Fathers and sons

 Robert F. Kennedy III recorded his father Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -- these people are like the Bourbons who were all called Louis -- chatting with Trump on the phone about the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism.  Of course they both buy it.  The curious thing is, Trump only got interested in 2007, when Barron Trump was not quite two years old.  Something triggered him to "do his own research," as conspiracy dupes always say.  What could it have been?  

Kennedy No. 3 also thinks Anthony Fauci should be in prison and that Kennedy No. 2 should have been anointed Trump's running mate, so anything he says should be discounted.  Here's my contribution to the witch's brew of conspiriciana:  Autism may be caused by having a mother who is 40 percent silicone.  Prove me wrong.

Was Thomas Crooks autistic?  We're told by his high school guidance counselor Jim Knapp that he often sat alone in the cafeteria, apparently by choice.  Knapp went on, "I believe that the devil and the evil really invaded his brain and that made him do what he did," so it's hard to take him seriously, either -- unless Bethel Park recently had occasion to hire the Ghostbusters.  Nobody seems to know much about Crooks except that he was a registered Republican whose "Democratic donation" turns out to have been fifteen dollars to a get-out-the-vote effort when he was 17.  And he used "America's Weapon," an AR-15 he borrowed from his father.

Andrew Clyde (Insurrectionist-GA) who distributes them to other depraved members of Congress.  I wonder if they're sporting their pins in Milwaukee, but I don't wonder enough to turn on the television.

"If they assassinate Trump it's so game over for them," Ivan Raiklin purred last February on the Alex Jones Variety Show.  He didn't have to specify who "they" are, but he was sure it would bring about "retaliatory" assassinations of "them," all the way up to Joe Biden.  The two agreed it would be a "cleansing" before they turned off the mikes and joyously fellated each other.  I assume.  Poor Trump.  Does he know that portraying himself as a martyr could lead to actual martyrdom?  He got into this thing for the money.

Is NBC News right?  Did Trump choose career phony J.D. Vance because Junior and Eric begged him to?  We all know how much he loves the boys -- middle-aged men, actually, but at least they can talk -- and can't refuse them anything.  It seems he was leaning toward Doug Burgum, governor of one of the Dakotas who pays people to vote for him and resembles Mitt Romney after an unsettling encounter with a large dog...

...but they said, "Please, please, J.D. didn't mean it when he called you America's Hitler.  He just meant you have blue eyes and fabulous hair like Hitler.  'Moral disaster' too -- what does that even mean?  Anyway he's sorry and he has blue eyes just like you and that means you can win all the blue states -- we promise never to ask for anything else, daddy, daddy, pleeeeeze!"  High level politics.

And our courageous media -- wait, come back, where you going?  MSNBC (which Trump likes to call "MSDNC" because they don't praise him enough) took Morning Joe off the air yesterday lest apostate Republican Joe Scarborough or one of his guests say something about the ear-piercing in Pennsylvania other than "Mika and I are praying..."  Not to be out-chickened, Comedy Central not only yanked the Jon Stewart show but announced that tonight his guest will be Bill "Falafel" O'Reilly.  The real one, not the rightzi blowhard Stephen Colbert used to portray on The Daily Show.  I guess Mike Lindell was busy.

I didn't believe it until I saw this at All Hat No Cattle:

It does look like a sanitary pad.  Like he's got blood coming out of his...whatever.  Ten-year-old girls have their ears pierced at the jewelry store with less fuss.

And as you can see, the conventioneers have lowered the temperature and brought us together.