America, You Amaze Me Sometimes

This last week saw us enter that stage of any presidential race, but particularly this one, where every verbal misstep is over-analyzed, if not purposely misinterpreted.

We saw, for example, President Gramps prove that Kamala stepping in was the right thing to do when he couldn't talk about a tasteless Trump-loving comedian's nasty comments without stumbling, as he reputedly painted all supporters as "garbage." That allowed Trump to pretend to be a working man while shambling into a real garbage truck to, you know, illustrate for the press, well, garbage. See what he did there?

And you will notice, he was seemingly doing his Al Jolson impression with a very overdone sheen of bronzer. For the life of me, I will never understand how real working men can identify with a guy who wears more makeup than Norma Desmond.

But whichever way this thing goes, the next President will be a person of color.

But we are at the stage where each side accuses the other of being violent in their rhetoric or insulting the other. I'll give you some examples and see if you can figure out who said what...

 “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole…or that he’s America’s Hitler.”

Commenting on a picture of Trump with O.J. Simpson, “Here is an old picture of one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs. Also in picture: OJ Simpson.”

“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”

"I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”

“Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.”

“My God what an idiot.”

Now, I long for a more civilized political discussion, and I don't think Tim Walz should have...hold on...(checks notes)...I'm sorry that was Donald Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance. Wow, my mistake.

Oh, and J.D. said the other day that teenagers are going transsexual so they can get into Ivy League schools. That's going to really confuse the Harvard dorm counselors.

How about the Madison Square Garden rally that some compared to that one in 1939, you know, the American Nazi one? Surely that was some over-the-top Democratic stink bomb rhetoric.

A great political analyst, Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, did an interesting quiz. Here are statements made at the Trump rally and at the Nazi one. See if you can tell which is which...

Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country

'You know what? Kamala Harris, she got 85 million votes because she’s just so impressive.' As the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ, former California prosecutor ever to be elected president, it was just a groundswell of popular support and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a freak or a criminal.

We carved watermelons together

Everyone knows she is a very low IQ individual

The Democrat party has forgotten about Americans. Rather than cater to Americans, they decided: 'You know what? It would just be easier to replace them with people who will be reliable voters'

I will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country

They’re eating the pets up there

The United States is now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer

And these Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.

But the fucking illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?

Jews have a hard time throwing that paper.

They are indeed the enemy from within, but this is who we’re fighting.

They are now full-on to Marxism and socialism.

Radical left Marxist rated even worse than crazy Bernie Sanders

The most sinister and corrupt forces on Earth

There’s only one person alive today that can fix all of it

OK, I cheated. I took out the 1939 Jewish references, and they all are from the Trump rally. But, Harris did indeed call him a fascist, so that is completely over the line and inspires violence, right?

"I have this piece of glass here, but all we have really over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don't mind that so much," he said at the event, just two days before Election Day.

Trump joked that such a shooting could break out "any minute now."

“They're my glass. See? Those people are my glass,” he said, pointing to the press.

Yeah, Don said that one just today.

Now the quote about Liz Cheney facing guns for being a "war hawk" was probably his maladroit attempt at criticizing her for sending young men and women to a war she wouldn't be facing. An opinion borne, no doubt, from his Viet Nam experiences...

But let's really sum it up. Yeah, low IQ, scum, mentally unfit, and all his other slurs of Harris aside, let me just give you the former President's closing pitch in North Carolina the other day, verbatim...

"When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy they say, oh, he brings up these names out of - well, that's genius, right, Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him. Silence of the Lambs. Who the hell else would even remember that? I have a great memory but they always hit me. I don't bring it up too much because they have to take such a - he brought up Hannibal Lecter. What does that have to do with this? What is it?

It has everything to do with it, right? He was - that’s who we are allowing into our country and we can’t allow it in our country. So I've done something for you for you that I haven't done in 20 speeches, I brought up Doctor Hannibal Lecter and we're allowing him, you watch, you watch these fake people will say again, he brought up Hannibal Lecter has absolutely nothing to do. You know I do the weave, right, the weave it’s genius. You bring up Hannibal Lecter, you mention insane asylum. Hannibal Lecter.

You go out, now there'll be a time in life where the weave won't finish properly at the bottom and then we can talk. But right now it's pure genius hey, I have an uncle, my uncle, Uncle John, my father's brother, 41 years at MIT longest serving professor has so many degrees he didn't know what the hell to do with them all in the most complicated, I understand a lot of this stuff, you know, I believe in that. Like, I mean, Jack Nicklaus is not gonna produce a bad golfer. Right you know, that's the way it works it's just one of those things and it's in the family and it's whatever.”

I know, WTF doesn't come close to an adequate response.

And just today, as I write this, we have the revelation from writer Michael Wolfe, backed up by tape recordings, of Jeffrey Epstein's long time friendship with Trump, his opinion of Trump's intelligence, his morals and more. A sample?

The Daily Beast reports...

And Robert F. Kennedy, Jr in charge of health? He thinks vaccines cause autism and wants to get rid of fluoride in water, for crying out loud.

And of course, Speaker Mike Johnson has let slip that they want to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, which has now provided health insurance for over 45-million people. And he said the ax is waiting for the Chips Act, which so far has created over 115,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, jobs touted by representatives who actually voted against it.

Look folks. My buddy Chris has also talked about the choice this year, and no, Kamala Harris wouldn't have been my first choice, but she wouldn't have been my last either. And trust me, I can think of some Republicans I would have preferred as well. But those folks are now persona non grata with the party now.

I have said before, in my life I worked in a total of two political campaigns, one Democratic and one Republican. I would have been fine with either McCain or Romney if those elections had gone the other way.

This isn't one of those.