"Sweating like a dog"

 

"It must be because of MIT, my relationship with MIT, very smart, I say what would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater and there's a shark that is approximately ten yards over there...do I get electrocuted or do I jump over by the shark?"

As parables go, it's a deep one.  But preaching to the multitude in the wilderness of Nevada is hard work and it doesn't always make sense to sane people.  Like Jesus, Trump sometimes has to work without a Teleprompter (heat malfunction?) and has to watch while his disciples get free water from the organizers.  (Unlike free tampons, free water does not lead to communism.)  "I'm up here sweating like a dog.  This is hard work," he whined.   You don't have to be the nephew of an MIT professor and heir to his smart genes to know that dogs don't sweat.  Lacking sweat glands, they pant and drool to lower their body temperature, and they don't wander into the desert when it's a hundred degrees.  Dogs are smarter than Trumpanzees.

It seems only last week that Margie Greene was shouting that the Republicans are not a cult and she worships only God.  Yesterday she declared, "The man that I worship is also a convicted felon, and he was murdered on a Roman cross."   Normally I don't try to make sense of religious gibberish but this is intriguing.  "Murdered" implies an illegitimate act, not the decree of a court.  Is she suggesting that all felons are deserving of worship, or only these two?  What is the distinction?  Didn't she say the Jews killed Jesus and the Antisemitism Awareness Act violates her religious freedom to say so?  I'm not going to run down the differences between Jesus and Trump because that's John Fugelsang's job.  I'll just close with what even Margie must have sensed was a laugh line:  "If you think gas prices are high now, just wait until you're forced to drive an electric vehicle."  Savor that.

Joe Biden was just back from the D Day commemoration when someone at CBS News said, "Hey, remember Lindsey Graham?  He's still alive, right?  Let's get him in here and make Margaret Brennan ask his views on foreign affairs."  So they did and the result was this gem:  "We celebrated the eightieth anniversary of D Day.  It was a failure.  It was the unnecessary war described by Winston Churchill.  We had a dozen chances to stop Hitler."  I agree.  The judge who gave him a few months for the 1923 Putsch should have sentenced him to twenty years and made sure he served every day.  I hope Judge Merchan won't make the same mistake.  That's what you were implying, right, Lindsey?  Of course, Hitler's followers would have threatened violence and possibly carried it out, but serious governments can't be swayed by mobs.  Sperr ihn ein!