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

tbrwu I have hardly ever heard of anything at all at this point

A Yacht, a Monet, a See-Through Piano

tbf I thought this was just another thing on Trump's competency test

A Yacht, a Monet, a See-Through Piano, Panama!

Madam I am Corrupt

Quote from White House @PresSec: "[Trump] is also appalled by cancel culture... we saw a few weeks ago that Paw Patrol, a cartoon show about cops, was canceled. COPS was canceled. Live PD was canceled. Lego halted sales of their lego city police station. It's really unfortunate."

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 24, 2020

I want this to end

we saw a few weeks ago that Paw Patrol, a cartoon show about cops, was canceled.

i fuckin wish!!!!!

First they came for paw patrol...

http://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/5f1b0114eb1eec154599e09b/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/A24484.jpg

xp Goldman/1MDB scandal is really amazing, thanks for the flag. the initial settlement article does a bad job of context really, so also thanks for follow up-

class action suit

i mean, imagine if, uh, let me just make these up without looking around my living room, it's like if remote control, book, floor, coffee table, rug joined the lawsuit, haha

Praxis

Shoutout to @KingJames for paying fines and fees with his voting rights organization so Floridians can vote!https://t.co/6nXpE3zm5H

— Voto Latino (@votolatino) July 24, 2020

I was hoping someone would set up a fund for that. I just donated:
https://wegotthevote.org/finesandfees/

thanks for sharing taht. I just did as well and shared.

Already donated, in before LeBron!

Anyone informed on what's happening with Shahid Buttar? seeing allegations of mistreatment, and DSA considering removing their endorsement

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/shahid-buttar-campaign-allegations/

Hey @NYCMayor you ok with the NYPD expanding its power to revoke press credentials and restrict journalists’ freedom to cover stories?https://t.co/F1RjLxukZA

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 24, 2020

Re:Buttar, I'm not surprised. His Twitter presence is unprofessional and I've seen multiple long-time SF racial justice activists say they don't trust him and that he only started showing up at actions the last couple months. It's a shame because we really need a progressive candidate to at least try to keep Nancy honest (#morbsbait) but he's not it.

He didn't really have a chance in hell anyway, right?

Another huge crowd tonight in Portland, including a new "wall" on the front lines: a Wall of Vets.

Here's a look at the line of military veterans getting set up here in front of the federal courthouse. Behind them, the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Dads are arriving. pic.twitter.com/gGnXHjI3k2

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020

whattayaknow, he ended up building walls after all

Xxpost - probably not but these are crazy times.

with the continued brain poisoning of the religious right, a little excited to see how it makes its way into the Contemporary Christian Music scene.

new releases like

Jesus Rifle - Fuck Your Feelings
Faith Terrorist - My Right as an American
Christhammer - Jesus Isn't a Cunt

The Washington Post reports:

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, which runs the 40th president’s library near Los Angeles, has demanded that President Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) quit raising campaign money by using Ronald Reagan’s name and likeness.

“It was simply handled with a phone call mid-last week to the RNC, and they agreed to stop,” Reagan Foundation chief marketing officer Melissa Giller said in an email Saturday.

What came to the foundation’s attention — and compelled officials there to complain — was a fundraising email that went out July 19 with “Donald J. Trump” identified as the sender and a subject line that read: “Ronald Reagan and Yours Truly.”

Good morning!

Approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has hit a new low, with just 32 percent of Americans saying they support his strategy, according to a poll released Sunday.

Notably, the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found support for the president’s handling of the pandemic has dipped among Republicans, with 68 percent now approving of his handling of it.

The poll also found that 81 percent of Republicans approve of the president’s overall job performance, contradicting a claim Trump repeatedly makes — including in a tweet Friday — that his approval within his own party remains steady at 96 percent.

Trump's overall approval rating remains fairly constant at 38 percent, although just 2 in 10 of those polled said the country is heading in the right direction, a new low for the Trump presidency.

The poll found approval of the president’s handling of the economic crisis has dipped, too — with just 38 percent of Americans now saying the economy is good, down from the 67 percent in January, before the pandemic's spread.

The numbers come as the president changed his tone on the coronavirus pandemic in this week’s White House task force briefing and on social media in a tacit acknowledgment he is facing polling headwinds 100 days out from the November general election.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/26/support-for-trumps-coronavirus-strategy-dips-381509

lol fuck off R Reagan Presidential Foundation.

your ‘movement’ built this.

His bowel movement, maybe.

Getting worried about Illhan Omar

Seeing a lot of Antone signs, the amount of the campaign is spending is insane

I'm getting I'd say 6-8 mailers a week, some now not from his campaign but attack fliers from PACs

noted and donating rn

Awesome! I just did too.

Last poll I saw she was way up but congressional local primary polling who the fuck knows,I guess the guy she beat was way up too.

Though part of her base is the Somali community, could see that community being skeptical of polling.

Hmmm, the Trump administration is sending federal troops into cities in order to create "viral content"? Is the policy objective merely to dominate Twitter and Facebook? ---> https://t.co/9nxY4SxEkc pic.twitter.com/QT0QCWg0QX

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 25, 2020

Signs are no indication of, well, anything.

GOP are much better at this sort of symbolism. I need to find the 2012 story about Romney signs outnumbering Obama signs by a 3:1 ratio.

Good grief ilhan Omar is not going to lose

You don't have any basis for saying that. Within a 4 block radius of me there're like 3 Omar signs and 15 other guy

ah, haha, though I guess someone mentioned a 3:1 sign ratio two posts up, missed that

(and its potential for not reflecting reality)

Iirc I didn't see a single Trump sign before his election. Or maybe literally a single Trump sign.

I’ve posted before that she is up 30 points in the polls.

She claims. I haven't seen any polling for this race

I can dig up the link if you want. She’s up 30 points. Feel free to worry if that’s your thing.

She’s up 66/29 in internal polling. Internal polling leans but not by 37 points.

Worrying is my thing.

Haha fair but if it gets to the stage where you’re sending her money (rather than a competitive race) then take a breather imo

Ok, this does make it a bit better, thanks.

#MN05 Democratic Primary:
Ilhan Omar 66% (+37)
Antone Melton-Meaux 29%@ChangePolls/@IlhanMN Internal Poll 7/7-9https://t.co/3jqXjAaSPc

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 17, 2020

She got money! but other more competitive races get it too

The other guy is grifting Fox News watchers. Good luck to him.

But if one of the most famous and hated congresspeople in the country were in a competitive race I feel like it would be in the news.

so apparently the country *was* built on slavery, but it would be wrong to mention it

Sen. Tom Cotton describes slavery as a "necessary evil" in an interview with @LockwoodFrank. Here are the full comments. https://t.co/xDeegYxMAh pic.twitter.com/jRItFIV1Gk

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) July 26, 2020

That’s appalling

and yet if you look in the tweet, you see a bunch of replies from dumbshits saying "as much as I hate Cotton, he's merely quoting...", as if it's an actual quote and not a paraphrase of something he believed them said and is in context agreeing with due to the presence of the word "as".

nah, we know what Tom meant. it's ok