The Jobs Report is… Disappointing…

Nice, outdoor work. Inquire at the office. No mask required?

The new jobs report has been ‘disappointing’ to those foolish enough to listen to the predictions of people like former Harvard president Laurence Summers, who has never been right, and the rosy projections of those who are looking at vaccination rates, ‘opening up’ stories, and crunching numbers to make the dreams of Summers come true.

The jobs numbers weren’t much of a surprise to me.

Because I’m a genius, who knows more that the most Harvard of Harvard economists, right?

No, I’m just a schmuck with a Macbook Pro and a lot of friends in an industry that has been utterly devastated by this virus, and who sees on social media people looking for vaccination appointments like people looking golden Wonka tickets. All this talk of ‘turning corners’ and ‘what to do after the pandemic’ is lost on many people, the ones with compromised immune systems, who look at the numbers starting to spike again, at the 5,000 reported deaths last week, 50,000 new cases reported in one day. Those cases/deaths are the ones we know about.

The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation put out a new study, estimating that more than 900,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 in the US since getting hit a little more than a year ago. Uncounted deaths make up the difference between what organizations like the CDC have been reporting and what is more likely reality, with the rate of excess deaths in the country, with more than 7 million worldwide.

About that jobs report with the ‘disappointing’ numbers.

Well. A few thoughts here.

Yeah, I seen the shaming signs posted on businesses, those that say ‘Sorry! We can’t give you the service you deserve, oh dear customer, because lazy, lazy people refuse to work. They’d rather sit on their lazy, lazy butts than serve you, so we can’t open/serve/assist you. Blame them. Thank you, The Management’.

Clueless, cruel and not true.

Everyone I know wants to work, wants to see friends, co-workers, bullshit about nonsense, are dying to be fully busy, relied on, part of something bigger than debating what is the best thing on Netflix at the moment.

Here’s the thing for people who say that something like ‘unemployment is disincentivizing people from working’, slapping workers with that favorite word; ‘lazy’. No. ‘High’ unemployment (sorry, never very high) is not the problem, low wages are the problem. You work a job that pays 300 a week, while unemployment pays 400. The problem is not the 400, it’s the 300.

People are afraid of dying. They don't want to take jobs that will pay poorly for the chance to be stuffed back into an office or workspace so they can work for crap wages and win a chance to catch a still unstopped virus and die. Why would anyone want to do that?

This pandemic has forced many to finally raise their head, look around and say 'Jesus, what am I doing? I've only one life and I'm wasting it here!" Post-pandemic thinking and working is changing, and we’re not even out of it yet. Many things will have to change to meet that thinking, those new/old needs.

Employers loved it when they had the power of the market, now workers are taking it back. So, you get a ton of clueless 'think' pieces, and Republicans threatening workers with 'take these jobs or else' rules. They act like angry parents with a teenager defiantly refusing to clean up their room: “Take your chance on dying doing this low-paying job we'll give you something to cry about.”

We already have something to cry about, the world does.

There was a clueless OpEd in the Washington Post this week from the publisher of the Washingtonian, that was read (rightly I think) by the staff as a threat to those who wanted to avoid going back to an office that could easily be a source of spreading the virus. Here they are, working hard to keep the publication on track, working remotely and taking pay cuts and cutbacks only to have the boss hit them with a ‘gee, you know, if you’re not at the office, you might just ‘miss out’, you know, stuff might happen, it might hurt your career…’ essay in a prominent publication where they were all sure to read it.    

They staged a virtual walkout. Rightly so.

She apologized. In her defense, the magazine has since rescinded many of the cutbacks and are hiring again (the freelancer budget has been decimated, but there ya go). But this sort of ‘on high’ thinking pervades the ‘lazy workers’ debate, the latest job numbers report is just bubbling it to the surface.

That very jobs report gives a good clue, or should to many business owners about a worker shortage. The report shows the gains made have been mostly among men. By the way of thinking being shown, women must not want to work! No, it’s the pandemic again. Kids not in schools must be cared for and the burden of the child care falls unfairly on women, of course. Which is why Biden considers childcare and eldercare part of infrastructure, because it is. Want people to work, give them child care and help them take care of their elderly. Obvious to anyone caring to look and think. But I digress.

What’s the solution?

