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Blame the Maize

August 28, 2024 Buck Banks

It’s summer in the Midwest with the highest temperatures yet.
Heat warnings of 115 degrees are making farmers fret.
It’s tough enough farming
In the face of global warming,
But now they also have to worry about something called “corn sweat.”

Carville: Trump Knows He’s in Trouble, and It’s ‘Driving Him Crazy’

August 28, 2024 Buck Banks

“He has a shark-like survival instinct. And he knows that he’s not having the same effect as he used to. He knows that Harris has become what he’s always wanted to be, is the kind of hot item…. He’s not the new kid on the block anymore, and he’s struggling to regain that.”

— Democratic strategist James Carville told the New Republic that Donald Trump “knows he’s in deep trouble” — and it’s “driving him crazy.”

200-Plus Bush, McCain, Romney Republicans Endorse Harris

August 28, 2024 Buck Banks

200+

More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday obtained exclusively by USA Today.

More Abortion Contortions

August 27, 2024August 14, 2026 Buck Banks

We’re used to seeing Donald Trump’s policy contortions,
Like, whatever’s playing this minute is his current position.
A nationwide one would be great,
Or should we leave it to the states?
You just can’t pin the Trumpster down on abortion.

Trump: Hot or Not Hot?

August 27, 2024 Buck Banks

“I was sort of like a hot guy. I was hot as a pistol. I think I was hotter than I am now, and I became president. Okay. I don’t know. I said to somebody, was I hotter before or hotter now? I don’t know. Who the hell knows?”

— Donald Trump, at a campaign rally.

Trump Campaign Wastes Donations on Broadcasting Ads Targeted at Mar-a-Lago

August 27, 2024August 27, 2024 Pensito Editors

Newsweek: George Conway, a conservative attorney and critic of former President Donald Trump, is targeting the Republican nominee in his own neighborhood with a six-figure attack.

Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC launched a new ad campaign on Thursday that will highlight Trump’s “mental unfitness for office.” It will run for two weeks on Fox News, ESPN, and the Golf Channel around Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago.

The 60-second cable TV ad begins with Conway telling the viewer, “Donald Trump has never, ever been right in the head,” before showing a montage of the former president superimposed onto an image of Trump’s brain.

“Donald Trump wanted to make this election all about mental fitness,” George Conway said in a press release. “We’re good with that. Even before he began showing age-related cognitive decline, Trump had a long history of doing and saying bizarre things.”

Now the Trump campaign is responding by counterprogramming Conway’s ad and, like his Anti-Psychopath PAC ad, the pro-Trump ad will only be shown around Trump’s residence.
[…]

The Whimsy That’s Lindsey

August 27, 2024August 14, 2026 Buck Banks

Sometimes, being Lindsey Graham really stinks,
On top of the elbow pokes and knowing winks.
He’s got the spine of an eggplant
And the heart of a syncophant,
But now even Donald Trump doesn’t care what Lindsey thinks.

Trump Threatens to Back Out of Sept. 10 Debate with Harris

August 26, 2024 Buck Banks

“Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own.”

— Harris campaign adviser Brian Fallon, quoted by Politico, on Donald Trump threatening to back out of the September 10 debate.

Trump ‘Adds’ RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm to What Was the Trump-Vance ‘Ticket’

August 26, 2024 Buck Banks

Donald Trump shared a post describing Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr as a “ticket.”

— Posted on X by Aaron Rupar

Harris’s Lead Grows

August 25, 2024 Buck Banks

“He has a shark-like survival instinct. And he knows that he’s not having the same effect as he used to. He knows that Harris has become what he’s always wanted to be, is the kind of hot item…. He’s not the new kid on the block anymore, and he’s struggling to regain that.”

— Democratic strategist James Carville told the New Republic that Donald Trump “knows he’s in deep trouble” — and it’s “driving him crazy.”

200+

More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday obtained exclusively by USA Today.

“I was sort of like a hot guy. I was hot as a pistol. I think I was hotter than I am now, and I became president. Okay. I don’t know. I said to somebody, was I hotter before or hotter now? I don’t know. Who the hell knows?”

— Donald Trump, at a campaign rally.

“Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own.”

— Harris campaign adviser Brian Fallon, quoted by Politico, on Donald Trump threatening to back out of the September 10 debate.

Donald Trump shared a post describing Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr as a “ticket.”

— Posted on X by Aaron Rupar

50% to 43%

A new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally by seven points among likely voters, 50% to 43%.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

Numerati

1,000

10%

“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.

71%

$9.5 billion

“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.