US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1147212641074581505

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[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1147212641074581505

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[Nintex]

A Twitter poll 

[ToxicAdam]

Post-it Note

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1147203033190883328


based bernie 

new page gawd

[Kara]

Maybe the governor of Arizona is too poor to afford new shoes. *checks Wikipedia*

Before entering politics, Ducey was the CEO of Cold Stone Creamery. He and his business partner sold the company in 2007.

Nope, just more politics kayfabe.

Kulturkampf

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I was feeling bad about donating 27 doll hairs to bernie because he was falling down the list.


Now I realized he's just letting these wealthbuckets soak in their money before he goes up against dumbass trump.

[curly]

Apropros of nothing it's hilarious how the gaping maw of content has transformed Nate Silver from guy who cuts through pundit to bullshit to guy whose site writes features on how Mike Gravel and Joe Sestak could win the nomination.

[Tripon]

Apropros of nothing it's hilarious how the gaping maw of content has transformed Nate Silver from guy who cuts through pundit to bullshit to guy whose site writes features on how Mike Gravel and Joe Sestak could win the nomination.

Somebody pointed out when the ownership of 538 shifted from ESPN to ABC, 538 had to pump out way more 'content' articles to justify its existence, where ESPN had no idea what to do with it's political side and just left the site alone as long as the sports articles kept pace.

Also, Nate Silver is a terrible pundit himself, and really shouldn't give out 'analysis'. Dude's just terrible at it.

[benjipwns]

Somebody pointed out when the ownership of 538 shifted from ESPN to ABC, 538 had to pump out way more 'content' articles to justify its existence, where ESPN had no idea what to do with it's political side and just left the site alone as long as the sports articles kept pace.

But the shift to be under ABC was last year, didn't actually change their editorial oversight, and they were posting this garbage for years now.

I contend the flaw has always been result of the trade from the NYT. The NYT wanted it solely as a politics site, Nate has a well known history in sports which is why ESPN (during its period of also allowing stuff like Grantland) was willing to buy it. ESPN was fine with it taking on literally anything under the sun when it shouldn't have been.

They should have kept 538 solely as a politics, and politics-adjacent metrics focused site. And Nate should have launched a new metrics-focused sports brand. ESPN proper has dabbled in this but never with a full-on focus. And now 538 actually does less of it because they've scrambled up the sites focus and let all the people they hired off the dying sports-stats-web go.

ESPN should have never been running any of this as first-brand content but Disney has always run their internet sites as a disaster area. The Go.com debacle is one of the greatest internet stories. The infamous ESPN redesign that broke all their old content was because they finally had to escape the Go.com platform backend.

ESPN is a multi-billion dollar enterprise based around amassing an archive of sports content, but they've broken their own internet archives four times, including the specific archive they setup to transition everything into as a repository. There's a whole chunk of ESPN content that the current site links to, but displays as blank, but if you ask for a print mode version restores all the content and makes it visible which I assume is why it still shows up as "related" or in searches.

You can sometimes randomly find nearly perfectly preserved content hiding on the servers that they probably don't even know is still sitting around: https://www.espn.com/nba/draft99/index.html

[Kara]

should I go to the bernie town hall tomorrow?

Live blog it on The Bore dot com.

[benjipwns]

https://apnews.com/0c6962ba64b74c459b3cac060e322087

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Friday warned that American elections could become more like voting in countries like Iran.

Speaking at a campaign event in Dover, New Hampshire, the author described an “illusion of choice,” and criticized the “political media elite establishment. It’s a corporate establishment.”

“And they will not only tell us what we’re supposed to talk about,” she said. “They will tell us who we’re supposed to choose to even choose between in terms of voting.”

Williamson added: “It’s kind of like countries like Iran, where you can vote for whoever you want, among the people that they tell you it’s OK to vote for. And that’s the kind of country that we’re living in today.”

In a follow-up statement to The Associated Press, Williamson clarified that Iran was “a cautionary tale, not a direct analogy.” She also said the July Fourth holiday “reminds us of our unique place in the world and the hope and light we represent to others.”

However, she added, “When corporate forces begin to dictate our candidates and give us fewer and fewer choices, it is a threat to our foundation.” She said all candidates should be welcome to participate “whether they are backed by monied forces or not.”

[benjipwns]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/us/politics/kamala-harris-fundraising.html

WASHINGTON — Senator Kamala Harris of California raised less than $12 million in the past three months, her campaign said on Friday, a total that leaves her well behind her top rivals in the Democratic presidential primary’s money race.