Pay them. You want workers? Pay them. I don’t see how this is some mystery. If your business model relies on not paying your workers a wage they can actually live on, you don’t have a business, you have a government-subsidized plantation (because your workers will likely need food stamps and other government help. It’s the business model for Walmart). In an equitable society, this would not be tolerated.

Respect the people doing the work, not just with, say, a table of snacks or something, but respect the loss and fear this trial has infected us all with. I guess I’m saying here ‘empathize’. Shouldn’t be hard, most of us have been though this horrible year, but some of us have had different experiences with it. People are scared, people are angry and people want to be paid a fair wage, these are not mutually exclusive. Again, wages are supposed to be higher than unemployment and business should value their workers and not subject them to possible death to make a buck. That should not be too much to ask.

You want your workers back, ask why they might not want to come back and work from there. Listen to the questions you’re asking and the responses you’re getting. No one is responding to your ad? You’re wrong, silence is a response.

Pay more, treat workers better, improve the working conditions, share power and wealth with the people doing the actual work. No, that’s not ‘socialism’, it’s decency.

Remember we're all human beings, here for a short time. Don’t try to make others miserable.

The Stolen Steal That Must be Stopped

We must stop the steal that isn’t actually happening. Poor, deluded souls, almost feel sorry for them, but nah.

Stop the Steal.

Really?

What the actual fuck with these idiots. Do they believe this? Some do, god knows. I think most Republicans in the leadership don’t believe it, and are pushing this crap for their own motives (like being white-faced scared of Trump’s cult) they have shown, over and over to be brimming with bad faith. So, yeah, screw those guys hard. But the down market ‘Republicans’ (really, a lot are there for Trump and Trump only) actually believe it. Go on Parler (a ‘free speech’ site, but really full of whiny Trumpers, screaming, crying and threatening over the 2020 loss) and glory in the insanity; the people claiming Trump couldn’t have lost because of ‘crowds’, because of ‘boaters’, because of the ‘Trump Train’ truck rallies. It mystifies them that Trump’s super-spreader events didn’t somehow translate to a Trump win. Something musty be wrong! Trump must have won, and all evidence to the contrary must be wrong. Because! There cannot be any other result. can’t! Yeah, the crazy is thick and slimy with these desperate people, but the problem with desperate people is they do desperate things.

Like the ’Proud Boys’.

This is a group of idiots looking for an excuse for a fight. They’re that bully in Junior high that would get in your face, poke you in the chest and yell ‘What you gonna do about it’ while spraying spittle all over you. They want a reason, and if they can’t get one, they’ll just make one up. ‘Cuz, Trump, mofo!

Yeah.

We are in a dangerous time. We are in a time were the leaders of our government (126 of the bastards) are pushing a ‘lawsuit’ brought by an indicted Texas AG (who would like one of those pardons Trump is writing out, BTW) whose motives are questionable, and a majority of the Republicans in the House have signed out to it. They want to throw out the votes of tens of millions of Americans for the crime of not voting for Donald Trump. This is utterly un-American. This is a delectation of duty and a denial of the oath they took to defend the Constitution.  

Not that they care.

They hew to power, not to ‘truth’ or ‘rightness’, antiquated concepts that get in their way. Arguing in bad faith is second nature by now. Of course, that doesn’t make them any less the traitors than they are. Again, either they believe this nonsense, (they don’t) or they are pushing complete nonsense for they’re own benefit. It like they’re waving to Trump and saying ‘Hey! Donald! Look at me kissing your ass! See me kissing your ass? Tell your friends on Twitter…please..?

Yeah. Traitors for hire. The whole GOP is like this. Why people still vote for these grifters who lie to them election after election I will never understand.

Nuts.

321,094+ lost to covid, as of Saturday December 19th.

We may take as many precautions as we can but those who think the whole thing is a 'hoax' (as pushed by the president) refuse to take even the most basic measures continue to fuel the huge spike in numbers. We keeping falling into the pit because people insis it isn’t there. It's Insanity, utterly.

Those same defenders of Donny aggressively ignore the hundreds of thousands of deaths under his watch. They will point to the vaccine (not created by Trump) that came out while he was president that he seems to think he forced into being with his own mighty will. Bullshit. This is the idiot who denied the science, who tried to muzzle the scientists who were warning him how serious this pandemic would be.

