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Originally Posted by sterlingice
Lots of time between now and election day. If the election were held next week, I'd agree. But I can't wait until we're mid-October and the media, especially the Fox wing, are talking about Hunter Biden or some other horseshit instead of, you know, mangling a pandemic response and stoking a race war.
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Someone on twitter was pointing out last night just how different 2016 was. We sort of forget that NOTHING IMPORTANT WAS HAPPENING in 2016. So "lady sends some work emails from her home account" was, literally, the biggest story of the election. Like, New York Times 96-point-type headlines kind of stuff.
It isn't like the GOP isn't trying to do the same thing this cycle (Hunter Biden! Obamagate! Biden said something nice about China that one time!). But none of it is getting out beyond the FoxNews/OANN bubble because even the New York Times has to acknowledge that a mismanaged global pandemic, depression-era unemployment numbers, and police clashing with protesters across the country are actual news stories. And they are taking up all the oxygen in the room. There's no more room on page one.
And, whenever there is the slightest chance that there might be enough of a break to allow some propaganda story through, the President does something like "joke" about wanting to limit testing and then announce that he is cutting off federal funds for testing.
So, yeah, November is still a ways off. But the GOP will need Trump to both shut up between now and then AND to stop horribly mismanaging the actual crises going on right now. I just don't see him doing either of those--let alone both.