One thing that is totally unacceptable is if potential voters decide their ballots don’t matter and enough of them stay away from the polls to allow this Republican nightmare to continue.

I sometimes wonder if part of the Trumpian/Russian/Chinese/Heritage Foundation strategy isn’t to flood the various media with inflated and exaggerated reports of the potential for a blue wave, so that voters will mistakenly think things are in the bag and get complacent. I guess many TV networks are guilty of this as well.

We just can’t let that happen.

He still holds rallies. Mid-term. But how can they laugh? How can they listen to the drivel and filth and then applaud?

I guess they’re the 30 percent, or whatever the number is. They’re the sifted diehards, the religious lunatics still standing and clinging, still feeding the beast; the ones who love sticking it to the libs and somehow manage to believe that Donald Trump is a man of God.

They will vote as if he is on the ballot, because he told them to, and because deep-down his views on immigrants and guns and money resonate with their own. But they are only 30 percent.

This time around, maybe the other 70 will finally say No. Even in the gerrymandered red districts.

Epstein

Will there ever be a precipitating factor, a bridge too far? Seems we should have encountered that by now, don’t you think?

The overarching issue is what the Heritage Foundation and Stephen Miller and Russell Vought and JD Vance and the rest envision for this country, but first things first.

Everything since Donald Trump and his trophy wife descended the escalator in 2015 has been gasoline poured on a fire. And now we wait and see if it isn’t too late to do anything about it.

This isn’t really about any one of the myriad stupid, shocking things we see and hear every day from Trump or someone in the administration. Ultimately, it’s about the rotten-to-the-core idiot roughly half the country voted into office. Twice.

Strip away all the mind-numbing streams of consciousness, all the draconian Executive Orders and defunding and verbal attacks and bridge burning and distractions, the ballroom construction—complete with bunker—and FIFA Peace Prize and an appropriated Nobel Peace Prize and a reflecting pool disaster and a “gorgeous” helipad and all the rest. What we’re left with is the walking, talking narcissistic ego monster and disaster of a human being who sits at the seat of power.

By all means, vote as if Donald Trump is on the ballot, and then tell him and the rest who apparently still think he’s a good idea to walk east ’til their hats float.

Or tell ’em all to fuck off. That might be more cathartic.

Epstein

Throw us a bone, right? Just in time to make Donald Trump look like a Boy Wonder, a dealmaker par excellence? Release a political prisoner two weeks before the midterms, interject the possibility of peace talks—sans Zelenskyy—two weeks before the midterms, and so on…

The mind-numbing thing is that it might work among the 30-percenters who think Donald is a prophet sent from God. But for the rest of us? We’ve long tired of Vladimir Putin and his bloody trip down memory lane, using his own people as ammunition and Trump as his whipping boy, living in some Soviet-era dream world that would turn back the clocks and maybe make him happy.

Where do people like Putin come from? He is an anachronistic boil on the world’s ass.