these are like the worst campaign ideas anyone could ever dream up and that’s it, that’s trump’s real platform
— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 6, 2020
the guy is searching for racist artifacts to defend like a nerd searches for easter eggs in Ready Player One.
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 6, 2020
it would honestly save so much time https://t.co/SZ4DwzO9De
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 6, 2020
Trump campaign ads over the weekend vowed to protect a new statue: “Christ the Redeemer” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil https://t.co/8BdKz6kdfe pic.twitter.com/iFob0uSRl3
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) July 6, 2020
Biden and his ANTIFA BLM Marxists have NO plan to protect Brazilian statuary
— DystopianHat (@Popehat) July 6, 2020
I imagine the average fox news production meeting is taking a whole pile of shit voters actually care about but that trump would find very very offensive and insulting to watch, banning it, and then swapping in confederate flags and statues and joe biden wants school cancelled
— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 6, 2020
when millions of people actually started getting sick and dying it became impossible to fill the airtime with nonsensical north korean propaganda for trump to repeat and feel good about, and the whole mechanism went into full time somebody-else-is-actually-president mode
— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 6, 2020
jeffreyw
Not gonna do it
japa21
How he is still at around 40% is amazing, depressing and frightening all at the same time.
Kropacetic
Trump talked about bringing back redlining? I missed that one.
Also, too, we ended redlining?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
NY Mag has a very brief post about everything new in Mary Trump’s book. This is the only one I haven’t seen already batted around here, and I am posting it because I have a special contempt for Dollar Store Ivanka, aka Mrs Gummo
hitchhiker
@japa21:
There are still a whole lot of people who think his problems are all due to liberal media.
I predict that the coming debacle of schools trying to open happens, a few more people will decide he’s not really up to the job.
But he’s got a solid floor of about 35%, and that’s just who we are now.
Patricia Kayden
Trump should just campaign on bringing back chattel slavery and be done with it.
Suzanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: All the women in the Trump orbit have that generic sorority-girl-from-Ole-Miss look to them. I can see why he can’t tell them apart.
HumboldtBlue
We’re a little over six months into a new year, why do the last six months feel like a fucking decade?
joel hanes
@japa21:
How he is still at around 40%
We know that 27% of the voters will vote R no matter what.
(That’s John Rogers “crazification factor”, corroborated by data from the W misadministration of deplorable memory.)
I attribute much of the additional 12% to single-issue abortion voters who are fucking thrilled about Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, plus the steady radicalization of Fox News, plus the facebook effect.
piratedan
hell at this point, I wouldn’t even be surprised if the Russians diddled the GOP primaries to make Trump the winner. Still not entirely confident that these guys didn’t simply trash votes into the bit bucket or modified them both for the GOP primary and the general election.
Tim C.
@joel hanes: Sounds about right in general. Though I think as things get worse and worse, there’s going to be more of them peeling off as we go. Thing is, if even some of that crew don’t vote at all, that’s a huge win for team D. Gerrrymandering keeps you safe in ordinary years, but this is looking to be an even worse thumping than in 2018, which means we could win in places nobody expects.
Mary G
Thoughts and prayers for the non-compliers, and fuck DeSantis and fuck Trump:
Unfortunately, there are a lot of innocent essential workers and poors who’ll do most of the suffering.
Frankensteinbeck
@HumboldtBlue:
Conversely, I can’t believe we’re three and a half years into Trump’s presidency. It does not seem possible that it’s gone on that long. The pain of November 4 2016 feels like it was a couple of months ago, tops.
Roger Moore
@japa21:
Herbert Hoover got 39.7% of the vote in 1932. There has been an unreasonable faction in American politics for a long, long time.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
a couple more trump nuggets from the niece’s book, this time from Slate. These would be funny if he were still just a game-show-hosting buffoon
cheap and tacky, one of the constants of his life
Jeffro
@HumboldtBlue:
@Frankensteinbeck:
“4 years of abuse that felt like a lifetime. Vote Biden”
WIN
WaterGirl
@Kropacetic: Maybe he’s been holding back these past 4 years and now he is reverting to the mean? (In both senses of the word.)
Kay
@HumboldtBlue:
Anecdotally I keep hearing this, and from people who aren’t “political”. I got a work email from a woman I know fairly well today and she wrote at the sign off “is it me or is this the worst summer you can remember?”
It’s not “malaise”. It’s closer to despair. Bad times.
Jeffro
trumpov and the GOP are basically just Russian funded racist underpants gnomes at this point.
