Seriously, this absurd proposal that Greenlanders do not desire, coming hard on the heels of a threat against Panama, after serial insults to Canada.
Trump isn't okay.
That's been obvious for quite a while, but there's something wrong with him. He spouts every stupid idea that comes into his head.
Elon Musk, not attempting to be ironic, suggested this week that office holders take a competency test. Trump is publicly failing one right now.
October 8, 2024.
Early voting starts today in Wyoming.
October 11, 2024
I have more complaints on grocery. The word grocery. You know, it's sorta simple word, but it sorta means like everything you eat. The stomach is speaking. It always does. And, uh, I have more complaints about that. Bacon and things going up.
Donald Trump.
I could be right now in the most beautiful ocean, on the sand, exposing my really beautiful body - so beautiful - to the sun and the surf…
Donald Trump.
Danica Patrick is going to moderate a J.D. Vance Town Hall.
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October 21, 2024.
Donald Trump started off a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with a ten minute surreal ramble a out Latrobe native son, Arnold Palmer, stating as part of them:
Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women — and I love women. But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, "Oh my God, that's unbelievable".
He also included vulgar comments about Kamala Harris.
You have to tell Kamala Harris that you've had enough, that you just can't take it anymore, we can't stand you anymore, you're a shitass vice president. The worst. You're the worst vice president. Kamala, you're fired. Get the hell out of here.
This is, to say the least, vulgar and odd.
Indeed, while it'll sound like a conspiracy theory, at this point I'm fairly convinced that National Conservatives have backed Trump so that they can get one of their own, J. D. Vance, in a position to take over once Trump is declared mentally in competent early in a second Trump administration, should it occur. There's no way that they could elect a candidate as President on their own, but with a weirdly acting Trump, they may very well get one in this fashion.
Cont:
Two of the panelist on This Week openly stated that the Arnold Palmer comments are due to a mental decline in Trump. One stated it was age related, and certainly they both implied it.
Cont:
Tapper: Is the closing message you really want voters to hear from Donald Trump stories about Arnold Palmer's genitals?
Johnson: Let's put the rhetoric aside
Tapper: People have concerns about his fitness and stability. Why is he talking about Arnold Palmer's genitals in front of Pennsylvania voters?
Johnson: Don't say it again we don't have to say it
October 22, 2024
Cont:
I just went down and voted.
I also didn't vote for the GOP or Democratic candidates for Senate and House. The Democrats stand no chance at either office, and they keep nominating candidates too far on the progressive scale. The GOP Senator up for reelection is shamelessly supporting Trump even though its highly unlikely he really agrees with him on much, which makes it all the worse. The House candidate up for reelection seems to have fully adopted the populist viewpoint.
I'm a conservative. I wrote a couple of actual conservatives in.
I voted for the measure to allow the state constitution to be amended to add a new category for residential property, even though I'm very unsure about it. And I voted for all the city optional tax measures.
The whole time I was there some ancient man with a MAGA hat was wondering around ambushing people waiting in line with his far right populist views. He really hit some poor coal miner hard who clearly just wanted to be left alone to vote.
One of his points was that the United States didn't invent transgenderism. Somehow, in his mind, this assertion was a reason to vote for Trump.
Cont:
It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican! Don’t pay it!
Trump's reaction, reportedly, to a bill received from the family of Pvt. Vanessa Guillén after he had offered to pay funeral expenses.
Why can’t you be like the German generals?
Trump to John Kelly in showing frustration about their independence. Trump was apparently unaware of the July 20 plot, according to Kelly, and not aware that Erwin Rommel killed himself.
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The Harris/Trump debate took place last night. I missed the first 45 or so minutes.
I don't know what happened in that time frame, but in the part I saw, watching Donald Trump was like watching a racoon on crack.
Even Fox News declared Harris the "clear" winner, while whining about ABC moderators fact checking "everything" Trump said. Given that Trump is a massive liar, the fact that they did fact check was a public service.
One newscaster, post debate, stated that it was like watching "an old man yelling at clouds", which apparently is a reference to an episode of the Simpsons. Apparently Simpson meme's went wild after Trump repeated the J. D. Vance bizarre canard about immigrants stealing pets for food (completely untrue). Trump specifically stated:
In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating – they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.
