Another perfectly normal day

 After attacking the governor of Michigan as "a disaster" who had to be rescued by the FBI from kidnapping and murder, Trump shares his fantasy about Biden:  "Three weeks in, Joe is shot, let's go Kamala, are you ready?"  (Yes.  She is.)  I notice he's become a lot more blunt since the coy "Second Amendment solution" he proposed for Hillary Clinton four years ago.  His niece Mary says he needs help because she's a psychologist and believes in therapeutic solutions.  I disagree.  As Bob Diamond (Rip Torn) tells Daniel in Defending Your Life, "After a while the universe just throws you away."  

Trump's been whining about the cold all over the Midwest, so you might think the people who organize (if that's the word) his campaign would take it into consideration.  A rally at an airport outside Omaha suggests otherwise.  The faithful couldn't get there, had to park miles away and climb aboard crowded buses to start pre-spreading the coronavirus, and afterward -- no buses.  Apparently they were only chartered to deliver, not pick up.  Hundreds of people, many elderly, were stranded in freezing weather as the great silver bird bore The Leader back to Washington.   Some needed medical intervention.  Eventually the Omaha police took charge, summoning city buses and ambulances.  The good folk had served their purpose and Trump took no responsibility, as usual.  And now, if they haven't already, they will give him their votes.   

As if there wasn't enough grief, two of Philadelphia's Finest emptied their guns into a Black man named Walter Wallace on Monday night, leading to two nights of protests and sporadic violence.  Wallace was some distance away but may have had a knife; he may also have been suffering from mental illness.  His mother and brother witnessed his death, which Kayleigh McEnany hurried to blame on "the Liberal Democrats' war against the police."  "Walter's life mattered," rejoined Joe Biden.  Why does he hate law and order?

Poor, poor Lindsey Graham.  He worked his lily-white fingers to the bone installing Coney Rabbit, only to see Jaime Harrison pull in still more money from outraged donors.  He was abused by Lou Dobbs for not treating the "Obamagate" idiocy as an actual crime.  The Laura Ingraham Show cut his mic as he panhandled for funds.  Now The Lincoln Project is calling him "a political parasite...despised and desperate."   The parasite's host has been to North Carolina six times but I can't tell if he plans to grace South Carolina without visiting the Trump website, and I am not visiting the Trump website.  It looks like he's already written Lindsey off as a loser.  Just like the old folks in Omaha risking hypothermia, he doesn't need you anymore, Lindsey, you poor parasite. 

Now here's a  real Southern senator, circa 1954.  Cindy Hyde-Smith knows how to deal with Black Lives Matter and all those other Outside Agitators:  strengthen the military "because everybody wants a safe Mississippi."  I'd like to see Cory Booker try to move into her suburb.  

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas has been using her Facebook account to spread Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theories and accuse the media of "shielding" Joe Biden.  What makes this news is that "Ginni" is not just some random Facebook nutter.  She's the nutter whose husband Clarence is an associate justice of the Supreme Court.  I guess Justice Thomas will recuse himself from any cases involving Trump's political agenda.  I guess I'll be winning the Nobel Prize for Blogging, too.

Another site I won't be visiting is "unmasktogether.com," where Jason Harpe takes Trump's "covid is good for you" program to the next level.  He proposes to organize flashmobs to rush into stores, restaurants, etc., and deliberately spread coronavirus to unwilling victims.  What's the matter with Kansas?  I'm serious, what the fuck is the matter?

Possibly the same thing that's wrong with South Dakota, where Governor Kristi Noem is taking a victory lap after her underpopulated state managed to spread covid to an estimated 260,000 people nationwide thanks to the Sturgis rally.   You do know the numbers are supposed to come down, right?  Unlike the Dow, which lost 900 points today?  It's supposed to be market goes up, dying comes down.  Let me get out the sock puppets.

Now that Trump is facing defeat, Miles Taylor has courageously come forward to announce that he is Anonymous, the mole who wrote that scathing op-ed back in 2018.  No longer helping the Department of Homeland Security abuse immigrants and steal their children, he now works for CNN and caucuses with Republican Voters Against Trump.  That'll do, Miles.  That'll do.