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-Yesterday, Republican Presidential nominee Weird Old Convicted Felon Ex-President Trump (R-apist) wanted to show that upstart Democrat Kamala Harris something by holding a rally in the new swing state of GA in the same venue Harris did on Tuesday. Unfortunately for Trump, his rally had wide swaths of empty seats in the upper deck of the 8300-seat arena, whereas Harris had a standing room only crowd. So how do you think Trump did?
-Why, BADLY of course!
-Beyond again containing the chronic display of cognitive decline he has been showing for months if not years (“Together we will stop KAM-uh-luh Harris’ nation wrectga!” bragging about his “mental fertility” (ew), continuing to praise Hannibal Lechter as if he OWNS DA LIBZ whenever he does) (which he doesn’t)), Trump decided yesterday would be a good job to again lash out at GA election officials for not getting him 11,780 votes in 2020 after Joe Biden won the state. Reports have claimed Trump’s campaign people are frustrated at Trump continually relitigating his losing 2020 campaign, while Trump is reportedly so angered at how the campaign has been turned on its head that firing a campaign strategist or even replacing flop-sweating Vice Presidential pick JD Vance is not out of the question.
-Nowhere is that flip-flop more starkly displayed than with the status of the previously-scheduled September 10 debate. Harris has promised to be at the debate, but Donnie the Cowardly Chicken has been attempting to worm his way out of it out of abject fear of facing Harris. On Friday, Trump unilaterally declared that he would attend a “debate” on September 4 in his safe space of Fox News with Fox News fluffer-reporters spoon-feeding him questions in Fish Delight Sandwiches and a raucous crowd calling Harris a poseur who is not Black (assuming Trump supporters know what a “poseur” is). At first, national news media was reporting the story as if Trump was making a legitimate offer, but as Harris rightfully called it for its weirdness, this morning the focus is where it should belong – on the oldest nominee in American Presidential history potentially facing off against the longtime public prosecutor and Vice President.
-Meaning all Trump has are the same tired old words and phrases he has been using since the Hillary Clinton days – that Harris has “a low I.Q.,” that Harris “needs TelePropTers,” that Harris “is slow,” yadda yadda yadda yadda …
-Of course, the asinine attacks on Harris’ racial identity also continue, with several sources admitting the play is deliberate on the Trump part, given Trump’s utter shock at not facing Biden and needing to try to retool his campaign without realizing to do so required actual tools that he does not seem to possess.
-Harris continues to build support beyond the various Democratic bases the MAGAGOP like to refer to as “DEI Programs” or worse. A group of over 500 venture capitalists have been organized by SHARK TANK creator Mark Cuban and LinkedIn financier Reid Hoffman pledging larger donations to the Harris SuperPAC and downballot candidates. A new Republicans for Harris committee which includes former Trump and Pence figures (and “moderate” Republicans) including Olivia Troye, Stephanie Grisham, Bill Edgar, and William Weld, work to build on convincing non-MAGA conservatives to support Harris.
-Polling, for what that’s worth, continues to flow Harris’ way, with her now-imminent Vice Presidential announcement and subsequent barnstorming campaign blitz featuring all 5-6 Veep candidates – and even reportedly VEEP star Julia Louise-Dreyfus – likely to sustain the momentum. Natrually, the American political press who three weeks ago were agog over the prospect of an August full of contested conventions and nip-and-tuck polling is now also trying to figure out potentially how to keep the race close, which may explain a British tabloid dusting off a story of Second Husband Doug Emhoff having an affair at the tail end of his first marriage, prompting Emhoff’s first wife to reiterate her continues friendship with Emhoff and friendship with Harris as a stepmother to two children – or, as the kids affectionately call her, “Momala.”
-Most touchingly, the son of former President Jimmy Carter told reporters that Carter’s wish is to be able to live long enough “to cast a vote for Kamala Harris.” Carter is about to turn 100 and has been in hospice care for two years.
-It has all led progressive radio talk show host Thom Hartmann to begin to refer to this phase of Trump’s career as “Trump’s Fat Elvis Phase.” And we all kinda know how that phase ended …
-Just sayin’.
