Ah. I knew there would be a gimmick. I just didn’t know what kind. He bragged he’d give a long speech despite the high temperature just to prove he can do anything. I thought maybe he’d give the speech from an air conditioned building or maybe with coolers directed at him. I didn’t think of ‘late-at-night,’ but he did. That worked, too. He gave the speech from a stage strategically located to hide the Reflecting Pool. But he promised he’d have the Reflecting Pool finished and ready to show off by the Fourth. Yet another promise made, promise not kept.

Apparently, he tried to give a standard political ‘Ain’t-America-Great?’ speech. He only veered off into his favorite tangents a little bit. It lacked greatness. No memorable lines, no soaring rhetoric. I even heard it referred to as boring rhetoric. He’s not good at staying on topic when the topic is not him. Someone referred to him as ‘Teleprompter Trump.’ They try to get him to stay on task by getting him to stick to the teleprompter but he has the attention span of a three-year-old and his aging mind wanders.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a trump event if it didn’t include white supremacists. So the hate group Patriot Front showed up, faces carefully covered, and marched the Confederate flag down the street. Do you think they covered their faces out of concern over Covid-19? That’s awfully respectful for a hate group. But they weren’t just hiding their identities, were they? Wouldn’t that be cowardice? How does one take a stand on an issue while hiding? If you believe a thing, why hide? No, it must have been the Covid thing. Thanks, haters.

White supremacists marching down the street? Obviously, when 47 started flapping his lips, he used the opportunity to condemn, uh, <checks notes> right, communism. Obviously. Communism isn’t a problem of any kind in this once-great nation, and racism and white supremacy have been put on steroids since our racist pedophile president came to public attention so it makes perfect sense to condemn the imaginary problem while overlooking the actual problem. Classic trump.

He pretended there were 350,000 people there, too. From what I’ve seen, he might get a tenth of that throughout the entire event. I often find myself wondering if those people he always see are in the room with me right now? Hey, maybe he does see them, like Cole Sear in ‘The Sixth Sense.’ “I see dead people.” Maybe he’s seeing the ghosts of all of the people he’s killed already…

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Israel is establishing thirteen more new settlements. They’re strategically positioned to ensure no contiguous Palestinian state can ever exist. I suspect that also means they’re strategically positioned to ensure no peace in the region in the foreseeable future. These settlements are one of the biggest complaints of the non-Israelis living in the area.

Ever since Israel expelled the Palestinians from the area called Israel in 1948, the Palestinians have been fighting back. Badly, it’s true but they’ve tried. Israel, though, tends to encroach a little at a time. They’ve never stopped. It’s like the person sitting next to you on an airplane who slowly, but surely, pushes your elbow off the armrest by pushing their own further and further onto the armrest.

Israel just keeps encroaching. Another settlement, then another, then another, then another. The goal is clear and obvious. Israel wants ALL of that land for themselves and they’re taking it – by stealth and by force. If you happen to notice that Israel is always the aggressor in these matters, you run the risk of be called antisemitic. That’s a cheap dodge by defenders of Israel. What the government of Israel is doing has nothing to do with Judaism – and it’s just plain wrong…

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In a rare moment of sanity, the corrupt Supremely Kangaroo Court upheld the US Constitution over Donny’s whims. In this case, they supported birthright citizenship, just because it’s written in plain English in the Constitution. That’s no guarantee with these clowns, but, in this case, they did the right thing. Donny doesn’t like being told no, and he absolutely abhors when people do the right thing.

So now Team Evil is considering banning foreign pregnant women from entering the country at all. Isn’t that lovely? Now women have to promise they’re not pregnant if they want to visit. Cons think there’s such a thing as “Birth Tourism,” in which women travel to the US for no other reason than to deliver an anchor baby. Now they’re doing everything in their power to stop that.

Come to think of it, if 47 stays in power much longer, the US will become such a crappy little country to be in, nobody will want to be here. Perhaps he’s not just a terrible manager, after all. Perhaps he’s destroying the country to discourage “birth tourism.” That’s a little like setting a broken arm by killing the patient. The broken arm won’t be a problem anymore, sure, but it seems like going too far to achieve the goal…

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So, did you notice the number of events that were cancelled because it was just too effing hot? Not so much here in the west but in the east, oh, man, are they suffering. All kinds of traditional Fourth of July events were cancelled. Parades? Gone. Fireworks displays? Out. Too hot. Too dangerous.

I’m really split as to which threat wipes out humanity first, AI or climate change. I’d say this weekend, climate change has made a bold move to be in first place. AI is going to have to come from behind, like an unexpected checkmate in a game where you just didn’t see it coming until your opponent is laughing in your face.

Besides, climate change has a real advantage. We set it up to operate automatically. It’s in it’s own feedback loop so, as long as we just keep pumping more and more pollutants into the air, Donny’s goal, it will get worse and worse on it’s own. After a while – and the deadline is fast approaching now – we won’t be able to stop it. Hell, the deadline may have already passed. Please note the term: DEADline.

We were warned. Long before we started seeing the effects of climate change, we started hearing about them. We ignored them. Once the effects started, we couldn’t ignore them anymore. But we did anyway. When public awareness picked up, so did mis- and disinformation. Our very existence was reduced to a political game, and there it sits.

Now we’re starting to suffer the more severe aspects of climate change – and we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. But politics is still in charge. That’s just stupid at this point. It looks very much like humanity is going to stupid itself out of existence. That’s just embarrassing…