plandemic?
A very substantive press conference where the old man flubs a couple or a few — two of three maybe — things. They are clear what he is saying in context, and you are left with the sensation that a head of state will quickly correct him and they can be on the way. Vice president Putin. Yeah, sure, Trump is tweeting (or whatever his social media deal is) immediately, but that is an eyeroll.
There are a few other things that were more disconcerting — his not infrequent tic of quickly wrapping up a statement as he veered off course does show the problems of age beyond the performative.
I am trying to figure of the substance actually matters to those magical swing voters. Some elderly Reagan – Bush Republicans or Haley voters who cannot help notice Biden stands with that International order they once supported and Trump has some other International Order in mind. That is basically what any substance in the press conference comes down to. Them and maybe a broad swarth who want something more on the ball than Trump and unsure now if Biden represents six of one and half a dozen of the other in some after a bit too high minded for grappling details on — the great “ball being on” concern this comes down to.
Apparently the Republicans and Trump are thinking, dreaming of, “landslide”. Why — there is an outlier poll that has New York in play! They are, of course, high. At the other side, Chris Matthews has that weird rah rah evocation of Harry Truman. And you might as well evoke Rocky — the problem with Rocky is he lost.
Actually there is a contingent of conspiracy mongerers who will clip one thing out of the mouth of Biden — even less substantial and more unimportant than his “Vice President Putin” stumbling. The Great Not Great Communicator mishandled “Pandemic”. He said “Plandemic”. Robert F Kennedy Jr supporters are high-fiving righteously in a “see! It’s right there!” chorus.