Another day, another raft of Trump stories about what a shit person he is. Another one of his generals, his former chief of staff John Kelly, warned that he’s a straight-up fascist and is so ignorant he praised Hitler’s generals as loyal (they tried to assassinate him three times, which is three times more than Kelly did). But my favorite is how he postured over the dead body of Vanessa Guillén, an Army private beaten to death by another soldier, in April 2020. Pretending generosity, as he often does, Trump said he’d pay for her funeral – until her family sent him the bill.
“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” Trump allegedly said when he found out the cost, according to witnesses in the room at the time. … “Don’t pay it!” he ordered his chief of staff at the time, Mark Meadows. He reportedly brought it up again throughout the day, saying: “Can you believe it? Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”
I suppose the family could have saved some money by burying her on their golf course, right?
It’s gotten so bad that even conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens said he’s voting for Harris. Unfortunately, he doesn’t live in a swing state.
Elon Musk is giving out a million dollars a day to people who sign some “free speech” petition that’s actually just a way of harvesting their personal information, supposedly for get-out-the-vote reasons. The first two winners were Republicans who had already voted. Just reinforces the point, as if it needed reinforcement, that Americans are very easily bribed, and billionaires are very easily convinced of their own brilliance.
The floor’s yours.