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

So Abby Johnson is still tweeting in defense of her head-of-household voting position. Like, right now. Minutes before her speech to the RNC. Last one was 2 mins ago. pic.twitter.com/ntCWBHmkM6

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) August 26, 2020

are they doing a fucking naturalization ceremony right now

they're doing a live reading of Michelle Remembers

naturalization ceremonies and all other USCIS processing is essentially on hold right now, directly affecting me, so that was a bit fucking rich, and i hope you'll all vote democrat in 2020.

xps what if you’re able to afford several houses? It would seem fair to have several household votes in that case.

I would only support the single household vote for the Conway home.

only the youngest member of a household should be allowed to vote imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK8P0vUQ4lg&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3i2F2_qZDiBObkQ10BbyaqqiKp4XQbLvN5NqxHN_YOO73Xmkic0yxgin8
More bleurgh

I thought this might not have gone ahead when the conference was reduced to one night.
BUT no, it's gonna be down on a permanent record.
yuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK8P0vUQ4lg

sounds like a lotta downright illegal shit went down at the RNC last night

Mark Meadows reportedly said that "no one cares," which I guess means he knows and ... doesn't care.

Political reporters are also saying "no one cares," as though they don't have the power to make people care.

Lots of critiques of Trump holding official WH ceremonies for political purposes (which is fair). But if you think of the ppl the party is targeting, those watching at home who care less about politics/ aren't as aware of the ethics making this controversial, they strike a chord

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) August 26, 2020

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— Elon Green (@elongreen) August 26, 2020

(First tweet is from an Axios reporter; the second is an excerpt from this morning's POLITICO Playbook.)

it's the role of the media to report that breaking the law doesn't matter if some people are cool with it

the one thing Trump has actually been pretty successful at is getting the media to think like he does - the only thing that matters is who wins and who loses

I think the media was already thinking that way (Jay Rosen was criticizing it back in 2011), but there's a symbiosis under Trump.

At the same time, Trump also exposes the uselessness of it, in a way that may not have been as obvious before him.

He's such a cartoon villain:

WASHINGTON — Fifteen days before the 2018 midterm elections, as President Trump sought to motivate Republicans with dark warnings about caravans heading to the U.S. border, he gathered his Homeland Security secretary and White House staff to deliver a message: “extreme action” was needed to stop the migrants.

That afternoon, at a meeting with top leaders of the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection officials suggested deploying a microwave weapon — a “heat-ray” designed by the military to make people’s skin feel like it is burning when they get within range of its invisible beams.

Developed by the military as a crowd dispersal tool two decades ago, the Active Denial System had been largely abandoned amid doubts over its effectiveness and morality. Two former officials who attended the afternoon meeting at the Homeland Security Department on Oct. 22, 2018, said the suggestion that the device be installed at the border shocked attendees, even if it would have satisfied the president. Kirstjen Nielsen, then the secretary of Homeland Security told an aide after the meeting that she would not authorize the use of such a device, and it should never be brought up again in her presence, the officials said.

amid doubts over its effectiveness and morality.

lolol which is it??

“this weapon feels terrible”

“but not as much as it should!”

Active Denial Technology also a consistently reappearing hallmark of gangstalking / govt mind control / 5G conspiracy theory FYI

Sorry to even link this but just for the sake of Q-literacy

https://smombiegate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/5g-vs-military-biological-weapon-5g-smombie-gate-801x1024.jpg

That does beg the question about what kind of mental gymnastics the Q people would attempt to justify Trump using it.

microwave pizza, duh

Jeeeesus this is going to be awful

The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January https://t.co/o6AXYOVvhb

— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) August 26, 2020

"never met him, hear he's a very bad person, don't know what he was doing there, bad people on both sides"

Jeeeesus this is going to be awful aspirational.

Bad people on both sides, but mostly my side.

Candace Owens must now be extra-miffed that she's not speaking tonight or tomorrow at the RNC.

Two influential House committee chairs on Wednesday threw their support behind Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) in his primary battle against Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), parting ways with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the closely watched race.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Oversight Chair Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) announced their support for Markey in statements Wednesday afternoon. News of the endorsements was first reported by The Hill.

maybe pelosi is losing her grip on party unity, a little?

Tucker: How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would pic.twitter.com/MGl7tdz9B5

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) August 27, 2020

dude should permanently lose his job for this bullshit

In Trump's second term he'll have Hannity's time slot. (Because Hannity will be in the newly-created Cabinet position of Secretary of Media.)

Secretary of the Truth

tbh if James Murdock hadn’t leaves off of his dad’s board; Tucker would be toast

wtf I typed “peaced” not “leaves”

that's the worst thing i've ever seen tucker say, i think. really evil.

I would not be sad if Tucker Carlson spontaneously combusted

not gonna surprise anybody but the 17 year old mass shooter has a legal defense fund that's already topped $50k

I'm surprised the GOP is not flying him in to give a speech tomorrow night.

Nick Sandmann sad they've found a younger, newer teen Edgelord.

<cue "Seventeen" by Ladytron>

GOP could do a zoom and include the SC church shooter and that a$$hole from Charlottesville. American youth at it's best.

It's all so goddamn sad.

Pence just described the killing of Officer Dave Underwood in the California 'riots'. He conveniently didn't tell his crowd - who must have assumed 'antifa' or 'BLM' were behind it! - that the alleged killer is a member of the far-right Boogaloo movement:https://t.co/XEA2xxhLqi

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 27, 2020

tbh if James (Murdoch) hadn’t (peaced) off of his dad’s board; Tucker would be toast

He's had 24 years of repeated lessons, over and over, since his dad first bought Rawkus, that he would not be permitted to influence the family business or run his own in any major way. He definitely has a better awareness than we do of what he could and couldn't do on the News board.

Lots of thinly veiled racism in the bits of convention I watched tonight. cops are heroes, protesters are takers. also the u.s. fought socialism in world war 2.

Thinly veiled?

i feel so broke up
i wanna go home

Yeah, seeing James Murdoch as some secret leftie saviour is like the free-Melania bullshit. He never did anything while he could and he enjoyed the riches of evil.

Anyone who watched him in the Leveson hearings in the UK would not be at all charitable. It does seem he left the family business over its stance on climate change, though.

lolololol

Pelosi just suggested that Richie Neal — the ways and means chairman — will go after Trump’s tax returns if Joe Biden wins the presidency

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) August 27, 2020

https://prospect.org/politics/trump-tax-returns-hidden-blame-richard-neal/