October 1, 2020:

 October 1, 2020: The economy has a long way to go before we see a full recovery. That doesn’t stop President Trump from claiming we’ve turned the economic corner (not to be confused with turning the coronavirus corner). We’re going to come roaring back if we vote for him and not Joe Biden.

 

In the latest weekly reporting period, 1,487,000 Americans filed for unemployment under various government programs. Now that Paycheck Protection Loans are running out, Disney has announced it will cut 28,000 jobs at its amusement parks. United Airlines and American Airlines will cut 32,000.

 

You may still be in good hands with Allstate; but the company is cutting 7,600 hands, or 3,800 workers.

 

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ALSO: White House Babe Hope Hicks has tested positive for COVID-19. Nevertheless, the president decides he will still go to a fundraiser in Bedminster, New Jersey. The president and his wife will be tested after they get back to the White House. (See: 10/2/21.)

Wear a mask to ward off COVID, or when repointing a chimney.

 

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FORMER MONTANA GOVERNOR and former head of the Republican National Committee, Mark Racicot, announces that he is not crazy.  

“Even as a Republican, I will not be supporting Donald Trump for president,” he says, “and I will not be voting for him. That means that I’ll be voting for Joe Biden for president.” A chief executive, at any level, he notes, must have “a sense of decency, a sense of respect, a sense of hard work.” 

None of which describes Trump. 

 

Racicot added that he did not expect to agree with many of Biden’s policies. But he suggested that “the content of a man’s character” trumped “any other issue.” 

Amen. 

 

POSTSCRIPT: White House Press Banshee Kayleigh McEnany tries to explain away Trump’s call for the Proud Boys to “stand back, but stand by,” and his failure during Tuesday’s debate to unequivocally condemn white supremacists. 

(It’s like blowing your chance to condemn Hitler or Stalin. Or Putin. Or Kim-Jong un. In other words, Trump has blown this question many times before.)

 

Even John Roberts, on Fox News, has had enough. After McEnany blames the media for exaggerating the story, he fumes, “So stop deflecting. Stop blaming the media. I’m tired of it.”