US PoliEra 2019 |OT6| Have You Hurd About These GOP Retirements?
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"All they need to be happy is an empty Coke bottle. Not even full, that's how simple these people are, folks."
Is this some galaxy brain allusion to the rumors about Elvis having black ancestry?
She was right about everything.
But I'm sure some people here are still making excuses.
Well of course she was right. That's why the deplorables got so mad. You don't get mad at people telling lies about you.
Trump has now normalized open racism with the consent of the GOP Congress.
But yes, let's wait for the 2020 election for Trump to self-impeach. Things are rapidly getting worse month by month. It's getting worse because no one will even make a serious attempt to hold him accountable or shame him.
Also the problem with waiting until the 2020 election to solve everything, is that you can't unwind everything Trump has done instantly. It's now acceptable for a crowd on national TV at a Presidential rally, to chant that a black Congressman should go back to Africa. That new norm that Trump has set this weekend will now take a generation to unwind.
No. Unlike the electorally ephemeral internet progressive, they vote all the time.
I'm not joking. Ilhan needs Secret Service detail after this. For fuck's sake, please.
How long until they get invited to the White House to stay the Lincoln bedroom
Could be just me but I never saw Daniel Dale call out bullshit on Trump? He always reported matter of factly.
Where in the hell have you been?
"Black Kenyan Muslim Obama should go back to Africa" was ignited and propagated by this man. It's already been done against a black president. Yes, they're using the Muslim angle to attack Omar, to question her loyalty; nobody can deny it. Trump is now in a position to whip people into an even greater fever pitch, which is dangerous. But to act like any of this is new is strange. Louder, yes, but not new. Open racism got normalized a hell of a long time ago.
I also question this idea I've seen repeated that impeachment will somehow chasten Trump. If anything, it'll result in more rallies and statements of this nature, not fewer. He cannot be shamed into being quieter, better, or less offensive, and if you want not to have to listen to him anymore, the election is the only way to accomplish it.
(And yes, I support impeachment.)
So, which Dem candidate would you guys say probably has the most amateurish operation running their campaign? Not necessarily "who is a bad candidate" but more "Whose campaign would make dumb mistakes because they don't know what they're doing?"
Because I remember some stories from 2016 about how the Sanders and Trump campaigns had, at one point, failed to set up their shops to deny people who couldn't legally donate anymore. So then a bunch of people had bought enough stuff at the store that the campaign had to refund them because the purchases were technically donations, and therefore a campaign finance violation. So people got their money back and got to keep their stuff. So...that could be a good opportunity to make some cash...
Unless what I'm suggesting is a crime, in which case...nevermind.
Because I remember some stories from 2016 about how the Sanders and Trump campaigns had, at one point, failed to set up their shops to deny people who couldn't legally donate anymore. So then a bunch of people had bought enough stuff at the store that the campaign had to refund them because the purchases were technically donations, and therefore a campaign finance violation. So people got their money back and got to keep their stuff. So...that could be a good opportunity to make some cash...
Unless what I'm suggesting is a crime, in which case...nevermind.
Pretty much. He's being louder and more open with his racism now because more people are hearing and noticing it more.
Who outside of people who are already voting for him care about the "Pocahontas" stuff?
^^^^
Put a pin in this folks.
Again, they EXIST. Now that's all that matters since they're half the entire 2020 campaign strategy, sent in during the 2nd inning by a dementia-ridden Connie Mack.
The underboss, natch.
And the above means, they have to have that veneer of respectability with a handy gob of deceit, as is the mob's way.
That's my only worry coming out of this now.
Shooter at that softball game.
The Maga Mobile bomber.
And others, now those 4's names are known.
This statement implies they're dumb when malicious is a much more accurate description.
Read the thread. He shares anonymous comments from a grand total of four House Democrats, who for all we know could've been Lipinski, Moulton, Cuellar, and Tim Ryan - you know, the kind of people willing to talk to Jake Tapper who has open Nazis on his show.
This is dumb:
Jake Tapper @jaketapper
House Democrats appeared unified in their votes this week but I've spent the day talking to a bunch of them and many are extremely frustrated. All agree POTUS's tweets needed to be condemned; they spoke under condition of anonymity so they could be candid. (Thread)
2/ "The president won this one," said House Dem 1 of the Trump v Squad (AOC, Tlaib, Omar & Pressley) showdown. "What the president has done is politically brilliant. Pelosi was trying to marginalize these folks and the president has now identified the entire party with them."
5:38 PM - Jul 17, 2019
House Democrats appeared unified in their votes this week but I've spent the day talking to a bunch of them and many are extremely frustrated. All agree POTUS's tweets needed to be condemned; they spoke under condition of anonymity so they could be candid. (Thread)
2/ "The president won this one," said House Dem 1 of the Trump v Squad (AOC, Tlaib, Omar & Pressley) showdown. "What the president has done is politically brilliant. Pelosi was trying to marginalize these folks and the president has now identified the entire party with them."
5:38 PM - Jul 17, 2019
He just leaps from buzzword sentence to buzzword sentence. It's nonsense.
Of course they haven't.
Trump just gave them a better target to focus on but the divisions and conflicts are still there.
I have more faith in The Squad after their press conference than ever before.
And why? They're not going to let themselves be defined. They're going to speak out.
That's the difference between them and Hillary. That's the difference between them and Pelosi. They don't turn away from the attacks. They don't modulate because of the attacks. They aren't afraid.
The right can think whatever. The right is a lost cause. But everyone else will know who these women are.
Also, the President is a racist Fox viewer. Once you've internalized that, nothing he ever says shocks you. He could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue...
Fuck him and his Klan rallies.
EDIT: Also, Tapper is garbage. Has been for years. Can we please stop ascribing brilliance to mediocre men in bad suits who speak in monotone? The man needs to doodle himself in a boat with Chuck Todd.
And why? They're not going to let themselves be defined. They're going to speak out.
That's the difference between them and Hillary. That's the difference between them and Pelosi. They don't turn away from the attacks. They don't modulate because of the attacks. They aren't afraid.
The right can think whatever. The right is a lost cause. But everyone else will know who these women are.
Also, the President is a racist Fox viewer. Once you've internalized that, nothing he ever says shocks you. He could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue...
Fuck him and his Klan rallies.
EDIT: Also, Tapper is garbage. Has been for years. Can we please stop ascribing brilliance to mediocre men in bad suits who speak in monotone? The man needs to doodle himself in a boat with Chuck Todd.
Tomorrow's gonna be even more wild
Pelosi marginalizing Ocasio-Cortez et al. = unequivocally good
Ocasio-Cortez et al., actual elected Democratic reps, being identified with the Democratic Party = unequivocally bad.
You see, the problem is that the media, the GOP, 45% of the voting public, and half of the Democratic Party itself is congenitally stupid. This kind of analysis would get an F if I were grading it.
Yep. If you've interacted with a constant Fox News viewer around Trump's age, Trump does in fact act effectively the same. There's a reason he's those people's hero.
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