Thursday, July 02, 2020

See the pattern again?


Russian election collusion turns out to be nothing, but COVID is an emergency.  We're not sure it is, but we're being overly cautious; it's handled problematically on all sides, but we haven't seen something like this in a hundred years, so call that a wash.  But people are getting tired of being pushed around and kept at home and they're seeing through the wannabe Stalins petits testing the waters.

Then George Floyd died.

They tried to blame Trump with the racial narrative they'd been toying with for five years, they tried to convince you that it was he and not some other billionaires who bussed in violent protest infiltrators (wearing black, not tank tops and the Stars and Bars) and pallets of bricks (not ARs slung over shoulders) in an event they couldn't decide would spin better as a surprisingly huge number of KKK adjacent groups that apparently fill middle America finally deciding the iron's hot enough to strike; or whether they're really just staging false flag operations that look exactly like what BLM events have always devolved into, except on an unprecedented scale.  But in the end, it was opportunistic leftists and anarchists and I-don't-care-I-just-want-a-bag-of-shoes-to-go-with-my-TV-ists burning down their own cities and destroying their own neighborhoods and a few white sympathizers who got lost amid the whites who thought they could hide behind patronizing signage and even more vandalism

After a few weeks that peters out, because utopia doesn't spontaneously erupt from chaos or even a tabula rasa, and the progressive politicians who were so supportive before, found themselves hypocrites and the proverbial "mugged liberals," and decided enough was enough.

Luckily for them, the virus didn't honor the grace period from sheltering at home, so now that it's a full incubation period after the riots, there's a spike in corona cases that they can now blame entirely on the reopening.

That'll be Trump's fault.  That'll be why his numbers are consistently falling behind where-is-he-now-and-what-is-my-name Biden.  That and Russia is back.  

It's all just too convenient not to be true.  The facts, the causality, the interpretation, the omissions from the news.  Trump will lose again, just like he did in 2016.