It’s shameless, is what it is. Can you imagine getting all geared up to complain about how unfair the election “was” – before the election even takes place? THEN, should your defective candidate actually win, they just…what? Drop it? Who can’t do that? I can take the same position. Watch. ‘If Trump wins, it’s because the cons cheated. The election is only fair if Kamala wins.’ There, see? The only difference between their pretend position and MY pretend position is that MY pretend position is probably correct. No sane person wants Trump to win this election and no decent American would allow that to happen. (Why, yes, I HAVE noticed that Putin and MAGA are all-in for Trump. I stand by my statement…)

But there they are, insisting on stupid. Their voices are hoarse from shouting about the “rigged election” (which, remember, ONLY the cons are trying to rig) and then, suddenly, the Russians flip a few key votes in a few key districts and your guy is handed power again and then everything is a-okay? They have no shame. At long last, they have no shame…

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Speaking of shameless, Trump tried another political stunt. He went and worked at a McDonald’s for a short time. No, that’s wrong. He went and pretended to work at a closed McDonald’s for a short time. A few staged photos of him handing out some french fries and MAGA is happy. My guess? I’d guess there was an actual employee there, doing the actual work. Trump was just taking credit for someone else’s work – as usual.

BTW, he sometimes handed the fries out the drive-through window to customers on foot for the photo op. Actual workers aren’t allowed to DO that. Under normal conditions, it’s dangerous because on-foot customers have to stand in, essentially, a driving lane to make or receive an order. ‘Car vs person’ rarely goes well for the ‘person.’

He keeps cancelling one-on-one events saying he’s “exhausted,” but he was able to muster up the strength to pretend to be a worker (one might say mock workers) which we know he is not and never has been…

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He STILL will not let the “eating the pets” lie go. As you recall, the very old man, whose faculties seem to be failing at an alarming rate, saw a “story” on some chat board on the web that suggested Haitian migrants were killing and eating their neighbor’s pets, and he repeated that story – without verifying it and during a presidential debate, no less. Since then, he has continued to insist the story is true because he saw it on the internet.

To be clear, the story is NOT true. No, that’s not just me taking a political position. Law enforcement in Springfield, Ohio, where the story is said to have happened, said it didn’t happen. The City Manager of Springfield, also said it didn’t happen. Yeah, okay, maybe a Harris supporter, right? How about this? The woman who originally posted the story said it never happened and the woman the O.P. was citing ALSO said the story never happened. That is to say, the two sources of the story have both insisted the story isn’t true.

Now, any normal human being knows they have an “out” on that story. He could easily have repeated he saw it on the web and it turned out to be false. He wouldn’t be admitting that HE made a mistake – something he’s absolutely incapable of confessing – only that he saw and repeated a story that turned out to be false. But he can’t even bring himself to do THAT, either.

Rule 1: Donald Trump never makes a mistake.
Rule 2: WHEN Donald Trump makes a mistake, see Rule 1.
How obnoxious.

There IS a caveat, here. Some guy DID kill a couple of geese at a golf course. He is an employee of the golf course. He didn’t have any permits to hunt or kill the migratory birds. He said after his arrest that he thought killing the birds was legal because he thought the golf course had a nuisance permit. But even at that, he wasn’t eating the geese.

But Trump has taken to insisting that his story about eating the pets MUST be true because “someone” killed a couple of geese, too. We know the “someone” in question – a 64 year old white guy named Brian Comer. He is decidedly NOT Haitian. But Trump can not admit an error under any conditions, at any time.

That’s a very dangerous trait. It does NOT make him “strong” or “decisive.” It makes him wrong to dangerously wrong. His horrific handling of Covid-19, based on the idea that he couldn’t accept that a problem happened during his term and could only wish it away, killed thousands of Americans needlessly. That happened, specifically, because he couldn’t admit error and since he had taken a (wrong) position, he insisted the wrong position become right.

Too bad it doesn’t work like that…

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Elon Musk is giving away a million dollars a day to some random person for registering to vote, a move which is probably illegal. Worse? Trump has promised Musk a position in the new Cabinet should Trump return to power. How is that NOT Musk trying to buy a political appointment? Why aren’t Musk’s “prizes” considered illegal campaign contributions?

I’ll tell you this: Trump and Musk should NOT be working together in the next administration. They should be cellmates while they serve time for their various and sundry crimes. It’s a weird world we’re suffering through right now…