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« Reply #60120 on: July 06, 2020, 03:33:19 PM »
do you guys ever wonder what Anthony Weiner is doing now

Bouncing between his 20 TikTok accounts?


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« Reply #60122 on: July 06, 2020, 03:40:48 PM »
My friend who said they might vote trump says she might vote Kanye.

How many pronouns does she use?


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« Reply #60123 on: July 06, 2020, 03:42:19 PM »
My friend who said they might vote trump says she might vote Kanye.

How many pronouns does she use?

All of them.

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« Reply #60124 on: July 06, 2020, 03:49:29 PM »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-biden-campaigns-shift-focus-to-coronavirus-as-pandemic-surges/2020/07/06/53a4ec50-bd62-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

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The goal is to convince Americans that they can live with the virus — that schools should reopen, professional sports should return, a vaccine is likely to arrive by the end of the year and the economy will continue to improve.

White House officials also hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day, according to three people familiar with the White House’s thinking, who requested anonymity to reveal internal deliberations. Americans will “live with the virus being a threat,” in the words of one of those people, a senior administration official.

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« Reply #60125 on: July 06, 2020, 03:50:55 PM »
My friend who said they might vote trump says she might vote Kanye.

How many pronouns does she use?

This is fine usage of the singular they, stfu

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« Reply #60126 on: July 06, 2020, 03:56:59 PM »
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The goal is to convince Americans that they can live with the virus
You can't even hire a decent band :biden
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« Reply #60127 on: July 06, 2020, 04:16:30 PM »
https://twitter.com/elizabeth_joh/status/1280195187877146625




uhh how does ICE have any say at all in this

Haven't looked into, but Homeland Security should be taken care of boarder security which issues such as passports and Visas should be fall under. DHS might have passed down authority of that to ICE.

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« Reply #60129 on: July 06, 2020, 04:29:20 PM »
https://twitter.com/elizabeth_joh/status/1280195187877146625




uhh how does ICE have any say at all in this

Apparently ICE handles student visas instead of US Citizenship and Immigration Services
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« Reply #60130 on: July 06, 2020, 05:11:23 PM »
"Karen, Suzanne, Jim... Bob.. ok, I count about 10 of you winners so everyone's here.
So today we need the input from you, our TRUMP GOLD card members. The team here has been working
around the clock to change our message so first, please look at the following new campaign phrases we've come up with.
Write down what you feel and think when you hear these.... ok here we go"

- "I'm #CovinNineTeenIn it"
"Now this one doesn't roll off the tongue, but we think with a hashtag we could have something here.. moving on"

- "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's COVID-19"
"A reinvented classic, give a hand to miss Hicks for this one, one of our top contenders for sure"

- "COVID-19, Live with It"
"I like this one, sorta Apple-like very clean very minimalistic branding. This could work for the entire campaign."

- "We didn't start the CoronaVirus"
"Now this one is very powerful when it comes to messaging as we emphasize President Trump has nothing to do with this and it could even be turned into a song"

- "Boohoo Kung Flu"
"This is sorta a take on the 'own the libs' theme we've been running for the past 3 years, might need some finetuning but we like where this is going"

"Next we have drafted some ideas for mascots for the youngest Trump fans and their parents"
"First here is Covey the Outbreak, he looks very cute I think but make sure to make your own personal notes"
"Next up is C-19 the Robot and finally we have DIVOC COVID a sort of Masculine Russian action hero if you will to emphasize the friendship between the US and Russia"
"Oh and I totally forgot the COVIDSONS an entire happy infected family"

"And finally we have something special. Remember what you fans always say President Trump is?"
"A rapist?"
"No Karen not a rapist"
"A Nazi?"
"No Jim, not a Nazi... you all call him BATMAN!"
"Oh, yeah I guess Mr. Kushner"
"That's right Bob, and BATMAN needs a sidekick right?. Now the Chinese have been playing around with Corona-chan and we thought we'd create our own AMERICAN take on it.
So we're very proud to reveal CORONA-JANE. The real American Corona Icon and sidekick of President Donald J. Trump. Melania didn't want to pose
for this character so we used an intern instead but doesn't she look flashing? Of course she wears her special ANTI-COVID-19 mask handcrafted by
President Trump and as you can see she wears a suit with a print of the American flag. Now some people find the Confederate earrings a bit too much but we think it
completes the look"
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« Reply #60132 on: July 06, 2020, 05:24:42 PM »
The true what the fuckery of "Hopefully they'll just get used to a couple of thousand people dying every couple of days while I bitch about Confederate statues" :goty

