classes.

it seems likely to have the predictable but unintended consequence that schools will not go online-only to accommodate students who would otherwise have to leave the US, thus ensuring a third wave of covid in the fall.

This is insane. It places foreign students who are essentially helpless in a middle of huge argument over online vs in-person teaching. No university will be able to go fully online (which is arguably the medically responsible thing to do) if it shafts their students like this. https://t.co/n8h1J1BA3J

— Suresh Venkatasubramanian (@geomblog) July 6, 2020

xps

this is probably way off and it also sounds like a conservative warning from the mid-90s, but i wonder how much of the rise of the Q bullshit is related to the demise of the centrality of religion to people's lives? some of this stuff just seems like people desperate for evidence of a higher power or force that guides things.

miller: you have to leave if your school is online only
schools: ok let's do some classes IRL
miller: no that's not what i meant
CDC: fuuuuuuck

Just came here to post that.

it seems likely to have the predictable but unintended consequence that schools will not go online-only to accommodate students who would otherwise have to leave the US, thus ensuring a third wave of covid in the fall.

that was my first thought. it seems like an inevitable trump admin policy because it supports covid denial and nationalism at the same time

which title ranks higher, Senator or Coach?

asking for tommy tuberville

ranked

head coach
senior senator
defensive coordinator
junior senator

special teams is where you win elections, fyi

So far, the monetization of QAnon has been done by amateurs and small time grifters. I'm guessing Flynn just sees a fallow field and wants to grow his cash income.

The order concerning foreign students in the USA revolts me but does not surprise me. I have been advising students to avoid going to the USA for some time. This may get the message through. It is not a safe place.

Kushner's family got a freaking PPP loan. Kushner's. Family. https://t.co/G8U7aDFnwt

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 6, 2020

xp that's the thing they're trying to communicate. i don't think they care about whether campuses reopen this year, or whether these specific students go home. they are trying to diminish campuses as 1) a place where "liberals" are created 2) a route through which people enter the US. anything that creates uncertainty this year is good for _years_ of uncertainty.

this is the least important thing right now but how are you supposed to use your school's libraries, archives, laboratories, whatever else a grad student needs if you are in your home country? it's like these people don't know what school is.

Joe Biden Does Nothing As Violent Crime in Democrat-Run Cities Soars https://t.co/57aBjnvTlV

— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) July 6, 2020

Not just grad students!

57% of the usa’s 1 million foreign students are from China, India, and South Korea. Universities are counting on that money, especially public universities.

it seems likely to have the predictable but unintended consequence that schools will not go online-only to accommodate students who would otherwise have to leave the US, thus ensuring a third wave of covid in the fall.

Still going to be in the midst of the first wave for most of the country, so it's fine.

god I wish Joe Biden was almost anybody else rn

obv he can't "do anything" but even just some performative mock-leadership would be gr8

I dunno feels like Biden's been president for months now

waht

nah. just the Dem nominee. I've seen too many dem nominees come and go to equate it with being as good as elected.

I know trump is beating himself right now and the numbers are good but this is like rope-a-dope for a full 14 rounds

when your opponent is furiously digging himself a hole, you don't interrupt

it's so low risk though. I've wondered for a while what % of his support has to do w/ supporters' perception that he is always "winning." I suspect that margin is exploitable by just pointing out what a loser he is.

put the stink of loss on him

HRC tried as hard as she could to publicize Trump's business frauds and failures. It made no difference. By now everyone on earth has seen enough of him and they know just where they stand, pro or con; nothing Biden does or says will alter that. Even Biden knows he is basically a bystander in this election.

I hear you but he wasn't yet responsible for tens of thousands of deaths

whoever's minding Biden needs to get him some Omega 3's and caffeine and just trot him out there on his porch to call Trump a negligent idiot twice a week, it's not that hard

His campaign tweets out that he's a negligent idiot every day. If he trotted onto his porch and said it twice a week, the media would soon get bored and wander off. He doesn't put on the kind of non-stop dog and pony show they're used to from Trump. Pulling any sort of attention to herself was a primary problem for HRC in 2016.

whoever's minding Biden needs to get him some Omega 3's and caffeine and just trot him out there on his porch to call Trump a negligent idiot twice a week, it's not that hard

It's already happening; you're just not paying attention.

WILMINGTON, Del. — Former vice president Joe Biden on Tuesday seized a moment when the coronavirus is resurging to stress how poorly he says President Trump has handled the pandemic and to promise that as president he would take a different path.

“It didn’t have to be this way,” Biden said at Alexis I. duPont High School. He did not wear a mask during his speech, but he held one in his left hand for much of the address. “Month after month, as other leaders and other countries took the necessary steps to get the virus under control, Donald Trump failed us.”

Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, cited Trump’s declaration earlier in the outbreak that he was a “wartime president,” saying, “It seems like our wartime president surrendered, waved the white flag and left the battlefield.”

The campaign event, for which Biden left the house where he has largely been staying home, highlighted the starkly different messages the candidates are sending on the pandemic. Trump has portrayed his handling of the virus as a success, refused to wear a face mask even as other GOP officials are increasingly doing so, and often sought to direct the conversation elsewhere. Biden, in contrast, frames Trump’s approach to the coronavirus as a historic failure that illustrates his shortcomings.

it's so low risk though.

The campaign event, for which Biden left the house where he has largely been staying home

this is a good development

ha caek yes and that's a fair point

Not just grad students!

57% of the usa’s 1 million foreign students are from China, India, and South Korea. Universities are counting on that money, especially public universities.

― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, July 6, 2020 7:21 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago)

oh i know, it's insane all around

Presumably more of Stephen Miller's scorched earth tactics on immigration.

unifying message that all americans can stand behind:

"Americans are the people who pursued our Manifest Destiny across the ocean, into the uncharted wilderness, over the tallest mountains, and then into the skies and even into the stars." pic.twitter.com/AYCgAC5oN0

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 7, 2020

americans: the european colonists

these fuckers are desperate

i like how four of these would totally make sense to someone from 2019 but one of these is ... what?

An ill-fated impeachment victory lap.

A long flight home from India.

A call to inject bleach.

A retreat to the White House bunker.

A rally overshadowed by the virus.

Our new story: five moments in five months that damaged Trump’s presidency https://t.co/rRbtHUkj9A

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 7, 2020

i think the fact that they feel the need to work THIS hard to continually secure the votes of racists is probably a bad sign for them. i get that they're going for the racist old white vote, but they already got that one wrapped up! so fucking weird and awful

it's difficult to imagine any of the plausible VP picks won't be the subject of vile race-baiting

I should hope the Biden campaign is counting on it. The greater the tantrum they can extrude from Trump’s 4chan gremlins, the better. It fires people up like nothing else.

curious to know what the effect of Trump getting COVID-19 is going to be, no way he can avoid it the way he's traipsing all over the land

maybe it will make him super cool and relatable

I am surprised you’re so naive about that possibility. Boris caught it, lived, and it’s basically as it always was. The only difference it could possibly make in Trump’s case is if he didn’t get so lucky.