The claim was immediately debunked by moderator David Muir, but people were quick to pick up on it.
Whether it really matters or not is another matter, but post debate Taylor Swift endorsed Harris.
Wyoming's Congressional delegation declared Trump the winner of the debate, which was predictable. Seriously, however,. if even Fox News states that Harris was clearly the winner . . .
September 12, 2024
Trump found Taylor Swift coming out against him, citing herself as a "childless cat lady", two days ago. Now Linda Ronstadt has:
Stevie Nicks (whose music I can't stand) has also done so, citing herself as a "childless dog lady".
J. D. Vance has proven to be the gift that just keeps giving to the Harris campaign, given the numerous and provocative statements he's made. He also has been due to philosophical stances he's taken, which is another topic. At any rate, trends in regard to Trump aren't favorable to him, even if he should be successful in the election.
September 13, 2024
Trump on the leader of the Taliban in a press conference this week:
He called me 'Your Excellency.' I wonder if he calls that to Biden. I doubt it.
There's something really bizarre about Trump. Being called "your excellency" apparently really matters to him, so much that he thinks being called that by the Taliban is nifty.
That's weird.
Something to consider on his odd behavior:
In psychiatry, the tendency to conspicuously and rigidly repeat a thought beyond the point of relevance, called “perseverance,” is known to be correlated with a variety of clinical disorders, including those involving a loss of cognitive reserve. People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning—for instance, in short-term memory. Short-term memory is essentially your mental sketch pad: how many different thoughts you can juggle in your mind, keep track of, and use at the same time. Given the complexity of being president, short-term memory is a vital skill.
If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness. A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old. Only careful medical examination can establish whether someone indeed has a diagnosable illness—simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from afar is not enough. For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief.
Richard A. Friedman, a psychiatrist, in The Atlantic.
September 14, 2024
Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who (supports) killing babies Both are against life.
Pope Francis on Harris and Trump.
The Pope counselled to "choose the lesser evil". If you live in a state, however, that's going overwhelmingly for one candidate or another, you don't actually have to, and can vote for a third party like The American Solidarity Party.
Laura Loomer, about whom I know nothing, but who is apparently an extreme right wing personality, has been traveling around with Trump. He's now criticizing her but she's been seen a lot with her including some photos in which they are uncomfortably close. Trump has a knack for appearing with embarrassing people.
In a campaign speech over the last couple of days Trump promised the largest mass deportation in history, starting in Springfield Ohio and Colorado.
September 15, 2024
Penultimate conservative George F. Will endorsed Kamala Harris.
September 16, 2024
A second assassination attempt on Donald Trump occurred yesterday. In this instance, the Secret Service spotted the would be assailant before he staged his attempt and opened fire first.
The assailant was Ryan Wesley Routh, who had been convicted in 2002 for possessing a machine gun. He used that weapon in a stand off with the police. How he had a AK47 type rifle in this instance is an obvious question. Based on news reports of his social media, he at one time claimed he was going to go to Ukraine and fight (he clearly didn't), and he had pro Palestinian and anti Chinese posts as well.
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Trump and Canada's big water faucet: Canada Has A Big Water Faucet.
What the crap?
September 17, 2024
Scientific American endorsed Kamala Harris.
September 20, 2024
cont:
This is, quite frankly, stupid.
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September 24, 2024
Recognizing voter concerns over non-citizens attempting to vote nationwide, Governor Mark Gordon issued an Executive Order (EO) directing state agencies to take further steps to ensure Wyoming’s elections continue to be safe and secure.
“Recognizing the Biden/Harris Administration’s disastrous border policies compel us to do all we can to protect the integrity of our elections, I, alongside fellow Republican Governors, have taken the action afforded to me by the Constitution and the Laws of Wyoming to confirm the security of Wyoming’s elections,” Governor Gordon said.
“I remain confident Wyoming’s elections are the most secure in the nation,” the Governor added. “As required by the laws enacted by the legislature, our county clerks are thorough and diligent when determining, investigating and verifying voter citizenship. With this Executive Order, I reaffirm my commitment to that ideal.
