Sunday, August 30, 2020

"We're (still) done for!"


And the news only gets worse:

I mean, just put that image up against this:

And of course the image of police in D.C. "clearing" Lafayette Square so Trump could hold up a Bible, that never gets old.

Lay that alongside his demand the mayor of Portland let federal officials back into the city.  Still trying to figure out why Trump didn't "fix" that the first time he was there.  An NYT reporter on Chuck Todd's show pointed out violence in Portland declined after federal troops stopped yanking people off the streets and tear-gassing Moms in t-shirts.  Pretty damned clear where the violence is coming from, aside from people determined to burn buildings (which I consider a separate kind of violence from police violence).

Besides, and honestly:  the violence being discussed so hotly by reporters (because Trump's campaign is discussing it) is in a bubble.  People in Iowa and Wisconsin don't give a shit about protests in Portland.  People in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Orange, Texas, don't give a wet snap about police dereliction in Kenosha.  Most of the country is concerned with their own economic problems and the issues surrounding schools and contagion, issues Trump has done nothing about.  Trump has done nothing for Iowa, and so far less than nothing for Louisiana.  He visited the area yesterday, he's playing golf today.  And he's comforting himself with tweets from PollWatch2020, the "unskew the polls" people of 2020, apparently:
It's like the whole world is a hall of fun-house mirrors.

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