That's gotta sting
Trump is still fending off outrage about his attacks on American veterans living and dead. Even the mild-mannered Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger had enough and issued a series of tweets that culminated in "Vote him out." If Cadet Bonespurs calls Sully a loser, there are at least 154 people who will say otherwise. ("I like pilots who don't land on the Hudson River, OK?")
It's a holiday weekend but there's no rest for "your favorite president, me!" He also had to demand Fox News, who were once his bestest friends but no more, fire Jennifer Griffin because she confirmed most of the information in Jeffrey Goldberg's Atlantic article. Obviously a nasty woman just like Laurene Powell Jobs, whose Emerson Collective owns the Atlantic, a "failing Radical Left Magazine." (The Atlantic has published continuously since 1857, long before the first draft-shy Drumpf arrived in this country, and was founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and other luminaries of the triple-name era.)
Joe Biden took off his mask and let his anger show as he denounced Trump's veteran-bashing, with special reference to his son Beau. This is the righteous Biden we need to see more of, in an increasingly dirty and desperate campaign. The debates, if that's the right word, will be more like WWE wrestling than Kennedy-Nixon. Since Trump refuses to prepare (although he likes to watch), the strategy is to win not on facts or policy but by finding ways to make Biden stutter and then claim his life-long problem is actually proof of senility, or something. Remember all the things Hillary Clinton was dying from in 2016? Like that. But Biden has been here before. In 2012 he held Paul Ryan up for nine rounds before the knockout; in 2008 he played the bemused uncle indulging Sarah Palin despite her obvious derpitude. In short, he's good; I didn't even know about the stutter until I read about it. What are they going to do, make him watch The King's Speech on a loop until he cracks? The Trump bunch are already whining about the moderators (Chris Wallace of Fox News, Steve Scully of C-SPAN and Kristen Welker of NBC), so that's good. But Biden needs to remember who called his son a "sucker" and act accordingly.
By then he'll have even more ammunition. Trump showed his love for The Troops by ordering the immediate closure of their venerable newspaper Stars and Stripes, then pretended it was somebody else's terrible idea and reversed it. (Mark Espy's days are numbered.) The $15 million annual subsidy would have built about two feet of WALL, so he'll make up the difference by de-funding the World Health Organization during a global pandemic.
In other fiscal responsibility news, Trump wants federal agencies to stop spending money on racial sensitivity training, which is giving the impression that this country has some kind of racism problem and is therefore "un-American." That should end the protests that even reached the sacred precincts of Churchill Downs, where a covid-delayed Kentucky Derby occurred yesterday. Also Jacob Blake is well enough to speak to reporters from the bed he is no longer shackled to, so...everything good now?
Fighting the wildfires in California would be easier if the Interior Department hadn't grounded its Chinese-made drones last year and refused to buy more. Fear of spying is the stated excuse. Sorry, California, Russia doesn't sell drones. Meanwhile, rake those forests.
Today Trump rests, out at one of the properties where he can charge the Secret Service to rent carts while he makes with the golf sticks, as Joe Gillis would say. He'll need more than rest. In this season of publishing bombshells, Michael Cohen's book promises to have the biggest payload. We knew from the Kelly story that Trump's one talent involves saying the wrong thing to somebody's father. To Cohen he apparently said, "When did she get so hot?" referring to the attorney's fifteen-year-old daughter. The "golden showers" strip club story won't surprise anyone at this point, even Franklin Graham, but did you know about "Faux-bama"? This one will make Mary Trump's blood run cold, and she's a mental health professional. Before this campaign is over, we all may need one.
It's a holiday weekend but there's no rest for "your favorite president, me!" He also had to demand Fox News, who were once his bestest friends but no more, fire Jennifer Griffin because she confirmed most of the information in Jeffrey Goldberg's Atlantic article. Obviously a nasty woman just like Laurene Powell Jobs, whose Emerson Collective owns the Atlantic, a "failing Radical Left Magazine." (The Atlantic has published continuously since 1857, long before the first draft-shy Drumpf arrived in this country, and was founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and other luminaries of the triple-name era.)
Joe Biden took off his mask and let his anger show as he denounced Trump's veteran-bashing, with special reference to his son Beau. This is the righteous Biden we need to see more of, in an increasingly dirty and desperate campaign. The debates, if that's the right word, will be more like WWE wrestling than Kennedy-Nixon. Since Trump refuses to prepare (although he likes to watch), the strategy is to win not on facts or policy but by finding ways to make Biden stutter and then claim his life-long problem is actually proof of senility, or something. Remember all the things Hillary Clinton was dying from in 2016? Like that. But Biden has been here before. In 2012 he held Paul Ryan up for nine rounds before the knockout; in 2008 he played the bemused uncle indulging Sarah Palin despite her obvious derpitude. In short, he's good; I didn't even know about the stutter until I read about it. What are they going to do, make him watch The King's Speech on a loop until he cracks? The Trump bunch are already whining about the moderators (Chris Wallace of Fox News, Steve Scully of C-SPAN and Kristen Welker of NBC), so that's good. But Biden needs to remember who called his son a "sucker" and act accordingly.
By then he'll have even more ammunition. Trump showed his love for The Troops by ordering the immediate closure of their venerable newspaper Stars and Stripes, then pretended it was somebody else's terrible idea and reversed it. (Mark Espy's days are numbered.) The $15 million annual subsidy would have built about two feet of WALL, so he'll make up the difference by de-funding the World Health Organization during a global pandemic.
In other fiscal responsibility news, Trump wants federal agencies to stop spending money on racial sensitivity training, which is giving the impression that this country has some kind of racism problem and is therefore "un-American." That should end the protests that even reached the sacred precincts of Churchill Downs, where a covid-delayed Kentucky Derby occurred yesterday. Also Jacob Blake is well enough to speak to reporters from the bed he is no longer shackled to, so...everything good now?
Fighting the wildfires in California would be easier if the Interior Department hadn't grounded its Chinese-made drones last year and refused to buy more. Fear of spying is the stated excuse. Sorry, California, Russia doesn't sell drones. Meanwhile, rake those forests.
Today Trump rests, out at one of the properties where he can charge the Secret Service to rent carts while he makes with the golf sticks, as Joe Gillis would say. He'll need more than rest. In this season of publishing bombshells, Michael Cohen's book promises to have the biggest payload. We knew from the Kelly story that Trump's one talent involves saying the wrong thing to somebody's father. To Cohen he apparently said, "When did she get so hot?" referring to the attorney's fifteen-year-old daughter. The "golden showers" strip club story won't surprise anyone at this point, even Franklin Graham, but did you know about "Faux-bama"? This one will make Mary Trump's blood run cold, and she's a mental health professional. Before this campaign is over, we all may need one.
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