Which side are you on?
While The Poor People's Campaign was celebrating its "National Call For Moral Revival" in a virtual march on Washington, DC, this past Saturday, President Donald Trump was performing his self-gratifying, demagogic, stand up comedy act in Tulsa -- mocking the nation's plight as it awakens to systemic racism and battles an unprecedented pandemic that has killed more than 120,000 people in just a few months.
The contrast between the two events couldn't be greater.
The choice between which movement to support, couldn't be more grave.
While people are still dying from Covid-19, and others are still grieving the deaths of loved ones at the hands of the lethal virus and racist, militarized cops, the President went up on stage and played the class clown for a let down crowd of some 6,000 or so.
"You know testing is a double-edged sword," Trump said, bragging that the United States had tested 25 million people. "Here's the bad part ... when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people; you're going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down, please."
Ba-dump-bump.
Whether he was kidding or just further muddying up his criminal role in exacerbating the virus, by pretending that he was kidding about something he very well may have done, it doesn't much matter.
It's a creepy, shallow, damning thing to say. But that's Trump. As I tweeted when he said it, he'll say he was kidding. And his camp did. Hey, it's all part of the Trump schtick.
And it's just another reminder that the press should pay little mind to his clown show, stand up rallies that are devoid of substance or anything redeeming, and pay closer attention to his actual war on law and order in this country.
So, which side are you on?
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