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

2016, only the DNC is hacked, emails leaked in July
2020, twitter accounts of only Dems and left leaning billionaires hacked in July

There goes a big chunk of my optimism about the polls. Doesn’t matter how much of a lead Biden gets if the cards are all getting stacked for, minimally, an election that Trump can throw doubt and chaos into, or worse.

The timing and targets of this hack are just way too fucking convenient to be any bitcoin scam.

Actual Joe Biden campaign: follows up platform negotiated with Bernie Sanders with $2 million climate and jobs plan
Joe Biden campaign in my hallucinations: Steve Schmidt helped fund some anti-Trump ads so he is awarded unilateral control of Democratic policy if Biden wins https://t.co/tptJIesgrC

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) July 16, 2020

wow I really don't understand that

Elon Musk is "left leaning"?

I’d say more than he is right leaning, maybe? Point being, I didn’t see any notable right wing or GOPers targeted in that hack and it’s not like there’s a dearth of them with a ton of followers on twitter.

He's more libertarian

Elon is absolutely a right winger

It was done in a way to specifically avoid pissing off Trump’s DOJ, that’s all. Pathetic hack tbf, sad that Twitter didn’t have a better playbook for dealing with it

It was nice to lose the blue checks for half an hour but bummed we didn't get:

to whoevers hacking these accounts show us elons dms

— br◎seph (@on3ness) July 15, 2020

why would you fire parscale but also keep him around

firing him but not allowing him to leave is the ultimate punishment

lol lagoon should go viral on that one

why would you fire parscale but also keep him around

― mookieproof, Thursday, July 16, 2020 12:04 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

1. his company is a shell for $$$ being moved from the campaign to various family members iiuc.

2. there is no way the trump campaign has a bunch of other people who are set up to do the shady but effective ad tech parscale did before he became campaign manager. i'd be surprised if they had anyone who knows how to use excel.

jared

he knows vlookup

fuck, he knows xlookup

let's face it, he's the thought leader

*whispers* there is no xlookup, that's not possible, what has he done?

Maganauts madly googling "pivot table" rn

Dunno what the fuck you people buy for friojoles negros

whatever Benny's puts in the burrito

(RIP takeout)

there's literally no reaching people who think "repealing an obscure 2006 bill that intentionally bankrupted the post office" was too heavy a lift for a party that had merely 57 Senate votes in 2009

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) July 16, 2020

I'm a bay leaf truther who believes they don't really add any noticeable flavor to anything.

Re: Parscale, I liked this passive aggressive dig in the WaPo:

It’s unclear what the shake-up of campaign staff will achieve given that Trump often acts on his instincts and has shown little interest in taking the steps political strategists say would help him win over undecided voters.

I’m still chortling at a recent discussion postulating that a collective sublimated shame among the non-ride-or-die GOP has handicapped that party’s campaign vitality.

Their claim to fame is that they show no shame, so I don’t think that’s it. grab the jersey keep swinging basically.

Jacksonville’s NBC News affiliate reports:

The convention to nominate President Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president is going to happen in Jacksonville, but be much smaller than originally planned.

Rather than the 15,000 people originally scheduled to attend the event in Jacksonville next month, the communications director of the Republican National Convention announced Thursday that only about 2,500 people — mostly the regular delegates — will attend the first three days of the event, Aug. 24-26.

On the final night, Thursday, Aug. 27, delegates and alternates can attend with one guest as Trump delivers his acceptance speech.

lol parscale got demoted for dating Trump’s favorite diaper changer

RNC will take a tip from pro sports and pump recorded crowd noise and cheering in during Trump's speech.

Gonna use the crowd noise from The KLF's "3 AM Eternal" iirc

Campaign mgr fired for using audio from Showtime at the Apollo, so the booing is intense

I'd support the RNC having a Mork & Mindy-style laugh track.

morbius, that Pareene tweet is in response to what?

not aware of anything specific, besides general "we/they can't do anything" Dem bleating

I read Pareene's tweet as observing that people who think that particular thought are so vanishingly few that it is nearly impossible to locate them.

2020 is wild. https://t.co/0Qx9nMfNYS pic.twitter.com/w2uaXAFAha

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 16, 2020

Apparently the press secretary literally just said that science should not stand in the way of schools reopening.

"Delete your account!"

"Uh, OK, thanks..."

Also, he'll be back in 2 and 2.

This is an Auto Show-style demonstration, and people do not wash their hands at Auto Shows.

there’s a metaphor here alright but it’s not what they think it is https://t.co/DVCkTIEqMZ

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 16, 2020

Levels of Thought is one of my fax RZA tracks iirc

Trump promises that over the next 8 weeks "you will see levels of detail and you will see levels of thought that a lot of people believed very strongly we didn't have in this country" pic.twitter.com/UN7VL5Gzwg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 16, 2020

canny politics saving the details and thoughts to the final two months of the term

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-hebebpywzr/images/stencil/original/uploaded_images/truman-thumbnail.jpg?t=1532732403

what a fucking idiot.

he’s got a secret plan to end the war

...on Christmas!

Georgia Gov. suing Keisha Lance Bottoms (atlanta mayor) for her mask mandate. unreal.

good luck with that one, bitchnose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/16/how-joe-biden-is-moving-left-while-still-being-seen-moderate/

“It’s like stop and frisk meets Guantanamo Bay,” said attorney Juan Chavez, director of the civil rights project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center. [...] “It sounds more like abduction. It sounds like they’re kidnapping people off the streets.”

this is so enormously fucked up

https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/

So is this mainly an intimidation technique?

I mean not for the people actually getting thrown into vans

but yeah I guess so

Hate to say it but the 2nd amendment is starting to look appealing.

shooting federal officers probably wouldn't improve the situation or get us any closer to racial justice

for people worried about ilhan omar see the final item here https://primaries.substack.com/p/issue-73. she's drowning in endorsements (including from pelosi) and she's up 66/29 in her internal polling.

I believe Omar to be good at and have hired people good at maths