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

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.

Did u forget that he is a billionaire

Supposedly they want to loot the FEMA budget for UI money.. right when hurricane season just started

Friday Night Massacre at the US Postal Service, with Trump postmaster general getting rid of 23 USPS executives as a "sweeping overhaul of the nation's mail service." https://t.co/3lbWPJnt1e

— Ken Layne (@KenLayne) August 7, 2020

DeJoy and his wife, Aldona Wos, whom Trump has nominated to become ambassador to Canada, own between $30.1 million and $75.3 million of assets in competitors to the USPS

Is that a conflict of interest and is that enough to have him removed?
& is it too late to correct the mess he has created.

was wondering if there was any way of getting rid of the problem.
BUt has that meant that the election is already a bit screwed.

Who's going to remove him?

Conflict of interest is a positive as far as Trump is concerned.

The goodies who must be about to come riding over the hill, happens in all good westerns dunnit?

I mean one must maintain a belief in the goodness of teh law mustn't one? A lovely fellow like teh Attorney General must see the benefit of justice mustn't he?
& just being a wrecker of civilisation isn't an end in itself is it?
Or does it make a lovely pastime?

You hate to see it etc

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/trump-antagonizes-sheldon-adelson-phone-call-392688

This is the first thing that actually says to me he might really not want to win.

A direct quote from Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times (to which no correction has yet been appended):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ee52LMiXkAA3JMt.png

I guess it does feel like about 36 years since November 2016...

lol wow

oh, Mo

Is it really so strange...

This description of what “antifa” is... is insane! Mind blowing that the NYT would publish this as facthttps://t.co/YnNZ6P04ax pic.twitter.com/yJgRoJzBc4

— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) August 7, 2020

that article is pretty terrifying though...

When a tall man in a trench coat and hiking boots walked over to question Mr. Khan, the man spread his coat open, revealing several pistols on harnesses around his chest and waist. He presented a badge on a lanyard that read “Black Lives Matter Community Patrol.”

His name is Rick Hearns and he identified himself as a longtime security guard and mover who is now a Black Lives Matter community guard, in charge of several others. Local merchants pay for his protection, he said as he handed out his business card. (Mr. Khan said he and his neighbors are now paying thousands of dollars a month for protection from Iconic Global, a Washington State-based private security contractor.)

Over the past couple of days I have seen references to both Trump asking how hard it would be to add a face to Mount Rushmore, and also Trump wanting to open up the Grand Canyon to mining or something. I have no idea if either of these things are remotely accurate, and that alone shows where we are.

xp yeah, definitely makes CHOP look pretty bad

he's wanted to open GC up to mining for the last 4 years

the uranium lobby (????) wants it iirc

xp yeah, definitely makes CHOP look pretty bad

In a way that walking around it every day didn't. You don't think Rancho Bravo would have done a month's worth of business every week if they'd been open?

^ especially during the riots, pre-CHOP