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

oh youve got a ways to go on me....

(what pct of the voting populace do you think knows Trump lost the popular vote in '16? surely less than half)

Doug Henning otm.
https://doughenningproject.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/cropped-doug1.jpg?w=200

i meant to post this one... Some of the replies are funny.

Big if true: Trump says a Biden victory would mean the end of religion!

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 19, 2020

i meant to post this one... Some of the replies are funny.

Big if true: Trump says a Biden victory would mean the end of religion!

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 19, 2020

Rage-o-centric popular political theory 🤔

welcome to 2020 polling, where the two presumed candidates running for president of the united states of america are respectively negatively polling at 51% and 39%, not with their awareness of issues domestic or abroad, moral stance or even their general fitness for the position, but for their ability to SPEAK COHERENTLY ON CAMERA FOR TEN MINUTES

This is really our fault for cheering on teens who talked an elderly guy into running for president so they could run his twittter account

Kanye criticizing Tubman and ranting about other things yesterday, but I thought he's said a week or two back he actually wasn't running? (yes I know, not that it matters because he won't be on the ballot anywhere anyway)

Apparently one of his misinformed(?) spokespeople said he wasn't running, but that got walked back.

Why would you think he won't be on the ballot anywhere?

He's already on the ballot in Oklahoma.

Why would you think he won't be on the ballot anywhere?

obviously, i mean oklahoma is key to the kanye electoral map, absolutely essential to win if he has a path

Ah I misunderstood the q. He will be on the ballot in >0 states

Colorado requires $1000, deadline 8/5
Georgia requires 5250 signatures, deadline 8/14
Iowa requires 1500 signatures, deadline 8/14
Minnesota requires 2000 signatures, deadline 8/18
Missouri requires 1000 signatures, deadline 7/27
Nevada requires 9608 signatures, deadline 8/14
New Hampshire requires 3000 signatures, deadline 9/2
Ohio requires 5000 signatures, deadline 8/5
Pennsylvania requires 5000 signatures, deadline 8/3
Virginia requires 5000 signatures, deadline 8/21
Wisconsin requires 2000 signatures, deadline 8/4

Not as many as you'd think based on the reporting. He's been scrambling to get on the ballot in the states with deadlines this month, but he's still eligible in 40+ states.

Sorry, that was in response to caek saying "He's missed a bunch of deadlines."

A billionaire doesn't really have to be smart or mentally stable to get something done. He just needs to say that he wants it and his money makes it happen for him.

wait, did someone say someone with lots of money wants something to happen???

*runs toward the loudest noise, stomping all over whatever is in the way*

This really is just the worst motherfucking timeline.

where do they think they’re gonna find voters for whom “crime” is a presidential campaign issue

There are millions and millions of people who think "crime" (by which they mean mugging, rape, and home invasion, not tax fraud, wage theft, and public corruption) are at all-time highs even though the rate is half what it was within their lifetimes.

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Sure they ought to be able to range without blame being placed on them for it.
And then watch what that leads to in election results. Unfortunately elections are decided by emotional reactions, not true justified morality.

rage, not range

Are we really going to get into the semantics of what a fuckin' "bunch" is again?

10 states is a "bunch" of states, and Oklahoma is one state where you can buy your way onto the ballot, of which there are only 3. He's trying to gather the signatures for South Carolina right now, but there are already problems where he listed places people could supply their signatures, only for people at those locations to have no idea what Ye was talking about.

He's also directing people to Docusign even though it's unclear if SC allows DocuSign to count as signatures.

It's pretty obvious that his "ground game" is disjointed and he will likely fail to get needed signatures by the deadlines in many other states.

President Trump on Monday said he will resume giving regular coronavirus briefings this week, reviving a practice that is controversial among some aides as infections surge across the United States. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he would deliver a briefing at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

The only reason Biden shouldnt bait this camera hog into TV debates is the risk of his own verbal slapstick.

A billionaire doesn't really have to be smart or mentally stable to get something done. He just needs to say that he wants it and his money makes it happen for him.

