How low can YOU go?

 Welcome to the game show that's taking America by Stormy storm.  Our first contestant is President For Life Donald Trump, who told a smallish gathering of the curious and the bused-in in The Bronx that the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 who have died would still be alive if the 2020 election had not been "rigged."  Compared to that, announcing that 30,000 people were present barely registers as a fib.  Or has he made a deal with Hamas to release the rest after the 2024 election?

Trump loves to wail about gang members coming across the border in millions laden with guns and drugs, but he's not too proud to accept the endorsement of a couple who are out on bail just like him.  Meet Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow.  He introduced them in The Bronx because that gives him cred with "those people," just like gold sneakers.

As part of its "Confiscate, Obfuscate, Obliterate" strategy, the DeSantis administration kicked off "Freedom Summer" by ensuring that cities cannot display rainbow colors for Pride Month.  The blow against free expression joins other prohibitions about library books and vaccines, making Florida "the freest state in the nation" for bigots and the enemies of public health.  Hijacking the name of an important civil rights struggle from the 1960s can only be deliberate.  Florida also works hard to keep children from learning American history.

Retired forklift operator and gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson shows up in a two-year-old video he failed to delete laughing at the notion that guns have anything to do with the mass murder of children:  "What do they do?  They come up with these convoluted numbers about well you know, if you have 15,000 people that have AR-15s, twelve of those people are likely to get killed and then school shootings happen and then the children die."  Which is trivial compared to "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.  I mean it's simple, it's short and we understand it."  Yes, shit happens.  Get over it.

Trump lawyers never get a long weekend.  They're trying via cease-and-desist letter to prevent Ali Abbasi's film The Apprentice from being distributed because it is unflattering to their client, including the scene where he rapes his first wife (and now resident at Bedminster) Ivana.  Dan Snyder, who put up the money, is even more unhappy.  Trump lackey Steven Cheung rolled out all his vituperation ("pure malicious defamation...belongs in a dumpster fire") and legal justifications for censorship in backwaters like Texas and Florida will probably be found, but the rest of the country can enjoy the movie that was rapturously received in Cannes.  "Donnie Dearest" is the second-worst example of the Streisand effect to occur this month.

There's a Republican named Hung Cao who is running for the Senate to keep Virginia from being overrun by witches.  You know, like California.  Glenn Youngkin is not up to the task, I guess.

Minnesota, the North Star State, adopted a new flag, and Mike Lindell warns that its eight-pointed star means the state has been taken over by Muslims.  Next comes Sharia law.  Has Mike ever been wrong?