-It was all but official, but today Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that American- and NATO-supplied F15 fighter jets have been deployed by the Ukrainian military in their ongoing efforts to throw out Russian troops and reclaim parts of the country Vladimir Putin seized going back to at least 2014. There was some thought that the jets (it is believed there are 4-6) would be deployed in a “Shock-and-Awe” style attack, perhaps Crimea, but as of this writing they are simply patrolling and protecting other missiles systems currently being deployed to push back Russian forces and continue inflicting massive personnel damage on the invaders.
-SLAVA UKRAINI!
-A 50-missile-and-drone missile barrage believed to have been launched by Hezbollah out of Lebanon was repelled last night by Israel’s “Iron Dome” air defense system. The attack was likely retaliation for a series of Israeli military actions that led to the deaths of several Hezbollah and HAMAS leaders, and the world has been awaiting that and perhaps more such attacks, hoping such attacks will not lead to an escalation of the hotspots in the Middle East. So far that has not happened …
-The Paris Olympics settle into their second week with track and field front and center. The United States has the most medals overall, but China so far has the most Gold Medals, if one counts such things anymore. In other U.S. Olympic achievements, two American Olympians joined an exclusive club of winning four straight Gold Medals in the same event: Katie Ledecky (women’s’ 800M freestyle swimming), and Vincent Hancock (men’s skeet shooting). The other American members of that club are Al Oerter (men’s discus), Carl Lewis (men’s long jump), and Michael Phelps (men’s 200M individual medley).
-And in rock and roll news, over the weekend Aerosmith announced it was cancelling what was billed to be its farewell tour, as lead singer Steven Tyler was unable to rehab a vocal chord injury that stopped the tour earlier in the summer. The announcement made it clear that one of Boston’s biggest contributors to rock would no longer tour, and with the band over 50 years old and its tumultuous history and multiple comebacks – including its contribution to helping mainstream rap and hip-hop with allowing and participating in a video of Run-DMC’s cover of “Walk This Way” – you may crank up “Dream On” and salute Steve, Joe Perry, and the boys for quite a run!
-The complete Democratic ticket is at the “any time now!” phase, so we’ll keep an eye out for it and update with details on whomever the choice is from a very deep bench – and, of course, continue to document how Harris’ announcement will continue to accelerate the decay of Trump, his mind, and (one hopes) the MAGAGOP campaign and edifice …
-On this date in 1914, Great Britain entered World War I. On this date in 1944, Anne Frank and her family were discovered by the Gestapo in Amsterdam. On this date in 1964, the bodies of missing civil rights workers James Cheney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwermer were discovered in Philadelphia, MS. And on this date in 1987, the FCC unanimously voted to end the Fairness Doctrine, a policy that enforced the equal airing of political viewpoints in television and radio, paving the way for right-wing talk radio and Fox News.
-Debuts on this date: the Revenue Marine Service (1790, now known as the Coast Guard), the Billboard Hot 100 music chart, “You Really Got Me” (1964), THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (1967), the Department of Energy (1977), TALLEDEGA NIGHTS (2006).
-Happy Birthday to Percy Bysshe Shelley, Louis Vuitton, Oliver Hazard Perry ThrockMorton, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Louis Armstrong, Clara Peller, Raoul Wallenberg, Helen Thomas, Maurice Richard, Dallas Green, Frank Vincent, Richard Belzer, John Riggins, Billy Bob Thornton, Gerry Cooney, Mary Decker, Barack Obama, Lori Lightfoot, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Dae Kim, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Meghan Markle, Greta Gerwig, and Cole and Dylan Sprouse.
-Rest in Peace/Rest in Power to Hans Christian Andersen, Samuel J. Tilden, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Fontaine, Melvyn Douglas, Victor Mature, Lorenzo Music, Little Milto, Lee Hazelwood, Art Donovan, James Brady, J.R. Richard, and Charles Ogletree.
-Feed the Worms: Las Vegas casino owner and Trump funder Sheldon Adelson, George W Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, steroid cheat Roger Clemens and Fox News “journalist” (EYE ROLL) Bret Baier entered Earth on this date.
-The Number One Movie in the United States on this date … in 2024, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE … in 2014, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY … in 2004, THE VILLAGE … in 1994, THE MASK … in 1984, GHOSTBUSTERS … and in 1974, THE EXORCIST.