US Politics Thread |OT| SAD TRUMP

[Stro]

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[benjipwns]

Those were immigrants across the land bridge.

[Kara]

the guy who wrote the newsweek article ran for california ag in 2010 (which harris won) but didn't make it out of the primary

He works at the Claremont Institute which is not located in Claremont but in fact can be found in Upland. Doesn't seem like a guy who should get into geographic nitty gritty tbh.

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why would voter registration be used to calculate VAP

VAP? I thought you wanted Voters Above Replacement Persons stats

he clearly meant WAP

[Cindi Mayweather]

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1294062257924706305

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  not voting for that kind of tyranny 

[shosta]

I genuinely like Kamala and think the backlash against her has been exaggerated well beyond what's reasonable. I say this as a socialist and a mentally ill forums poster.

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she's the doja cat of politic 

[benjipwns]

https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/trump-plans-to-deliver-rnc-speech-on-white-house-lawn/

President Trump on Thursday confirmed to the The Post he intends to give his Republican National Convention speech from the White House lawn, defying critics who said the location was inappropriate.

During an exclusive Oval Office interview, the president said he would visit the battlefield at Gettysburg at a “later date” and described his vision of a socially-distanced speech in front of supporters at the executive mansion in Washington, DC later this month.

“I’ll probably be giving my speech at the White House because it is a great place. It’s a place that makes me feel good, it makes the country feel good,” Trump told the Post, saying it would also be easiest for law enforcement and the Secret Service.

“We’d do it possibly outside on one of the lawns, we have various lawns, so we could have it outside in terms of the China virus,” he continued, referring to social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“We could have quite a group of people. It’s very big, a very big lawn. We could have a big group of people,” he said when asked if he’d formally accept the Republican nomination for president with a crowd of supporters.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Buying a sub to SFGate and other California publications to research Kamala's record as DA and AG for myself without bias or filter.

[benjipwns]

In the video, Greene accused the Obama administration of using MS-13 gang members to assassinate Rich, claiming the gang was “kind of the henchmen of the Obama administration.” She stated:

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: What else did he do? OK, we got the Iran deal. We got the launch of ISIS and we have the open borders. Oh, open borders. MS-13, everyone. Under Obama came MS-13. There's a lot to that. You have to understand, there's -- they have very good -- they had very good relationships with MS-13. MS-13 was basically like, they were the kind of the henchmen of the Obama administration. They did a lot of the dirty work. Seth Rich. Seth Rich was murdered by two MS-13 gang members. That's what I mean by dirty work, OK? So, yes. So we had open borders which launched big time MS-13 in our country during the Obama presidency. So those are just, to me, some of the highlights that happened under the Obama presidency.

[Mandark]

all us political hobbyist internet posters in 2019/2020: obsessively parsing the records of the dem presidential candidates, either to rank them or to find ammunition in support of our celebrity crush preferred choice


us in 2021/2022: tearfully begging joe manchin to please vote for nonrefundable tax credits for renewable energy investments

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nintex posting 

[Stro]

I honestly have trouble believing Trump would even float the idea of doing his RNC speech at Gettysburg, but then again nothing is really hard to believe when it comes to Trump.

Speaking of ISIS, Obama creating it years before he even got into office is one of his most masterful evil plans.

[Joe Molotov]

The Founding Fathers wanted a higher standard of citizenship for the POTUS because they did not want any competing allegiances with foreign governments.

But yet they were all born British citizens, how curious. 

[shosta]

didn't read

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I genuinely like Kamala and think the backlash against her has been exaggerated well beyond what's reasonable. I say this as a socialist and a mentally ill forums poster.

If you think in terms of “term”s and not decades of giant monoliths taking turns to gently and slowly slap fight as the status quo of oppression creeps up & that need be officially addressed before we walk the path of decades of reparation on a myriad of issues...yeah I guess I can see why you’d not be furious at mediocrity and the increasing delegitimization (yet increasing popularity) of progressive individuals.

I’ll probably make the effort to physically vote for them in person in a global pandemic, but I’m furious at absolutely everything they represent.

Biden is President not because of his charisma. Not because of his policy. But because the machine (in politics and media) willed this puppet into position... nobody is actually voting Biden which is an extreme flaw in our system. Kamala similarly means absolutely nothing.

Everything reeks of the gamification and enforced mediocrity.

Pushing out Kamala’s bullshit is but another way to air this sentiment out

[Cauliflower Of Love]

trump would probably be ok with doing his speech on lincoln's grave.

[benjipwns]

The United States Postal Service warned Pennsylvania that mail ballots may not be delivered on time to be counted because the state’s deadlines are too tight for its “delivery standards,” casting fresh doubt on Pennsylvania’s ability to conduct much of the 2020 election by mail.

