A fine and brilliant young man
Praise the Lord, Trump was able to catch that bullet in his teeth and spit it out before diving under the lectern and shouting for someone to grab his shoes. As you do in mortal danger.
After trying for over a year to impeach anybody named Biden, James Comer had to settle for making Kimberly Cheatle resign as head of the Secret Service. Even then, he needed the support of Jamie Raskin and the other Democrats on the Oversight Committee, who slapped Cheatle around over the poor job her agency did in protecting Chief Corey Comperatore and Trump. To be fair, the Secret Service has been less than perfect for years, but last week its failings suddenly became urgent. Not when the Obama White House was the subject of a drive-by shooting, or when a man with a knife got inside, or when people tried to smash through its gates. Wait for me, hypocrisy fans, I'm just getting warmed up.
The Secret Service faces the same problem as every other law enforcement agency in this country: There are too many damn guns in the hands of too many people. For the Republicans to rage at Cheatle and even call her "full of shit" (gracious Southern lady Nancy Mace) is the zenith of bad faith. They are the high priests of the Second Amendment, recipients of vast sums from the NRA murder lobby. They would "take a bullet" for Thomas Crooks's right to keep and bear military-grade weapons. They pose with their own AR-15 for campaign ads and their fucking Christmas cards, even if they removed the AR-15 pins Andrew Clyde gave them out of -- good taste?
Suddenly shooting people is bad because Trump's ear got nicked? For which he blames "the Biden/Harris Administration"? Just go away.
(By the way, Trump would not have to hold outdoor hate rallies in triple-digit heat if he hadn't failed to pay his bills for previous events. Many municipalities will no longer rent him indoor venues, so he has to use sports arenas and airports which are harder to secure. Short-fingered vulgarians reap what they sow.)
I needed to unload that before turning to lighter things, like the cash and endorsements that continue to pour in to Kamala Harris and the MAGA party beginning to realize that it made a bad mistake. It's normal for candidates to experience a "convention bump," but J.D. Vance has experienced a convention slump. Apparently a lot of people think he's a jerk with no convictions and the appeal of a used condom. A lot of people are right, and they haven't even read his book.
I love the smell of panic in the morning. The Trump campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in an attempt to stop the Harris campaign from inheriting the $91.5 million war chest of the Biden-Harris campaign. Unprecedented and hopeless lawsuits are a longtime Trump specialty. Does anyone think the FEC will make them give the money back to donors? A cease-and-desist letter is trying to make a PAC called Haley Voters for Harris change its name, which is embarrassing to Nikki Haley; she went all the way to Milwaukee to show her submission to Trump and try to preserve some sort of future in politics. Tennessee nitwit Andy Ogles has filed articles of impeachment against the vice president because 1. Why not? and 2. She was evidently supposed to secure the southern border, it says so right there in the Constitution. He also wants Harris to invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment and take over during Biden's "incapacity" due to covid. He's a little confused.
A meeting of Congressional Republicans -- "closed door," as usual -- culminated in Mike Johnson and others urging the cult to avoid racist and misogynist attacks on Harris and make the election about "policies and not personalities." Johnson forgot to add "and her husband." Too late. The nut-verse is already erupting in policy discussions like "Jewish cuckboy" directed at Doug Emhoff. His daughter Ella is also a target ("sick filthy degenerate Leftist. Is that a tranny?"). Biden, it seems, was the victim of a "Jewish coup," while another patriot wants to know "how many dicks did [Harris] ride to get where she is?" Sorry, Mr. Speaker, the Republican Party you want left about sixty years ago. There should be another one along...
Trump loves the poorly educated and has never read a book, as far as anyone can tell, not even the ones published under his name. He's definitely not going to enjoy All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by his nephew Fred C. Trump III. Among other things, it describes him exploding in racist epithets when his white Cadillac convertible was damaged in the 1970s. Without seeing who did the damage, "he went straight to the place where people's minds sometimes go...across the racial divide." As always with Trump, it gets worse. Fred III has a disabled son named William. After winning the legal battle over Fred I's millions, Uncle Don agreed to go on contributing to his care. When Fred III reluctantly called his uncle in 2020 to say costs were increasing, the then-president replied, "I don't know. He doesn't recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida."
But he's a loving grandfather. Kai said so. I hope she stays healthy.
Trump should have checked before bragging about having the support of Kim Jong-un. The North Korean Central News Agency retorted, "No matter what administration takes office in the US, the political climate, which is confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change and accordingly we do not care about this." So much for baseball diplomacy.
And Elon Musk says no, the Wall Street Journal is wrong. (About money? Never!) He is not in fact donating $45 million a month to the Trump campaign. He does not "prescribe [sic] to a cult of personality." Also, Democrats have indicated they would not buy a Tesla from him, which is how he shores up the money-hemorrhaging Xitter. Sorry, Don, it's business.
But Trump's not giving up as long as TRUTH SOCIAL lasts:
I may take the rest of the summer off.
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