I think it’s important that our national snooze media ask GOP Senators and especially trumpublican voters: “Tell us – in great detail – what exactly you’re still supporting at this point? What’s the part you REALLY LIKE?”
And then just let them have the mic, repelling any/all sane Americans for the next decade.
chopper
whereas trump wants to protect two brazilian statues. that’s like way more than a billion.
Major Major Major Major
Careful, he hasn’t pitifully lost yet.
Baud
One for Schrodinger’s Cat.
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
One advantage of getting up there in years. Any six month period feels more like six weeks.
;)
HumboldtBlue
@Frankensteinbeck:
Yes and then that discordancy enters your head and the madness becomes real.
@Jeffro:
Indeed.
@Kay:
Despair is the best word here, there is a feeling of despair among fair-minded people because we are currently powerless to stop an abomination of leadership that has so badly fucked up our country is at a halt with no prospect of getting moving again any time soon.
Citizen Alan
@Suzanne:
Speaking from experience, sorority girls from Ole Miss can at least fake charm. All the women I’ve seen from the Trump orbit might as well be androids. (I have not seen enough of Tiffany to apply this judgment to her.) Seriously, has Ivanka ever smiled?
Jeffro
Just dawned on me that trumpov thinks this “re-open the schools thing” is going to result in a huge turnaround in his polls…”Moms want it, dads want it, everyone wants it”. He doesn’t care about how it happens (or providing more funding for PPE and testing). He just thinks this is how he turns into some sort of national savior.
” ‘Open the schools!’ Jesus, why didn’t WE think of that???” – Biden campaign, never.
This fucking guy, I swear.
debbie
So this afternoon I listened to a podcast which pointed out just how racist Trump’s Mt. Rushmore and Fourth of July speeches were. I also listened to Trump’s remarks today about reopening schools. Every fucking thing is about how the Dems are just playing politics. I’m tired of all this transference. The Lincoln Project needs to run an ad pointing out that Trump’s true motives can best be determined by listening to what he accuses others of doing.
Suzanne
@Citizen Alan: She’s smiling in that picture where she’s wearing aluminum foil and Jared is grabbing her ass and forgetting that they’re standing in front of a mirror.
Kaylee McNeenerNeener looks like she belongs on the packaging for the Beachwaver, for fuck’s sake.
rikyrah
@Kropacetic:
Nope
Never ended
debbie
@Suzanne:
Jr.’s current chick, the one with the Rona, is a ringer for a younger Leonna Helmsley, one of his dad’s hotelier rivals. I find that absolutely creepy.
HumboldtBlue
The countdown clock keeps tabs …
trollhattan
Is Bolsonaro okay with Trump sending troops to Rio? What does Glem think, does this make him love Trump even more?
rikyrah
@hitchhiker:
The grandparents are already inside.
Now, he is going to kill the grandkids
Suzanne
@debbie: Ex-Mrs. Newsom is super, SUPER gross. I can smell her starfucker stench from here.
In all seriousness, I don’t like the heavy mascara trend.
rikyrah
@Suzanne:
????
hueyplong
@trollhattan: Bolsonaro might be preoccupied with his own positive COVID test result.
West of the Rockies
@HumboldtBlue:
Well, it sure hasn’t been no damn Age of Aquarius, that’s for certain.
debbie
@Citizen Alan:
No. The face is pulled too tight.
rikyrah
@Baud:
????
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
EWWW
West of the Rockies
@Frankensteinbeck:
There is some weird reverse polarity, transdimensional shit going on. For instance, remember that whole Russian bounty thing from way back in (checks notes)… Oh, was that just last week?
Frankensteinbeck
@Jeffro:
Toxic narcissism for the Lose, baby. He is unable to view the world except in terms of ‘I want’. He wants this to not be happening. You and I can say that pretending it’s not happening doesn’t work, but he’s incapable of thinking that way, because it means the world doesn’t revolve around his feelings. And frankly, this is just another rebranding attempt of the exact same thing he’s been doing since day one. It has all been some variation on sticking his fingers in his ears and shouting “I CAN’T HEAR YOU.”
joel hanes
@Jeffro:
trumpov thinks this “re-open the schools thing” is going to result in a huge turnaround in his polls
and it might … until the wave of outbreaks forces re-closure, and the deaths of teachers, parents, and grandparents becomes obvious
Two months from the start of the school year to the election is just about enough time for it to really go sour.
Hungry Joe
Although even I, a non-football fan, know that a Prevent defense to protect a lead frequently results in disaster, right now I’m hoping that Biden does nothing more than keep putting out calm, well-reasoned messages, and concentrate on not saying anything stupid in Q & A’s. (This is Napoleon’s “When your enemy is making mistakes, leave him alone.”) There are plenty of orgs out there savaging Trump; Biden just has to offer his hand: “Join me on a smoothed-out path into a sane future.” That’s all it’s going to take, right?
