Freedom City

 As news of Project 2025 filters down to the people known politely as "low information voters," they do not like what they hear.  And Trump wriggles and squirms to distance himself from it, just as he tries to straddle both sides of the abortion argument.  Acolytes who insist he's different from other politicians ("He tells it like it is!') look dumber every day.

Most likely he's lying.  Maybe he can't remember what he was told about it.  Certainly he hasn't read it -- it's more than three pages long and lacks pictures (of Trump).  His own version, cleverly called "Agenda 47," exists as a series of videos to make it available to fellow illiterates, and includes such old favorites as "What Fourteenth Amendment?" "Kill the drug dealers and human traffickers," "No changing genders," "Public Enlightenment Instead of Education" and "Liz Cheney to Gitmo."  I vaguely remember "Freedom Cities" as some cockamamie form of planned communities like Henry Ford's Fordlandia, to "reignite American imagination" and give "hardworking American families" (no lazy immigrants or childless enemies of the state) a chance for home ownership.  

The fat felon has been wondrously silent for nine days, cheating at golf at his Bedminster cemetery and only occasionally posting endearments and demanding money from the droogs.  (This month's scam:  "Now that my sentencing has been DELAYED I'm giving you a LIMITED EDITION Trump Black Card."  Because the trial was "a black eye on America," get it?)

For some reason he also re-posted this, from the White House:  "Jill and I wish a Happy Islamic New Year to all families who celebrate.  May the arrival of the 1446 Hijri New Year bring you love, peace and prosperity."  One chucklehead responded by suggesting that Biden's account must be run by "Hamas Interns."  Or possibly Trump's brain is so soggy that he thinks he's running against Obama.  It wouldn't be the first time he's confused them.  

Trump had nothing to say after the British and French elections but that doesn't mean his mob isn't enraged, particularly about France.  For several days it looked like there would be a MAGA-style regime, but frightened voters turned out for the second round to say NON in thunder to LePen.  "They cheated in France just like here!"  Cry me a river.  As in Britain, the French right went home without rioting or whining.  Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

Here in Georgia we're accustomed to calling Trump Inmate #P01135809 but it looks like we'll have to learn a new designation.  The judge in the case of Virginia Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell unsealed a bunch of documents last week where Trump is known as Doe 174.  Business Insider matched up the references to his rides on Jeffrey Epstein's plane and visits to Epstein Island, although according to Trump they barely knew each other.  It's astonishing the number of scumbags Trump barely knew.

Never mind the evidence, though...J.D. Vance was on "Brunch with Kristen Welker" or whatever NBC is calling "Meet the Press," and he proclaimed Trump "a good husband and father."  Did Welker push back, or even laugh?  What do you think?

The arrival of Hurricane Beryl in Texas was predicted days ago as it smashed through the Caribbean, but an appointment is an appointment.  Greg Abbott wasn't about to cancel his trip to South Korea, Japan and Taiwan just because of a little ol' storm that killed two Texans and left two million without electricity.  He boasted of deals that would bring "billions" to the state.  Even Ted Cruz knew enough to stay home, tweeting praise of the furniture dealer who opens his store to displaced Houstonians when Joel Osteen's church won't.  LBJ and Hurricane Betsy was a long time ago.