The question which people are starting to ask now, as we are 22 days out from Election Day 2020 and Donald Trump keeps amplifying his “fake polls” and “enemy of the people” narrative with respect to polling is: Does he believe what he’s saying or he’s just trying to look good for the base in the final days? And if he does believe what he’s saying, then is that the harbinger of an impending mental collapse when reality does finally rear its head in counted votes?

Here’s a sampling of what went on the Trump tweet box this morning.

Now the pattern here is obvious, he’s talking to Illinois, California and New York, states in which he doesn’t have a purple passion’s prayer of winning. So why is he bothering? Maybe he’s saying to the other states that these states are already going down the drain, so the rest of you need to save yourselves — and of course voting for him will do that, right? But he did mention Florida. Yessir, there’s going to be a rally covered by OANN, Newsmax, and CSpan, the last outlet because they pretty much have to, as archivists.

And here’s the screaming meltdown from less than an hour ago.

Sound desperate, much? Apparently the all-caps meltdown was occasioned by somebody trashing his performance on health care at the Barrett SCOTUS hearing.

Or, maybe somebody showed him this.

And whatever you do, don’t show this to Trump.

I guess we’ll see how Trump rationalizes this at the end when the ballots are counted. The only prediction I feel safe making is that things aren’t going to get any saner in the next three weeks. And with the wild plot twists we’ve already seen, the watchword is this: anything can happen. Trump could collapse on the campaign trail, Lindsey Graham could be diagnosed with COVID-19 and carried out of the senate, a spaceship could land on the White House lawn. I rule out nothing.

 

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  3. Thus the rush to confirm Barrett to SCOTUS. The GOP Senators have decided it’s now or never on that goal. Of course, between them getting too sick to vote, Barrett possibly expiring due to reinfection and radical changes a future Biden administration makes to SCOTUS, it may prove as fruitless as Trump’s tweeting.

  4. The devil is in the details.

    His health care ideas have to actually be written down and examined before there can be any meaningful dialogue. It also doesn’t mean that they won’t disappear if A) he loses the election and B) the SCOTUS overturns the ACA a few days later. At this point it is just blather.
    If he REALLY wanted to try and buy votes, he should issue another $1200 per citizen, by Executive Order.

  5. Instead of “Show me the money,” we should be saying to tRump, “Show us the health care plan!” He can’t because it doesn’t exist!

    • And he is WAY too lazy to take the time and trouble to create this fantasy plan that supposedly surpasses ObamaCare and yet, it less expensive!

  6. Loved the title cartoon. It reminded me of a thought I had a long time back wishing the folks who made Who Framed Roger Rabbit would do a Trump version of the scene where the Judge’s eye coverings pop off to reveal the crazy one and he transforms completely into a crazed cartoon character. Only using someone made up like Trump. Come to think of it (with the hearings just concluded) a version with the Judge and his wife, with Barrett transforming too seems appropriate. Because for all their pretending the GOP is convinced that the polite, demure “oh so normal American as apple pie regular supermom” Barrett really is a crazed judicial activist who will take a chainsaw to everything RGB stood for like Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies going after teenagers!

  7. Well if they have the best program out there let’s see it. I might want to sign up. Not likely but I do wish to see their plan. From what I have seen that will be shortly after hell freezreses over.

  8. To paraphrase the Guess Who, he’s come undun, he found a mountain far too high, & when he found out he couldn’t fly, he’s come undun. They do it better.

    • Truth is expect violence, which is a cornerstone of authoritarian rule, ie., to intimidate by the threat of, &, if the supreme leader feels it necessary, to commit acts. I pray not. History tells me I’m living in a fool’s paradise

      • More recent history tells me to expect inept attempts at violence that falls short of the stated goal, probably takes a few more people off the count who didn’t deserve it in the bargain and for Uncle Joe to sweep this election WAY beyond the limited capabilities of Trump’s people to fix anything in their favor. They are monsters who have come to the end of their rope, nothing more.

        • Yeah. There are moments, probably due to my love of westerns, where I see them all sitting on horses under a very large tree with ropes around their necks, just waiting for the sound of one hand slapping. Gosh. Frumpsters. U guys aren’t the only ones with fantasies.

          • I’ve had the western themed album Desperado by the Eagles going through my head for the last month, particularly the “Doolin-Dalton/Desperado Reprise”. This bit of verse strikes me as this crowd’s epitaph: “The Queen of Diamonds let you down,/She was just an empty fable. The Queen of Hearts/You say you never met. Well, your twisted fate has found you out/And it’s finally turned the tables/Stole your dreams and paid you with regret…”

  10. Man, do they really want this lady in the Supreme Court! I envision the Secret Service hauling these sick, pathetic GOP dinosaurs in hazmat suits in the halls of the Senate to cast their vote for Justice Handmaid Tale. Then, it’s off back to the hospital for more of that evil, socialized healthcare that they get that the rest of everyone can’t ascribe to.

  11. The thing I will never understand…which I think we’ll never get an answer to…in 2016, Trump got a lot of traction by making big (ridiculous) promises (cheap, perfect universal healthcare). Now, his strategy is to use hypotheticals to paint a negative future under Biden rather than a positive one under himself. Why?

    The fearmongering over Biden clearly isn’t working…why not pivot back to false promises? That won’t win over critical thinkers, but maybe it gets some less engaged independents migrating back.

    I mean…he’s not good at this, so I’m not sure it makes sense to think about his motives. But he sure seems bent on self sabotage…it’s like he has a mental disorder that makes him compulsively hurt himself.

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