Right?
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@joel hanes:
Yeah, it’s always the Crazification Factor +/- a couple of percentage points.
The rest I’ve never thought was solely because of unrelenting propaganda from the likes of Faux “News”. Instead, I’ve always attributed it to “he hates who they hate”, meaning roughly 13% of the electorate are unrepentant racists.
Doug R
@japa21: Gallup has him at 38%, losing voters in almost EVERY category.
Frankensteinbeck
@Hungry Joe:
Yes. “I will make the pain stop” is Biden’s selling point. People want to not be afraid, every single day, of what Trump is going to do. The pain has been relentless for three and a half years, and people are so angry and so desperate that we’ve seen three solid years of nonstop wave elections. This election year is about Trump. Biden is particularly good at “I will make the pain stop”, but truthfully he could be a cardboard cutout.
Doug R
@debbie:
Argh-that’s what’s been at the back of my mind-ewwwww!
Just One More Canuck
@debbie:
You forced (forced, I tells ya) me to google them – they could have been separated at birth. Shudder!!!!!!
Ken
Just like reopening the economy!
Unfortunately for everyone. Well, at least everyone in a state with an ass-kissing Republican governor (looking at you, Florida). I have hope that some states will say “no way”.
debbie
@Just One More Canuck:
Right?!? Combine that with Donald’s mommy issues and you got a really fucked up family!
HumboldtBlue
@Frankensteinbeck:
And the GOP are desperately trying to make this election about absolutely anything other than Trump and they are failing miserably because Biden doesn’t take any bait and he doesn’t have to.
Also: dogs, bruh.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jeffro:
And DeVos had to stick her nose into it:
Why yes, I am old enough to remember when conservatives wanted the Department of Education to be dismantled and that education policy should be set at the state/local levels. Unless charter schools and student loans are involved, then “federalism” goes out the window and the Department of Education interferes to it’s heart’s content
Roger Moore
@Frankensteinbeck:
The Trump era has made me appreciate why “Return to Normalcy” was a winning campaign slogan for Warren Harding.
Jeffro
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I just heard from VA’s state superintendent of schools earlier this afternoon that DeVos is also not, repeat not, no way going to waive state standardized testing requirements for the upcoming year.
“That was then. This is now. Better study up in between coughs, kids!”
Jeffro
@joel hanes: the collapse of K-12 schooling-as-we-know-it is one thing…just wait until there’s no college or NFL football to be had.
He just might get down to 26% in that case.
Roger Moore
@HumboldtBlue:
The real thing that’s hurting Trump is that the media isn’t taking his bait, either. COVID is finally a big enough story the media can’t be distracted from it for long.
Just One More Canuck
@debbie:
The amount of hate that shows through their faces is incredible
Jeffro
@Hungry Joe: Right!
“4 straight years of non-stop abuse stops now. Vote Biden”
“Let’s stop this pandemic dead in its golly-goose tracks, my fellow red white and true can-do Americans!”
350 EVs, easy.
Jeffro
@HumboldtBlue:the GOP are desperately trying to make this election about absolutely anything other than Trump
I think it was maybe Mick Mulvaney who said very recently (paraphrasing) “Well yeah, if they somehow make this a referendum on trumpov, it’s going to be tough”
YA THINK, Mick?
Calouste
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): We can reopen the schools after the White House is open for tours without masks an temperature checks etc.
zhena gogolia
Jennifer Rubin eviscerates Haberman:
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Not surprising. Dump probably barely even knows who Eric is.
“Dad! I’m the son you didn’t name after yourself!
“Brian?! How’d you get so old so fast?”
“No. And his name is Barron.”
“John Barron? That’s me! I love me!”
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: Literally?! (Sorry not sorry)
Roger Moore
@Calouste:
I’ve said something similar about dine-in restaurants, even with outdoor seating. It won’t be safe enough for me to dine there until it’s safe enough for the servers to work without masks and face shields.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Roger Moore:that’s how I feel, and I love to eat out.
I found out today my nephew and his GF are planning to fly for an arguably necessary trip, and I really wish they were driving
HumboldtBlue
@Roger Moore:
Good point. The narrative is nowhere near as negatively positive (does that make sense? The negative articles and focus on emails and servers along with other attacks on Clinton were a positive for Trump) is missing this time around, in fact, the media is clearly pointing out the absurd failure this administration is.
