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Dems: Wow, Trump is down 15 points nationwide. We can’t possibly lose in November.
Dianne Feinstein: Hold my beer.

https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1283907788142411781

Himu · « **Reply #60552 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:02:06 AM »

It just dawned on me that Trump was impeached this year. It feels like a lifetime ago. Holy shit.

Tripon · « **Reply #60553 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:04:10 AM »

https://twitter.com/GovJVentura/status/1283958790212255744

Libertarian presidential candidate Jesse Ventura.

benjipwns · « **Reply #60554 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:11:38 AM »

nope, he never ran and was considering the Green Party anyway

Mandark · « **Reply #60555 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:11:50 AM »

Threatening to withhold federal funds is a pretty popular way of implementing de facto national policies that the federal government isn't allowed to do directly (I think that's how we got 21 as the drinking age), and Feinstein talks about it like it's a sure thing it the states would comply to get the money.

But we have a decade of evidence, via the ACA Medicaid expansion, that GOP governors are more than willing to turn down federal dollars for ideological reasons. That's before we got to how Ducey, DeSantis, Kemp etc. have acted regarding the virus. It'd be an absolute cluster.

benjipwns · « **Reply #60556 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:22:32 AM »

Speaking of The Party:

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When U.S. Rep. Justin Amash ended his exploratory bid for the presidency, Libertarian activists held out hope he would run for re-election to his seat in the U.S. House, where he is the first and only Libertarian to serve in Congress.

It seems they are about to be disappointed.

A top Amash aide reiterated this week that the West Michigan congressman idled his congressional campaign back in February. She also indicated Amash does not intend to seek the party's nomination at the Michigan Libertarian Party's convention in Gaylord this weekend.

"He hasn't been campaigning for any office and doesn't plan to seek the nomination for any office," Amash adviser Poppy Nelson said by email.

Amash himself confirmed he isn't seeking re-election to his House seat in a tweet Thursday night.

"I love representing our community in Congress. I always will. This is my choice, but I’m still going to miss it," he wrote.

"Thank you for your trust."

benjipwns · « **Reply #60557 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:26:50 AM »

wondered about this:

Quote from: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/republican-reaction-trump-mail-in-voting/

Republican officials throughout the country are reacting with growing alarm to President Donald Trump's attacks on mail-in ballots, saying his unsubstantiated claims of mass voting fraud are already corroding the views of GOP voters, who may ultimately choose not to vote at all if they can't make it to the polls come November.

Behind the scenes, top Republicans are urging senior Trump campaign officials to press the President to change his messaging and embrace mail-in voting, warning that the party could lose the battle for control of Congress and the White House if he doesn't change his tune, according to multiple GOP sources. Trump officials, sources said, are fully aware of the concerns.

The impact could be detrimental to the GOP up and down the ticket, according to a bevy of Republican election officials, field operatives, pollsters and lawmakers who are watching the matter closely. Every vote will count in critical battleground states, they argue, fearful that deterring GOP voters from choosing a convenient option to cast their ballots could ultimately sway the outcome of races that are decided by a couple of percentage points.

And with the coronavirus pandemic potentially bound to get worse in the fall, voting by mail is becoming an increasingly popular option since many voters may prefer not to wait in long lines at polling stations. That will leave Democrats with a major advantage if their voters send their ballots by mail while Republican voters forgo that option simply because they are listening to the concerns of the President.

In Wisconsin, a state that was central to Trump's narrow 2016 victory, Republicans were "begging our voters" to vote absentee when the pandemic first hit, said Rohn Bishop, Republican Party chairman in Fond du Lac County, where Trump will need to drive up GOP turnout in November.

"Then the President has some tweets and gets upset with mail-in balloting and we dropped the issue like a hot potato, and that's where I think we're making a mistake," Bishop said. "Our voters are running away from it. That kind of terrifies me."

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Glen Bolger, a top Republican pollster, told CNN he had just surveyed a battleground state and found that three-quarters of voters who plan to vote by mail or absentee vote intend to support former Vice President Joe Biden; just 15% of mail-in voters in that survey planned to use the mail option to vote for Trump.

