Ricofoley

I dunno if this will surprise anyone at this point, but here's a Politico report that Trump political appointees have been fucking with the CDC's weekly COVID reports https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809

Tropical Depression 19 / possible future Tropical Storm Sally

I hadn't heard about that bit in the Redskins Washington one about trying to start #1932 as a hashtag without realizing that you can't do numbers as hashtags. Incredible.

You quite simply hate to see it

Some people within the Trump administration are forecasting the campaign actually running low on money before election day, because Brad Parscale had already spent a shitload of what they'd raised before he got replaced https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html

This seems like too many degrees

Apparently what's described in the story is basically exactly what sent Dinesh D'Souza to prison.

I mean, I'd say several people in that room are every bit as full of shit as Trump is. Think about Jerry Fawell Jr.

It looks like the Obama firing thing was supposed to be skit at the 2012 RNC, and it was cancelled after Alex Pareene correctly guessed what it was ahead of time

Imagine getting paid money to write shit like this

Pictured: The general condition of America circa 2020

I mean, a lot of them probably have kids who as far as they're concerned are just out for a fun boat ride

Not the beautiful boaters! (I hope everyone is safe)

Yeah, I believe there's one version of the conspiracy where Bill Gates developed the virus in a lab so he could have a pretext for giving everyone the microchip tracker vaccine

I don't know if there's anything that Trump could possibly do or say at this point that would actually erode his approval ratings in a meaningful way, but the White House seems to think that there's at least a chance that this is actually it.

Allegedly because of "illegitimate attempts to subject Americans to its jurisdiction." Some real "are we the baddies" shit https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54003527

Thank God. It sounds like Morse is probably not going to beat Neal, but I knew going in that was going to be way more of a longshot.

Okay, this fleshes it out a little bit more. They're gonna try and drum up some sort of conspiracy charges for the people who yelled at Rand Paul

The way things have been going lately, people are going to spend the next week or so saying, "LOL this senile idiot is imagining things again" and then a week from now Chad Wolf's on TV announcing, like, terrorism charges or something against a dozen protesters who happened to be wearing black at a Portland rally.

I watched it on a plane at the end of a long trip, so maybe I hallucinated this, but I believe they show a Frank Luntz focus group in Vice at one point. He's testing out of one of the Bush-era euphemistic phrases. I think it might have been "enhanced interrogation" in place of torture.

Trump has pretty much made explicit at this point that anything that happens in a "Democrat city" or a "Democrat state" where he doesn't have majority support is not actually his responsibility. You can also see this in his comments on the California wildfires where he just rambles about how they should've raked the forest or whatever and threatens to withhold any federal aid from them in the future. But he also makes clear that the rioters in Democratic cities are planning on invading the beautiful suburbs, so that gives the pro-Trump militias tacit approval to basically invade downtown areas like we saw last night because it's sort of a preemptive strike.

Thinkin about this for no reason

I'm waiting for more information on the shooting. Seeing mixed things on Twitter. At any rate, you can find any number of videos of the truckers driving through cars macing people and firing paintballs at people.

Hoo boy. This seems like a powder keg.