So many contradictions, so little time, as non-socially distanced followers are kept away from Trump by a thin white line.

x What about everyone else? https://t.co/XExDwnbqOO — Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) September 14, 2020

x Notice the big empty space on the right? That's where @realDonaldTrump “works” the ropeline. The white line tells him how close he can get to the crowd and still be socially distant. The crowd, on the other hand … no such protections. The irony is thick in Trumpilvania pic.twitter.com/Nje8n9fwWb — Greg Jenkins (@jenkinsgreg) September 13, 2020

x This isn't supposed to be funny but it's SPOT ON pic.twitter.com/g8rhdsNYLp — Taisha Richardson (@MsLadyTai7) September 15, 2020

x “In groups, people aren't always rational.” https://t.co/kErJCPnYEP — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 15, 2020

x If Trump wins in November and Democrats do not gain control of the Senate, it will be the end of American democracy and there will be a Trump in the White House for the next 20-30 years. Happy Monday! — Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) September 14, 2020

Because if you support the GOP you should support the (Russian) troops.

x Trump ad asks people to support the troops. But it uses a picture of Russian jets https://t.co/qgRHhKb0Rx via @politico — Lauren Peikoff (@laurenpeikoff) September 15, 2020 Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, confirmed that the planes are Russian MiG-29s, and also said the soldier on the far right in the ad carries an AK-74 assault rifle. The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is run by both the Republican National Committee and the campaign. Most of the low-dollar and digital donations raised by the committee goes to the campaign. The image in the ad is a stock photo available on Shutterstock.com with the title “Military silhouettes of soldiers and airforce against the backdrop of sunset sky.” The creator of the image, named “BPTU,” says they are based in Andorra, but did not respond to a Facebook message. The MiG-29, a twin-engine fighter jet designed in the Soviet Union that first flew in 1977, is the Russians’ mainstay fighter jet and has been sold all over the world. It was developed during the Cold War specifically to counter American F-15 and F-16s, and the U.S. even obtained a few to play the adversary in war games. The planes have recently been spotted at a Russian air base in Syria and also Libya. […] […] The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The RNC declined to comment. Politicians have gotten in trouble in the past for running ads or creating content that featured Russian or other countries’ military equipment. Last October, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) tweeted a picture of the Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy with the comment: “Happy birthday to the US Navy. To the men and women who serve to keep our waters safe, we thank you.” His office later took the tweet down.

Are people merely voting against Trump rather than voting for Biden, it would be sad if that becomes a lasting meme, even if that’s what gets folks to the polls (mailing their ballots). Some are already predicting doom and a constitutional crisis.​

​OTOH some folks may have taken the gaming situation too far.

Trump’s opponents are so concerned that he might steal the election that they have forgotten to worry that he might simply win it. x Agree completely. Can we make sure Trump actually loses before we worry about what he'll do should that happen? https://t.co/OzdOeWY4dQ — Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) September 14, 2020 Of course, the fact that Trump ultimately prevailed in a clean and constitutionally legitimate Electoral College victory then doesn’t invalidate alarm about Trump’s willingness to wreak havoc now. Not even victory prevented him from alleging that mass voter fraud had been conducted against him in 2016; he’s absolutely certain to publicly challenge the results of this year’s election no matter who ultimately wins. And the concerns that Trump and sympathetic Republicans might actively work to stymie or obstruct the full counting of votes this time around are well justified. But we also shouldn’t neglect the possibility that Donald Trump might win the election just as he did in 2016—by the time the counts are done, he comes out genuinely ahead in the states he needs to win the Electoral College again. What happens then? […] The project of rectifying all this with more resources and a broader substantive commitment to the popular vote from progressive groups and leaders will be vital in the long run. In the short run, obviously, it’s already too late—it is entirely possible Trump will again emerge the victor of a ludicrous and indefensible electoral system that, panicked as they might be about the trajectory of American democracy, nobody in national politics has made a serious effort to challenge. newrepublic.com/…

The thing is, we know what to do if Trump wins. The accelerationists will have won as will have the monumentally ignorant.

x Just a reminder that while we each scrambled for weeks to buy hand sanitizer and toilet paper, the White House already knew COVID-19 was an airborne virus. https://t.co/kHn5chipEi — David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) September 15, 2020 It’s impossible to know exactly how many lives would have been saved if Trump had been a president of below-average competence who simply followed the lead of his administration’s own disease control experts. David Leonhardt’s estimate of 145,000, which is the number of Americans who would be alive if our share of global virus deaths was the same as our share of the world population, seems reasonable. But we don’t have a sub-replacement-level president of below-average competence. We have a sociopathic narcissist who knew exactly how dangerous the virus is, but who was dead-set from the very beginning on lying to the public and actively opposing and undermining his own government’s capacity for effective pandemic response. And all because he thought it would make him look bad, hurt the economy, and hurt his re-election chances. Whatever that is, it’s worse than mere manslaughter. It wasn’t passive. It wasn’t accidental. It wasn’t unavoidable. It took active malice to kill this many Americans. It dishonors their memory, as well as the skill and competence of America’s stellar but stymied disease control officials, to let him off the hook. www.niskanencenter.org/…

x I think you should use the word “weaponization” rather than politicization. More accurate. #WordsMatter Trump is weaponizing the media, the DOJ and national intelligence. #WeaponizeTheTruth pic.twitter.com/Tx1x1eFByw — Jzikah (@jzikah) September 14, 2020

x Nobody has ever spent a *billion* dollars to go down 10 points. Don, you got conned. pic.twitter.com/fr2ltxFHU1 — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 14, 2020

x 📺 NEW VIDEO Retweet if you are ready to use the Republican playbook against Republicans. Donald Trump cannot be trusted with children and damn sure can’t be trusted to lead the country. #PedoTrump pic.twitter.com/SrYlbM2ozI — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 15, 2020