Top Disguises
Trump is so broke he has come up with the ultimate, bottom of the barrel, desperate grift of all time. After creating suspense with a teaser video he made the day before, “America needs a superhero,” he made his major announcement: he’s releasing Trump superhero trading cards. Each one is an artist’s rendition of him in various disguises depicting him as bigger than life at various points of his life, some imaginary. Each one is $99 and can be downloaded as a PDF. His hope is that MAGAs will buy all 45 and will trade Trump cards during tailgate parties in the parking lot before his Nazi rallies.
Trump has never been more pathetic, weak and desperate. He has reached the has-been stage of his celebrity political career. He’s the Corey Feldman or Madonna of DC. Stop! You’re embarrassing yourself!
“These are just the stupidest things in the world.…..Him as a superhero with lasers coming out of his eyes. It’s Donald Trump, able to leap to buildings in a single bound. Look! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! No it’s a fucking fat mother fucker who is gonna shit on you! Get outta the way!” — Michael Cohen
“Buy my trading cards or you’re not going to have a country anymore.” — Buddy Winston
President Joe Biden responded to Trump’s big announcement by tweeting:
I had some MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS the last couple of weeks, too…
Inflation’s easing
I just signed the Respect for Marriage Act
We brought Brittney Griner home
Gas prices are lower than a year ago
10,000 new high-paying jobs in Arizona
191 Republicans voted against Puerto Rico getting to decide for itself, at long last, if they want to be a state, be independent, or have a free association with the US. Puerto Rico became a US territory in 1899 after the Spanish American War. The last 3 times that Puerto Ricans were surveyed they wanted statehood. If they become the 51st state they’d have 2 senators and the current rep in the House would have real power with the vote (and 3 more could get added). Puerto Rico has 3.2 million people, six times more than Wyoming. If they decide to become a state, the citizens of Puerto Rico could vote for president which would change the electoral count. For that to happen, the Senate needs to vote on it and there is no way in hell that Mitch McConnell would let that happen because a new state could mean more Democrats. Puerto Ricans will have to ride it out until the Republicans start going to jail so Democrats will have the votes they need to pass it in both houses.
Puerto Rico does not pay federal income tax so they won’t be spilling any tea over this but it would be nice to be invited over for tea.
Speaking of spilled tea, today is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773. Colonial rebels disguised themselves as Indians and quietly climbed aboard docked ships that held cheap tea that had yet to be unloaded. Colonists were pissed that Britain was using them as a cash cow without getting anything in return so a group of them planned a tax rebellion. Britain had sent over a whole bunch of tea that it was so cheap that it would be hard to refuse, even with a tax. To keep colonists from even tasting the yummy cheap tea, protesters dumped it. They didn’t even give people the chance to buy it because once bought they knew people would shrug off the tax (kind of like Walmart today — people shop there because it’s cheap even though they know how unethical the Walton Family is, they got to be one of the richest families in the world by exploiting labor and keeping employees from unionizing). The Boston Tea Party inspired the pre-MAGA movement. Pissed off white people disguised themselves as rebel tea spillers to “protest socialism” after the first Black president was elected.
