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

so where are these Qanon dummies going to go now that they've all been banned and filtered out of Twitter? Will this shit finally die or are they on some other platform tying Twitter together with Trump wishing Maxwell 'well?

they're on ICQAnon

There's always a new platform.

This might finally be Parler's moment.

impeach Barr

^ YES!

FUUUUUCK this guy. I hope a piano falls on him.

Scoop: James Comey to release new book in January

In a new book 10 days before the inauguration, former FBI Director James Comey will take aim at politicization of the Justice Department under President Trump, who fired him.

"Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust," out Jan. 12, is a follow-up to Comey's No. 1 New York Times bestseller, "A Higher Loyalty." A press release from Comey’s publisher, Flatiron, says he'll also discuss his career prosecuting mobsters in New York. Comey famously compared Trump to a mob boss in his last book.

The state of play: Comey has kept a relatively low profile since his last book.

He has written occasional op-eds and hot tweets, but resisted numerous invitations to appear on TV.

Comey envisions the new book as an effort to remind Americans about the core principles of the justice system and how to rebuild them under what he hopes will be a new administration.

The publisher calls it "a clarion call for a return to non-partisan law enforcement centered on American values."

Make that two pianos, one just for the "hot tweets."

God bless you for finding a way to make some bank from this clusterfuck, James! It's almost as if you're part of his administration!

getting these two results among the same respondents seems significant

New TX @QuinnipiacPoll: Biden 45, Trump 44

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 22, 2020

Texas Senate GE:
John Cornyn (R-inc) 47% (+9)
M.J. Hegar (D) 38%@QuinnipiacPoll 7/16-20https://t.co/xfGNohcDYU #TXsen

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 22, 2020

check out the Rasmussen (!) poll from Ohio:

OHIO
Biden 47% (+4)
Trump 43%@Rasmussen_Poll/@theamgreatness 7/15-16https://t.co/JytrKulilk

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 21, 2020

lol so that's more like an 8 or 9 point lead then

Dudes

I think Biden might have a chance

let's do this again tomorrow

I wonder if future presidential campaigns will utilize the "taking a several month long nap" strategy that seems to be working here

depends on whether future incumbents are legendary ignoramuses or not

unsure where else to put this as I don't think we have a US law and prosecution thread but it's a riveting and heartbreaking read
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/21/they-agreed-to-meet-their-mother-s-killer-then-tragedy-struck-again

getting these two results among the same respondents seems significant

The UT-Tyler poll from a couple of weeks ago showed an even greater split between the presidential and Senate races: Biden +5 and Cornyn +13 (vs. Hegar, though she hadn't actually won the primary yet). In both that poll and the new Quinnipiac one, independents are deadlocked in the Senate race but break toward Biden by like +20.

People hate politicians, but their local guy's all right, not like the rest of those scum.

All 50

I want all 50 fucking states.

Navy vet seen in viral vid clashing w/federal officers in Portland tells @ABC he wants to use attention on him "to refocus this whole discussion back to Black Lives Matter."

“If I had been a black veteran...do you think I would have gotten as much attention as I did?” pic.twitter.com/OZHsFCqkE3

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) July 22, 2020

That statement from the US Marshals at the end is so transparently horseshit.

Rooster Cogburn wept.

i realize this is exactly what he's asking people not to do (focus on a single white guy avatar), but he seems like a good guy.

So the federal law enforcement surge in Chicago, is this in response to the protests or to other violent crime in Chicago? If it's in response to existing violent crime, will these officers be doing any actual policing to curb violent crime or will they be tear gassing protesters? It's ok, I know these questions don't have any logical answer.

Protests and no. They’re just meat for Trump’s moron base that he’s cracking down on THOSE people.

Chicago does sound like a crazy warzone right now. Something like 80 people shot since last Friday!

No doubt an assortment of federal troops from a hodgepodge of agencies is well equipped and trained to deal effectively with gang violence. I'm looking forward to this utter clusterfuck.

As I understand it, Lightfoot has been very cautious about what kind of "help" she wants, while Pritzker has been at least as suspicious. Regardless, let's see where these feds pop up. It's a very big city and the violence is by and large limited to certain areas and neighborhoods. Given that Asshole always does the wrong thing, I wouldn't be shocked if these 150 fed folks were directed to protect Columbus statues (and bait protestors) rather than actually assist in suppressing gang violence.

like it matters whether she endorses him or not

Susan Collins refuses to endorse Trump because, "I have a difficult race. And I am concentrating my efforts on that race," she says https://t.co/FLz5lyQ8oB

— Essenviews - Demand The Truth (@essenviews) July 22, 2020

wow, her Tianenman Square

"Tianenman Square" is an anagram for "so brave."

Profiles in Meh-rage.

august thread title: person, woman, man, camera, tv

oh yes pls do

just hope I'll be able to remember it

you get extra points if you do

We should have a rolling "next month's thread title" thread.

Good morning!

We should have a rolling "next month's thread title" thread.

Great, so we can argue about what THAT thread should be called.

Then there could be a "rolling 'next month's thread title' thread title thread."

...into the shitbin

The Washington Post reports:

Senate Republicans have cast aside one of President Trump’s key demands in their emerging coronavirus stimulus package, refusing to include a payroll tax cut in their opening offer to Democrats, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is aiming to unveil on Thursday.

Their proposal also would slash enhanced unemployment benefits for millions of workers — even as the Labor Department reported Thursday that weekly unemployment claims had risen for the first time in four months, to 1.4 million last week.

it continues to amaze me (i know) that he continued to push for those payroll tax cuts, both now and a few months ago in the first round, even though they only benefit people with jobs! for legislation seemingly intended to help unemployed people! lol! even to the point of calling up his pal Arthur Laffer to tell him and others what a great idea it was for the economy! seriously man, lol! fuck!

they must be really confident that they can cheat their way back into power in November

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/us/portland-protests-mayor/index.html

Mayor Ted Wheeler was tear gassed in downtown Portland early Thursday morning, according to video and posts on Twitter from a New York Times journalist.
The video shows Wheeler, wearing goggles and a face mask amid a crowd of people, hold his nose and close his eyes in distress as a cloud of tear gas drifts by him.
"It stings. It's hard to breathe. I can tell you with 100% honesty I saw nothing that provoked this response," Wheeler said to the Times camera. "I'm not afraid but I am pissed off."
It's unknown at this time who is responsible for deploying the tear gas and there is nothing to indicate the mayor was targeted. Portland Police said they did not deploy any CS gas, a commonly used type of tear gas.
CNN has reached out to the mayor's office for additional comment.
The video appeared to come after Wheeler joined crowds to listen to protesters and answer their questions in response to violent clashes between demonstrators and federal forces, whose camouflage, troop-like uniforms and aggressive tactics have exacerbated the protests.

the most infuriating thing about this are the scores of Republicans using this footage in their re-election ads claiming that "this would be Joe Biden's America"

this IS donald trumps america!

https://youtu.be/Vey7GKNpl4Q

"It stings. It's hard to breathe. I can tell you with 100% honesty I saw nothing that provoked this response," Wheeler said to the Times camera. "I'm not afraid but I am pissed off."

i'm not sure i've ever seen/read something like this, in the US, at least.

the mayor saying that, i mean