The Debate is over and America just doesn’t know what to do. Trump seemed a little off, yet surely we can’t be expected to vote for a woman who, after having thirty days to think about it, has given no policy specifics, other than the tax credits and incentives and her stance on reproductive freedom and aid for Ukraine and the border bill and some other stuff. In sharp contrast, Trump, the head of a party that didn’t bother to produce a platform at all in 2020, has stated clearly and forcefully with pinked ear and lowered brow and tubular mouth that he will make America great again. So.
The harried monitor in charge of fact-checking in real time had worn the lettering off his FALSE button and was relying strictly on muscle memory, but perked up when Trump described the concept of his plan. “No one’s ever seen anything like it,” the candidate said, and the fact-checker pounced on it: TRUE! No one’s ever seen it at all.
We do know a lot about Trump’s plans. Project 2025, which was created as a framework for Trump’s second term, is quite detailed indeed, although Trump insisted that his plan was not that, but something else entirely, and that he hadn’t even read Project 2025, whereupon the fact-checker got a woody and jumped on the TRUE! button again. Trump doesn’t ever read anything.
He does have a plan of sorts to use the military to deport all the undesirable people, which is not as difficult as it is being made out to be, because they are very easy to spot in a crowd of real Americans. And there’s another plan to yank mail-in ballots, but only in the swing states, where the results have been suspicious.
Kamala Harris is problematic. It was Senator John Kennedy (R-who cares) who said English wasn’t Kamala’s first language or even her second, third, or fourth language, so clearly she isn’t a true American but rather one of these mongrel breeds with solid command of at least five languages, which is plain divisive, right there, just the sort of woman who would poison the blood of the country, if she had had children, which is another thing: why no children? It ain’t right. She’s not invested in the future of America. Whereas Trump has five children out of three women. At least. The man’s plenty infestered.
Trump looked fierce and presidential, scowling directly into some point other than the camera, whereas Kamala kept looking at Trump, which is creepy and rude when a lady does it.
A friend’s facebook post the next day suggested that after 248 years, it might be time to elect a woman to the nation’s highest office, to which her friend replied: “Agreed. But not this one.” He was not specific what in particular his ideal woman would be but it would probably help if she had a lower voice and a penis.
And it would be better if she had more of a record to run on, because what do we have now, other than her seven years as California’s attorney general, four as senator, and three as Vice President? We hardly know her at all. Whereas Mr. Trump, when elected in 2016, was a well-known quantity as a reality TV star who fired people loudly, a quality he used again and again to evict the members of his administration he originally hired when they were very fine people, the best there was.
Also, Trump is on record for planning to end the Ukraine war by awarding Ukraine to Russia, to end inflation, and to drillbabydrill our way to energy independence, which the Biden administration already achieved. Trump plans to achieve it harder.
America is going in the wrong direction, is what it comes down to, not in the sense of failing to address climate change, or increasing the wealth of the wealthy, or demolishing reproductive freedoms; it’s much more basic than that. Specifically, we are being overrun with colored people who eat our pets, Jews who eat our economic lunch, and drag queens who eat our children, and in the face of that, the destruction of the livable planet is small potatoes.
Even so, Trump is slipping in the polls, at great consequence for the country his prospects of staying out of an orange jumpsuit, and now it’s time to seed the clouds of right-wing rage. Which is why we are just learning about the hordes of illegal immigrants quietly infiltrating the heartland with monkey-poxed hamsters in their pants; worse, there’s a Satanic plumber cartel introducing corrosive empathy in the nation’s water supply. Jewish pedophiles are funding the whole caper, and they can be identified because they don’t bleed. If you haven’t heard about this yet, it’s because the deep state doesn’t want you to know.
Trump already has the orange skin and the orange hair. I’d think the orange jumpsuit is the next step in this progression.
We can hope. It would be more harmonious for him than the striped number, which is not slimming.
JD Vance is clearly the most despicable, dishonest, racist, unqualified jerk ever to run for office…except for the orange turd, who is even more despicable, dishonest, racist, and unqualified, as well as convicted of crimes in both civil and criminal court.
Isn’t it stunning that these two geniuses admit that they INVENTED the cat and dog eating story targeting Haitian immigrants in Vance’s own home state? His own constituents getting bomb threats in their schools, hospitals, and offices? Isn’t it stunning that their own Senator is doing this to them?
