Big night at the Democratic National Convention, as both Michelle and Barack Obama showed off their skills. The contrast between the Obamas’ soaring oratory and Trump’s professional wrestling taunts and bluster could not be sharper. Look, clowns have their place – the circus. So if you let them run the country, they turn it into a circus, and you wind up with elephant shit.
Not literal elephant shit, of course. Elephant shit like this: Lawsuits by GOP attorneys general funded by the oil industry. Literal elephant shit would be a bargain by comparison.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, there’s plenty of information about troop movements and drone attacks – has any war ever given the public so much raw information? – but nobody is really sure of the goal behind its invasion of Russian territory.
In Gaza, the slaughter of course continues, but what’s new is Trump’s probable violation of the Logan Act. It appears he told Bibi what Bibi already knew: a ceasefire would help Harris. I’m sure he asked Bibi to do him a favor, because that’s what he does. I’m also sure that if you asked him what the Logan Act is he wouldn’t know.
The floor’s yours.