Nintex · « **Reply #60558 on:** July 17, 2020, 03:51:11 AM »

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1284029914014859272

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #60559 on:** July 17, 2020, 09:36:53 AM »

https://twitter.com/RGoody4/status/1283755780173213699

Transhuman · « **Reply #60560 on:** July 17, 2020, 10:12:21 AM »

Quote from: Dickie Dee on July 17, 2020, 09:36:53 AM

https://twitter.com/RGoody4/status/1283755780173213699

They have to cover the real news

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/12/tech/e3-2019-twitch-dr-disrespect-banned-trnd/index.html

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #60561 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:17:45 PM »

what is this goya beans thing? or more importantly is it as stupid as i assume it is

Nintex · « **Reply #60562 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:23:41 PM »

Quote from: Piss Benoit on July 17, 2020, 12:17:45 PM

what is this goya beans thing? or more importantly is it as stupid as i assume it is

The CEO of Goya Foods praised Trump at a White House circus event and then Trump haters said they would boycott Goya, which triggered the Trumpists to stan Goya beans in the middle of a pandemic to own the libs.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #60563 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:33:34 PM »

Quote from: shosta on July 17, 2020, 12:26:10 PM

https://twitter.com/BobbySpumoni/status/1283832611450712064

Footage of violent anarchists taking over the streets of Portland:

Tripon · « **Reply #60564 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:34:31 PM »

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1284159970611789824

Nintex · « **Reply #60565 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:57:00 PM »

In be4

Helicopter: WWRRRRRRR

CNN: "MR PRESIDENT.. ..... CANCER .... GINSBURG..."

The President: "What? Mexican burger Cancer?"

CNN: "No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancer"

The President: "Oh"

CNN:"Do you have a message for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she's been diagnosed with cancer"

The President: "Oh really. This is the first time I'm hearing about it. I wish her well, I wish her the best. Actually she has given me some great rulings so I hope she stays on. Thank you everybody"

Helicopter: WWWWRRRRRRRR

BIONIC · « **Reply #60566 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:59:22 PM »

RBG has to be more machine than woman at this point. I’m pretty sure she’ll outlive all of us.

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #60567 on:** July 17, 2020, 12:59:28 PM »

i liked that post before reading a word of it

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #60568 on:** July 17, 2020, 01:02:21 PM »

2020 the year of dragging boomer corpses to the finish line.

Nintex · « **Reply #60569 on:** July 17, 2020, 01:20:47 PM »

I kinda feel sad for the old lady hanging on to her life and being unable to retire to prevent Donald J. Trump from nominating Judge Jeanine, Sylvester Stallone or Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court.

james · « **Reply #60570 on:** July 17, 2020, 01:32:14 PM »

Cindi, where do I buy grande launchers and also where do I buy grenades?

Nintex · « **Reply #60571 on:** July 17, 2020, 01:34:51 PM »

Quote from: james on July 17, 2020, 01:32:14 PM

Cindi, where do I buy grande launchers and also where do I buy grenades?

Thank you for protecting our funds

Akala · « **Reply #60572 on:** July 17, 2020, 03:18:56 PM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/beeple/status/1284173405298753537

team filler · « **Reply #60573 on:** July 17, 2020, 03:48:56 PM »

Quote from: Esch on July 17, 2020, 09:18:40 AM

Haha gotem

https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1283781125178044419

but that reagan guy sure knew how to take us places!

Nintex · « **Reply #60574 on:** July 17, 2020, 04:36:01 PM »

Quote from: Akala on July 17, 2020, 03:18:56 PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/beeple/status/1284173405298753537

You can turn the premise of this into a Bioshock game.

james · « **Reply #60575 on:** July 17, 2020, 04:47:00 PM »

Mods please delete a post so I can be number 70,000, baby

Nintex · « **Reply #60576 on:** July 17, 2020, 04:47:50 PM »

Alas my mission has failed again, 80k, here I come.

Nintex · « **Reply #60577 on:** July 17, 2020, 04:55:07 PM »

Quote from: shosta on July 17, 2020, 04:54:01 PM

What can I say, Nintex... I saw, I conquered, I came.

That's fine, for me the journey is more important than the reward

Nintex · « **Reply #60578 on:** July 17, 2020, 04:59:27 PM »

Imagine coming across this deserted set piece in Bioshock.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1284224278666321920

You see two trucks, cranes and all that weight.
You think: "Is this a puzzle, a trap, perhaps a sign?"

Never would you figure out that it was just there to proof a point about the burdens of regulation.

Nintex · « **Reply #60579 on:** July 17, 2020, 08:09:08 PM »

https://twitter.com/brooklynmutt/status/1284205912283140096

Not even Fox News can tame the b e a s t anymore

Tripon · « **Reply #60580 on:** July 17, 2020, 08:44:14 PM »

https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1284251338327678977

team filler · « **Reply #60581 on:** July 17, 2020, 10:06:26 PM »

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1284282946850086912

benjipwns · « **Reply #60582 on:** July 18, 2020, 02:01:59 AM »

Quote from: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-conducting-internal-review-of-2020-spending-irregularities-2020-7?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is conducting an internal review of spending irregularities overseen by Brad Parscale, its recently demoted 2020 campaign manager, Insider has learned.

