Trump used to intentionally light up the media with a hundred incendiary stories

[Tom Rinaldo]

It kept us all playing whack a mole, with the media unable to do justice to every specific outrage. The result kept Democrats perennially off balance, pivoting from one outrageous matter to the next, unable to adequately rebut all of Trump's total lies while he just kept wracking up points for his hard core base.

Now that dynamic has been turned on its head. Every other hour it seems more news breaks to throw Trump totally off balance while he flails on the defensive. A court case here, a battlefield poll there, a title wave of Covid-19 hospitalizations engulfing states that followed his "open up" lead, continuing accounts of lethal injustice against minorities which finally are stirring the conscience of most of white America, and the list goes on. The question has been called, who still stands with the Confederacy? Increasingly it is just Donald J. Trump and his dwindling band of racist brothers. People longed for healing and Trump made headlines tear gassing peaceful protesters with calls to "dominate" the streets

Trump insisted on starting up his mass political rallies and moved the convention to Florida where he would be allowed to stuff thousands into a hall to revel in his hate speech, and then the pandemic fear meter started registering off the charts in the very places where he planned super spreader events. Each day America wakes up to another brutal anti-Trump ad released by the Lincoln Project to get tongues wagging, followed by another poll showing Trump's electoral support collapsing, followed by more insider leaks about growing Republican despair. Each day more news comes out showing that William Barr has become the presidents consigliere and that our Justice system is being weaponized on behalf of Trump. Meanwhile Bolton is ripping Trump up and down as a fool while pundits are eagerly anticipating a tell all family dirty laundry book by Trump's niece.

Because he just can't help himself, Trump just threw his Justice Department behind the official effort to have the Supreme Court throw out the entire Affordable Care Act; in the midst of a still growing deadly pandemic. He was once again rebuffed by all of America's traditional allies when they rejected his call to expand the G7 so that Russia could once again be part of the club, and then the news breaks that Russia had a bounty on American heads in Afghanistan and Trump's Administration has known abut it for months, and done absolutely nothing about it.

The news cycle has become a daily expose of Trump's continuing criminal malfeasance and utter ineptitude as President, and there hasn't been a damn thing he can do to stop it.

[soothsayer]

1. Are we sure it's not his doing?

Half of it is.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. By that do you mean his intent?

The fact that our nation has been going to hell is certainly in large part Trump's doing.

[soothsayer]

5. Ha, I did mean intent

And doing. But mostly intent.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. Oh, and then there is the economy...

Opening up is shutting down and moving closer to reverse, and a rash of government programs to help keep people afloat are due to start expiring in just over a month. Meanwhile with no government help yet is sight, States and Cites are approaching massive layoffs in the public sector. I expect that too will be start generating more headlines soon.

[Yavin4]

4. Cut to the chase and demand his resignation from office.

There should be a chorus of voices demanding it. Any investigation won't result in anything because Senate Republicans are too cowardly to do anything about it. Waiting until the election could result in thousands more Americans dying.

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. This is why I push for the "Full court press"

don't give him a chance to go on the offensive again. And don't let his enablers off the hook - demand that they explain their defence of the madness.

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. Good point. It's not just Trump who is back on his heels right now

All of the Senators running for reelection, all of the Congressional Reps, the whole damn Republican Party is on the spot. Silence is complicity, and trying to respond with mere gibberish that doesn't offend Trump and "his base" now exposes their utter weakness.