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

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.

Except they're now ending the in-person counting a month earlier than originally scheduled.

A month earlier than original scheduled ... several months after it was *actually* originally scheduled. It was originally supposed to be over by July 31.

Fauci testifying in his baseball mask

this is also the first census where you can respond online so the self response rates are pretty discouraging. there was 68% response rate by mail/phone in april of 2010. plus, as mentioned, field ops are going to be very limited.

we responded twice online, myself and my wife. I assume they reconcile these things somehow.

we can definitely count on this administration to add and subtract with precision

akm, did you both use your census ID?

to streamline wasteful government regulations and policies, this year everyone the same Census ID: AMERICA45

I wasn't going to fill out the census because I wanted to deprive my Republican district of one body but I gave in and did it online so I didn't have to dodge a door knocker (without a census ID because I threw away everything they mailed).

somehow it doesn’t surprise me at all that you had the cool idea to stick it to the man by not filling out the census

The census apportions money for a lot of government services used by the poor. It doesn't give the republicans more power to be counted, especially at the district level, compared to the state level.

I wasn't going to fill out the census

This is unconscionable.

i filled mine out....few months ago I think.

"akm, did you both use your census ID?"

no idea but I assume so

the census: pretty important

I wasn't going to fill out the census

as a one-time enumerator I feel personally attacked right in the heart music

if you don't have your ID on hand you could use your address instead. the match rates are pretty high but the internet self-response app was pretty generous as to what was accepted. there were responses from foreign addresses for instance

who the fuck doesn't have minutes to do this shit online?