US Politics, April 2020 -- Where's the Vax Returns?

That’s why we all have to show appreciation for what a good job he is going! It is very normal and good for him to require appreciation from him!!

a huge crisis of some kind involving the massive loss of life and $$$

FDR had a bunch of these and yet kept getting reelected.

Current Trumper line is "a. Not his fault and b. Now that more is known, he is doing all the things. Hero!"

I mean if the US death toll really goes far beyond any other country and 95% of the country knows at least one person who died I feel like that might shatter the illusion somewhat

Not if a large chunk of Americans believe Russia and China are hiding their true numbers and/or American media and the deep state are overreporting American deaths.

(Yes, yes, people actually knowing people who have died would be a stopgap.)

At this point it's hard to imagine any possible scenario in which his cult drops their unwavering support if mass deaths and a crashed economy don't move the needle.

Not gonna happen. They'll vote for him while wheezing their last breaths from their ravaged lungs.

Concentrate on the defections from suburban men and women.

and of course OUR turnout.

FDR had a bunch of these and yet kept getting reelected.

I didn't say anything about reelection. I said this crisis put him on track to be the worst president ever, a title previously held by Dubya.

anyway, in other news

"Number one, I'm not interested in any more of Speaker Pelosi's spending porn — or any other member of Congress, for that matter," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Wednesday on an interview with Fox News.

SPENDING PORN

ted cruz, otoh, is now interested

No, iirc he is more into soup porn

"Ooooh! Saving people's lives! Feeding hungry people! Keeping money flowing instead of frozen and inert! Oooooh! Do it to me, Nancy! Do it cuz it feels sooooo good!"

someone tell John Kennedy (R-La.) about findom

this is gonna get spun into NYC being the problem, not trump.

trump is from nyc, check and mate

Trump learned that his close friend

huh. hoax. i don’t believe trump has any close friends and i also believe his own belief system is that he has no real friends, only useful inferiors, useful contacts, and family.

Asshole turned the daily coronavirus briefing into some jabbering nonsense about drug cartels.

Hey guys, what better time than mid-pandemic to launch a war against the drug cartels? No better time, that's when.

infrastructure week vs. drug warz FITE!

trump: why not both etc

War on drugs and threat from the Middle East. Someone's feeling the pressure in an election year.

That drug cartel stuff was bizarre. Even if you are doing that right now, maybe just do it and not talk about it. Consulting the ghost of Nancy Reagan's astronomer or something.

Jesus just slap JUST SAY NO on the intro screen to arcade games

who was that woman that just asked a question? the one that editorializes during them? she asked a question about killing children (abortions :)) during the pandemic the other day.

nevermind, she works for One America News Network. (???????????)

the new fox news!

the self-oann i presume

her question was crazier than you can even imagine the other day. i don't want to quote it here but you can find it online because anti choice groups loved it.

i saw it in real time because i have been punishing myself by watching these things and i just

the lovely reporter you are thinking of is chanel rion xp

i think her questions are planted

this is one of her questions from last week:

“Is it alarming that major media players, just to oppose you, are siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels and they work right here out of the White House with direct access to you and your team?”

“It amazes me when I read the things that I read,” Trump replied with a grin, before going on a tirade about all the media outlets he feels have been critical of him.

"questions"

Mr. President, some people are saying you're the greatest president in a century. Others are saying you're the greatest of all time. So, which is it?

I almost posted about that abortion question a few days ago--it was so bizarre, it was like "Did I really just see that?" She's also the one that asked if Chinese food was a racist term.

Shit, that wasn't even a softball, she just handed the ball to him and let him toss it to himself

you could say these are t-ball questions

wow, i noticed one of her awful questions the other day and wondered what her deal is. this is just sad, even by missouri standards:

Chanel Rion might be an accomplished illustrator and Harvard graduate, but her husband-to-be is adamant she be home before six to prepare his dinner. Rion is the fiancee of Missouri outsider senatorial candidate Courtland Sykes. Sykes, a Republican in the mould of Donald Trump, released a bizarre statement on January 23. The press release said, in part, “I want to come home to a home cooked dinner every night at six. One that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives – think Norman Rockwell here and Gloria Steinem be damned.”

The statement began with Sykes saying that he favors women’s rights because his fiancee “has given him orders to” but adds “obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway.”

Sykes is vying to become the Republican nominee to face Democrat Claire McCaskill in November 2018’s U.S. Senate race. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a political science lecturer at St. Louis Community College, described Sykes’ campaign as “Trump-inspired populism on steroids.”

i'm sorry that i'm linking to heavy.com

https://heavy.com/news/2018/01/courtland-sykes-fiancee-chanel-rion/

Courtland and Chanel Show going to be lit

Rion writes on her website that she and her family fled the U.S. in 1996 after President Bill Clinton won re-election. The bio says that, “Clinton was the last straw, so dad picked up stakes and moved us out of the country. I think he wanted us to see what a debauched idea socialism was and that socialism was what the Clintons stood for. He wanted us to see what socialism did in the real world—how it destroyed people and human happiness in practice.”

