Trump decided to hold a rally in Coachella, California. Get this, he BUSSED attendees in from nearly five miles away. One of his big jabs against Kamala is a constant claim that SHE buses in attendees. He insists the people being bussed MUST be illegals, brought in to fatten her crowd. But then HE buses in attendees? So, HE’S bringing in ringers to fatten HIS crowd? Who knew? Okay, admittedly, most of us know…

It turns out, they BOTH use buses to shuttle people in from parking areas too distant to walk. Trump definitely knows that – he does it himself – but he STILL tries to use it as a weapon against her. It’s yet another tool in the ‘Arsenal of Artifice’ he uses to deceive MAGA.

But do you know what SHE does that he, apparently, does NOT? She brings the buses back to take the supporters back to their cars after the rally. Trump? Not so much. After his Coachella rally, the attendees who had been bused in were simply abandoned. The people came over in several buses. The return trip used only one bus. The supporters had to wait for hours and hours and, if I understand correctly, that one bus finally stopped running, too, leaving the rest stranded.

Trump was probably just saving the expense, right? After all, he needed them there so he covered that. But after the rally, he was done with them. He didn’t need them anymore. (The cameras had stopped rolling.) He didn’t care if they got back to their cars or not – so he DIDN’T cover that. He abandons them in the darkness because he doesn’t need them anymore.

Come to think of it, ‘Abandoned in Darkness’ is a perfect metaphor for MAGA…

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Really? Another one? A third guy has been arrested for having a gun too close to the former and disgraced ex-president. Oh, I’m sorry. I meant, another Republican has been arrested. And he says he’s a Trump supporter who never meant Trump any harm. The last guy was a disgruntled Trump supporter and the guy before that? Nobody knows for sure but he WAS registered GOP.

Either one-time Trump supporters are trying to kill him for some reason, or these “assassination attempts” are fake, staged events to give Trump something else to whine about AND look tough over. Officials keep “catching” people but two of the three never got anywhere near Trump and were never a threat.

At this point, the only thing that’s going to convince me that someone is ACTUALLY trying to kill Trump is if someone successfully kills Trump. (NOTE: Please don’t do that. Political violence is never the right answer…) I’m just saying, he’s leaning in to these “assassination attempts.” That, combined with the fact that there’s never any harm (to him), causes me to suspect they are staged set-ups, not actual attempts.

Yes, three people were shot the first time and one of them died. But, to Trump, those were “only” small folk and he doesn’t give two figs about the small-folk beyond the fact that he needs their vote, apparently on January 5th, and he certainly is going to need that mob AFTER the election if his coup is to have any chance, whatsoever…

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I think Trump’s ‘don’t-answer-questions’ dance party was one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a long time. He had clearly agreed to attend Kristi Noem’s “town hall” for a specific period of time. He DID stay. He even answered a few questions. But if people ask questions, he’s supposed to have answers and he absolutely does not. So, he just pivoted. “Hey, let’s listen to music.” 38 minutes worth.

Noem TRIED to get him back on track, she did. But Trump is a VERY talented, extremely practiced malingerer. NOBODY can get that old man working if he doesn’t want to – and he didn’t want to. So he just stood on stage and made a fool of himself. MAGA thinks he’s beautiful. The rest of the world is literally laughing at him.

Do you think those people made the effort to get to that town hall, stood in line, endured the heat, and then waited through the late arrival in an effort to ask Trump a question, only to be put off and watch him sway back and forth to ‘Ave Maria’ for 38 minutes? It was their chance to talk to their candidate, their dream date, their latest god-on-Earth.

I’m surprised people didn’t leave, but it seems as though he kept suggesting they’d get back to questions after a few songs so they sat it out only to discover that, once again, like all things Trump, the promises flowed freely, but the follow-through never happened…

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If you’ve been paying attention, you know that most red states are doing everything they can to rig the election in favor of their guy. (All the while, SCREAMING about how the left is trying to rig the election. See how that works? EVERY Republican accusation is an admission.) In Georgia’s case, Trump toadies have gone to great lengths. They made a rule requiring all ballots be HAND-counted starting on election day. THAT would have been slow. Very slow. Slow enough to feed disinformation into the system and create an illusion of issues. But it would only be an illusion.

Georgia also recently made a rule that said they didn’t have to certify the outcome of the election if they didn’t want to. Well, they dressed it up prettier than that, but that’s what it boiled down to. If Harris wins, we don’t have to certify. We’ll cite “anolo… amonlo… alamos… irregularities.”

Fortunately, Trump hasn’t destroyed EVERYTHING, yet, and an honest judge has blocked BOTH of those new rules. The judge didn’t toss the rules. He just said they had been put in place too closely to this election so they MAY apply later – he is still going to rule on that part – but they can’t be used this election. According to Georgia state law, the election board MUST certify by a given date and time. Hand counting would take too long and they can’t dawdle on certification.

It’s funny, Georgia Republicans seem to know that if they can’t cheat, they can’t win…

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“Oh, hey, do you want dramatic?”
“No, not really.”
“You sure? This is pretty good.”
“I’m pretty sure I’m going to regret this but, okay.”
“Have you followed the thought-thread?”
“Oh, God…”
“No, really. Consider this: Most Americans know that if Trump ends up in the White House, it will mean the end of the country as he dismantles the Constitution, right?”
“Right…”
“But most of us end it there.”
“Isn’t that bad enough?”
“Yeah, it is, but think about this. Trump is planning to enact a program called ‘Project 2025,’ right?”
“He denies that.”
“Yeah, he says people are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, too. His words don’t mean Jack Spritz. But when someone takes the time to make up a playbook, they intend to use it.”
“Didn’t Walz say that?”
“Yeah, he did, and he’s right. Part of that playbook involves rolling back environmental protections across the board. This, at a time when humanity is sitting precariously on a tipping point in the climate change battle. At the EXACT time we desperately NEED to be doing more, Project 2025 insists it’s time to do far, far less – in the name of profits, of course.”
“But that would be insane. It could wipe out humanity.”
“Ah, so you ARE following the thought-thread.”
“Yeah, just now. You’re saying that if Trump gets elected, it’s not only the end of a once-great nation, it will, very likely, actually be the end of humanity as corporations are free to pursue profit at any cost with no controls?”
“I told you it was dramatic…”
“Yeah, thanks. I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep between now and the inauguration…”