Residents can be confident that this order removes any confusion and clarifies for our agencies – should there be any doubt – that they will not enable or facilitate any noncitizen to register to vote or help them to vote.”
Executive Order 2024-11 directs State agencies to take a variety of actions to ensure that non-citizens do not vote or register to vote. State agencies may not provide voter registration materials to non-citizens and must confirm that they are not required to provide those materials to non-citizens when contracting with federal programs or agencies.
In addition, the EO encourages the Secretary of State and the County Clerks to continue to effectively and efficiently use the tools provided to each of them by Wyoming’s election code to investigate and verify voter registration. The Wyoming Constitution requires every person to be a citizen of the United States before they can legally register and vote in Wyoming.
As he did earlier this year, the Governor continues to urge the legislature to provide clarity on the definition of the term “bona fide resident.” Wyoming’s county clerks have indicated to the Legislature that this clarification is needed, and the Governor agrees.
A poll places incumbent Senator Ted Cruz in a dead heat with his Democratic challenger, Colin Allred.
Cruz going down in defeat would be a major blow to Republican efforts to secure the Senate.
September 27, 2024
First shoes, then Bibles, now watches.
October 1, 2024.
You just can't make this stuff up.
I will shut down all entries through Kamala’s migrant phone app. She’s got a phone app. It’s meant for the cartel heads. The cartel heads call the app, and they tell them where to drop the illegal migrants… It’s not even believable.
Donald Trump. Indeed, for the rational, that is not believable.
They come from the Congo in the Africa. Many people from the Congo. I don't know what that is, but they come out of jails in the Congo.
Many people, from the Congo, which he doesn't know what it is?
October 2, 2024
October 4, 2024
Melania Trump has cut a Trump/Vance ad in which she notes that she's pro infanticide, one more step in the GOP abandoning its formerly pro life plank. Vance has already boarded the IVF ship fully, in spite of that involving the death of fertilized eggs. Melania was baptized a Catholic, although there's no real evidence that she's practiced in any recent period, and Vance is a convert who is now demonstrating again that politics will prevail over conviction for him.
The American Solidarity Party is the only real pro life party in the race that I"m aware of.
For at least those who are not in a swing state, this is one more reason that the American Solidarity Party candidates should be voted for, and are perhaps the only moral vote in such states.
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In psychiatry, the tendency to conspicuously and rigidly repeat a thought beyond the point of relevance, called “perseverance,” is known to be correlated with a variety of clinical disorders, including those involving a loss of cognitive reserve. People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning—for instance, in short-term memory. Short-term memory is essentially your mental sketch pad: how many different thoughts you can juggle in your mind, keep track of, and use at the same time. Given the complexity of being president, short-term memory is a vital skill.
If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness. A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old. Only careful medical examination can establish whether someone indeed has a diagnosable illness—simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from afar is not enough. For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief.
Richard A. Friedman, a psychiatrist, in The Atlantic.
A prediction, or rather an estimate based on odds.
I think there's a 55% chance that Donald Trump will not be the Republican candidate by November, or even by mid October.
No, I don't think that some random wacko is going to assassinate him.
Rather, I'm going back to what I always thought, that one of the two candidates would depart due to the impact of time and mortality, and add to it.
On mortality, Trump really doesn't look well, when you see him as he actually looks, which is rarely. Most of the time we see him in a baggy blue suit with his strange orange spray on tan and back comb over in evidence, a look we're so used to that we have come to regard it as normal, which it is not. But if you see him golfing, which we do occasionally, you see him as he really is. A fat old pasty man. He looks his age and doesn't look great. If a guy looking like that died tomorrow, you wouldn't be surprised.
Added to that, however, is the growing evidence of mental decline.
Trump is under an enormous amount of stress. If you've ever been familiar with somebody entering dementia, routine can keep them going for a long time. Trump has had a surprisingly consistent routine since 2020. The election was stolen has been his mantra. Joe Biden is a crook and the worst President of all time. He repeats it over and over, and he still is.
