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

DJT with the Little Creatures deep cuts

Has any GOP politician died of Covid?

Nah, they've just been harvesting the lungs of the young to keep on tickin'.

Hence the goon squad abductions.

hooooly shit

Rep. Gohmert was tested several times before his planned trip to Texas with POTUS. Now he will isolate for 10 days.@replouiegohmert: “I can’t help but wonder if by keeping a mask on, if I might have put some… of the virus on the mask and breathed it in” https://t.co/FSNbdLtvk3

— Cynthia McLaughlin (@cynthiasmu) July 29, 2020

haha, and another pull quote from gohmert from that interview:

"If somebody feels strongly about everybody should wear a mask, then they shouldn’t be around people that don’t wear masks.”

hmm, if you reverse that it starts to make a little more sense:

if somebody feels strongly that they should NOT wear a mask, then they shouldn't be around people that DO wear masks

KM the "well if you believe this, then logically you should also believe..." line of argument does not apply to any of these idiots and it never has

lol he truly is as stupid as they come

PLAYBOOK PM: After we reported that @replouiegohmert was positive, we got an email from a Gohmert aide. pic.twitter.com/x31CSOdkLf

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 29, 2020

wow I honestly hope he dies

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/portland-federal-agents-leaving-protests-homeland-security/index.html

I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2020

Saw Suburban Lifestyle Dream open for Soccer Mommy, they sucked

Ever since PM came out, Ive gotten a flood of emails from republican staffers who say they too are being forced to come to the hill without a mask now.

If you’re one of those people, email me or dm me.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 29, 2020

hey I don't say this often but Donald Trump is a fucking ghoul and I hope his brains explode

if Barr gets it and dies of the VID along with Louie Gohmert, their bodies should be dropped out of a helicopter onto the Capitol steps

trump is just going back to the tactics that first got him on the front page of the times.

I know, he's not a galaxy brain and this whole "beautiful suburbs" thing is a huge racist dog whistle, but...like, does he *know* that the racial composition of the suburbs has changed dramatically in the past two decades?

More than half of all minority groups in large metro areas, including blacks,
now reside in the suburbs. The share of blacks in large metro areas living in
suburbs rose from 37 percent in 1990, to 44 percent in 2000, to 51 percent in
2010. Higher shares of whites (78 percent), Asians (62 percent), and Hispanics (59
percent) in large metro areas live in suburbs.

He just couldn’t spell exurbs probably

if Barr gets it and dies of the VID along with Louie Gohmert, their bodies should be dropped out of a helicopter onto the Capitol steps

I know song parodies sung by government employees isn't everyone's cup of tea, but...

TRUMP: “When you say per capita, there’s many per capitas. It’s like per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category and we’re really at the top”

US testing and death rate per capita is worse than other industrialized countries: https://t.co/BPLwn1aTdy pic.twitter.com/0muEjBzbMW

— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) May 20, 2020

deep sigh

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

well, i don't really think that per capita can be assessed as of itself as being per capita because what does per capita feel like?

oh, that's from the ancient day of may 20, 2020. we can safely assume that's he's put in the time and effort to learn what the (very common, essential) term "per capita" means

we should try to find a way of using "per capita" that puts things on a comparable playing field, so we can do "apples to apples" comparisons

We're Really At The Top or There's Many Per Capitas for August Thread Title.

Oh, nm. Vintage Tweet.

You're going to have to be more specific when you are referring to per capitas, I can think of at least four different per capitas.

he like-a da red capita

TRUMP: “When you say per capita, there’s many per capitas. It’s like per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category and we’re really at the top”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20kM2xtUfBI

he probably thinks "per Capita" is a song from Kiss Me, Kate

Karl Marx - Per Capita

Ironically the suburbs stuff plays best in a state he has no chance of winning, and I suspect the Liveable California folks (ie racist anti-tax nimbys) are not thrilled that their alignment with Trump (who is using their exact language here) is going to be brought up regularly now.

are nextdoor nazis really shying away from trumpism

Yakov Smirnoff appeared at a Branson city meeting tonight. He opposed a mask ordinance. pic.twitter.com/BRpEwwZpiQ

— Rob Zerwekh (@zerwekh) July 29, 2020

What A Country!

In Fascist country, mask wears you!

In America, comedian is doctor.

ACLU, here's one for you:

https://www.propublica.org/article/defendant-shall-not-attend-protests-in-portland-getting-out-of-jail-requires-relinquishing-constitutional-rights

bouie was just discussing on twitter how plenty of people think trump can win reelection but essentially no one thinks he can win the popular vote. that's pretty fucked up!

there will be a time and place to address electoral reform. but it is not right now, after 2 of the last 5 presidential terms have been won by republican presidents who didn't win the popular vote. instead, we must wait 10-20 years to talk about it, sometime in the distant future, when there is greater trust and integrity in politics

are nextdoor nazis really shying away from trumpism

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 5:07 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Probably not in private (these groups predate nextdoor and Reagan for that matter), but they know which way the wind blows and they’ve spent the last couple of decades rebranding their public image.

Insane thread from IL GOP Senate candidate (lol, good luck with that), in which he offers the perfect motto for the GOP in 2020: "Death will eventually come for everyone."

Re: IHSA changes fall sports

My son found out today about his upcoming football season. My thoughts? The Devil is about fear and isolation. Does he own you? How much more of my son's childhood are we going to steal? Death will eventually come for everyone. 1/ #ILSen #Twill pic.twitter.com/9Lc5ylPPhv

— Fmr. Sheriff Mark Curran (R) 🇺🇸 (@ElectMarkCurran) July 29, 2020

reminds me of that dialogue from BASEketball:

(scene in a hospital with terminally ill kid)

"I'm gonna die"
"Well, we're all gonna die"
"Yeah, but not this week!"

So I guess we’ve reached that singularity where all public speech functions as an August thread title generator

That must mean this will all be over soon! Right?

every new thread brings us one month closer to the end. but OF WHAT

There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.

want to say “posting” but I think that’s maybe not it

xp

Is the rapture still a thing, I mean donny boy being such a religious individual and all.