COVID-19 cases have surged across the country this week. Since the Pandemic started, more than 151,000 Americans have died. New unemployment claims also rose last week, the 19th week of a million or more new claims.
The country and Donald Trump knew all that on Thursday morning.
Then, at 8:30 am, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that gross domestic product had tanked in the second quarter of the year. Fallen by 32.9% annualized. It was a low below the low we know -- a record-setting, utterly abysmal pratfall into a fearsomely deep pit.
Naturally, the stock market fell, because it's the kind of thing that makes Wall Streeters run around in circles with their hands in the air, screaming.
I don't know what goes through your mind at a time like this, but we know what went through Donald Trump's: "This is BAD NEWS for my reelection campaign!"
Sixteen minutes after the DOLS's announcement, the President tweeted one of his own: "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
Thereby confirming that, yes, Donald Trump's educational years were spent in clown school.
“I think it’s a joke, I guess,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas. “I don’t know how else to interpret it.”
Mirthless Mitch McConnell wasn't amused. “Never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions and the Civil War, have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we’ll find a way to do that again this Nov. 3,” the Senate majority leader said.
In a case of the chicken v. the egg, near-identical words emerged from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chairwoman of the committee that has jurisdiction over elections. "Americans have voted during the Civil War, in the midst of the Great Depression, in the shadow of World Wars, and in the wake of terrorist attacks," she said in a statement. "Americans will stand united to vote this November." Who quoted whom? Inquiring minds want to know!
In the driest response to date, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded by tweeting the relevant lines of the Constitution:
Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution states:
“The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.” https://t.co/NIaa7mQVnn— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 30, 2020
In short, Donald Trump has united both parties in a single tweet.
The upshot? There are 97 days till the election, with Biden surfing what looks like an upcoming blue wave. At least that much is good news.
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| Trump forgot to check the Constitution. Sad! |
Then, at 8:30 am, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that gross domestic product had tanked in the second quarter of the year. Fallen by 32.9% annualized. It was a low below the low we know -- a record-setting, utterly abysmal pratfall into a fearsomely deep pit.
Naturally, the stock market fell, because it's the kind of thing that makes Wall Streeters run around in circles with their hands in the air, screaming.
I don't know what goes through your mind at a time like this, but we know what went through Donald Trump's: "This is BAD NEWS for my reelection campaign!"
Sixteen minutes after the DOLS's announcement, the President tweeted one of his own: "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 30, 2020
Thereby confirming that, yes, Donald Trump's educational years were spent in clown school.
“I think it’s a joke, I guess,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas. “I don’t know how else to interpret it.”
Mirthless Mitch McConnell wasn't amused. “Never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions and the Civil War, have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we’ll find a way to do that again this Nov. 3,” the Senate majority leader said.
In a case of the chicken v. the egg, near-identical words emerged from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., chairwoman of the committee that has jurisdiction over elections. "Americans have voted during the Civil War, in the midst of the Great Depression, in the shadow of World Wars, and in the wake of terrorist attacks," she said in a statement. "Americans will stand united to vote this November." Who quoted whom? Inquiring minds want to know!
In the driest response to date, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded by tweeting the relevant lines of the Constitution:
Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution states:
“The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.” https://t.co/NIaa7mQVnn— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 30, 2020
In short, Donald Trump has united both parties in a single tweet.
The upshot? There are 97 days till the election, with Biden surfing what looks like an upcoming blue wave. At least that much is good news.
Photo: "Donald Trump" by Michael Vadon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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