The day America's brain broke

 I know, it could have been almost any day in the last nine years, but this one just feels special.


What's unusual about Trump sending birthday greetings to the Virgin Mary?  Only that he didn't include "and to all Leftist Haters who want to destroy our wonderful Country by allowing millions of Criminals and Mental Patients to vote illegally and take over more States like Colorado."  He missed an opportunity there.  (This is not even a minor holiday.  The pope is in East Timor and even he didn't mention it.)

Trump heard a bullshit story about a Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua taking over an apartment complex in Aurora and immediately began ranting (to some Wisconsin cheeseheads) that "radicals headed up by a radical governor" have "no clue" about how to solve this imaginary problem.  Also, it's "much worse in other states" (unspecified).  Then the line that caught everybody's attention:  "Getting them out will be a bloody story, they never should have been allowed to come into our country."  He can hardly wait for the shooting to start.  

Then he used the smoldering ruins of his social media platform to promise prosecution to those who "CHEATED" by getting more votes as they did in 2020, violating the "Sanctity" of the election.  And other large words like "Depravity" and "Skullduggery."  Also "long term prison sentences."  Trump dodged another bullet when Judge Merchan declined to sentence him, but prison is clearly on what's left of his mind.  He imagines a country where all the migrants are dead and all the Harris voters are locked up, an America made Great Again.  He is clinically insane.

The prospect of debating Kamala Harris has Trump requiring multiple diaper changes every day.  Yesterday she took time from debate prep to visit Penzeys Spices, a family-run store in Pittsburgh whose website has criticized Trump.  Guess what that touched off.  "Comrade Kamala goes to an ultra Left Wing, Trump Hating, spice shop, which I hear has terrible, overpriced product...Crazy Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren...How about a Biden comeback?" Pathetic.  Right on cue the Fox Chorus took up the chant:  "the meanest spice shop in America...call her 'Mean Spice' because 'Scary Spice' is already taken" (Rachel Campos-Duffy).  How about we call you Compost-Duffy?  

It's a spice shop.  They also sell cooking equipment.  Good grief.

Mike Collins, the assault-weapon-toting MAGA who represents Winder, Georgia, decided it was time to deflect attention from his "thoughts and prayers" response to the Apalachee High School shootings and get in some immigrant bashing at the same time.  According to him, "They're in the park.  Grabbing up ducks.  By the neck.  And eatin 'em."  As you can see.  He also Englishes good.  "They" are Haitian immigrants in Ohio, according to a debunked story out of Springfield.  Cats, too.  I don't blame poor, stupid Collins for the cynical way he latched onto a lie that was already being spread by Stephen Miller, Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk and the House Judiciary GOP.  With illustrations, of which this is my favorite:

Everyone knows how much Trump loves animals (and getting wet).  Whereas Kamala was probably buying cumin and marjoram to cook 'em with.

Speaking of the Second Amendment, a large section of southeastern Kentucky is locked down as police search for Joseph Couch, the man they suspect of shooting five people along I-75 in Laurel County.  He bought a semiautomatic weapon and a thousand rounds of ammunition on Saturday, so this could take a while.

There was only one way to respond to Jesse Watters's "real men don't use straws" idiocy, so Tim Walz addressed the national dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, reminding listeners that access to healthcare for LGBTQ people is "equal justice under the law.  It's not to be debated."  He was the faculty adviser to his school's gay/straight alliance back when that took real guts.  Jesse Watters broke into TV by harassing people for Bill O'Reilly, the definition of a gutless weasel's job.

After nine years of acute Trumpism A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of the "Failing New York Times," has decided it's time to take notice and explain how a free press is undermined -- in Hungary and India.  Not here, where it's flourishing like kudzu.  In an editorial so clueless that his own paper wouldn't publish it, he told Washington Post readers how "we are committed to following the facts and presenting a full, fair and accurate picture of November's election and the candidates and issues shaping it.  Our democratic model asks different institutions to play different roles; this is ours."  I look forward to his next op ed, "One candidate is certifiably insane and bent on bloody chaos; one is not."  Breath is not being held.






  



 



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