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

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/

Michigan's attorney general is investigating a voter-suppression robocall allegedly created by blundering conservative operative Jacob Wohl. https://t.co/J3Jl2Mouy7

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 27, 2020

HOW IS HE NOT IN JAIL YET

is he old enough?

all the people who might just get busted if the law returns in 2021. They'll have to form queues.

How long til this guy gets a giant Roger Stone back tattoo?

Warning: you may need alcohol after finishing this article.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/rnc-republican-national-convention-speeches-democrats-crisis.html

HOW IS HE NOT IN JAIL YET

There must be clones of him running around.

How long til this guy gets a giant Roger Stone back tattoo?

He'll probably try to do it himself using a hand mirror and it'll wind up looking like that "restored" Spanish Jesus. But upside down.

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article245286690.html

Democrats blocking police reform in California

The bills, which met strong resistance from law enforcement groups and some weak-kneed legislators, teetered near the brink of failure on Wednesday.

rinse and repeat on the national level when/if joe wins

nothing is going to change!

“We have no connection to any such robo calls,” Burkman later wrote in an email, claiming that the call came from “a liberal group trying to embarrass us.”

lol @ the idea of going out of one's way to embarrass jacob wohl

▪ The Deadly Force Accountability Act (Assembly Bill 1506). This bill by Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, would allow local law enforcement leaders and district attorneys to request that the California state attorney general investigate police shootings. But despite the fact that the bill enjoys support from a large coalition of groups, including the NAACP and the California Police Chiefs Association, it has had one very powerful opponent: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who has repeatedly made it clear that he’s no friend of police reform.

“The AG has a $1.1 billion budget with 4,500 employees and 1,100 attorneys,” said McCarty earlier this month. “If he wanted to, he could prioritize independent investigations for police deadly force. In this historic George Floyd era, we hope he reconsiders.”

The first thing I thought of when I saw the setup for the bullshit tonight:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgderOuWAAAz63U?format=jpg&name=large

Were the graves at Arlington Cemetery:

https://stayva.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/08/22/arlingtonnationalcemetery.jpg

Or Normandy:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Omaha-beach-cemetery.jpg/300px-Omaha-beach-cemetery.jpg

one can only hope

If there's any consolation, it's likely in the 90s now. On the other hand, Trump will probably crank the WH A/C and open the windows.

https://d1e9ycqe323hkh.cloudfront.net/items/362643135622.jpg

Casket of Trumpets

'No master. You're the master!'

Cannot kill the family
Lechery is found in me

lol pomenitul

More Americans died from coronavirus during the Republican Convention than died on 9/11.

— David Litt (@davidlitt) August 28, 2020

TWEET FROM THE FUTURE: More Americans died from the coronavirus contracted at the Republican Convention than died on 9/11.

i’ve heard that ethical concerns have been raised

On the plus side, this coronation was Trump's high-point of his campaign. It can only be downhill for him from here.

Biden campaign apparently purchased and runs the Keep America Great domain.

Would think there would be a need for widespread change from th emess taht t left though.

Solemn flags and stunning lights mark White House campaign rally held by Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/3T1acQAsaW

— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) August 28, 2020

oh lovely, singing loudly, hope that isn't a method of spread or anything.

the pundits who thought bernie’s big twitter energy meant he was gonna cruise to the nomination are all-in on the “scary protests helps trump” big twitter energy

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 28, 2020

I honestly have no clue if the stuff in Kenosha is gonna tilt Wisconsin one way or the other. I suspect everyone I know decrying this is in the tank for Trump anyway.

Ready for my hot-take? Throughout the Trump presidency there have been almost *countless* moments that seemed MASSIVELY important politically, from Charlottesville, to gov't shut down (remember that?) to impeachment, & basically none of it has altered a remarkably stable picture.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 28, 2020

i like Chris Hayes but there's no dash in 'hot take'

that's also like the most lukewarm take ever

hayes of all people should know that Trump's M.O. is to pile up the outrages so it's impossible to remember what's happened

He mentions it often on his show.

i am def. not in the tank for trump and i think wisconsin is lost. i think minn. may be lost too. basically i think the election is lost.

this is what the future looks like to you guy?

ha! yes, sadly.

Any particular reason why you think WI and MN are lost? FYI, 538's polling average has Biden up ~6 in both states, and their forecast predicts him to win each by ~4.