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

the old up North axiom, your two best days with a boat are the day you buy it and the day you get rid of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYX1rIe3SaQ

never gets old

I'm saying though don't see a small new fishing boat and assume it's cheap, esp if it's if it's all kitted out

it's like how old fashioned "cabins" barely exist they are all just McMansions with log cabin motifs

these fuckers are the same assholes that have "economic anxiety" and piss on "libs" for buying avocado toast and lattes or whatever. fuck them and their boats!

I used to work with a Cajun guy who had five boats and a roided out pickup but no house or apartment.

maybe if i assume that only two of those boaters wanted that ride, that video is america under trump. also, those two still think it was the best ride.

i think the pilot and bink bikini are the two that like it, the rest are hostages going wtf

it's like how old fashioned "cabins" barely exist they are all just McMansions with log cabin motifs

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Okay, well...idk what to say. There are lots of uninsulated cabins & very modest lake homes around here. I guess it's just a regional anomaly.

haha, yep. i've stepped in many a shithole cabin

OMG THE BOAT SMASH VID wow

Cool yeah maybe different in different places, I'm not going to Suzy the thread

But I think the general trends of the real estate market are functioning over time at least here.Like my father in laws modest cabin got bought and torn down

I grew up surrounded by water and owning a boat was super common but there’s definitely different vibes /socioeconomic status between owning an aluminum fishing boat, speedboats that can haul skiers and pontoon boats.

In orbit based on your past MI posts I believe I was in your area a few weeks ago - we met up at a state park with some dunes and a prominent lighthouse

Re: the cabins thing, I've lived in and visited many cabins, some incredibly shitty, some total things of wonder. Not really sure where this idea about cabins comes from.

I think it's fair to say that the Trump/"re-opening" rhetoric around boating is def aimed at ppl with economic privilege, but it also lands with the people on other levels too. Thinking about 4 MI counties that refused to follow the gov's shut down orders back in May--all are very rural and on the water and on or adjacent to, like, national forests. Shutting down beaches, outdoor boat launches, and prohibiting going into the woods for people who live in rural/natural areas--those are some of the only things to do that are actually free or low cost that make living there worthwhile! And all are very low risk under certain circumstances, ie distancing, low pop density, etc.

Their non-compliance got combined in the news (afaict) with other counties but which were all Detroit suburbs-adjacent and very clearly ideologically motivated. Different groups, but the message hits for both.

lol hey jg! I just got here a couple of days ago and I've already been on one of three lakes! Gotta hit the other ones soon. We have dunes and a lighthouse of our own but we might be a little bit south of where you were? But I've got family in Manistee too so we fuck with our northern neighbors.

HGTV shows xp

Supreme Court says Trump must provide his financial records to a NY grand jury. Decision was 7-2.

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honestly I am assuming these won't even come to light while he's alive

JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED

the boat smash video as I was introduced to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-nfzcUiPk

God i love that video

thats what you get for filming yourself doing nothing on a speedboat

dying

the way he goes down is just

boat smash trivia: the boat driver on the left now sits on one of trump's border patrol advisory committees

https://i.imgur.com/5YGlQsi.jpg

why do dudes like that always have phallic heads?

Lettin' their dick flag fly.

l-r: dr. boner, mr. choad, 45, rep. gnardo shaft, and cpl. dick furrow

honestly the best use of Turn Down For What

Isn't there a zoo?

The Washington Post reports:

The Republican convention in Jacksonville, Fla., next month could be moved to an outdoor stadium as cases of the novel coronavirus in the state increase, according to several officials with knowledge of the plans.

While no decision has been made, Republican officials are studying two outdoor professional sports stadiums near the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena where the convention is currently slated to be held. They are also looking more broadly into the logistics of pulling off an outdoor convention, according to two Republicans involved in the planning.

Covid spike PLUS heatstroke casualties, I like it.

