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

(oops, forgot to add the rest of the "before i get flamed" comment, but maybe i'll just leave that dangling there)

YMP, are you arguing that one of the two or three biggest newspapers in the US should not document the fact that the US president is a jabbering moron with the emotional grip-strength of a two-year-old? Because it lacks partisan value?

presumably a major section of WaPo readership never tires of those stories as it feeds the permarage they are hopelessly addicted to

not to defend the permarage, and certainly not to defend the particular kind of permarage/obsession that focuses in on all the least important details (what melania is doing, covfefe, whether or not trump is actually in a failing state of cognitive ability and can no longer form sentences out loud), but perhaps once Canada is led by a Trump-like administration and half of your fellow citizens lap it up like hitler youth, you'll have a bit of sympathy for the people who are hopelessly addicted to new information on the thing that has ruined their lives

it never ceases to amaze how thoroughly the Right has built up AOC as this all-powerful demogorgon. I saw a TV ad last night against Cal Cunningham, the extremely MOR milquetoast dude trying to unseat Thom Tillis in the Senate, that OF COURSE prominently featured her. because yes, if centrist Cal Cunningham is elected to the goddamn Senate to represent North Carolina, he is definitely going to be the minion of a one-term House member from the Bronx.

tbc it's not the symptom I'm criticizing (I get it!) it's the treatment xp

and don't worry we'll get our national-level trump one day, we just lag behind

are you arguing that one of the two or three biggest newspapers in the US should not document the fact that the US president is a jabbering moron with the emotional grip-strength of a two-year-old? Because it lacks partisan value?

No, I am not arguing that. I am actually curious! Like, I genuinely wish to know (a) to what extent people's minds can be changed by information and (b) whether anyone's minds are actually changing. It's not a rhetorical question but an interrogative one.

to find the person whose mind can potentially be changed, we first need to take a journalistic journey to a small town in rural Pennsylvania. Maude's Diner was opened in 1984, in the heart of Reagan country, and some of those first patrons are still there as I step through th-

in a weird way, i think this sums up the 2020 experience better than pretty much anything

Holy shit whoever edited this takedown of the Hill it's absolute 🔥🔥🔥

(and @VaushV commentary wasn't bad either) pic.twitter.com/lfneWQZ1lq

— The Serfs (@theserfstv) July 10, 2020

lol fuck

it never ceases to amaze how thoroughly the Right has built up AOC as this all-powerful demogorgon

after 16 years they've forgotten how to run against a white guy, so they have little choice but to point the racial outrage machine at brown women

@realDonaldTrump
Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status...
Donald J. Trump

... and/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!

cool when does the book burning start?

that's a lot of Capitalization

lol looks like a mocking SpongeBob meme

it never ceases to amaze how thoroughly the Right has built up AOC as this all-powerful demogorgon

she's popular, charismatic, good at Twitter, is a legitimate outsider and has great, bold ideas...in other words, everything they wish Trump was

Aw.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-nh-rally-postponed.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status...

Sure, right after churches lose theirs.

The religious right thinks the Second Coming of Christ will be him riding in on a Harley with a "BITCHES LEAVE" tank top on

i think they're afraid AOC is the second coming of christ and they're slowly realizing that the romans made some good points

I just want deities to follow the law

Trump is good at Twitter

Quantity does not equal quality.

Much like his logs

Grifting grifting grifting

https://www.citizensforethics.org/members-of-congress-ppp-transparency/

Currently outside Roger Stone’s Fort Lauderdale rat hole: a big party with Jessi Melton, repugnant rice baiting Republican conspiracy theorist running against @TedDeutch. There’s a big banner for her, flags and a big "FUCK CNN" banner hanging from his house. No masks on anyone.

— Lesley Abravanel🆘 (@lesleyabravanel) July 11, 2020

ugh Ft. Lauderdale

muggy as shit

That might be the most repugnant tweet I've ever read

boca is much less muggy, true

what is rice baiting?

Roger Stone Free

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I take some amount of solace in knowing roger stone will celebrate by going to a giant swingers’ party in florida, contract covid, and die within a month

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 11, 2020

Inshallah

The Lincoln Project rules

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— Anthony 🔰 土着 (@Viscous_cree) July 11, 2020

there's some enemy-of-my-enemy stuff going on here that will dissolve the minute Trump's out of office but i can't imagine in what alternate reality any of that would be news to people who regularly read this thread

maybe someone i've killfiled is firing off dreamy poesies about that shitheel rick wilson i don't know

Well, he did bring some nice harmonies on "Don't Worry Baby."

https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/polls-werent-far-2016-they-arent-wrong-now-either

I don't even know where this should go, but these guys are such complete assholes they should probably go here:

Bravo, ⁦@stltoday⁩ https://t.co/7tMOYykdxO

— erica orden (@eorden) July 11, 2020

and Susan Collins is troubled

Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) July 11, 2020

The McCloskeys have filed many other lawsuits. They sued a man who sold them a Maserati they claimed was supposed to come with a box of hard-to-find parts. In one trip to the courthouse in November 1996, Mark McCloskey filed two lawsuits, one against a dog breeder whom he said sold him a German shepherd without papers and the other against the Central West End Association for using a photo of their house in a brochure for a house tour after the McCloskeys had told them not to.

“I guess we were saving gas,” he would quip in a deposition in another case about why he filed two lawsuits at once.

Mark McCloskey has run off trustees trying to make repairs to the wall surrounding his property, insisting that he and his wife own it. In 2013, he destroyed bee hives placed just outside of the mansion’s northern wall by the neighboring Jewish Central Reform Congregation and left a note saying he did it, and if the mess wasn’t cleaned up quickly he would seek a restraining order and attorneys fees. The congregation had planned to harvest the honey and pick apples from trees on its property for Rosh Hashanah.'

“The children were crying in school,” Rabbi Susan Talve said. “It was part of our curriculum.”

what's hilarious is that similar kinds of anecdotes both proceed and follow the excerpt above. these two are a cartoon supervillain assholes, and especially Mark. jfc

don't jinx it, don't jinx it

Remarkable. The non-partisan and quite small-c conservative Inside Elections senate ratings have now moved Lindsey Graham's race into the competitive category. 12 GOP seats in play. (Graham's opponent is Jaime Harrison.) https://t.co/QqwYj51qcq

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 11, 2020

oh please oh please oh please

I have been donating to Jaime's campaign monthly. Prayinnnn

holy shit

Senate Dem candidates reported raising a boatload of $$$. Why does that matter? In an tied race in June, a challenger who outraises the incumbent 2:1 gains 3 pts on average during the rest of the race. Now, multiple that by 5 tossup races. It's a huge deal https://t.co/3TT3Gavmmh

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 11, 2020

It's pretty clear to me that the Senate control is not a 50/50 proposition. It's pretty clear it tilts towards the Dems. (Not anywhere to the extent the prez race does.) But I'm gonna wait til all the fundraising is in before doing an update.

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 11, 2020

That confuses correlation and causation but still, donate if you can to these senate races.

Dumb question, is it better to donate to a campaign now or closer to the actual election?