Trump's call to unity didn't reach his own ears

here was a loud banging on pots and pans all over the electric Twitter machine last night when The New York Times front page coverage of Monday's presidential* address popped up with the headline:

Trump Urges Unity Against Racism

For reasons that are plainly obvious—and for people who are plainly oblivious—this headline is dangerously unmoored from our present reality. [...] People announced that they had reached their personal Popeye lines—they haz all they can stands and they can't stands no more!—and cancelled their subscriptions. Beto O'Rourke personally tweeted his disgust, as did Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It didn't take long for the Times to replace the offending headline with something just as banal, but not quite as insulting—Assailing Hate But Not Guns. Whoo, doggies! That's a piping hot take right there.

  Charles P Pierce

Trump noticed.   (Rather, Fox & Friends noticed, knowing Trump was watching their segment, and Trump tagged Tucker Carlson as if he might not mention it on his segment otherwise.)

I wasn't worried because I knew the president* and the rest of the folks down at Camp Runamuck quickly would squander the free ride given to them by the Times. Sure enough, the president checked in with his favorite morning show, Three Dolts On A Divan, and retweeted some wisdom from Dolt No. 3.

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Expect to hear a lot about how Connor Betts, the Dayton mass murderer, was a "leftist" because his feed on the electric twitter machine made references to Senator Professor Warren and Antifa. Kellyanne Conway appeared on Three Dolts On A Divan and declared herself "hopping mad" that the Dayton shooting isn't being hung on SPW the way the El Paso massacre is being hung around the barely discernible neck of her boss. Of course, Betts impresses the average person as having been a thoroughgoing misogynist sociopath all the way back to high school, and he didn't write a long manifesto about how he Had A Plan to murder his sister and whoever else happened to be nearby, but you can be sure that this will come up again and again, even in the ostensibly respectable press.

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The Unity Against Racism Tour '19 lasted less than 24 hours, or only slightly longer than the offending headline stayed up on the NYT website.

Three Dolts On A Divan. LOL. I hope Charlie doesn't mind if I use that one. (If I can remember it.)