321,094, I don't understand those who think this is acceptable, those who believe wearing a mask is somehow a horrible encroachment on their 'freedoms'. People are dying. If we had listened to the experts, if we had not allowed our 'leaders' to politicize the precautions to this damn virus, we could have been out of this by now. We are suffering, over and over, the arrogance of the minority.

We are chained to the least of us.

We await the coming of Biden/Harris not as a ‘savior’ but as sanity. The GOP already making plans so he won’t be able to fix anything (I said they were traitors, but we saw this behavior under Obama as well), and he will have a huge uphill stuggle just to do the basics of governing. That’s where we are, even simple agreements, like allowing the lights to stay on at the State Department is politicized. Everyday we have to fight the insanity because it’s important, because if we don’t turn on a light, the world sits in darkness.

January 20th cannot get here soon enough.

They Can Run, But the GOP Can’t Hide from Trump

Trump, probably lying. Again.

We all have a lot of hope that the new Biden/Harris administration will bring some sanity, dare I say ‘normalcy’ to the country, but we also are staring at a Republican party determined to stop them from doing, anything, that will actually help the country. Mitch McConnell and the Republicans under Obama made the recovery from the Bush crash longer and more painful than it needed to be, simple as that, and did so deliberately knowing they were hurting people. As McConnell said, his job was to make Obama a ‘One-Term President’. It wasn’t to legislate, it wasn’t to help right the country after eight years of ruinous leadership, no, his only job was to ‘win’, not help. Obama had to fix the economy and pass the ACA without help from the GOP.

Obama had Mitch and the co-opped ‘Tea Party’ to contend with, Biden and Harris will have a GOP that is even father right. The Tea Party believed Obama was a Muslim radical, born in Kenya. The new version of the Tea Party, Oanon (with has taken over a lot of the base, and electing followers) believe all Democrats are Satan worshiping pedophiles who torture children to harvest a drug called Adrenochrome. Qanon is what is firing up the Republican base, and the god of Qanon is Trump. The leaders of the GOP have a choice;

One: cast off Trump and all the ugly he has revealed about the party,

Two: try to court Qanon and keep it under control, or

Three: just dive in and go nuts.

Far so, they’re doing both two and three.

The push since the election is just go plain full-on crazy, the more the better. I don’t see any signs of that stopping anytime soon. Going forward, the GOP/Trump/Qanon party, already a party of White grievance, will become all about that, it will fuel and drive it. It will be about ‘stolen elections’, about the shrinking White demographic, about ‘biased media’ (even Fox is taking hits for not towing the Trump line and lies), it will retreat even further into its bubble world, and it will strike out with the blind fury of a wounded animal. Trump knows a good grift when he sees it, and so does his family and all their enablers. He’s already shown he doesn’t care about the country, he’ll burn it all down just to get his way, so he’ll keep pushing, keep lying and keeping telling the people who want to believe that he, and they, were robbed.  

And they’ll believe him.

The Georgia and national Republicans are looking at polls showing the two senate races there either tied of the Democrats slightly ahead. Those polls are also showing them something else; Trump’s lies of ‘voter fraud’ and ‘rigged elections’ are causing some of his more fevered supporters to stay home. This can’t be good for them, but they can’t say anything out loud, even Perdue and Loeffler, the Republicans in the race, have to finesse their way around the crazy, calling the election and unfair while at the asking people to vote for them.

Crazy, right?

In 2022 we’ll see a wave of the crazy unlike anything we’ve seen before. Those Republicans running for reelection will have to either take the pledge and be just as crazy as the rest, or run the risk of being primaried by someone who is crazier than they are, or at least does a good job of acting that way.

So, what’s the Biden/Harris administration going to do the get even some of their agenda through the coming wall of craze?

Biden has a couple different ways to deal with this. Hopefully, he will not try to be collegial and work with them. I know, I know, that’s always the goal, to ‘work across the aisle, be bi-partisan. If Biden learned nothing from the Obama years, he should have learned that the Republicans are bad actors, they do not negotiate in good faith. Even those that might agree in private are going to be pushed, squeezed to the wall by the base who will demand blood… and they don’t really care which side bleeds; the Satanist Democrats, or the RINO’s who let their beloved Trump down. It’ll a race to prove which Republican is the most irresponsible, and that’s the Republican that will go forward. 

