US Election 2020 - Pt 2

[Nom Chompsky]

Huge speculation a gold-standard poll will put Biden in the lead in Iowa this week. Will report when it comes out.

Nate Cohn reminds us that Iowa had the biggest number of Obama-Trump voters.

 

[TysonRoux]

MAGA is catching on in Britain

Spoiler: MAGA Spoiler

https://www.britainfirst.org/hilarious_photoshopped_photo_of_britain_first_goes_viral_on_twitter

 

[buka001]

MAGA is catching on in Britain

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Oh god that guy in the green shorts.

 

[AlmightyBender]

Oh god that guy in the green shorts.

Did he piss those shorts?

EDIT: we're going to hell for assuming gender. This is the end of our progressive phase.

 

[greg0205]

Oh god that guy in the green shorts.

What in the wide world of sports is going on there??

 

[theratman]

What in the wide world of sports is going on there??

Bachelor party was my first though tbh.

/Confession I was in a dress in strip club for mine. Although I didn't pull it off like that gentleman, I also didn't piss myself.

Or he's just a nutter who wet himself, wtf

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Imagine believing all Americans who happen to be on one side of the political spectrum are incapable of patriotism.

Imagine believing your side has exclusive rights.

Imagine believing that, and then calling yourself the 'party of Lincoln' *AND* defending confederate statues and base names.

Imagine it.

Adam Serwer made this great point. There's a lot about the civil war, about people from the South, about US military heritage, about Republican party heritage etc. that you can honour. Yet somehow they don't want to do that, they want to only honour the slave traders, racists and traitors.

Kind of gives the game away.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1270805813293088768

 

[AlmightyBender]

Anyway peeps, as fascinating as this perfect example of the height of Western Civilization is, it is off topic and belongs in the Brexit thread. Or in the garbage. Same difference I guess.

 

[AlmightyBender]

Adam Serwer made this great point. There's a lot about the civil war, about people from the South, about US military heritage, about Republican party heritage etc. that you can honour. Yet somehow they don't want to do that, they want to only honour the slave traders, racists and traitors.

Kind of gives the game away.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1270805813293088768

Damn that is such a good point.

 

[greg0205]

Adam Serwer made this great point. There's a lot about the civil war, about people from the South, about US military heritage, about Republican party heritage etc. that you can honour. Yet somehow they don't want to do that, they want to only honour the slave traders, racists and traitors.

Kind of gives the game away.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1270805813293088768

Me, from yesterday...

Make the case for Braxton Bragg rather than say Audie Murphy, or Robert Smalls, or Ruben Rivers, or Pascal Poolaw, or Harriet Tubman.

The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272182413314195456

Don't think this is vaguely true (Trump won Arkansas 60-33 in 2016) but the poll does his continuous problem with independents.

Ya, lots to doubt about that poll, as per the clever polling folks. Poor methodology, historical inaccuracy etc. But even with a much wider margin of error (because of above problems), that's a helluva swing.

This, however, is notable:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272210780822409219

 

[OrbitalDawn]

This will be a good watch.

Four Years Embedded With the Alt-Right

What I learned about the seductive power of hate from making the documentary White Noise

www.theatlantic.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

The State of the GOP base.

Virginia congressman who officiated same-sex wedding loses GOP nomination in drive-thru convention | CNN Politics

A Republican congressman, whose decision to officiate a same-sex wedding last year angered some local Republicans, lost his party's nomination to a conservative challenger in Saturday's drive-thru convention.

edition.cnn.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

So in addition to Trump struggling to lift a bottle of water, he also can't walk down a slight decline?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1271902553417138176

Being such a thin-skinned baby, he immediately whined about it on Twitter and lied to pretend it was wet.



And of course, there's always a tweet.



And here Obama walks up the same ramp.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272051729614483462

 

[greg0205]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272229127563685889

Take 2

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272279155380453378

 

[OrbitalDawn]

@buka001

A QAnon lunatic in Massachusetts was arrested after livestreaming himself leading police on a multi-town car chase with his five children in the vehicle before allegedly ramming a cruiser and crashing into a tree in New Hampshire.

'We don't want to die': Father livestreams multi-town police chase with 5 kids in van

A Massachusetts man arrested after leading police on a chase with his five children in the vehicle live-streamed some of the incident on Facebook before allegedly ramming a cruiser and

www.unionleader.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Well, hello there Iowa...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1271993838631092225

 

[cerebus]

 

[rietrot]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272182413314195456

Don't think this is vaguely true (Trump won Arkansas 60-33 in 2016) but the poll does his continuous problem with independents.

Interesting. I don't see anything as obviously wrong as with the other polls we've had so far.

I wonder if asking whether you approve might be a leading question and influence the next question asking who you would vote for.

Example someone thinks Trump's response has been to soft. They say no don't approve.
Then the next question who will you vote for is biased because of the first.

 

[w1z4rd]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1272239081444040705

I laughed watching this