US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[AnotherPleb]

He's done.

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Is Jill convinced yet? She's the one that needs to be forced.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Seems to be escalating now
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Escalating toward nothing. I could be wrong, but if the institutional clout to rove Biden was in play, it would have happened by now.

 

[Irene and 22 others]

Dude. What the fuck does that even mean? She keeps saying it like it's some profound moving statement. I keep saying it over and over in my head trying to derive meaning and it just comes off as typical Kamala verbal diarrhea.

The only way I can parse it that makes any sense is that she's basically saying that we shouldn't let what happened in the past hold us to a similar future or something to that effect. She's clearly just trying to sound more intelligent than she actually is and for all I know she doesn't even know what the fuck she's on about.

 

[mlanguishi]

Keith's having a good night.

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I want to know what his democratic underground username is. I bet he probably single-handedly pays to keep it up. Sounds just like a lot there.

 

[ZMOT]

Bro…poojeta pussy is fucking

that's just the curry tho

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Seems to be escalating now
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Is there any Dem that is leading in the polls?

 

[Barleys]

Seems to be escalating now
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Let's go Joe come on, they're all lying to you.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Ethics cucks and their enablers need to fuck off. We've been told to "tone down the rhetoric" ever since 2016, and ESPECIALLY since Jan 6. The Right needs to take advantage of the hand they've been given. The SOONER they lay their foot off the gas (even for a second) is the moment the Left pounce. We need to start treating these people the exact same way they've treated us for the last eight years. Fuck the fence sitters, I hope you get anal bleeding from that post getting stuck so far up your ass.

To borrow a modified version of @Bog_beef's great picture

You fire the foot soldiers because it shows them their political patrons can't protect them. If a Patron can no longer protect their Clients, that loyalty, thanks, and allegiance will start to crack.

Middletown is within commuting distance of both Cincinnati and Dayton. It's part of continuous suburban sprawl between the two cities, not exactly what most people picture when you say "small town".
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Calling the region a continuous suburban sprawl is not entirely accurate. Especially when Vance was growing up there, it was heavily rural. Shit, thirty years ago West Chester was still heavily rural and farm fields, so it's not like this is just one stretch of sprawl. It's the non-flat area of Ohio, so lots of rolling hills, forests, and farmers fields and the like. Also butts up against the Northern German/Greater Appalachian cultural split that runs the length of Ohio, although it is on the more German Great Lakes side. Middletown is along 75, SW is going to be Hamilton, which is really the end of the heavily built up suburban sprawl from Cincinnati.

 

[Catboy Ranch]

I think people are pretty fed up with smooth-talking bullshit artist politicians at this point. Just do what you say you're going to do for a change, I don't care how well you said it.

Not talking about a candidate. Talking about keynotes. This is a con just like any other con.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

I'm not a photographer, but wouldn't it make sense to have a high shutter speed to spam shots so you can choose the optimal shot? Like quality via quantity.

It's perfectly normal to use burst shots during speeches. Watch any big speech or politician waving at a crowd, you'll see a series of rapid flashes as some photographer takes a quick burst of photos, same thing you see at sporting events. You get 100's of digital shots, scroll through them, delete all but the handful you want to keep, and take another burst shot.

In this case, the guy snapped a burst early in Trump's speech:

Spoiler: and happened to catch the bullet hitting Trump

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Keith's having a good night.

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He was one capillary burst away from calling him an Uncle Tom.

 

[GungusDingaling]

Since it's confirmed he has a steam account some one can go right now and pull up the rest of his comments. Unless theyve been scrubbed which would indicate there is something there they don't want us to see.

Running with the /x/ poster being him (unconfirmed), they posted this screenshot at some point. Anyone found a steam user named mou that hasn’t been on since Saturday?

 

[ForgedBlades]

Joe's having a good night.

 

[UncleAdolf]

Delicious is the only way I can describe how this is playing out. Trump has remained stoic aside from minor shitposting from what I'm aware, as every day people rip Biden and the establishment to shreds with their own experience and memory holed visuals to back it up all the more. Parents of fallen soldiers, veterans, construction workers, ranchers, freelancers, employees, business owners, union seniors etc.

Got covid in July, Joe? Go ahead. He has no move that won't piss a lot of people off. Vance honing in on Biden's career in the Senate is what I wanted to hear. Everyone feels his presidency today, but it's his policies in the Senate that paved the way for where we are now.

What they don't understand -People aren't gonna vote for Trump because he got shot. They're gonna vote for him because he got back up.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

Barron going to japan is a trade for shinzo Abe deflecting the bullet. Barron will fix the japanese birth rates

 

[Trust Me I Know]

Joe's having a good night.


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He's gonna drop the n bomb any day now.

 

[invisibult plus+]

Joe's having a good night.


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What in the actual fuck.

The man can’t hold a thought for even a second anymore. This isn’t “I don’t know what he said, and I don’t think he does either.” This is “He doesn't know what his thoughts are, how to gather them, or even what he should be thinking about in the first place.”

 

[mlanguishi]

Joe's having a good night.


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That wasn't today right? That would be hilarious as hell if it was and that's how he is with Covid.

 

[Harvey Danger]

The big thing to do will be to develop some sort of consistent doctrine or agenda everyone can adhere to or stand by. Currently everything right now flows through Trump. He's a very rare type of politician that doesn't come along very often.

Agree, but the blueprint is right there: economic populism and reactionary culture war, bound up in nationalism.

Trump started this from an instinctive level in 2016, talking about bad trade deals and how much he loved America. Vance articulated it from a personal standpoint, as a hillbilly and Marine. The inflation and housing crisis amplifies Trump's message from 8 years ago, and gives something real to fight against. The rest of MAGA has been picking up threads from this, whatever's local to their state or relevant to the current news cycle.

Modern conservatism is a fusion ideology, cobbled together from Austrian school economic theory, Catholic morality, and Cold War-era foreign policy. Depending on how you rate things, some or all of those things are outdated, or at least out of fashion. But at least it was coherent, with proper intellectual underpinnings that kept it going for decades after the cracks showed. The GOP needs something at least equally coherent, and I think Trump is offering it, without saying it out loud.

Political movements centered around one person historically speaking from time to time have issues surviving in the long-term. There will come a point where another will have to take the reins.

Yes. If MAGA remains Trumpism, it'll fade with him. If he can solidify it into something that stands alone, call it Throwback Americanism or whatever, I think the party can form a base around it, even if the elites think it's too crude.

With that task in mind, I like what I saw tonight at the convention. I think they have the makings of a coherent, cohesive movement that can stick around after Trump. They seem to have both the message and the people to pull it off.

The problem will be the symbology--right now Trump is providing all of it. Post-Trump, people will still reference him. There needs to be a generic brand that comes after Trump's brand, and Republicans are notoriously bad at branding.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

Barron going to japan is a trade for shinzo Abe deflecting the bullet. Barron will fix the japanese birth rates

Maybe the Don is sending his son over so that Abe can watch over him. In case the Dems want to make a point.

"That's a nice real boy you got there Donny. It's be a real shame if something were to happen to him."