Every day I go to the 538 Trump approval tracker.

And every day, he holds in that 43-45% zone.

Nothing changes.

Nothing matters.

He's not dipping below 41-42% while he's president. I think if he's voted out in November his approval ratings will drop as people get some time away from the cult.

I do this dance too. I don't know what I expect.

Metaphor for the utter darkness that characterizes this administration.

Some more looting.

New watchdog report finds the IRS isn't auditing a large portion of wealthy individuals who haven't filed tax returns, missing out on billions of dollars in potential revenue. https://t.co/d1EaIdomSq

— Ally Versprille (@allyversprille) June 1, 2020

President Dickhead just declared martial law

Fauci says he hasn't spoken with Trump in two weeks.

They used tear gas on peaceful protesters so Trump could have a photo op.

But her emails

We only have one big beautiful law now, the law of Trump. Congrats conservatives.

Lets not allow him to distract us from where the real tyranny is.

Masks

I also liked how it was a litany of people he was protecting us from including Antifa and then in a more hushed tone “others”, you know white suprematists.

He looks so comfortable and experienced holding a Bible.

Congrats liberals for giving Trump exactly what he wants.

Yes, lets go back to the backwards thinking that blames people that didn't vote for Trump for Trump being president.

OH, we're doing this in this thread. Makes sense I guess.

lol

Not sure what's funny about the situation

Looking at it again, I'm convinced he was looking for the word BIBLE so he could feature it in the product placement.

63 million people voted for Trump but it's some liberals fault for some really dumb reason I am guessing.

Ok this part is funny

great photo op. nailed it pic.twitter.com/X7uedAcxHb

— Brendan Karet �� (@bad_takes) June 1, 2020

Could he even talk for 30 seconds about what Antifa even is ? Considering he thinks it is a group (as in One Group) i am sceptical.

It's not an organization, which is why it's the perfect boogeyman for the right. They can define it however they like and label anyone they want part of it because it's impossible to prove otherwise. Their makeup is probably most similar to Anonymous.

I have never heard of a murder or anything attributed to them. I know white supremacists and neo-nazis have committed a number of deadly terrorist attacks in this country but were instead labeled fine people.

It sort of just seems like a catch-all for people protesting against things the right doesn't like.

De-escalation is not in his psychology so unsurprisingly he believes his only play is to push forward with escalating the rhetoric and somebody else will bend.

Will this be the first time that backfires on him? Hard to say, but in the short term it's going to look REAL bad if he and his GOP lackies start authorizing military action on US citizens.

I know :) Just wanted to point one should expect the President to know that too. So either he does and thus won't say it (can't have people thinking this is complicated) or he truly has not bothered to even check.

UPDATE: Law enforcement and the government are once again using the standard procedures I am familiar with. That empathy seems to have disappeared though.

Hey I’m still waiting for those evangelical pastors who have their gulf streams and pleaded for their flocks stimulus checks to swoop in and descalate things with their prayer and stuff...

Is Donnie’s sacred place back in the bunker? What do you think his favorite bible verse is? Can he make it through one verse?

I guess that Putin phone call he got inspired him.

I figure Trump keeps martial law in effect until he wants to hand the reigns over to Little Donny.

He needed to show he's not a wimp. He didn't like the press coverage of him being bunkered the other night so he had to show us how tough he is.

But will it, tho?

My wife and I were talking about this maybe a half hour ago. Like my coworkers, your typical Texas conservatives, will bend over backwards to justify what he's doing. "It's just the bad people." "They earned it." "They brought a kid to a riot -" wait, that was the other thread. It's all over the Twitter thread where the riot police beat on the cameraman: From the "I'm a never Trumper but they shouldn't have been there" to "When police tell you to do something, you do what you're told to" to, of course, "they had it coming". Until it's on their street, shooting at them or their family, it's easy to ignore or rationalize it.

SI

Yup.

Also, this one time a white guy told a joke, and, yeah, the N-word was in the punchline. But everyone acted all offended even though it was obvious that he was just joking.

So, you know, people are being oppressed all the time, and if you want to blame people for supporting Trump when he threatens to use the military against U.S. citizens, you should really be mad at the people who get way too offended over jokes, because that is why white people feel they have to support Trump.

