"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 really enjoy No-Fucks-Left Pelosi

she should use these lack of fucks to light a spark under jerrold nadler's overly-cautious ass

yeah. nadler was not a good person to be in a leadership role, ranking member of the house judiciary committee, these last 2 years.

as predicted, it looks like neo-nazi Steve King's defeat in the primary does ensure a republican victory in IA-4:

CD4: The outlook for this race changed dramatically when long-time Rep. Steve King lost the Republican primary to Randy Feenstra. Democrat J.D. Scholten was hoping to improve on his narrow 3-point loss to the controversial incumbent two years ago, but the current poll results suggest otherwise. Feenstra has a commanding 54% to 34% lead over Scholten among registered voters, with 8% undecided. The Republican’s advantage widens among likely voters in both a high turnout scenario (55% to 34%) and in a low turnout scenario (56% to 33%).

https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_IA_080620/

I think I mentioned it in a distant thread but about 4 years ago I stayed at JD Scholten & his then-GF's home (not in Iowa), he was working as a paralegal and baseball coach, he made no mention of joining politics. Super cool dude, incredibly tall and good taste in beer.

My wife just corrected me: it was exactly 4 years ago today, that whole weekend.

thought you wrote "and he tasted of beer."

Wow, I guess I should point out this was not a swinger's weekend, it was for a mutual friends' wedding.

I’ll trade the one seat for Steve King eating shit.

He tasted of Schlitz, his wife's into pits.

The Harris/Markey/Sanders $2k temporary UBI is such a beautiful fantasy to think about.

Is the NY AG presser on anywhere?

BREAKING: NY AG calls to dissolve @NRA and oust Wayne LaPierre, its leader for the last 39 years. In lawsuit filed today, AG accuses LaPierre and top lieutenants of a decades-long pattern of fraud -- and of diverting millions from NRA coffers to line their own pockets.

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) August 6, 2020

culture war! culture war! culture war!

get HYPED

huh, hasn't started yet but embargo for leaks has ended I guess?

https://ag.ny.gov/livestream

NRA just announced today they'd be ploughing millions into supporting Trump in battleground states

check the dn

Ah, this must have been the root of Turmp's "Catholics love the 2nd Amendment" wordbelch yesterday

The chief executive of the National Rifle Association and several top lieutenants engaged in a decades-long pattern of fraud to raid the coffers of the powerful gun rights group for personal gain, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the New York attorney general, draining $64 million from the nonprofit in just three years.

it's always a strange feeling, watching powerful people go down for things that seem auxiliary to the main crime they perpetuate on a daily basis (fighting tooth and nail against any regulations against guns for decades).

Crime vs "crime"

Already seeing the "the Republicans are gonna turn this into culture-war victory in November" on Twitter. Personally, I don't think this is gonna be the thing that drags President 40% - President 150,000 Corpses - across the finish line, but I've been wrong before.

Of course they will spin it as "see?!?!?!? they ARE coming to take your guns", but I'm cautiously hopeful that the actual issue being "widespread fraud" will tamp that down a little bit.

haha yeah that's essentially what i just said on an NRA thread. i highly doubt it will make any kind of appreciable difference in the election but still, the timing is maybe less than ideal.

Trump has improved in the polls a bit in recent weeks (that should subside when he screws up whatever he screws up this week). his approval ratings outside of Rasmussen though are hot garbage. they had improved a bit towards end of last week, but the first few that came out this wee were 40 - 56, 40 - 59, et al.

pepole should be falling over themselves getting him to say something awful to use in ads right now. like have a Better Call Saul camera crew ready to edit commercials on the fly

Safari bribes lol.

I mean they accused of stealing their own member’s money and NOT using it to defend 2a rights! But of course they are all too used to being grifted on and openly defend it

Yeah, I don't think most NRA members are going to care about how their money was used, ultimately. It's finally truly sinking into my brain, this notion that these people don't care whether their personal interests are served so long as they're part of a group who's sticking it to the other side.

It's finally truly sinking into my brain, this notion that these people don't care whether their personal interests are served so long as they're part of a group who's sticking it to the other side.

Life as high school football – ad infinitum, until you mercifully expire.

Old Lunch - that's exactly what has been so disheartening about the last three years, learning that there's a not insignificant percentage of the American population for which it's not really about pushing forward their agenda, but just about making sure "the other side" feels awful and terrorized.

Only libcucks think everyone can be a winner.

trump has improved in the polls because he's not been in the news for a couple of weeks. he'll be in the news again.

Love that thing where, the moment some people stop having the direct + visceral experience of shit stench up in their face, they start thinking 'hmm, maybe shit doesn't actually stink after all!'

Old Lunch - that's exactly what has been so disheartening about the last three years, learning that there's a not insignificant percentage of the American population for which it's not really about pushing forward their agenda, but just about making sure "the other side" feels awful and terrorized.

Not only does the American Black experience drill this into you, but also getting bullied; sometimes the two overlap.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/mike-dewine-coronavirus/index.html

The announcement came shortly before DeWine, a Republican, was scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump in Cleveland. He currently has no symptoms.

we seriously can't catch a break

Seriously, can we just have one infection announcement come out immediately after the infectee has hacked a lung into Trump's spittle-flecked face?

like, not just a cough, I want to see an infectee blow applesauce all over his face. let's make doubly sure we get him.

The Star Tribune endorsed Ilhan Omar's challenger, jfc

https://thehardtimes.net/blog/we-sat-down-with-trump-because-i-have-the-coronavirus-and-this-is-our-chance/

The Star Tribune endorsed Ilhan Omar's challenger, jfc

Apparently they've done this three times now. Clearly their endorsement isn't carrying the weight they'd like it to.

Fuck the Strib, I sent my overseas ballot with a vote for Ilhan.

lots of serious concerns about Omar but fuck if I'm not voting for her esp with all this out of state money flooding this race

Here's Trump in Ohio claiming that Joe Biden is "against God."

"No religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God. He's against God," Trump says. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/IwAjgbkEyB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 6, 2020

he hurt God? that's the coolest thing about joe biden i've ever heard

Please Biden don't hurt Him

There's really no better source on the religious devotion of others than The Beast himself, I find.

He broke God's little heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-F3n_G_0O0

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXj2Zb2V4AYghNf.jpg

Yeah, I don't think most NRA members are going to care about how their money was used, ultimately. It's finally truly sinking into my brain, this notion that these people don't care whether their personal interests are served so long as they're part of a group who's sticking it to the other side.

There is - I guarantee it - not a single NRA member who thinks they haven't gotten their money's worth. Who cares what Wayne LaPierre's suits cost. They've won basically every legal battle for decades, by being completely opposed to any limits whatsoever.

Yr average red-hatted NRA guy is gonna be completely unable to locate any outrage about what happened to his $25 or whatever.