― Dan I., Monday, July 20, 2020 11:56 AM bookmarkflaglink

Sure, and this is why said billionaire attempted to get 132,000 signatures in FL, even hiring a staffer and team to gather the signatures, only to say "fuck it" when he realized it was too difficult and let the deadline pass, and firing the staff he just hired

but think about how many temp jobs that created

I wouldn't be shocked if he only appears on buy-in states and a handful of other scattered states

Xpost lol KM

Neanderthal, I really appreciate the reality check you are giving here, but I think it could be forgiven for people to really be a little on edge about things happening that "shouldn't" happen. All it takes will be Ye getting on one ballot and siphoning just enough votes for either Trump to take said state, or enough for Trump to throw an absolute shitfit about "voter fraud" and make it another sticking point, both of which could 100% be avoided by, you know, him just not running at all.

There are so many things for us to worry about right now that I think it's perfectly reasonable to prioritize "Kanye West's Presidential run" at the bottom of the pile; for me, it's currently underneath "Getting An STI From A Toilet Seat"

I mean, that's pretty much what I would said about Trump after his announcement.

Not that I think Kanye has any chance at all to win or even make a dent, just that - best case - it's enough of a smokescreen that the media is going to lap up that it's yet another distraction from shit we should actually be dealing with.

turns out he submitted exactly zero signatures in south carolina: https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/kanye-west-fails-to-submit-petition-signatures-needed-to-get-on-sc-presidential-ballot/article_e1dd255e-caa1-11ea-b57d-437173ca8e9c.html

To jon: there was a time I couldn't imagine anything sadder and more unlikely than being a "Trump campaign volunteer" - yeah who would work for free for a rich assclown with no realistic electoral path?

A "West campaign volunteer" would seem pretty silly to me but given all the things that have happened....

All West has to do to potentially mess with Biden's chances is get on the ballot in WI and PA.

I mean, he appeared in one poll, and in that poll, he siphoned off Trump voters. This "Kanye will steal Biden voters" is theoretical and unproven.

I'm not telling anybody what to worry about cos lord knows I can't sleep at night myself

If Biden's lead is as gargantuan as every poll has suggested, there's not much damage Kanye can do.

This is bad, real bad, Michael Jackson

I'm not losing any sleep over Kanye, don't get me wrong, it's just not something that needed to happen at all, and only injects more chaos and uncertainty into an election that already has plenty of both.

My bigger concern, at the moment, is the "federal agents" the current president is sending to Chicago now.

President Trump on Monday said he will resume giving regular coronavirus briefings

Someone convinced him that his Tulsa rally and AZ campaign swing were disasters and his chances of holding big rallies in TX, FL, ID, and most other 'favorable' states any time soon were almost nil. So, it's back to more two hour of rambling self-praise in the Rose Garden. Should be good. Maybe he'll start throwing Trump Steaks and Trump Water to the reporters.

Trump, who held court at the briefings, often for more than an hour, shared the news with reporters during a morning event in the Oval Office.

“I was doing them, and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching in the history of cable television, and there’s never been anything like it,” Trump said.

...fuck this guy

BREAKING: Trump's Homeland Security Department is making plans to deploy about 150 agents in Chicago this week, with the scope of their duty unknown. @chicagotribune with @JeremyGorner https://t.co/jKASckt7hA

— Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt) July 20, 2020

fascisto

"I don't need invitations by the state, state mayors, or state governors to do our job. We're going to do that, whether they like us there or not.” — acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf pic.twitter.com/Rr2P8q6Ut1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2020

Chad Wolf has been taking lessons from Bill Barr.

Unfortunately, it looks like shit is going to get ugly in Chicago.

No lie, in the early morning hours after election night, when I finally fell asleep, I had a nightmare about tanks rolling into Chicago, sent by Trump, to "clean up the scummy Democrat run cities". No tanks, yet, but I hate how prescient that particular nightmare was.

Sorry, that was in response to caek saying "He's missed a bunch of deadlines."

― jaymc, Monday, July 20, 2020 11:56 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

true but he's also committing fairly open registration fraud afaict

just realized: this thread title sounds like a Killers album title.

this looks explicitly like overtures of fascist takeover attempts on major cities to try to bully the local government and populace. fed officials/state reps need to stand up about this immediately

it seems pretty obvious to me that Kanye running is (if anything) a good thing, anyone brokebrained enough to vote Kanye was gonna vote Trump anyway and the idea that black people were gonna pick him over Biden never seemed to be based on anything but his race