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

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

"I wish I could attend, but it's been a really stressful time, as we're in the process of adopting a teenage boy from Cuba, and kid proofing the house has been a real chore."

Does Keisha Lance Bottoms' contracting COVID raise or lower her prospects of getting the VP nod (assuming, obviously, that she survives, which it appears she will)?

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

― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), 

He'd become isolated.

xp i keep forgetting she's even a contender

have no idea what blancmange means but I like it

― tobo73, Tuesday, July 7, 2020 5:35 AM (three hours ago)

A blancmange is an alien from the planet Skyron in the Andromeda galaxy iirc

a blancmange is the wine you end up accidentally ordering at the restaurant when you can't properly pronounce any of the choices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW_m8lhZbQQ

one time a friend of mine gave me a big bottle of homebrew beer from his fresh batch. as soon as i popped the lid it exploded all over my bedroom and covered the ceilings in blancmange

it's when a white dog's hair starts coming off

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/montypython/images/3/36/You

blank marge

Republican voters are a little calcified, but Independent voters (who are often Republican leaning) lose an average of 15 points in their approval rating of Trump, once they join the group of ‘people who know an infected person’.

So as infection numbers rise, Trump’s support ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/XOCDGND2UX

— DavChat (@DavKat43) July 7, 2020

1994 network sitcom advertisement voice

"from the same independent patriots who brought you 'now that we just found out our daughter is a lesbian, we tepidly support gay rights', a new generation of fucking ignorant blowhards learns that another new thing is real because it happened to someone they know in real life"

look I’ll wait til after the election but can

Independent voters (who are often Republican leaning) lose an average of 15 points in their approval rating of Trump, once they join the group of ‘people who know an infected person’.

please please all die in a fire thx

By my calc, in the past four years of Census data, non-college whites - Trump's base - have declined from 47.0% to 44.5% (-2.5%) of the nation's voting age citizens, including:

AZ: 44.9% to 42.0% (-2.9%)
FL: 45.1% to 41.9% (-3.2%)
TX: 35.1% to 32.3% (-2.7%)

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 7, 2020

this is the reason "mainstream" republicans are willing to look the other way while nativists dismantle higher education in the US: anything that reduces the solvency of institutions that create college graduates (i.e. democrats) is good on its face.

Keeping the populace dumb and passive as a method of social control and exploitation? You don't say!

we're in the second act of EVITA

it's got a happy ending tho right?

demagogue dies in disgrace and statue is never finished, I'd say so

If oldsters and tRoOPS and other potential R-leaning absentee voters end up not voting because Trump told them not to trust mail voting, that will be a kind of amusing own-goal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-attacks-on-mail-voting-are-turning-republicans-off-absentee-ballots/2020/07/07/640b6126-bbd4-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

(As has been pointed out a zillion times, Trump himself votes by mail, but let's not lose focus.)

This angle has been getting a lot of heat the last couple days, but it seems wildly farfetched. I'd just assume they're going to vote one way or another.

GOP olds and troops will def vote because their embittered hatefulness will trump their hatred of lib methodologies (that they pland to eliminate when they get the right judges and state legislatures.) indy embittereds, i dunno i guess.

Seems like wishful thinking by the WP

They mention people setting fire to their postal ballots. It might not be a big deal if biden really is up 10% but it’s not nothing.

You want to see wishful thinking?

THOUSANDS gathered in South Carolina for a boat parade in support of President Trump this weekend.

Americans traveled from 11 different states in what may have been the largest boat parade EVER!

There has NEVER been a boat parade for Joe Biden! pic.twitter.com/mnE30rZI7C

— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) July 7, 2020

conservatives like, “employer-sponsored healthcare is such a good solution,” and then degrade the quality of healthcare employers provide until the only option we have is to get rid of employer-provided healthcare. Seems like a longterm oversight.

Fuck religious exemptions for birth control.

wow I've never had a boat parade either, I think that makes me a giant loser

you’re pathetic.

Scooter / Segway / Vespa parades do not count, I'm assuming

I heard Biden's down 26 points with our beautiful boaters

Fuck your stupid boat parade, stupid fucking boating fucks.

Joe Biden should hold a parade of slow-moving train-cars, and call it a 'train parade' or just, you know, a 'train.' I hear Amtrak's available.

OK, Reagan was obviously a POS, but this video by Republican Voters Against Trump is pretty well done, imho:

https://youtu.be/ObqBtoz_fRA

Ha my parents live on that lake

trump campaign 2020

*incredibly loud barge noises*

honkin' on boat boat

Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022
@TrumpWarRoom
THOUSANDS gathered in South Carolina for a human centipede in support of President Trump this weekend.

Americans traveled from 11 different states in what may have been the largest human centipede EVER!

There has NEVER been a human centipede for Joe Biden!

HUMAN CENTIPEDES 4 TRUMP!

Trump's lips are the sewn-on remains of his father's butthole.

good morni-

wait a second wtf

*calls the po-*

wait i can't

fuuuuuuu

William Carlos Williams quote?

My mom lives on a relatively small lake and said there's one guy with a boat that has been puttering around the lake all summer with two gigantic Trump 2020 flags on it.

Boat guys and Trump guys seem to overlap quite a bit.

They're just struggling forgotten working-class Joes who happen to own a boat (and have the resources to store, transport, fuel, and maintain said boat, plus copious leisure time in which to use said boat).

You know, salt o' the earth REAL Americans. Not like those elite latte/arugula libs.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/29/03/12838228-6970041-Biden_is_seen_above_in_March_2019-a-42_1556503859601.jpg
Fuck, how am I supposed to compete with that epic boat parade?

HUMAN CENTIPEDES 4 TRUMP!

Trump supporters used to call themselves centipedes, don't think they do anymore though

They're just struggling forgotten working-class Joes who happen to own a boat (and have the resources to store, transport, fuel, and maintain said boat, plus copious leisure time in which to use said boat).

You know, salt o' the earth REAL Americans. Not like those elite latte/arugula libs.

Exactly this. Not those nose in the air libs working five freelance consulting gigs between grocery delivery runs for an app to try and make rent. Those cushy losers have had free reign over this country for far too long!

Dominoes within the GOP keep falling as more senators are reportedly choosing to forgo the Republican National Convention set to take place in Jacksonville, Florida next month.

According to the Washington Post, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) have now joined Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in opting out of their party’s convention as coronavirus cases continue surging across the country.

An aide for Collins told the Post that she will not travel to Jacksonville for the RNC next month, but denied that this is a change in plans due to how the Maine senator has never attended national conventions during years when she will appear on the ballot. Collins is up for re-election in November.

funniest one yet

The Texas GOP is moving forward with its in-person convention in Houston next week with one adjustment: Texas Republican leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, will give their speeches virtually.https://t.co/8KV45QHD7A

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 7, 2020

everyone who voted to acquit should be forced to attend

everyone who attends virtually should be forced to display (CUCK) next to their name imo

Mayor Turner is trying to get the Texas GOP convention cancelled today.

JUST IN: Trump campaign considers displaying statues at future rallies.

The idea has been discussed by White House and Trump campaign aides, but no final decision has been made, sources familiar with the planning told @ABC News. https://t.co/XpZDJxfqW9

— ABC News (@ABC) July 8, 2020

what's happened is:

trump has decided he will run on his instincts because that worked last time and he doesn't know what survivorship bias is

he doesn't care about covid/healthcare/the economy (except the stock market)

he has very strong instincts about an issue that like 80% of the population do not give a shit about