US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

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https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1275098743688163328

https://twitter.com/richrmurphy/status/1275197124011933698

[Nintex]

Imagine rotting in jail for 10 years because the President has a mood
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275379758021390336

Lmao
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275375135483146241

[Stro]

Wait I thought you supported the sanctity of statues

[Stro]

Trump just used the record ratings for Fox News of his rally as the reason why the crowd was smaller than expected. Because all of his fans were watching it on Fox News instead.

[Nintex]

Wait I thought you supported the sanctity of statues

Yes but 10 years in jail seems a bit excessive

[Mandark]

From a couple months ago: Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of eldest son Donald Trump Jr., and Lara Trump, wife of middle son Eric Trump, are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity.

They were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by campaign manager Bradley Parscale through his company rather than directly by either the campaign or the party in order to avoid public reporting requirements.

“I can pay them however I want to pay them,” Parscale told HuffPost on Friday, but then declined to comment any further.

Feel like this might be relevant.

[Steve Contra]

This whole "I told them slow down the testing" feels like a classic Trump cycle where he says something horrible and/or idiotic, his media surrogates say he obviously didn't mean that, and then he reiterates yes that's exactly what I meant.

The mirror version is when he says something terrible and they defend it on the merits, and then he says he was just joking.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275381670561095682

[Steve Contra]

This whole "I told them slow down the testing" feels like a classic Trump cycle where he says something horrible and/or idiotic, his media surrogates say he obviously didn't mean that, and then he reiterates yes that's exactly what I meant.

The mirror version is when he says something terrible and they defend it on the merits, and then he says he was just joking.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275381670561095682

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/donald-trump-testing-slow-down-response/index.html

[Mandark]

He's been saying similar stuff for months anyway. Remember the cruise ship back in March?

They would like to have the people come off. I’d rather have the people stay [on the ship]. But I’d go with them. I told them to make the final decision. I would rather — because I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.

Caring about perception over reality isn't new for a politician.

But he doesn't get that reality still affects perception (ie if they'd contained the virus, he'd be getting better press) and he keeps saying the quiet parts out loud. You don't tell people you're juking the stats, you just do it and pretend they're legit!

[Stro]

Dang you don't even have to be married into the family to get in on the scams?

[CatsCatsCats]

You think people fuck Trumps for free?

[Tripon]

One of Trump's many grumblings about Brad Parscale is the millions his campaign manager is stealing from him.

I wonder if there's a quote of Trump liking Paul Manafort so much because he worked for free while he was running the campaign. 

[Brehvolution]

I saw this somewhere:

If Democrats are the party of slavery and kkk, why are republicans so bent that democrats are taking democrat statues down?

If you want to see the confederate flag less, start calling it the Democrat flag.

[stufte]

I saw this somewhere:

If Democrats are the party of slavery and kkk, why are republicans so bent that democrats are taking democrat statues down?

If you want to see the confederate flag less, start calling it the Democrat flag.

This is the extreme cognitive dissonance I've been raging about recently. I don't understand how people refuse to see the stupidity.

[Mandark]

getting some extra mileage out of this

[Nintex]

One of Trump's many grumblings about Brad Parscale is the millions his campaign manager is stealing from him.

I wonder if there's a quote of Trump liking Paul Manafort so much because he worked for free while he was running the campaign. 

The first thing the boss said when he met Paul was, “Wow, you’re a good-looking guy,” the same words he’d said when he first met me. Manafort, who was older than me by about 30 years, had had some work done to secure his youthful appearance.
[...]

Trump went fucking ballistic. We were still over the New York metropolitan area, where you can get cell service if you fly at a low altitude.
“Lower it!” Trump yelled to the pilot. “I have to make a call.”

He got Manafort on the phone, “Did you say I shouldn’t be on TV on Sunday??” Manafort could barely hear him because of the helicopter motor. But Trump said, “I’ll go on TV anytime I goddamn fucking want and you won’t say another fucking word about me! Tone it down? I wanna turn it up! I don’t wanna tone anything down! I played along with your delegate charts, but I have had enough.”
[...]