Now, however, Biden has mounted up and is fading into the sunset. Trump, in turn, has entered the part of the map labeled "here there be dragons" and doesn't know where he is. It's showing in his behavior, which has become increasingly odd.
Indeed, his behavior is now so odd we're completely acclimated to it and pay it little regard. In more or less controlled scripted moments, which seem to occur during the day time, he delivers a routine rambling speech, often with a flat affect. He tends to go badly off script into the bizarre. In interviews he can go way off script.
When he does, odd things show up again and again. He's really smart, he tells us. . . a lot. He draws big crowds, bigger than his opponents. . .
It's weird.
At night, now, he seems to have taken to Twitter and the tweets are often really weird.
I'm not a psychiatrist but it looks to me like the stress an anxiety of the race are getting to him, and organically.
Hence my added prediction. I don't think this nearly 80 year old who has avoided exercise his entire life can keep this up. It'll kill him, or it'll render his mid mush to the point it can't be ignored.
And it'll happen before the end of October.
I'm not saying any of this, I'd note, as some sort of wish. I've seen more than my share of death, and I've seen dementia. We all die, but dementia isn't something we all endure and I don't wish that on anyone.
Now they'll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I'm not rambling. We can't get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking about asking questions. You know, I have an, I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for many years, long, I think the longest tenure ever. Very smart, had three different degrees and you know, so I have an aptitude for things. You know, there is such a thing as an aptitude. I said, well, what would happen if this boat is so heavy and started to sink and you're on the top of the boat. Do you get electrocuted or not? In other words, the boat is going down and you're on the top, will the electric currents flow through the water and wipe you out? And let's say there's a shark about 10 yards over there. Would I have to immediately abandon or could I ride the electric down and he said, sir, nobody's ever asked us that question. But sir, I don't know. I said, well, I want to know because I guarantee you one thing, I don't care what happens. I'm staying with the electric, I'm not getting over with it. So I tell that story. And the fake news they go, he told this crazy story with electric. It's actually not crazy. It's sort of a smart story, right? Sort of like, you know, it's like the snake, it's a smart when you, you figure what you're leaving in, right? You're bringing it in the, you know, the snake, right? The snake and the snake. I tell that and they do the same thing
Donald Trump at the Faith and Freedom Conference.
Grampa : We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
The Simpsons.
Seriously, asking about Trump's cognitive state is a legitimate thing to do.
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People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them
What?
I think I know what he means, but this is completely nonsensical. People don't speak the languages? Nobody speaks them? How are they coming here then.
Something isn't right with Trump.
March 3, 2024
Trump won the Idaho Caucus and Missouri Caucus and took the delegates from the Michigan Convention.
At a rally within the last few days, Trump stated:
"And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he's starting to throw around the nuclear word."
On this occasion, the crowd actually fell into silence. But here we are again. Trump not being able to recall who he is running against is significant.
March 4, 2024
Hinging its decision on the idea that the 14th Amendment is not self enacting, the Supreme Court reversed a Colorado Supreme Court decision barring Trump from running.
And so the disaster continues.
Trump won North Dakota yesterday.
He will win Super Tuesday today.
Haley won Washington, D.C. over the weekend.
Democrats are now pinning their hopes on the 40% of GOP voters who are opposing Trump in the primaries. That's a forlorn hope.
March 5, 2024
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, in her announcement that she is not running for reelection, took Americans to task, stating:
Americans still choose to retreat farther to their partisan corners... The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic, attacking your opponents on cable news or social media. Compromise is a dirty word.
She's right.
March 6, 2024
Trump won every Super Tuesday primary except for Vermont, which was won by Haley.
Biden won all the Democratic Super Tuesday states.
March 6, 2024
Nikki Haley had dropped out of the race.
Dean Phillips dropped out of the race.
And so the Republican Party will present with an ancient, strange narcissist who attacked the democratic institutions of the country but who is loved by his right wing base like a bobbysoxer at an Elvis concern, and the Democrats will present with an ancient nice man who has been willing to compromise his beliefs to satiate the left in his party.
It's the race that most of America doesn't want.