The warning came in a July 29 letter from Thomas J. Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president for the Postal Service, to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, whose department oversees elections. That letter was made public for the first time late Thursday in a filing the Pennsylvania Department of State submitted to the state Supreme Court, in which it asked the court to order that mail ballots be counted as long as they are received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election.

[Mandark]

Political legs and media inform the public on the bias of an insular, multi-generation establishment that controls the narrative.

Politicians buy out seats to boo only their Progressive opponent at debates and cheer on Buttiloser. CNN et al cover them with 80% negativity w/ a publishing elite that curates a board that will forever hold their perspective as their companies soar in reach and power.

What’s a venomous bite from Big Donor Kamala to racist loser Biden suddenly becomes a friendly debate bant with no more critical thought challenged.

BUT DEAR GOD a communist woman with a patreon podcast share that Kampala Harris tried to get convictions on 1900+ marijuana charges for her senatorial/presidential aspirations while laughing about how she used to smoke weed.

 

wut

[benjipwns]

trump would probably be ok with doing his speech on lincoln's grave.

it is kinda badass looking:

[shosta]

.

Sometimes you post like an unmedicated schizophrenic person

[CatsCatsCats]

I’m fairly sold on Kamala after listening to today’s democracy now

https://www.democracynow.org/

Y’all should check it out, if it worked on me, might work on you. Die, Biden February

[benjipwns]

I genuinely like Kamala and think the backlash against her has been exaggerated well beyond what's reasonable. I say this as a socialist and a mentally ill forums poster.

https://gen.medium.com/the-great-gen-x-vs-boomer-debate-comes-for-kamala-cef57a813128

She’s also a baby boomer’s idea of a young person — in a country where 80% of U.S. senators are over the age of 55, and not a single one is under 40, Harris (55 herself) is practically aglow with youthful vitality. You’d barely know that Harris is a boomer. And don’t expect her to own it.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I’m fairly sold on Kamala after listening to today’s democracy now

https://www.democracynow.org/

Y’all should check it out, if it worked on me, might work on you. Die, Biden February

Which one, there's like 88 links of her.

[Kara]

However you feel about her record, it's extremely funny that someone who polled behind Andrew Yang in her home state is running for vice president with someone she accused of being a segregationist fellow traveler.

What a world.

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https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1144427976609734658

Still up.

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[Cindi Mayweather]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-vp-progressives-react-394375

UGH

[benjipwns]

can't buy the shirt anymore though: https://store.kamalaharris.org/that-little-girl-was-me-unisex-black/

[Joe Molotov]

Is that little girl not her anymore?

[CatsCatsCats]

I’m fairly sold on Kamala after listening to today’s democracy now

https://www.democracynow.org/

Y’all should check it out, if it worked on me, might work on you. Die, Biden February

Which one, there's like 88 links of her.

Listen to the whole show





Or this

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/13/kamala_harris_prosecutorial_record_2020_election

[Lonewulfeus]

I’m fairly sold on Kamala after listening to today’s democracy now

https://www.democracynow.org/

Y’all should check it out, if it worked on me, might work on you. Die, Biden February

Which one, there's like 88 links of her.

88 huh?

[Mandark]

Politics and media are insular bubbles.

yes

[Mandark]

and how you frame people "digging up her history" (ie her lived experience in office)

hahahaha

[benjipwns]

The potential for conflict between Biden and Harris advisers was resolved in another way, at least for now: Mr. Biden and his advisers made plain to Ms. Harris that they expected to have the same understanding with respect to staff hiring that Mr. Biden had followed with former President Barack Obama. During the campaign and, if they win, during a Biden-Harris administration, Ms. Harris’s staff hiring would be approved by Mr. Biden.

...

But other Biden advisers made clear that selecting Ms. Harris for the vice presidency did not mean selecting her full political entourage for jobs in the campaign or government. That rule would apply, Ms. Harris was told, even to her sister, Maya Harris, a former Hillary Clinton adviser who is Kamala Harris’s closest confidante.

Two of the standout interviews were with Ms. Duckworth, an Asian-American veteran of the Iraq war, and Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, a centrist with formidable academic and business credentials. Both left the search committee dazzled, but they faced other obstacles — in Ms. Raimondo’s case, her limited national profile and adversarial relationship with influential labor unions.

Ms. Duckworth was regarded by Biden advisers as among the candidates likeliest to help him achieve a smashing electoral victory in November. But legal advisers to the campaign expressed urgent concern that Ms. Duckworth could face challenges to her nomination in court: She was born overseas, to an American father and a Thai mother. While Mr. Biden’s team believed Ms. Duckworth was eligible for national office, campaign lawyers feared that it would take just one partisan judge in one swing state to throw the whole Democratic ticket off the ballot.

