Oh, man is he losing his mind in real time? Trump’s initial response to Harris choosing Walz was “THANK YOU.” Then, as a measure of his weird little dinosaur-like reflexes, he waited five hours before posting again, trying to come up with a good zinger, I guess. When he did post, it was to call Harris/Walz the “most Radical Left duo in American history.” Five hours it took him to come up with that.

THEN, he went after…(checks notes) wait, is this right? He’s still going after Biden? He’s even pretending there’s some massive movement to bring Biden back as the nominee. If there is, it’s coming from the right, and I don’t blame them. Biden seemed beatable. Harris does not. They should be scared.

But then, he just…made up a scenario. He thinks Biden is going to don tights and a cape and just show up at the convention and wrench the nomination back from Kamala, realizing what a mistake he made stepping down. (More Trump projection.) Trump is still campaigning against Biden and I suspect it’s because he thinks Biden is easier to beat. But Biden isn’t running. I’ll tell you what, Don, I won’t vote for Joe, okay? That is some really weird, out-of-touch stuff, right there.

I suspect this goes back to the MAGA tendency to just make up whichever preferred reality you like best. But MAGA icon Ayn Rand warned them: ‘We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.’ To that end, I hope he keeps doing it. He’s not going to make much headway against his opponents, Harris/Walz, so long as he’s attacking his NON opponent, Joe Biden.

Either way, though, I hope he gets some new material soon. I mean, am I the only one who thinks Trump needs new shtick? The cons have a list of grievances. A very LONG list. I mean, gees, they complain about everything. They have treated this list as though it’s plug and play, meaning they could just replace names of potential opponents as needed. It worked, for a while. But suddenly, it seems to be wearing thin.

One of Trump’s earliest reactions to Walz was to pretend Walz would “unleash HELL ON EARTH.” Ooh, that’s some pretty scary, over-the-top, super-hyperbolic, weird-ass nonsense you’ve got going there, Donald. He put it in a fundraising email but the email was SO generic, it seemed as if it had been written days before the announcement and any name that came up could have gone in there. It was all just standard MAGA grievance stuff.

The problem with everything being the most extreme all the time is that it gets old, then boring. I believe Trump’s constant rending of clothes, clutching at pearls and swooning at the terrifying specter of someone who wants to help people rather than harm them has passed it’s sell-by date and gone completely bad. It’s boring.

After choosing Walz over his closest competitor for the role, Shapiro, the cons started suggesting Harris is antisemitic. It’s quite funny when bigots try to smear someone else as a bigot. They’re not very good at it. I’d call the whole ‘Harris as an Anti-Semite’ a swing and a miss. It’s a tough case to make, Harris’ supposed antisemitism, in view of the fact that her husband is Jewish. “So what?” shout the cons. “Our own reality!”

I’ll tell you this: That’s some really crazy, and really quite weird, stuff there…

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Oh, Gods it just keeps getting worse for Musk, doesn’t it? He bought a once very successful social media site known at the time as Twitter. He did it mostly as a political stunt. Twitter had taken to blocking objectionable content. They blocked racism, MAGA lies, fake news, false content, and some of the most egregious lying liars, things like that. Musk didn’t like that. Apparently, he prefers racism and other MAGA lies. So he bought the site.

Then, he started unraveling the site. He dumped the well-known, established name, Twitter, and renamed the site as the unnamed brand compared to the name brands in commercials, X. Then he began allowing racism and other MAGA media content on his site. (Keyword: “his”) Okay, so far, so good.

As a result of his decisions about what content he would allow on his site, advertisers started making choices about what kind of content they wanted their products associated with – and it largely was NOT what brand X was doing. So advertisers also made a choice about where they would spend their advertising dollars. See that? Elon made a choice about content, advertisers also made a choice about content. The advertisers fled the site.

Now Elon is trying to sue them. He says they’re depriving themselves of advertising results. I think they’re depriving HIM of advertising revenues. Elon wants to force advertisers to advertise on his site regardless of the content on the site – and he’s willing to sue over it, as if ‘Pornhub’ could force the Church of Latter Day Saints to advertise on their site. (I know, why would they want to? That’s not the point, here…)

Musk started this whole thing, he said, because he was so concerned about free speech and the First Amendment. Then he started blocking users who said things he didn’t like and insulting advertisers and now he wants to try and force advertisers back? I’m not sure he has a solid handle on the First Amendment – or, perhaps, just reality…