Assuming both men are alive by the election, which given their ages is not a certainty, it's very unlikely that either will survive the next term of office, making the VP choice more important than ever. We don't know who Trump's VP will be, but that person will have to at least appear as a fawning sycophant. Biden's is, of course, the unliked Kamala Harris.
And so the nation continues to endure the tragedy of inadequacy that is propelling it to destruction.
March 7, 2024
Mitch McConnell has endorsed Trump, although in a very lukewarm fashion.
Nonetheless, it's a disgusting end to his role as the leader of the GOP in the Senate.
John Barrasso, who has already endorsed Trump, and who is running for reelection, has put his hat in the ring to be McConnell's successor as head of the party in the Senate.
March 8, 2024
George Santos showed up at the State of the Union Address and is indicating he's running for Congress again.
March 12, 2024
North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley was chosen by the RNC to serve as the party's new Trump sycophantic head, and Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair in unanimous votes.
The Republican Party has died, which makes up my mind in my earlier "shall I stay or shall I go" question I posed here.
Positions with the RNC are being slashed as the party merges with the Trump campaign organization so that it can more effectively apply the Führerprinzip.
March 13, 2024
Both ancient candidates now have enough delegates from an ancient and outdated electoral system to make them their party's nominees.
Which doesn't mean they have to be the choices, even though they will be.
An ABC News/Ipsos survey found that 59% of Americans view Trump unfavorably while 29% rate him favorably.
A weird sideshow occured on This Week last weekend when the host repeatedly asked Nancy Mace, who had revealed that she was a rape victim some time ago, why she supports Donald Trump, who has been convicted by a civil jury of having committed rape, although not directly. She never could really answer the question, essentially conceding that she's supporting somebody icky for political expediency, while trying to accuse the questioner of shaming her for being a rape victim.
She looked like a complete political hack.
She actually had a point, however, and never really made it. Trump wasn't convicted by a civil jury of rape, but rather sexual abuse. What Carroll claimed Trump did was to force himself on her as he shoved his mouth on hers, yanked her tights down, and penetrated her with his hand and then his penis. That would definitely be rape. The verdict, however, would indicate that the jury thought Trump did something unwelcome, but not necessarily the penetration aspects.
That leaves enough room for those who support Trump to state that in actuality he wasn't found liable in a civil trial for rape itself, as commonly understood. Mace stumbled into trying to say it, but saying "he didn't rape her he instead forced himself upon her and conducted force groping or something, according to a New York jury" is a pretty poor defense.
So, in the end, Mace did the very thing she supposedly spoke against, excused a man of a type of sexual violation of a woman and shamed her, at least vicariously, for which she should be ashamed.
March 14, 2024
No Labels Co-Chairman former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, region from that position, using the classic "more time with his family" excuse.
Colorado Republican Ken Buck is resigning his office this month, which means that Colorado will have to hold a special election to replace him. He was from the Freedom Caucus right but took shots at the expired GOP for conducting unconstitutional impeachment efforts and made it clear that his resignation is due to discuss.
Lauren Boebert had moved into his district in hopes of keeping her political carpetbaggery going and is upset about the whole thing.
March 15, 2024
Donald Trump endorsed Barrasso for GOP Senate whip.
Boebert's problems may be much more complicated than originally thought, according to a Colorado newspaper. She's an incumbent but carpetbagging her way to a new district, Ken Buck's, in hopes of retaining a seat. Colorado's law provides that an election has to be held to fill Buck's seat, which is now scheduled for the same day as Colorado's primary. The party has to pick the candidate and there's rumors that Boebert might not be it.
Moreover, if she is it, she'll have to resign her current seat in Congress as Colorado's law doesn't allow a person to run for one seat while holding another, apparently.
Or so some say.
In the Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer category, Nancy Mace, running for a seat from South Carolina, who last week couldn't explain why a woman who is a rape victim is supportering somebody found liable for sexual abuse, took the positio that her primary rival Catherine Templeton should drop out of race now that Trump has endorsed Mace's re-election.
"To do otherwise would be to oppose the direction our party leader, Donald Trump, has set for us,” Campaign Manager John Mason Long stated.
An interesting article was published in the Cowboy State Daily by former Wyoming Speaker of the House Tom Lubnau:
