Category Archives: Politics

Weak on China

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

I like this one.

Does double duty – jabs Trump (ties into Bolton revelations too) and inoculates Biden.

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#TrumpIsNotWell

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

I don’t like this ad much, but I think it’s probably going to be effective.

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Look What Came in the Mail

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

I got an unexpected package yesterday.

It came with a note:

This reminds me of the time that Rachel Regalado sent me an apple when she was running for school board. (Teachers, apples, geddit?) At the time I thought someone had too much campaign money. Now, I don’t know whether to salute non-traditional COVID campaigning, or what.

I do love Cuban coffee, but it used to be a going-out treat back in the days when we went out — too much sugar for every day; in fact, I don’t actually have an espresso maker. If you have an espresso maker and got left out, don’t worry, the Shalala for Congress campaign will gladly sell you a package or more and ship it too.

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“America or Trump”

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

Sums it up.

Here’s another video from the Lincoln Project called “Crowds“.

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This Should Be Effective

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

I can’t imagine how the Trump campaign answers this except by trying to change the subject.

Pointing out that Biden makes verbal slip-ups all the time won’t help, since the numbers are wholly different orders of magnitude. Even Biden’s famous biographical plagiarism of Neil Kinnock was a long time ago. Plus generally whoever strikes first on a issue owns it. Karl Rove taught us that.

Update: This one is good too!

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Trump’s Dukakis Moment

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

I’m old enough to remember how Michael Dukakis got pilloried for this photo op he staged of him riding around in a tank:

There were a lot of reasons for it: Dukakis looked uncomfortable; the public became convinced that he was being a fake — acting against type, doing something he didn’t really believe in — and there was, I always suspected, a tinge of resemblance to the late Alfred E. Newman.

I think there’s a good chance, assuming we’re not under occupation at the time, that we’ll look back at this week’s Trump photo op in the same way.  I’m talking about the one where, after having police clear out lawful protestors from across the White House, in which he holds aloft some random Bible (Q: “Is that your Bible?” A: “It’s a Bible”) while looking — like Dukakis did — as the answer to What Does Not Belong in This Picture?

Acting against type, doing something he doesn’t really believe in.  Not a good look, it turns out.

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