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

sad lol, I think you have me beat. I'm sorry Karl, but that is cracking me up.

heh, there's a lot more where that came from! but yeah, it doesn't prove anything, of course, and i know my experience isn't and can't be typical of white evangelicalism. i would just say that the liberal evangelicals are getting absolutely CRUSHED in the "influence on real life" department, compared to their white nationalist peers.

Sorry for turning the US Politics thread into a discussion on Theology but I guess it makes sense that these old protestant factions are now coming together with evangelicals under a shared persecution complex based on the exclusion of others. Obviously, Christianity has become more of a political than a religious movement in America, so I guess it no longer matters to them whether they think that they believe they are going to heaven because God chose them or because they chose God, the most important thing that they can all agree on is that LGBT people are an abomination so horrible that being forced to bake a cake for them is tantamount to being burned in a fiery furnace or fed to hungry lions. From there, they can break into religious factions again over the rest of their political views. My parents told me that they went to church this past weekend for the first time since covid hit, and they had to have separate services, one with masks and one without masks because their congregation is so divided on that issue.

tempted to put this in batshit cartoons or trenchant but in any case
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=5gGonq-e0gY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGonq-e0gY

why not JONESTOWN

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/511333-trump-says-hell-accept-nomination-from-either-white-house-or-gettysburg

Would love to see this fucker take a header off Little Round Top on national tv.

TRUMP EVACUATED from White House press briefing room by US Secret Service. An agent locked the briefing room doors from the exterior. pic.twitter.com/El9Xi4lAlE

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 10, 2020

would hate to think reason for this is the same reason they pulled the basketball guys (sp?) during their march 11 press conference!!!!

Emergency #2.

A private flight from South Bend to Wilmington, Delaware, landed an hour and five minutes ago, per FlightAware. pic.twitter.com/l3XJjDFsVG

— Adam Wren (@adamwren) August 10, 2020

oh god no not pete

Remember slow news days?

Is that tweet supposed to imagine Mayo Pete meeting with Joe?

If Buttigieg is named VP I won't vote.

xp - yeah, I mean it's like a .12% chance but god it would be beautiful

Maybe every woman of color in the Democratic Party turned him down (or spoke to the Scientologists)

Ed Rendell likes the cut of Pete's jib.

It sucks so fucking bad that for the rest of my life this rodent-faced dork will almost certainly be someone in American politics I’ll have to know and hear about.

I'm sure there was lots of good ol whinin' and complainin' about it here a few months ago, but as a queer dude who is married, I've never felt more insulted by someone's existence in my life.

It's like he is the exact antipode of everything I care about and value.

I’m certainly no great judge of character but he seems transparently disingenuous, opportunist, and uhh “fake” smart or something

an absolute cipher

he basically is that character from The Politician but somehow less likeable

I didn't like him to begin with because I knew about the McKinsey period, but when I found out he *volunteered* to join the US military apparatus in 2009, I was convinced that he had nothing approaching any ethical sense. Put the garbage in the trash afaic.

Pete as veep would be the ultimate fuck-you and therefore perfect

because really what are you gonna do, not vote for them

if the reveal is that pete is actually a woman of color, i swear i'm going to cancel my subscription to this dumb channel

It sucks so fucking bad that for the rest of my life this rodent-faced dork will almost certainly be someone in American politics I’ll have to know and hear about.

On the contrary, being Biden's VP would probably tank any future career. He can make a failed run in 2024/8 then go sit on a bunch of corporate boards.

unless he becomes president

However unfair it might be, no one with the last name 'Buttigieg' will ever become president.

― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Wednesday, January 23, 2019 8:42 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Pretty sure I still stand by this.

Pretty sure.

What if he changes his name to Petey Butts?

my take on it is that Biden has to make it clear he's vetting everyone

Buttigieg angling for Secretary of Defense or something.

CIA director

Always best to promote from within

Master of Secrets

Maybe they'll put him in charge of Hufflepuff this term.

