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

God I would love to see Schilling put in jail, he fleeced the state for so much money with his video game misadventures

Erik Prince and David Clarke on the board too. Keep your fingers crossed.

Are these guys already out on bail and streaming on twitch?

People are sleeping on what effect HBCUs in general can have on the election in the South. People forget that the HBCU students in NC delivered Obama that state in 2008 #DCWatch https://t.co/MD4oR06tvR

— love mercy do justice (@c_fpeterson) August 20, 2020

Having searched 'HCBU' it's an acronym for 'Historically Black Colleges and Universities'. I learn new things all the time.

Yeah, I don't know - when Harris was a candidate there was a lot of talk about how her sorority sisters were going to be an army working on her behalf.

In other news:

Pres Trump delivering a dark, ominous speech in PA says: "They want to cancel you, totally cancel you. Take your job. Turn your family against you for speaking your mind, while they indoctrinate your children with twisted, twisted world views that nobody ever thought possible."

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 20, 2020

“Don't know anything about the project at all” would make for a good thread title for next (or any) month.

It's ANTIFA's fault your grandchildren blocked you on Facebook

He's been getting an earful at the country club.

“Sad to see that you're suffering
Work hard at being a something”

Clyburn was on the radio here last night grousing about how progressives complained that Harris wasn't progressive enough and his push back was "she was in a black sorority" which made me roll my eyes but maybe there was more to it than it sounded, if they and HBCUs can really be an effective GotV force.

as always, it's safe to assume projection with every trump speech

DeJoy has now ordered USPS employees to obstruct journalists, and to distrust any customers.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qypz/usps-warns-employees-not-to-speak-to-press

A real team player

I had friends drive to New Jersey a couple of weeks ago, and they said all across PA they saw nothing but elaborate Trump signs. And I had another friend drive to California who saw a lot of the same. And I say fuck all those Trump assholes, because they've lost already. Fuck them all forever.

breastcrawl -- I appreciate the deep cut there.

"I obtained emails sent hours after DeJoy's supposed policy reversal containing explicit instructions not to reconnect mail sorting machines that are still in processing facilities and perfectly functional."

Curt’s sole tweet after it all went down is...curt.

https://t.co/jkjgTniqOG

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 20, 2020

fuckin human skin tag

"Spoke to a postal worker today who explained why medication is the 1st thing people noticed was missing. They said when DeJoy ordered shifts to end even if all mail wasn't delivered, carriers were told to prioritize Amazon packages, then Priority mail, then everything else.

"Maintaining the Amazon contract was 1st priority. Then higher priced postage. But drugs are always shipped cheap b/c they know a month in advance when it has to get there. No need for 2nd day or anything like that. So meds are always among mail leftover at the end of the day.

"'Amazon is paying us money. So we're only delivering Amazon. And then if you have time, Priority. If Priority is good, then you do Parcel Select, or Standard Class packages...They always send drugs using the cheapest method, especially the Veteran's office.'

"Removing mail sorting machines means packages are showing up later and later, but trucks are required to leave at 9:30 am sharp. This late mail is intentionally not scanned, I'm told, so people w/ USPS Informed Delivery won't get notified and expect to see mail that isn't coming.

"Basically, USPS Informed Delivery, the tracking service, is totally unreliable at this point. Packages are piling up inside post offices and supervisors would rather people think their mail is stuck at a processing center than just sitting in a bin in a back room somewhere.

"The worker insisted we can't reverse the damage before Nov 3. They said there are too many routes open now & noted the election is in 75 days. New full-time workers undergo a 90-day probationary period w/ limited responsibilities. They're not even supposed to empty blue boxes."

I read this and I feel like fuck, what if morally deformed young men with no life off the Internet have an unbeatable political advantage of having nothing else to do but shitpost their way into influence and office.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kpqez/a-19-year-old-who-blackmailed-a-girl-for-nudes-just-won-a-democratic-primary-in-kansas

bleak

i'd be interested to know how many people voted in this primary and how many knew about the conduct? if he was 35 or whatever maybe middle school conduct can be apologized for, etc. but this all happened 5 years ago seemingly.

and he has been posting death threats online as recently as a few weeks ago...

many hours op xps, but...

https://i.redd.it/ueefr69y1h651.jpg

MonoLiz

Dejoy talking to Senate now over zoom. Sen. Hassan finally asking him about the letter he sent telling people not to reconnect machines. He's denying he did this.

now she's talking about his directions to keep employees from talking to the press. dunno if this is going to go anywhere, this guy just says 'yeah whatever' to everything and I don't believe for one second he's going to deliver his plans back to congress in a week.

this is how it's gonna be so long as there's absolutely zero consequences for lying to Congress

A government without accountability: us politics

Good morning!

