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

"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

Sponsored tweet from the Speaker of the House in Texas. Join the death cult!

I hope that you will join me this week in reflecting on the impermanence of life and choosing to live your life more boldly, more joyfully and without fear. Like McGraw sang, “I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.” Have a great week.https://t.co/S59NAKoJSF

— Speaker Dennis Bonnen (@RepDennisBonnen) August 16, 2020

Live like you're dying and have a great week

I've had a sort of ongoing back and forth with a local GOP dude here — former chair of the county party, not a maniac by the standards of local Republicans — whose basic take keeps coming back to, "I know COVID is real, I know it's serious, but people die of things every day, we're just going to have to get used to it ..."

He brings up things like car accident deaths, "We all just keep driving." And then I point out that we have invested billions of dollars in infrastructure and (via govt regulations) safer car design and have cut our per capita auto deaths by more than 50 percent since 1970. "We live with the flu!" Yes, we do, because we have invested billions of dollars in healthcare infrastructure and vaccines to try to mitigate its toll. Etc etc.

Every single thing that we know poses a serious risk, we have collectively marshaled huge amounts of resources to deal with. But this thing, suddenly they're all just like, "La la la, God will provide." Because doing the actual work to deal with it is just too hard for them. It's entirely maddening.

Not just this thing, though, it's basically the same argument with climate change.

If god will provide, what are the guns for?

Would say something about today's Republicans just folding the Pacific entirely after Pearl Harbor but they would have been trying to get us to join the Axis since '39 anyway.

we've had over 50 9/11s now

Following the post-9/11 logic, guess we'll be invading Malaysia in that case.

You get a peek into their entire worldview--its ridiculous superficiality, ignorance of history, and tendency to take things for granted--when they say "it's just like the flu!". Like uh you might want to learn why the flu is now "just the flu".

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Double reverse white flight

jesus fucking christ

few things he does have a visceral effect on me these days but retweeting that...is one of them

ffs

I 100% agree that Democrats should walk away from Democrat stronghold states and move to red states ASAP.

"xp yeah, definitely makes CHOP look pretty bad"

btw today there was an anti-mask / pro-Jesus rally on the CHOP site, with hundreds of ppl gathering without masks and publicly baptising each other, and at least one baby, in a grotty tub. The mayor didn't send in one single cop to break them up, let alone hundreds of cops and National Guard to tear-gas them, though, so it'll probably look pretty... good? when the NYT writes it up.

― Steppin' RZA (sic), Monday, August 10, 2020 6:41 PM (five days ago)

Since this ^, the police chief quit without yet being able to state who gave the order for the precinct to be vacated by the police who were starting riots every second night, and the National Guard who were standing in various rows behind them, after the city council reduced her $285,000 salary by 7%.

In the same session, the council also voted to defund the team that conducts homeless sweeps, and unanimously agreed to remove police from this task force altogether.

This morning, the mayor did send dozens of cops in riot gear to clear homeless people from the CHOP site and harass volunteer workers handing out masks for free.

Keep us posted on how this looks in the New York Times' coverage!

― Steppin' RZA (sic), Saturday, August 15, 2020 5:58 AM (two days ago)

^ Since this, 115 pages of reports on SPD's use of force against the pre-CHOP protests were released, across three studies by the Office Of Police Accountability, the Inspector General, and the Community Police Commission. 2/3 maintain their support for a ban on tear gas, 1 recommends the use be limited. The CPC one especially calls out that the police chief overturned the mayor's 30-day ban on teargassing us after 40 hours, despite the fact that no officers have any training in the use of tear gas, and materially confirming that she gave the order because they had run out of OC gas by using it so much during the week. 2/3 call out SPD for attacking without taking any steps to communicate dispersal orders. The CPC calls out the mayor's curfew, issued over broadcast radio with 15 minutes' notice, making BLM protests illegal at the moment of a mass movement across the country, and echoed around the world. 2/3 call out police leadership, finding that incident commanders sometimes deployed officers “with no clear strategy or plan” using tactics that contributed to a “toxic cycle of escalation” and “served no clear law enforcement purpose.” All three note that the number of officers deployed to BLM protests, and riot-gear equipment that they came with, “perceived by community as an intimidation tactic.” 2/3 propose that police be directed not to use lethal tactics to stop people from tagging Amaz0ngo windows. The OIG one calls out other violence agencies (eg Sheriff's dept, state patrol, National Guard) for acting outside even SPD policies in the protests, and refusing to coordinate use-of-force reports with them even months after the fact.

