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

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.

In that interview, Asshole babbles about some governors handling covid really well, and some states handling it poorly, then teases he is ready to name names of which gov was which. I kinda wish he was called on that just to hear him say the shitty red state governors with the most cases have been great.

Conservative Ammon Bundy arguing for defund the police, and support of BLM

"if you think BLM or Antifa are coming for your freedoms you must be hypnotized by social media codewords or conservative talking points"

Good to see one of the libertarians actually sticking to this line through this

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/03/politics/pro-sports-associations-against-gop-stimulus/index.html

A letter signed by the executive directors of the NFL, NBA, NHL Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer players associations has come out against McConnell.

"The introduced language by Senate Republicans, as we understand it, would federalize all COVID-19 work claims and provide employers with an immunity that is so broad that not even egregious behavior would be actionable."

Can you guys recall another instance of players' unions teaming up to deliver a pro-worker message on such a widely applicable issue?

nope. never happened before.

Seriously though! They’re usually kind of..... famously silent on things that might affect, say arena workers

'Never Trump' Republicans team with progressives to convert the president's religious base

A left-leaning group focused on persuading religious Americans to vote out Donald Trump in November has recruited some of the president’s leading Republican agitators to assist them.

On Wednesday, Vote Common Good will launch a new partnership with the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump GOP group founded by veteran Republican strategists, to mobilize faith voters to reject Trump on Election Day.

The initiative will focus on courting white evangelicals and white Catholics — two demographics Trump won by significant margins in 2016 — who have lost patience with the president’s behavior or been disappointed with his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protest movement against racism. The efforts will be concentrated in six battleground states — North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida — where multiple polls have shown Trump trailing his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.

...

Getting white evangelicals to peel away from Trump — much less to vote for Biden — is no easy feat. The political alliance between white evangelicals and Republican politicians dates back decades and has rarely shown signs of weakness during the president’s first term. Before this spring, the only time Trump’s most prominent conservative Christian supporters had publicly split with the president was over his push to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.

But recently, segments of Trump’s Catholic and Protestant supporters have been distancing themselves from his response to the Covid-19 crisis. The Lincoln Project and VCG hope to capitalize on that waning confidence, which has extended to Trump’s ability to handle the worsening economic crisis, public health catastrophe and civil unrest.

They’re also hoping to pitch Biden as an attractive religious alternative to Trump. Biden, a Catholic, has portrayed himself as the unity candidate in an intensely fractured political landscape and rarely shies away from discussing his personal faith.

i feel like republican resistance to trump has gained some traction and it's probably going to be enough to make a difference of a percentage point or two.

better chance of converting them to judaism

"Jews for Jesus...and Joe"

The main question for me is where they live.

If Never Trumpers like George Conway or Max Boot or whover live in New York, DC, of California? They will not move the dial at all. Golf clap for your participation but I am not exactly moved to organize a parade.

I want to know about the Never Trumpers of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, etc.

Grifters gonna grift.