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

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

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

this is what I was picturing too

xpost Maybe someone will take a shot at him? That's occasionally presidential.

THere are still press loyal to him so its almost inevitable somebody will come out with it. But are they going to be looking for circulation once the t reich has been thwarted

aiui the Boy Who Smirked is more an emblem of victimization at the hands of the sick Fake News Media than leftist antifa cancel culture, though maybe that’s not a distinction with making

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.

Amazing fact: apparently the DNC convention was helmed from (Emmy winner) Glenn Weiss's living room in Brentwood. He had pants on but no shoes. pic.twitter.com/urM6y1Zxk3

— John Brownlow (@JohnBrownlow) August 21, 2020

RNC should hire Pixar to animate their convention, stat. Or, you know, whoever produced "Veggie Tales."

Someone with more of a masochist streak can watch Greenwald interview the revenge porn kid

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/21/aaron-coleman-the-19-year-old-progressive-who-won-his-kansas-primary-speaks-about-his-troubled-past-and-promising-present/

Arizona Senator @MarthaMcSally, who is down five points in the polls vs @CaptMarkKelly, suggests to her supporters that they “fast a meal” and give her campaign the money that they saved from fasting. pic.twitter.com/MrH2DXax8d

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 22, 2020

Maybe she should call on her supporters to put her campaign in their wills and then go catch the vid.

xp I saw people posting excerpts of that Greenwald thing and I decided to assume it wasn't as bad as the screenshots and not read it, because if I read it and it was as bad as the screenshots I would feel bad about having clicked on it.

I am sick and tired of people saying "are we saying that if ANYBODY makes ONE MISTAKE EVER, ESPECIALLY a CHILD, they are BANISHED to the OUTER DARKNESS FOREVER?" No. We are saying that it might well affect one's decision whether or not to vote for that person when they seek elected office. I am not canceling someone or jailing them or censoring them by NOT VOTING FOR THEM or for that matter by campaigning for their opponent. Fuck that Kelly Loeffler bullshit.

Watching state Republican operatives contort themselves into pretzels to encourage their base to vote by mail without directly contradicting Trump is a sight to behold https://t.co/vFo3FcKwqO pic.twitter.com/B8KAuyYZ9J

— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) August 22, 2020

glad to hear about people ignoring dejoy orders and reassembling sorting machines.
Hope that catches on , and can catch on.
Heard that component poarts of some of the sorting machines can be used to telescope the extent of a machine.
But still some things are lying dismantled.

^is this a poem?

who sorts the sorting machines

The parcels will look up and shout
"Sort us!"
And I'll look down
And make a raspberry sound with my mouth

glad to hear about people ignoring dejoy orders and reassembling sorting machines.

Where did you hear about this?

jesus

i’m devasted that my mother is actually speaking at the RNC. like DEVASTATED beyond compare

— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020

i’m officially pushing for emancipation. buckle up because this is probably going to be public one way or another, unfortunately. welcome to my life

— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020

my mother’s job ruined my life to begin with. heartbreaking that she continues to go down that path after years of watching her children suffer. selfish. it’s all about money and fame, ladies and gentlemen.

— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020

as for my dad, politically, we agree on absolutely nothing. we just both happen to have common sense when it comes to our current president. stop “stanning” him

— CLAUDIA CONWAY (@claudiamconwayy) August 23, 2020

wow i've long figured mom and dad were in some informed meta-grift together, so this is what happens when three buttholes tweet together, have their acquisitive obsessions observed, and keep staying fake.

claudia conway otm

"stanning"

President Donald Trump told officials from the Department of Homeland Security to get their marching orders by listening to Fox Business host Lou Dobbs “every night,” former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor told Anderson Cooper on Friday.

Dobbs, an effusive supporter of Trump, was basically the “shadow chief of staff” for the department, Taylor said in the CNN interview.

“The president would call us and … he would say, ‘Why the hell didn’t you watch Lou Dobbs last night? You need to listen to Lou. What Lou says is what I want to do,’” Taylor said.

“So if Lou Dobbs peddled a conspiracy theory on late-night television or made an erroneous claim about what should be done … at the border … the president wanted us to be tuning in every night,” he added.

I think this is just another Emmy winning episode in the Fabulous and Dramatic Life of the Conways.

Xps

Trump 2020: Love Will Tear Us Apart.

ftfy: Trump 2020: LoveLou Will Tear Us Apart.

, Again

The revenge porn kid is dropping out of the Kansas House race.

In all seriousness, feminism hasn’t got a chance so long as Donatism remains on the march. The progressive circular firing squad has done more to uphold the status quo than conservatives could have ever dreamed of.

I will be releasing a press release in the morning resigning 1/2

— Aaron Coleman 🌹 (@Aaron4KS37) August 23, 2020

darn, who will we get to replace this underqualified douchebag

man fuck this guy

I can't believe the party let this guy run and win. shame on them for that (good on them for not supporting him when he did I guess, but it could have been prevented)

GOP convention lineup includes: pic.twitter.com/LU51hKeiAr

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 23, 2020

Friday:

https://live.staticflickr.com/4812/30915479337_ec5b34d3ff_b.jpg

Isn't Donald Trump doing a speech each night as well?

that's what I just read

He's going to be standing in the corner babbling for hours on end, and occasionally they'll just cut to him.

Isn't Donald Trump doing a speech each night as well?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, August 23, 2020

as always, there was a dubious viral tweet last night that said he would be the "key speaker", every night. however, i don't think that was confirmed "news" - it was just some guy reacting to hearing that trump would make an appearance every night (which he very well may, like the way biden showed up in various forms throughout the DNC)

The Kansas revenge porn guy is apparently dropping out of the race and has released a statement saying that feminism has no future if someone who blackmailed girls for nude photos five years ago doesn't get a clean slate; apparently his words to this effect were plagiarized from something one of his supporters wrote on his FB page a couple of days ago

WH chief of staff Mark Meadows today on Trump:

“The president is not only well-prepared, but reads so much that it causes me to have to read many times well into the night to catch up with him.”

WH chief of staff Mark Meadows today on Trump:

“The president is not only well-prepared, but reads so much that it causes me to have to read many times well into the night to catch up with him.”

Remember when we were told that George W. Bush and Karl Rove had an annual contest to see who could read the most books, and Bush always won?

trump is at least functionally illiterate and likely literally

57 percent of Republicans think 176,000 coronavirus deaths (and counting) is acceptable. Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/dd737aoOmj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 23, 2020

They don't really believe that, they just interpret the question as covertly asking what their opinion of Trump is.

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