It's legit psychopath shit
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« Reply #60133 on: July 06, 2020, 05:30:28 PM »
We need a final solution to the trump problem
This is all too much
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« Reply #60134 on: July 06, 2020, 05:32:50 PM »

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« Reply #60135 on: July 06, 2020, 05:59:06 PM »
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« Reply #60136 on: July 06, 2020, 06:03:08 PM »
corcomms taking the system down from the inside  :rejoice
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« Reply #60137 on: July 06, 2020, 06:22:33 PM »
Corporations are no friends of our values on these key issues

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« Reply #60138 on: July 06, 2020, 07:23:55 PM »
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« Reply #60139 on: July 06, 2020, 10:40:31 PM »

Is it safe to talk about how destructive the hagiography of Obama is yet or nah?

Curious your thoughts on this.

I felt like Obama was hamstrung by three things. His place in history (being the first minority president, he "played it safe" more often than not because he didn't want to stain the chances of future minority candidates), the economic downturn he inherited eating up his first 100 days, 2012 political backlash to his party that left him without power in Congress.

I think people accepted this and treated him accordingly.  Plus, he had "the cleanest" two-term presidency of the modern era. Granted it's a pretty low bar to clear, but he definitely cleared it.

I just notice that a lot of my liberal friends want to talk about Obama as if he was god's gift to humanity and was totally infallible and incapable of doing any wrong. They don't want to acknowledge the number of things that he put into place that have been directly used by the current administration for maximum cruelty. I feel that if you bring any of this up in certain sectors you are met with scorn and disapproval. I'm not trying to say he was the worst or even bad, just pointing out that he wasn't any more infallible or "good" than any other president is seemingly not allowed.


My friend who said they might vote trump says she might vote Kanye.

If Biden loses the election because of this stupid fuck I'm throwing all of his albums I own in the trash.

Good news! Kanye hasn't filed any paperwork to actually run yet.
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« Reply #60140 on: July 06, 2020, 11:04:11 PM »
Good news! Kanye hasn't filed any paperwork to actually run yet.

And with some filing deadlines passed, his campaign might get derailed by... late registration.

 :patel

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« Reply #60141 on: July 07, 2020, 12:04:37 AM »
That means nothing when it comes to write ins
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« Reply #60142 on: July 07, 2020, 02:07:19 AM »
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« Reply #60144 on: July 07, 2020, 10:59:49 AM »
:mindblown what the christ
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« Reply #60145 on: July 07, 2020, 11:25:03 AM »
That's some late-stage empire crap. 

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« Reply #60146 on: July 07, 2020, 11:27:32 AM »
Sorta interesting that Trump seems to be pushing an American exceptionalism campaign when he explicitly has argued that it was not at the time in 2016, and that he's still campaigning on the MAGA banner. Standard Republican campaign I guess.

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« Reply #60147 on: July 07, 2020, 11:32:25 AM »
God I wish occam was here to give his take on the latest trump hijinks :stahp
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« Reply #60148 on: July 07, 2020, 11:37:27 AM »
MAKE AMERICA GREAT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE ALREADY GREAT AND EXCEPTIONAL

Great motto.
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« Reply #60149 on: July 07, 2020, 11:56:10 AM »
Did you guys miss "Keep America Great"?

That's his 2020 campaign;  that in the last 4 years he.. Made America Great Again.

And if you want to keep it great..

He changed it to Transition To Greatness.
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« Reply #60150 on: July 07, 2020, 12:17:09 PM »
Did you guys miss "Keep America Great"?

That's his 2020 campaign;  that in the last 4 years he.. Made America Great Again.

