Another Broken Toy 🌴 ✡️🌻✡️🌻✡️ 🌴

Cats and Dogs:  Ohio’s Haitians aren’t dining on household pets but the racist conspiracy theory that they are being eaten has legs in part because the state’s junior Senator who also happens to be the Republican’s candidate for Vice President is still pushing it, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that just because no one’s been able to document the story’s validity doesn’t mean that it’s not true. Naturally, given the country’s temperature, Vance’s comments, like those of his mango buddy have consequences so in an abundance of caution some of Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian parents kept their children home from school yesterday over fears that delusional MAGA maniacs would do something criminally stupid. It’s hard to question their concern given that Springfield’s town hall and multiple other of the town’s government related buildings were evacuated yesterday, the result of emailed bomb threats.  While Trump and Vance are still pushing the hate filled pet trope, yesterday one former Springfield, Ohio resident used his social media presence to try to defuse the anti-Haitian, anti-immigrant frenzy they’ve triggered. John Legend who was raised in Springfield posted a thoughtful message noting that Springfield’s Haitian population had been encouraged to move to the town to fill open manufacturing jobs and that they’ve reinvigorated what had been a shrinking metropolis. He encouraged people to see each other’s humanity and to remember the Golden Rule to “love thy neighbor as thyself.”  We need more John Legends.

Loomer Looms:  Citing X (Twitter) polls even his surrogate RFK Jr acknowledges are highly suspect, Trump insists that he resoundingly won Tuesday night’s debate even though everyone with half a brain or a worm hole in their brain knows he lost bigly.  That said, he has no interest in being trounced again by Kamala so yesterday he posted that he won’t be participating in any more debates.  He probably won’t but then again, it’s not like Trump sticks to his plans so don’t be surprised if he changes his mind but at least for now we only have the October 1 debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance to endure.  Future debates or not Trump is keeping his newest comfort blanket, racist conspiracist Laura Loomer, by his side. Loomer seems to be filling the travel companion spot previously occupied by Hope Hicks. Even though she is a known 9.11 skeptic who asserts that the day’s heinous attacks were an “inside job,” Trump brought her along to Wednesday’s memorial service.  Loomer who with Trump’s endorsement once ran for Congress in his Palm Beach area district, routinely expresses her hate for all things Muslim, she’s called for Kellyanne Conway’s daughter Claudia to hang herself, and now, in response to comments from Senator Lindsey Graham and Margie Q that Trump should find himself a new less broken comfort toy, she’s publicly questioning Graham’s sexuality and calling Margie Q a hooker. Those attacks are totally in character for Loomer, she’s previously asserted that Kamala Harris is childless because of her “many abortions” and more recently warned that should Harris win, the White House will smell of curry and that calls to the government will be answered by an incomprehensible call center.  It’s not surprising that Trump has no problem with anything that Loomer says but he’s not alone in tolerating her bigotry and conspiracy mongering, the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) uses videos that she produces for their campaigns.  

Red Endorsements:  Alberto Gonzales who served as Attorney General during George W Bush’s administration has joined Bush’s VP Dick Cheney in endorsing Kamala Harris.  Yesterday he said that he “can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump – perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation – eyes a return to the White House.”  Their one-time boss, George W,  who doesn’t seem to care about the future of the country, remains silent, hanging out in Texas with his easel and paint brushes.  Also yesterday, current Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly denounced “dangerous and outrageous attacks on Department of Justice prosecutors and personnel.” He didn’t specifically name Trump as one of those attackers, but he clearly had him in mind.  For what it is worth, though Trump still has far too much support to fathom, Harris’ poll numbers, including in North Carolina which hasn’t gone blue since Obama’s first election,  appear to be improving and we still haven’t seen post-debate polls yet. Unfortunately, Montana Democrat Jon Tester remains seriously underwater, a problem because if he falls, it’s likely that the Senate will go red, which isn’t good for future Supreme Court confirmations.

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