WORLD REDHEAD DAY UPDATES

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-Yesterday was a day that many, many, MANY of us dreamt about and hoped and prayed and wished would happen … and it did! Ex-President Trump (R-apist) LXXXVIII was booed and heckled and jeered off a stage last night. Join me for the details, won’t you?

-It happened at the Libertarian Party National Convention in Washington, DC, where SOMEone on Team Trump (DON JUNIOR? ERIC?!) thought it would be a good idea (or, internal polling saying Trump is losing so many other votes in so many other places that they need to take chances to find every vote they can?) to speak before a group jokingly referred to as “Republicans who smoke dope” but definitely are a bit too iconoclastic to be MAGA – and by throwing some bones at them (offering to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, currently in jail for running a notorious online drug marketplace called Silk Road) they will love him and chant his name and fall in line and love him like they do in Alabama or Tennessee.

-They thought wrong.

-It wasn’t as if they didn’t have a warning that the Libertarians might not be a hospitable crowd. During the day, supporters of gadfly Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were happily giving away rubber chickens to attendees. The chickens had DEBATE RFK written on them and were armed with squeakers, the idea of course being to accuse Trump of being a chicken for not wanting to debate RFK Jr. The threat of synthetic poultry creating a cacophony and potential rain of yellow-on-yellow-head violence led Team Trump to complain to the Secret Service and issue a ban on any rubber chickens on the floor during Trump’s speech.

-Perhaps angered by not being able to express themselves with an icon of classic lowbrow comedy, perhaps because their natural state is being cranky when they don’t have some weed, or perhaps – and hear me out here – they thought the idea of an appeal for support from a would-be dictator did not sit well with them because whatever else Libertarians are and might be, dictator-wannabe-supporters is NOT one of them – the build to Trump’s speech did not bode well for the main event.

-MAGA/GOP allies – including Vivek Ramaswamy and Mike Lee – were among the speakers who worked to warm up the crowd before the main event – and they were roundly and vigorously booed and jeered, especially when each broached the subject of what they saw were the natural fit between Trump/MAGA and Libertarianism, an apparent response to their thoughts.

-So when Trump appeared on the podium (without his normal intro music, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”), the crowd was indeed warmed up – but not to accept Trump, but to savage him.

-And they did.

-Despite the best efforts of C-SPAN and RSBN to block the crowd, NBC News and other outlets report shouts of “LOCK HIM UP!” and “DONALD TRUMP IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!” and “YOU HAD YOUR SHOT!” and “YOU ALREADY HAD FOUR YEARS, YOU ASSHOLE!” and “We go tell Donald Trump to GO FUCK HIMSELF!” and the always nice and direct “FUCK YOU!”, building to a loud and sustained chant of “HYPOCRITE!” Attempts by Trump plants to start a chant of “We Want Trump!” were easily drowned out by counter-chants of “END THE FED!”

-So how did Trump handle all of this?

-Speaking in front of a backdrop of a graphic with the convention theme BECOME UNGOVERNABLE in black and yellow and blue (Slava Ukraini?), video of the speech show a clearly shocked and orange-to-red complexion changing Trump glaring and teeth-gritting during what turned out to be a mere 30-minute speech!

-After opening with “We’re going to have a lot of fun!” Trump stuck to the text on his Teleprompter, not waiting for applause that wasn’t coming to get the eff off the stage as quickly as he could – and letting the anger pop when, after asking for “the Libertarian Party’s endorsement, or at least lots of your votes, lots and lots of Libertarian votes,” he heard the response and then spat back, “You can keep going the way you have for the last long decades and get your 3%!” Trump raced off stage without running through his “Make America Great Again” spiel, and with his exit song, Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Coming” trying and failing to drown out the booing.

-If you have time or if weather is keeping you inside this Memorial Day Sunday, go find the video. It will be one time you can listen to Trump with something close to joy!

-We’re gonna pivot to the Trump trials for a moment because of a motion filed late Friday night that may bear some watching. The motion was triggered after an earlier release of information from Trump’s classified document case in Florida in which we learned there were two other searches of the Mar-a-Lago compound after the first in 2022 that Trump blabbed about. As part of the execution of the warrants (neither of which took place while Trump was there – and specifically performed without Trump being there)r, the warrants themselves contained boilerplate language about how, if there were to be resistance to executing the warrants, FBI agents were authorized to use deadly force if necessary.

-Of course there was no resistance – but, Trump and his campaign seized on the boilerplate language and decided to characterize said boilerplate language as … you know where this is going … an order from Joe Biden to assassinate Trump.

