A con man’s first and best mark is always himself
Pretty much anybody who watches politics, even casually knows the simple rule, You run to your base in the primaries, then pivot to the middle for the general election. The reason is pure and simple, The base is too small to win a general election.
The sole exception to that rule is Traitor Tot, who has never pivoted to the middle for a general election. Mainly because his base, combined with just enough disgruntled soft Democratic, GOP, and Independent voters pushed him over the top in the electoral college, even though he lost the national popular vote by more than 3 million. And so he tried it again in 2020, where the wheels promply fell off.
And now his handlers are practically begging him. They’ve tried everything from colorful graphs, to short cartoon clips, to pop-up books to convince him to stop being such a d*ck. Quit the insults on Harris and Walz, and pivot to issues like Harris’s record as DA, her record as AG, her lack of accomplishments as VP to the economy, inflation and immigration. This is like King Canute trying to stop the tide from coming in.
But at least they’re trying. Yesterday, in an intimate gathering of a couple of hundred lost souls, too small to be called a rally, Trump held what the campaign called a policy initiative event on the economy. Read that as 10 minutes ranting about Drill baby, drill followed by an hour of incoherent rambling and personal insults.
Now today, in order to clean up yesterday’s mess, the campaign is holding a Press Conference on the economy at Bedminster to take another whack at it. And just from the looks of the setup, I can’t wait to see the post game lowlights from this one.
Once again the campaign is trying to connect with persuadable undecided voters, and once again it’s doomed to failure. because Trump has never actually talked to anybody in his life. All he does is to con them. And because he’s the smartest one in the room, he’ll treat them like rubes and suckers.
Here’s why Traitor Tot is hosed. In front of the place he’ll be speaking from is a table. And on that table are things like pork sausage patties, bacon, eggs, a can of coffee, and cereal. The visual is easy to grasp, and could even be effective. Trump goes down the line, reciting what things cost four years ago, and what they cost today.
It’s also stupid, insulting and futile, for two reasons. First of all the thought that His Lowness knows the cost of anything edible, other than a Wendy’s Double Baconator or a KFC bucket is ridiculous. He’s never seen the check out line at a grocery store in his life, and couldn’t find a price tag if his life depended on it.
But here’s where the wheels don’t just fly off the bus, they fly back through the windshield. Inflation is a powerful issue for the simple reason that people live it. Trump never lives everything, so he’s just going to go down the line of items, making sh*t up about the prices, and expect that voters are so stupid and lost that they neither know nor remember what sh*t actually cost! It works with his base, why not the rubes.
A perfect example. In his sham issue statement yesterday, El Pendejo ex Presidente repeatedly pointed out the high price of gas, ranting Four years ago gas was at $1.89 a gallon! Today it’s back over $5 a gallon, and climbing! What unutterable bullsh*t. I live in Nevada, one of the most expensive states for gas, and unleaded regular at Smith’s is $3.69 a gallon. Even my daughter in Honolulu is only paying $4.59 a gallon. Sorry Senor Estupido, I think even your own brain dead followers know what they’re paying for gas.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse. Trump’s campaign has been pleading for him to pick up somebody sane, like The Mooch, or KellyAnne ConJob for the stretch. Somebody who could get his ear and keep him disciplined and on message. Trump hired somebody today alright, Corey Lewandowski, the rabid MAGAt who originally coined the phrase Let Trump be Trump! Sorry guys, this is gonna be a loooong 79 days.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
The rich ARE truly clueless about the 99% of us who are scraping by while they check their stock prices. If the general population puts these mutherfuckering nazis back in charge, I may have to save my pennies for a blackmarket AR-15. Hey FBI and Homeland Security I’m not your threat. This mutherfucker and his armed minions ARE. Time to get your own head out of your own ass. What an entitled clueless bastard.
I paid 2.85 for gas yesterday at Costco in texas
Hello UK here. Today it is £1.379/litre. Following Googles conversion rates (3.79l to 1 US gallon, £1=$1.29) that works out at $6.75/gallon. Count yourselves lucky.
“He’s never seen the check out line at a grocery store in his life, and couldn’t find a price tag if his life depended on it.”
Murf, I guess the grocery stores in your area are more of the “mom-and-pop” variety than any national or regional chain but most of the major grocery stores use those fancy little barcodes and some kind of scanning system to produce the prices of the items. Even here in Alabama, we’ve got CONVENIENCE STORES (you know, the little stores that tend to attract customers because of the gas pumps right outside the store) which rely on scanning barcodes to tally up all those (overpriced) goodies that you wound up needing at the last minute (or wanted to replenish the stuff you’d already eaten and drunk on your road trip).
About the only places I ever find “price tags” are in book stores or clothing stores (and, most of the price tags have a barcode that the cashier uses to “ring up” your order).
But, your more overarching point is taken.
True, except the prices ARE on the shelves where the goods are. They may not be on the individual items which use the bar codes.