Rachel Maddow pretended to cry about "kids in cages". Matt Hancock pretended to cry about Covid vaccines. Sarah Sidner pretended to cry over covid. Anderson Cooper pretended to cry about Israel, so did John Kirby. Van Jones pretended to cry after Biden "won" the 2020 "election". Adam Schiff and Adam Kinzinger both pretended to cry about January 6th.

Don Lemon pretends to cry about pretty much everything.

They all do it, and they're all so bad at it.

And speaking of pretending badly, remember those early photos of people in China lying in the street, straight as planks, supposedly killed by "Covid"?

As if this scary new virus just snuffs you out mid-step to topple backwards flat on the ground in a perfect silent movie pratfall.

And it's not just "Covid".

During the run-up to the 2020 election "pretending badly" was happening everywhere.

We were told, over and over again, "It's going to look like Trump won, but then Biden will win at the last minute because of postal ballots".

And gosh darnit – they were right!

Out of nowhere Joe Biden – 'Creepy Uncle Joe' – who in early 2020 was obviously the least popular democratic candidate, and even more obviously going senile – is transmogrified into the most popular presidential candidate

of ALL TIME…

…shattering the popular vote records by over 13 million votes.

Such is the power of bad pretending , when you just don't give a crap about plausibility or boring details of historical precedent.

That was, of course, following Biden's "miracle turnaround" in the primaries, where massive defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire left his campaign "teetering on the abyss".