Six degrees of no bacon
Searches for "Project 2025" exploded after Taraji P. Henson urged viewers to "look it up" at the BET Awards, breaking even the Taylor Swift barrier. Millions now know that, among other outrages, the Heritage Foundation proposes to abolish the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which told people on the Gulf Coast what to expect. This is part of its assault on government generally, and especially on the idea that our changing climate is worth paying attention to.
I assume Ms. Henson knew she would be in for vile abuse over her implied criticism of Trump and his fascist agenda. Probably she has already handed her phone to an assistant and beefed up her personal security. It's already been an especially nasty day for prominent Black women, with Ronny Jackson singling out Karine Jean-Pierre: "Why are we listening to this box of rocks who calls herself the press secretary talk to us about the president's medical issues? Why isn't Dr. Kevin O'Connor...standing at the podium and answering questions from the press?" She doesn't call herself the press secretary, Candyman, that's the job title on her office door. Dr. O'Connor doesn't have a press secretary; information from him is also conveyed by Jean-Pierre. Were you blackout drunk the whole time you worked there?
On Newsmax it's always time to panic the droogs with the possibility of a Harris ascendancy, and Trump's Orban go-between Sebastian Gorka got the assignment: "She's a DEI hire, right? She's a woman. She's colored. Therefore she's got to be good. And at least her brain doesn't literally freeze in mid-sentence." Translation: "DEI hire" is the new "affirmative action," i.e., not qualified but given a pass to replace a white man. "Colored" is what people used to call the maid or handyman when they wanted to be polite. "Brain...freeze in mid-sentence" is NOT a reference to the noises Trump makes just before inventing a word like "refuttal." Matthew Whitaker (one of Trump's AGs from the temp agency) noticed just in time that Gorka had not mispronounced "Kamala," so he did, because that's the only thing to do with such an outlandish foreign name. Not like "Gorka."
And what was the felon whose flunkies call him "President Trump" doing while Joe Biden addressed the seventy-fifth anniversary event for NATO? He was haranguing a smallish crown at the Doral golf-a-rama, reminding them that it's Biden's fault we can no longer eat bacon. Wait, it gets weirder: Trump roamed incoherently from executing drug dealers to long airport delays to how dangerous Washington is, not forgetting to take credit for the very existence of NATO, which he still understands as a protection racket similar to the Black Hand. They're using a music track at his hatefests now, hoping to drown him out or at least make the neologisms harder to hear. One day the New York Times may write about it.
Most of the crowd were hoping Trump would announce his running mate (and that it would be Marco Rubio, who they inexplicably keep electing to the Senate), but he forgot or hasn't decided or something. He really likes the hillbilly elegist J.D. Vance, but Vance has a beard and that could be a dealbreaker for someone who judges everyone by appearance. He also hasn't responded to Mike Lindell's offer to be Secretary of Homeland Security. The pillow merchant proposes to set up an "Election Bureau" to make sure all elections are decided correctly. I didn't know there would still be elections.
There was bad news for the Trump campaign, too: the Justice Department has shut down a Russian bot operation on Twitter/X/Muskovy/whatever it is now. The Kremlin will have to spread disinformation the old-fashioned way -- through the Murdoch papers, Sinclair Broadcasting, the Daily Mail, Newsmax, Truth Social, CPAC, InfoWars...no, sorry, no more InfoWars.
I'm going to look into the bacon thing.
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