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Cat Women:  Kamala Harris is still on a roll, or as one of Trump’s pollsters put it, she’s in her “honeymoon” period.  To that end, at five this morning, the Harris campaign released a video of Barack and Michele Obama’s much anticipated endorsement of her presidential run. Additionally, following in the footsteps of Sunday’s Black women for Kamala zoom call, a number of other groups have held similar virtual rallies/fundraisers.  Last night’s record setting zoom, organized by gun control activist Shannon Watts, included 136,000 white women, and raised in excess of $2 million.  Not a bad take for a “bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made,” the words that Republican VP candidate JD Vance used to describe women like Kamala Harris during a now 2021 infamous interview with Tucker Carlson.  Not satisfied with only insulting childless women and Swifties, Vance also name checked Pete Buttigieg who unbeknownst to him was in the midst of his adoption journey at the time of the Carlson interview, not that Vance or his followers are okay with nuclear families headed by people like Pete and his husband Chastain. Vance believes that all women should be in “traditional” marriages and have lots of children.  Despite his wife’s impressive legal career, his preference would be for women to be stay at home mothers whether they can afford to or not. He’s also on record suggesting that large families be awarded extra votes, controlled of course by the fathers, so that they can wrest political control away from all those miserable cat women and their LBGTQ friends. Vance who is heard on another video calling for pregnant women to be barred from crossing state lines to obtain abortions also wrote the forward to a forthcoming book by the head of Project 2025, the authoritarian, crypto fascist endorsed rightwing plan that is thought to be the blueprint for Trump’s next administration something that Trump keeps trying to disavow.  Trump is likely having buyer’s remorse about appointing Vance as his running mate, not because he disagrees with his views or doesn’t want to eliminate the “deep state,” the Department of Education and the EPA and take over full control of the courts and Justice Department, but because of all the attention those views are receiving right now.  Given the unprecedented nature of this election, he might actually act on that remorse because if Democrats can replace Biden why can’t he replace Vance?  Yesterday while repeating her view that old politicians should take mental acuity tests, Nikki Haley reupped her Trump endorsement.  Maybe she and a number of others, including even RFK Jr, are hanging by their phones?

What Me Worry?  Last night Trump whose rally speeches repeatedly include riffs on sharks, batteries, windmills, and Hannibal Lecter, as well as a new line claiming that Kamala Harris endorses post birth abortions, hates all Jews (news to her husband) and wants to ban cows and hamburgers, issued a statement saying that given the “chaos surrounding Mr. Biden and the Democrats” and their “nominee” who even Obama is skeptical of, it would be “inappropriate to schedule things” like a debate with Harris at this time “because Democrats very well could change their minds.”  His way of saying hell no, I am not going to debate that articulate Black cat women who keeps calling me a predator and a criminal.  Trump has also had it with Christopher Wray, the FBI director who he appointed after he fired former Director James Comey who in an earlier episode of the Trump chronicles paved the way to Trump’s 2016 victory.  His current beef with Wray has to do with his ear. On Wednesday while testifying before the House Committee looking into the assassination attempt,  Wray had the audacity to suggest that Trump’s ear injury may have been caused by flying shattered glass rather than a bullet. While having any projectile whiz by your head is very bad, bragging about surviving a bullet is so much more macho than living through a glass shard attack and Trump’s a macho, macho man.    

Fog: Following his speech to a joint session of Congress, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met separately with President Biden and VP Harris. After her meeting with Bibi, Harris spoke to the eagerly waiting press. Her remarks got full on Rorschach Test treatment. Depending on who was listening, she either fully endorsed Biden’s Israel policy or, because she showed empathy for the suffering of the Gazans, is ready to dump Israel.  In other words, she’s a politically shrewd politician who chose her words carefully because her first priority right now is winning in November and her hope is that Biden’s team will achieve that much desired ceasefire and return of hostages before the Middle East becomes her problem, assuming it becomes her problem rather than Trump’s. And remember when Elon Musk said that he would be contributing $45 million per month to a PAC to help fund Trump’s campaign, apparently that was just another Rorschach Test that everyone failed because now he says that he didn’t really say he was throwing all that money at Trump. To be clear,  Musk is still all in on Trump, he’s just not feeling as generous, maybe something to do with Tesla’s earnings’ dive or maybe he’s just trolling.   

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