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

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

I only know of her because of screenshots of this:

Imagine being racist enough to deprive yourself of Dolly Parton, it’s literally laughable pic.twitter.com/MRFS2pf9pk

— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) August 16, 2020

RIMPAC

RIMPAC

RIMPAC

wait til she hears Dollywood got rid of the Civil War stuff

She sold it to Marty Stuart?

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

Marty Stuart famously owns Clarence White's original b-bender, acoustics from Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Lester Flatt, and Dolly's Civil War stuff.

DeAnna Lorraine and her ex-boyfriend Omar Navarro (who also stalked her for a lengthy period of time, and got arrested for being involved in the pepper spraying of children, and who claims to be running against Newsom for Gov; oh wait there's no gov race on in California, fuck off Omar) are fucking scourges on Twitter who should be paid no mind by rational, thinking humans.

NEW: Testimonial ad from Trump's Former DHS Chief of Staff @MilesTaylorUSA, declaring his support for Joe Biden and describing Trump's presidency as "terrifying" and "actively doing damage to our security."

WATCH & go to https://t.co/Nz2NiSCquN for more. pic.twitter.com/iChqOdIIew

— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) August 17, 2020

that's a great ad

the blur/airbrush effect around the edges of his head and shoulders is really, really weird looking in that ad.

They had to blur out the right wings, iirc.

I hope after the election he can get back to finding a cure for Tilt Shift

that's a good and effective ad, I think. But also I can't believe that guy was Chief of Staff of anything, he looks 15.

Weird tic of mine but when I'm speaking to people with shifty eyes like that, it makes me very skeptical of whatever they're saying.

Amazing!! https://t.co/P5gep9YdxQ

— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) August 17, 2020

it makes me very skeptical of whatever they're saying

can you identify any statement he makes that you find difficult to believe is true or is your skepticism entirely untethered from anything he said?

he does look kinda shifty in this video

Weird tic of mine but when I'm speaking to people with shifty eyes like that, it makes me very skeptical of whatever they're saying.

that's how you can tell he's not singing the heart music

Echo and the Bunnymen?

DJP i have no opinion about whitman but ... did you work for her or something? you seem like a fan.

huh i saw that in twitters, not here, and my feeling was less "he's unserious and incompetent," more "he's a fucking monstrous undemocratic tyrant," but it's fine, they all true.

DJP i have no opinion about whitman but ... did you work for her or something? you seem like a fan.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)

when i was in middle school the way you got elected to class council was by giving out the best candy, whitman and her samplers makes her the only candidate to take that idea and run with it

Only because Fritz Haribo isn’t eligible for office.