Running Fast as She Can🌴 ✡️🌻✡️🌻✡️ 🌴

Fearless Leader, Alpha Type:  Maybe doing debate prep with the dubious duo of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard wasn’t such a good idea? Maybe traveling to Philadelphia with far-right activist Laura Loomer, who Margie Q of all people calls a mentally unstable, documented liar, wasn’t a brilliant decision? Maybe, my favorite online comment, men are just too emotional to be president?  Or maybe it’s just that Trump got tripped up by a really prepared Kamala Harris who stayed on script, pivoted whenever she could to her clearly practiced lines while using all of her prosecutorial skills to push his buttons and goad him into spouting all the inane things his handlers begged him to avoid.  Sure, I expected Trump to shout about the millions upon millions of violent migrants crossing the border straight from Latin American asylums, to celebrate his good friends Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jung un, and to claim that Kamala was all in on post term abortions, but the assertion that Haitian immigrants are eating petnapped kittens and puppies, I thought that one was too loony even for him.  But was I ever wrong about that, With his nose dripping, Trump was so rattled that he went with it and then pushed back at ABC moderator David Muir after he said he’d actually checked and that no cats 🐱 🐱 or dogs 🐶 🐶 were showing up on dinner plates in Springfield, Ohio despite VP candidate JD Vance’s assertion and Trump’s concurrence that they were.  Dogs and cats aside, Trump was incapable of voicing any support for Ukraine, perhaps his handler in Moscow warned him not to, but Kamala was quick to warn that if Putin’s Ukraine land grab succeeds, historical precedent indicates that he’ll target Poland next, shrewdly slipping in that swingy Pennsylvania has 800,000 residents of Polish descent. Trump also got tripped up on the politics of abortion even though he had to know that Kamala who spent the two years since the overturning of Roe v Wade honing her abortion speech all over the country would be very prepared on the subject and that the ABC moderators, this time Linsey Davis, would push him on whether or not he’d sign a national abortion ban if it got to his desk.  He twisted himself into knots not answering that question, knowing that one response would offend most women, while the other would enrage his evangelical base. Though he had a really bad night and still doesn’t have a health plan, Trump insisted that he won the evening, and naturally his surrogates blamed ABC and its “biased” moderators for having the temerity to call out some, though not all of his outright lies. To cap the evening, one particularly prominent debate watcher issued a surprise endorsement at the end of the debate.  Calling Vice President Harris a “steady-handed” and “gifted leader,” who will lead with “calm, not chaos” and signing her message Childless Cat Lady while including a picture of her with her cat Benjamin Button, the insanely popular Taylor Swift said that she was all in on the Harris-Walz ticket.  Surprised or not, Harris’ campaign was ready.  To the joy of many Swifties new and old, the campaign team immediately started playing “The Man.”  And how could they resist?  Will Harris’ great night and that Swift endorsement swing voters? Who knows, but last night certainly won’t hurt.  54 Days.

All Good if You’re Bad? Elon Musk, the increasingly dangerous oligarch who gets Trumpier, emboldened, and more unacceptable every day, offered to impregnate Taylor Swift after her Harris endorsement last night in a bizarre and offensive X (Twitter) post   I kid you not. He should probably stay far away from Travis Kelce and the whole Kansas City Chief squad not to mention the world’s countless Swifties.  That was after he spent part of the week promoting Tucker Carlson’s interview of Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper who in addition to asserting that Winston Churchill, not Hitler, was the chief villain of WW II, claims that the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis was just the inadvertent consequence of bad planning rather than evil intent.  JD Vance refused to condemn Tucker’s platforming of Cooper and still plans to be interviewed by Carlson on an upcoming broadcast. Because hate sells and Holocaust deniers vote?  Shifting to Congress, believe it or not another funding deadline looms. Speaker for now Mike Johnson is pushing for a stopgap funding measure that includes a requirement that all voters in federal elections show proof of citizenship before being allowed to cast their ballots, a controversial fix for a problem that doesn’t exist.  That requirement which sounds innocent, is not, rather it is a voter suppression measure intended to place impediments in front of qualified voters who don’t have copies of their birth certificates, driver’s licenses or passports, a group mostly made up of less advantaged people, frequently people of color, who tend to vote blue rather than red.  Again, countless election audits have shown that non-citizens don’t illegally vote.

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