He got Paul on the phone and completely decimated him again verbally. Ripped his fucking head off. I wish I’d recorded it, because it was one of the greatest takedowns in the history of the world.
“You’re a political pro? Let me tell you something. I’m a pro at life. I’ve been around a time or two. I know guys like you, with your hair and your skin…”
[...]

“I’ve got a crook running my campaign,” Trump said when he read it.
[...]


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/04/paul-manafort-and-me-216004
 

Looks like someone figured out where the money is

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275479652140822529

Also Bolton will go on Fox News

[Madrun Badrun]

holy fuck

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-testing-slow-down-press-conference-today-arizona-a9581306.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Has Mandark already tooted himself for this? 

[Stro]

Republicans are absolutely shameless with voter disenfranchising and I can't believe there isn't more push back from Dems and the media for this shit.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1275432451393957888

This is how Trump is going to win. And literally buying Florida

[Great Rumbler]

From a couple months ago: Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of eldest son Donald Trump Jr., and Lara Trump, wife of middle son Eric Trump, are each receiving $15,000 a month, according to two GOP sources who are informal White House advisers and who spoke on condition of anonymity.

They were unsure when the payments began but say they are being made by campaign manager Bradley Parscale through his company rather than directly by either the campaign or the party in order to avoid public reporting requirements.

“I can pay them however I want to pay them,” Parscale told HuffPost on Friday, but then declined to comment any further.

Feel like this might be relevant.

#draintheswamp

[BIONIC]

Isn't it only 50% of your trip they are paying for?

they aren't paying for anything, I don't make enough 

Likes don’t pay the bills fam 

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/Grahambrose/status/1275404110012067842

https://wfpl.org/national-figures-warn-of-kentucky-voter-suppression/

But after expanding mail-in voting to all eligible voters — something that hasn’t happened in Kentucky before — many, if not most, voters will cast ballots by mail during the primary elections.

According to the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office, nearly 890,000 Kentuckians requested a mail-in absentee ballot — that’s about 25% of the almost 3.5 million registered voters in the state.

That’s already higher than the 20.6% voter turnout Kentucky had in the last primary election when both a U.S. Senate race and the presidency were on the ballot.

On top of that that, by the end of the weekend a total of 88,507 voters had cast ballots early, in-person. Many counties, including Jefferson, the state’s largest, also had early voting on Monday.

[CatsCatsCats]

Oh, didn’t realize Kentucky okay’d FRAUD

[Brehvolution]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275381670561095682

People think this dude is so smart. 



https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1275446078708412417

[Stro]

Oh, didn’t realize Kentucky okay’d FRAUD

Kentucky okay'd both fraud and suppression and the results won't even be in for at least a week

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/Sinny356/status/1275242499758530560

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1275510248292352010

 

watch till the end

we live in a simulation

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/StanleyKrute/status/1275429939597021184

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1275599759936491526

That was fast.

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1275599759936491526

That was fast.

That was always a cinch.

Early results look good in the other NY races so far, hoping Engel and Diaz get shut out.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/StanleyKrute/status/1275429939597021184

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

Holy shit NYC actually electing socialists out here. Elected DSA Jabari Brisport and a ton of progressives won races over moderates. Damnnnnn.

[Cindi Mayweather]

As expected, the final outcomes in New York will depend on absentee ballots. Tens of thousands of ballots are still pouring in, and it might take weeks to count them. Now … we wait.

Luis Ferré-Sadurní of NYT

We don’t have a final answer as to whether the Democrats’ progressive wing was able to rack up wins tonight, but that group is projecting a lot of optimism and strength.

Jennifer Medina of NYT

[Joe Molotov]

”We’re here today to declare that we will never cave to the left wing and the left-wing intolerance,” the president said at a Students for Trump event in Phoenix.

” They hate our history, they hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans,” the president said. “Our country didn’t grow great with them. It grew great with you and your thought process and your ideology. The left-wing mob is trying to demolish our heritage, so they can replace it with a new oppressive regime that they alone control."

Very presidential. This must have been the unity speech.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Most important race I watched today was McGrath. She so far has garnered 27k votes to McConnell's 80k. Even when combined total with her opponent McGrath doesn't hit the numbers Turtle does. We need that man to lose.

