Trumpisms

We’re the only country in the world which allows mail-in votes: [There are actually 35]

These are the latest begging emails from the Grifter in Chief to MAGA sect members. As ever, the ‘poll’ ends as a demand for cash. As to where that ends up, is anyone’s guess.

Non-comedic Commentaries

From this article:-

• Trump’s team is starting to feel the heat on Epstein. It might get worse. Howard Lutnick is among members of the president’s inner circle struggling to answer tough questions about his dealings with the paedophile financier.
• Trump fatigue points to a greater US malaise. The latest approval ratings are dire for the US president, but disillusionment with successive leaders might be the new normal.
• There is alarm in Trumpland. It is not only the midterms that are in peril. Senior Republicans are worried about potentially structural damage to the party’s brand. [Took their time . . .]
• The US continues to be an economy in which a small minority of capital owners and the highest income earners take home a larger and larger share of the rewards of economic growth.
• The underlying structural challenges in America are getting worse.

From elsewhere . . . The fact that no one is doing anything serious to remove Trump from power shows that they’re all in on this together.

But at least one head has rolled, ironically a woman’s . . . Goldman Sachs’s top lawyer resigns after the Epstein emails blow up this Wall Street exective’s defense.

And: ‘A political calamity’: Pam Bondi faces massive backlash for behavior over Jeffrey Epstein questions.

Hope springs eternal . . .