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

what's with the avalanche of assbags today

just a passing whimsical fancy

we're brainstorming podcast segment names for Defector

don't forget tho, Bernie would've lost massively to him, acc to all the DNC assbags

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, July 30, 2020 1:42 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Six months ago, I was making the electability argument for Bernie to anyone who would listen. Four months ago, I even voted for him. Now, I have to admit, I'm kind of glad that the nominee is a moderate who can promise baseline competency and won't scare anyone. That's not to say that Bernie wouldn't have won, but he would've made me nervous.

I think the fact that he kinda got stomped by Biden despite his core issues being more relevant than ever points to the fact that people just really fuckin hated Hillary Clinton

My friend Herman Cain, a Powerful Voice of Freedom and all that is good, passed away this morning. Herman had an incredible career and was adored by everyone that ever met him, especially me. He was a very special man, an American Patriot, and great friend. I just got off...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020

uhh

2016 was extremely weird in terms of both candidates having such high 'negatives' among voters. Trump's were higher than HRC's, but both were at historically high levels.

xpost LOL

helluva place to end your first tweet in a two tweet post

tmi tweet

I just got off in honor of this great patriot

I was there in 1988
I was there at the premier of Rain Man at Lincoln Center
I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge to the elderly neolibs whose loafers I hear when they get on the hustings
I'm losing my edge to the Tweeters who can tell me every VP nominee from 1956 to 2008
I'm losing my edge

lol @Morbs - stealing that

amazing, the world is stupider every day

at least i stole it from our resident DNC assbag

What an asshole this guy is. https://t.co/LK3wiIDmxK

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) July 30, 2020

I am dying at Trump's tweet cutoff, I know it's unproductive to laugh at a dumb person, but I can't stop, I'm sorry

Worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLm0r3gOpU4

Obama just called for eliminating the filibuster if "that's what it takes" to pass new voting rights laws, calling it "a Jim Crow relic"

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) July 30, 2020

Wow I guess Bill Clinton is totally not gonna get reelected

he'll be elected to speak at all our funerals

(for a price)

i'm worried about ilhan omar in the primary now btw. i should not have been so glib about it.

caek, what have you done!!

rats, sinking ship, etc

Steven Calabresi. https://t.co/Vf99LoiRi9 pic.twitter.com/F8OqFI0Ky3

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) July 30, 2020

it just occurred to me... this guy is a fascist!

Keep feeling fascist nation
Passion burning
Love so strong

Imagine that tweet is what puts you over the edge. Takes a special person.

he sounds not just very concerned but very very concerned

caek, what have you done!!

― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Thursday, July 30, 2020 5:29 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

when i am glib about people they lose elections! it is a terrible curse!

Josh you are on FIYAH in term of bringing the lolz lately. Whatever you are drinking, I want some.

caek where is this newfound worry coming from? i've been ready to pull the trigger on a donation but only if it's actually needed.

Is this tied to a possible scandal about funneling campaign donations to her husband?

the photo of him “reviewing the donor list looking for your name” is pure MAGA heroin for you 78 year old relative on a fixed income who’s convinced MS-13 is one caravan away from kicking down their door https://t.co/5oZjlGfuVM

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 30, 2020

I've never understood why, if your gift will be 600% matched toward a $25M goal, the matcher doesn't just pony up $20M and be done with it.

Drives other people to donate IIRC

President Donald Trump‘s baseless Wednesday morning question about postponing the 2020 general election has been given new life. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested the final decision on any such postponement hinges upon whether Attorney General Bill Barr and others at the DOJ can find a legal justification to change the date.

“Can a president delay the November presidential election, Mr. Secretary?” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) asked during a Senate hearing. “You are one of the most highly trained and accomplished lawyers who are part of this administration,” Kaine summarized, “Can a president delay a presidential election?”

To which Pompeo replied: “In the end, the Department of Justice, and others, will make that legal determination. We all should want – I know you do, too, Senator Kaine – want to make sure to have an election that everyone is confident in.”

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/legal-experts-erupt-after-mike-pompeo-says-bill-barr-will-determine-whether-to-postpone-the-election/

wouldn't be surprised if that no-neck actually has no idea about the chain of command there.

caek where is this newfound worry coming from? i've been ready to pull the trigger on a donation but only if it's actually needed.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, July 30, 2020 8:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

1. this cryptic tweet from a guy who i know some people here don't like, but he does have a record of calling squad-related races

https://t.co/mxFreGNhkC https://t.co/jvD0DrzTTR

— sean (@SeanMcElwee) July 29, 2020

that's this PAC https://theintercept.com/2020/06/15/gop-republican-super-pac-eliot-engel-jamaal-bowman/ and they don't have a great record, and maybe they're spending it all on yard signs and i'm worrying about nothing.

2. one of my arguments that she wasn't in a real race was that, if the one of the best known and most hated people in congress was in a real primary then there would be national coverage but there wasn't any. and then there was some coverage.

Rendering millions of people homeless is probably an effective voter suppression strategy

especially if you do it in a census year

the census counts homeless people

in theory, sure.

more on omar's primary https://primaries.substack.com/p/issue-75

MN-05: While Rashida Tlaib was an outsider to the Detroit establishment when she ran for Congress in 2018, and has been repeatedly accused of sticking out from the city’s politicians in terms of demeanor (for the record: we agree, and that’s a good thing), Ilhan Omar is a kind of politician that fits right in to Minneapolis’s political culture. Omar may appear to some on the national stage like a strident lefty idealist, but compared to a city council that’s dipping its toes in police abolition (likely in name only, but still quite a change from what most other city councils are doing), Omar isn’t such an outlier. Minneapolis’s 5th district was the only one in the state to vote for Bernie in 2020, and Bernie and Warren combined to 61% of the vote, compared to 45% statewide (and less nationally on Super Tuesday). The district also voted for progressive Erin Murphy in the 2018 governor primary. Omar also has the party endorsement in her race. She is not an anti-establishment politician at home.

The danger she faces is the inverse of Tlaib’s: her opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux, is raising and spending absolutely bonkers amounts of money. He was at $3.6 million a month ago, and hitting $4 million is nearly a forgone conclusion. Yesterday, a filing revealed that Colorado Governor Jared Polis is one of those donors. Another donor is Cheryl Greene, wife of MN-02 representative Angie Craig. Craig hasn’t endorsed in this race, and obviously she and Greene are separate people even if they’re married. The possibility that Greene donated without regard to Craig's stance on the race would be easier to accept if she hadn’t donated exactly $199, the largest dollar amount you donate before it shows up on FEC filings. She knew what she was doing. The reason we know she donated at all is because ActBlue, which is technically a PAC, has to enumerate all of its donations in a separate filing. Another nearly $1.5 million has been spent from a mostly GOP-funded super PAC to attack Omar.

if it takes place in full

xp

Y’all the Census is so effed this decade. I’m pretty sure congress will not grant them anymore time and approx 4 out of 10 households have not responded

Sorry that should be only 4 of 10 houses have responded

Ignore my last post. We're at 63% self-response for the Census so far.

https://2020census.gov/en/response-rates.html

the final self-response rate in 2010 was only 74%, we aren't doing too badly in 2020 so far... they'll send like half a million enumerators out to count the rest in person.