Sorry I missed posting about Biden’s speech.  Things got crazy in my world for an afternoon.  I thought it was strong, on point, and righteous.

Trump only heard the voices in his head.

That is not what Biden said.  At all.

Remember Kimberly Guilfoyle?  Don’t lie and say you forgot or that you wen in for surgery to get that part of your brain removed.  I mean, how the hell will you ever describe a screeching banshee without saying Guilfoyle?

Oh yeah, now you remember.

Trump called her minutes after the speech, comparing her speech to Eva Peron on stage and adding …

“That was fantastic…so amazing,” Trump said on the Monday night call. “So much energy…so much passion.” According to these sources, the president added that “nobody could have done that but you,” calling her “my Kimberly.” He told her that hers was one of the “greatest” speeches he’d ever seen.

Rational people thought she was chewing the scenery and forgot to wear her dress over her Spanx.

But Dear Leader loved it, even if she is an immigrant from Puerto Rico.

This morning, Jennifer Rubin wrote the five dumbest reasons Republicans give for supporting Trump.

Do you want to know the hardest part of writing that?  Narrowing it down to five.

It boils down to law and order, pandemic over, great economy, Joe is a socialist, and “life.”  All five of those make me gag. Trump stood on the White House lawn, breaking the law, hollering that he’s law and order.

The pandemic is worse than ever, what economy?, Joe is hardly even a Democrat, and life means only fetuses.

There is no convincing the other side. None. So stop it.  Don’t even try.

There’s an interesting and very nerdy article in Salon this week about political moneyball. If you didn’t see the movie Moneyball, you need to. Baseball is a lot like politics. The theory is that you should put your money not on big races where your $25 won’t really matter but on races that can change the perimeters of the political spectrum.

For three election cycles, I have begged for your money to help flip Fort Bend County, the largest suburban county in Texas. Once we flip Fort Bend, we can flip Texas, I argued. And once we flip Texas, there will never be another Republican in the White House.  Hillary carried Fort Bend in 2016 and in 2018, every Democrat on the ballot won.  With your help, we did it.

So, now we need to head to Dallas.  The Salon Moneyball article argues just that.  If you click right here and look at the candidate list on the top right, those are the ones you need to be betting on.  You can run a Google search on the candidate you like best to find out where to send them $10.  And then watch election night to see if you won your bet.

President Trump posted 89 (!) tweets or retweets between midnight and 8:04 am DC time this morning.

“If the election is about the pandemic, he’s going to lose. If the election is about who is better equipped to handle urban riots, you’ve got to like Trump’s chances.”

Today, the Washington Post published an article about an “undecided voter” from Indiana named Mike Baker.  Baker supposedly watched both conventions yet still can’t make up his mind who who is the best candidate for president.  My first thought on reading this is that Baker is either a closet Trumpist too ashamed to just admit it, or just simply a dumbass.  In the article, Baker fretted over Trump’s personality; he had fretted so much over that key feature that he even sat out the 2016 election, saying that he couldn’t have Trump as a guest in his house.  Okayyyyy….

Baker went on to say that his number one concern, though, was the economy and that he liked Trump’s “pro business” policies.  It was then that I realized that Baker doesn’t understand the economy, not in the slightest, since the economy is in the ditch and has been whipsawed since Trump’s “biggest crowd EVER”  inauguration day up until about 5 minutes ago.  Unemployment exploded this spring to 22 million people, and still is hovering at 13 million.  By all measures that affect American workers, the economy has collapsed.

Fretting about Biden, Baker said, “Trump is defining Biden, but I sort of need to hear Biden define Biden, or at least the Democratic Party to define Biden. It’s got to be more than [Trump] is the worst person on Earth.”  My answer to that is this: When you were watching the Democratic Convention, you must have had your head up your ass looking out through your navel.  The convention carefully laid out Biden’s and the Dems goals and policies.  Oh, and there’s that little detail that Joe Biden has been in the public eye for half a century.  If you don’t know his polices, you’re not paying the slightest bit of attention.

Mike, you’re worried about Turmp’s “personality”?  How about the fact that he’s a fucking felon and corrupting the entire government while destroying centuries long alliances and America’s standing among the entire global community?  How about the fact that he is sabotaging the Post Office, extorted a foreign government, and his lying in a continuous stream about the US voting system simply to steal the next election?  How about the fact that he just used the White House, OUR White House, as a political prop for his cheesy display of corruption and narcissistic obsession?  How about the fact that he’s already said that he’s not going to accept the decision of the voters in November if he loses?

If a voter is “undecided” now, that person is either lying or truly a dumbass.  I’ll let you decide.

One more comment: I find it hard to believe that the Washington Post actually published an interview this stupid.  They had to look really hard to find someone willing to make himself look like an idiot in a national newspaper.  C’mon, folks, you can do better than this.

Okay, this is a silly thing but it matters to Donald Trump.

Trump’s speech at the White House scored a rating of 14.1 across six different networks: NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.

In contrast, Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s speech at last weeks Democratic National Convention scored a rating of 17.5 across those six networks.

Trump contends all his supporters live streamed it online.  Yep, all those high school graduate and old people are very technologically savvy.

I didn’t watch Trump. I think private parties behind high walls with gates are something kids do when their parents leave town.

He built a wall, okay.