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

it's an existential gambit. trump, nypd, gop and any number of rampaging assholes have reached the point where the majority of americans don't want them around anymore so the antagonists gotta form an impermeable wall of shit to maintain power.

Well yeah. The whole entire fight right now is about trying to entrench minority rule before it's too late.

Re Newsweek

"the magazine’s recently hired opinion editor, Trump-backing conservative activist and attorney Josh Hammer"
https://t.co/X3jUySmUcs

— Soraya Nadia McDonald (@SorayaMcDonald) August 15, 2020

Guys did you know the whole USPS mess is BERNIE’S fault?

I was talking to my wife this morning, and she was talking about a time where she was at a family gathering and the adults wanted the kids to play a card game with a cousin of theirs, come on, it would be good for him, the kid has problems. So she tried but it was impossible, every fucking turn he would change the rules so that he would win and everybody else would lose. Eventually she got so frustrated she had to walk away.

The analogy is that the kid is the Republican Party - not Donald Trump, the entire Republican Party. The non-Republican political elites in this country are the kids' mom. They've failed catastrophically to raise a child who isn't a fucking monster, and pointing that out to them is rude, they'll be super glad to tell you how much it is Not their Fault. That's not a discussion I even want to have, I just wish they would quit trying to force me to play this stupid game with their son.

We're all the players, and most of what I seem to be doing lately is convincing others of us that we should walk away and play a different game. People are afraid of that. The kid isn't really emotionally stable. He got behaviour problems, we just walk away and he might attack us, and his mom will blame us for "provoking" him, and the other adults will nod sagely and say "It takes two people to make a fight". And a different game? His game is the only one in the house! We're supposed to just make up our own fucking game? What if it sucks?

I'd say the GOP intentionally created monsters; it's been so since 1964 and really took off starting on January 1981.

Bloomberg QuickTake
@QuickTake
The New York Police Benevolent Association (@NYCPBA) endorses Trump, a first for the union which represents over 50,000 active and retired New York City police officers

this is really not cool.

why don't the nypd officers on patrol around columbus circle and central park wear masks by the way? it's been bugging me more and more. nearly every regular new yorker in my neighborhood wears them, but not these guys.

Good morning!

bc acab tree

the house should hold hearings on this postal service issue

_Bloomberg QuickTake
@QuickTake
The New York Police Benevolent Association (@NYCPBA) endorses Trump, a first for the union which represents over 50,000 active and retired New York City police officers_


this is really not cool.

why don't the nypd officers on patrol around columbus circle and central park wear masks by the way? it's been bugging me more and more. nearly every regular new yorker in my neighborhood wears them, but not these guys.

I'd say the GOP intentionally created monsters; it's been so since 1964 and really took off starting on January 1981.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

personally i tend to agree but i don't want to argue with somebody's mom about why they're a horrible parent, particularly since it's not an argument i feel like i can ever "win" ("winning" = convincing them to quit being an awful abusive parent)

the house should hold hearings on this postal service issue

― treeship., Sunday, August 16, 2020 10:28 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Coming soon:

The House Oversight Committee will hold an emergency hearing on mail delays and concerns about potential White House interference in the U.S. Postal Service, inviting Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Postal Service board of governors Chairman Robert M. Duncan to testify Aug. 24, top Democrats announced on Sunday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/16/postal-service-mail-democrats-hearing-dejoy/

nice

they should subpoena trump this time too

taniel is on the case

North Carolina absentee ballot requests are wildly surging, according to 👀 numbers from @OldNorthStPol.

among Ds: 9,360 in 2016 to 119,216 today (12.7 times more)
among Rs: 8,975 in 2016 to 38,279 today (4.3 times more)

(Useful context for why Trump is so focused against USPS)

— Taniel (@Taniel) August 16, 2020

boom/mic drop/checkmate

If Postmaster General DeJoy doesn’t testify before Congress next week as Speaker Pelosi and I have requested, he should be stamped, returned to sender, and removed from his position.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) August 16, 2020

The Nazi youth running to fill mark meadows’ seat in NC has just been accused of multiple instances of sexual assault so I guess I’ll get to see if my state somehow sucks worse than Alabama, who at least narrowly kept out Roy Moore.

