The Democratic party

 Prediction:  There will be much disapproval of the way last night's Roll Call Rave "trivialized" and "cheapened" a venerable American tradition.  And four years from now the Republicans (or whatever replaces them) will try to copy it.  Imitation is their superpower -- Trump deplaned in Michigan yesterday to Beyonce's "Freedom," the official Kamala anthem.  (The Harris-Walz campaign got permission first.)

If there's no suspense about the outcome you can either skip the roll call or reconceive it as a joyous party -- and we'd all miss hearing someone say "Guam, where America's day begins..."  So the DNC hired DJ Cassidy and booked some guest stars and the United Center rocked down to its foundation.  Forgive me for being old and not knowing Lil Jon -- the only song I recognized was "Born In the USA."  It was nevertheless awesome.  Somewhere around Missouri I realized that they were going to have the same problem as Monday, running late, but it didn't matter.  There was so much convention that it spilled over to Milwaukee (the one in Wisconsin, Ms. Ingraham), where the MAGA wake was held and where Harris and Walz were rallying a packed house.  Back in Chicago they had renegade Republicans Stephanie Grisham and Mayor John Giles of Mesa, Arizona, and the remarkable double act Bernie and the Billionaire (Bernie Sanders and J.B. Pritzker).  Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, enjoyed poking fake-billionaire Trump.  Then Doug Emhoff enthralled everyone with his account of falling in love with Kamala Harris.

And that was just the warm-up.

Michelle Obama said she has no interest in running for anything, for which every ambitious Democrat must be grateful.  She is a formidable speaker who can stun a crowd.  If he weren't a former president her husband could have gone first, warming them up for her.  Of Trump she said, "His limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who happen to be Black.  I want to know -- who's going to tell him that the job he is currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?"

Barack Obama was more professorial:  "Democracy isn't just a bunch of abstract principles and dusty laws...It's the values we live by.  It's the way we treat each other, including those who don't look like us or pray like us or see the world exactly like we do."  The values Trump and Project 2025 would eagerly destroy, he didn't need to add.  Not much at stake on November 5, just the survival of democracy.

True to form, Trump is in North Carolina, whining.  "Did you see Barack Hussein Obama last night?  Taking little shots.  He was taking shots at your president.  And so was Michelle.  They always say, sir, please stick to policy.  Don't get personal.  And yet they're getting personal all night long, these people."  On the way he treated his fans to more of his mindreading ability:  "Biden is now unhappily sunbathing on a Beach in California, watching the waves and thinking how much he hates Barack Hussein Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, and Lightweight Movie 'Star' George Clooney, who failed to come to Crooked Joe's defense,"  He also tapped out a rant about "Kathy Hochul, the very unpopular Governor of New York" and the "very biased and hateful New York Judicial System that is appointed and largely controlled by the Governor."  (No, it isn't.)  Personalize?  Moi?

Trump chose Howell, Michigan, as the scene of yesterday's episode because white supremacists marched through town with Nazi and KKK banners chanting "We love Hitler!  We love Trump!" last month.  Nobody would "take shots" at him there.  Howell has been Klan country since the 1970s, to the despair of most residents.  Flanked by cops -- it was a "Crime & Safety" press event -- he warned of the "Kamala crime wave" to come.  He's also puzzled by lack of support from suburban women:  "Why wouldn't they like me?  I keep the suburbs safe.  I stopped low-income towers from rising right along the side of their house.  I keep the illegal aliens away from the suburbs."  Maybe it's because few suburban women have their thinking shaped by The Birth of a Nation.  Maybe it's because Trump is a rapist.  C---s, huh?  Who knows how their minds work?  

But Trump sounded discouraged and elderly as he tried to harangue the crowd about crime and safety:  "You can't walk across the street to get a loaf of bread.  You get shot.  You get mugged.  You get raped.  You get whatever it may be.  You've seen it and I've seen it."  It doesn't speak well of the police flanking him.  It sounds surprisingly like an argument for gun control.  I still wouldn't visit Howell.

Somebody burned a flag outside the United Center and the Flag Slobberer was all over it:

Fact check:  No one has been killed.  Also, we still have a First Amendment, at least until the Sleazy Six report for work in October.

Last month a Virginia man was arrested for threatening to burn Kamala Harris alive.  Last Monday Hulk Hogan offered to "body-slam" her and so far, nothing has been done to him.  Come to think of it, Ted Nugent wanted to violate Hillary Clinton with an assault weapon back in 2016 and he's still at large.  Maybe Trump is right -- when you're famous they let you do it.  

Trump's "people" came up empty in their search for the truth about Barack Obama's birth certificate, but Johnny is on it.  Jesse Watters is sending him to Hawaii to ferret out THE TRUTH.  In Jesse's -- let's say "mind" -- Obama is the wizard behind the curtain who's going to "interfere" in this election, perhaps with more speeches.  He may even try to vote.  But Johnny (no last name provided) will get there.  Even Gutfeld! couldn't take it seriously:  "You should tell Johnny that he needs to get a passport."  Watters:  "To go to Kenya, I agree."  Gutfeld:  "No, I meant to Hawaii just to see him do it.  Ask him what the exchange rate is for the Hawaiian dollar."  Not Bob & Ray, but not bad for Fox.

Democrats, have you at long last no compassion?

Yes, that's the Stephen Miller, the expert on empathy and compassion.  The iron-hearted Democrats have not offered a single prayer of thanksgiving at Trump's survival, a true miracle.  And what else has Kamala "memory-holed"?  I'll bet she knows what happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald.  And who did this to Miller.

You fiends.

On the other hand...