Ms. Rice benefited from her close relationship with Mr. Biden and a concerted push on her behalf by other alumni of the Obama administration

Mr. Biden was aware of Ms. Bass’s Castro-era baggage well before it spilled into the news media. He told one longtime friend that her history with Cuba could cause political headaches, though to other people he suggested he did not see it as politically disqualifying — he intended to win the election in the Midwest, Mr. Biden told them, even if he were to fall short in Florida.

One candidate who did forge such a bond with both Joe and Jill Biden was Representative Val Demings of Florida, a former Orlando police chief whom one adviser said the Bidens “loved.” Ms. Demings’s background in law enforcement may have hindered her in the vice-presidential search — Mr. Biden was briefed on specific allegations of police misconduct on her watch — but some Biden advisers are hopeful she will challenge Senator Marco Rubio in the 2022 election.

[Kara]

can't buy the shirt anymore though: https://store.kamalaharris.org/that-little-girl-was-me-unisex-black/

Gonna try to find one on the secondary market. It'll have a certain Fat Wreck Chords "Not My President" vibe.

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https://fatwreck.com/products/not-my-president-t-shirt

What did they do to this early Aughts icon.

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[shosta]

I still gotta buy that color changing biden mug that goes from malarkey to no malarkey

as a memento from the most cursed election in human history

[Joe Molotov]

Let’s wait and see if the outcome is decided by the SCOTUS before we call it the most cursed.

[benjipwns]

If Biden wanted a California AG he should have picked Jerry Brown.

[OnlyRegret]

feel kinda bad for cain
comatose, dead, for nothing and still being puppet-ed around as the token republican sycophant of colour

[benjipwns]

I'm currently leaning towards SCOTUS doesn't rule on the outcome directly but DOES make a key ruling on these extended deadlines for ballots.

[shosta]

I still gotta buy that color changing biden mug that goes from malarkey to no malarkey

can't find it

[El Babua]

Hopefully the Biden campaign can keep the doddering grandpa vibe they had going instead of doing another Im With Her campaign that Kamala and her weirdo stans tried to manifest into reality during the primaries.

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still with her 

[benjipwns]

shoosta, it says AUNTIE in her bio!!!

[shosta]

shoosta, it says AUNTIE in her bio!!!

Like Ilhan Omar's familial sins, I'm still rating this unverified.

[Mandark]

I think we're gonna need the stock market to dive before the Republicans come to the table again.

[Tripon]

Kamala's niece is pretty pale.

[Mandark]

oh?

[benjipwns]

In the era of Trump, the process even included considering what derogatory nickname the president might give her.

Biden’s vetting committee asked Harris for her guess, but sources familiar with the process wouldn’t say how close she got to “Phony Kamala” — the moniker President Trump quickly bestowed.

RELEASE THE DATA NOW

[Tripon]

RIP

[Stro]

Ron has made it a lot worse by doing exactly what I wanted him to do

[Kara]

I think we're gonna need the stock market to dive before the Republicans come to the table again.

More for the econ thread I guess, but it's just baffling that the Dow is almost at 28,000 again.

[Tripon]

I think we're gonna need the stock market to dive before the Republicans come to the table again.

More for the econ thread I guess, but it's just baffling that the Dow is almost at 28,000 again.

A trillion a day, all day, every day, and the spigot never stops.

[Mandark]

I think we're gonna need the stock market to dive before the Republicans come to the table again.

More for the econ thread I guess, but it's just baffling that the Dow is almost at 28,000 again.

Feels like they've priced in another stimulus bill?

Which (if my first post was accurate) makes that bill less likely?

[Kara]

I read a nontrivial number of articles decrying Robinhood investors. Don't really think they can be that influential, but I also haven't kept up on securities on a daily basis since I was an extremely cool teenager. Tough not to draw an analogy to crypto mania awhile back.

e: If your premise is correct on both counts then ironically yes it makes it less likely.

[james]

It's a house of card boys, and when it starts to topple the James fund will feast

[stufte]

Going on vacation during a national crisis and without a stimulus decision. Cool. Cool cool cool cool. Cool.

[El Babua]

The stock market itself has been anemic, aside from big tech that saw massive fucking gains. Apple, and now Tesla's been propping up activity the last week through the recent stock split news. Also, since interest rates are down, no longer any reason to stow excess money if you have it. Robinhood hype may be driving new retail investors, but large firms still control the vast majority of trading volume.

I have a developing fear that we are finally seeing the stock market fully separating from the rest of the economy, or rather there are now two economies, with the conditions of the elite being reflected in the stock market and the rest through unemployment, evictions and starvation.

I'll say this, if the looming housing crisis ends up even half as bad as predicted, the ensuing chaos will make this past May/June look absolutely tranquil in comparison. And the Dow might make it to 30K.

[Mandark]

The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

[Kara]

It's a bit so I didn't post it but there were pics floating around Twitter today of mailboxes being removed.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/08/13/united-states-postal-service-confirmed-it-has-removed-mailboxes-in-portland-and-eugene/