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It's pretty hard not to think about politics, even during the Olympics.  It seems to pervade everything these days.  I see that Imane Khelif is suing Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling, among others, for all the misinformation they stirred up on X.  She won the gold medal in her weight division, which only added to the cries of gender misrepresentation.  Lin Yu-ting also won a gold, but she hasn't received as much grief as Khelif.  

Trump had a big sit down with Musk on X and naturally it came up, as did a wide range of topics.  Elon gave Donald plenty of space to ramble, which didn't turn out to be a very good thing as he continually tripped over himself.  The oddest part was his lisp, which of course he claimed was the result of faulty technology.  His biggest faux pas was praising Elon for all the layoffs at Tesla and his other tech companies.  He was supposed to be courting the Teamsters vote and naturally this didn't sit well with the labor union. Sat even worse with the UAW, which is now suing Musk and Trump for threatening workers in the interview.  The guy simply doesn't know how to keep his foot out of his mouth.

As a result he finds himself tumbling in the polls.  If the election were held today, Kamala would essentially win all the states Biden won in 2020, even Georgia and Arizona.  This has put Donald on the defensive and he hasn't handled it very well.  All the name calling and outrageous claims like a helicopter ride with Willie Brown aren't helping his cause.  

The helicopter ride came out of his Mar-a-Lago press conference and he hasn't been able to tamp down the press jumping all over it.  Turns out he was referring to a helicopter ride he had with the mayor of Los Angeles in 1999.  Nate Holden was visiting Trump in New York, and Donald took him on a tour of the city in his private helicopter only to run into some turbulence.  Safe to say, Kamala wasn't even on the political map at that point.  Nevertheless, Donald doubled down on his audacious claims and threatened to sue the New York Times for denying his version of events.

What irks him the most are the crowds at Kamala's events. They are "yuge!" to use his lisp.  There hasn't been this much excitement over a political candidate since ... dare I say his name?  Obama!  Donald can't stop talking about it.  Now he claims the crowds are AI generated after it was pointed out on social media that many of his crowd shots are AI generated, like this one.

However, the guy getting the most grief is J.D. Vance.  He can't shake off the stories of fornicating his couch.  The guy who planted the viral fake story on social media has since retracted it, but the fact that so many fell for it shows just how few people read his vaunted bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy.  John Oliver had the most fun with the story.  If that wasn't bad enough, someone has since dug up photos of Vancy dressed in drag.  Unfortunately for JD, this is true, and we all know how much conservatives hate cross-dressers.

So far, no one has been able to dig up anything so smarmy about Kamala, which is driving Donald nuts.  He flails around trying to get anything to stick to her but so far nothing.  As a result, he chides her laugh, calls her crazy and claims she ruined California.  It sounds like someone who has gone through a bad break-up.  Although he did compliment her portrait on a recent Time cover.  His campaign staff tries in vain to get him to stay on script but it is proving a daunting task.  Once Donald becomes unhinged it is pretty hard to get him hung back properly on his immense frame.  Whatever weight-loss drug he was taking also seems to be failing as he is back to his bloated self.

The thing I don't get is what Musk gets out of all this?  He's been unable to convince his billionaire tech bros to join his Trump PAC, which has since come under fire for a phony "register to vote" page that seems nothing more than a way to collect information.  Elon claims he is trying get 800,000 new Midwest registered voters to turn out for Trump in November, but it seems like nothing more than another data collecting app.  I guess he has a hungry Grok to feed.

Elon has also come under fire from his trans daughter, whom he has disowned.  What does it matter for the "serial adulterer?"  He has at least 12 kids.  It seems like Elon is single-handedly trying to bolster the white population given our ever diminishing numbers.  He's sounded off on this quite a few times, which leads many to wonder what exactly is his motivation?  The whole thing is "just plain weird."

Probably the most ruffled person these days is Nikki Haley.  She's been bouncing off the walls ever since Biden dropped out of the race.  One would almost think she can't stand the idea that Kamala might become the first woman of Indian heritage to be President.  This was supposed to be her shining moment.  She's gone from being a passive observer to an active participant in Trump's campaign.  One would almost think she was vying for Vancy's place on the ticket.  Nothing says Trump can't change VP's, but then it wouldn't be a "first."  Kamala already has that job.  Nikki did however offer some salient advice for Donald and the GOP, "quit whining!"

There is no way to escape all this chatter unless your internet goes out, which it did in our house.  For two days it was so peaceful.  We actually read books and listened to music on the CD player.  We couldn't watch our digital television as it was connected to the router box too.  We even went to bed early and had a wonderfully comfortable sleep.  Maybe we shouldn't have been in such a hurry to get our internet connection fixed as we woke up this morning to the same old news.

Oh well, we just have to come to terms with it.  We remain cautiously optimistic Kamala will bury Trump once and for all, as this sordid reality show has gone on long enough.  Kamala is very popular over here in Europe.  All our colleagues and clients are rooting for her.  Please Kamala, make it happen!

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