Ms. Harris’s total for the second quarter of the year, which ended on Sunday, was padded by a strong finish. She collected more than $2 million in online donations in the first 24 hours after the start of the Democratic debate on June 27, as well as an additional $1.2 million online last weekend, her team said.

Ms. Harris’s second-quarter number is far below what some other first-tier candidates reported this week.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., raised $24.8 million in the second quarter, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. brought in $21.5 million and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont collected $18 million, their campaigns said this week. (Mr. Biden entered the race in late April, more than three weeks into the quarter.)

Many other candidates are expected to report raising far less. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, for instance, raised $2.8 million since entering the race in early May, his campaign said this week. The campaign of Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana announced Friday that he had raised more than $2 million since becoming a candidate in mid-May.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-fundraising.html

It was a diverse group of supporters, but not a surprising one for Mr. Buttigieg. Through the first two fund-raising quarters, no other Democratic presidential candidate has married traditional high-dollar fund-raising with online small donations as successfully as Mr. Buttigieg, whose campaign announced on Monday that he had collected $24.8 million from more than 294,000 donors for the three-month period that ended Sunday.

“They’ve got a badass operation,” Rufus Gifford, the finance director for Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign, said of Mr. Buttigieg’s campaign.

During the second quarter, Mr. Buttigieg attended about 50 high-dollar fund-raising events, for which ticket prices typically run $2,800, the maximum individual contribution allowed by federal law in the primary. But he also held 20 “grass-roots” fund-raising events, for which ticket prices start as low as $15.

And from March 24 to June 22, the Buttigieg campaign’s combined spending on digital advertising on Facebook and Google ($1.3 million) exceeded that of any other Democratic candidate except Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren, according to Bully Pulpit Interactive, a Democratic digital communications firm.

Mr. Buttigieg had more than 230,000 new donors in the second quarter, bringing his total to more than 400,000, his campaign said. The average contribution over the course of his campaign has been $47.42, according to his team. His campaign said it now had more than $22.6 million in cash on hand. Of that, $832,000 is earmarked for the general election and cannot be used in the primary.

“This fund-raising report shows that Pete’s message is resonating with Americans, and it’s proof that we are building an organization that can compete,” Mike Schmuhl, his campaign manager, said in an early-morning email to supporters announcing the fund-raising total.

The watch party included Mr. Buttigieg’s top fund-raising officials, known on his campaign as “investment directors”

“They are innovating every single minute of every single day,” said Brendan Mullen, a cybersecurity executive who was the Democratic nominee for South Bend’s House seat in 2012 and who attended the campaign’s Miami debate events. “I’ve never seen anything scale at the speed they are. It’s scaling faster than any start-up in the history of America.”

[Kara]

I see Big Armenia has paid that infographic designer off handsomely.

[Nintex]

should I go to the bernie town hall tomorrow?

Ask Bernard why he is a coward and let himself be cucked by Hilldawg at the 2016 convention.

[Trent Dole]

Biden continues to crater.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1147486815160610817

 

[Great Rumbler]

Biden continues to crater.

I'm still surprised that people are surprised by this. Biden's got a history of history pre-VP and it's not good, once all that stuff started coming back into focus [along with some new, inevitable gaffes] his initial numbers were destined to drop off.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1147510402709934080

The Gravel-alche is over.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1146713535105425413

Politico on that new age number system. 

[agrajag]

I see Big Armenia has paid that infographic designer off handsomely.

or Colombia

[agrajag]

if you're gonna do a military parade, do it right or don't do it at all.



 

skip to 9:28 for bonus Steven Seagal




look at all the military hardware! Tanks, AK's, ballistic missle vehicles!

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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1147162499671908353

 

[jorma]

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1146713535105425413

Politico on that new age number system. 

politico headline in 2020: "trump loses the presidency in a landslide election victory for his opponent"

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1147456664142041090

[VomKriege]

Doesn't look that bad actually.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1146713535105425413

Politico on that new age number system. 

politico headline in 2020: "trump loses the presidency in a landslide election victory for his opponent"

"Biden concedes election in victory speech"

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1147519130377043969

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1147530669083570176

This entire thread 

[VomKriege]

U.S. Marine and Meme Economist.

[Joe Molotov]

Thanks, Todd.

