Today’s post has been delayed due to some bad weather that blew through Nebraska on Wednesday. Power was out in Lincoln from 5:00 until about 11:30 pm at Wienerville (what my parents call their house).
To pass the time, I listened to some Kinks songs on my phone. One of them reminded me of how timeless some of Ray’s songs can be.
Anywho … It’s a new season! (#3)
Episode 301 has been uploaded.
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- SPECIAL COMMENT: After his demented, prejudiced paroxysm at the National Association of Black Journalists, as he signaled the start of his full-on, hateful, disgusting, apartheid-and-slavery-level-appalling campaign of birtherism and racism, Donald Trump must withdraw from the presidential election and commit to psychiatric institutionalization.
- There is no longer any room in the political discourse of the United States of America for anyone both so deeply disturbed AND so deeply possessed by a hate of people of color that it reaches the levels of insanity and prejudice Trump not only DISPLAYED in Chicago yesterday but gloried in. More over, there is no room in American SOCIETY for anyone with such an immeasurably dysfunctional and dangerous mental illness as that which Trump showed again and again at the NABJ event.
- This country is not safe if Donald Trump is free to walk on its streets. This country is not safe if those who have mistaken him for sane, or rational, or patriotic, or just American, are not shown in no uncertain terms that what he radiated yesterday on that stage is a disease
- At the National Association of Black Journalists event in Chicago he went full birther, again. He went full racist, again. He not only questioned the ethnic history of the Vice President of the United States, but he accused her of either CHANGING that history or changing her STATEMENTS ABOUT that history — Trump’s insanity permitted him to be vague even in his apartheid-level racist accusation. As he did so his stooges like Jesse Watters were going on Fox claiming Vice President Harris is “not African-American, technically” and Laura Loomer was disseminating a Harris birth certificate and the gutter trash congresswoman from Colorado Lauren Boebert wrote “she switched” and the Trump parking lot [sidewalk?] attorney Alina Habba said, “Unlike you Kamala, I know who my roots are and where I come from.”
- Not again. We must — using the law and the ballot box — destroy this man’s evil and metaphorically bury his campaign and those who support under the rubble of birtherism.
“Friend of mine asked me yesterday, for the thousandth time this year, how I deal with this every day? And I said, well, whenever I can, I try to go to my past and live there for a few minutes and visit the simpler times when all I worried about was things like whether or not my brand new seersucker suit would get dirty while I took the subway up to my internship at Channel five News here in New York.” — KO
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Yes, this is behind a paywall. The gist is:
For Trump’s birthday in June, Orlando wrote a letter appealing to his ego. “I was unaware of the extent of your brilliance,” he wrote, according to the Post. “On your birthday, my only wish is that you realize how proud we are of your successes to date.” Moss and Litinsky persuaded him not to send it, in part because the sycophancy was over the top even by Trump standards and in part because they knew Trump hated the idea of getting older.
Hey, Donald, you’re the oldest person to seek the Presidency … unless you drop out now.
Hey, it’s worth a shot. Maybe someone else can do better.
Back to the article.
Mar-a-Lago has a micro-economy in which such intel is sold to supplicants by people with proximity to Trump. The Truth Social executives paid $15,000 to Will Russell, a Trump bodyman, and $20,000 to Dan Scavino, Trump’s social-media director, who were in a position to find out things like his mood, when he’d be coming off the golf course, and when was the best time to call.
And back to KO’s summary:
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- THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Ah for the simpler times of 46 years ago when the big issue was: Will I get my seersucker suit dirty on the subway as I travel up to my internship at Channel 5 News? The story of Keith The Intern and Bill Mazer.
