USA Politics

Todd · July 21, 2020, 06:53:15 AM

Fresh from AmPo: Americans support Black Lives Matter but resist shifts of police funds or removal of statues of Confederate generals or presidents who were enslavers

Trump is on the right electoral side on two of the issues in the article-cum-poll blob.

Since Trump is obviously using the tried and true law and order campaign approach, we must see if he can goad protestors in multiple cities into upping their violent actions so he can deploy feds to solve the problem. Since protestors are, as a rule, complete and total morons, he may be able to use this tactic to eek out a few more votes. He can't win, though. At least more lefty distress is on the way. It's best to look for the good in every situation.

Todd · July 21, 2020, 07:20:05 AM

From the failing New York Times: Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics

This is just too much fun.

steve ridgway · July 21, 2020, 07:50:19 AM

Quote from: Todd on July 21, 2020, 07:20:05 AM
From the failing New York Times: Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics

This is just too much fun.

They'd better be careful with their photos, the people shown don't look very diverse

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Karl Henning · July 21, 2020, 08:00:38 AM

Quote from: Herman on July 21, 2020, 06:31:09 AM
"I have heard..."

Congrats, perfect Trump-speak!

And he can mix it up with, "they're saying..."

drogulus · July 21, 2020, 08:35:54 AM

"I'm not saying the Earth is flat but people say it is."

Todd · July 21, 2020, 08:58:39 AM

Super-Creepy 46 gets tough: Biden warns against foreign interference in US elections: 'I am putting the Kremlin and other foreign governments on notice'

Super-Creepy 46 even threatened to expose corruption. Putin will remain calm, I have no doubts; I have heard his nickname is Veritas Vlad.

Maybe someone will take Super-Creepy 46's threats like super-seriously.

Karl Henning · July 21, 2020, 12:32:56 PM

Navy vet beaten by federal agents: 'They came out to fight'

drogulus · July 21, 2020, 03:34:17 PM

Quote from: greg on July 21, 2020, 05:47:31 AM
"Not tightly organized" is far from "imaginary." I suppose the website I linked was also imaginary. They also have a flag which isn't imaginary. I have heard they have "leaders" but I would imagine at this point it's just small groups, and they aren't going to advertise themselves openly so often.

If they do any organizing it could be ways like this:
https://www.facebook.com/antifaintl/

20,000 followers... so that's probably how you would sign up and coordinate for group activities.

They have a website to uncoordinate their activities.

I'd like a flag with a picture of Serapis on it. Serapis is (I swear I read it somewhere) a fake god. As Super Creepy used to say, I'm not being facetious!

greg · July 21, 2020, 05:55:35 PM

Quote from: Herman on July 21, 2020, 06:31:09 AM
"I have heard..."

Congrats, perfect Trump-speak!

Okay then, Tim Pool is my source for that one.

Of course your tribalistic mind wants to tie me to Trump whenever you don't like something I say.

JBS · July 21, 2020, 06:54:12 PM

Quote from: greg on July 21, 2020, 05:47:31 AM

If they do any organizing it could be ways like this:
https://www.facebook.com/antifaintl/

I first read that as "anti-faint".

drogulus · July 21, 2020, 07:39:03 PM

Quote from: greg on July 21, 2020, 05:55:35 PM

Of course your tribalistic mind wants to tie me to Trump whenever you don't like something I say.

Did you know there are river dolphins that swim in cloudy water so they're almost blind? They couldn't use their eyes so they lost their vision. However, they didn't do it on porpoise.

greg · July 21, 2020, 08:41:38 PM

Quote from: drogulus on July 21, 2020, 07:39:03 PM
Did you know there are river dolphins that swim in cloudy water so they're almost blind? They couldn't use their eyes so they lost their vision. However, they didn't do it on porpoise.

You killed me. That was way too corny.

MusicTurner · July 22, 2020, 02:02:59 AM

A new Trump ad warning of chaos & violence in the US depicts a cop being attacked by protesters...
... but is using a pic from the uprising in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2014.

https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/1285774309743644673/photo/1
https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/1285774309743644673

drogulus · July 22, 2020, 04:29:10 AM

Quote from: greg on July 21, 2020, 08:41:38 PM
You killed me. That was way too corny.

I know, I'm almost ashamed. Still, I do think you make a habit of seeking out cloudy water to swim in.

milk · July 22, 2020, 04:50:44 AM

Quote from: greg on July 21, 2020, 08:41:38 PM
You killed me. That was way too corny.

Gangetic dolphins? Is that a word? I saw these years ago in Varanasi.

Todd · July 22, 2020, 05:01:27 AM

Trump needs to stop making fun of Joe Biden's mental lapses

I hope 45 does not heed the AmPo columnist's advice. The bit about how mocking Biden is offensive to seniors is a hoot, though. Thanks, Mr Thiessen.

Todd · July 22, 2020, 05:21:55 AM

Another day, another Progressive icon down:

Liberal, progressive — and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history.

AmPo provides two sensationalist headlines, depending on where one views it, in email or on the site. Here's the email headline and sub-headline:

Quote from: William Randolph Bezos' Amazon Washington Post
The Sierra Club, nation's oldest conservation group, is denouncing the racism of founder John Muir, the 'father of national parks'

The Sierra Club says it will "pull down" its monument to Muir, who supported white supremacy. Muir, who fought to preserve Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Forest, also referred to African Americans with a racist pejorative that many black people consider to be even more offensive than the n-word.

drogulus · July 22, 2020, 05:34:08 AM

Trump fought off a serious threat from Roger Stone by commuting his prison sentence.

Also during the briefing came the question about whether Ghislaine Maxwell, accused sex trafficker and recently arrested close associate of Jeffery Epstein would "turn in powerful men."

"I don't know, I haven't really been following it too much," Trump said. "I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is."

Why didn't he run run towards lunch instead of giving a flawless answer to this very unfair question? Trump says out loud what he's thinking, not all of it but enough to figure out the unsaid part. Perhaps Maxwell has nothing much to say about the services she provided to her future well wishers. Maybe Trump has forgotten how innocent he really is and well wishes just in case.

Herman · July 22, 2020, 05:45:53 AM

Maybe all those good wishes for Maxwell just mean that, in his addled brain, he remembers rather liking her.

He is one of those odious men who like "women with a British accent".

He had pestered Princess Diana for months for a date.

Maxwell of course had as a plus that her dad was a big time swindler.

drogulus · July 22, 2020, 06:25:07 AM

Extra $600 in unemployment benefits doesn't keep people from working, analysis finds

This is one of the stupidest talking points Repubs use, that people who have lost jobs have jobs waiting for them if only they were not deterred by receiving benefits.

There is no reason to believe that there are lots of jobs available for the unemployed to take if only benefits were eliminated.

There is reason to believe that filling a huge demand hole with benefits will hasten the day when jobs will be available, and that keeping demand from spiraling down prevents further job loss, which is a big part of the reason benefits exist.

Many Repubs actually know this, but they can't say it because it would make it clear how stupid and dishonest the shrinkonomics they publicly adhere to really is.