QOTD -- The World's Taste Of Life Under Trump

 

"Moron in the middle

"Trump found the lure of the World Cup irresistible, comparing it to multiple simultaneous Super Bowls. It’s the kind of global spotlight that, like the women he boasted about, he simply cannot leave ungrabbed. He had blessedly mostly stayed out of the tournament’s earlier rounds, focused instead on the 250th birthday celebrations for the U.S., an event critics said he had also inserted himself into excessively.  [snip]

"For 18 months, Americans have watched the Trump regime bend and break the rules while the Supreme Court puts its finger on the scale in his favor. As writer Anne Applebaum observed, Americans have grown so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many missed why the rest of the world was quietly rooting for Belgium.

"Over the past few days, the world finally got a sample of what it’s felt like for us under Trump..." --Jay Kuo, in his Substack "Status Kuo," on the narcissistic sociopath Malignant Fascist's need for "inserting himself into something good and ruining everything," in this case, the USMNT's run in the World Cup.  Sic transit gloria, America.

 

QOTD -- "Here Come The Election Lies"

 

"Recent Blue Wall swing state polls by CNN and Marist show Harris gaining ground. There is a widely reported 10 point gender gap in the early vote in the battleground states. And early voting seniors are breaking heavily for Harris in Pennsylvania, a must-win state for Trump.

"In response to all of these, and likely some bad internal numbers his campaign is seeing, Trump has shifted to familiar ground: lying brazenly about election fraud. His campaign, with help from the Russians, has made Pennsylvania ground zero for false election fraud claims, signaling he is very worried he is going to lose the state and wants to contest the final count..."  -- Jay Kuo, "The Status Quo" Substack, writing about the lies being told about election cheating, and then debunking them one by one.  Good read and good points to keep in mind in the coming days and weeks.