The man is losing it fast: "
At a rally Friday in Montana, Trump said the following: “Kamala Harris, you know, it’s interesting, nobody really knows her last name. If you ask people, ‘Do you know what her last name is?’ nobody has any idea what it is. Harris, it’s like Harris. I don’t know, how the hell did this happen?”"
Opinion
Trump’s fantasy-based outbursts are getting out of hand, even for him
His newest social media meltdown is flirting with delusion.
Former president Donald Trump’s ongoing meltdown over his changed electoral prospects is becoming genuinely bizarre. It is foolish to underestimate him, but this doesn’t come off as any kind of subtle gambit in a game of three-dimensional chess. It looks and sounds like angry, disoriented flailing that inflicts more self-harm than damage on his opponents.
Trump’s frustration is not without cause. Recent polls show that Vice President
Kamala Harris has erased the lead Trump had over President
Joe Biden, and the RealClear Politics,polling average — often more generous to Trump than some other aggregators — on Monday had Harris nosing into the lead. Perhaps more galling, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have been barnstorming the swing states and drawing the kind of huge, enthusiastic crowds that Trump boasted he alone could muster.
That might be the reason for Trump’s transparently false and really strange
Truth Social post on Sunday that claimed “there was nobody there” at a rally Harris and Walz held last week at Detroit’s airport. In fact, as documented by news photographers and television crews, an
estimated 15,000 supporters greeted and cheered the Democratic candidates. A crowd that size is hard to miss.
Right-wing conspiracy theorists had posted a photograph of one of Air Force Two’s shiny engines, claiming that a dim reflection showed there was no crowd at all when Harris and Walz arrived, and that the images of the event were created by artificial intelligence. This kind of paranoid, fantasy-based nonsense gets put out there all the time by unscrupulous provocateurs for whom lying is a business model. But it was unusual that Trump would expose himself to ridicule by endorsing a lie that lacked even the slightest whiff of plausibility.
That followed a post last week that laid out an unhinged predictive scenario: President Joe Biden, angry that his “presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN” by Harris, somehow “CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination.” I understand why Trump was happier when he was running against Biden, but friends and family really ought to tell him that those halcyon days are gone.
Other recent Trump posts have been more like the falsehoods and distortions we’re accustomed to. He
maintained that he is “doing really well in the Presidential Race, leading in almost all of the REAL polls.” (Apparently, any poll that finds him not doing well — such as the New York Times surveys
reporting that he now trails Harris in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — are, by definition, not real.) He also posted that three debates with Harris are scheduled, though both campaigns have only agreed to one.
Away from social media, Trump’s public statements have become increasingly divorced from reality. And, yes, I know that’s saying a lot.
At a rally Friday in Montana, Trump said the following: “Kamala Harris, you know, it’s interesting, nobody really knows her last name. If you ask people, ‘Do you know what her last name is?’ nobody has any idea what it is. Harris, it’s like Harris. I don’t know, how the hell did this happen?”
Whoa. She gets her name from her father, Donald J. Harris, a retired Stanford University economics professor. Surely Trump knows that. Was he obliquely returning to his laughable contention that the vice president, whose mother was South Asian, is somehow not authentically Black — even though her Jamaican-born father is a Black man whose ancestors were enslaved Africans? Or is Trump really puzzling over some “mystery” that exists only within the confines of his overheated imagination?
Or, maybe, it’s that he sometimes forgets? This is clearly the case with a story he has been telling about Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco and speaker of the California Assembly, whom Harris dated in the 1990s. In Trump’s telling, he and Brown once took a helicopter ride together and Brown told him unspecified “terrible things” about Harris. Trump says he remembers the encounter vividly because the chopper had mechanical problems and had to make a white-knuckles emergency landing.
The problem is that Brown says he never rode in a helicopter with Trump, period. And a different man — former California state senator Nate Holden — says it was he who once accompanied Trump on a chopper, bound for Atlantic City, that had to put down due to a malfunction. A former Trump aide who was also on that trip confirmed to Politico that Holden was aboard and Brown was not. Both men are African American; otherwise, they look nothing alike.
Trump has not yet budged from his version. I will just note that when someone becomes confused and agitated, it is a blessing to suggest it might be time for a nap.
McDonalds is running $12 a meal pretty much everywhere nowadays. I don't see how they could get to $5. I just took the family on a car-trip to Tampa... about 1,260 miles and 22 hours of driving each way including stops... and every time we hit Mickey D's it was $12 per meal, regardless of the state... brutal.
That part about McRib's limited nature being pinned to pork prices was something I just found out this year. Before I thought it was purely a marketing tactic.
That's funny for a bunch of reasons... I'll save the long version for the next lunch... which... we're due.
), and that tiny little sporty thing you usually see me in has been replaced by its bigger sibling... a proper Murican gas guzzling sporty thing. We took the SUV to Tampa.