Right now, McConnell is saying the new administration won’t even get cabinet positions confirmed unless he personally approves of them, won’t even get a vote. No, unless he gets the Senate, (and maybe not even then) Biden will have to go it alone as much as possible, get things done administratively rather than through congress. And it won’t be easy, as every more will be protested, will be dragged into the courts. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the Republicans filling out lawsuits now, to fill in the blanks later.

Biden is going to have to move fast, blitz the field before 2022, when chances are he might lose his House majority. He can do this with multiple teams pushing his agenda at the same time. I assume right now they’re readying Executive orders to sign, and they should do as much as they can as fast as they can, confuse and disorient the opposition into trying to figure out and deal with the numbers of different things coming out. Just as Trump does with outrages, committing new ones before the furor over the last one died out, Biden can do with policy. A Trump tactic for the good of the country.

That might be the best thing we’ll learn from Trump.

The Soft Coup in the Time of Covid

245,557+ dead Americans.

We set four new records for infections, that's worldwide. Over 100,000 new cases a day.

We are on track to have 400,000 dead by inauguration.

Trump is busy desperately defending bogus claims of 'voter fraud' rather than trying to save the lives of Americans. Prominent Republicans are backing him in this. He is refusing to concede, refusing to allow Biden his transition budget, offices and access to the materials, and to people he needs to be ready on January 20th. Trump is not allowing Biden to be briefed on the security issues he will need to know for the safety of this country. It’s a slow-motion, soft coup, happening right in front of us. No one seems to be in charge; those who want to do something aren’t allowed, those who are supposed to be doing something want to burn things to the ground. And around a thousand people are dying from covid every day.

In Texas, El Paso has had so many deaths, they had to order more refrigerated ‘morgue’ trucks just to store the dead. Utah announced they will have to shut down due to mass outbreaks of the virus. There are huge spikes all across the Midwest. We are setting the wrong kinds of records.

So much winning.

All this death, all this pain, all this grieving, and we have no stimulus package, no help is coming, and probably will NOT be coming as long at Mitch McConnell is in charge of the senate. He's always more interested in power than people, if screwing Americans allows him to keep that power, so be it. He did it before in whacking the American economy and slowing recovery under Obama. He will cite the debt that he and Trump ran up (adding over two trillion from their tax cuts with more to come) and will stand in the way of any help to people that desperately need it. That’s the playbook he worked from before, that’s what he’ll do again. They don't care, unless it's about them. Hell, they all have get free health care, they’re good!  

Who is in charge of the covid-19 program, why has is been a disaster? Trump and Pence, and Jared (sometimes, kinda, sorta, but yeah). They turned it political, made it an act of defiance to go to Walmart without a mask and film yourself swearing at the clerks. Very brave. And once Biden is in charge, how much will his polices be blocked by spite and McConnell’s power plays? President-Elect Biden announced on Monday the members of his new coronavirus task force, a shadow-cabinet that will take on the task that Trump never really bothered to do. That’s the good news, finally an adult is on the room and making decisions. But how much will he be allowed to do, and now much will the GOP try and stop him from doing antything?

I celebrate having decent leadership once again, but worry the GOP will stymie that leadership as much as possible, letting Americans die to keep their power. They are signaling just that right now.

McConnell said he wanted to make Obama a 'one-term president' and he undercut the country to try and do that. He will do it again, and people will die. Again, it’s all about power. They are a minority party, running a minority government, unrepresentative of the country as a whole, and they know it. That’s what installing all the judges has been about; if they get voted out, their policies won’t die, not with the far-right judges keeping them alive, like zombies. If people have to die to keep power, to ‘own the libs’, then so be it.

Trump is pulling a soft coup right now, covid be dammed. We can’t let him.

We must watch, we must keep on this, we must help the Georgia senate run-off races, we must help Biden/Harris fight, because this isn't just their fight, it's ours.

We have to fight for us, and for the 445,557.

He Makes Everything a Train Wreck

Biden and Trump, the New Odd Couple

Good lord, that was a train wreck.

Seriously, what did we just watch?

Over at CNN, Jape Tapper called it “Horrific.” Co-anchor Dana Bash went one better: “You used some high-minded language — I’m going to say it like it is: that was a shit show.”

Shit show. Dana for the win.

