The residents of the Villages have the right to have a golf cart caravan in support of Biden but I really hope we don't get dueling car / boat / etc.. vehicle rallies. I personally think they are stupid and as the Austin one showed can be dangerous.
Remember when trump and his supporters were trying to make fun of Joe Biden's mental faculties? Yea, those were good times...
Just saw a brand new Trump ad that says "Donald Trump is recovering from the Coronavirus and so is America." The ad also says we shouldn't fear the virus. Surprisingly the ad has an image of two women wearing masks touching foreheads and staring into each other's eyes. I'm wondering if someone on Trump's staff thinks he has a shot at the gay vote..
We were in Galveston yesterday and passed a pickup truck caravan of 20-something and 30-something douchers with their Trump flags and whatnot. HONK if you have a Forrest Gump IQ. We, too, were in a pickup, but us middle aged liberals who will vote the other ticket just want to get our seafood with a view of the gulf. And the Trump caravan, too, I suppose. On the other hand, I saw more BIDEN HARRIS signs in Galveston than Trump Pence, so.... "Well, let me ask if my supporters believe it or not, then I'll tell you."
Good article rom Politico... Amateur hour at the Trump White House Nearly everyone remembers the old cliché: If you can’t trust someone to get the little things right, how can you ever count on them to do the big things? President Donald Trump had better hope that bromide, invoked everywhere from youth sports teams to sales training sessions, doesn’t apply to him. As his presidency lurches toward a climactic judgment on Nov. 3, the little things lately have rarely gone more pervasively or embarrassingly wrong — at a time when public confidence in Trump’s handling of the big things is hardly robust. The initial reaction might be, So what’s new here? But recent days, in the wake of Trump being stricken with coronavirus, have highlighted just how the lurching improvisation that is a familiar phenomenon around Trump has entered a different phase. The professionals around the president aren’t merely laboring to contain and channel the disruptive politician they work for. Very often they are amplifying the chaos. That’s in part because, as his first term comes to a close, the professionals around Trump are not all that professional. It is now the exception in key staff and Cabinet posts to have people whose experience would be commensurate with that of people who have typically held those jobs in previous administrations of both parties. This major weakness has been revealing itself in a barrage of minor errors that summon Casey Stengel’s incredulous question about the 1962 New York Mets: Can’t anybody here play this game? There have been prominent misspellings in official White House statements (the pharmaceutical company whose treatment Trump took is Regeneron, not Regeron). Trump bungled the name of a well-known Republican senator (that’s James Inhofe, not Imhofe) in a video message. Communications Director Alyssa Farah did much the same in a television interview, repeatedly mispronouncing the name of Trump’s physician (it’s Dr. Sean Conley, with two syllables, not Connelly with three). White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow on Wednesday contradicted each other in public remarks on whether a recuperating, but still possibly infectious Trump had been in the Oval Office the day before. (Kudlow thought he had, Meadows was apparently right that on that day Trump hadn’t.) Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s briefings are largely dismissed as mere entertainment by reporters, not a source of reliable information or, on frequent occasions, any information at all. Earlier this month, she didn’t know at her own briefing that presidential counselor Hope Hicks, to whom she had been exposed, had tested positive for the virus. After Farah publicly promised to release the numbers of White House aides infected with coronavirus, a few hours later McEnany said they wouldn’t provide those numbers for “privacy” reasons. It’s easy to dismiss these flubs as minor communications errors, but communicating with the public is one of the most important things White Houses do. And this one has made such a hash of things that it has compounded the very real substantive problems confronting an administration that has more of its fair share of those as well. This phenomenon goes beyond matters relating to Trump’s personal health or politics to matters of foreign policy on which previous administrations have previously operated on the assumption that, when the world is watching, it is critical to speak with clear purpose and precision. Robert O’Brien, Trump’s national security adviser, told a university on Wednesday that the U.S. would draw down to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan by “early next year” only to be contradicted by Trump a few hours later in a tweet that the U.S. would have all troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas. What’s been going on in recent days is not an anomaly, but does represent a new apogee in a trend that has been building for nearly four years. Trump has been waging an internal war within his administration since his first days in office. Often the targets have been people with independent judgment or significant records of achievement before joining the administration. With few exceptions, Trump has won this war, and now has the team he wants. But it’s a Pyrrhic victory: He finds himself surrounded by people whose resumes typically would not land them into jobs at senior levels of the White House or Cabinet. Never mind the A Team. At this point, even the B Team would represent a significant upgrade. [Read the rest at the link in the headline.]
Fauci says he was taken out of context in new Trump campaign ad touting coronavirus response https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/11/politics/fauci-trump-campaign-ad-out-of-context/index.html
That's a brilliant idea. Kudos! Hope you caught this, @NewRoxFan. You're brave. I told my relatives and friends six months ago that they can't come for a visit and can't come over to hang out - that no one can come over except our daughter, who lives in Austin and is doing what we are doing. Self-isolating. Our son lives in Dallas with his partner and is being careful, but not traveling. We all hate it. No one likes any part of this pandemic. In our case, it's a question of survival. Sometimes, you just have to say no. Maybe next time.
That's how they run Fox news under the hood. Grossly cheap and barebones so they can retract once out of the hundreds of "mistakes" due to gross mistakes or mishandling
