Trump* interviewed
Aaron Rupar has a Twitter thread collecting choice moments from Donald Trump*’s interview with Harris Faulkner (Fox News).
A metaphor
A runaway train.
Jared’s verbs
Jared’s verbs (and his demonstrative adjective) claim reality for what’s non-existent. The present king of France is bald.
Rant? Tirade? Harangue?
You decide. It’s Donald Trump*’s conference call with governors.
A president speaks
“If we want to bring about real change, then the choice isn’t between protest and politics. We have to do both.”
Minneapolis and Denmark
A friend in the city and lines from Hamlet.
Donald Trump*’s rhyme
Donald Trump*’s rhyme — “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” — has a history.
“Vote as if your life depends on it”
Tony Schwartz, Donald Trump*’s ghostwriter: “Understanding what we’re truly up against — the reign of terror that Trump will almost surely wage the moment he believes he can completely prevail — makes the upcoming presidential election a true Armageddon. “Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does.”
A “lethal aversion to reading”
“It's not a stretch to say that if the president read, thousands of lives might have been saved”: in The Week, Windsor Mann writes about Donald Trump*’s “lethal aversion to reading.”
Schwan’s Dinners
That logo for Mike Pompeo’s so-called Madison Dinners: where had I seen something like it? On the side of a Schwan’s truck.
Meltdown
From the Financial Times, an utterly damning summary of the Trump* administration’s response to pandemic.
A variation on a theme
Trump* equals death.
TRUMP = DEATH
Not too extreme an equation.
A mind at work
it’s clear that we’re watching a failing mind at work.
Science must trump politics
Dr. Rick Bright: “Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths. Science, in service to the health and safety of the American people, must always trump politics.”
Cuomo and Gibbon and others
“When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then [they] ceased to be free.” Who wrote/said it?
Turtles all the way down
The paranoid style in American politics is never at a loss for explanations: another layer of theorizing can always be added to support a rickety conspiracy theory. It’s turtles, or theories, all the way down.
“It isn’t over — he is”
Today’s Zippy, timely yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, &c.
Trump*’s two plans
David Frum: “Both Trump’s Plan A and Plan B intend to turn American against American, in an ugly spirit of rancor and resentment.”
Radio stars
A headline from today’s New York Times: “Trump Wanted a Radio Show, But Deferred to Rush Limbaugh.”
Allegory redux
Why I will vote for Joe Biden.
“You must persist”
From an e-mail Elizabeth Warren sent this morning to donors, announcing the suspension of her campaign for the presidency.
The blind king
A New Yorker cover.
Matthews and Warren
Elizabeth Warren explains the ridiculously obvious to the dullest knife in the MSNBC drawer. Chris Matthews needs to take his eructations, figurative and literal, into a comfortable retirement.
Bam!
Elizabeth Warren: “I don’t care how much money Mayor Bloomberg has. The core of the Democratic Party will never trust him.”
“The 4d’s”
“Dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing.”
Back to the USSR canard
Hearing the assertion that Bernie and Jane Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union, I thought, What? And then I remembered writing a post about that canard in 2016.
Trump* in Colorado
If you can stand it, Aaron Rupar has short clips from Donald Trump*’s rally last night in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Make it new
“Shortly after the Democratic Presidential debate on Wednesday night, aides to Michael Bloomberg announced that he would spend ten billion dollars to buy an entirely new personality.”
Disses, digital and analog
In tonight’s debate, Elizabeth Warren called Pete Buttigieg’s healthcare plan “a PowerPoint.” She likened Amy Klobuchar’s healthcare plan to a Post-it Note.