One thing, then another

Happy Monday, everyone.  Hope you had a good weekend.

I suppose that the former president has had better days, as another assassination plan was foiled by Secret Service agents at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday afternoon.

The "former guy," as he's often referenced, stated a short time after this attempt was announced widely that it had been an interesting day.  He managed to build fundraising e-mails and social media posts around this alleged assassination attempt.

And let's face it, he promised so much to so many who voted for him in his two previous campaigns and has failed to make good on many of those commitments.  He pledged to remove illegal immigrants from the country and to stop more from entering.  There were not large-scale deportations during his administration and the wall that he promised that Mexico would fund was constructed only in a few places and was not even close to completed.  

Contrast that to the 1% of the population that voted for him to see tax breaks, and it isn't hard to imagine there being some dissatisfied customers, if you will, among those who supported him in the past.  After all, if you get mistreated at a store or other business, you probably don't shop there again, right?

So if you track backwards about a week, TFG (the "former guy) approached the debate with his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, with outward confidence, and left it by lying to the occupants of the spin room about how many polls indicated he was the debate winner, all by unbelievable and astronomical percentages.  Because if he gives statistics or other numbers, they're always inflated, and this was no exception.

But if that wasn't bad enough for the campaign, he spent the week harping on the Haitian-immigrants-are-taking-over-Springfield-and-eating-all-of-the-dogs-and-cats thing, plus implying that the Vice President was given the questions and answers to the debate in advance, and that David Muir (one of the ABC moderators) used to have much better hair and that he hates Taylor Swift, who deftly announced her endorsement of Ms. Harris, and on and on and on.

So yesterday's events represent, among other things, a welcome change of subject for TFG's campaign.

Oh, and by the way, he blames Democrats for creating this air of division and the threat of violence that hangs over this campaign.

So what's next?  Well, TFG will once again enter familiar territory by sitting down with Sean Hannity of Fox News for an interview in a couple of evenings, which will simply replay the greatest hits of this and previous campaigns.  Yawn.

So that's how the week began.  Hope it gets better--for all of us!


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