Jeff DeWit, an accountant and former chief financial officer of NASA who recently joined the Trump 2020 effort as its chief operating officer, confirmed in an interview Friday that he was reviewing all campaign contracts and examining all spending.

While DeWit said the review wasn't specifically focused on Parscale, other Republicans familiar with the effort said it inherently homes in on the top Trump aide because he controlled all campaign spending, from polling and advertising to voter surveys, during a tenure that started in January 2017.

"We want an effective and efficient organization, and we're certainly not targeting anybody," DeWit told Insider. "We don't like to see a single dollar fly out of the campaign without knowing where it's going."

Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner hired DeWit at the end of June to review the campaign's operations, and DeWit immediately began scrutinizing the campaign's spending and arrangements with vendors.

"He brought in DeWit because Trump was so sick of hearing how much money Parscale was making," one Republican familiar with the arrangement said.

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Trump's anger at Parscale has been building since last year after he learned his campaign manager was living a lavish lifestyle built off riches he'd made working for the president. Trump has made offhand references to Parscale as the "$10 million man" — something viewed as derisive but also accepting of Parscale.

"There are two things you cannot do with Trump: take credit for his accomplishments and steal from him," a friend of the president said.

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During that first White House campaign, Trump tasked DeWit and Allen Weisselberg, his longtime personal account and namesake company's chief financial officer, with reviewing spending by ousted campaign chiefs Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort. When Steve Bannon came on the Trump campaign, Kushner withheld control of the budget from him, according to a former aide on the 2016 campaign.

Nintex · « **Reply #60583 on:** July 18, 2020, 06:23:21 AM »

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1284334571752837120

Tripon · « **Reply #60584 on:** July 18, 2020, 12:33:00 PM »

https://twitter.com/CatoInstitute/status/1284489108476354561

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #60585 on:** July 18, 2020, 12:34:32 PM »

Lonewulfeus · « **Reply #60586 on:** July 18, 2020, 01:11:02 PM »

My 68 year old mother shared a young Turks video with me today. I finally found a good boomer

Nintex · « **Reply #60587 on:** July 18, 2020, 01:43:12 PM »

They replaced the police even before they were defunded.
Under budget - ahead of schedule

stufte · « **Reply #60588 on:** July 18, 2020, 01:44:58 PM »

Here's the police state Republicans worried so much about. Will they now take up arms against the tyrannical government like they claim to need the second amendment for? LOL. Hell world.

BIONIC · « **Reply #60589 on:** July 18, 2020, 02:01:04 PM »

Quote from: Lonewulfeus on July 18, 2020, 01:11:02 PM

My 68 year old mother shared a young Turks video with me today. I finally found a good boomer

Nintex · « **Reply #60590 on:** July 18, 2020, 02:06:50 PM »

Well y'all started this by raiding poor innocent old men like Stone and Manafort and making a mockery out of the Kavanaugh nomination.

Mr Speaker I yield the remainder of my time as I'm being arrested for not liking the President's Goya Beans post and I must atone for my sin

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #60591 on:** July 18, 2020, 03:11:47 PM »

https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1284566171254128640

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #60592 on:** July 18, 2020, 03:42:58 PM »

noticed the gop fearmongering election ads specifically mention dems targeting cash bail

Steve Contra · « **Reply #60593 on:** July 18, 2020, 04:02:07 PM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1284550054322114561

I hate the internet

T-Short · « **Reply #60594 on:** July 18, 2020, 05:23:37 PM »

VIOLENT EXTREMISTS:

https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1284095525122453504

Tripon · « **Reply #60595 on:** July 18, 2020, 06:04:19 PM »

https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1284588603457191936

One guy in the back had a cone mask at least.

BrokenVerses · « **Reply #60596 on:** July 18, 2020, 06:19:01 PM »

Gotta try to change the subject from the COVID disaster to something.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #60597 on:** July 18, 2020, 08:00:01 PM »

Quote from: Hyoushi on July 18, 2020, 05:23:37 PM

VIOLENT EXTREMISTS:

https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1284095525122453504

https://twitter.com/stevenjfrisch/status/1284126328652996609

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #60598 on:** July 18, 2020, 09:37:10 PM »

Acting Secretary Chad Wolf

james · « **Reply #60599 on:** July 18, 2020, 10:39:35 PM »

Quote from: shosta on July 18, 2020, 05:38:17 PM

The mayor of Portland (and the governor's office) should reassert its local authority and oust uninvited paramilitary organizations. If the police are uncooperative then Portland should disband its police force and start training popular militias for the defense of democracy, which are protected by the 2nd amendment. Since municipalities are uniquely positioned to obtain military equipment it is paramount that they utilize this advantage.

Yes but because the elected officials are democrats instead they will write a letter and tweet a photo of said letter

News:

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