🤪

honestly, i don't believe that quote from her husband -- that she needs to cook dinner by six every night -- and i also don't believe her parents went to south korea to flee the clinton.

i think that republicans are liars and self-mythologizers.

So........again, I don't want to yuck anybody's kink here but can we pleeeeeeeease acknowledge the BDSM roleplay in the room. Except for the incesty bit, we can yuck that.

follow me, my children. i will take you to my worst nightmare, so that you can understand the real world is going to be that bad someday.

xp sure, they might roleplay the honeymooners-style male tyranny. but it's fantasy, not reality. she is an ambitious washington media person.

I perfectly recall how Bill Clinton's ended "welfare as we knew it", just so he could destroy people and their happiness with heaps and heaps of socialism.

xp sure, they might roleplay the honeymooners-style male tyranny. but it's fantasy, not reality. she is an ambitious washington media person.

One who will never break kayfabe in front of the rubes, though.

Ms. Rion went to Harvard. She is smart, understands precisely what her career path in the 'news' media entails, knows what her talents are, what audience she plays to, and how to cast herself in the necessary role. There is no naivety there. She will make good money.

she's definitely a plant, the first time I saw her she was asking something about since the term "Chinese food" isn't racist why is the liberal media saying that "Chinese virus" is racist

Forget it Dan. It's Tiger King Town.

lol

"There exists no proof that Rion actually attended Harvard College, much less graduated from it."

I trust everyone filed their census.

goddamn Pelosi is terrible

"small business... broadband... heroes!" just rambling, incoherent, utterly useless.

Watch as Nancy Pelosi struggles to answer a question from CNBC host Jim Cramer about what he described as “two societies” developing; one society that has to be out there risking themselves -- and another, safe at home, very rich. pic.twitter.com/sqUj7qSA5X

— Majority Report (@majorityfm) April 29, 2020

That's quite a thumbnail. She looks like she just had a stroke, and he looks like he's in the middle of one.

incredible tidbit from the replies - Jim Cramer claims he was a member of the Spartacist League in college

please, you have to understand, when I overleveraged myself to create a now-flailing airnbnb empire, I was only trying to get rich quick at the expense of everyone around me

— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) April 29, 2020

She looks like she just had a stroke, and he looks like he's in the middle of one.

We've all been there I'm sure. First, one of those sleepless nights, then a hard day at work, and then on top of everything you get interviewed on a major cable network. Comes a point in the day that coffee doesn't cut it any more.

I propose we line up all the women accusing Joe on one side of theLaker’s court at StaplesCenter, & line up all thewomen accusing the FAKEPRESIDENT, the infamous PUSSYGRABBER, on the other side.Let ‘em stare each other down with Joe and the FIRST LIAR in the center #mamievandoren

— Mamie Van Doren (@Mamievandoren) April 30, 2020

Mamie Van Doren might just get me through all this.

So, uh, why are you allowed to bring guns into the Michigan state capitol?

What’s wrong with that? Seems allwhite to me.

if you're dressed as military, even if you obviously never served, you're allowed to bring a gun anywhere. NRA Semper Fi do or die hut hut

the real question is why *can't* you bring guns into the us capitol

a fun tidbit about that Michigan thing is that protest signs are NOT allowed in the capital

capitol.

Because they might be used as weapons.

Happy May Day! Burn the motherfucker down.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/rent-is-due-today-but-millions-of-americans-wont-be-paying

The White House is preventing Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, from testifying before the House next week, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee said on Friday.

Top Democrats on the panel had wanted Dr. Fauci to testify as part of an in-person hearing led by Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, who oversees the subcommittee responsible for funding health, labor and education agencies and programs. But when the committee asked for Dr. Fauci to appear, the Trump administration denied the request and the committee was told by an administration official that it was because of the White House, according to Evan Hollander, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee.

At the first official briefing by a White House press secretary in 417 days, Kayleigh McEnany promised journalists, "I will never lie to you."

McEnany proceeded to say a bunch of things that weren't true.

Beginning with "I will never lie to you." I'm not even sure why she'd feel it was worth saying that--who is she speaking to? Not anyone in the room, and not to herself.

http://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/politics/mcenany-first-briefing-fact-check-may-1/index.html

Good morning!

I will never lie to you, as a new feature of this Presidency.

she proceeded to do it afterwards anyway though.

"I will never lie to you," she lied.

i think she was quoting Amos from The Expanse.

maybe take the halo off this hack-in-the-making

In this essay on "American leadership," Stacey Abrams manages to squeeze in anti-communism and anti-China nationalism & whitewash pretty much the entirety of US empire. And she doesn't once mention the US sanctions and wars making this pandemic far worse. https://t.co/vlW30wHHiD

— Sarah Lazare (@sarahlazare) May 1, 2020

She doesn't think America is the worst country in the world? Clearly, she is unfit to lead America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhpu2N4rQZM

Have the new monthly threads been furloughed?

She doesn't think America is the worst country in the world? Clearly, she is unfit to lead America.

Correct.

US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.