One more post before a week's vacation and the Democratic National Convention. I'm just throwing a bunch of stuff up!
This Week in Bonkersville
Donnie had a conversation with Elon Musk on Twitter. There was a bit of kerfuffle in that it started 45 minutes late due to technical difficulties. Muskie made all kind of excuses for a technical glitch at his technical company. It finally got underway, but I don't think Elmo was subject to the same ranting about making him wait that the National Association of Black Journalists were.
It was a love-fest, not an interview. Musk is not a journalist; he is just another billionaire advocate for the kind of doo-doo that Boo-boo do so well.
It was the same old tired song. All the lies laid out yet again. But there were a couple tidbits that came out of it.
The main takeaway was that Li'l Donnie was slurring badly during the 90 minute conversation. It sounded mostly like a lateral lisp on all his sibilant sounds, just overall super mushy dysarthric speech. Here are a lot of clips from David Packman, who not only talks about the speech but also the content of the bizarre event. See below.
And our wonderful Stephen Colbert adds his skewer during his monologue. The Musk bit starts at about 3:08, but I'm giving you the whole monologue from the beginning.
I am a speech-language pathologist, and I've talked about IckyBod Crane's speech and language disorders many times in the past. I've speculated that he may be experiencing transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), or "mini strokes," which can acutely affect speech and language, and when there are a lot of them, can be the underpinnings of multi-infant dementia.
So, my wild speculation about this event: it wasn't technical difficulties but maybe a TIA-ish event that occurred just before the conversation was to begin. Maybe he decided to forge ahead with the the event without being fully out of the TIA.
Or maybe he had a TIA during the conversation. Or maybe something else is going on.
What ever is happening, it is concerning. Something is wrong.
When S.V. Daté of Huffpost asked the campaign about his slurred speech, they responded with, "Must be your shitty hearing. Get your ears checked out." Charming.
Speaking of Speech
The Rabid Yam and Vance hate that Harris sometimes does a bit of code-switching, accusing her of being an "chameleon" and using a "fake Southern accent." Fun fact: we all do it, Black people do it a lot, and it isn't a bad thing. It's just a thing. Linguist John McWhorter tells you more.
Second fun fact: JD, you do it too, with ya talkin' all Appalachian-like sometimes! Here's just one recent example. Get over it, weirdo.
Just for fun, here's my favorite code-switching example from Key and Peele:
Campaigning to Friends
While Harris and Walz have been traversing the country all over the dang place, Cheeto Mussolini has scaled back his appearances. He made one campaign stop during the week of August 5: to deep red Montana, which he won in 2020 by 16 points. No need to campaign there, dumb-head. In the same span, Harris and Walz had planned to visit seven states (they had to postpone North Carolina and Georgia due to weather).
In fact, in the period of July 18 when the RNC convention concluded until August 9, when he went to Montana, he had made five campaign stops, while Harris and Walz made that many stops in one week.
So, what is it, Donold? Your mental endurance? Physical endurance? Feelin' poorly? You afraid? Giving up? Donold, why you so skittish?
Project 2025 Stuff
A couple weeks ago, Paul Dans, the director of The Heritage Foundation resigned. Some thought it would mean the end of Project 2025, but we must not buy into that. TЯUMP is embracing its tenets as his own, including recently slurring about doing away with the Department of Education:
It's clear that T****, despite trying to distance himself from P25, fully embraces the plan. Secret recordings were made of Russell Vought, the co-author of P25. A pair of British journalists went undercover and secretly recorded him. See video here:
ProPublica got hold of some of Project 2025's training videos. Part of P25's plan is to have political operatives trained and ready to hit the ground running when the next Republican president gets sworn in. This entails training in advance.
We have been wrapped up in the wonderland of the Harris/Walz ticket. We must not lose sight of the consequences of a loss in November. Project 2025 is still out there. It's a blueprint ready to implement, and it is scary shit.
The DNC has not forgotten and is doing this in Chicago, where the Convention is getting underway tonight:
📍Chicago
— Alex Tabet (@AlexanderTabet) August 19, 2024
The DNC projects “Project 2025 HQ” onto Trump Tower in downtown Chicago on the eve of the Democratic National Convention pic.twitter.com/1JrkyidP33
Whose plane?!
Hair Force One had some mechanical issues while en route to Montana for a rally, so it had to land and they had to borrow another plane. The plane they used? It belonged to Jeffrey Epstein. Ewwwww! Don't sit on those seats!
And very, very weird, from JD Vance. He said this on Fox News Sunday: "Giving Kamala Harris control over inflation policy... it's like giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy."
