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

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

ffs Dinesh really quadrupling down on Thigh-gate, huh?

i love how in another tweet, someone told him "uhh nobody I know pronounces it like that" and he smugly responded "Do you know anybody who lives in Australia or the UK" and then hundreds of people from Australia and hte UK said "mate we don't say it like that'

Why does anyone willingly engage with someone whose brainpan is filled with air, why, just why

I tweeted at Dinesh a clip of Boris Johnson saying "Thailand" the normal way, and a British dude replied, "God, don't use Boris as any sort of reference point!"

we call it thigh food cos a minute on he lips is a lifetime on the hips.
or not as the case may be.

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

i will be eternally hateful

i saw "thighland" was trending on twitter and just assumed it was a new ludacris track or something. didn't know it related to trump but alas everything does.

i saw "thighland" was trending on twitter and just assumed it was a new ludacris track or something

irl LOLs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eMIa7_HwAGQ

i will be eternally hateful

― mookieproof, Friday, August 7, 2020 10:28 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

HOT FREAKS!

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, August 7, 2020 10:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

my mind went there instantly as well

Australian cities famously have hundreds of Thai restaurants with punning names like Thigh One On, Thigh Foon, Thigh Pan, To Thigh For, Thigh Riffic, Thighnamite, Thightanic, Thigh Me Up Thigh Me Down, Appethighsing, and EnThighSing.

NEW: Matt Lieberman, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Georgia, wrote a bizarre novel filled with racist tropes in 2018.

The president of the Georgia NAACP says he should drop out of the race.

Story w/ @ClaireEFallon:https://t.co/FScNTFKCav

— Kevin Robillard (@Robillard) August 7, 2020

Here is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' John Hancock on @kanyewest's nomination papers. Sanders now apparently resides on Tripoli Ave. in Milwaukee. pic.twitter.com/rot32aqwn8

— Daniel Bice (@DanielBice) August 7, 2020

Mickey apparently moved to Milwaukee (I think?) as well. pic.twitter.com/7ysI3zMVI7

— That Clerk Rachel (@badachie) August 7, 2020

NEW: Matt Lieberman, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Georgia, wrote a bizarre novel filled with racist tropes in 2018.

The president of the Georgia NAACP says he should drop out of the race.

Story w/ @ClaireEFallon:https://t.co/FScNTFKCav
— Kevin Robillard (@Robillard) August 7, 2020

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, August 7, 2020 11:57 AM (six minutes ago)

In case you're wondering like I was, yes it's Joe's son.

speaking of awesome VP picks

sorry i meant to include that info

when you wrote "Joe" I thought you meant Biden, not another white male person who's 10 times worse.

Meantime, how to bury some Friday news unsuccessfully.

Liberty Univeristy President Jerry Falwell Jr. is taking an indefinite leave of absence starting immediately. pic.twitter.com/7f6oZMCgIj

— Richard Chumney (@RichChumney) August 7, 2020

"We urgently request Jerry Falwell, Jr. contract COVID-19 and die."

On Falwell, I'm having an internal conflict between "enjoy this" and "it won't make a damn bit of difference." Right now "enjoy this" is winning.

"I’m gonna try to be a good boy from here on out" is an A+ apology though

said somewhere else that I actually buy his explanation of the photo (no other explanation makes any sense), but since I hate him, I don't care; someone can go bury him the desert for all I care.

Anyay, stimulus talks collapsed (surprise); earlier the administration was talking about extending the $600/wk unemployment benefit for a few months until things got worked out, but this was rejected by the Dems; if he comes out and does an executive order for that and the direct payment again, any chances this makes the Dems look like assholes for not accepting the offer in the first place? I understand they're holding out for money paid directly to states and local governments.

if he comes out and does an executive order for that and the direct payment again, any chances this makes the Dems look like assholes for not accepting the offer in the first place?

On Fox News, sure.

By all accounts his Bedminster 'press conference' tonight was so bad even Fox cut away, directly to Tucker Carlson talking about Kanye as a man of deep thoughts about how to live a proper life.

Trump can’t write stimulus checks or extend the UI bump by fiat. Spending bills are still firmly out of his grasp.