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Will He Or Won't He?

This tells me he's gearing up for - and making plans for - whatever comes after Harris and Walz are sworn in on Jan 20, 2025.

The only thing we can be sure of is that he'll milk it for every drop of publicity and play up the WWE bullshit so the rubes will keep sending in their butter-n-egg money 'til the fuckin' well runs dry.

And we can always hope he's in prison until he dies.

Trump says, if he loses, 2024 run will be his last

Former President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he doesn’t “think” he’d run again for president in 2028 if he falls short in his bid to return to the White House in 2024.

“No, I don’t. I think that will be, that will be it,” Trump said when journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked him if he’d run again.

The comment was notable both because Trump seemed to rule out a fourth bid for the White House and because he rarely admits the possibility he could legitimately lose an election. Trump normally insists that could only happen if there were widespread cheating, a false allegation he made in 2020 and he’s preemptively made again during his 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump would be 82 in 2028, a year older than President Joe Biden is now. Biden bowed out of the race in July following his disastrous debate performance and months of being hammered by Trump and other conservatives as being too old and erratic for the job.

Attkisson interviewed Trump for her show “Full Measure.” Also during the 22-minute interview, Trump defended his record on the coronavirus pandemic. He took credit for the development of the COVID-19 vaccines developed during his presidency while also saying “they’re doing studies on the vaccines and we’re going to find out” if they are safe.

Trump said Republicans have become skeptical about the vaccines even as Democrats trust them.

The statement about 2028 came at the very end of the interview, which also included a question about how Trump stays in good health. “I try and eat properly,” the former president said, drawing an incredulous reaction from Attkisson, who noted that Trump has become infamous for his fondness for hamburgers.

“Proper hamburgers,” Trump said.

She's The Change

"So you decide - are we really going down that same fucking broken road?"

Today's Essay

"Well, I'd love to come to your house and redecorate it - my style is better."

"If you think America's default setting is your Sunday rituals, then you need to get out more."

Overheard

If you're a

Storm-The-Capitol Christian

instead of a

Love-Thy-Neighbor Christian

you're doing it wrong.

Today's Today

Autumnal Equinox

Terri Kirby Erickson

 

There is some sense when

autumn begins,

that the world is being

smothered by a colorful blanket.

Trees lose their emerald

radiance; the edges

of their leaves turn yellow,

orange or scarlet. Days grow

shorter and shadows

linger. The nights come

with a chill like bathwater

left in the tub too long.

Flowers that bloomed in lush

profusion on my front

porch droop like tired children

fighting sleep.

Vidalia onions

and garden tomatoes disappear

from grocery store shelves,

replaced by pumpkins and oddly

shaped squash.

 

When autumn arrives, winter

Is only a frozen breath away,

bringing cold

and slush, runny noses and hacking

coughs, gray mornings

and twilight afternoons.

It is the season

that swallows summer

like it never was—as if young girls

in sundresses were never kissed

in the moonlight,

or baseballs never soared

over a fence. There were no barbecues

or mosquito bites, sandals filled

with sand on the deck. Autumn

shakes the summer

from our minds until it falls like leaves,

skittering down an empty street.

The Algo Knows All

Today's Belle

Reset to what, exactly?