Things are going so well for Trump.

Bishop Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington tells CNN on air: "I am outraged. The president did not pray when he came to St. John's nor did he acknowledge the agony of our country right now."

"We distance ourselves from the incendiary language of this president."

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 2, 2020

Maybe the people who voted for a guy who talked like a fascist just support a fascist doing fascist things.

All the evangelical and dont tread on me garbage is just a cover for what they are.

Remember like a week ago when Trump was going to court black voters?

A week? 2 days ago Laura Ingraham was saying Trump could relate to the injustice blacks have faced because he faced similar injustice with the Russia investigation.

I try not to be alarmist but watching the Chair of the Joint Chiefs wander through D.C. to monitor the security situation and then seeing videos of armed white mobs patrolling streets in Philly starts to concern me.

edit: And Blackhawks flying low over protestors in D.C.

Well, So much for Trump He is agitating now.

This is getting out of control.

Why cant the Dems put up a legitimate candidate?

Trump is threatening to usw the military to stop the protests/riots.

This is agianst the law. This isnt an isurrection or an attempt to overthrow the government.

Can anyone say dictator?

Yes, you can, and you should say it everywhere.

Don't worry, this is why we have the Second Amendment :)

If you want anyone to read that that isn't willing to subscribe to read a news article you'll have to copy/paste it.

Basically says "Not only do I want Trump to lose... but I want every single enabling Republican senator to get routed"

4 police officers in St Louis were shot last night.

Gee, Mr. Trump, what else do you have to say?

Co-signed.

And with "the base," this will work, let's not forget. He's not doing this for you, for us, it's for them.

Of course in 5 months all these GOP senators that are “concerned” and “troubled” will be licking his butthole on the campaign trail.

Trump campaign senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis says that the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, who oversees St. John's Episcopal Church, "is unfortunately a pawn of the leftist media that thrives on destruction of all that is moral and just." pic.twitter.com/PuSliXQyLC

— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) June 2, 2020

Trump's campaign doesn't seem to understand that need need to persuade people that either didn't vote in 2016 or voted for Clinton to now vote for him. Ever greater base mobilization won't work.

Shhh, don't tell them

Damn. I can't imagine this won't get a response from the WH.

Strong words from DC's Archbishop Gregory on Trump's visit to John Paul II national shrine: "I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles..."

— Daniel Burke (@BurkeCNN) June 2, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/tech/...unt/index.html

A right wing white supremacist group created a lightly-followed twitter account claiming to be affiliated as ANTIFA and started calling for more riots and violence. Twitter took it down, but not before Don Jr. pointed his followers toward it.

I'm pretty sure that the fact that Don Jr. knew exactly where and when to look to amplify white supremacists trying to incite violence is one of those things that we will all just pretend is a remarkable coincidence. No need to do any actual journalism to follow that string where it leads. Nosiree Bob. Both parties are exactly morally equivalent. That's our story, and we will die (literally) before re-examining it.

I do think Trump fucked up by the St. John fiasco. Liberal religious leaders spoke against policies of the President, but now more and more of them are speaking out against him in general. And a lot of religious people, not just on the far left are pissed at his using the Bible and the Church as a prop.

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Don Jr has amplified white supremacists online for years now. He isn't shy about his beliefs.

Yeah even my heavy red area is denouncing that act. While all of this protesting and looting is tragic and claimed lots of innocent people in its wake, some people in my neck of the woods are starting to get woke. Thats a good thing.

I don't think evangelicals who support him are going to finally stop. Their belief system was exposed when they lined up behind him and there is no turning back.

Oh yeah.

But, when he pointed toward the tweet, they were not yet outed as White supremacists. They were still pretending to be ANTIFA affiliated. So he would not have just come across that tweet randomly.

I guess the distinction between Don Jr. supporting white supremacists and Don Jr. working with white supremacists is a bit academic at this point.

And in case we are wondering how any of this is playing in base-land, my facebook feed is a bit more active, so they are worked up. But so far it is all shares of generic anti-Hillary, anti-Obama stuff. They don't seem to have decided on a message specific to this moment quite yet.

Good point. I would guess someone in that world told him about it and he amplified it. He was very cozy with white supremacists and neo-nazis during the campaign. Even went on a radio show that gets syndicated on Stormfront.

Re: Evangelicals. They aren't going to change (though, anecdotally, a lot of young Evangelicals seems a little tired of his BS). However mainline Protestants and Catholics had a split in 2016. Stunts like this pissed of the mainline Protestants and Catholics (even though who are more conservative than their leadership).

TEC Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, and the Catholic Archbishop of Washington DC have made very strong critical statements of the President's actions. Effectively calling it sacrilege.

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If absolutely nothing else, I guess I can at least eke some solace out of the fact that Trump obviously hates every waking minute of his job & life right now. He used to have his rallies and golf and he could simply point at the coasting economy and all the sycophants surrounding him would nod their heads. Now he's just got a pile of shit he has to answer for every day. Welcome to reality.

Just saw a poll indicating that only 43% of Trump voters say he's handling the protests well. Of course, I'm sure a certain percentage of those are "...cause he shoulda killed 'em by now." But still, that is his best number among any group in the pool.. Next-best? Over 65: 28% favorable, 50% unfavorable.


Overall? 20% favorable, 54% unfavorable.

If you're on this phone call, what are you thinking?

Trump cites Dallas beating to governors, leaves out details - Houston Chronicle


I mean, I get it when he does his shitter Twitter in the morning, that this would be right up his alley. But to a group of governors? I mean, I know some of them are morons but I suspect a number of those went back and were like "uh, WTF?"

This is, of course, referencing some dumbass kid who tried to attack protesters with a machete and then got knocked the fuck out by a skateboard, among other things.

Salt Lake City Man Uses Hunting Bow on Protesters, Gets Swarmed
Then again, there was also a dude in Salt Lake City who got out his bow and arrow and tried to shoot it into the crowd and got the snot beat out of him, too. And then the local SLC news interviewed him like he was the victim.

SI

So...Kanye West, who famously said that George W Bush doesn’t care about black people, is a supporter of the current President who wants to use the military to quell protests by black people that George W Bush has come out in favor of.

I’m so confused.

Kanye West doesn’t care about black people.

I've honestly wondered if Kanye originally started supporting Trump just to be different and now he's just kind of stuck in it and too stubborn to admit he was wrong.

Well to be fair he was a victim. Of his own stupidity. He's lucky he can talk to the news.

Mentioned this in the other thread but it looks like they are using private military. Military is one thing but this starts to give off SS vibes.

These guys said they’re with “the federal government.” pic.twitter.com/qOWdj23zJw

— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) June 2, 2020

Oh shoot, they probably have a huge non-bid contract with Blackw--I mean, "Academi" for this.

They might also be CPB or ICE.

In under armour and ratty tennis shoes?

Both those identify themselves in uniform. This has some weird logo.

I just know they've been called in, too.

These numbers are going to drive Trump crazy.

new Reuters/Ipsos polling:

Biden 47%
Trump 37%

approve of Trump job performance: 39%

disapprove his handling of protests: 55%

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 2, 2020

So my sister in law posted this today on Facebook.

"You may not like him but he is OUR President and he needs your prayers"

Then proceeded to post a picture of Trump and Melania with Trump looking like he was wiping away a tear from his eye and the following she got elsewhere:

Please stop for a minute to look at this picture. Can you imagine the weight he must be feeling. I know when he signed up for this role, without pay, he was willing to take on whatever, but the magnitude of what we’re experiencing has got to be paralyzing. And to some, nothing he does is ever right ...
I wonder how he must be dealing with it all. When his head finally hits the pillow at night after press conferences and meetings, Constantly trying to defend himself and protect our country... does he cry? Is he scared?
Is he even able to sleep?
Can he shut his mind off?
Or does he lay there and talk to God all night?
Whether he’s making you proud or not, I’m urging you to look at this photo and ask the Lord to soften your heart and lift him up in prayer. He needs them. He’s carrying the weight of our world on his shoulders and I don’t think anybody could/would be doing any better. Can I have a prayer and an Amen?

He just had peaceful protesters removed from in front of a church with tear gas, and then not go into the church but carrying a Bible for a photo op...yes I'm sure he talked to God about of all of that and begged for his forgiveness, yes I'm sure..

This should be the default response any time religion and Trump is mentioned.

Now did he return the bible? I saw him walking away with it. If he steals a bible, does that make him more evil?

Mi wifes family is like this, maniacs. I have snoozed a lot of them. Her sister quit facebook a few weeks ago over her moms Trump inasity, my wife isn't very active, and I made it clear to my MIL I would unfriend her if she kept posting propaganda. I think the thought of not seeing any pics of her 4 grandkids is enough to mellow her out. She was the worst kind of facebook Trump supporter also. Constantly sharing nonsense.

Ivanka brought the Bible in her purse.

Seriously. There's video.

LOL, this will never get old. I would have trolled him and said, what do prefer, the old testament, new testament, Book of Eli or the trials of the Lorax? Just to get that all equal answer on video for eternity.

They give a certain number of free articles each month. Figured at the start of June like this folks might have free articles left. That's howbi was able to read it. Sorry.

But, yeah, Foz sums it up nicely.

Sadly I can see a point where especially if they vote Trump in 2020, I'm going to have to just stop talking/visiting about half my family.

Of course she did. Did Trump even go into the church to view the damage, talk to the clergy or congregation?

No, they gassed out the clergy that was there.

There's some good news tonight. Steve King is getting bushwhacked in the GOP primary.

Suck it, racist.

It'd be nice to see King go down. Surprising as well. IIRC Feenstra's internal polling had him closing, but down.

I'm not sure who Scholten has a better chance against (he's outraised both) but just getting King out of Congress is a victory.

Don't take this the wrong way, but you post a lot of interesting stuff but rarely a link to a source. You have one for this?

edit- I googled it and see what you mean, just more of an overall observation.

They don't care. Evangelicals who support him are the most morally bankrupt people in this country. Bunch of raving hypocrites who use religion as a shield to hate on others. No arguing with those frauds.

It seems like the party got behind one of the candidate in hopes of removing him. Guessing King is too toxic for Fox News but have to imagine he'll get a gig at OANN, Breitbart, or some place.

Trudeau had a great answer. It just took a pause of 20+ seconds before he answered.


https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...p-news-videos/

Feenstra's a hard core Trumper, so it's not like he represents a huge change, but King is out and that's good news.

I hear you. It's tough because a lot of stuff is behind paywalls and people don't like links to those sites.

makes sense

Is he a racist? Take a look at the ADL definition of racism and let me know what you think.

How about we have a discussion. List the top 4 or 5 things you think he's done that make him a racist. What part of the ADL's definition do they fall under? How do they compare to comments from actual racists (KKK, BLM, etc,)

I think he falls just short of racist, but definitely has said some dumb things. Here's hoping he can get some help working on his communication skills. Maybe Obama could take the lead on that.

Wait, BLM is racist? Ok, gotta hear this one...how so?

They aren't.

Ok, but that was a serious question. If you want to discuss it in private so there isn't any outside noise, please PM me. I am genuinely curious about that viewpoint, as I've heard it before but haven't been able to ask for or find any reason for it.

For those who think they are racist, the argument would be that they single out the lives of one race over all others. Thus the counter mantra being "All Lives Matter". It's a dumb argument that looks ridiculously silly when you use the same logic on any other type of cause that focuses on a specific issue.

Yeah, listened to that from about 3 years ago and thought there was something else besides some people thinking that since other groups are not directly the focus that it must be racist. In ways, it feels like they're screaming out for attention instead of hearing that their friends need attention.

Thanks.

You see, what you're doing is seeing an invisible "only" in front of "Black Lives Matter." The "only" is not there, and is not part of the movement. What is a part of the movement is the silent "too". It is not saying that their lives are more important at all. It is saying there lives should be equally important.

Do people who change #BlackLivesMatter to #AllLivesMatter run thru a cancer fundraiser going "THERE ARE OTHER DISEASES TOO"

— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) November 27, 2014

WTF is the impulse behind changing #BlackLivesMatter to #AllLivesMatter. Do you crash strangers' funerals shouting I TOO HAVE FELT LOSS

— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) November 27, 2014