One of the things I don't like about Donald Trump — apart from being a pathologically-lying sociopath who doesn't care how much damage he does in his desperate need to feel like a "winner" — is how hard he is to ignore. I just know that he has someone check my site every day or so and if they come back and say, "Evanier's not writing about you," he thinks up some attention-grabbing outrage to simultaneously make you pay attention to him and distract you from other, more ghastly things he's done.
I actually had a dream recently where there's some generic Democrat and some generic Republican arguing. The Democrat says "Trump is shredding the social safety net for the poor and elderly, inflaming racial hatred with his embrace of white supremacists, responsible for a bad response to a pandemic that has killed 100,000+ Americans and left millions more confined to their home…" And that list goes on and on and on. And then the Republican says, "Hey, both sides do bad things. What about Obama wearing that tan suit?"
At least it went something like that. Anyway, just in case I have to state the obvious, my heart is with the protesters as is some of my money. (I thought about where to put it and decided that if anyone can use the courts to right some of the wrongs done to them and the massive one to George Floyd, it'll be the A.C.L.U.)
And I'd just like to remind everyone that a point I keep making is that between now and the time Donald J. Trump is out of office, "what this election is about" is going to keep changing and shifting and growing ever more unpredictable. Not all that long ago, it looked like it was going to be about whether Trump had tried extorting a foreign nation to either dig up dirt on Hunter Biden or make it look like there just have been some because they were investigating.
Nobody thought it would be about a global pandemic that killed so many people, harmed the lives of others and tanked our economy. Nobody thought it would be about a black guy in Minneapolis who was executed without a trial for suspicion of passing a bogus $20 bill. Nobody thought it would be about whatever it's going to be about next month and the month after and every minute until November…and even probably after that as Trump and his minions deny the validity of every vote he doesn't get.
No one has ever been able to determine with any credibility, who it was who first said, "May you live in interesting times." Whoever it was, he or she is probably long dead, which is a shame. Because if that person was alive, I'd like to find them and beat the crap outta them as they yelled, "I didn't mean this interesting!"