What's his name again? Crag Gryffyth?

Sorry, it's equally laughable: Madison Cawthorn. Didn't he also say that visiting Hitler's palace was on his "bucket list"? The kid is a fascist creep.

If Postmaster General DeJoy doesn’t testify before Congress next week as Speaker Pelosi and I have requested, he should be stamped, returned to sender, and removed from his position.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) August 16, 2020

boom/mic drop/checkmate

one thing that's REALLY aggravating me right now, building on something I said earlier, is all of these memes from actual political action groups in various states saying "don't mail your vote! states allow you to drop it off at a drop box or the local registrar, check with your county"....when there are multiple states that do not allow this at all, like Tennessee (who require any absentee or mail-in ballot to be mailed and will not accept dropoff, as confirmed on their own web site). a bunch of people from affected states were flooding these posts saying "it's not like this if you live in <state>, please disregard this!"

we have it in my county, and I may do it that way, but this assuming "it's like this in my state so it's like this everywhere and I'm going to give you all advice based on how it is in my state" shit can give people a lot of bad info. wish they'd just suggest people familiarize themselves with their local rules and consider the fact that mail might not be a sure bet and decide accordingly.

he's been drinking again

The Federalist runs an article with this picture telling women they have to get married before 23 or there are only guys like this left pic.twitter.com/8xajJuOeyD

— CompletePsychoHat (@Popehat) August 16, 2020

Sonny Crockett really let himself go

all of these memes from actual political action groups in various states saying "don't mail your vote! states allow you to drop it off at a drop box or the local registrar, check with your county"....when there are multiple states that do not allow this at all

one of the weird things to adjust to with - this era - is the rise of randos providing advice/history lessons/life guides which are only about 65% accurate, in the form of viral social media posts which spread everywhere immediately. sometimes i enjoy these lessons that come out of nowhere and land in my feed, especially when they seem accurate. other times, it's clear that the writer has absolutely no expertise, but sure does have a lot of loyal followers

agree. like, I don't think 200,000 people are going to have their votes go unrecorded because they believed something Randy said on FB, but....it's part of the same mechanism that lead people to share all that bullshit about the "Monsanto Protection Act" and "GET CHEMICALS OUT OF MY FOOD" a decade ago.

back in my day (tugs on beard) I'd have had to go on Microsoft Encarta to debunk anything!

"there are multiple states that do not allow this at all" really? wow that's fucked up

(I'm in california, everyone I know does this)

boom/mic drop/checkmate

omigod that Bannon photo

Needs little smell wiggles radiating off of him like Pigpen.

Good to see he’s still doing the two shirts thing

Fucking state of this guy, if you saw someone in this state you’d cross the road to avoid him.

Had the distinct honor to play golf today with @POTUS and be his partner!

Truly enjoyed talking about our families, politics and his earnest desires for our great country.

he’s still got game. pic.twitter.com/h25q446Stb

— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) August 15, 2020

I think it's pretty obvious that the cops in any major American city hate the city and the people they are nominally supposed to serve.

"there are multiple states that do not allow this at all" really? wow that's fucked up

― akm, Sunday, August 16, 2020 2:04 PM bookmarkflaglink

most do allow it. but in addition to Tennessee, Mississippi only allows absentee ballots to be returned by mail, email, or fax (no drop-boxes or in-person). apparently Kentucky used to be that way but they added drop boxes this election.

fuck Jay feely

Bannon looking very Ron Jeremy there.

his face could butter bread

I was only like 85% sure that was Bannon...yikes

Yeah, he looks very unwell. Good.

"Bannon Harkonnen"

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his face could butter bread

― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, August 16, 2020

real lol

it's true, it wouldn't look out of place as the layer just above the crust on a pizza, either

I'm never eating bread again

Speaking of butter, are there ... yellow stains on Trump's golf shirt up there?

Those are right where he'd be wiping the sweat from his orange painted face.

Bannon doesn't look worse there than when he worked in the White House

all cops should have to live in walking distance of their precinct

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