[team filler]

[Himu]

#neverkamala

[curly]

News Media Inc. is a pretty extravagant name for a youtube channel with 74 subscribers

[VomKriege]

News Media Inc. is a pretty extravagant name for a youtube channel with 74 subscribers

It's a bit like that Holy Roman Empire joke, yeah.

[Nintex]

LMAO
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1147612214372835330

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1147615508180717569

[Boredfrom]

LMAO
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1147612214372835330

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1147615508180717569

 

[agrajag]

"practically self-impeaches" needs to make its way into the Bire vernacular.

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/TheLoveBel0w/status/1133864531594289152

 

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1147740318948888576

[Occam]

if you're gonna do a military parade, do it right or don't do it at all.



 

skip to 9:28 for bonus Steven Seagal




look at all the military hardware! Tanks, AK's, ballistic missle vehicles!

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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1147162499671908353

 

In case anyone needs a laugh, here's the excerpt form his speech about the Revolutionary War where Trump claims the American forces took over airports in 1775.
https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1146923773209325569

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/1147710921059557376

Do more interviews Nancy

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1147528820611850240

What next ? Twitter ?

[Nintex]

Isn't that obvious.

Just look at how old people vote and all they do is sit in front of the TV all day

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

#neverkamala

She's gonna be such a fucking warhawk.

[Nintex]

#neverkamala

She's gonna be such a fucking warhawk.

Rouhani: "Madame President I am glad that you are willing to speak to us. Now that the previous administration is out, Iran would like to extend a hand of friendship and..."

Harris: "The B2's are already en route. If you run now you might make it to your basement"

@realDonaldTrump WOW Kamala the Cop blew Iran off! Can you believe I said it during the debate. Many people will die and the economy will totally tank. Could've been Great instead. OOPS!

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/skenigsberg/status/1147923363169480706

[naff]

News Media Inc. is a pretty extravagant name for a youtube channel with 74 subscribers

Ah yes, News Media Inc. proudly reporting on the Work Industry

cindi's news media clip is a damning excerpt from what was overall a pretty nuanced, interesting talk on the criminal justice system. i enjoy listening to her talk about the problems, and where to start solving them. she actually understands on a very real level what problems they're dealing with on a day to day basis. what is truly limiting them. the i have 3 padlocks, build more schools less jails chant def whack but eh, it's understandable a notoriously hard nosed career prosecutor is a bit paranoid.

[team filler]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Good thing that Bernie is gonna win.


Based dove.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1147916459277979649

Gillibrand, Gabbard, & Klobuchar in Sept: 

[Kara]

Something something social credit something something this is fine I trust the U.S. security services in 2019

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-a-gold-mine-for-facial-recognition-searches/ar-AADZk0d

[CatsCatsCats]

Cool cool cool...

[Trent Dole]

Gillibrand, Gabbard, & Klobuchar in Sept:

Gillibrand is the only one of those three that ever seemed remotely plausible at any point in time to me.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1148057678364782592

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1148054937689083904

[benjipwns]

In case anyone needs a laugh, here's the excerpt form his speech about the Revolutionary War where Trump claims the American forces took over airports in 1775.

are you saying America didn't? why do you think Benedict Arnold had to be "turned into an enemy" to hide what he truly heisted at Fort Ticonderoga?

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1148057678364782592

She’s putting the system on trial.

[benjipwns]

Gillibrand is the only one of those three that ever seemed remotely plausible at any point in time to me.

Her money and polling disconnect still baffles me.

https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1148054937689083904

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so after he already wasted millions on that stupid impeach Trump campaign against Democrats he finally realizes you can just beat Trump in 2020 and not need to impeach, but like all these morons seems to think only he can win?

[benjipwns]

Steyer told people in January that part of the reason why he wasn’t running for president was because he was satisfied with the economic message that Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts presented. Long focused on environmental advocacy, he also was excited by Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s focus on climate change as the priority issue of his campaign. However, people who’ve spoken to Steyer told me that while he still speaks fondly of Warren, he’s been frustrated that Inslee’s campaign hasn’t taken off more. (Inslee has yet to break 1 percent in the polls.) According to these people, Steyer has talked about seeing an opening to challenge Trump on the economy, and take him on as a successful businessman who’s an actual self-made man, and who believes in progressive economics.

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According to people who’ve spoken with him, Steyer has also been disappointed that House Democrats haven’t moved more quickly in holding impeachment hearings.

[benjipwns]

hott

[Great Rumbler]

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hott

Too bad it's not Captain Joe: