Y’all we are going to beat this M-fer.
We are going to destroy him and the awful people who have enabled him. We can do this. We will do this.
Why? Because Trump is as stupid as he is evil. He has survived because of luck, cheating, intimidation, and more luck.
But that luck is running out and we are going to work our asses off to make sure that it continues to.
A smart person would shift strategies. A smart person would try to broaden his base. A smart person wouldn’t keep bringing up dumb stuff like that ramp and his water.
But trump isn’t smart. He made it to where he is by being born to the right family and by being a bully and by having luck.
But time’s up, asshole. We are going to destroy you.
Time’s up, asshole. We are going to the polls.
Time’s up, asshole. We are taking the the streets.
Time’s up, asshole. We are taking our country back this November.
And you are too stupid and pathetic to stop us.
Biden is beating Trump
More Americans disapprove of Trump now than at any other time in his presidency
In recent days, President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has risen higher than at any other point during his presidency, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
Less than five months before the election, more than half of Americans — 58 percent — disapprove of the president’s job while in office, according to the poll. That includes 49 percent of Americans overall who strongly disapprove of Trump’s job performance
Trump’s reelection polling is looking really bad
Election Day is still months away, but the current polling is painting a very bleak picture of President Donald Trump’s odds of reelection.
The Times poll is particularly bleak for Trump, and even more worrisome for him, its underlying methodology, which involves “weighting” the sample to party registration and not just demographic factors, is a relatively Trump-friendly approach. And while some of Trump’s other polls are better, none of them are exactly good.
Anti-Trump Republicans are now getting out the vote for Joe Biden
REPUBLICANS FOR BIDEN: A growing faction of anti-President Trump Republicans is now calling for conservative voters to split the ticket and vote for his Democratic opponent Joe Biden — as the president's drop in the polls starts to drag down GOP Senate candidates.
They say it's no longer enough to eschew Trump by not voting for him, or writing in another candidate, as some Republican opponents said they did in 2016 — and they're ramping up their get-out-the-vote efforts for Biden in key battleground states.
- “If you don't vote for Trump that's a victory but if you're actively supporting Biden, that's a huge victory. That's a-two vote difference,” John Weaver, a Republican strategist who is on the Lincoln Project super PAC's leadership team, told us.
- 🚨: “The future of the Republican Party depends on cutting this cancer out now and not allowing the party to continue on the current trajectory it's on,” Matt Borges, a former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party and founder of Right Side PAC, told Power Up.
and it isn’t just trump losing this for himself. Joe and his people are doing just what they need to do:
What If I Told You Joe Biden Is Actually Running a Great Campaign?
For all the derision that has surrounded Biden’s generally low profile, it is the broadly correct move. Trump is and always has been deeply unpopular. He managed to overcome this handicap in 2016 because Hillary Clinton was also deeply unpopular, though somewhat less so, and turning the election into a choice allowed anti-Clinton sentiment to overpower anti-Trump sentiment. The fact that Biden has attracted less attention than Trump is not (as many Democrats have fretted) a failure. It is a strategic choice, and a broadly correct one.
Second, Biden’s isn’t just hiding out. He is doing some things. He has delivered speeches, given interviews, and met with protesters. These forums have tended to display his more attractive qualities, especially his empathy.
And third, Biden has managed to communicate a coherent campaign theme. This is often a challenge for Democrats, who usually want to change a whole bunch of policies (health care! environment! progressive taxation!) that resist a simple unifying slogan. But Biden has been able to carry forward the message he used to start his campaign, which he built around Trump’s shocking embrace of racist supporters at Charlottesville, into a promise of healing racist divisions.
The old-school campaign tactic that's boosting Biden
President Donald Trump's first rally since the pandemic began was a total dud. Despite predictions of an overflow crowd, there were many empty seats in the Tulsa, Oklahoma arena, and the Trump campaign is now rethinking plans for a series of rallies in other states. The low turnout is a stark reminder of the effects of Covid-19 on the presidential race.
Since March, the Biden and Trump campaigns have largely been conducted virtually. These last several months recall a time in American history when candidates actively chose to stay at home. In those long-ago "front porch" campaigns, which ran on and off from 1880 to 1920, the approach both accentuated candidates' likability through a folksy veneer and limited their liabilities by controlling the environment in which they appeared. More importantly for today's contest, history shows that those candidates who stayed at home usually won.
Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden’s rising evangelical support
Biden, a lifelong Roman Catholic, has performed better in recent polling among white evangelicals — and other religious groups — than Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton did in 2016 and is widely perceived as more religious than the current White House occupant. A Pew Research study conducted earlier this year showed that a majority of U.S. adults (63 percent) think Trump is “not at all” or “not too religious,” versus 55 percent who said they believed Biden is somewhat or very religious.
Biden’s $80.8 Million Outpaced Trump’s Fund-Raising in May
It was a reversal of fortunes for the former vice president and a testament to the advantages of his first full month of fund-raising in concert with the Democratic National Committee.
Trump’s dumbness is helping us win the Senate too
It’s almost as if Trump is determined to destroy the Republican Party
He is leading his party down a sewer of unabashed racism and willful ignorance, and all who follow him — and I mean all — deserve to feel the mighty wrath of voters in November.
I’m talking to you, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. And you, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado. And you, Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Martha McSally of Arizona, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Steve Daines of Montana, Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and John Cornyn of Texas. And while those of you in deep-red states whose reelection ordinarily would be seen as a mere formality may not see the giant millstones you’ve hung around your necks as a real risk, think again. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina and even Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, you should look at the numbers and realize you are putting your Senate seats — and the slim GOP majority — in dire jeopardy.
All the other Republicans who fail to speak up while Trump runs the most nakedly racist presidential campaign since George Wallace in 1968 shouldn’t kid themselves. Their silence amounts to agreement. Perhaps there’s enough white bitterness out there to carry the Republican Party to another narrow win. But that’s not what the polls say.
Trump’s antics are self-defeating. He’ll put on a racist show for a shrinking audience, but he won’t wear the masks that could allow the economic reopening he desperately wants. He may be able to avoid reality, but the Republican governors — including Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida — scrambling desperately to contain new outbreaks cannot.
It’s almost as though Trump is determined to destroy the Republican Party. Let’s give him his wish.
Democrats see clear path to take back the Senate: 'Something real is shaping up around the country'
Senate Democrats are growing increasingly bullish about their chances to retake the majority in the chamber in November as national polls show President Donald Trump floundering in key battleground states and Republicans publicly and privately urge the President to retool his campaign message or risk a blowout down ballot in November.
In the race for Senate control, Democrats see a nationalized referendum on a President who has failed to contain the coronavirus and resulting economic collapse. A moment of racial reckoning over policing and inequality has mobilized their base. And, in just a little over three months, Democrats have turned their focus from defending key battlegrounds in Alabama, Michigan and New Hampshire to an expanded map that not only includes top targets like Colorado and Arizona, but states like Iowa, Maine and Montana.
Trump’s unhinged crusade to destroy Obamacare boomerangs back on GOP
In the annals of stupid political moves, what the Trump administration and Republicans are doing right now — urging the Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care Act, which would take health coverage away from 23 million people and scrap protections for preexisting conditions, in the midst of a pandemic — must rank extraordinarily high.
, Republicans will not only have profoundly wounded their credibility, they will also have inadvertently helped Biden make the case for the reform he’ll propose.
The new brief that the Trump administration filed with the court on Thursday night left zero doubt that Trump wants the entire ACA to be torn out, root and branch — including its protections for preexisting conditions.
First let’s note that this brief deals a tremendous blow to the arguments that Trump and Senate Republicans are making in their campaigns.
Trump has undercut his own campaign arguments, too. He regularly vows to protect preexisting conditions, yet he has not offered any plan to do so, and now his brief lays his true intentions bare.
Indeed, Trump has provided Democrats with potent ammunition against him. The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA is out with new ads blasting Trump for trying to gut these protections for millions. One of the ads explicitly mentions his efforts before the Supreme Court.
Trump’s Sagging Popularity Drags Down Republican Senate Candidates
President Trump’s erratic performance in office and his deteriorating standing in the polls is posing a grave threat to his party’s Senate majority, imperiling incumbents in crucial swing states and undermining Republican prospects in one of the few states they had hoped to gain a seat, according to a new poll of registered voters by The New York Times and Siena College.
2 Republicans opposed by Trump win in Kentucky, N. Carolina
Voters rebuffed President Donald Trump and nominated two Republicans he opposed to House seats from North Carolina and Kentucky on Tuesday.
their victories were an embarrassment to a president whose own reelection campaign has teetered recently.
Plus… the rest of the party isn’t that smart either (thanks for the link MCUBernieFan):
Meanwhile, our side is amazing...
Democrats Are Amazing
House passes Democrat-led bill for sweeping police reform in wake of George Floyd's death
The House passed a sweeping police reform bill on Thursday largely along party lines to address systemic racism and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
The legislation would also require police departments to send data on the use of force to the federal government and create a grant program that would allow state attorneys general to create an independent process to investigate misconduct or excessive use of force. The bill would also make it easier for people to recover damages when police departments violate their civil rights and, for the first time, make lynching a federal hate crime
Black and gay candidates tap the energy of racial justice protests and push for equality in bid for electoral breakthroughs
Young black and gay candidates were heading for electoral breakthroughs this week, turning the public clamor for racial justice and equality into likely primary upsets in New York, Kentucky and Virginia.
Those results have revealed a resurgent left, which has pivoted from defeat in the Democratic presidential primary to a focus on down-ballot races. In safe blue seats, and in places where the party has tended to nominate moderates, a coalition of white liberals and nonwhite voters is transferring energy from the past month’s protest movements into challenges of the party’s establishment.
Progressive candidates of color are leading the Democratic Party
Many of Tuesday night’s Democratic primaries have not been called because of the large number of mail ballots that have not yet been counted. We nevertheless can discern a clear trend: Progressive candidates of color are in.
How identity politics changed the Democratic Party — for the better.
the past month of sustained, mass activism against police brutality offers evidence for the defense — that sorting around identity can be inclusive, that polarization can be productive.
The historically multiethnic nature of the Black Lives Matter protests, and the rapid change in polling around racial issues, is partly the result of decades of polarization that have put African Americans in coalition with Hispanics, Asians, and white liberals. The Democratic Party is increasingly a coalition of people who experience racism directly or base part of their identity on opposing it ideologically. This is something new in American politics, and it carries within it real reason for hope.
“If we were ever to have a national reckoning with our legacy of racial violence, it would require immense political power on the side of the people who wanted the reckoning,” says University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason, who studies polarization. “We’ve never had a political party that was almost entirely in agreement that systemic racism exists, particularly among the white partisans. But that’s changing very quickly.”
Other Good News
‘Black Lives Matter’ Will Be Painted on Street Outside Trump Tower
Mayor Bill de Blasio has ignited a new feud with President Trump by ordering the words “Black Lives Matter” to be painted in large yellow letters on the street outside of Trump Tower
Wall Street spent heavily to take down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It was a bad investment.
Wall Street moguls succeed by making winning bets. But a who’s who of finance heavyweights saw their records dented Tuesday night as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dominated the in-person voting over their preferred candidate in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th congressional district.
New York City reports no protest-related upticks in Covid-19
New York City has not reported an uptick in Covid-19 cases many feared would come from weeks of mass protests against police brutality.
The city’s daily Covid-19 indicators — cases, hospitalizations and deaths — in June have steadily declined to levels last seen in early March, when the city had not yet shut down in anticipation of the first wave that killed more than 22,000 people
Protests push more companies to bolster voting efforts
Hundreds of companies are vowing to give workers paid time off to vote on Election Day — and some are going a step further, using their technology and resources to help register voters or direct them to polling locations.
The protests sweeping the nation around racial inequality have elevated the conversation in America about suppression of black voters. Many corporations are tying their efforts around race to election activism.
Protest Arrests Led To Surge Of Bail Fund Donations: Impact Could Be Long Lasting
The Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bails low-income people out of jail or immigration detention, used to run on a shoestring budget.
"We were always in need of more money," says board member Mirella Ceja-Orozco, " constantly writing grant proposals ... to kind of figure out how we could obtain money to last us for the next few months."
