The 2020 thread....

Hatchy wrote:
Burr and Loeffler committed the same crime and only one is being made to disappear

and captain obvious jumps out from behind the Curtin….
documents show Sen. Kelly Loeffler's husband, and New York Stock Exchange chairman Jeffrey Sprecher gave $1 million to Trump super PAC America First Action at then end of last month

at the same time Loeffler launched a $4 million ad campaign highlighting ways she’s used her wealth for Covid aid efforts in her state. Those include donating her salary, deploying her private plane to help transport stranded cruise ship passengers and making a $1 million personal donation to a relief organization


must be nice to live in JA
"Oh darling, I used my wealth to help, they had to wash the plane down twice with something toxic to get the stench of the poor off"

sounds like we are going to get little help from the Berners…not that we didn't already know that
~2.2 million people donated to Bernie Sanders during the primary. So far, we found only about 60,000 of them have given to Joe Biden,

You come up with the craziest stuff dude


Donating in the heat of a contested primary is different than donating to a presidential campaign six months out during a pandemic! I mean I am a Biden supporter and even I haven’t donated yet.

And how much did you donate to Biden so far? What was your total donation to Hillary last time?

hutch wrote:

And how much did you donate to Biden so far? What was your total donation to Hillary last time?

that's personal, but I can share that I have donated to Biden and other Dem related things

Fantastic

That’s good!

FL felons in the news again https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article242981366.html

While it sounds good, Gov DS will appeal for sure and make its way to the supremes
Sad thing is the overwhelming majority of voters in the state wanted this, but the GOP slight majority is overriding the will of the electorate

Per-capita wrote:
Sad thing is the overwhelming majority of voters in the state wanted this, but the GOP slight majority is overriding the will of the electorate

story of the last ~6 years of this country.

Twitter is fact checking a certain someone’s tweets… total meltdown on it’s way

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kosmo wrote:
Twitter is fact checking a certain someone’s tweets… total meltdown on it’s way

Mika'd

So want wanted this to be true



https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1265431034478256128?s=20

So you can tell I donated to Biden…as I've been getting emails from Barack with subjects like "I'm personally asking"

So, did Biden really crap his pants?

Apparently Gardner is going down in CO and Mcsally is going to lose in AZ

hutch wrote:
Apparently Gardner is going down in CO and Mcsally is going to lose in AZ

yeay, hutch posted some good news - we've turned him around!

Dems need +3, assuming Biden wins, and those two represent winnable seats.  obvs it would be nice to get some padding on that and have more than a 1-vote majority, but i'll take whatever we can get.

gawd, the thought of another blue wave in november where all 3 branches go blue is giving me LIFE.

It amuses me how little conservatives understand Terms and Conditions…

also


The quote "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" originated by a racist white Miami police chief named Walter Headley who targeted black people in 1967 ahead of the Republican convention.

Donald Trump used the same line tonight to threaten to shoot his own citizens.

https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1266243601652084736?s=20

You don't want to piss of TayTay…

Taylor Swift@taylorswift13
After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump

Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers.

George F. Will
Columnist
June 1, 2020 at 3:18 p.m. EDT

This unraveling presidency began with the Crybaby-in-Chief banging his spoon on his highchair tray to protest a photograph — a photograph — showing that his inauguration crowd the day before had been smaller than the one four years previous. Since then, this weak person’s idea of a strong person, this chest-pounding advertisement of his own gnawing insecurities, this low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron.

Presidents, exploiting modern communications technologies and abetted today by journalists preening as the “resistance” — like members of the French Resistance 1940-1944, minus the bravery — can set the tone of American society, which is regrettably soft wax on which presidents leave their marks. The president’s provocations — his coarsening of public discourse that lowers the threshold for acting out by people as mentally crippled as he — do not excuse the violent few. They must be punished. He must be removed.

Social causation is difficult to demonstrate, particularly between one person’s words and other persons’ deeds. However: The person voters hired in 2016 to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” stood on July 28, 2017, in front of uniformed police and urged them “please don’t be too nice” when handling suspected offenders. His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement.

What Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed “defining deviancy down” now defines American politics. In 2016, voters were presented an unprecedentedly unpalatable choice: Never had both major parties offered nominees with higher disapproval than approval numbers. Voters chose what they wagered would be the lesser blight. Now, however, they have watched him govern for 40 months and more than 40 percent — slightly less than the percentage that voted for him — approve of his sordid conduct.

Presidents seeking reelection bask in chants of “Four more years!” This year, however, most Americans — perhaps because they are, as the president predicted, weary from all the winning — might flinch: Four more years of this? The taste of ashes, metaphorical and now literal, dampens enthusiasm.

The nation’s downward spiral into acrimony and sporadic anarchy has had many causes much larger than the small man who is the great exacerbator of them. Most of the causes predate his presidency, and most will survive its January terminus. The measures necessary for restoration of national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond his removal. One such measure must be the removal of those in Congress who, unlike the sycophantic mediocrities who cosset him in the White House, will not disappear “magically,” as Eric Trump said the coronavirus would. Voters must dispatch his congressional enablers, especially the senators who still gambol around his ankles with a canine hunger for petting.

In life’s unforgiving arithmetic, we are the sum of our choices. Congressional Republicans have made theirs for more than 1,200 days. We cannot know all the measures necessary to restore the nation’s domestic health and international standing, but we know the first step: Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration, leaving the Republican remnant to wonder: Was it sensible to sacrifice dignity, such as it ever was, and to shed principles, if convictions so easily jettisoned could be dignified as principles, for . . . what? Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world’s most risible deliberative body.

A political party’s primary function is to bestow its imprimatur on candidates, thereby proclaiming: This is who we are. In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and then toiled to elect him. And to stock Congress with invertebrates whose unswerving abjectness has enabled his institutional vandalism, who have voiced no serious objections to his Niagara of lies, and whom T.S. Eliot anticipated:

We are the hollow men . . .
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
or rats’ feet over broken glass . . .

Those who think our unhinged president’s recent mania about a murder two decades ago that never happened represents his moral nadir have missed the lesson of his life: There is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume that the worst is yet to come. Which implicates national security: Abroad, anti-Americanism sleeps lightly when it sleeps at all, and it is wide-awake as decent people judge our nation’s health by the character of those to whom power is entrusted. Watching, too, are indecent people in Beijing and Moscow.