Trump thinks he's an entertainer, he thinks he's funny, and he thinks that's all he needs to be POTUS.
But hey - it keeps the rubes coming back to give him more of their butter-n-egg money, and it keeps them from seeing him for what he is: a nepo-baby legacy puke with a massive ego that's matched only by his many enormous inadequacies.
He's one of only two candidates with a real shot at being elected President Of The United Fucking States, and he spent 10 minutes talking about Arnold Palmer's dick.
When you say stupid, hateful, truly misogynistic things about a woman in a position of some power, she doesn't hear you. But your sister does - your wife does - your aunts and nieces do - your daughter does.
We don't always model the kind of exemplary behavior we want our kids to emulate. Lord knows I haven't. There have been many mistakes, and many regrets for not doing and being better.
Of course, we can't always be at our best when it comes to doing anything, let alone when we're trying to raise kids to be good and decent people, and it's all we can do just to get them through homework, and supper, and bath time, and bedtime one more night without murdering the little darlings.
But we can try. We can maybe hold back a little on our oh-so-clever, sharp-as-a-razor rhetorical wit, and remember 'little pitchers have big ears'. We can make some small effort to be more aware of the example we're setting.
Trying to put Kamala down, he took a dump on everybody who works at a fast food joint like McDonalds. He can't help himself. He just doesn't give one empty fuck about people.
He just wants what he wants in the moment, and he doesn't care who he fucks over trying to get it.
Anybody complaining about how they "Can't say things anymore" is not actually being prevented from saying those things.
What it means is that now, if they say those things, they're being perceived as the kind of person who says things like that - and they're being chastised for it.
So what they're whining about is what normal people call "being held accountable" - for what they say and what they do - and for who and what their use of the language reveals about them.
Not that long ago:
Things change. Stop being such a whiny-butt pussy about it.
And it's not so much that you're prohibited from saying those things, but we're trying to be marginally better people, and make this world a marginally better place to live, so when you say that kind of hateful ignorant shit, you can expect to get dinged for it. You need some new material.
I think most "undecideds" are rationalizing the fact that they don't pay attention, or they just follow the crowd, or they go with whatever sign they see last before they vote ... or they're straight up lying for whatever reason.
Conventional wisdom says there are actual honest-to-god people who wait forever to make a decision.
Two basic kinds of undecided voters, and they can be persuaded.
I'm definitely gonna vote, but I'm not sure I'll vote for you
I'm not sure I'm gonna vote, but if I do, I'll definitely vote for you
I've said it before - this can't be considered just another election where it doesn't really matter who we put in charge. It does matter. A lot.
In another demonstration of CNN's toxic neutrality, Tapper lets Johnson lie his ass off, and he never once questions the guy's evasions and word safaris and recitation of GOP ad copy.
And more - Mike Johnson is a believer in The Second Coming - something Christians have been predicting for 2000 years. Why the fuck would anybody put any stock in his predictions for an election?
This fucked up shit - meaning the fucked up political shit, and the fucked up economic shit - didn't get all fucked up yesterday. And we're not going to get it unfucked by tomorrow.
Lifetime appointment - can't be fired without 67 votes in US Senate
SCOTUS sits in judgement of itself
Another failure of honor
Only Congress has the authority to remove an Article III judge. This is done through a vote of impeachment by the House and a trial and conviction by the Senate. As of September 2017, only 15 federal judges have been impeached, and only eight have been convicted.
What must it be like for Mary Trump - who holds an honest-to-god doctorate - to be called stupid by her Uncle Donald? A guy who runs around telling everybody that he's really smart simply because he had a relative who taught at MIT - so he has these great genes and blah blah blah.
Anyway, Mary Trump has the guy's number.
And we should be listening for Donald Trump's use of some very fascist tropes. Although he always paraphrases them, and speaks in code.
We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children ...
Followed by the secondary slogan,
... because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the Earth.
That shit is always there. He never says it straight out, but it's always there.
He has to keep people alarmed and on edge, so they'll run to Daddy for comfort and protection. Which is odd in itself, because he's always carping about "the government" being worthless, even as he tells people to look to the government - his government - for help.
Anyway.
He wildly overstates the "problem" by using a ridiculously inflated number. ie: "30,000 Haitian immigrants."
Then he says Biden used "a trick" to give them legal status.
And then he puts himself above the law - again - as always - by saying they're illegal as far as he's concerned.
And that's how it works.
Amp up the fear and anger
"There oughta be a law"
Make it a law
It doesn't matter if you can pull it off or not. It doesn't matter if it's constitutional or not. The expectation of the mob is that you should be allowed to do it. As long as you've got the mob, you've got the power.