The police department has been under a federal consent decree since 2012, signed by the now-mayor as then-US Attorney, requiring them to enact reforms related to their excessive force and racism. The chief did not resign because she has been unwilling or incapable of getting her officers to comply, six or seven or eight years after the legal agreement, but because her $300k salary was reduced slightly, but still remained over a quarter of a million bucks.


Across the city yesterday, non-resident police escalated tactics, smashing parked car windows, sending dozens of officers to traffic stops, blocking reporters and so forth.


At the CHOP site, a pack of unmasked cops attacked and kicked a disabled citizen (video in link) for swearing at one of 'em, and arrested a black bystander who was in the park with their 6-year-old kid, for attempting to protect the beaten citizen.

Haven't been able to find the NYT's framing of this yet.

I 100% agree that Democrats should walk away from Democrat stronghold states and move to red states ASAP.

there was a fire tornado today apparently

It's funny, years and years ago, somewhere around 2002 or 2003 or so, we seriously considered moving to Alabama. I forget why, exactly, beside being impressed by Birmingham, but right now I couldn't even imagine doing such a thing.

Congress coming back from vacation early to deal with USPS bullshit and ... I mean, come on, why did any of these jerks leave at all? There is nonstop bullshit all the time.

they went shopping

Fair enough.

Gotta get that economy going!

there was a fire tornado today apparently

^ California jealous of Australia's summer

The ante shall be raised with a Fire Sharknado.

Shart to the lord all the earth let us sing

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I mean, congresspeople do need time to go back to where they came from and campaign locally for themselves and for their party. This aspect of the job hasn’t been eliminated by Twitter and spam yet. They’re also human beings and they deserve time away from being on C-SPAN.

Making sure there will be a functioning election is a good warm-up to campaigning for re-election.

They’re also human beings

citation needed

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i gotta get through this
i gotta get through thiiiiis

Ironically the suburbs stuff plays best in a state he has no chance of winning, and I suspect the Liveable California folks (ie racist anti-tax nimbys) are not thrilled that their alignment with Trump (who is using their exact language here) is going to be brought up regularly now.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, July 29, 2020 5:06 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

me otm

Do you think @realDonaldTrump's staff don't realize they are making @Scott_Wiener look even better here in the Bay Area, and across CA, by singling him out?

Franky, they're elevating Scott.

What's the long term strategy, there? I mean, I realize who I'm asking that about ... https://t.co/ddJSrJIySa

— Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) August 16, 2020

I know there's no reason to care what this crackpot thinks, but this still cracked me up.

Democrats are working sooooo hard to turn America into a massive joke.

— DeAnna Lorraine 🇺🇸 (@DeAnna4Congress) August 17, 2020

Oh-oh, DeAnna
Well, I ain't down here for your money
I ain't down here for your love
I ain't down here for your love of money
I'm down here for your soul

She also suggested a #BoycottDolly because Dolly Parton supports BLM.

#Nolene

#CoatofALLColors

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RIMPAC war games are imminenet, great chance to mess up the natives by dumping 100s of soldiers in the area at teh time of the pandemic.
Might think that shows of force within the US might give things like this a bad name so maybe give it a rest for a while but seems to be a selling point.

lol I had no idea who DeAnna Lorraine is. I can't keep all these pundits straight when every resume reads: YouTube host, conservative political commentator, author of some book, and host of her show no one watches. Her professional experience includes some bullshit.

"this machine makes folk music" is a pretty solid evil joke

you haven't come across her journalism at newsmax? she's doing some really important work there. and the way she challenged Pelosi for her house seat? that was legendary