Trump’s GA Meltdown Shows He’s Panicking
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A.B. STODDARD: Trump’s Georgia Meltdown Shows He’s Panicking
IT’S GRATUITOUS TO LIGHT YOURSELF on fire twice in one week—even if you’re Donald Trump. But following his epic turn at the National Association of Black Journalists conference three days before, the former president had another mega-tantrum Saturday night, this time in a key swing state.
The most bizarre moment at the Atlanta rally came when Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin “for having made another great deal”—his awkward and grossly un-American attempt to criticize the extraordinary images of political prisoners returning safely home from Russia and being greeted on the tarmac by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
But the main focus of Trump’s rage was Georgia’s popular governor, Brian Kemp, who refused to steal the election for Trump in 2020 and who didn’t attend his rally. Trump launched his attack before even landing in the state, blasting Kemp that morning on Truth Social and then continuing it throughout a lengthy grievance-fest that night, saying “He’s a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy, and he’s a very average governor.”
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Happy Monday! And greetings from the new Queen City Bureau of The Bulwark. I appreciate my colleagues stepping up while I was moving to bring you Overtime.
The move has been largely uneventful, exhausting, and fun. The new neighbors I’ve met have been nothing but helpful and nice.
🎵On the Jukebox…🎵 Cincinnati, Ohio by Connie Smith
Brent Suter, impressionist… He quickly became my favorite Cincinnati Red with this Harry Caray impression.
Here’s what, exactly, Trump has promised… In a second term. Narrated by our best friend and former colleague Amanda Carpenter and her colleagues at Protect Democracy.
Jim Jordan’s Committee Staff is still Poasting… And apparently unaware of reality, or the arguments their forebears made.
Speaking of #content creators… One of them gave Donald Trump a wrapped Cybertruck with his image on it. Yes, it is a cult, and Trump is weird.
Kamala Harris has MAGA world freaking out… about demons and the apocalypse (Anthony Fisher, MSNBC)
Republican Voters Against Trump… Launches $3.5M Swing State Ad Blitz
The Bullet in My Mother’s Head… In 1987, she survived her own murder. Thirty-seven years later, a son investigates the mystery that defined his life before it even began. (Esquire)
Talk about a close call! A plane crash landed at a golf course and narrowly missed somebody on the practice green.
My mom says she loves me… AI says she is lying (The Atlantic).
Trump’s Bizarre Rant About Kamala’s Blackness… Exposes MAGA’s Weakness (TNR)1
Fox’s Kamala Problem… Watch journalist Kat Abughazaleh’s debut video essay for Mother Jones, where she argues that “the usual misogynistic tricks aren’t cutting it—at least when compared to their multi-decade propagandistic masterpiece: Hillary Clinton, Empress Dowager of Evil. Have the usual Fox-type commentators shot themselves in the foot and inadvertently made Kamala even more resilient?” I think her theory is correct.
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For any fans of Schitt’s Creek, once you hear Trump talk about Kamala and race, you will never unhear the voice of Moira Rose as he struggles to pronounce it.
