President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Put your coffee cup down before you read this.

You Have Been Warned.

 

In fact, I'll double-match any donations under $50 until 5pm Eastern today.

 

Good to see Beau again. Hope enough share his sentiments.

 

Aforementioned Qanon FB friend has been posting a long list of all the “good” things Trump has done. And good for him.

I said “I wonder if Trump would be doing better campaigning on this stuff rather than... let’s see... ‘Joe Biden’s sunglasses look stupid.’”

If Trump had shut the fuck up and disappeared on or about Sept. 1 he’d be a favorite to win.

 

Apropos of nothing in particular other than Beau's name, Beau's Wife is a decent Twitter follow.

 

All but one drive-through voting site in Harris County closed amid Texas legal battle

 

I think this goes back to US Judge Hanen's comment in his ruling yesterday that if he'd had his druthers, he would have not allowed drive-thru voting in tents, because tents are not "buildings." The one location remaining is in the Toyota Center parking garage, which I suppose is technically a building and thus presumably on firmer legal ground given the comment.

 

"It's really important that we make it as difficult as possible for people to vote," is among the strangest of Party Platform Planks.

 

These are the same people who decided ignoring a pandemic was a winning political strategy

 

Even Santorum was looking befuddled last night at the strategy, saying, “yeah, it doesn’t seem like a winning message,” or something to that effect.