In 2018, the last year it filed its taxes, the group had about $150,000. It had to turn down a lot of requests for assistance because of a lack of funds.
But in the past few weeks, the group received $31 million from more than 900,000 individual donations.
"It's just completely changed our world," says Ceja-Orozco.
Facebook and Twitter stocks dive as Unilever halts advertising
Shares of both Facebook and Twitter were down more than 7% in mid-day trading Friday after Unilever said it would pull its advertising from the social media companies for the rest of the year.
"Given our Responsibility Framework and the polarized atmosphere in the U.S., we have decided that starting now through at least the end of the year, we will not run brand advertising in social media newsfeed platforms Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the U.S.," the company said in a statement. "Continuing to advertise on these platforms at this time would not add value to people and society. We will be monitoring ongoing and will revisit our current position if necessary."
The massive household goods company's decision was driven by concerns over hate speech and divisive content on the platforms, it said.
Facebook Tightens Controls on Speech as Ad Boycott Grows
Under mounting pressure from advertisers, Facebook Inc. said it would start labeling political speech that violated its rules and take other measures to prevent voter suppression and protect minorities from abuse.
The new policies were announced Friday shortly after The Wall Street Journal reported that consumer-goods giant Unilever PLC is halting U.S. advertising on Facebook and Twitter Inc. for at least the remainder of the year, citing hate speech and divisive content on the platforms.
This is good news because it shows how easily each of us can make a difference just by speaking our minds, putting signs on our lawns, and changing our profile picture:
Don’t Be Afraid to Virtue Signal — It Can Be a Powerful Tool to Change People’s Minds
Some of these displays seem authentic; others ring hollow. Consider companies that tweet out “Black Lives Matter,” but have 100% white corporate leadership, Instagram influencers who treat protests like “Coachella pt 17,” or the NFL Commissioner—who released a statement condemning racism, but did not name Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback banned by the league for peacefully protesting that same issue. These token gestures smack of hypocrisy and cynicism in a moment that requires moral clarity.
In the context of anti-racism, shallow support like this is called “optical allyship;” more broadly, it is one flavor of “virtue signaling.
Two key insights about social behavior are relevant here. First, people conform to others’ actions and opinions; they often say what others say and do as others do. Second, when it comes to many issues, most people don’t know what most people think—meaning that conformity involves a surprising amount of guesswork.
This means social information can be a powerful force for social change, because people look to each other when deciding how to express themselves.
Conformity can seem spineless, but in fact it reflects an ancient yearning to be part of something greater than ourselves—a smart yearning, given the many social advantages of coordinating and cooperating with others. It goes deeper than words, sometimes changing what we see, what we value, and how we behave, even privately. And no matter what we think of this, we are and will always be a herd species, more prone to move together than alone. Social norms will continue to change, and we will change with them.
This clarifies why signaling is so important.
On the Lighter Side
Some Ideas for Action:
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Non-financial ways to help
Volunteer with the Democratic party Explore their centralized hub for grassroots volunteer opportunities to take action on your own time.
Volunteer with the Biden campaign You can get training to text for Joe, make phone calls for Joe, host an event, or attend an event.
Get involved with Postcards to voters. Postcards to Voters are friendly, handwritten reminders from volunteers to targeted voters giving Democrats a winning edge in close, key races coast to coast.
Register voters in key battleground states. Vote Forward has active campaigns going in 8 key states to encourage under-represented (potential) voters to register. In 6 of them, the packet you send to each potential voter will include the actual voter registration forms and instructions with pre-paid postage for that state. The folks at Vote Forward have collected data on this technique and determined that it does, indeed, appear to increase voter registration.
Text voters in key Senate races Payback Project has a comprehensive, four-pronged approach to make sure Republicans Senators are held accountable for their actions, their votes, and their enabling of Donald Trump.
Organize your community online The Democratic National Committee’s digital organizing team put together a list of ways you can keep organizing in your community online.
Do whatever we can to promote Biden in tweets and posts and emails and wherever. The same goes for other D candidates. Help them get positive recognition!
Also, contact your reps and senators on important issues
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I am so lucky and so proud to be in this with all of you ❤️ ✊ ❤️