I scream, you scream...

It's official:  The Gang of Putin is scared.

The news of the weekend is not that Trump won the South Carolina primary.  It's that he only won 60 percent of the vote to Nikki Haley's 40 percent.  True, she is the former governor, but shouldn't the Anointed One be winning more decisively?  Has he TS'd about South Carolina voters who say they would hesitate to vote for him in November?  (Or as one woman put it, in terms he can understand, "Hope he chokes on a sandwich.")

As Trump spirals into incoherence, the GOP is pushing the "Biden is senile" line like a boulder up a hill.  Scott Perry wants Biden disinvited from State of the Union because he hasn't signed the border bill that the House refuses to pass.  Joni Ernst concurred, but cited "skyrocketing inflation," as if Trump's lies about $8 gas had a basis in reality.  Colorado Congress-quitter Ken Buck even introduced a resolution calling on Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment, citing the Hur slander.  I'm sure she'll get right on it.  (Robert Hur is already booked to repeat his medically unfounded impressions to at least three House committees, which is two more than are investigating Matt Gaetz.)

Throw in the "endorsement" of Biden by Vladimir Putin during his Carlson interview and it's almost as if certain people have decided Trump needs all the help they can give -- without telling him, of course, and risking hundreds of spluttering Ministry of Truth Social posts.  It doesn't help that intelligent people like Jon Stewart, Bob Costas and Ezra Klein have joined the scrum (Trump is terrible but the man who defeated him soundly can't do it again because he is four years older, unlike Trump).  "Brokered convention" is their magic phrase.  The only thing we need now is the name of the Lohengrin who will sail in on his swan boat and save democracy.  Guys?

Politics aside (as if that were possible), the most striking difference between the two old men is that Biden doesn't do self-pity.  Unlike Trump, the perpetual victim of "very unfair," "racist" haters who won't stop verbally criticizing him.  A new book about First Ladies attributes to Biden a quote about the secret of his long marriage:  "good sex."  Junior Trump found this hilarious, posting some Viagra and "wood" jokes that he heard in Dad's casino long ago, I guess.  (One commenter observed, "What is with this entire family's infatuation with Biden penises?")  The degree of disrespect Biden gets can't be measured on any known scale but he never whines, much less lets his media staff respond with cocaine jokes.  He knows from Hunter's experience that a day of rehab will come for Junior, too.  

 


As expected, Trump wants to appeal the decision in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation case, but he can't or won't post the $91.6 million cash or bond as required by federal law.  Or he'll just post a portion of it because everyone knows he's splendiferously wealthy and good for the rest, just a little short at the moment.  (The shoes sold out but the GoFundMe has slowed to a trickle and Lara Trump doesn't have the password for the RNC bank account yet.)  Judge Lewis Kaplan isn't having it.  He doesn't know that former and future presidents are not bound by stupid laws.  Stupid judge.

Joe Biden was a guest on Seth Meyers's show last night and he stopped on the way for an ice cream cone.  He's a known long-time ice creamer.  While he ate, one of the reporters who trail him everywhere asked about the possibility of an Israel-Hamas cease-fire and he answered civilly that he's hopeful.  No details or revelations, we're all hopeful except maybe Netanyahu.  Well, it's amazing the number of rightwing outlets that lost their minds.  It was CNN's story of the afternoon, crowding out Speaker Johnson's inability to get a deal that might fund the government beyond Thursday.  Such optics!  What was he thinking?  Why would anyone ask anything beside "How's the cone?"  I am living in an age of idiots.  And now I want some Cherry Garcia.




 

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