Apparently, President Obama makes a playlist every year for his summer fun time on Marthaâs Vineyard. Playlists by politicians are common, and usually are big nothingburgers. Obama has a âDayâ playlist and a âNightâ list. This year, The Atlantic approves of Mr. Obamaâs night playlist, and thinks the day list is a snooze. Guess critics gotta criticize.
Make up your own mind: here is the Obama âNightâ playlist.
It was a big week in manufactured news. Trump dominates, but Politico speaks about the Trump campaign thusly: (emphasis by the Wrongologist)
Whatâs bothering people on the [Trump] campaign is that they feel like theyâre doing all the right things, but theyâre losing every news cycle to Hillary and thereâs nothing they can do about it.
Itâs doubtful that Clinton has won a news cycle since the convention, but what the Trump campaign is trying to say is that Clinton doesnât need to win a news cycle as long as Trump âmisspeaksâ every day. From Karoli Kuns at C&L: (brackets by the Wrongologist)
I think thatâs precious, donât you? Considering that Trump dominates the news for every cycle with his intentional demonization of President Barack Obama and [his] opponent, Hillary Clinton, itâs hard to imagine Republicans wringing their tiny little hands over losing news cycles to her.
Ok, the GOP should keep explaining Trumpâs gaffes until America is tired of all the winning.
On to cartoons. Simone Biles gave us a feel-good moment:
This is the one Burka that Trump likes:
With all of the âresetsâ and âmansplainingâ, the GOP could lose its balance:
This is as understandable as any other explanation by Monsieur big mouth:
Trumpâs new tax policy is same old, same old. Itâs a reconstitution of the standard Republican trickle-down economics that benefits big corporations and a wealthy few: