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This week’s Sparky: no news here
No October surprise
This was a week of no surprises. It was no surprise that Donald Trump evaded taxes. It was no surprise that his debate strategy was to blow it up. It was no surprise that he’d get the coronavirus after mocking masks and distancing. No surprises – but I’ll bet @realDonaldTrump is.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 4, 2020
Guess it isn’t a hoax, after all
WASHINGTON — President Trump revealed early Friday morning that he and the first lady, Melania Trump, had tested positive for the coronavirus, throwing the nation’s leadership into uncertainty and escalating the crisis posed by a pandemic that has already killed more than 207,000 Americans and devastated the economy.
Mr. Trump, who for months has played down the seriousness of the virus and hours earlier on Thursday night told an audience that “the end of the pandemic is in sight,” will quarantine in the White House for an unspecified period of time, forcing him to withdraw at least temporarily from the campaign trail only 32 days before the election on Nov. 3.
Prediction
There aren’t going to be any more debates.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 2, 2020
“Who gives a fuck about Christmas?”
And, on the children who have been forcibly separated from their parents: “Give me a fucking break.“
“Who gives a fuck about Christmas?“ – Mrs. Trump. #USPolitics https://t.co/f3BdNXdEua
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 2, 2020
America to Trump: shut up
Jean Chretien used to say to us: “I don’t need to be in the paper every day. People don’t like it.”
Yep. And my daughter and I saw the same thing when we were recently knocking on doors for the Democrats: American voters saying, over and over, they’re sick of the drama. Sick of it. They want quiet and calm.
From The Hill:
Disaffected Republicans argue that no single storm has battered Trump. Instead, they say, the constant tensions and Twitter tirades in which he revels have had a cumulative and aggravating effect.
“I have said this since he was elected,” said one former GOP member of Congress. “This exhaustion, this never-ending drama and chaos…I think a lot of people are yearning for some kind of normalcy.”
Republican strategist Liz Mair agreed.
“Every day there is something that the president is going off about on Twitter, or in a press conference, or in a speech or what have you,” she said. “Nobody ever gets a break and he never takes a break. It’s just constant information overload, and eventually people get sick of that.”