For what brief excerpt of his zoom cross-examination I could stand to watch (Mitt was kissing his butt), DeJoy was blinking like he was having a seizure.

I've watched way too much of this. A lot of promises that they'll have no problem delivering all the ballots. Wish more people would hold him to speak regarding Trump's thoughts on that.

just saw a republican strategist on cnn say that the democratic convention was about platitudes (fair enough) and the GOP would be "about policy" (lmao for eternity)

Can’t wait to know what that smug teen from Kentucky has to say about policy

Doesn't need to even open his mouth.

New: Federal judge denies Trump’s request to put ruling over subpoena for president’s financial records on hold to allow time to appeal.
“Court is not persuaded that appellate review would be successful..This argument cannot suffice to show irreparable harm,” Judge Marrero wrote

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 21, 2020

Related by Asshole only:

JUST IN: VT Republican Gov. Phill Scott announces "I won't be voting for President Trump"

— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) August 21, 2020

smug teen: "Drill, baby, drill!"

gun couple: "More tax cuts for job creators!"

All of these rogue's gallery of right-wing freaks and nitwits should just stand on stage in their iconic poses, turning every few seconds like a professional weight lifter.

xpost to Josh, real life lolz at the image of him just standing up at the podium giving the smug smile for 5 minutes.

that would be amazing.

irl i'm sure he's been asked to present his story of cancel culture and how his life was ruined by the radical left

I'll say this once and then keep my mouth shut on the topic.

A lot of people today are commenting on how the DNC and Biden's speech exceeded the very low expectations, and that is basically true.

There is a non-zero chance that the same scenario will hold for the RNC as well.

irl i'm sure he's been asked to present his story of cancel culture

Definitely. That "cancel culture" and censorious "woke people" are bad is the only thing the GOP has left that separates them from the Democrats and that more than 50% of the country agrees with.

jeeeez, this story.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-cabinet-officials-voted-2018-white-house-meeting-separate-migrant-n1237416

WASHINGTON — In early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president's most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room, where they were asked, by a show-of-hands vote, to decide the fate of thousands of migrant parents and their children, according to two officials who were there.

President Donald Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller led the meeting, and, according to the two officials, he was angry at what he saw as defiance by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

...At the meeting, Miller accused anyone opposing zero tolerance of being a lawbreaker and un-American, according to the two officials present.

"If we don't enforce this, it is the end of our country as we know it," Miller said, according to the two officials. It was not unusual for Miller to make claims like that, but this time he was adamant that the policy move forward, regardless of arguments about resources and logistics.

No one in the meeting made the case that separating families would be inhumane or immoral, the officials said. Any moral argument about immigration "fell on deaf ears" inside the White House, one of the officials said.

"Miller was tired of hearing about logistical problems," one of the officials said. "It was just 'Let's move forward and staff will figure this out.'"

Frustrated, Miller accused Nielsen of stalling and demanded a show of hands. Who was in favor of moving forward? he asked.

A sea of hands went up. Nielsen kept hers down. It was clear she had been outvoted, according to the officials.

democracy in action

She's running...

Biden's speech exceeded the very low expectations, and that is basically true. There is a non-zero chance that the same scenario will hold for the RNC as well.

The USA has a very deep pool of talent for producing effective media spectacles and most of them are for hire at the right price. Both the DNC and RNC are capable of grasping this and they attempt to hire talented gunslingers to conduct their conventions. Also, the only genuine talent Donald Trump has ever demonstrated is a talent for communicating to and connecting with his chosen audience. We are not that audience, but that won't matter to them.

RNC should have a night dedicated to "Mothers of the Cancelled"

They should do an Oscars style memorial video

RNC should have a night dedicated to "Mothers of the Cancelled"

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes),

the most haunting U2 deep cut

Feels certain that something will happen at the RNC that elicits some "the day Trump became president" type punditry, but I wouldn't put money on it being his own speech