Chris Wallace struggled hard to maintain control, but no one can control Trump. He was spewing nonsense on his time, on Biden’s time, talking over Wallace and at times, even interrupting himself.

Insanity. It was supposed to be 90, but it felt like hours. Trump was all over the map, rarely answering the actual question, insulting, lying, arguing, constantly interrupting. Just being an asshole, just being Trump. He was treating the whole thing as a monologue, as if it was a Trump rally.

And when was the last time you saw a moderator tell a sitting president to shut up? We did tonight, several times. Poor Chris Wallace, poor audience. And when Trump was finally, briefly, quiet, he sneered and pouted unable to keep still.

As usual, Joe Biden was, mostly, his calm and affable self. Trump was a bully, verbally shoving and pushing. Even Joe blew up a couple times. Telling Trump to ‘shut up” told him “You’re the worst president America has ever had. Come on!”and criticized his comments calling soldiers ‘suckers’, with Biden’s voice rising in anger, telling Trump that his deceased son who served in Iraq was not a ‘sucker’.

So, did we learn anything?

Well, Biden did fine, and will do fine. He stood up under the Trump blizzard of lies about as well as you can, the verbal vomit coming fast. He wasn’t thrown off too much. Trump is desperate to get attention and has a list of far right-wing conspiracy talking points that he got in regardless of what the actual question was. Biden tried to stick pretty much to the question and get through the constant interruptions.  

Some key moments?

To me, the key moments came towards the end, when Wallace asks both candidates about mail in ballots. Trump went off on his usual slurs and lies about the process, claiming non-existent fraud, and ended with “not going to end well.” It sounded like a threat. When asked if both candidates would pledge to call for peace from their supporters while the counting was going on, and to support the result once the votes were counted. Biden said, outright, of course he would. Trump?

Trump said he would send his supporters to the polls, to ‘watch the polls’ because of ‘fraud’. And he refused to answer the second part, about respecting the results. He said he might have to go to the courts, to the Supreme Court to ‘have the look at the ballots’. So, flood the polls with ‘watchers’ and try to get it in front of the Court where three of the Justices owe their seat to him. Of course that’s what he wants to do. Of course.

Tried to this is the other moment of the night, when Wallace asked Trump to denounce his violent supporters, the white nationalists and ‘militias’ that show up armed to protests. Both Wallace and Biden pressed him, and he hemmed and hawed, and said violence is “not a right-wing problem” and then finally, “Who, who? Give me a name”

Both Wallace and Biden suggested the ‘Proud Boys’, a white nationalist group that often threatens, and does, violence. “Sure, Proud Boys, stand down and stand by.” 

“Stand down and stand by” is not a condemnation. It’s telling armed thugs to ‘wait’. Maybe go to those polling places, with your guns. You know, to ‘watch’ and make sure everything is ‘fair’. Trump kind of ‘fair’.

Trump is dangerous, Trump is trying not to win an election, he knows he can’t, but he’s letting people know how he will try to steal it, and how they can help him do it. The Proud Boys erupted on Twitter at Trump’s ‘shout out’.

Biden won the night, but it wasn’t much of a night. He showed the world a contrast of decency versus angry bullying, clear competency versus incompetency, planning versus no plan. And I hope that will be enough

Dana Bash was right, total ‘shit show’.

Let’s go vote.

Your Vote is Illegitimate

“The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged.”

If you don’t vote Trump, your vote doesn’t matter, and can be rejected. End of story.

This is the message Trump is telling his supporters, telling them that the other side, no matter who they are, are illegitimate; their votes are illegitimate, their opposition is illegitimate, their opinions are illegitimate, their protests are illegitimate, they, themselves, their lives, friends and families, are illegitimate. It’s okay to ignore them, okay to treat them as less, okay to maybe kill them, they’re illegitimate after all. As his HHS assistant secretary Michael Caputo said: “And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin. The drills that you’ve seen are nothing,” he added, “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

Okay to kill those who disagree with you; they are other, they are wrong in themselves, they are dangerous, they are illegitimate.

Trump also claims the Governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak (D) “is the same guy that’s gonna be in charge of the ballots. I’m winning that state easily (he’s not) but the one thing we can’t beat, if they cheat on the ballots, now he will cheat on the ballots, I have no doubt about it.”