On a good note, two republican trump opponents won in Kentucky.

[Cindi Mayweather]

[Mandark]

Most important race I watched today was McGrath. She so far has garnered 27k votes to McConnell's 80k. Even when combined total with her opponent McGrath doesn't hit the numbers Turtle does. We need that man to lose.

Wouldn't set my heart on McConnell getting knocked out whether it's McGrath or Booker.

[Tripon]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-campaign-names-hogan-gidley-as-new-press-secretary/

The Trump campaign has named Hogan Gidley as its new press secretary, replacing Kayleigh McEnany, who became the White House press secretary in April. Gidley is currently the principal deputy press secretary at the White House.

"Hogan Gidley has been at the President's side for three years and now he joins the fight to re-elect him," campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. "He is a talented advocate and defender of the President and his policies and is never afraid to go into battle with hostile reporters and television hosts. Hogan is a great addition to the team and makes us even stronger."

[Cindi Mayweather]

Most important race I watched today was McGrath. She so far has garnered 27k votes to McConnell's 80k. Even when combined total with her opponent McGrath doesn't hit the numbers Turtle does. We need that man to lose.

Wouldn't set my heart on McConnell getting knocked out whether it's McGrath or Booker.

I need him gone.

[Tripon]

Most important race I watched today was McGrath. She so far has garnered 27k votes to McConnell's 80k. Even when combined total with her opponent McGrath doesn't hit the numbers Turtle does. We need that man to lose.

Wouldn't set my heart on McConnell getting knocked out whether it's McGrath or Booker.

I need him gone.

Better hope he retires then.

[Steve Contra]

It would have to be a historic gop collapse for McConnell to lose. Dude isn’t even that popular in Kentucky but he knows how to bring the pork and people like seeing him at the top continually sticking it to the dems, which he is really, really good at, even more so than Trump.

[Mandark]

In terms of wishful thinking, top of my agenda is for a piano to fall on Sam Alito.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1275567239517868033

 

[james]

The moment Ive been waiting for is here



 

Bernie's big comeback starts TODAY

[Stro]

Donald Trump returning to kung flu, doesn't know where the 19 comes from (should be noted others in his administration have gone on TV and talked about it like there were 18 previous versions Obama could have fixed), after a week of all of his surrogates saying he was just kidding about slowing down testing, he says he doesn't kid and is now going to defund all the testing sites at the end of the month as the numbers have returned to the peak numbers at the height of what we thought was the first wave and he continues to hold super spreader rally events in hot spots.




What the fuck is this guy's end game?

[BIONIC]

What the fuck is this guy's end game?

He’s transitioning to greatness.

[Nintex]

He's activating b e a s t m o d e

[Great Rumbler]

What the fuck is this guy's end game?

Death.

[Tripon]

Roborkspierre is here

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1275811314091397122

There was a bunch of people trying to get him to admit that he pays for male escorts and forces them to call him Lady G.

Nobody had any proof tho. 

[Stro]

Lady G

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/jpaceDC/status/1275912002951675909

  "I'm gonna ZOOM this thing"

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/kateirby/status/1275886130362290176

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/SRCC/status/1275911366428299270

Not sure if this was the smartest move by the Democrats but it seems like they're siding with Trump in the desire to watch the cities burn down.
They fail at the headline game though, they should've called it the "Floyd Act" which would've meant no Democrat could've voted against it.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1275912352894988288

In a surprising upset, a 24-year-old political newcomer on Tuesday defeated President Trump's pick in a Republican primary runoff for a western North Carolina congressional seat vacated by Trump's chief of staff.

Madison Cawthorn, a real estate investor, easily beat out Lynda Bennett, a real estate agent who had a clear fundraising advantage, with about 66% of the vote.

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Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, announced he wouldn't seek reelection right before the filing deadline, and Bennett quickly announced her intent to run — a move that angered many Republicans in the 11th Congressional District.

Bennett, 62, lost the runoff despite a string of high-profile GOP endorsements, including from Trump, who recorded a robocall for her; Meadows; Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas; and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Cawthorn used those endorsements against her, labeling her as the establishment choice who would be beholden to special interests.

