Tuesday Stuff

I’m purposely being repetitive by including this clip from Brian Tyler Cohen on the statement from Our Orange Pestilence about slowing down testing for COVID-19 given that I included that verbatim Trump clip yesterday, but I personally think it’s that big of a deal – Cohen makes all the major points except the obvious one that we need more testing in this country versus others because our population is a hell of a lot bigger (and again, his de facto publicists at Fix Noise give #45 a chance to walk everything back, and he dutifully blows it)…



Update: And as I read this, I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, probably because it's true.

…and this Morning Joe clip includes Willie Geist talking with presidential historian Jon Meacham (good point by Meacham to bring back the birther garbage, and an even better job by Mika and company to point out all of the lickspittles from this regime of grifters and frauds who vote by mail while all the while condemning it)…



…and Thom Hartmann tells us that Generalissimo Trump is basically soliciting foreign election interference again, this time from China (interesting history lesson, though I would only add that Jimmy Carter formally normalized relations with China – not meant as a criticism, just an observation)…



…and John I. and Francesca Fiorentini of The Damage Report tell us about the K-Pop fans allegedly helping to sink Trump’s Tulsa rally; great little narrative, but I’m inclined to think people just blew it off because of the pandemic and they, y’know, WANTED TO ACTUALLY STAY ALIVE (”Antifa-CON” – hilarious!)…



…and apparently, there’s a “civil war” brewing in Trump World over the Tulsa mess the other night, with Jared and Ivanka in one corner, as it were, and Brad Parscale in the other…pass the popcorn (Farron Cousins tells us more)…



…and I suppose this is a bit of an anthemic tune for our current circumstance; can’t imagine what the verdict will be from whoever ends up chronicling all of this insanity for the purpose of some distant future time we can currently only imagine.