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

.@jonathanvswan: "How do you think history will remember John Lewis?"

President Trump to #AxiosOnHBO: "I don't know...I don't know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration." pic.twitter.com/LDv76rrIFc

— Axios (@axios) August 4, 2020

Wonder how QAnon is taking the bit about Ghislane

They mostly didn't melt down when he wished her well last week. It's all part of the 12D chess.

The way I feel after watching all of that is beyond any words I can muster. Saying that I’d do anything to stop his re-election is just trivia.

I’m just going to watch more youtube videos about cooking until I pass out. Otherwise I’d probably end up dead or in jail, and that’s no good, my daughter needs me.

I’m an angry person by default but that interview made me something else that doesn’t have a description

ppl, practice self-care

you too El T

Lord help us.
Yeah, this video is essential, in a way, to watch this clusterfuck of history as it's happening. "Good" to see it relatively unedited too

Even his sitting in a chair posture is goofy.

Wonder how QAnon is taking the bit about Ghislane

you'd never guess, but there's a way that this all fits into the theory, you see...

honest q: why did he agree to do that interview? he tends to stay in his protection zone of fox, oann, and tbn (lol). swan and axios did a pretty prominent interview with kushner just a few weeks ago that made him look like a total asshole. at least, it appeared that way to me. so why would he agree to do it?

that's not even the first time he's sat down with swan for a 1/1

holy shit this like some horrible black comedy

"i'm looking at the charts, we're lower in so many categories, we're lower than... the world"
"lower than the world?!"

I heard the St Louis lawyer couple got off scott free and even offered a pardon from the state governor.
So glad to see justice is colourblind.

boy, I'd dismissed Swan as milquetoast. I hope he chugged a quart of Wild Turkey before and after the interview.

His dad is Norman Swan, nationally beloved and respected physician-reporter for Aus Broadcasting Corp’s “The Health Report”. There’s no way Swan Jr would countenance a half second of Asshole’s spin and bullshit.

swan concluded he only had three more months to get leaks from trump, decided to cash it in on a golden opportunity to look like a Real Journalist

Swan senior is the hardest working national treasure in the rona times. Sad to hear his son is a prick.

I'm not familiar with the younger Swan's work, but it was slightly refreshing to see someone actually effectively check Trump on some of his bullshit in real time. The refreshment was outweighed by the fact I've been waiting aghast to see this happen since 2016, but Swan was very skilled at throwing out just few enough "that's bullshit"s and a few pretend-but-actually-content-free flatteries to keep the gibbering shitbag talking.

xxp I wonder if he was playing the long game? I guess people can grow and improve, even.

it's wild how trump dismisses rising cases by saying the US does more testing than anyone else - and less than a minute later says that 'deaths per cases' is the relevant statistic to look at. like, you have just said that cases are supposedly inflated due to all the testing the US does. that necessarily implies that your low number of deaths per case is a garbage stat. you can't have it both ways. i know i know, it's like shouting at a cat

But cats walk away after shouting at them.

he really is a master of the ‘i caught a fish this big — no, *this* big’ gesture

tracer that was driving me insane too

don't think I could manage to sit opposite this guy for forty minutes w/o throwing a punch

i know it's been said four hundred million times, but it is absolutely maddening that this asshole's supporters view barack obama as a clumsy, teleprompter-dependent buffoon who ran the country into the ground through his idiocy, venality, and extremist politics.

It is a tremendous blessing that I don’t live anywhere near any MAGAts, yes

Just watching him lumber in, you can practically hear him belch.

Probably farting since he learned that was a "power move" to put his enemy off-balance.

nah farting is not 4D chess, it merely is necessity to sustain forward momentum

it would explain his posture

lol

I imagine he waddles around sheathed in a distinctive cloud of spray tan, KFC gas, and neck smegma.

KFC Famous Bowel®

4DFarty Chess

some of you are really dedicated to poisoning your own thoughts lol

seriously, let's just be grateful none of us will ever know what he smells or feels like

May I yet have the chance to snuggle that misshapen burlap sack filled with a puree of gas station nachos and deviled ham.

I assume he smells like old luggage that has been kept in attic storage for several years.

You fart on your old luggage?

don't judge me for how I deal with personal baggage

Nobody really knows except his proctologist and his proctologist's therapist

I don't know if I can watch that Axios interview. I can't stand his voice and mannerisms for 45 seconds, let alone 45 minutes. And ultimately it will do nothing but grind in what I knew 4 years ago: he's stupid, narcissistic, and dangerously incompetent. And I will just be reminded yet again: his. followers. don't. care.

xpost Well, this took a turn.

Yeah, there's no way I can watch that interview. Even a 20-second clip I come across fills me with rage.

Right. I'm sure it buttresses much of what I already know/suspect but at this point I just DGAF about mashing my face into the horror I've already accepted. All I can hope is it has an effect on anyone who is still UNACCOUNTABLY on the fence at this point.

the fuck

Here’s the clip pic.twitter.com/b4NtCuEa2z

— Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) August 4, 2020

semitic suck-oyahs

I'm sure it buttresses

God can we please stop talking about butt

No.