Heading in to the election on November 3rd, Donald Trump and the Republicans are bankrupt morally and in terms of any policy ideas.
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Heading in to the election on November 3rd, Donald Trump and the Republicans are bankrupt morally and in terms of any policy ideas.
He says that they are being lied about by both Trump and Fox News as part of their propaganda war to get people behind the law and order message. You can view the video clip here.
Most people do not even think about whether they are cognitively impaired or not. It is only those who fear that there is a problem who may obsess about it. Seth Meyers looks at the way that Trump keeps boasting about the results of his ‘cognitive test’, a test that is not used to test how smart you are, as Trump seems to think, but to see if you are showing signs of dementia. (Note that he took this test back in 2018 and it was administered by his then White House personal physician Ronny Jackson who subsequently resigned amid allegations of misconduct and is now running for a Texas congressional seat on an ardently pro-Trump platform.)
Two men who look like surfer dudes try to hand out free masks to people in Huntington Beach, CA who were not wearing them. Hilarity ensures, except that what it reveals about people’s beliefs is not funny. It is quite extraordinary the kinds of reasons people give for not wearing masks.
Gessen, who came to the US from Russia and thus knows something about what an autocracy looks like, has long been very pessimistic about what is happening in the US. But they sees recent events such as the widespread protests as offering some signs of hope because many needed changes that would take ages in a time of stability have now become fast-tracked. Like me in my recent post, Gessen thinks that it is not enough that Trump loses in November but that he must lose bigly.
He explains why they are attractive to some people who fall prey to them and what methods might work to wean the people you know away from them. Since I do not use social media, especially Facebook where most of them get propagated, some of the theories he spoke about were new to me.
There is a lot of Trump crazy to get through.
Seth Meyers says that the US is experiencing a confluence of bad events triggered by the pandemic while at the same time its leadership is utterly incapable and unwilling to take the measures to deal with it.
It involves trying desperately to hide the negative impact of the pandemic.
