Mano Singham
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He puts his life on the line among the massless maskless hordes attending a recent Trump rally in Pennsylvania to bring us a flavor of the nuttiness he encounters.
It is disturbing that neither Trump nor his doctors nor White House spokespersons are saying when he last tested negative for the coronavirus, even as he insists that he plans to hold rallies and demands that the next debate on October 15 be held in person instead of virtually as the debate commission has decided. The fact that Trump seems to have later decided against traveling this weekend after saying that he would suggests that maybe, just maybe, wiser counsels have prevailed on him to not be so utterly reckless.
As the election draws nearer, reporters are fanning out trying to root out that very rare species, the undecided voter. I find it hard to imagine how anyone can be an undecided voter at this point. Elections with an incumbent running are usually a referendum on that person’s performance and Trump has been such an intensely divisive and polarizing figure that this time it will be even more so. I find it hard to imagine that any sentient being could not have formed an opinion of whether to vote for him or not. But yet there are people claiming to be so and the media is drawn to them as flies to honey. [Read more…]
Clearly they could not make jokes about Trump’s health so they went with the safer parody of the debate while throwing in asides about Trump’s covid-19 diagnosis. They also introduced Jim Carrey in the role of Joe Biden but he reminded me more of Clint Eastwood.
Things are moving so fast that it its hard to register that the first Biden-Trump debate took place just three days ago but Samantha Bee’s takes on events are always worth hearing at any time.
There has been much speculation about whether Trump will accept the results of the election if he loses, speculation that has been deliberately fueled by Trump himself. As I have said before, this is just bluster, designed to sow fear and chaos. Joe Biden was right to dismiss that possibility in the debate. If Trump loses, he has to leave office because the only way he can continue is by a military coup and there is no way that the military is going to be part of that scheme. He may hope that the US Supreme Court will declare him the victor but that option is also a highly remote one unless the results are hair-splittingly close.
Tom the Dancing Bug 1506 donald and john – transfer of power
Stephen Colbert had a good monologue on the lowlights.
The revelations about Trump’s taxes show how the system is rigged to to give the wealthy all manner of advantages denied to ordinary people, as Seth Meyers lays out. Trump is just more shameless than most in trying to exploit the system.