Mike 03
Mike 03's JournalTwo things aren't mutually exclusive
It's possible to both be excited by the polls and to work hard.
Being hopeful and excited about the polls is not equal to complacency.
If we aren't excited and hopeful, what is the point? The next five months would be pure agony if we weren't hopeful about something.
Some people work harder when they are motivated by the prospect of winning. Ask any athlete if it's possible to both work hard and simultaneously believe you are going to win.
It's difficult to do a psych profile of a world leader who keeps his mouth shut, like
Kim Jong Un or, to a lesser extent, Putin. It's probably a dream job to be working in MI6 or Mossad and be asked to assemble a profile of Donald Trump.
It's almost as if he's siding with the virus
It screws with your mind when you realize you're not only fighting the virus but your own country's leadership that is telling you your common sense perceptions of unfolding events are wrong.
In January 1945, as the Red Army encroached from the eastern front, and the Western Allies encroached from the west, and cities were firebombed, Goebbels still reassured Germans that if they dug enough trenches and fought hard enough the war was still winnable.
Last year he made matters much, much worse for himself on
Twitter when he actually argued it should be legal for a man his age to have sex with a young teenager. Anybody remember that?
First he denied it.
Then he said he kept his underwear on.
Then he said there was nothing wrong with it, and that it should be legal.
Then Twitter users asked him if he was drunk-tweeting.
Then he said he was just speaking hypothetically.
Agree about Chris Steele
He was the former head of the Russia desk at MI6.
Tangentially related, one of the clearest explanations I've ever encountered of the perplexing relationship between the United Kingdom and Putin's Russia is to be found in From Russia With Blood by Heidi Blake. It's an extraordinary, almost thrilling, look at why Britain tended to conceal or treat lightly assassinations by Putin on British soil (until it could no longer be reasonably ignored), but it gets heavily into the politics. I think in a sense it's related to why May and Johnson might "turn a blind eye to allegations about Trump."
There's been smoke around the Giuliani/Barr relationship since the release of
the Ukraine (truncated) transcript, where Trump tells Zelensky to get in touch with Barr. Barr distanced himself assiduously but it was suspicious. There are probably some parts of this story I'm forgetting. Barr went nation-shopping to find something--perhaps dirt on Hunter Biden/Burisma. Those two are very much connected so it wouldn't be surprising if an investigation into Giuliani implicated Barr.
The police scanner has been interesting
There have been numerous incidents, one in particular: a person or persons impersonating the Secret Service who could produce no credentials when asked. Also, some early preparation for VP Pence. Sounds like he might be arriving early, although it's hard to tell from the police traffic exactly what the situation is.
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/17430
In the summer if 1944, when Hitler's health noticeably deteriorated,
he drastically curtailed public appearances and let Speer and Himmler take over as the public face of Nazi-ism. Trump doesn't know any better. The whole Trump Thing is riding on him alone, and he's under intense pressure.
Now, Dr. Bandy Lee says Trump won't "break down". But I hope she's wrong.
I don't know about the number of debates.
If I were advising Biden, I'd coach him to talk past Trump and directly to the audience, and to speak of Trump in the third person unless the debate rules specified otherwise. Almost like he's speaking about the coronavirus.
I think Trump is bluffing about wanting four debates. I'll be surprised if he does two.
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