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

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.

This does seem like weaponized concern-trolling by the NYAG, but I'm still all for it.

You know, my grandpa was a chemistry teacher, and he also was coach of the school's rifle club (it was the 50s and 60s lol), and a card-carrying member of the NRA for a long time. He later started a Veterans for Peace chapter in the small city he moved to after he retired, and he spoke bitterly of how the NRA changed during his lifetime. He was appalled.

I basically only shared that because that's all I think about when I think of the NRA. That and how every time a person buys a firearm in the US, there's a membership form to fill out and mail in to the NRA in the literature one receives. No joke!

You can think this evil fuck for the most part
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-teen-killer-who-radicalized-the-nra

Thank

That paywall is a suck. I know the basic story but would be interested in reading more.

I hurt my God today
To see if he was real

Thanks, neighbours:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-president-trump-announces-10-per-cent-tariff-on-canadian-aluminum/

No tariffs on Canadian aluminium, though. Add the British empire ‘I’ and beat the tariff.

The Teen Killer Who Radicalized the NRA

wechat and tencent ban jfc

NEW — Trump’s pollster fears that Kanye’s bid might actually hurt Trump. https://t.co/gEXqhofjqm

Via @swin24 and @willsommer

— Sam Stein (@samstein) August 7, 2020

ffs wechat?

(xp)

Trump's pollster is afraid to tell Trump that Trump's bid is actually hurting Trump.

the person I see getting most hurt by Kanye's shenanigans is Kanye.

I thought I was only person here who used Wechat.

Oh no! The NRA lawsuit is gonna win America's Big Strong Boy a second term!

Donald Trump is losing the culture wars

His law-and-order rhetoric isn’t registering with suburban voters. One of his leading evangelical supporters, Jerry Falwell Jr., was just photographed with his zipper down. Immigration isn't provoking the response it did in 2016, and NASCAR has spurned the president.

Even an attempt by a New York Democrat to take down the National Rifle Association — a lawsuit announced Thursday by state Attorney General Letitia James — looks unlikely to juice Trump's reelection hopes.

“America has changed,” said Frank Luntz, the veteran Republican consultant and pollster. “Every person who cares about the NRA is already voting for Trump. Suburban swing voters care about the right to own a gun, but they don't care about the NRA.”

A brawl between the NRA and New York state once would've been turnout gold for a Republican president. And some Republicans and Democrats alike on Thursday suggested that Republicans could use the episode to stoke turnout among Trump's base.

But the NRA is not the institution it was in American politics even four years ago, when it spent heavily to help Trump win election. Beset by financial problems and infighting, public support for the NRA has declined during the Trump era, falling below 50 percent last year for the first time since the 1990s, according to Gallup. At the same time, nearly two-thirds of Americans want stricter gun laws.

...

The culture wars of old, said Paul Maslin, a top Democratic pollster who worked on the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Howard Dean, seem “miles away from where this election is right now.”

Gun control and other cultural issues, he said, “are always a backdrop and a way for Trump to maintain his base. But again, his base is 42 percent. Where’s the other 5 to 6 percent he needs going to come from?”

icymi the Orange Dunce called Thailand "Thighland"

How did an idiot like you ever get famous? https://t.co/IOur8TKCR5

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) August 7, 2020

the shit he's harping on Biden for right now feels so desperate

ok but if someone is trying to hurt god I think it's fair to call them out

“Thighland,” not “Tai-land,” is how English speakers around the world say it

i will be eternally hateful

HOT FREAKS!

He truly is eternally hateful.

LOL, totally missed mookieproof's post.

Obama seemed to project genuine empathy while ordering the drone bombing of Americans. Politicians, especially good ones, aren't jus' folks.

lol oops -- wrong thread but who cares

lol mookieproof