Trump is giving himself and his supporters permission to ignore the results of a fair election. Any election he loses is not a fair election. Any election he loses needs to be resisted, fought against, and put down.

Arm yourselves, they are coming for you.

This is designed to do tremendous arm to civil discourse and society. This is designed to encourage the violence and panic Trump claims he is against. This licenses his supporters to do anything, by any means, to keep Trump himself in power. This is openly calling for the civil war the right has been talking about, and thirsting for, for decades

This is the insanity that fuels the grievance on the right, the anger and belief that they’ve been screwed, and it’s the left doing the screwing. For this you have to ignore the decades of the GOP (and the Democrats, yes) shipping jobs overseas, of the ‘trickle down’ promises that never, ever materialized, of culture baiting for votes while shifting power and wealth to the rich. Once you’ve established this to your own satisfaction (not hard to do when you’re inside the bubble, talking only to true believers like yourself) than anything you do to ‘fight back’ is justified. Arm yourself, the ‘libtard’ mob is coming for your home, you women, your country.

This undermining of democracy is not a secret, it’s happening right in front of us, right in the open. Trump has captured most the election machinery, and what he can’t control, he is openly undermining, with the enthusiastic help of the GOP. First, you declare the other side to be illegitimate, you demonize them, making any move against you (like, say, voting) seem as a move against the country, against your followers ‘values’, as something ‘sick’ and unnatural. Then you go about encouraging violence against anyone who disagrees with you (see the support the armed mobs charging statehouses get, the police brutality and the shooting and running over of protesters), then denial of of legitimate votes that don’t go ‘your’ way, stating things like only that the votes counted the night of the election are legitimate, and then you undermine the USPS and vote by mail as ‘fraud’.

Trump is stealing the election and encouraging his followers to fight any vote that doesn’t end with four more years of Trump in the White House. He refuses to say if he’ll accept any result that doesn’t go his way. His minions have called for armed insurrection if they don’t get the result they want.

As David Frum said:

“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” 

They are warning us right now of what they intend to do.

Take them seriously.

It’s Going to be Ugly.

What the GOP thinks matters. Insane. Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via Getty Image

The DNC has been a pretty good show so far, making the case for Biden/Harris. They been very inclusive, and not in an over done ‘look! We have POC too!’ kind of way both parties have been guilty of in the past. All kinds of people, every walk of life are there, speaking truth and holding out a hand. They’ve tried to include everyone.

Even Republicans.

Really, Biden/Harris is not reaching out to just the ‘Democratic base’, they are reaching past them, reaching out to, well, everyone. And people are listening.

The RNC, who was holding out hopes for an in-person gathering up until a couple weeks ago (North Carolina! No, Florida, No….online?) are way behind and will have to play some serious catch up. The announcement that the the St. Louis ‘gun couple’ Mark and Patricia McCloskey will be featured speakers is not sign of outreach, ‘big tent’ style GOP (who remembers that phrase? Used to be thrown around quite a bit in the Reagan/Bush years.), it’s a sign of four nights of bitter white grievance and anger, finger pointing and ignoring (how could they not?) the est 200,000 dead from Trump’s negligence. There will be very little about that. Putting people like the McCloskey’s front and center tell us all we really need to know about what GOP thinks the issues are, and how seriously they will treat those issues.

And they will continue to call Joe Biden a ‘radical leftist’. Joe Biden… radical. Sorry, literally no sane person with eyes believes that. The fact is they keep pushing a losing narrative because, what else they got?

With a cratered economy, with those 200,000 dead, with an uncontrolled virus killing indiscriminately, with people in the streets seeking a racial justice denied them for centuries, Trump and the GOP thinks it’s a good idea to get two idiots who practice extremely poor gun safety and think pointing guns at people walking by your house, is a good and wise thing. They are not reaching ’beyond their base’, they are catering to them, and ONLY them. They do not care about convincing anyone beyond the ever-narrowing, ever-whitening, base. They have no real interest in adding to their party, no, they are actively subtracting from it; ‘canceling’ those not Trump enough, not toeing their lies enough, and not hating enough.

I fully expect the RNC is watching what the DNC is doing and taking notes. Except they’ll be tossing out the hope and dialing up the anger, the grievance at being a dying minority.

It’s gonna be a four day fear/hate fest, and Trump will speak every freakin’ night because… Trump.

It’s going to be ugly.