He also criticized Bennett for refusing to debate him, saying in an ad, "I'll debate anytime, anywhere. I won't cow behind big-name endorsements."

Cawthorn campaigned as "pro-Trump, pro-life and pro-Second Amendment" and emphasized his family's deep roots in the state, which he said goes back to the Revolutionary War.

"I'm a millennial. I represent an emerging generation of Americans who are tomorrow's leaders, most of whom think that Republicans don't care about the disenfranchised, the hurting and those less fortunate. But nothing could be farther from the truth," Cawthorn said in a campaign video.

Cawthorn was nominated by Meadows in 2014 to attend the U.S. Naval Academy but suffered major injuries in a car accident later that year, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

Cawthorn will be 25 by November's general election — the minimum age for a U.S. representative.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Cawthorn shrugged off suggestions from opponents that he's too young to handle working in the halls of Washington.

"If they want to push me or do whatever they can, I promise I will fight back because I have been through far worse than they could ever imagine," he said. "The people of western North Carolina are the only people I care about. I really think that my accident has given me the resolve to represent them."

He also told the Examiner his accident gave him insight into the health care system, which he has placed as a top priority.

"I had over $3 million in medical debt as an 18-year-old," he said. "I would like to be the face of the Republican Party when it comes to health care."

Bennett took first place in the March 3 primary but didn't win by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff. Cawthorn placed second in the primary, beating out a former Meadows staffer and a state senator.

Joshua 4 Congress couldn't even apply for the Democratic primary. 

[Madrun Badrun]

[Cindi Mayweather]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/wisconsin-ohio-marquette-quinnipiac-biden-trump-polls/index.html

Biden is ahead by one point in the Midwest. The Midwest really is full of assholes.

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https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1275912352894988288

In a surprising upset, a 24-year-old political newcomer on Tuesday defeated President Trump's pick in a Republican primary runoff for a western North Carolina congressional seat vacated by Trump's chief of staff.

Madison Cawthorn, a real estate investor, easily beat out Lynda Bennett, a real estate agent who had a clear fundraising advantage, with about 66% of the vote.

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Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, announced he wouldn't seek reelection right before the filing deadline, and Bennett quickly announced her intent to run — a move that angered many Republicans in the 11th Congressional District.

Bennett, 62, lost the runoff despite a string of high-profile GOP endorsements, including from Trump, who recorded a robocall for her; Meadows; Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas; and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Cawthorn used those endorsements against her, labeling her as the establishment choice who would be beholden to special interests.

He also criticized Bennett for refusing to debate him, saying in an ad, "I'll debate anytime, anywhere. I won't cow behind big-name endorsements."

Cawthorn campaigned as "pro-Trump, pro-life and pro-Second Amendment" and emphasized his family's deep roots in the state, which he said goes back to the Revolutionary War.

"I'm a millennial. I represent an emerging generation of Americans who are tomorrow's leaders, most of whom think that Republicans don't care about the disenfranchised, the hurting and those less fortunate. But nothing could be farther from the truth," Cawthorn said in a campaign video.

Cawthorn was nominated by Meadows in 2014 to attend the U.S. Naval Academy but suffered major injuries in a car accident later that year, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

Cawthorn will be 25 by November's general election — the minimum age for a U.S. representative.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Cawthorn shrugged off suggestions from opponents that he's too young to handle working in the halls of Washington.

"If they want to push me or do whatever they can, I promise I will fight back because I have been through far worse than they could ever imagine," he said. "The people of western North Carolina are the only people I care about. I really think that my accident has given me the resolve to represent them."

He also told the Examiner his accident gave him insight into the health care system, which he has placed as a top priority.

"I had over $3 million in medical debt as an 18-year-old," he said. "I would like to be the face of the Republican Party when it comes to health care."

Bennett took first place in the March 3 primary but didn't win by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff. Cawthorn placed second in the primary, beating out a former Meadows staffer and a state senator.

Joshua 4 Congress couldn't even apply for the Democratic primary. 

Dude says he won't cow behind big name endorsements while being pro-trump and saying republicans don't care about the people?

[team filler]

 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1275808827326201856

 

[Cindi Mayweather]