And if you want to keep it great..

He dropped KAG because his supporters didn't want to buy a new slogan (literally, if you look at merch sales) and due to the pandemic, the thinking at least for a couple of weeks is that his administration made America great and if not for the pandemic, it was still going on. Now it's their job to return to greatness. You don't see KAG right now for the most part.


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« Reply #60151 on: July 07, 2020, 12:19:29 PM »
God I wish occam was here to give his take on the latest trump hijinks :stahp

Now that Bolsonario tested positive for the rona, he probably entered some mercenary group to invade the country.

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« Reply #60152 on: July 07, 2020, 12:22:18 PM »
does bolsonaro have it for real this time
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« Reply #60153 on: July 07, 2020, 12:24:37 PM »
does bolsonaro have it for real this time

Yes, he announced it at his own press conference.

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« Reply #60155 on: July 07, 2020, 02:46:30 PM »
..wh..which is racist?

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« Reply #60156 on: July 07, 2020, 02:58:30 PM »
Turtle dick is saying he’ll introduce a new care package on the 20th as a starting point, says we likely need one more round of stimulus but that it’ll be the last. 🤷‍♀️

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« Reply #60157 on: July 07, 2020, 03:09:37 PM »
..wh..which is racist?

Ball's been arguing that the left should align with the "populist right" so she has to pretend racism isn't the main factor there. Trump's making it especially hard to do that right now. In the video she's explicitly saying that she understands Trump's appeal better than Trump does, which would be more credible if she hadn't singled out Tim Ryan and Richard Ojeda as rising superstars.


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« Reply #60159 on: July 07, 2020, 03:49:29 PM »
Now that Trump has been outed as an abuse victim, you should all feel shame for bullying a victim all these years. His actions are not his fault since he's never dealt with the problem.

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« Reply #60160 on: July 07, 2020, 03:50:16 PM »
The top selling hats on the site are:

MAGA
KAG
MAGA
MAGA
USA
MAGA

I mentioned during the Tulsa rally you could see a lot of MAGA signage but no KAG. On Twitter, Trump's used MAGA 5 times this week, hasn't used KAG since March. Hasn't used KAG without MAGA since December last year. It's pretty clear what the de facto slogan is.

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« Reply #60161 on: July 07, 2020, 03:51:01 PM »
Did you guys miss "Keep America Great"?

That's his 2020 campaign;  that in the last 4 years he.. Made America Great Again.

And if you want to keep it great..

He dropped KAG because his supporters didn't want to buy a new slogan (literally, if you look at merch sales) and due to the pandemic, the thinking at least for a couple of weeks is that his administration made America great and if not for the pandemic, it was still going on. Now it's their job to return to greatness. You don't see KAG right now for the most part.

It's still the top seller on their website.. their KAG hat.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/keep-america-great-45th-president-hat

Also still their logo on his main site:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

And all over their messaging on that site...

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(Image removed from quote.)

Fair enough on the slogan still being there on Trump's website.

Best selling has more MAGA hats than KAG hats.


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« Reply #60162 on: July 07, 2020, 03:53:55 PM »
that freedom hat :lawd
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« Reply #60163 on: July 07, 2020, 03:56:42 PM »
Make America Great Again Again?
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« Reply #60164 on: July 07, 2020, 04:06:07 PM »
all the calls for race neutral messaging on the left conveniently ignore that it's the right that started the race-centric tone anyway.

There's a belief that racial politics only become salient to white people when liberals get too politically correct and invite a backlash (ie Ball in that clip talking about "racist emojis").

But Ball herself admits the US has a history of racist hierarchy that appeals to lot of white voters. So of course they'll push back when that hierarchy seems threatened, either by overt political organizing or just shifting demographics.

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« Reply #60165 on: July 07, 2020, 04:46:28 PM »

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« Reply #60166 on: July 07, 2020, 05:26:42 PM »
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday lashed out at school districts that haven't promised to fully reopen their schools this fall, blasting education leaders who won't accept risk and “gave up and didn’t try” to launch summer instruction.

