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

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?

Also, the mailer I received took ~5 minutes to fill out. Dropped it off at the post office box down the street while walking the dog on the same day I got it. There's legit no excuse for not doing it.

But but but the census is from the government and it is made of 5G and will track your thoughts and fill you with demon sperm while making you go to Comet Ping Pong

Or you know the government is actively trying to kick me out of the country through the census

little known fact - the census was used for interning japanese-americans during WWII

So yes, again my hyperbole gets the better of me, but there are few reasons to not fill out the census.

I filled it out but didn't use our real names - my wife and I are recorded as Adult Human Person 1 and Adult Human Person 2.

Dumb question, but if the 2010 self-response rate was 74%, does that mean they had to have people personally contact the other 26%?

Yeah, through a project called Non-Response follow-up

So that could be 80-90 million people? Woof.

in 2010 they hired 650,000 enumerators to do that

"ma'am, what's your name?"

"Donna Rhia"

^^^ Reminds me of my all time favorite punk rock stage name - 45 Grave singer Dinah Cancer.

Kusnher should be spit upon by every New Yorker that sees him. I hope they make it so bad him and the princess cannot live in their tower no more.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/928628/white-house-reportedly-scrapped-national-testing-plan-because-virus-mostly-hitting-blue-states

I also guess this is why I got a couple of media mail orders that got scanned in Lexington nearly a month ago and not moved since.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/postal-service-backlog-sparks-worries-that-ballot-delivery-could-be-delayed-in-november/2020/07/30/cb19f1f4-d1d0-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

I bet this is a big damn mess considering it makes total sense to cut hours when everyone in the f-ing country is doing mailorder more than ever.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tiktok-through-executive-action-as-soon-as-saturday.html

That'll Learn 'Em

cool another thing he can't do that'll languish in courts for months

another thing he can't do

There's probably some overly broad law passed by a supine Congress that allows the president to declare TikTok a threat to national security, or an unfair competitor to US business, or some other vague bin it can be shoved into without much in the way of defined and measurable criteria. There are an amazing number of such laws and all it takes is a phalanx of assiduous lawyers searching the gazillion pages of the US law code to find some suitable fig leaf Trump can claim gives him that power.

another good point pointed out by Aimless, thanks Aimless

oh well fuck TikTok anyway

We beat Obama 4 years ago, he worked harder than Crooked Hillary, and we’ll do it again! https://t.co/oaqnlkr7bW

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2020

this seems like one of the questions that would've been on the cognitive test

he's referring to the peepee incident

"Crooked Hillary"...dusting off the old chestnuts.

Banning TikTok might be the trigger to drive record 18-24 turnout.

be so good if Tik Tok helped ban him, probably going to happen anyway isn't it.
nice precedent from tulsa anyway.

What's the real motivation behind the tik tok thing? I suspect it has little to do with security, or even China. Is it just another "I can do what I want" gesture, or merely trying to piss a certain demographic off? This is so bizarre

Sarah Cooper's videos, probably.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/31/portland-protests-latest-peaceful-night-federal-troops-withdrawal

does this mean the americapocalypse is cancelled

dusting off the old chestnuts

Sounds like a euphemism

New month, new thread?

still voting for The Country Is In Very Good Shape Other Than If You Look South or West

"The August 2020 US Politics Thread is highly thought of, but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That's all."

So many good options, sorry Morbs.