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

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.

god that would be sweet

Well Boris is 56, Trump's 74 and both overweight and out of shape. But really I was thinking more of how Trump getting ill would affect the election, whether it killed him or not.

also i think the general consensus is boris is significantly off his game since he got it. it's as it always was because the executive branch of the UK government is a more competent.

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probably not the last of these:

Chuck Grassley, who at 86 is the Senate's oldest Republican, says he will skip the Republican National Convention because of coronavirus concernshttps://t.co/1L36xyReZu

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 6, 2020

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The Trump Destiny tweet looks like a teaser for a new HBO show

they look like Laurel & Hardy in that "from behind" photo

Trump's Job Approval Rating Steady at Lower Level

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump's approval rating is holding steady at a lower level after a sharp drop in late May and early June, with 38% of Americans currently approving of the job he is doing.

In early May, Trump's approval tied his personal best at 49% -- before it sank amid nationwide protests over racial injustice after the death of George Floyd. Now his approval rating stands just three percentage points above his personal low of 35%, registered on four separate occasions in 2017.

The latest results are based on a June 8-30 Gallup poll. While Trump's overall job approval rating is essentially unchanged from the prior May 28-June 4 poll, it does show some improvement among Republicans, from 85% to 91%. However, the current poll also indicates the president's approval rating has dropped among independents, from 39% to 33%, as well as among Democrats, from 5% to 2%.

The current 89-point difference between Republicans' and Democrats' ratings of Trump is the largest partisan gap Gallup has ever measured for a presidential approval rating in a single survey. Trump had previously registered 87-point gaps in late January and early February polls, conducted around the time of his Senate impeachment trial and ultimate acquittal.

If Trump gets the 'rona then forget it, he will fall apart even faster and further than Boris, both of them are spineless blancmanges with no character, but Trump is an even bigger blancmange and is 71 into the bargain.

He's 74 but some say younger.

He's only 71
But his mind is older

I have no idea what blancmange means but I like it

I actually don't think Biden should make more public appearances. I think that this incredible set of events is pretty much the perfect scenario for Biden who is a terrible candidate and bad at running for president as has been proven.

his biggest strength is being vaguely positively remembered as Obama's buddy and not being Donald Trump.

the less he speaks the better. I never believed that Biden could win, but Coronavirus might have made it possible.

this election is just going to be a referendum in Donald Trump.

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Blancmange also cursed image

Pinkmange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk6d4TgO2NY

I actually don't think Biden should make more public appearances. I think that this incredible set of events is pretty much the perfect scenario for Biden who is a terrible candidate and bad at running for president as has been proven.

They’re all staying home

“Senator Alexander is an honorary chair of the Tennessee Trump campaign, but he will not be attending the convention because he believes the delegate spots should be reserved for those who have not had that privilege before as he has had,” his office says.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 7, 2020

Pre-emptively trying to avoid that ever-growing cloud of loser stink, I see.

No matter how much you abstain and sidestep and demur and say 'Donald who, now?', we will not ever forget or let you forget what you helped propped up, you gaggle of scumfucks.

lol. "No, it's okay, I've been before, why don't you take my ticket. What's that? Virus? I don't know anything about a virus, I just think somebody else should have a turn."

Xp To be fair I think in Alexander and Grassley’s case it’s more “I’m in my 80s and I don’t want to die”

I'm sure that's part of it. It'll be intersting to see how creative the confabulation gets with the other GOP-ers who try to avoid going down with (god willing) a sinking ship.

"I would love to go, but unfortunately that's the same time as my nephew's Zoom taekwondo belt test. Next time!"

"Sorry I can't make it, we have tickets to Hamilton on Disney+."