So if you watch football, you've probably seen this ad, which may be a clearer explication of a distinctly American fascist movement than I could imagine in my worst fever dreams
The first half of the ad depicts Joe Biden as: communist; socialist; a tax-raiser; and "past his prime, too weak to rebuild our nation"
The second half suggests that the holy spirit is present at Trump rallies
As evidence of the strength of the Trump administration's coronavirus response, he tells Stahl, "Barron had it, and it was gone in no time"
"You're behind with suburban women in the polls."
"I doubt it. I doubt it. I really doubt it. I'm saving suburbia. He's gonna destroy suburbia... bring low income housing projects into suburbia... Suburban women want security."
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"We got hit with [COVID], it's not our fault. And we've done a good job, not a good job, we've done a great job..."
"...You called Dr. Fauci and other health officials 'idiots."
There is a whole generation of Americans who have covered, fought, or simply seen footage of various overseas fanatical and extremist groups riding technicals through contested territory with their asses and flags out. That generation understands exactly what it's seeing now
I remember covering it a decade ago when Al Qaeda released an English-language magazine encouraging supporters to use trucks to commit spectacular mass-killings of infidels
When I wrote this, on June 17, Florida had reported 86,000 cases of coronavirus. Today, 25 days later, it has more than a quarter of a million. newrepublic.com/article/158215…
When I wrote this four days ago, as Republicans vowed to press forward with reopenings, Florida reported its 4,000th death of Covid. It has now added 70,000 infections in the past 7 days. That's 1 new case every minute. newrepublic.com/article/158394…
Source. Somebody please tell me this rich white guy with the pink polo tucked into his pleated khakis paid extra for an AR with a left-hand ejection port, which is slightly less depressing than the possibility that he's just never held that rifle before