The Enemy From Within  🌴 ✡️🌻✡️🌻✡️ 🌴

Twenty Days:  Over the weekend, Kamala Harris released her medical report. In summary, she has seasonal allergies, wears contact lenses, and unlike her opponent is mentally and physically resilient. Nevertheless, Trump, who is rumored to have an incontinence or worse problem insists that Harris is mentally deficient and a “retard,” his word, not mine.  He has not and will not release a real medical report, continues to insist that he’s mentally competent and a genius because he once distinguished a rhinoceros from an elephant and had an uncle who taught at MIT.  He has once again shut down participating in another debate and has also turned down an offer from CNN to appear in a townhall. Harris, who Trump insists is afraid of interviews has been participating in a slew of them, has accepted CNN’s offer and has also agreed to a one-on-one interview with Fox’s Bret Baier to take place tomorrow night.  The self-described healthiest and most mentally fit presidential candidate who only appears with the friendliest of hosts like Fox’s Maria Bartiromo and who treats fact checking as if it’s kryptonite instead held a town hall last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania moderated by another one of his acolytes, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem.  He quickly dispensed with questions and instead swayed to his favorite music for thirty-nine minutes.  The Pennsylvania sway-a-thon followed a rally in Arizona where he welcomed the Aseurasians in the audience.  Aseruasian, Arizonans close enough? That rally followed the one he held in Coachella where many attendees were left stranded because his campaign failed to pay the bus company that was supposed to transport them out which could explain why Trump’s been busy launching more quick-pay fraudulent business ventures  As to his most recent interview with Maria Bartiromo, it made a few headlines, but not enough, because that’s when Trump said that rather than Russia, China, North Korea or Iran, the real problem facing the country is the “enemy from within” and he’s prepared to call out the National Guard and the military to deal with those “sick lunatics” as in the “lunatic left” but really everyone willing to speak out against him including Biden, Harris, Clinton. Pelosi, Kinzinger and many of us.  That threat of violence against those who disagree with him is just one of the of the reasons that his former Chief of Staff Mark Milley, who has grown increasingly concerned about Trump’s descent, reached out to author Bob Woodward to tell him that he believes that Trump is “fascist to the core” and even worse is increasingly surrounded by only like-minded people.  It’s also why Milley, who fears that Trump will exert retribution against him by having him court martialed and who has also received many credible threats from Trump’s fans, has installed bullet proof windows at his personal residence. He may need a moat too. The fascist guy also wants to invoke the 1798 Alien and Sedition Act to deport aliens including immigrants who are here legally and some who are naturalized citizens but of course the conveniently pro-choice genius model visa lady Melania and South African born Elon Musk can stay. The fascist to the core candidate who’s been telling audiences that their choice is simple, either vote for the white guy or end up with another one of those Black presidents, because who needs a dog whistle 🐶😗 anymore, remains in a neck and neck, too close to call race to become the country’s next president.  

More Insanity: While parts of the south continue what is likely to be a long recovery from the dual effects of Helene and Milton, some militia types, as in lunatics with guns, have been threatening the FEMA teams working on the recovery, just another consequence of demonizing government employees for doing their jobs, a situation familiar to the health experts who were forced out of their jobs when they tried to combat the spread of COVID and the election workers who were attacked for working at the polls.  On the subject of guns, a Trump fan with a few tried to get into Trump’s Coachella event but was stopped.  Though initial reports suggested that he was there to try to assassinate Trump, he wasn’t, he just thought that carrying his arsenal was okay because doesn’t everyone?  In Florida where abortion is on the ballot, Governor DeSantis has had his recently created Office of Election Crimes and Security scrutinize signatures on the petition responsible for the abortion amendment.  He is now claiming that at least 16% of those signatures were fraudulent.  They’re not. He’s also been using state funds to campaign against the amendment.  Such a good use of time and money in a state where home insurance, when available, has grown increasingly unaffordable because why tackle a real problem when you can instead stoke a culture war. According to a poll published Sunday by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy the abortion rights amendment is supported by 61% of Florida voters which makes its passage too close to call since in Florida amendments must be backed by at least 60% of voters to become law and anyway, even if it reaches the 60% hurdle DeSantis will try to sabotage it before letting it go into effect.  On the endorsement front, Geraldo Rivera, the former Fox commentator who, despite his later career trajectory, will always hold a soft spot in my heart because of his groundbreaking exposé of the horrors that took place at NY’s Willowbrook State institution has endorsed Kamala Harris.  He called Trump who he’s known for years “unfit to serve.”       

Vote, Vote, Vote: Early and absentee ballot voting has begun in lots of states.  In New York early voting begins on October 26.  Former President Jimmy Carter who has been in hospice care for more than one year and who says that his wish is to hold on to cast his vote for Kamala Harris in the election has probably achieved his goal since his Georgia absentee ballot, likely mailed in already, will count even if he doesn’t make it all the way to November 5.  Not that we should count him out since he’s a bit like that iconic Energizer Bunny.   

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