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During a call with governors, she slammed the Fairfax, Va., district for its distance learning “disaster” in the spring and offering a choice of only zero or two days of in-person instruction moving forward, according to notes of a call with governors obtained by POLITICO. Earlier in the pandemic, DeVos had been more open to kids learning both online and during in-person classes.

“Education leaders need to examine real data and weigh risk…risk is involved in everything we do, from learning to ride a bike to riding a rocket into space and everything in between,” she said.

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HHS Secretary Alex Azar separately backed up DeVos, saying parents should expect schools to deliver a safe learning environment for their children, even during a pandemic.

“We must reopen,” he said during a White House event on reopening schools. “We’ve got to get people back to work, back to school, back to health care, because we can't stay locked in our homes forever. It's bad for our physical and mental and emotional health — us as adults, as well as for our kids.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/white-house-cdc-pediatricians-reopening-schools-350655

welp.

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« Reply #60167 on: July 07, 2020, 05:58:13 PM »
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-going-his-gut-fanning-racism-frustrating-some-white-house-n1233103

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“Post-Fourth of July needs to be a pivot. We have a short period where we have to stay on message,” one of the White House officials said. “Can we stay away from the third rail of politics, including race and divisive issues?”
Ah yes after 5 years Trump will certainly PIVOT  :lol
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« Reply #60168 on: July 07, 2020, 06:50:32 PM »
Did you guys miss "Keep America Great"?

That's his 2020 campaign;  that in the last 4 years he.. Made America Great Again.

And if you want to keep it great..

He dropped KAG because his supporters didn't want to buy a new slogan (literally, if you look at merch sales) and due to the pandemic, the thinking at least for a couple of weeks is that his administration made America great and if not for the pandemic, it was still going on. Now it's their job to return to greatness. You don't see KAG right now for the most part.

It's still the top seller on their website.. their KAG hat.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/keep-america-great-45th-president-hat

Also still their logo on his main site:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

And all over their messaging on that site...

(Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)

Fair enough on the slogan still being there on Trump's website.

Best selling has more MAGA hats than KAG hats.

I think the fact it's his campaign slogan is more relevant to the fact it's his campaign slogan.

Sure, I guess. I haven't seen KAG used much, but if you're more in tune with Trump's campaign, I'll listen to the expert on this one.


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« Reply #60170 on: July 07, 2020, 07:07:19 PM »
Under the president's strong leadership, the coronavirus is roaring back.
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« Reply #60171 on: July 07, 2020, 07:20:49 PM »
If he and his enablers aren't dragged out into a public square and beaten after all of this, we have failed as a nation.

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« Reply #60172 on: July 07, 2020, 07:22:06 PM »
I think he told everyone what Barr found in Epstein's safe and they're just playing along.  :doge

I could see why they would praise the man 6 months ago when the economy was doing great and he was riding on that wave towards a 2nd term, but now?
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« Reply #60173 on: July 07, 2020, 07:49:35 PM »
Like I don't get this conversation.. you said something misleading.. not that big of a deal, but why keep arguing?  lol

riotous talking to a mirror

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« Reply #60174 on: July 07, 2020, 07:50:24 PM »
Sure, I guess. I haven't seen KAG used much, but if you're more in tune with Trump's campaign, I'll listen to the expert on this one.

How about "yeah not sure why I thought it wasn't when it clearly still is"?

Like I don't get this conversation.. you said something misleading.. not that big of a deal, but why keep arguing?  lol

Let me guess, you didn't actually read my entire post.. where I pointed out it's still the campaign slogan on his website.  lol

Okay. you're right.
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« Reply #60175 on: July 07, 2020, 08:42:05 PM »
Just wanted to point out I saw a giant KAG flag on some dipshits truck today

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« Reply #60176 on: July 07, 2020, 08:45:11 PM »
I was stuck behind him forever, too. Really ruined my commute

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« Reply #60177 on: July 07, 2020, 08:54:59 PM »
Don't leave your house, dumbass
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« Reply #60178 on: July 07, 2020, 09:12:40 PM »
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« Reply #60179 on: July 07, 2020, 09:13:56 PM »
That's just dumb enough to be funny.