I have more than one friend who support Trump – or, more accurately, supported. I ran into one the other day. He was very clear that he’s totally over 47. He knows without question that Donny is serving Donny and nobody else. I find it comforting to know the facade is falling. Of course, there will always be loyalists and nothing, but nothing, will dissuade them. Hell, Hitler was surrounded by sycophantic loyalists in his bunker in his last days. Some people just never learn.

But some people do learn and many of his one-time supporters are learning – and they don’t like what they see. I suspect if he could ever do anything right, and if he ever bothered to even try and do something for the masses, he might possibly win them back. But with Donny, asking him to do anything right is a huge lift – which doesn’t matter because he’ll never, ever do anything for the masses. This is all about him, baby. I know for a fact some of my rightie friends see it and don’t like it. I count that a good thing…

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I saw an article, ‘Trump Fans Confused by How Their Investments in His Crypto and Stock Are Now Worth a Tiny Fraction While He’s Getting Richer.’ It focuses on how a true trump believer saved $100,000 dollars to buy a house, invested it, instead, into 47’s crypto scheme – because he believed – and watched his $100,000 dollars turn into nearly $30,000 dollars almost overnight. Meanwhile, Donny just gets richer and richer.

This guy, Vadim Fistikan, knows now he was the victim of a scam. That’s an expensive lesson. There’s no word on whether his support of Donny has decreased any, though. Hell, he might end up supporting him more. “Well, he sure burned me. What a business genius!” When it comes to Fistikan and 47, it looks like there are NO geniuses between them…

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Well, they did it again. The Dems, I mean. They backed a guy in Maine who had some…baggage. Graham Platner. Sheesh. He made the case that he HAD behaved badly for a time but it was due to PTSD and he had been successfully treated. People wanted to believe and give him a second chance, or tried to. But things kept coming out. Ultimately, Platner suspended his campaign because only Republicans elect rapers.

Now the Dems have nothing in Maine, a state considered vital to them taking back Congress in the mid-terms. They’re running against Susan Collins, of all people. They SHOULD have been able to defeat her, so they backed a guy who won the primary handily, then turns out to be, um, less-than. I wonder if there were any precedents in history they might have looked at to guide them through a situation like replacing an elected candidate with a substitute after the primary.

Has there ever been a situation in which the questionable candidate (say, Joe Biden) stayed in the race only to be replaced after the primaries by a person (Kamala Harris) foisted on the voters by the party? That’s a challenging question. Has it ever happened? Perhaps the party could have learned? Learning is a thing people are supposed to be able to do.

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot; the Dems are owned and operated by the same One Percent as the cons. They take orders from their funders just like the cons. Their JOB is to lose – and they do that job well. What they need in Maine is the same thing they need everywhere else, a Democratic Socialist. But the party doesn’t like Democratic Socialists. Some segments of the party blame Bernie, of all people, for Platner, as though no mainstream Dems endorsed him too. The Dems will find a nice, safe, boring, stay-the-course candidate, then celebrate that their loss was close. Oh, so close…

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Do you know how expensive it is to fly the President of the United States (or, in this case, Donny) around? Of course you do. I mean, not to the penny, but we all know it’s expensive. MAGA only knows it’s expensive when a Democrat is on the plane, but that means even THEY have some idea. But to Donny, it doesn’t matter HOW expensive it is, he needs to find a way to make it MORE expensive.

To that end, he took his shiny new Qatari bribe plane to a conference in Turkey where he embarrassed and humiliated himself and the US on the world stage, then brought over the OLD Air Force One and flew that one from Turkey to England, then boarded the Qatari bribe plane again for the flight back to the US.

Some say he was worried about security. The Qatari bribe plane doesn’t have the same defensive capabilities as regular AF1. I remember when the bribe was first delivered, news came out that the plane is SO big, it can’t land at most airports. It needs a special runway. Maybe that’s a factor. Maybe Donny is just an impulsive and poor planner who didn’t think ahead and realized halfway through the trip he should have stuck to OG AF1 in the first place. There’s a LOT of evidence for that last option, for sure…

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Oh, lovely. Nearly 3,000 people in 31 states have cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness marked by severe diarrhea, according to local health departments. It’s associated with fresh produce. It’s not unheard of. Michigan, for example, gets 40 to 50 cases each year. Right now? 1,562 cases. 80 people have been hospitalized. Officials are scrambling to find the source. I’m out on a limb, here, but my guess? I suspect the outbreak will be tied back to some policy of Team Evil, some “unnecessary” regulation they rolled back as harmful to the industry…

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Remember a few years ago when the whole world seemed to be going crazy over a play called ‘Hamilton?’ Of course you do. It was everywhere. Spoiler alert: Alexander Hamilton dies at the end because he got shot in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. Well? Today is the anniversary of the duel, July 11, 1804. He died the next day.

Obviously, the duel ended Hamilton’s political career – death does that – but it essentially ended Burr’s, too. His attempt to reclaim his honor backfired and people were horrified by him. He wasn’t arrested. Too rich, you know. But he DID have to hide out for a while and his reputation never recovered.