The presumption that Biden would meet Buttigeig only in regard to VP is blinkered. My guess he will get a speech slotted at the convention and they'll talk about Pete's role in the campaign and possible posting in Biden's administration. Buttigeig did Biden a solid favor by pulling out of the race before the South Carolina primary and endorsing him at the same time. Not a big enough favor to merit being chosen VP, but big enough to ask for a minor Cabinet post or something about that level. He did well enough in the early primaries that he can claim to bring votes to the table.

So that means we can't kill him? :-(

Well, you can try. It might require a silver bullet.

you can but only after temp ban

yeah I def don’t think he’s being tapped for VP (I think Joe will pick a woman); I’m just sad I have to know who this fucknut is. and even sadder the Democratic Party has become the lint trap for phonies and strivers who can only conceive of politics as doing more neocon bullshit abroad and more neolib bullshit here at home.

Had a feeling I might get tempbanned for that... apologies, all in jest. I just loathe the guy.

Giving a tyrant enough rope is a terrible strategy and for the millionth time since 2016, time is not our friend. fatigue and internal turnover makes successful resistance ever less likely. but fine, wait for midterms.

― Hunt3r, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 9:11 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink


eventually everyone folds for the boss or gets folded. don't like it? better change that boss. clock is ticking.

― Hunt3r, Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:42 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i get afraid it’s very very late now

yeah

aww

I’ve got to be honest I kind of expected to speak.

— Andrew Yang🧢🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) August 11, 2020

lol

when the grifter gets grifted

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-hookers-for-jesus/hookers-for-jesus-wins-fresh-round-of-funding-from-trump-administration-idUSKCN2512IY

The group, run by a born-again Christian survivor of sex trafficking, operates a safe house for adult trafficking victims known as Destiny House. It was the target of a December complaint by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local 2830, which asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate whether politics factored in to a grant award for the group. It was the second such complaint filed by the union in 2019 raising concerns about the grant-review process.

Hookers for Jesus is now set to receive $498,764 in fresh federal funding, part of $35 million in grants to help provide housing for trafficking victims unveiled at the White House on Tuesday by Attorney General William Barr and Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. That is on top of the $530,190 that Hookers for Jesus was awarded in 2019 over three years to help expand services to trafficking victims. A person briefed on the matter told Reuters that since the 2019 award was accepted, Hookers for Jesus has drawn down only about $32,000 of the funds. It was unclear why the organization has tapped only a fraction of the grant.

Justice Department spokeswoman Mollie Timmons said that Hookers for Jesus “underwent a merit-based review” and that independent peer reviewers also determined its application “met the necessary criteria” and “scored them highly.” Annie Lobert, who runs the nonprofit, did not respond to a request for comment. Earlier this year, Reuters reported that the group’s policy manuals showed that in 2010 and 2018, residents of the safe house were required to go to church, complete Christian homework, and were banned from reading “secular magazines with articles, pictures, etc. that portray worldly views/advice on living, sex, clothing, makeup tips.” In general, recipients of federal funds are not permitted by anti-discrimination laws to use the funds to engage in explicitly religious activities.

In a May 12 letter to Lobert, the Office for Civil Rights in the Justice Department’s grant-making arm determined that Hookers for Jesus was not in violation of federal rules requiring it to keep religious activities separate from federally-funded ones because it did not plan to use the money to support Destiny House until the second and third years of the grant. It instructed Lobert to develop “a plan to ensure compliance” with the law once Hookers for Jesus begins to start using the funds for Destiny House in 2021.

In an interview earlier this year with Reuters, Lobert denied that her group forces the women to go to church. She declined to provide updated copies of her policy manuals.

@realDonaldTrump
News Conference at 5:30 P.M. Enjoy!

i know we have gone over this before but these bullshit rallies masquerading as press conferences are the fucking worst and networks need to stop covering it.