They're trying to control the narrative

[live love laugh]

Again.

As Covid wreaks devastation in red states “coincidental” renewed protests are flaring up again in Portland and now Chicago. Secret federal police are kidnapping people off the streets. (It’s already been verified by the FBI during the Floyd protests that disruptions were initiated by right-wing infiltrators.)

And both Trump and Stone took to the airwaves spewing racist filth.

If nothing else is predictable, it’s that radical Republican fascists feel justified in achieving their ends by any means necessary.

Racism, violence or death mean nothing as long as they get what they want. And they want it all. Starting with the narrative.

[kurtcagle]

1. Yes, but they've lost it

The problem with trying to control the narrative in the middle of a pandemic is that the damn virus always keeps styling the mic back.

We're coming up on 140,000 deaths, and will hit 150,000 by the end of August at this rate. If discoveries about the difficulty of the body to produce long term antibodies is any indication, even if it does start dwindling again (and it will), it will get worse in the fall as the first wave of immunity wears off and people start spending more time together again.

Trump's convention is turning into a bust already, and he's going to be hard-pressed to fill any arena for photo-ops. Biden's will be low key but well planned because they've accepted that the virus will be a factor. You can already feel the momentum shifting - even the talking heads are talking about what Biden will need to do after the election. The smart GOP politicians are beginning to distance themselves from Trump, and the Democrats are boxing them in by painting them as being Trump sycophants.That's usually a very good sign leading up to an election.