DON'T STEP ON A BEE DAY UPDATES
Seems More Like Sensible Advice Instead of Worthy of a Holiday, but Okay ...
-Last night, housed at his Mar-a-Lago compound so as not to pay anyone for a grounds rental, and wedged in a narrow area to make the crowd look like a crowd, Convicted Felon Ex-President Trump (R-apist) made his first full appearance since the June 27 debate. And, as has been true with every appearance he has made before his eroding crowds (Trump claimed "tens of thousands" while non-cult observers estimated the crowd to be about 2,000), Trump gave yet another mess of a speech full of cognitive warnings, Fascist confirmations and bizarre non-sequiturs delivered under an oversized cap that did not disguise his unnatural amber makeup and buckets of sweat. Among the atrocities documented, Trump ...
-Was an hour late even though the event was at his home, then bragged about the golf course, then complained within the first 15 minutes about how hot it was (the event was unshaded, as was the area for followers to wait to enter the event).
-Admitted that when he was President he did not know what NATO was (no kidding), then promised that if Vladimir Putin were to attack a NATO country if he were to return to power, he would let them.
-Praised the Supreme Court decision paving the way for him to use Presidential powers with protection while claiming that being indicted 91 times "is a lot of fun!"
-Again heaped praise on fictional character Hannibal Lechter.
-Again promised to round up tens of thousands of "illegal immigrants" if he went back to the White House without a ticket.
-Mocked Vice President Kamala Harris by unveiling his new nickname for her, "Laffin' Kamala" (and spelling it out with the apostrophe).
-Mispronounced the words "education" and "feared.'
-Promised to appoint Project 2025 co-author Tom Homan to his Cabinet (days after claiming he "had no knowledge" of the document that was co-written by at least two dozen former staff members).
-Insisted that it's actually Hunter Biden that is running the country.
-Praised failson Donald Trump Jr. and his "great wife" - an apparent reference to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is not married to Junior.
-Described Washington, DC as a place where people "shot, mugged, raped" especially around the Washington Monument (crime is at a 20-year low in DC and most major cities).
-Claimed the U.S. has abandoned Cuba while noting Russian nuclear submarines were protecting the island - or, as Trump put it, "we have submarines around Cuba."
-And, at one point in the speech, stopped speaking for ten full seconds for no apparent reason.
-This is what Trump said and did in his speech ... and if you were to look up what the speech was about by looking at the Associated Press, NBC News, or The New York Times, what they reported ... was that Trump "sharpened his attacks on Kamala Harris" and "teased" his Vice Presidential choice. If you could find coverage on it at all.
-Because the political media continues, instead, to flog President Biden's debate performance - now augmented by of their all-time favorite binkys: DEMS IN DISARRAY! Every Democrat who announces a clear desire for Biden to drop out of the race (NJ Rep. Mickie Sherill), gives a response that is not a full-throated endorsement of Biden to stay in the race (Speaker Emeritus Pelosi, this morning on MSNBC) or mopes about a potential Trump landslide (CO Sen. Mike Bennet) gets big hype and prominent space on a web site - and even though there is rock-solid support for Biden's campaign that are also getting out there (led by the Congressional Black Caucus and surrogates including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maxwell Frost, Maxine Waters, and especially Jasmine Crockett) and searches for Project 2025 lead search requests on Google, the will-Biden-run-or-not drone continues.
-At long last, polling is now showing some gains for Trump three weeks past the debate. The Cook Political Report shifted six races away from Democrats, and in an effort to justify their wall-to-wall anti-Biden coverage, the New York Times blared one of their polls that claim Trump has a 5% lead in WI - without noting that a 5% lead in their poll is actually Biden gaining on Trump. Historical analysis reports that most polling post-debate settles down, so an argument can be made that the current dip in Biden's numbers have been caused by the coverage of the debate and the incessant drumbeat for Biden to drop out rather than the actual debate. (And, as we've continued to point out, polling - amirite?!)
-Biden continues to do the job of being a President, hosting a NATO summit in Washington and giving a strong and well-received speech extolling the history of the organization (which Trump did not know about and which he would destroy for Putin) that reporters and nervous Democrats who had demanded Biden needs to prove his vitality move the goalposts, instead making the post-NATO press conference tomorrow "the most analyzed press conference in political history," according to one self-important reporter.
-The continued focus on Biden's neurological skills led to one of the more disgraceful episodes in news reporting so far this election season - and of course, we are talking about The New York Times again. On Monday, the Times breathlessly reported on visitor logs that showed a neurologist had visited the White House monthly for the last eight months, leading to an obnoxious exchange in the press briefing in which reporters demanded to know why the doctor was visiting with Biden and why Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would not say. When Jean-Pierre noted that doctors who work at the White House see more than the President, reporters refused to accept Jean-Pierre's answer that federal laws prevented her from identifying who those patients are - or who the doctor was - even though any HR person in the U.S. will tell you she was correct. And, as it turns out, the doctor (who did do an examination on Biden in February, and whose report was made public and has been on the web site for months) was not just doing his job, but advocating for legislation on the treatment of Parkinson's Disease that was passed last month.
-The Times has neither acknowledged nor apologized for its story, which was originally written solely as an attack on Biden, and instead continues to hammer Biden (NINE more stories on their site this morning) in what MSNBC Joy Reid is comparing to the hype building up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002-2003.
-As of this writing, Biden is still running and has multiple appearances today - including a meeting with union leaders - while the Times and other outlets will continue to comb the halls of Congress to find more nervous Democrats to speak about their worries, all while moderately looking at Project 2025 and continuing to look the other way at the new revelations about Trump's apparent criminal activity aided and abetted by dead pedophile and pedophile enabler Jeffrey Epstein.
-Google them both and keep them alive. The Democrats will do whatever the heck they're doing for a few more days as attention will shift to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention next week, and then the Olympics a few days after that.
-Let's end with Sportsball News, because speaking of the Olympics, a new star may have been born at the U.S. Men's Basketball Olympic camp - and he won't even be on the team. As this year's team - which Coach Steve Kerr has pointed out is one where every player is likely a Hall of Famer (something that was not even true for the vaunted 1992 team) - worked out, one of the invitees that was part of the scrimmage team blew away the likes of LeBron James and Steph Curry and Kevin Durant. His name is Cooper Flagg, he's from the basketball hotbed of Newport, ME, he's 17 and 6'8" and committed to Duke University, and at one point during the scrimmage scored 11 points in a row (the sequence can be found on social media) to lead a comeback against the Olympics team. NBA teams are already talking about tanking for Flagg.
-Something to keep a positive eye on - especially if you love basketball!
-On this date in 1925, the Scopes "Monkey Trial" began. On this date in 1920, the Battle of Britain began. On this date in 1962, the first telecommunications satellite was launched into space. On this date in 1991, Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as President of Russia. On this date in 2018, the last soccer player trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand was rescued successfully. And on this date in 2019, Volkswagen ended production of the Beetle.
-Debuts on this date: YOUR HIT PARADE (1950), three-point seat belts (1962), the Bahamas Islands (1973), the first black national news anchor (Max Robinson, 1978), ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981), the Shazam app (2008).
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-Rest in Peace/Rest in Power to Arthur Fiedler, Mel Blanc, Gerome Ragni, Earl Strum, Omar Sharif, Roger Rees, and Jim Bouton.
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