If the Democrats held the presidency or the Senate, they would be in a much better position to play "severe hardball". Holding just one out of three, against two out of three is a clear disadvantage. Their other extreme disadvantage is the lack of a direct pipeline to voters for educating the public on the difference between their proposals and those of the opposition and the reasons for strategic line they are taking. Having an "official organ" to communicate with the rank and file is indispensable.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:11 (four years ago) link
not that I don't want them to play hardball, but a shitload of the independent voting public were shitting on them for delaying the CARE act a single day last time.
they should still try it anyway but voters are often too stupid to know hwo to blame in sitches like this
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 03:37 (four years ago) link
Supreme Court will genuinely have blood on its hands by the end of the month.— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) April 7, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
Good morning!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
i know we don't watch these any more, but the "press conference" today is just absurd. right now he's playing a 10 minute+ (and counting) campaign video showing how he did a great, perfect job in the coronavirus response, and how all the governors love him
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
any network showing this (i'm watching a fox tv feed) is straight up just airing a really long trump commercial.
Amazing, huh? That little prepared film reel was absurd--four clips, two of them from Fox!
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:09 (four years ago) link
You can tell Fauci has no stomach for this--you could see real anger when he was asked if he was coerced into his statement.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
I reported it on Youtube for disinformation... which most probably means nothing, but in the rare event someone at Google is not a complete spineless tool (slim chance ime) might relate?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
this is one of the most pathetic, childish things i've ever seen from. amazing.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
seen from (trump)
The CNN crawl ticker (or whatever it's called) says "Angry Trump Turns Briefing Into Propaganda Session."
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
I tuned in so very briefly while browsing the WaPo front page, and was just stunned. People are dying by the thousands and he's lying about how the US is awash with ventilators and hospital beds and Pence is using Trump's own catchphrases to call his approach to the disaster "a ten". What a lunatic egomaniac. He's a total supervillain, insane and deranged.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
this is demented
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
it's still going strong. what a fucking imbecile
Karl read a book
― silby, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
i highly recommend these books:
https://michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/karl.htm
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
not watching it but a lot of people on my FB feed are commenting on how crazy this is. are the major networks still airing it?
― frogbs, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Fake-news CNN, not sure if anyone else does.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
beats me. after the 10 minute campaign video, he then went on an (of course) unhinged rant on how good he was and how perfect etc etc, for like 30-40 minutes straight. he really wants everyone to tell him how good he is doing
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
i checked in for a few seconds. hoo boy
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
He's now openly threatening governors who don't follow a federal open-up order.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
"when someone is president of the united states, the authority is total"
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
I haven't watched CNN in years. MSNBC at least has decent commentators.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
another case of him playing to his base, insisting on powers he knows he doesn't have
or should know he doesn't have
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492503-trump-claims-he-not-governors-has-authority-on-opening-state
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
(xpost) Just came to post that remarkable Nixon-like statement. Not being American, I just assume the call to re-open (still an abstract concept as to what that exactly means) is up to the states, no? It's going to be so bizarre watching the political calculus on states' rights turned on its head. (Obviously, I'm all for the states here.)
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
yeah, he's full of shit
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
Wow. In so many words, he just clarified what he means by total authority: he has the ventilators, governors don't.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
did he actually say that?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
That's a direct quote.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 April 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
GOP governors and state legislators arenโt dumb enough to give Trump the precedent here. They might be really dumb, but they like having power. Trump is suggesting he can nullify that at a whim.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 13 April 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
Kind of wondering how much of this is (A) Kabuki to galvanize the chuds and (B) a lie he can cite later about powers "we don't want to give Biden!"
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
itโs not kabuki, itโs kayfabe
― El Tomboto, Monday, 13 April 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
Checks out.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
#PressBriefing Read the CNN chirons ....As Trump lies and Rants ! ๐ Read the chirons...CNN was ready for Trump tonight as he goes after the Media, theyโre ready ๐Why oh! Why! Do his handlers let him go out in this mode?๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ pic.twitter.com/nTUAWA8sHV— Josey Chuks (@cocoajo) April 13, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:24 (four years ago) link
just for the images, not the account
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 April 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
without having seen any exit poll and only the results - not sure why the gop thought that making people show up to polling sites during a pandemic that kills lots of old people and doesn't kill lots of young people was a slam dunk for them
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
Jill Karofsky beat Walkers appointee for State Supreme Court in Wisconsin despite GOP rigging. Did not expect that.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
Was just coming to post that. Unexpected, huge win.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link
Some exact quotes from this afternoon:
"If some states refuse to open, I would like to see that person run for election."
"When someone's the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's gotta be--total."
"You know what we're gonna do? We're going to write up papers on this--it's not going to be necessary, because the governors need us one way or the other."
"I haven't asked anybody [i.e., governors]. Because you know why?--because I don't have to."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
several of those came within the same 1 minute or so, too. just a real wild time. i would love to show this to someone in the year 2014
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
holy shit if Obama had said this
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link
Threatening to run third party
Thanks. Iโm looking at it closely this week.— Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 14, 2020
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link
did WI's Supreme Court race ever get polled? I expected Kelly to win due to the ratfucking in Milwaukee plus the enormous amount of Kelly signs I saw everywhere I went but I wonder how big an upset it actually was. considering that the presidency is basically gonna run through Wisconsin this seems like a big deal
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
"And that's the way it's gotta be--total."
we really shdn't wait til November
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
even with karofksy's shocking win "conservatives" still enjoy a majority on the wisco supreme court :(
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
lmao
Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on his big victory in Wisconsin!The state was critical in 2016, and we are working hard to keep it in the WIN column in November!— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) April 13, 2020
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
Took me a minute to piece together she literally means winning the state primary, which loooooool.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
the reason Trump made all those statements today is just like with "firing Mueller", he isn't going to strongarm the state governments, because he'll wind up going along with what they say and just say "well it's a good thing they listened to me, they knew what was good for them! but I totally could have shut them down if they'd defied me!"
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link