Mary Trump - A Black Hole of Need

I've been thinking about one scene in Arthur in particular. It’s at the beginning of the movie, and in it, Arthur, who is very drunk, brings the prostitute he’s hired to the Plaza Hotel for drinks. On the way to their table, they run into his aunt and uncle.

He introduces his companion as a princess from a very small country in the West Indies. The reason I've been thinking about that scene is because of crowd sizes. Any reasonable person, anybody with an ounce of maturity, anybody with any understanding of how politics works in this country, knows that crowd size has absolutely nothing to do with what happens on election day—which brings us to Donald.

As you’re probably aware, Donald has been equating his crowd sizes with his electoral power, even with his worth as a human being. By the same token, he’s denigrated anybody who he claims can’t draw big crowds—as he accused Pres. Biden of being unable to do in 2020 even though we were in the middle of a global pandemic. We know that was one of his biggest criticisms against President Biden before he started attacking President Biden for being three years older than he was.

Well, things have changed, haven't they? In the three weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris has taken Biden’s place at the top of the Democratic ticket, this whole election has been turned on its head. In terms of the rallies—and the size, energy, and enthusiasm of the crowds—it's been a 180-degree turn. Donald isn't exactly handling it well. At his so-called “press conference” last week, he actually claimed, contrary to all available evidence, including the evidence we could see with our own eyes, that his crowd sizes continue to be the biggest ever in history.

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