EARTHMUSE

"He [Trump} looks like he 85 years old."

He has packed on a few pounds. His face is getting fatter and his pig eyes are getting smaller.

It's all that comfort food Trump eats, day and night, to convince himself that he's still a savvy genius.

AUGUSTINE

If Trump is still bilking his campaign to pay his legal bills, money for the final sprint in October could be a little tight ~ especially now that the donations aren't exactly up to par since Biden pulled the rug out from under Trump.

Or it could be that Trump is scared of another assassinate attempt and wants to limit his exposure ~ preferring to send J.D. Vance out instead.

Or, my favorite . . .

Trump is relying on his scheme to control the certification of Harris at both the county and district level in swing state that Harris wins. In other words, no more fake electors. Trump is going straight to the source. One state (Georgia) has already agreed to the scam. If a state fails to certify they could 1) forfeit their electoral vote or 2) show cause in court and be forced to certify in accordance with the election rules in the state. Trump is also trying to get election officials in swing states to change those rules to favor him. The State of Georgia already has even though the change is in direct conflict with the State Election rules. That's going to turn in a big fight.

Trump is not leaving any stone unturned this time. He's going straight for the jugular.

Trump is trying to find some chants that will work on his base. He might have to resort to invoking the name of Hillary Clinton again. That aways gets their blood boiling.

LAMP

Yeah, those are the two i was thinking about when I suggested somebody was going to lead them directly to Trump. However, in my opinion, I think they'll both try to wait out the election.

"Barely human?"

I don't think I've heard that one before. But Trump certainly does show ALL the symptoms of a sociopath. At least, I can't think of one he's missed.

I don't know what to call this dictator fetish he has. Whatever, it seems to be deeply engrained and goes back many years.

The early bird get the worm, so to speak. I expect others to jump in now to get a deal. Sooner or later, one of them is going to lead straight to Donald Trump, the #1 unindicted co-conspirator.

PRIUS04

Trump's policy is Project 2025.

The Heritage Foundation released it too early and Trump has been losing ground ever since. It really is a nasty piece of work.

DOC

"Trump won't voluntarily step away from the campaign"

Trump can't afford to step away ~ he's sold his soul and the piecemealed the country to too many people.

Mr. Putin is one of the biggest stockholders in Trump's election. Can you imagine his reaction?

RIGHT/TRITE

I can't imagine what JOE has against Kamala Harris to refer her to a "low bar" but she's certainly proving him wrong on that point.

We all knew that President Biden was past his prime and we worried that he wouldn't be able to withstand the rigors of a campaign. But to call him a "corpse" says more about JOE than it does about Biden. He, unlike JOE, has accomplishments. Maybe that JOE's problem. In fact, I've been wondering for a long time if JOE even passed his bar exam in Chicago.

This isn't the first time Trump has misjudged a woman's strength and resolve. Just the most recent after Stormy.

Anyway, Trump didn't do his due diligence. So he didn't "falter" when Biden turned the reins over to Harris. That's too generous. He was caught flat footed!

I'm sure the tears and her buyer's remorse for her choice in clients is real.

But she did hike herself all the way from Colorado to Georgia with the hope that being known as 'The President's lawyer' would give her future career a big boost.

If that's the case, and if she wasn't a cultist or a true believer, then she was a predator in search of fame and nothing else. Stories of Trump being a user and abuser of lawyers would have fallen on deaf ears.

So what's next? Baby Google?

FTA

Bailey argued that the criminal case against Trump violated the right of Missouri residents under the Constitution's First Amendment to "hear from and vote for their preferred presidential candidate."

Republican attorneys general from Florida, Iowa, Montana and Alaska filed a Supreme Court brief in support of the Missouri lawsuit.

This sounds like another one of Trump's cockamamie schemes to get off the hook in the New York State hush money case, claiming the gag order deprives the residents of Missouri (and Florida, Iowa, Montana and Alaska) from their constitutional right to make an informed decision. Because they couldn't hear Trump's side.

What a bunch of bunk ~ and, in my opinion, an indictment against the people of Missouri, Florida, Iowa, Montana and Alaska for believing they're going to get anything close to the truth from a compulsive liar like Donald Trump.

What happens to this corrupt body of justices, maybe even Roberts, will depend on who wins the election in November.

If it's Trump, the corruption will go on unabated.

If it's Harris, a former prosecutor and Attorney General, she'll blow the lid of that Pandora's Box and, rather face impeachment and loss of pension benefits, we'll see some early retirements (conditional) from the U.S. Supreme Court.

CORKY

Right now, she just looks broken and sorry that she let herself get sucked into Trump's tangled web of lies and deceit. Lawyers are officers of the court and are supposed to know better than to become part of the crime.

Maybe she was just easy pickins' for Trump. I don't know. Chances are that she just had dollar signs in her eyes. But I do know that she's lucky she's getting off this easy with only the loss of her reputation.

NIXON

Well, she did work closely with Rudy in both Georgia and Arizona. And Rudy worked closely with Trump. So there you have it. Full circle.

All 9 charges dropped PLUS a 5-year probation, a fine ~~ and if she does anything to violate the agreement, all bets are off.

It will be interesting to see if this crack in the dam triggers other defendants to look for their own deal and perhaps even to the indictment of Donald Trump.

I'm surprised that these corrupt justices didn't know that everything Trump touches die.

Of course, everything, including the DOJ's appointment of a Special Counsel, depends on who wins on November 5, 2024. Assuming it's Kamala Harris, we may see some ~ (ahem) ~ 'conditional early retirements' among the Lords on High.

OK, who squealed? This wasn't supposed to be announced until 6 o'clock tonight.

I hope this isn't another "Dewey beats Truman" headline.

Otherwise, Tim Walz is an excellent choice. I would have preferred Josh Shapiro but then, I don't have the weight of saving democracy on my shoulder. There's no doubt that the other contenders will continue to support Harris in any way they can. And if there's a consolation prize for them in her administration, that would be great, too.

Meantime, Mr. Putin is watching his legacy slip away along with Trump's chances of winning this election. The bad news just keeps coming and coming.

AUGUSTINE

"Do these gift accepting conservative SCOTUS judges care that a huge majority of US citizens have record low opinions of the SCOTUS these days?"

They're starting to care now. Biden has opened their Pandora's Box and Trump appointees are getting antsy about it.

Or maybe these young adults are just tired of hearing the same whiny complaints over and over again.

On the premise of "too much and never enough," I suppose there's always the possibility that Project 2025 also intends to make Dictator Trump the arbitrator of world population.

Why is it so hard to understand?

It isn't. The reasons are legion and universal.

This is just J.D. Vance kicking up dust . . . in his own awkward attempt to, hopefully, get some face time on the tubes.

Instead, it just turned into Trump's choice for V.P. talking stupid.

BTW, NIXON

Trump is also planning on flooding the election with thousands of challenges to ballots. Most counting room only have two or three people to investigate challenges, yay or nay. Trump's plan is to force a delay in election results for weeks or months.

He tried it in Fulton County, Georgia in 2020 but got foiled because most of the challenges were from the same source ~ so they were all dismissed as a scam.