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Assuming this is a justification for the idea that Trump is flying under the radar to the majority of Americans who continue to know nothing about him other than his charming You’re Fired schtick, and thus he will win in November thanks to an electorate largely ignorant of the worst of him, I think where this breaks is that Trump’s worst antics even while firmly ensconced in the bosom of MAGA gatherings are easily accessible to the rest of us through the mainstream media, which are still the most highly-consumed. Trump’s not hiding anywhere anymore. We can all see him, one you would have to be assiduously avoiding him to never see it.

“Learning disability” was the catch-all phrase they used to apply to kids 50 or 60 years ago when they wanted to justify pulling us out of regular school and putting us on the short bus to special ed.

I think they will have had more than their fill of him eight months from now.

Hard to see how Trump can win once he has expelled all the RINOs from the party.

Who wouldn't vote for that!

It obviously won't affect core red hats in the least, but hopefully it peeled off a few thousand voters off the margins.

I wonder whether these are not actually real but rather a part of Russian psyops effort, i.e., faking these bombs to spur support among red hats when they see their fellow Trumpers supporting Russia. Of course, this could also be part of a Ukrainian psyops effort to horrify Americans in voting against Trump because his voters look so obviously anti-American at their core here. And of course this could be totally real. Any way to find out for sure?

It's Ch-EYE-na.

I was so unhappy when we traded Frank Catalanotto.

Everything I’m seeing today is that MAGA are very happy with Katie Britt’s audition on Thursday night and she has the inside track to be selected by Trump as his VPILF. We all remember how well that worked for John McCain.

Putin isn’t Satan to MAGA. Zelenskyy is.

I rewatched Major League for the umpteenth time, and it’s one of my favorite baseball movies. The storyline is trite and they have a few terrible scenes, but the script and jokes are pretty sharp, the performances are generally above average, and the baseball scenes are also above average. Also, great to see actual major league teams being portrayed in the movie. I don’t think there is any way MLB allows that for a similar movie today, since the movie is not at all worshipful of Major League Baseball. One thing that does strike me is how wrong a choice Tom Berenger was for the Jake Taylor catcher role. He has no sense of fun at all, and just like all his other movies, he has this look of a tough guy flaunting a I’m-having-a-bad-day-and-you’re-the-reason vibe. I think the movie would have benefited a lot by having someone like Tom Selleck in the role, or, better still, Kurt Russell—guys who could play both baseball and comedy for real.

Lara Trump, or any Trump for that matter, couldn’t give less of a sht about blasphemy. At least blasphemy about god.

So the people who voted Obama twice and then voted Biden over Trump in 2020 are voting Trump because they finally figured out they’re racist. Fun.

Count me as one who thought Hillary would roll in 2016. ****, man, she did roll. She simply lost the election by TKO. The election might be 50/50 right now, and all I can say is, good thing the election is not right now. People will not be bored and apathetic in November about this election. I promise you.

Biden’s 81+ million votes in 2020 was the most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate in history.

That’s because few people knew who Trump really is back in 2016. Anyone who’s been paying attention has known for forty years that he’s a sleazy crook (thank you, Spy Magazine). Everyone else, which is practically everyone, thought that he was the charming You’re Fired guy from TV. They also thought he would be a politician within a certain range. Everybody knows just who Trump is now, and they either love him or loathe him, and there are a lot more people in that second camp now, and that camp will continue to grow until November 2024. All those people I hear on C-SPAN in the morning who say they voted for Biden and Hillary and Obama twice and Clinton twice but are going to vote for Trump now are either lying or are agents.

Does this basically mean her husband is the real senator?

Is that a real thing among Christians, or did they make this up? Because if it’s the latter, it’ll become a thing as though Jesus himself said it.

The water he’s carrying for his benefactors doesn’t have to be clean.

I suppose. The voters could democratically choose to dispense with our democracy. Wouldn’t that be ironic. Either way, I think it’s a distinction without much difference.

This is what the MAGA base, almost certainly the vast majority of whom refused to watch the SOTU, will take away from last night's speech.