***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[IATT]

 

[frink85]

Considering he has lung cancer, and I'm assuming he's going through chemo, Rush should probably take the coronavirus seriously.

nah.

 

[rolaholic]

That really explains how things have gotten where they are, people are so loud and proud with their ignorance

People say stupid **** with their chest without thinking twice

Objectively though, that'd be a fire fit for a Bern rally

 

[ajiiiplatinum]

When we hear about a pandemic of potential pandemic in America, it feels scarier than it actually is because the bourgeoisie media gives each death and potential death exponentially more attention than the deaths and potential deaths caused by routine, slow, structural violence.

People in the global south are supposed to die of mosquito borne illness, Yemenis are supposed to die of starvation, homeless people on the streets of the US are supposed to die of exposure, Medicaid recipients are supposed to die from cancer that wasn’t detected in time.

Meanwhile, place crashes, pandemics and school shootings, which are unpredictable and are randomly distributed or skew toward the more affluent, are treated as a real crisis by the bourgeoisie press.

Coronavirus is scary as can be and perhaps the terror that middle and upper middle class Americans feel will cause them to have some understanding of how risky life is for poor people all the time.

This reminds me of strongest rhetorical reframings of hegemonic, capitalist “common sense” that I’ve ever seen,

MSNBC's Harris-Perry Snaps: "I Am Sick Of The Idea That Being Wealthy Is Risky"

âWhat is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe...

www77.realclearpolitics.com

funny how i was just having a similar talk with my son. He said he was a little scared today because there was a shooting again in US and more talk of coronavirus here in CA.
I told him “ you know what kills more people than a shooter and coronavirus? Poverty and lack of healthcare.”

son gave me the

i also told him we should fear texting drivers more than shooters and the coronavirus...dont tell Trump though. He may use it as an excuse to cut CDC funding.

 

[tay1]

Conservies don’t know who Barry Sanders is?

 

[rolaholic]

What the hell?

A potential nationwide pandemic under the current anti-science clown admin is a nightmarish prospect man...

2020 has really been on one 2 months in

 

[kdawg]

 

[rolaholic]

Well damn

No wonder Liz has been going so hard the last week...

 

[cedric ceballos]

He needs to stick to music before Crazy Bernie takes all his money away and gives it to poor people.

 

[IATT]

 

[junglejim]

I've gotten more information about the Coronavirus from my work than the US government. This **** is nuts. We have signs posted everywhere about what to do if you traveled to infected areas, frequent hand washing/sanitation, Q&As about travel and what to do if you came back from an infected area, how the virus spreads, what to do if you get it, how to touch objects when traveling, etc.

Meanwhile all I've gotten from the US government is it is the flu and it has been politicized.

 

[junglejim]

 

[frenchbreadbuilds]

Trump campaign’s plan to woo black voters: Retail stores

The centers will distribute pamphlets and sell merchandise, including hats and sweatshirts embroidered with the word “woke.”

www.politico.com

Trump campaign’s plan to woo black voters: Retail stores

President Donald Trump’s outreach to African American voters is coming to a storefront near you.
As part of an ongoing effort to increase Trump’s share of the black vote this fall, the president’s reelection campaign unveiled plans on Wednesday to open a series of “community centers” in empty retail spaces across the U.S. where paid staffers and volunteers will spend the next several months courting black voters with literature, celebrity meet-and-greets and “woke”-branded attire.

The sleek new storefronts — a design rendering shared with POLITICO showed a bright interior outfitted with midcentury furniture and state-of-the-art wall graphics — will begin opening in March and are expected to span seven battleground states: Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin.


The goal is not necessarily to win the African American vote in 2020 — an implausible outcome — but to simply raise Trump’s share a few percentage points from the 8 percent he received in 2016. If Trump can take his African American vote share from single digits to the low teens, it could give him a boost in key states that are likely to decide the outcome of the election.
Each center will double as a field office and a home base for the campaign’s “Black Voices for Trump” coalition, which has already started advertising with African American-operated radio stations and newspapers. Trump traveled to Atlanta last November to kick off the coalition alongside his campaign’s most high-profile black surrogates, some of whom will be dispatched to these new spaces for meet-and-greets and outreach events.
“These are, kind of, unprecedented structural layout designs to get us into the community so you can … have a center spot where the black community can come in and learn about what the president has done and help push forward his agenda,” said a senior Trump campaign official.
The centers will distribute pamphlets and sell merchandise, including hats and sweatshirts embroidered with the word “woke.” Asked to define “woke culture” as it relates to the president’s bid for reelection, a second campaign official — who is African American — said reporters should “ask a black person.”
“This concept by itself is a woke concept in the fact that for decades you have had a community that has been controlled by the Democratic Party," said Katrina Pierson, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. "Republicans haven't even gone into deliver their message. Now, we have a Republican who is actually going to the community to deliver the message and ask for the vote."
Trump’s advisers contend that the current political landscape is ripe for Republican gains this cycle — including at the presidential level. So far, the campaign has focused its efforts in urban areas like Miami, Cleveland, Detroit and Charlotte.
“There’s been no activity in these markets for Republicans for a very long time and this is really more than a toe in the water. It’s a whole foot in the water,’ said a third senior campaign official.

The president’s reelection campaign unveiled plans to open a series of “community centers” in retail spaces across the U.S. | Gabby Orr/POLITICO
Much of the Trump campaign’s outreach to black voters has come on the heels of polls that show rising dissatisfaction among black voters with the current candidates running for president. A survey released this week by the political action committee BlackPAC, a left-leaning political group, found that more than one in three black voters wished “someone else” had made a play for the White House, and 12 percent said they plan to vote for Trump. Two additional polls by Emerson and Rasmussen showed the president earning 30 percent support among black voters earlier this year, though both outlets have faced questions about their methods.



"At minimum, we're double from where we were in 2016," said campaign manager Brad Parscale at a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, insisting that the president’s approval among African Americans goes up “40 to 50 points” when poll tested “directly” instead of “through a media filter.
Democrats have expressed immense skepticism that Trump can make serious inroads with black voters, who, they insist, will not forget that about the president’s track record of racially-charged remarks — such as his contention that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess” or that good people existed on “both sides” of the white nationalist march that left one person dead in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017.
At the White House, senior adviser Jared Kushner has served as the architect of the Trump campaign’s strategy to woo African American voters. Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, was a driving force behind the administration’s push to pass bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation last year and has been urging Trump to make a serious play for black voters in 2020. Kushner and his allies argue that economic conditions — most notably, the historically low black unemployment rate — have the potential to shepherd new voters into the GOP.
As recently as last week, Kushner was behind a flurry presidential pardons and commutations issued that included Tynice Nichole Hall, an African American woman who served 14 years in prison on non-violent drug charges. The Trump campaign also ran a 30-second spot during this year’s Super Bowl featuring Alice Marie Johnson, another non-violent drug offender freed by the president.
“Thanks to President Trump, people like Alice are getting a second chance,” read part of a pamphlet that the campaign plans to distribute at its “black voices” community centers.

 

[frenchbreadbuilds]

Trump campaign’s plan to woo black voters: Retail stores

The centers will distribute pamphlets and sell merchandise, including hats and sweatshirts embroidered with the word “woke.”

www.politico.com

Trump campaign’s plan to woo black voters: Retail stores

The goal is not necessarily to win the African American vote in 2020 — an implausible outcome — but to simply raise Trump’s share a few percentage points from the 8 percent he received in 2016.

just in case you needed a reminder on where we stand on the list of priorities

 

[rolaholic]

Much winning...

 

[rolaholic]

Why does this look like a still from an upcoming Jordan Peele project?

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Why does this look like a still from an upcoming Jordan Peele project?

with a dark remix of The Devil Is A Lie in the background of the trailer

The Whites’ Høuse

 

[aepps20]

Much winning...

I see more investment opportunities B.

 

[mr s j king]

If only we could get Trump dropped off in Wuhan

 

[RIP sleazyy]

RICH ***** TALKIN BIG ****

 

[Present]

The centers will distribute pamphlets and sell merchandise, including hats and sweatshirts embroidered with the word “woke.” Asked to define “woke culture” as it relates to the president’s bid for reelection, a second campaign official — who is African American — said reporters should “ask a black person.”

 

[aepps20]

Why does this look like a still from an upcoming Jordan Peele project?

Silk and Diamond looking HANDSOME. Our PRESIDENT ELECT is collecting nature energy like the Alt Right Toad Sage taught him. He is about to go into Sage Mode.

 

[whywesteppin]

global pandemic, market crash, war in Syria,TB12 a free agent

the world in disarray

all in an election year



crooked Hillary will stop at nothing to hurt president Trump

 

[mr s j king]

Why does this look like a still from an upcoming Jordan Peele project?

Best believe a few of those people are praying for the bum not to be re-elected

 

[Christian Pulisic]