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

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Uber Eats don't fuck around...

Dame time

Loomer is legitimately mentally ill

all Frankel has to say in reply to anything she says is "Ok, Loomer"

Gaetz looks like the bastard spawn of Unknown Hinson, which seems entirely appropriate since Hinson revealed himself to be a racist and misogynist this week.

watch the trim

thoughts on jill biden: i didn't know very much at all about her, before tonight. i think it's really cool that she was a community college teacher, 15 credits a semester, for the entirety of the obama presidency. i'm sure there's a cynical view on it, but my first reaction is just that i think it's great. she went and got her phd in education after she was already married to a sitting congressman, and pursued teaching afterward. i'm guessing she probably turned down more high profile gigs along the way. i like all of that. as a political speaker, i thought she was on the average, mid-90s fake/authentic level. she made a sudden turn to camera 2, about a minute in, with such urgency and precision that it immediately brought to mind the video for En Melody on Histoire de Melody Nelson, where jane birkin turns exactly 90 degrees to a new camera with every phrase, snapping and being extremely horny all the while. so, cool/weird ref there.

my impression of her is that she's not a great speaker but her actions seem to speak pretty loudly. she seems like a good person to have with an eye on education. say what you will about the bidens, but i do appreciate the symbolism of teaching at a community college and riding an amtrak rather than taking a private car.

having Colin Powell speak was so fucking stupid

Unknown Hinson just locked down a slot at the RNC!

Colin Powell carries a ton of symbolism and credibility for older Bush-wing Republicans who connect him with the first Gulf War. He also carries a huge load of negative symbolism for all the progressive voters who recall his speech to the U.N. about Saddam's WMDs before the Iraq War. Maybe the Biden campaign calculates Powell's endorsement can bring in enough ex-military voters to swing a state like Virginia or Montana. Seems like a double-edged sword to me.

virginia is not in any danger of going for trump, and montana is not in any danger of going for biden.

they look like the goddamn Addams Family

how long before MAGAnites start destroying and removing blue USPS boxes themselves, on the grounds that postal ballots are a threat to the integrity of the election? if you believed that, then surely there's a moral justification for taking matters into your own hands?

Having Colin Powell speak was merely a signal that Biden believes in imperialist warfare. Nothing to see here folks

Yeah, having people like Powell, Kasich or whomever, it ultimately just benefits the GOP as a party that can be rehabilitated. But this is their sinking shit-ship they built, they don't deserve rehabilitation, no matter how much they hate Trump. If they don't like or want Trump, then they shouldn't be Republicans. Like, how hard would it be for Powell to change his political affiliation and just be a Democrat who likes war, or Kasich a democrat who doesn't like abortion or whatever shit keeps them with the GOP. If they identify as Republicans then they identify with the Republicans, and the Republicans overwhelmingly identify with Trump.

They've spent the past 30 years maligning the Democrats on every media platform, so hard to see them going all the way.

Colin Powell gave some bullshit quote about "the Republican party needs me more than the Democrats need me" or something, but that goes both ways. Clearly right now the Democrats need him more than the GOP does. Now, if *he* still needs the GOP that's another matter, and the fact that he doesn't change parties indicates that's the case. So like the Lincoln Logs or whatever they are, accept their support, but don't give them a fucking platform that normalizes their party as anything but abhorrent.

Josh OTM. Democrats are giving Republicans a life raft instead of telling them to go down with their own ship or come on board with them. Gotta maintain that status quo 2 party show of a battle for the center.

Like we learned nothing from 2008-2010

My personal take is that rogue republicans are more than welcome to help oust Trump if such is their wont (I mean, they helped make the mess so it's only right that they should help clean it up) but if they expect one goddamn concession in return they can pound sand.

how hard would it be for Powell to change his political affiliation and just be a Democrat who likes war,

if he did this, he would still be an uncool guy.

For sure, fuck him.