LSR does a double take. Ummm.... come again?
Do they really think they are making political points when they remind us all of the passenger logs on that evil plane with those evil men?
Let's never forget that, when speaking about Ghislain Maxwell, King Leer said "I wish her well."
Foot in Mouth Disease
Vance put his foot in his ample mouth yet again when he agreed in a 2020 podcast that the “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” is to raise grandchildren.
Meme makers have been a little slow to respond to this new-and-improved insult to American women, so I made one. Here's my attempt:
Read Alexandra Petri's take in WaPo. And then, make a plan to vote.
Do not piss off Swifties!
The Fanta Fascist posted a fake AI image of Taylor Swift with some stupid made-up endorsement caption and wrote "I accept!" I'm not posting the image because I don't want to give it more oxygen. It is bound to backfire badly. You can bet Tay-tay did not take kindly to it. I hope she responds ...um, swiftly.
The helicopter crash with Willie Brown that didn't happen
The Absurd Ass asserted that he was in a helicopter with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown ("who I know very well") when it went down. "I thought maybe this was the end."
Except – surprise – it didn't happen. He may be mis-remembering an incident with former California state senator Nate Holden, who was in a helicopter in 1990 with Don the Con when it had to make an emergency landing. Holden said, "Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco. I'm a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles."
Trumpty Dumbty doubled down, repeating the story even after it was debunked.
Willie Brown is not happy and has threatened to sue if he keeps telling the story with Brown's name in it.
It just won't stop.
Yet another laughable moment
Earlier this month, the stock market had a bad day after a not-so-good jobs report; the Dow ended 1000 points lower. 🚼 jumped on the news, calling it "the Kamala crash." Trouble is, the next trading day, the market regained about 60% of its loss, and since then has been climbing. The Dow is at record levels; it's at 40,884 as of this writing. The Daily Show looks at it:
@thedailyshow Behind the scenes of Fox News’s chyron crash #DailyShow #FoxNews #Trump ♬ original sound - The Daily Show
Found this interesting graphic:
Grasping at straws
The GOP is trying to smear Tim Walz's "ties" to China and twist it into something nefarious. What experience does he have in China? According to the AP, : "At 25, Walz taught a year of high school in China. He returned for his honeymoon and many more times with American exchange students. As a congressman, he served on a committee tracking China’s human rights and met figures like the Dalai Lama."
Oooooh! Nefarious stuff!
They also want to make an issue of a DUI that Walz committed. I will never defend DUI, but he handled his 1995 incident the Walz Way. The 31-year-old pleaded guilty, resigned as coach and tried to resign as teacher (his principal talked him into staying). He took his punishment of 90-day suspended license and $200 fine, and he stopped drinking. Forever.
Go ahead, MAGAts. Smear that.
They also want to fault him for the response to the protests in the wake of George Floyd's death. He was a little delayed in calling the National Guard in, yes. Here is a fact-check on the events.
Criticize all you want for political points, boys, but at the time even your Burrito Supreme Leader praised Walz's actions.
Try again, Losers.
Disgusting racism. It's their brand
Look at this post. Who buys this shit?!
Diaper Don asserts "I'm better looking than she is"
And maybe the weirdest thing this week
Vance Jizz Cups. No, yeah, they are real.
Babe wake up, MAGA is carrying around JD Vance jizz cups. pic.twitter.com/e7lmfJA2EI
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) August 18, 2024
*LSR checks thesaurus* How many ways can you say "What the actual fuck!"? I'm running out.
The weird just keeps coming.
I'm having trouble keeping up with it. I'll be away for a while, so resisters, keep sending me the stuff. I'll do what I can to catch up next week!!
On the Normal Front
Campaign talking points
It won't matter to the cult followers who believe every lie, but the truth is more compelling. A couple of political points have been scored by Kamala and Walz. The two main points that the campaign team has encouraged – but failed – to get him to focus on are immigration and the economy.
Both are improving.
Immigration numbers down. Beds are empty at migrant centers.
A love letter
Here's a piece from a former student of Walz.
Weird is working
Allan Lichtman adroitly observed recently: "Republicans have no principles; Democrats have no spine."
True no longer! We have a New Democratic Party, spine intact. We can embrace some new sayings:
- "When they go low, we go with the flow."
- Hey! Whattya know! We do have a spine!
- When they get weird, we go Walz.
- We're not gonna accept some people.
Meme Dump! Enjoy!
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And one more for the road: a throwback Randy Rainbow, who made this in 2020.
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