Those words are the "liberté, egalité, fraternité, " of the Trump presidency.
Perhaps I’d say “cruauté, fragilité, stupidité”
Trump vows to protect the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro from protestors. It is 125 feet tall, and weighs 625 tons.
I still feel we’re approaching the point where Trump’s followers will stop listening to him tell them to blame the government and for them to start seeing him as the government.
Trump’s brought it on himself. He’s created a movement of people that look for somebody to blame, that are told not to trust anyone, that are told the government is full of corruption, that are told that people who promise to help you are really going to betray you, and that conspiracies are all over the place. At some point his movement will inevitably turn on him.
“I think the world is looking at us as a leader in Covid-19,” McEnany said during the White House briefing.
I don’t think that means what she thinks it means, but she’s not wrong.
The people of Ubeckibeckibeckibeckistanstan would be heartbroken.
His approval rating is in the 40s, disapproval in the 50s.
Is your estimate wishful thinking, or did I miss a staff meeting?
It’s at about 56-41 now, which is -15.
Oh, I foresee a lot of that slight bounce will go away once school starts.
The inadequate levels of testing for the pandemic, older teachers not showing up, finding out how funding will be missing to just match what the AAP recommends for reopening schools; all that and other issues will bring the incompetency and clear gross underfunding of schools at the federal level and in states where governors opened too soon into the limelight, it will hit less well-to-do parents and voters hard around August and September.
Wait until the evictions and foreclosures start. Wait until there’s 40 million homeless Americans who can’t afford enough food.
They will blame Antifa. Or Obama.
June 30 2020: 40.3 Approval vs 56.4 disapproval net -16.1. Trust me I’ve been watching his approval ratings like a vulture.
No, Trump will tell them to blame Antifa or Obama.
But the muttering will begin. People will start saying “It wasn’t Antifa that told me I didn’t need to wear a mask. It wasn’t Obama that told me to go to a protest rally. It wasn’t China that promised me this disease would disappear all on its own. I’m starting to think I been lied to.”
Trump’s been telling his followers for four years that whenever you have a problem, the first thing you need to do is find somebody you can blame for it. And that’s what they’re going to do.
Yeah, I’m thinking that if they were going to pull their heads out of their asses, they would have done so by several months ago, if not earlier. So nope. These people won’t blame Trump, and if reality starts forcing them to blame Trump they’ll just lunge in the other direction and go full conspiracy theory. Being maskless didn’t cause the surge, it was antifa and the Jews salting the water with virus grown in their martian pedo pizza parlors.
Don’t construct a worldview predicated on these people ever being anything other than worthless corrosive piles of shit; if you do you will be disappointed every time.
The Lincoln Project continues to make some extraordinary video attack ads designed to get under trump’s thin skin. This video, “Whispers”, is clearly designed for an audience of one-- I don’t see it putting the final nail in the coffin for former trump supporters who are on the fence; it may actually make them feel sorry for him. Hell, I almost felt sorry for him after I watched it. ALMOST:
Trump only recently started killing his own followers.
Nice. McGovern in ‘72 could have used this…or, actually, not, since all that was already buzzing around in Nixon’s brain, ad or no ad. (And with Nixon, it was less tethered to reality — this time, the whispers really are out there more).
Here’s an interesting article surmising why the Lincoln Project ads may be more effective than Dem-created ads:
I love most of their ads but I think this one’s a misfire – it plays into the paranoid narrative that Trump’s failings are due to others being out to get him, and since most of its insinuations are not, in fact, true, it calls into question the credibility of the whole campaign.
Why not just continue the focus on what an incredibly shitty president he is?
Why not just continue the focus on what an incredibly shitty president he is?
Well the reason is because that relies on facts, and the article on the Lincoln project suggests that the Trump targetted voters rely much more on emotion and bias rather than actual information.
Facts can be ignored, denied, raw emotions and bias happens unconsciously and are much more difficult to deal with unless you are more open minded.