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US PoliEra 2020 |OT6| I will not be closing this thread when the second wave hits.
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Katie Rogers @katierogers
One of the questions:
"Who do you trust more to lead our Nation's recovery?
President Trump
China Joe"
6:31 PM · Jul 22, 2020
Sleepy Joe... no, wait, Corrupt Joe... no wait, China Joe!
I'm not sure I understand why they care about not having a generous stimulus or unemployment package. The only people that care about national debt and make a big deal of it are Republicans themselves and they are already in the hole enough through the current administration that they can't suddenly make it an election issue. The easiest PR points they could win right now are a generous package which would prop up the economy long enough to limp to the election. If they owned it, that might be just enough to win some key races, maybe even retain the Senate. Trump doesn't care about debt, and would relish the chance to have another talking point about how he and Republicans were looking after the people in spite of the do nothing Democrats (even more so if he could actually have his name on a physical check somehow like the stimulus).
What do they gain by being stingy?
What do they gain by being stingy?
Their big money donors may be telling them what to do or threaten to withdraw election funding.
It's ideology. Their whole ideology is that governments cannot make people's lives better, and so they do everything in their power to make sure the government never does anything to make people's lives better. Fixing a problem would undermine their ideology, weakening their power to prevent government from making people's lives better.
Remember, these people have devoted their entire careers to running an institution that they believe is bad and should do as little as possible.
Can't underestimate Republicans' just general contempt for non-rich people.
I get that. But I guess my point is they are currently obviously on track to lose the Presidency and the Senate. Seemed to me staying in power (or in power enough to undermine a Democrat President at least) would trump their ideological need to kick people while they were down in the short term. Not to mention Republican politicians individually have proven time and again self interest trumps their stated ideology when it suits them. This is about the only play they have between now and the election.
The only Republicans I think who would actually ride the ideological train off the cliff are the Tea Party and QAnon types. But they don't believe they are losing this election in the first place.
Matthew Miller @matthewamiller
Wow. Barr says today there have been 200 arrests in the past two weeks. KC says the real number is more like one. Then DOJ backtracks and says 200 is since December and includes local arrests. What the hell is going on at DOJ?
7:30 PM · Jul 22, 2020
Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3
AG Barr says there have 200 arrests in Kansas City related to Operation Legend. That's news to Kansas City.
Going to ask people commenting to please the read the story, which made it pretty clear KC officials didn't believe there had been 200 arrests. And then read this confirms the number as a two week total wasn't close to true
7:45 PM · Jul 22, 2020
Wow. Barr says today there have been 200 arrests in the past two weeks. KC says the real number is more like one. Then DOJ backtracks and says 200 is since December and includes local arrests. What the hell is going on at DOJ?
7:30 PM · Jul 22, 2020
Bryan Lowry @BryanLowry3
AG Barr says there have 200 arrests in Kansas City related to Operation Legend. That's news to Kansas City.
Going to ask people commenting to please the read the story, which made it pretty clear KC officials didn't believe there had been 200 arrests. And then read this confirms the number as a two week total wasn't close to true
7:45 PM · Jul 22, 2020
A Core element of Republican ideology is that wealth is a byproduct of success. Therefore, wealth means you worked hard. Therefore, if you're not wealthy, you haven't worked hard. They see poverty as an earned outcome rather than an unfortunate ailment.
The actual word 'feckless' in the dictionary looks at Chuck Todd and says, "really dude?"
People going overboard on the Biden comment in the OT thread, as usual. You would think that Biden said that Trump is a hell of a guy that he would like to play golf with as opposed to calling the guy a racist with some of the "lol fuck off Joe" type reactions.
Ignore stupidity like that like I do its pointless.
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They had no intention to post in good faith to begin with. It isn't worth it.
I know. Rose Twitter also got a breath of fresh air with that comment.
You would think all other 44 presidents are up for re-election and Joe just endorsed Woodrow Wilson or Andrew Jackson.
But like the other "gaffes", this shows those people's political instincts are for another alternate timeline's 2020 election and not this hell we're currently living.
Rose Twitter has ZERO political instincts. If they did, they would've understood what a terrible candidate Sanders is and not backed him again for his second farce in 2020.
Trump's plan to kill the post office from within seems to be going well https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...rship-willfully-delaying-mail-sabotage-postal
I noticed my mail deliever has been funky. Some days i get nothing and others just stacks, and they run at odd hours. Where before you could set your watch by them
To his credit, Sanders did do a lot of things correct in 2016 and even in 2020. But by and large, his campaign was not great, and you could see a marked drop in the quality of people working on his campaign from 2016 to 2020.
Sanders's 2016 campaign was a lot better than his 2020 campaign. His 2020 campaign was exclusionary to anyone that wasn't far-left, and was filled with incompetent far left grifters. His 2016 campaign at least brought in cultural moderates. He managed to lose half of his supporters in 4 years despite his main opposition (Biden) having far less endorsements and cash and establishment support.
I think that's a fair description. I'm just thinking of how well Sanders did with Latino voters in the 2020 Primary, the fact that he was able to avoid a lot of the criticisms of his proposals, and that he was able to completely move past the fact that he basically had a heart attack while campaigning.
Yes? I legit don't have any idea what Rose Twitter is. I avoid twitter like the plague if I can help it.
Not your question, I had to ask the same question here months ago
Some of the replies though....
The only important thing to grasp is that rose twitter is it's a subset of twitter far-leftist discourse, and not at all widely implicative of a group of irl people.
Much like "Black Twitter" doesn't represent Black folks who couldn't give the slightest of a shit about what Twitter is or what Black people talk about on it.
So basically...go back to my policy of avoiding twitter and anything like "x twitter" like the plague.
LOL - yeah. If you don't give a shit about Twitter, rose twitter has absolutely no bearing on your life.
Because he wants to enact change and not browbeat and whine.
He wants to work.
It's crazy how Trump found a way to never have to get one of his racist piece of shit sycophants confirmed by the Senate. How have Dems never taken advantage of this?
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