Hot and getting hotter shortly past the noon hour Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — actual living boils down to whether we can weather the weather.

The same goes for the T-Rump. Except the unhinged madness is getting worse. Blubbering incoherently yesterday in Milwaukee on climate change (MSNBC):

“Global warming wasn’t working because the planet’s actually gotten a little bit cooler recently. But climate change covers everything. It can rain, it can be dry, it can be hot, it can be cold. Climate change. Everything is — look, and I’m — I believe I really am an environmentalist. I’ve gotten environmental awards. But I want clean, beautiful air and clean, beautiful water. That’s all. Crystal clean water.” 

Even more dreadful:

New in PN: Trump's decomposition was the big debate day story

"In Wisconsin, the would-be president reiterated a truth much more important than who won the debate: namely, that he’s morally and intellectually unfit for office and getting worse." https://t.co/4By7weVWJC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 2, 2024

After effectively and passionately listing the horror of T-Rump’s bullshit from yesterday, Aaron Rupar and Noah Berlatsky at Public Notice this morning concluded with the way-best description of our current, unhinged predicament:

It would be nice to think that such displays of grotesque ignorance, hatred, authoritarianism, and contempt for the country, for injured service members, and indeed for his own voters, would lead everyone to conclude, en masse, that Trump is disgustingly, massively, inarguably unfit to hold any office of public trust, much less president. But as we know, partisanship, racism, and institutional failures, from the media to the courts to the Justice Department, may allow Trump to win in November.

If he does, he will sit in the Oval Office. But his decrepit campaign performances suggest he will be even less capable of pretending to be anything other than a declining bigot than he was the first time around. And who’s likely to pick up the slack?

Well, as historian Kevin Kruse says, if Trump succumbs to ill health, or just sinks into his natural state of sloth and indifference, the president, de jure or de facto, would be JD Vance, “a deeply unpopular weirdo with virtually no experience, someone who won his first election less than two years ago and even then only because he’s the puppet of an insane billionaire.”

Yesterday was yet another reminder that the Republican ticket is a hideous and embarrassing blight on the American experiment and the American character. Yet, Trump continues to slump towards power, with Vance smirking and smugly lying alongside him. We’ve got about a month before we as a country either rebuke them or follow them into derp, hate, and despair.

Go read the whole post — Rupar’s Public Notice is a most-excellent political bit for the nowadays.

Beyond the JD Vance/Tim Walz debate last night, T-Rump’s shitty behavior still keeps the lid tight.
And the guys in white coats should be after him:

Dangerously brain-damaged, or not, yet once again here we are…

Image out front is my favorite of the T-Rump mugs, though, ‘favorite‘ does not mean in any form or fashion, as in, ‘my favorite movie,’ or ‘my favorite song.’ It’s more of an anti-appreciation/like.

And aptly titled, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong (and found here), it’s an image that displays the elemental form of a purloined sociopath — a bloated profile of flatulent bile and arrogant ignorance.