In the details
Imagine my microexpressions as I read this:
"Vice President Kamala Harris said a lot during her interview alongside running mate Tim Walz with CNN's Dana Bash. And a lot of it came through on her face, according to microexpressions expert Annie Sarnblad...upon reviewing the video for microexpressions Harris seemed to be "growing in her confidence."
No shit. The Democratic Party's nominee for president of the United States, the sitting vice president, came shyly into the CNN studios, unsure of herself, but was soon making like Sally Field at the Oscars -- "You like me, you really like me!" "She shows affection and support towards [Walz]...she lifts her chin in pride when she is looking at him..." Whereas he looks embarrassed when asked about his long-ago DUI arrest. This woman gets paid by outlets like The Daily Beast, probably quite a lot. I'm in the wrong racket.
It's hardly surprising that Harris and Walz are under a microscope while Trump is seen as through a glass, darkly. The corporate media get no encouragement from their employers to examine his lies, depravity and growing dementia; like the woman who tried to prevent him and his thugs from desecrating Arlington National Cemetery, they have reason to fear the consequences of treating the worst criminal in American history like any other skell. But it really is getting silly.
Did Kamala Harris really work at McDonald's one summer? Why doesn't she include it on her resume like her time in the DA's office? Is she the one who broke the ice cream machine? Is that why no McDonald's in North America actually sells ice cream? And what's the deal with Tim Walz being photographed with two different dogs? If that doesn't scream "Chinese spy" I don't know my Fu Manchu novels. Is she Black or Indian? Is he German or what? If his wife really was an English teacher, make her recite a Shakespeare sonnet. America needs answers!
Yes, it does. America needs to know what the actual quark Trump meant when he told an enthralled audience of Moms for Liberty, "The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it -- your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what's going to happen with your child. And you know, many of these childs [sic], fifteen years later, say, 'What the hell happened? Who did this to me?'" What I hear is: Hate public schools as you already hate and fear public health. Withdraw into your walled compounds, homeschool and treat illness with prayer and horse medicine. Do your own research, because they are the enemy, those snooty coastal people with the degrees and titles who look down on you, the Plain People of America.
It hardly matters whether Trump believes the gibberish he spews, or whether he believes it today and spews the opposite tomorrow, as with the Florida abortion amendment. Consistency is for pussies. That's the word he used for Mike Pence when Pence took the wise counsel of Dan Quayle and refused to stop the certification of Joe Biden's election. Only now it's part of his rant about the "nastiness" of Kamala Harris: "The way she treated Mike Pence was horrible." He's referring to their debate when she wouldn't let Pence interrupt her like a nice, submissive woman. "The way she treated Justice Kavanaugh in that hearing -- in the history of Congress, nobody's been treated that way."
"Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?" Harris asked Kavanaugh, in an attempt to pin him down on Roe. He couldn't think of any, but her cruelty made him cry. Is this the same woman who would be "bent over" by generals in the Situation Room? Because she sounds like a badass to me. But there I go, looking for consistency in the ravings of a demented felon.
It's a shame that an overweight and clearly exhausted 78-year-old has to work so hard, but Trump's surrogates are not up to scratch. His new bestie Elon Musk tried circulating a picture of "Comrade Kamala" that brought only derision (although she does look kind of hot):
Yesterday Glenn Youngkin was talking up Trump at a Labor Day event in Buena Vista, Virginia, a spot Best Places calls "moderately conservative," when spectators began chanting, "We're not going back!" drowning out Governor Spitcurl. What's up with the Old Dominion?
To avoid embarrassments like that, Trump and Vance avoided all Labor Day events while Harris and Walz campaigned in Milwaukee and Detroit. Harris was joined by President Biden for speeches in Pittsburgh. He's not dead after all!
Lots of artists want Trump to stop abusing their music but the estate of Isaac Hayes isn't fooling around. They obtained a temporary injunction from a federal judge to stop him "dancing" to "Hold On, I'm Coming" at his racist hate rallies. Given his moves, the judge probably did him a favor. Will he ignore the order or whine about it? Well, he now has two campaign ads featuring the Arlington atrocity, so that should give you some idea.
Like Trump Media, Mike Lindell's Frank Speech is trying to go public. Unlike Trump Media, his effort seems to be falling apart from the IPO. The phrase "total disaster" is being used, starting with would-be investors being given the wrong ticker. You may want to bring up the Benny Hill theme as you read.
Remember Willie Horton, the convicted murderer pardoned by Governor Mike Dukakis? Remember the incredibly racist commercials for the campaign of George H.W. Bush which sank Dukakis in 1988? If you don't, it's fine -- we have another one. Jaime A. Davidson was serving life for the 1990 murder of Officer Wallie Howard, Jr., and was pardoned by Trump hours before he scuttled out of the White House. The reason is not clear, although he seems to have shared an attorney with Junior Trump. Davidson is not just a cop-killer, he's also a major drug dealer, one of those people for whom candidate Trump keeps demanding the death penalty. Seems he strangled his wife last year during a "domestic dispute," and last July was sentenced to three months (I assume she survived). Two predictions: The Harris-Walz campaign will find this too good to pass up, and the howls of MAGA outrage will be audible on Mars.
The New York Times reports that the Trump campaign approached Roadkill Bob Kennedy to be Trump's running mate within hours of the July 13 assassination attempt. Indeed, back in April Trump was thinking how good "Trump/Kennedy" would look on the lawn signs. They waited too long, and now it may not be possible to get Kennedy removed from ballots in Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina. That campaign is running like a Swiss watch.
We started with a microexpressions reader, so let's close with some MAGA psychology. Can you match the expert with the expertise?
1. "It is my belief that this is a synagogue of Satan...I can trace this through to Australia, to Switzerland, to France, to America, to Canada, and it explains why it is the circumstance that all of these world leaders that we have, even President Zelensky, all seem to be homosexual."
2. "Kamala Harris screams as somebody who has unaddressed, lingering father issues. By the way, you know her father does not like her...? Her father's still alive, somebody should go find her father and put him on camera...She's a radical, not confident in her beliefs, insecure and a nervous wreck."
3. "Only high-T [testosterone] alpha males and aneurotypical [neurodivergent] people are actually free to parse new information with an objective 'is this true?' filter. This is why a Republic of high-status males is best for decision making. Democracy, but a democracy only for those who are free to think."
1. Candace Owens, 2. Charlie Kirk, 3. Elon Musk
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