We have dunes and a lighthouse of our own but we might be a little bit south of where you were?

my parents are in traverse and we met up with them at silver lake state park as kind of an in-between spot for our first outside-the-house meetup last month

So beautiful there! We were going to take my nephew on a popular sand dune ride attraction but we found out they're putting 25 ppl in (open air) vehicles together and even with masks that was way too much.

Things are looking grim in TC iirc? Hope yr folks are doing okay & stay that way.

i think to the extent today's ruling sets a bad precedent about oversight it's bad. but in terms of election stuff these both feel true

Hot take. Not sure I 100% believe this one, but worthy of tweeting.

Congress going through Trump's tax records and the media spending a ton of time on that story pre-election might be better for Trump than the alternatives, which is focus on COVID, the economy and the protests.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 9, 2020

Dramatically overstates Democratic ability to control the media. If thousands are dying from coronavirus and the economy is in shambles it doesn't matter what Democrats are prioritizing, that's the story.

— sean (@SeanMcElwee) July 9, 2020

Holy shit would it be awesome if they held it in a zoo. There's a high school right by here right next to a zoo. Apparently you could sometimes hear things like elephant trumpets and lion roars during gym class. Imagine that racket behind Trump on stage. Though you do run the risk of Don Jr. shooting something, I guess.

We spent a little bit of time in Traverse City last summer, and boy was it pretty. Especially a little further out, like Sleeping Bear Dunes, Glen Arbor, Leelanau ... Maybe if we end up going on a trip this summer we'll finally hit the UP.

thousands of Covid deaths are not gonna be overshadowed by this. it's gonna be held up in courts forever just like everything else Trump related. people will forget by Sunday.

right, I think Silver is way overstating the electoral importance of what MSNBC happens to be talking about. I could certainly see them and CNN breathlessly covering the Trump tax story and somewhat back-burnering COVID but it's not going to make any appreciable difference on the election.

basically where I'm at now is that it's very difficult to imagine Trump winning if the pandemic is in roughly the same or a worse place than it is right now, and it's very difficult to imagine that not being the case.

what would have to be in Trump's tax returns to make a single person not vote for him

personally bankrolling ACLU, Fyre Festival, Quibi

the revelation that he doesn't own a boat

what revelations would come from his financial documents? would they top his entire family's 50 year history of tax fraud that was already extensively reported by the NYT last year, and which no one *checks notes* yes absolutely no one cared about or ever mentioned again on any show, any book, any magazine article, or any forum post anywhere in the universe, ever again?

because it would be tough to top that one in terms of gamechangers

i guess to put it a different way: at this point, there's nothing we can learn about donald trump that will be surprising. we all know he's full of shit, and that he is in fact a giant piece of shit. inside and out, covered in it. all his supporters know that too. the ones that are delusional enough to not see that are QAnon people and/or lost causes. in a way, his awfulness has become predictable.

covid19 and the economy and his always escalating white supremacy, though, are things that are happening in the present that are still unpredictable and very important to pay attention to. they'll dominate. maybe there will be news of a couple other women he slept with and paid off through national enquirer or whatever. but no one cares about that shit any more. that was donald trump misbehaving on one of his good days, back when he hoped he would be on E! or perhaps a carson daly segment. but all of that of kind of gets ran over by "another 1000 people died today"

the obsession some ppl have with his tax returns has always been moronic, the world in which that could ever have mattered vanished with his election

see also russiagate

the only way they could ever be relevant (in the sense the resitance people want them to be) is if they revealed prosecutable crimes that are prosecuted during his presidency. that ship/boat has sailed and was probably always magical thinking.

they are completely irelevant in a "trial by media" sense when there's a pandemic happening.

and i tend to agree with the idea that if they were to become a story while he is president (they won't) it would help him rather than hurt him.

seeing the guy driving the boat slam into the floor is one of the most satisfying things I've ever seen

hope the equivalent happens to trump in november

luxury avenue denigrated

From Fifth Avenue to Fulton Street to Richmond Terrace, NYC has a message for the world: #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/wtkzCHpURm

— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) July 9, 2020

WHERES THOSE SIMON H TAX RETURNS

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