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Thank you Norris Gunby Jr.

Perhaps Biden’s best video yet. Is it the most effective?

• Infidel753 listens to Joe Biden’s Gettysburg speech, including happy talk about working with Republicans, and finds evidence that he is smarter than we might think. Maybe smarter than the rest of us.
   
• Sarah Cooper thinks about Trump losing the election but refusing to go away, and comes up with a way to make him happy, preserve democracy, and keep us safe.
   
• He definitely was not gonna do it. Never, never. No fire related aid to California. Buncha damn hippies.
   
  tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors went to vote, came back and found that, 2½ weeks before election day, desperation took its toll. My president suddenly changed his mind. California has been declared a disaster area, with aid on the way.
   
  Not exactly selling out, since it always was the right thing to do. So, maybe… selling in?
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger looks through all the prognostications about this year’s election and presents a quick, compelling case on which prediction will turn out to be most accurate.
   
• Jonathan Bernstein invites us to marvel at the ever more bizarre campaign antics of Donald Trump.
   
• Scotties Toy Box defines mutual loyalty between Trump and Trump followers.
   
• Max’s Dad watches the dueling town halls that voters got when Trump refused an actual debate and sees a tale of two uncles.
   
• Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit also watched the Trump half of the debate substitute and posts a fair objection to how Trump was treated. Shame on you, Savannah Guthrie!
   
• Okay, so we didn’t get a Trump/Biden debate, since my president backed out. In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson does pretty well contrasting the dueling town halls we got instead. I caught a bit of Trump action but I couldn’t bear to watch more than a little of it. It made me feel a little sorry for Trump. I didn’t think that was possible.
   
  He was churlish. He looked haggard. He kept trying to catch his breath. Maybe it was the aggressive questioning from Savannah Guthrie, although I missed most of that. Maybe he was just sick or under the influence of Remdesivir or hydroxychloroquine or bleach or snake oil or something.
   
  To me he appeared anxious, desperate. He was a man sitting on a pin with no place to put his feet.
   
  I saw a candidate gazing into an electoral abyss, hoping somehow to bluster his way back to solid ground, but unable to see that ground anywhere. Perhaps part of it was some odd momentary confluence of positioning and light. Later, I found myself thinking about those glistening rivulets of orange perspiration. It occurred to me that, after evening became night, he might become the only White House occupant ever to sweat while taking a presidential shower.
   
  It is an image I’ll spend the rest of the weekend not thinking about.

Continue reading “Smart Joe, Votes, Fire, Town Halls, COVID, Insider Trading, Barrett Care”

 

I keep reading Fake News stories that my campaign is running low on money. Not true, & if it were so, I would put up money myself. The fact is that we have much more money than we had 4 years ago, where we spent much less money than Crooked Hillary, and still easily won, 306-223!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2020

Sarcasm more hopeful than confident:

Much depends on who are allowed to vote and who are denied or simply give up, whether their votes are counted or discounted, and whether their choice in this American election is allowed to stand or is overturned by gerrymandered legislatures and jerry-rigged courts.

 
Noteworthy: Gratitude to those who carried out each dangerous operation [at 39 seconds]

Trump’s al-Baghdadi Speech & Obama’s Bin Laden Speech contrasted by Jimmy Kimmel Live

Reactions on left screen from @momwino98 on TikTok.com

According to the New York Times, my president changed his mind about his planned dramatic release from Walter Reed Hospital.

He had intended to walk to his limousine, turn to the cameras, then rip open his shirt to show the top of his Superman pajamas.

At the last minute, he abandoned the super-plan.

• In MadMikesAmerica, Glenn Geist takes a look at the Call-To-Arms ad campaign of the Second Amendment Foundation and sees some scary stuff.
   
• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged studies the FBI announcement, after they break up the plot to kidnap, try, then execute the Governor of Michigan, and points out that the iceberg! beneath this tip floats atop some blatant presidential rhetoric.
   
• At The Onion, White nationalists are under pressure. They have been faithfully plotting violence against everyone Trump wants attacked, but now complain they are spread way too thin, overwhelmed by the shear number of targets. On the other hand, they don’t want to be denounced by the president as a bunch of slackers. Like Barr and Wray.
   
• Infidel753 explores the sociopathic mimicry of my president by other infected Republicans, following the example of our fearless leader. Mentioned is one dark suggestion that there must be a secret Democratic plot somewhere, because only national Republicans are catching COVID. Infidel points out that, sadly, these muddled, infected individuals will take a whole lot of innocents down with them.
   
• Sarah Cooper hears my president raving about his miracle (as yet undocumented) recovery and his promise to provide the same treatment to everyone. She devotes a line or two to one underreported, essential corollary.
   
• Any time medical authorities want the latest and most reliable research, they go to one source. Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger reads through the The New England Journal of Medicine as they review the US election for President.
   
• The policy editor of NBC News says holding a second debate, the townhall, with just Joe Biden is unfair considering the uncertainty about my president’s health. Cato’s Julian Sanchez devotes 20 words to committing vivisection on that argument.
   
• News Corpse bravely listens in, as my president is interviewed this week by Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, and counts up a few of the most demented moments. Everyone’s favorite must be his demand that Attorney General Bill Barr put Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden on trial and in prison. Because that’s how democracies work.
   
  One alarming thought. If anything happens to Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump will become President.

Continue reading “Gun Play, Kidnap, White Nationalists, Trump Treatment, Spreading the Joy”

This is where I should admit that I am a daily user of a drug I take to boost memory and alertness. Usually I take it with a little hazelnut creamer.

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 29, 2020

• National figures, including Trump critics, are wishing my president a successful recovery. Those of us of a religious bent are adding our prayers for him and the First Lady. At The Moderate Voice the cartoon Dr. Fauci tells us what the real Dr. Fauci must be thinking but refuses to articulate, and Brian Geiss carefully points out why folks born during the Truman administration (like Trump and me) must be really, really careful, especially those of us with additional health considerations.
   
• Dave Dubya proposes that when anti-masking militants, virus deniers, virus minimizers like my president, are themselves stricken, perhaps reality is sending us a precautionary message. We should listen.
   
• While many of us offer our prayers, Hackwhackers offers a reminder, that even this tragic COVID-19 episode is accompanied by an instance of vicious last second recklessness.
   
• Frances Langum watches Fox News as Brian Kilmeade thinks about Donald Trump, hospitalized with a non-trivial chance of non-survival, and suggests a bright side for my president. That’s …um… creative, Brian.
   
• Ant Farmer’s Almanac comes up with an appropriate headline to describe the so-so reaction of the White House medical advisor when told of Trump’s startling medical condition.
   
• In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson reviews the sordid side of how news of Trump’s condition had to be extracted from an unwilling White House.

Continue reading “Trump Stricken, Vicious Prelude, CDC, Shut Up, MAGA Christians, Comey”

 

From the New York Post:

“Cheering you all on from this side of the border! You got this!” one Twitter user wrote.

Other Canadians were less supportive.

“Sorry, we’ve built a wall on our southern border,” another joked.

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Trump urges Proud Boys and other white militia groups to stand back but stand by…

… because, I’ll tell you what, somebody has to do something about the left.