Vegetable stage

 Looks like I picked the wrong week to cancel my subscription to The Independent.  Regarding the Musk-Trump show their headline was "Donald Trump Showcases New Lisp During Elon Musk Interview."  Longtime fans may recall the speech he ended "God bless the United Shayshay" some years ago, but now it's a fixture.  Of course it is very disrespectful and cruel to mock a speech impediment unless it's Joe Biden's.  I'll try to remember that.  (Matt Drudge noticed it, too.  Good grief, Drudge is still around?)


The interview started late due to "technical difficulties," which Musk blamed on a cyberattack rather than his firing of hundreds of Twitter employees.  When it got under way, Trump had nothing new to say beyond a pledge to flee to Venezuela when/if he loses the election.  He's convinced that Venezuela is a utopian state now that all its criminals and psychiatric patients have been transferred here and Nicolas Maduro has proclaimed himself re-elected.  I'm sorry, Venezuela.  For everything.  If it helps, one law professor has already urged Judge Tanya Chutkan to confiscate his US passport.  We don't know how many others he has.

Trump impressed Musk with his knowledge of, and admiration for, Putin, Xi and Kim.  "They're at the top of their game.  They're tough, they're smart, they're vicious, and they're going to protect their country."  All known to the casual news consumer, but thanks for the update.  Musk politely refrained from bringing up certain of Putin's, ahem, military setbacks.  He must have been flattered when Trump suggested they had sixty million listeners (more like two).  And went on to say how much he "HATES the Fake News Media!  So bad for our Country!"  They should be reporting that the show had more listeners than Martin Luther King.  (Musk says a billion, because what the hell.)

Musk missed a chance to ask what's going on between Trump and one of his most generous backers, Miriam Adelson.  He apparently ordered Natalie Harp, whose regular job is printing out praise from the internet to fluff his ego, to send Mrs. Adelson abusive texts accusing her of employing RINOs at her Preserve America PAC.  It sounds like she wants to support Republicans other than Trump, which he sees as disloyalty.  Since Joe Biden dropped out he's become angrier and more unhinged, if that's possible.  He kept using the word "coup" to describe Biden's decision, then escalated:  "They just took him out back behind the shed and basically shot him."  Maybe they were being kind.  After all, according to Trump, Biden is "close to vegetable stage, OK?"

One topic they did discuss was their shared hatred of organized labor.  The United Auto Workers filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Musk and Trump for threatening to fire Tesla workers who joined (UAW is trying to unionize Tesla).  Not to be outdone, Trump says he'll order his remaining lawyers to sue the Justice Department for carrying out a lawful search of his golf palace and classified document depository, which he calls "political persecution."

How could this have happened?  The Trump campaign is complaining that its emails have been hacked!  By Iran!  Now that Julian Assange is back on the street I'm sure he'll publish them.  Any day now.  The FBI is investigating.  Putting its best people on it.  

Natalie Harp should show him this from the New York Times:  "...In the wake of a third Trump nomination and a second Trump defeat," writes Jamelle Bouie, "the Republican Party will simply stumble along, stuck in his orbit and too weighed down by his gravitational pull to escape."  That should make him smile.









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