I’m of the same mind.
@Jeffro:
Yes, I think it was Mulvaney.
Ken
“Yep, took ’em last week. All the kids got 87% or higher.”
Jeffro
The dual, pathetic op-eds of Marc Thiessen and Megan McCardle in the WaPo are just…pathetic.
No need for links, everything’s captured in the titles:
Thiessen: The media’s mischaracterization of trumpov’s Mount Rushmore speech is not an anomaly. Marc, Marc, Marc…is that all you’ve got? (“If you’re explaining, you’re losing”, is how the old saying goes, I think)
McCardle: [here are my three genius ideas for alleviating this shitty mess trumpov got us into: move everything possible outdoors, more masks, and more testing! Yay me!]
(ok with McMegs I paraphrased a bit)
C’mon WaPo…even I could slap together better shit than that on 20 minutes’ notice!
Jeffro
@Ken: Seriously! Time for some state DOE civil disobedience here.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Calouste:
How does that old saw go? “Precautions for me and not for thee?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jeffro:
What a fucking witch
Redshift
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I feel safe in speaking for all Fairfax County residents to say “fuck you, asshole!”
Just another round of trying to force everyone to pretend everything is fine because that’s what’s good for them. Out here in the real world, people know that claiming “risk is involved in everything” to pretend that their assessment of risk is better than ours is bullshit.
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato:
I wish.
Redshift
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Oh, it’s a lot more than that. Conservatives believe that the federal government should defer to the states, except when states decide wrong, and then the federal government can override them.
How this differs from not believing that at all is left as an exercise for the reader.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Redshift:
Oh, I know. It extends to localities vs states, too. Local control is a good thing, unless it’s Dem controlled and proposes raising the minimum wage. Then the state government has to step in and stop it
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah:
@Baud: Thanks guys. Its means so much to me. Lately I feel unwanted, like I belong nowhere.
frosty
@schrodingers_cat: Not true, you belong here. You bring a perspective on immigration that I want to hear. One of many things.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@schrodingers_cat: It gets better.
I’m hanging on to the thought that somehow we will all make it to January 2021. Things will be awful between now and then. But they will be better afterward. A lot better. There will be backlash against the last 4 years.
Fair Economist
@Roger Moore: I wonder if the Spanish flu helped the success of Harding’s “return to normalcy” campaign. Of all the stuff that happened in Wilson’s term, it was probably the most traumatic for American civilians.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@schrodingers_cat: I’m so enraged at how Trump is representing the USA to the people of the world (as well as by all the lives he is harming every day).
I hope we can be rid of him and repair our relationships and restore trust with the people of all countries. And someday we’ll attract the best and brightest of the world again. I deeply hope this comes to pass.
Jeffro
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): hey she knows what she knows, right? Just as dumb and stubborn as the rest of them.
Jeffro
@Redshift:
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
That’s why it’s never really about the size of the government or ‘originalism’ or any of their nonsense excuses. It’s about who government is working FOR, and who pays.
The Pale Scot
@Hungry Joe:
More eloquent/exact, right word, wrong word, lightning, lightning bugs, Twain, etc
Gvg
@The Pale Scot: what about when your enemies mistakes are killing people , maybe including you? Wish we could stop him better, sooner.
Matt McIrvin
@Tim C.: I think we’re going to lose a lot of those places because the vote will just be rigged. I have a hard time believing we can take Florida or Georgia, no matter how good the polls look–those are just not democracies.
OGLiberal
@Doug R: I believe my wife said she read somewhere that Melania’s work was done to make her look like Carla Bruni, who apparently turned down Trump in the past. I think Guilfoyle may be going for the same (um, creepy) but definitely see young Leona in there as well. (By the time I know who Leona well she was into the high-end of middle aged and had a lot of work that made her look terrible.
Somewhat related – Mary Kay Letourneau died today. Wasn’t aware she was ill. The connection is that her brother counts Eric Prince as a friend and he worked at Blackwater for a time. And Prince’s sister is Betsy Devos.
Could get into Mary Kay’s wacky, wing nut dad but why bother?
J R in WV
@Redshift:
Who else remembers the last time the Education folks had a teacher on the Space Shuttle? Wasn’t that the Columbia? Exploded just a few minutes into flight?
How many astronauts were killed by THAT management decision? Shouldn’t those fuck ups have been prosecuted on that many counts of Voluntary Manslaughter for launching after the engineers told them to hold for a warmer launch window???
Matt McIrvin
@J R in WV: The accident made Christa McAuliffe a hero forever remembered by history. Now every teacher can be a hero!