Junk politics

 You have to admit, he's full of surprises.  I was wondering how Trump would follow last week's Philadelphia karaoke.  I thought he might pull down his diaper and take a giant dump on a picture of Kamala Harris.  (He's probably saving that for Madison Square Garden.)  A ten-minute tribute to Arnold Palmer's wedding tackle was not on my bingo card.  

It didn't come out of the blue.  The rally was held at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity, Pennsylvania, as Trump rallies tend to be because he won't pay for indoor venues.  Palmer's daughter Peg had some choice remarks about how her father would view Trump ("I think he'd cringe").  Even Fox News cringed, cutting away from the dick talk to a Harris rally in Atlanta.  To protect Grandpa Sundown or because the Baier-Harris interview had sky-high ratings?

Mike Johnson, the cult's chief prude, had to go on CNN and assure Jake Tapper that long, incoherent rants are proof of Trump's "stamina" while ignoring Tapper's inquiries about the state of his mind.  Little Mike accused him of "cherry-picking" a few words out of a Castro-length harangue and trying to make the election about personalities rather than policy.  What else could he say?  "My porn app burst into flames"?  Trump leaves it all out there on stage -- this is what Captain Stamina has left.


Sure enough, when Trump finally finished praising Palmer's johnson he returned to what Johnson calls "policy, not personality":  "You have to tell Kamala Harris that we can't stand you.  You're a shit vice president.  Get the hell out of here, Kamala."  After another attack on the military he ended the two-hour performance by saying, "We'll get you out real fast.  We're gonna get you to go watch that game tonight, right?"  Except it was Saturday night and the Steelers play the Jets tonight.  According to the Steelers, Trump will be there.  Don't let him in the locker room.





 





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