In a kinesthesia-like experience, I’m really getting sick of the T-Rump and everything about him — today another cruel swip at  humanity:

It is not normal for the president to share campaign videos nearly two months after he decisively lost https://t.co/rhB9fXjZwL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 28, 2020

A piece of incompetent shit. During the ‘Stand for Peace’ segment, an image of a Nobel Prize is shown — what-the-living fuck!
Via Mediaite:

The timing here is…not well done.

Amid overlapping economic and public health crises and nearly eight weeks after the election, Donald Trump tweeted out a hagiographic, campaign-style video cheerleading his presidency, which mimicked the old, “Beef… It’s what’s for dinner” marketing blitz.

The one-minute video released on Monday afternoon overlays patriotic displays and campaign trail images of Trump with American composer Aaron Copland’s famous “Hoedown,” which was used for years as the rousing, musical backdrop of commercials by the Beef Industry Council.
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Trump’s closing tag line makes the connection between the two clear, as he literally hugs a flag and the screen reads: “Trump…He’s What’s for America.”
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Even in a short video with no spoken words, Trump also manages to push a misleading narrative.
At one point, the video superimposes a picture of the Nobel Peace Prize medal atop of images of him celebrating normalization agreements between Israel and both Bahrain and the United Arab Emierates.
Trump has, in fact, never won a Nobel Peace Prize.

And in a final, unfortunate coincidence for Trump, the former pitchman for the Beef Industry Council’s iconic ads, the inimitable Sam Elliott, came out solidly against Trump in the final days of the 2020 campaign, narrating a stirring, one-minute ad for Biden that ran during the World Series:

What can one say to all that?

In context, T-Rump’s heart-retching video shows an even way-more blindness/deafness to all the horrible, ugly shit happening around the orange turd-fucker. The guy is really, really mentally disturbed in the most-acute sense — he can’t see his own hands in front of his face, and actually doesn’t care to see or be aware. Apparently, after decades of self denial he’s encased in ignorant, incompentent dreamland, though, of the meanest kind.

Amanda Marcotte ties the nasty cords together in a piece this afternoon at Salon, describing a most-ugly human in a cold-dumb quest for making a deal on the COVID/spending bill– in conclusion:

No, as I argued last week, what Trump was up to was likely an extortion scheme, which is the only trick up his sleeve — and one he’s not even particularly good at pulling.
Trump believes, incorrectly, that McConnell and other Senate Republicans know how to steal the election, but are holding out on him.
He hoped that by threatening McConnell’s meager bill and therefore threatening the re-election of the two Georgia senators McConnell needs to hold onto his Senate majority Trump could shake the secrets to election theft out of McConnell.
But, being bad at this, Trump didn’t consider certain flaws in the plan, starting with the fact that McConnell simply has no way to steal the election for him and extortion will not change that fact.
Nor did Trump consider that he would have to endure the humiliation of Democrats dunking on him non-stop.

Politico reports that Trump only signed the compromise bill “after days of being lobbied by allies,” including Sen. Lindsey Graham, R.-S.C., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
What they said to him is not clear, especially since Trump, whose only interest is in himself, is unlikely to be interested in arguments about signing this bill for the good of the Republican party.

No, Trump likely only moved because it became evident that his extortion scheme had blown up spectacularly in his face, alienating the very people he (falsely) believes will be able to stop Biden’s election certification on January 6.

But this should be no surprise.
Trump’s reputation as a skillful negotiator was always nonsense, the product of his only real talent, which is media manipulation.
As Michael Kruse in Politico detailed in 2018, an examination of the evidence shows that Trump spent decades failing at even the easiest negotiations, blowing up a series of business deals and repeatedly incurring major bankruptcies.
It’s true that Trump did have some early successes in the late 70s and early 80s, but odds are that’s because his lawyer/fixer Roy Cohn did the hard work for him.
After Cohn’s death, Trump’s almost comical inability to negotiate became evident to anyone looking at the actual books and not listening to Trump’s endless bragging.

So that’s where Trump stands now: He didn’t get anything he wanted, and, by making a pointless stink about all this, he’s aggravated allies and invited his opponents to exploit him in embarrassing ways.
He gave Democrats leverage to negotiate for a bigger bill, though it’s still unlikely to pass Republicans, who didn’t even really want the compromise bill.
Ultimately, he exposed to Georgia voters what Mitch McConnell was trying to hide: Republicans are blocking their opportunity to get bigger checks.

The situation would be comical, except for the very real human cost to all of this.

Bottom line, once again: ‘Trump got taken to the cleaners.‘

Stain is still there…

(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘The Weeping Woman [La Femme qui pleure],’ found here).