-MAGA media outlets, MAGA figures like human canker sore Steve Bannon, MAGA leaders like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Z-Q-R, GA), and Trump himself have been repeating this lie that Biden has ordered the FBI to take Trump out. Indeed, in speeches where he has not been heckled, Trump has been ‘calling out’ Biden and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith for wanting to possibly kill him, and there has been at least one fundraising message sent out with that message at the forefront of the appeal. And, as we all know, threats to almost all judges managing Trump cases have been an ongoing issue.

-On Friday, Smith responded to the threats by filing a motion in Florida for a gag order stopping Trump from referring to the warrants – which, again, contain standard language that is common for every federal search warrant – citing the threats to almost all Federal judges overseeing Trump cases.

-The twist … and you know where THIS is going … is that Smith’s filing is to the ONE AND ONLY Judge of all the Judges overseeing Trump cases that Trump has NOT criticized or threatened at all, the one Judge who has granted Trump virtually every motion and order he has asked while also going out of her way to attack Smith and his motions, the one and only Judge Aileen Cannon.

-Because of Cannon’s previous fangirl actions on the case, there is definitely a question as to whether Cannon will grant Smith his request – but, legal observers note that on this motion, should Cannon go against Smith or try to delay the request, Smith is all but certain to appeal the motion to the full 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals, who have already twice admonished Cannon for previous errors and overstepping on the Trump case, and that a third such action may at long last give an option to remove Cannon from the case – though the chances of a change being fast enough to get the case to trial and verdict before November 5 remain remote, which again has always been the strategy of the Trump Lega Team since Trump first oozed onto the scene in the 1980s.

-Nonetheless, Watch This Space.

-In the meantime, we will wrap up with today being the biggest day of the year for car racing fans. Three iconic races are scheduled to go off today, starting (as this update is being typed) with Formula One’s Monaco Grand Prix around the casinos and yachts of southern France. From there it is on to Indianapolis and The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Indianapolis 500 (a personal favorite of mine over the years) and then to Charlotte, NC, for the longest NASCAR race of the year, the Coca-Cola 600. In a neat side story, Kyle Larson is going to be the first driver since Kyle Bush in 2014 to race both in Indy and in Charlotte today, though reports of rain coming into Indianapolis may either make the double impossible (if it grounds Larson in IN or pushes the start of the 500 to later on Sunday) or easier (if the 500 gets postponed until Monday due to weather).

-DRIVERS … START! YOUR! ENGINES!!

--The advantages of a holiday weekend is that it provides time to catch up – and that is what we will do with tomorrow’s update, which will include the latest in Israel and Ukraine, continued fallout from the Samuel Alito flag controversy (his wife will make an appearance!), and whatever reaction Trump has to his Libertarian debacle. So watch for that tomorrow!

-On this date in 1521, Martin Luther was declared a hertic thanks as issued by the Edict of Worms. On this date in 1895, Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for ‘indecency.’ On this date in 1927, the last Ford Model T rolled off the invented-to-produce-it assembly line. On this date in 1937, Babe Ruth hit his 714^th and last home run. On this date in 1940, British forces began evacuating the French town of Dunkirk. On this date in 1990, the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 were held by female artists for the first time in history - Madonna, Heart, Sinead O’Connor, Wilson Phillips, and Janet Jackson. And on this day in 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police officers in Minneapolis, MN.

-Debuts on this date: the Constituional Convention (1787), DRACULA (1897), Actors Equity Association (1913), the House Un-American Activities Committee (1938), Guyana (1966), STAR WARS (1977).

-Happy Birthday to Al Jolson, Dorothea Lange, John Wayne, Robert Morley, Peter Cushing, Peggy Lee, James Arness, Alec McCowen, Miles Davis, Levon Helm, Mick Ronson, Stevie Nicks, Jeremy Corbyn, Pam Grier, Philip Michael Thomas, Sally Ride, Genie Francis, Bobcat Goldthwait, Lenny Kravitz, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Stone, Lauryn Hill, Ben Zobrist, and Micah Parsons.

-Rest in Peace/Rest in Power to Jacob Riis, Charles Horace Mayo, Edsel Ford, Fritz Freling, Eddie Albert, Sydney Pollack, Art Linkletter, Zbignew Brzezinski, Andy Fletcher, Ray Liotta, and Alan White.

-Feed the Worms: American traitor Aldrich Ames entered Earth on this date.

-Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Hank Williams Jr. and Zola Budd were born on this date. You decide if they get Happy Birthdays or if they Feed the Worms.

-The Number One Song in America on this date … in 2024, “I Had Some Help” by Post Malone with Morgan Wallen … in 2014, “All of Me” by John Legend … in 2004, “Burn” by Usher … in 1994, “I Swear” by All-4-One … in 1984, “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” by Denice Williams … and in 1974, “The Streak” by Ray Stevens.