Lower than whale droppings

 Two weeks from today the voting ends and the lawsuits and violent threats begin, if 2020 is anything to go by.  Where are we?

From the start, Trump has promised to make America "great again," wink wink, and we finally know when he thinks it was:  1798, "when we had real politicians that said 'we're not going to play games.'"  Somebody told him about John Adams and the Alien Enemies Act, authorizing the deportation of any non-citizen over the age of 14 for any reason.  Wait till he hears about the Sedition Act, outlawing criticism of the federal government (i.e., John Adams).  It expired in 1800 but why get bogged down in details?  It was a golden year, 1798 -- slavery was legal, women couldn't vote, there was no birthright citizenship and "real politicians" could arrest the owners of annoying newspapers.  In Greenville, North Carolina, he again promised mass deportations and the "rescue" of every "invaded and conquered" town. 

He managed to drag himself to Miami for an event with Hispanic voters, most of which was spent denouncing solar power because it kills rabbits.  I swear.  And it makes the desert ugly.  It's funny, every form of renewable energy has some terrible drawback.  There was also supposed to be a "virtual round table" but Trump cancelled it citing "exhaustion."  Too bad -- a three-way with Tulsi Gabbard and Roadkill Bob Kennedy would have meant three times the fun.  The Hispanic voters cheered for the promised deportations.  I wonder if they're cheering the Republican chairman in Lee County, N.C., who told his poll-watchers to be on the lookout for "Hispanic-sounding names."

Russia appears to be responsible for an ugly smear of Tim Walz, and it seems like they're not putting much effort into it.  Someone claiming to be Matthew Metro wrote on Xwitter that Walz molested him when he was a student at Mankato West High School years ago.  When this was pointed out to the real Matthew Metro, who lives in Hawaii, he told the Washington Post that he never met Walz and is not the man in the video.  Everybody is on to AI now.  D-, tovarisch.

Here's an actual (alleged) pedophile for you, Christian recording artist Zachary Radcliff of Saline, Michigan, charged with child sexually abusive activity and using a computer to commit a crime. Is he MAGA?  To the max!  

I wonder if Junior posted his $3 million bond.

And if you think that shirt is ugly, look what Mr. Fry Cook is already marketing -- for a hundred bucks!

The McDonalds stunt was so successful, Trump will spend next Sunday cleaning out a septic tank to prove that Kamala Harris never did that job, either.  It could only improve his personal funk.

In legal news, Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ordered the Army to release records of Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery -- just when that atrocity was fading from voters' minds.  Judge Lewis Liman ordered Rudolph Giuliani to turn over his luxury properties to a receiver for Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman.  Laura Loomer is suing Bill Maher and HBO for $150 million because he suggested she was having an affair with Trump.  (Defamatory?  If you say so.)  And Mark Robinson is suing CNN for $50,000 (down from his original demand of $50 million), and some guy in Guilford County who made a music video about him.  

Maybe Trump wouldn't be so exhausted if he wasn't up all night engaging in the only form of exercise he gets, rage-posting about Republicans who have deserted him.  Like "Crazed Warhawk Liz Cheney, whose father, Dick, convinced Bush to go into the Middle East and KILL...Now Kamala wants Arabs to vote for her?  I don't think so!"  Is this the same Trump who admitted violating the Logan Act by calling Netanyahu?  The one who tried to ban people from majority-Muslim countries from entering the US?  Get some sleep, grandpa, you're incriminating yourself again.

Like Shakespeare's Richard II, Trump likes to compare himself to Christ and it appears to be contagious.  At a rally in Wisconsin Harris deftly handled a couple of hecklers by suggesting they wanted "the smaller one down the street," and not by urging the crowd to "beat the crap" out of them.  The pair, a couple of UW-LaCrosse students, told Fox & Friends Weekend that they felt "persecuted" like Jesus and that Harris gave them "an evil smirk" because one of them pointed to the cross he was wearing.  One whined about being pushed by "an elderly woman."  Show me on the doll where she hurt you, Grant.  Now the New York Post has taken up their cause.  How long before they join Kyle Rittenhouse on the martyrdom circuit?

Orcas have attacked (and sunk) so many boats, the waters around the Iberian peninsula are known as Orca Alley.  Yesterday a captive orca at SeaWorld San Antonio shat in the pool and splashed it onto human spectators.  This is not a drill.