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

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

One just approached my husband in the parking lot of our grocery store. Asked for his signature to get Kanye on the ballot because “we want to split the vote” to help Trump. https://t.co/0XGFfriKKL

— Paige Lavender (@paigelav) July 26, 2020

xpost

My advice: don't waste much time reading replies to reactionary tweets, but what a horrible person Cotton is.

I've seen the mook mentioned along with Cruz and Nikki Haley as likely candidates for president in 2024. So it turns out that Haley is the most likable of the bunch? Ugh, I hate this state, she practically bankrupted it.

Bring them on, they’re all detestable and they’ve all enabled and apologized for Trump.

the only GOP villains I worry about for 2024 are Haley and Eyepatch Guy

I am a little skeptical that West Virginia is in play but gah.

Though, the state is name after Kanye, so maybe...

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.

Folks, the new TRAILER is up, with a report from Detroit about the coming "squad" primary battles - Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib facing real challenges. Their opponents don't have much in common apart from accusing Omar and Tlaib of being showboats https://t.co/IFJwFem532

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 26, 2020

https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/trump-abandons-plan-to-throw-out-1st-pitch-at-yankee-stadium

Trump Hates Baseball!

White House aides afraid that he'd bring a football by mistake

Wait, so his name is… Tom… Cotton…?

xps

it’s so funny to imagine the president sitting down and reading a list of $10 donors and sitting upright in his chair yelling at jared WHERE IS BILL BUTTLIPS OF WEST BONGWATER TEXAS HE IS MY BEST SUPPORTER

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 27, 2020

"see if Dan Druff is willing to increase his monthly commitment"

What about Ed Markey? He wins or nah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvu_K-2S0Wo&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1dNKR2IUWlInNS_Ez0-ZMP4PdOs7WdGV_QgZL8q81P7ZxG14IByg4xp1g
ha ha

shorter version of the same clip that didn't link there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKFJvksc8ZI

So the Washington Post is running the Reagan Foundation, and RINO Paul Ryan is on the Board of Fox, which has been terrible. We will win anyway, even with the phony @FoxNews suppression polls (which have been seriously wrong for 5 years)! https://t.co/fOi3AROxuz

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2020

Lotta layers there

looking forward to the DJTJ presidential campaign in 2028.

Haley is no better than any of the damp gross idiots who will run in 2024, but she will get traction as POC woman taking the GOP iNtO tEh FuTuRe by media idiots.

PUMAs will have their revenge.

yeah haley is the one that scares me

maybe I'm wrong about this but I think Trump's extreme whininess about literally everything is the one thing that connects him to the idiots who vote for them and I don't think anyone else is gonna be able to replicate that

I've said this before but Haley is a genuine threat imho, much moreso than a lot of these goons. I base this mostly on the admiration I've heard people personally express for her

Drag me if you must but I legitimately think Haley would not be as bad at the actual job as Josh Hawley or Tom Cotton or mini-Trump or Tucker Carlson would be. The "I'm worried that the Republicans might nominate someone with base-level confidence and the ability to dial the racism down to a 5 because it makes it more likely they'll win" has been burned out of me over the last three years.

i simply cannot see modern republican voters overcoming their deep-seated misogyny to rally as one behind a woman candidate, no matter how fascistic

I think they’d be fine with any woman who’s pro-life, pro-gun, pro-cop

yup

and in fact most would delight in the opportunity to appear more "inclusive" with the right spokesperson

hayley is about the most acceptable one of the bunch and that's not saying much.

On a flight to Israel late last year the guy sitting next to me was wearing a red hat & reading what was at the time Haley's new book. I too am convinced she'll be the next GOP nominee, I am Tom Friedman btw

I know it's not the first time Trump has called Ryan a RINO, but it's still funny to me to imagine Ryan, a self-described movement conservative whose views defined the GOP mainstream for 30+ years, now finding himself excoriated by a Republican president as not a true Republican.

tbh i think y'all are underestimating just how much america hates women but hey what do i know