An epic iconic moment

 "With Trump's fragility comes an increasing dependence on enablers who show a disturbing willingness to indulge his delusions, amplify his paranoia or steer his feeble mind toward their own goals.  Among those enablers is his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio.  Should Trump be deemed unfit to serve, Vance would step into power."

There it is, an editorial with teeth.  Not from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times or USA Today, but the Las Vegas Sun.  "Crippled cognitively and showing clear signs of mental illness" -- read it all.

The makeup is decidedly on the Al Jolson/"Jazz Singer" side, too.

The story so far:  On Sunday night Tony Hinchcliffe a/k/a "Kill Tony" (as announced on the event's webpage) shat on an array of ethnic and minority groups, including the now infamous description of Puerto Rico as "an island of garbage floating in the ocean."  By Monday Trump was disavowing all knowledge of him.  Yesterday Joe Biden responded to a question:  "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters' -- his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable."  There followed a dispute that bordered on the Talmudic -- did he say "supporters" or "supporters'"?  Can you hear an apostrophe?  Today the Trump campaign decided it was time for another dumb stunt, the dumb McDonalds stunt having impressed so many dumb people.  They found an orange high-vis vest that would fit Donny, rented a pristine garbage truck and invited the media to watch him struggle into it, his treacherous right leg nearly giving out.  (Don't mention the leg!  Don't say s-t-r-o-k-e!)  Because he's not Hitler.  He said so!  "I'm not Hitler."  Hitler never drove a garbage truck.

MAGA just about lost its mind.  "An epic iconic moment," cried Sean Hannity, moist with excitement.  "As the saying goes, one man's trash is another man's treasure.  And today in Wisconsin, take a look at that."  I think they cut away as he climaxed.  "Donald Trump hitching a very special ride on a garbage truck decked out in American flags, MAGA gear.  You can tell a lot about the state of a campaign by optics."  Fuck yeah.  To paraphrase George Wallace, garbage today, garbage tomorrow, garbage forever.

Still in orange in Green Bay, the adjudicated rapist doubled down on his threat to "protect women."  "They said, 'Sir'" -- here comes the bullshit -- "'please don't say that.'  Well, I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not."  Doing it whether they like it or not is the reason he owes millions of dollars to E. Jean Carroll.

Today is the beginning of Diwali, the festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists, and naturally Trump had a greeting filled with hate and fear.  "I hope the Festival of Lights leads to the victory of Good over Evil!" he wrote, after accusing Biden of responsibility for anti-Hindu riots in Bangladesh and just about everything else "from Israel to Ukraine to our own Southern Border."  Someone should tell Not-Hitler that promising "Peace through Strength" sounds kind of Nazi.

According to Charlie Kirk Harris is also intent on destroying The American Family when she reminds women that their vote is secret.  "She needs people to basically lie to their husbands...it is so disastrous.  It is the embodiment of the downfall of the American family.  This wife is wearing the American hat [MAGA].  She's coming in with her sweet husband, who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can have a nice life...and she lies to him saying I'm going to vote for Trump, then she votes for Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth."  Chuckie calls this "undermining their husbands."  I call it keeping the family together and perhaps avoiding a black eye or split lip, MAGA men running toward the thuggish.  Couple of other points, Chuckie:  Maybe she works, too, and it's her paycheck as much as the "sweet husband's" which pays the bills.  And how do you know women have always told their husbands the truth about how they voted?  Could that be the reason...

Oh Lordy, it's been going on since 1948!  Must repeal Nineteenth Amendment!!

You think I'm joking?  I am not joking.  Someone calling himself James Smith (yeah, right) says women voting has "plunge[d] the west into an existential crisis."  Well done, ladies. Nick "I'm not Hitler either but it's not for want of trying" Fuentes agrees.  According to Dale Partridge, "In a Christian marriage a wife should vote according to her husband's direction."  Please direct me to the epistle where Paul talks about voting, Dale.  

I thought this was a joke but it's Halloween, not April 1.  James Comer and Elise Stefanik -- why wasn't she at the Garden love fest? -- wrote to the office of the White House counsel demanding that they "retain and preserve all documents and internal communications regarding President Biden's statement and the release of the inaccurate transcript."  Yes, the comment about "garbage" and its insidious apostrophe.  This must be the existential crisis of the west that "Smith" was talking about, when public money is freely spent by soreheads who have literally nothing better to do than investigate punctuation.  

In the words of Ebenezer Scrooge, "I'll retire to Bedlam."