It is madness that anyone would support these criminals.
Even with this crew, I was actually astonished when I heard J.D.Vance say it was worth it to make up stories if it got people to pay attention to the “situation” in Springfield.
I usually agree with you completely, but a couple of things should be pointed out. 1) Worms are not supporting Kamala. They are firmly entrenched within the fold of what used to be the brain of RFK, Jr. And speaking of Kennedys, 2) The Senator from Louisiana’s first language was English, but has since learned bumpkin and practices it to show he is a man of the fake-out.
I stand corrected, and now I need to sit down.
The ‘Kamala Obviously’ yard sign sent me off on a tangent exploring all the cool and rather snarky ones available on Etsy. I Want one! Perhaps the ‘Deer tick…Luna-tick (Trump version)? So many choices. In my county (60/40 red/blue) and midwestern, the dems stick to the smaller tasteful Harris/Walz signs and the Trumpers go for the extremely large (but otherwise tasteful – if that’s possible) Trump signs. 99% ‘mind their own damn business’ and don’t do virtue signaling of any sort. You can see I’m conflicted. Not about who to vote for – ‘Kamala Obviously’, but whether talking to anyone other than the choir does more harm than good. So I try to remain a good neighbor, keep my key under the mat, help the turtles across the road and keep the faith that the universe bends toward justice. Gets harder everyday. Maybe I’m just lazy
It really bothers me that some otherwise nice people that I know, who when they start getting political, and are obvious Trumpies, I have to pivot the conversation away from that. The person at my local pet store, for instance. She does a lot of good things for animal rescue, and knows a lot about parrots and advocates for them. So I don’t want to alienate her as she is a genuinely nice person. Just a Trumpie. I hate that we all can’t agree to disagree. I have better luck stating that I am an atheist when among Christians.
I have yet to be convinced that a person who votes for someone who encourages the murder of my family and myself can possibly be “a genuinely nice person.” Whoever locks us in and turns on the poison gas is evil. Whoever drags us to the gas chambers is evil. Whoever gives the order for us to be dragged to the gas chamber is evil. Whoever sets the policy that results in that is evil. Whoever votes for someone who sets that policy is, so long as this is still a republic, evil. It really is that simple.
I don’t think that they think that far ahead. I think that they are all about the economy, and they have believed the lies that it is on a downward spiral, and that Trump made things better. Obviously, this is not the case objectively, but these are not very smart people. They do not keep in touch with the news.
I am reminded of the scene in Blazing Saddles when, after Cleavon Little’s cheerful greeting to a townswoman gets the reply “Up yours, n——!”, Gene Wilder gently tells him, “What did you expect? ‘Welcome, sonny…make yourself at home…marry my daughter?’ You’ve gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land…the common clay of the New West. You know — morons.”
Anon, you are not lazy. Turtle benders are not lazy. Jeremy, buckle up. Trump just said today that if he loses it will be the Jews’ fault.
So I heard. I should buckle up on a flight to New Zealand, but we’ve got too much ongoing medical crap (and inertia, of course) keeping us here. My elder son and his family did it years ago. I recently read a posting by a Jewish veteran of the U.S. military who said the only places he feels safe as Jew are New Zealand, Germany, Israel and the UAE. A couple of those were surprises.
Another stunner that Trump speaks like that about his own son-in-law, daughter, and grandkids, who are Jews.
I can only imagine Trump’s horror when he first learned that his favorite daughter was going to marry a Jew. I can also only imagine how quickly he decided it was OK for now because he would be able to monetize the relationship.
You are so good at this writin’ stuff.
Thankee.
So snortworthy it woke up my colleague.
I hope you are not pilots.
You nailed it with “to seed the clouds of right-wing rage.” Some time ago — I’m not sure when the line was crossed — Trump & Co. stopped trying to convince anybody of anything. Now he’s just trying to whip his sTRUMPets into a murderous rage, which is easy, since before he surfaced in the cesspool the GOP had already been known for SO long for SO much policy that would do SO much harm to SO many that it was inevitable that the party would eventually attract those for whom that is the only draw — i.e., the sadists.