On the other hand:

A portrait of how much Donald Trump turned the GOP establishment upside down -- Cindy McCain is speaking at the DNC about her late husband's relationship with Biden, and neither the last Republican president (GWB) nor the last Republican nominee (Romney) are speaking at the RNC

— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) August 18, 2020

Does anyone have a full count of republicans speaking? Is there really no worry that legitimizing these creeps will hurt them down-ballot?

if they expect one goddamn concession in return they can pound sandhave been paying attention

Sadly, I seem to have very little pull at the DNC.

i think trump should be proud of the fact that he drove these lowlifes out of the party. the only problem is, he is worse than them.

Lowlife of the party.

but the point still stands. in itself, being hated by mitt romney is not a point against him.

my f-i-l writes in Powell every prez election since Bush-Gore so I guess maybe the Dems will pick up one vote? it's in Michigan so ~every vote counts~

he comes across as very dignified, like one of the generals on the west wing. it's all aesthetic.

comey came across like that too at first to a lot of people. since then he's sort of ruined it. trump was probably right when he called him a "showboater" three years ago, lol

Trump does like boats, it's true.

R convention to feature this little shit

https://www.factlie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Nicholas-Sandmann-400x242.jpg

As if anyone needed affirmation that despite protestation to the contrary he is in fact a huge asshole after all.

Good morning!

Any word yet on whether Skeletor will be joining the slate of cartoon villains speaking at the RNC?

I thought Jill Biden's speech was nothing special but Jill Biden herself seems fantastic; I didn't even know her name before this; the family segment before her talk was truly warm and, to me, completely convincing that she's the salt of the earth. Not that the spouse of the President being the salt of the earth is the most important thing in the world I guess. But I found myself caring.

Trying to think if there are any other utterly marginal private citizens who've been deservedly slighted or demonized by the left and who are thusly in high demand for their public speaking skills. The Starbucks coughing lady, maybe?

They should have a bunch of lunatics on a stage stomping on masks, like the Disco Demolition.

This interview with former Republican campaign pro Stuart Stevens, who wrote the book It Was All A Lie, is interesting. I can't tell whether he genuinely still has hope for his party, or if he just can't allow himself to sink completely into despair, but he takes some pretty hard swings here nonetheless.

Colin Powell has not been a Republican for a long time. What's true is that he's a general and what's true is that Joe Biden as President is going to have a foreign policy pretty continuous with Obama's, which is going to involve generals, so, truth in advertising.

Trying to think if there are any other utterly marginal private citizens who've been deservedly slighted or demonized by the left

My guess is they'll find a white person whose relative was murdered by a black person or an undocumented immigrant and stand them up on the stage while the crowd chants "ALL LIVES MATTER"

Stevens, a child of segregated Mississippi who has written powerfully about race in the past, says he always knew there was hostility toward minorities and immigrants and science within his party. But he thought that strain was a recessive gene, when it turned out to be the dominant gene.

Is this naïveté or disingenuousness

He doesn’t think that anymore, and his conversion story is getting a lot of buzz. It debuted at No. 8 on the New York Times best-seller list, helped in part by an attention-grabbing op-ed in the New York Times, and he’s been featured on National Public Radio, the New Yorker, the Ezra Klein podcast, and other outlets that Republicans consider the heart of the liberal media establishment.

A whistlestop tour of all the marks who'll lap up a conversion story every four years.

They GOP convention could call up the cops that shot Breonna Taylor.

i agree with the people who said upthread that jill biden seems cool. just a regular, hardworking person who wants to contribute to society. her husband's a little loopy though, i'm sorry

Is it too early or too late to dunk on all the idiots defending Sandman as just some misguided teen instead of a bad actor?

i think liberals, the left, and those inclined to vote biden of all other political persuasions, would do well to ignore that whole thing. the reason he is up there is to bait people into attacking him.

The Stevens interview makes shrewd points and baffling ones. William F. Buckley, Jr. didn't "evolve." In 1986 he was calling for HIV patients to get tattooed.