Another wistful, sunny, and comfortable pre-fall setting out-of-doors just past the noon hour this Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — simply seemingly becoming the best time of the year, i.e., weatherwise anyway.
Maybe the ugliest history-wise, however.
Here’s a brief take on a way-small part of the shit I spied on my morning’s news doomscroll — just to start:
Hillary Clinton on Morning Joe shares the backstory of George W Bush telling her "that was some weird shit" after Trump's American Carnage speech pic.twitter.com/bcla2G2sGV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 19, 2024
Neat-nice to hear Hillary say the word, ‘shit.’ Nonetheless, where does GW stand in this election? Apparently, being gutless — earlier this month he indicated he wasn’t going to endorse anyone (Deadline): ‘Former President George W. Bush has no plans to endorse a presidential candidate this cycle, despite the fact that Dick Cheney, who was his vice president, said that he will vote for Kamala Harris.
His office told NBC News, “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.”‘
Reality:
– Border deals piss Trump off
– Low gas prices piss Trump off
– Record high energy production pisses Trump off
– Cutting interest rates pisses Trump off
– Record high DOW pisses Trump offDude wants you to be angry, sad and miserable just so he can run on saving you.
— JP (@DirtRoadPickup) September 19, 2024
Four years ago, T-Rump blubbered that if Joe Biden is elected the market would crash — nope — and again in this cycle: ‘“If we lose, you’re gonna have a crash like you wouldn’t believe … the largest stock market crash we’ve ever had.”‘
Yet not today:
Markets in Europe and Asia shot higher on Thursday after the Federal Reserve kicked off its efforts to prevent a recession in the U.S. with a bigger-than-usual cut to interest rates.
U.S. futures were higher after a lackluster response on Wall Street to the Fed’s move the day before. The future for the S&P 500 jumped 1.3% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.8%.
Angle in on the Swifties:
George Clooney, Mark Hamill, Mark Cuban, & countless other celebrities have shown support for Kamala Harris. So why does Trump only hate Taylor Swift? Because he hates accomplished, successful women who oppose him. pic.twitter.com/E5kcBexRGC
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 19, 2024
Taylor herself would get the votes if she ran (The Daily Beast this morning):
Taylor Swift could give both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris a run for their money if she threw her “22” hat into the White House race, according to a New York Times presidential poll.
The pop phenom came out with a 44 percent “favorability rating” among likely voters across the country, falling just short of Trump’s 47 percent and the 48 percent who favor Harris.
But 34 percent had unfavorable views of Swift, which is much better than the results for Trump, with a 51 percent unfavorability rating, and Harris with 49 percent.
Not surprisingly, given Swift’s ringing endorsement of Harris following the presidential debate, a big chunk of her support came from Democrats, with 70 percent viewing her favorably, compared to 23 percent of Republicans.
A spare time jump once again for piece-of-shit JD Vance:
JD Vance: “Destroy the Universities,” College Graduates are “Worse People,” “Deranged”
Vance claimed universities “don’t do anything good” https://t.co/eljn7Vs6Py
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) September 19, 2024
Scored ass crack: ‘During an interview with Breitbart news in June 2021, Vance said he wanted to “destroy the universities,” claiming 4 year college degrees make people “deranged” and “worse people.” According to Pew Research Center, nearly 4 in 10 adults in the United States have a 4 year degree, that’s about 125 million people.‘
Remember, JD has a Yale law degree.
Anyway, the state of the shit is terrible, and there’s a shitload more out there, non-stoppable.
And to close us out, Linda Ronstadt on cue:
Reality bites, or not, yet once again here we are…
(Illustration out front: New Yorker cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, found here.)