All the world's a stage for The P.T. Barnum of American Politics filled with tricks-and-treats in the 24/7 media overload where some of us are merely numb. There are good actors and bad actors and they all have their exits and entrances playing many parts. Sooner - or later - the American people don't like getting punked as fools some, most, or all of the time.
We have before us choices to be made what to believe: some times the intended optics backfire to bite-back the staged performances turned-bad: Where to start?
1 The White House Rose Garden Supreme Court Nomination Press Conference > "A Super-Spreader"
2 Trump's Pandemic Medical Team Health Announcements > "The Men-in-White-Coats" Show Up
3 The White House Balcony Law-and-Order Rally morphs into "The Mussolini-Moment" for 'Covita'
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From The Poke:
A far-right Trump supporter said the president just had his ‘Mussolini moment’ and wins self-own of the week
As you’ll probably have seen by now, Donald Trump has taken to the White House balcony to show everyone just how well he’s doing despite testing positive for coronavirus just a few days ago.
His supporters were delighted, of course, including far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes, who hosts the America First podcast among many other things.
Here’s what he had to say.
And here are our favourite things people said in response
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Maureen Dowd writing in the New York Times:
Manic Panic on the Potomac
Will Mitch ditch the Donald?
WASHINGTON — At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.
Literally.
Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy Coney Barrett super-spreader event in the Rose Garden or set foot on that 18 acres of magical thinking known as the White House because he could see that the president and his team were courting danger. At 78, the wily Senate majority leader, a polio survivor, wasn’t taking any chances. . .
McConnell did more than physically distance himself from Trump. He politically distanced himself as well, throwing cold water on the president’s whiplash-inducing reversal on a stimulus bill. . .
Clearly, McConnell does not want to invest whatever capital he has left in reviving Trump when the guy seems doomed. Why bring up an issue that really divides his Republican members weeks before an election that might be a wipeout — with the Senate in the balance?
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Proving once more that there’s no bottom to how low he’ll go, McConnell explained to reporters in Kentucky that he wasn’t ready to push a stimulus deal because “the situation is kind of murky, and I think the murkiness is a result of the proximity to the election and everybody kind of trying to elbow for political advantage.”
So it’s fine to elbow for political advantage and push to replace R.B.G. with an arch conservative who would threaten health care and abortion rights in proximity to the election. But a bill that would help millions of suffering Americans as the economy goes down the tubes? Nah. That’s too murky. . .
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