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

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.

America was built on butts and White Supremacy.

"a 21 ass salute"

Assmerica the Beautiful

full of booty

How can he mispronounce yosemite but correctly pronounce sequoia?

He doesn’t

or maybe it’s just his trash accent

In the case of mispronouncing 'Yosemite', I think it's just that he's much more familiar with a similarly-spelled term. Like he would probably mistakenly say 'Lewis Grandwizard', that sort of thing.

He says sequoias the way I say sequoias ... ?

The Swan interview is no different than a million interviews he's given in the last 4 years. The thing I find "fascinating" is that 75% of the questions are softballs that any half-way intelligent non-sociopath could just give a pat answer to or deflect, but he is just always in a such a heightened state of anxiety/grievance he can't get out of his own way.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sequoia

There’s a w in it!!

i did not watch the swan interview but it seems like some people found it ... useful? swan is not a good interviewer. if you think he is you are an easy lay. it sounds on this one he reached the low bar US TV news usually fails to reach because it's populated by a bunch of prigs who respect the office of the presidency and walter kronkite.

https://observer.com/2018/10/axios-hbo-jonathan-swan-slammed-trump-interview-baby-citizenship/

https://splinternews.com/jonathan-swan-is-a-bootlicker-1830095400

Jesus Christ, that explosion in Lebanon. I saw the first few tweets that showed the smoke that looked like a huge fire, but then I finally saw the whole clip and I'm sick to my stomach.

As someone pointed out, the fact that it was captured from so many angles implies people saw the smoke/fire first, which seems to rule out a bomb - I think I saw rumors it might have been a fire in a grain elevator? - but it's a very impressive blast.

(Sorry, just saw it has its own thread)

It was a fireworks factory that might have also been located next to some other highly combustible material like flour or nitrates.

1) Florida is fast at counting mail ballots.

2) Florida is filled with seniors.

3) If Trump discourages Republicans from voting absentee there during a pandemic, Biden wins the state, and thus the whole election, ON ELECTION NIGHT.

4) Ergo, the below tweet. https://t.co/Uben7QTbs8

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 4, 2020

This tweet will definitely come up in court proceedings if the Trump campaign tries to get ballots in Florida rejected or disqualified after the election this November 😂 https://t.co/ZkGELTW822

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) August 4, 2020

second point in particular (although courts being courts, who knows)

So the plan is to insist mail in votes are a fraud only in states where

Hit submit too quick

where Trump may lose.

Yup, even more transparent about it that I ever imagined.