THE SAME OLD SAME OLD FAT ELVIS IMPERSONATOR GREATEST HITS TOUR

“We are the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

– Gore Vidal, 2004

There is so much about the 2024 election that sets new records for absurdity. Topping all lists has to be the fact that the man who still refuses to accept the 2020 election result, who schemed to overturn those legitimate results, who incited a seditious assault on the government he was head of as president, whose mismanagement of a pandemic led to the avoidable deaths of perhaps a million Americans, is accepted by millions as a candidate for president who has a good chance of winning.

Trump is in a unique position for a non-incumbent presidential candidate. He has a record as 45th president. To win, he needs to shape how millions of voters remember those four years.

On Earth II, where the grass is blue and the sky is green, Americans are afraid to go out to buy a loaf of bread without getting shot, mugged or raped by immigrants. Immigrants in a small Ohio town eat their neighbors’ cats and dogs. Economic collapse of a failing economy, and World War III will happen next year if his opponent is elected. And children go to school only to return days later having been given gender reassignment surgery at the school.

Further, on Earth II the seditious insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 were peaceful protesters. Unlucky boaters forced to buy electric boats powered by heavy bateries are faced with the choice of electrocution or a shark attack when the boat begins to sink due to the heavy batteries.

Trump traffics in lies and misinformation, promoting an alternate reality he creates to convince voters that they are faced with a politically devastating landscape created by his political opponents, that only he can protect them from.

His Greatest Hits now include racist lies about Haitian immigrants who eat the family pets of innocent (white) Americans, “The late great Hannibal Lecter” wants to eat his listeners, and he has been praised by Viktor Orban, “a very strong, strong guy. And when he asked his audience in Pennsylvania last Monday,“Do you think Springfield will ever be the same? - I don’t think so. The fact is, and I’ll say it now: You have to get them the hell out.”

The inbred MAGAts responsed by chanting “Send them back!” 74 million of our fellow Americans can’t tie their shoelaces without adult supervision.

Democratic strategist Kurt Bardella described the Fat Elvis Greatest Hits tour, saying“It’s a logical continuation of what once was called ‘alternative facts’ by the same camp. It’s obvious that is a long-term mission statement, more than just an offhand comment. Their entire strategy is to say anything, make up anything, invent false narratives to try and distract away from the very real consequences of their radical and extreme agenda that is so far out of the mainstream of the American people’s interests. They think they have a better chance of winning by making up insane stories about people eating pets versus having a subsequent conversation about the consequences of their policy agenda.”

On Thursday, CNN’s fact-checkers presented a list of “12 completely fictional stories” that Trump has told in the last month. They included Kamala Harris reintroducing the military draft, and Harris negotiating in 2022 with Vladimir Putin to prevent the invasion of Ukraine.

There is one lie we need to pay attention to:

“We don’t need the votes,” Donald recently told Fox News. “I have so many votes.”

We should be suspicious of a man who tells people he doesn’t need any more votes. What rational candidate has his aides tell the press that he’s not actively campaigning because he prefers to play golf?

This is the guy who cheats at golf and has been convicted of cheating in all his businesses.

From his lies that Democrats are trying to steal the election, to the false claims the election is being rigged against him, his efforts to undermine voters’ faith in free and fair elections is out in the open.

The most egregious example of the planned coup is coming out of Georgia, where a MAGA majority on the state elections board voted 3-2 to require the hand-counting of ballots. This will cause chaos, which is exactly what the Trump campaign is counting on.

Both the state’s Republican Secretary of State and Republican Attorney General said the changes are probably illegal.

The recent attempt in Nebraska to get the state legislature to change the way electoral college votes are awarded was stopped by Nebraska state Senator Mike McDonnell, one of the few holdouts against Donald’s pressure campaign, announced that he won’t support a change in how electoral votes in Nebraska are awarded.

“Elections should be an opportunity for all voters to be heard, no matter who they are, where they live or what party they support,” McDonnell said. “I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national leaders on both sides of the issue. After deep consideration, it is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change.”

At a rally on Monday, Trump again threatened to prosecute anyone who “cheats” in the 2024 election. Of course, that threat is intended to dissuade honest people from becoming involved in the election process.

Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee, said: “There’s nothing worse than a desperate man. There’s nothing worse than a desperate racist man who cannot control the woman in front of him who happens to be African American. Cannot control the conditions around him that have changed – the tightening of the political race for the presidency. Cannot control what people are saying about him, the fact that Republicans are now coming out and speaking against a second Trump term and are creating lanes in which we are willing to support the Democrat over Donald Trump because he is that bad and that dangerous. When he cannot control that, he becomes even more dangerous and more desperate and you need to be aware of that because there’s more of this coming between now and November.”

Yesterday, September 26, Trump did another public meltdown when he called a press conference (where he actually took questions) in Trump Tower.

It could be politely called “the view from Earth II.”

According to Trump, the economy - which reported a second quarter (April 1- June 30) growth rate of 3.1 percent, with the stock market and he S&P 500 setting record highs again this week - has all-time high unemployment with inflation at its highest point and the stock market ready to crash. The fact that Un-Truth Anti-Social has lost 82% of its value since it was created back in March might color his view of the stock market. He also announced he was now selling Trump Watches - at prices ranging from $499 to $100,000; the ad states in small print that the watches in the ad might not “be an exact representation of the final product.”

He also relitigated his September 10 loss in the debate with Kamala Harris, declaring he was winning when he was sandbagged by the ABC moderators fact-checking him after promising him they would not do that (He has said he wants to sue David Muir - on what grounds is unclear).

Asked about his position on Ukraine, he again voiced support for Vladimir Putin, saying he would force Ukraine to allow the Russians to keep the Ukrainian territory they have stolen in the invasion, which he would do in the name of “humanity” to stop the death and destruction. He also said he was supported in this by American parents who “don’t want their sons fighting in Ukraine.” Clearly, Trump's secret plan involves telling Zelensky that the US will cut off aid to Ukraine unless it surrenders immediately to Putin. As Kamala Harris put it, “Trump's proposals for peace are really proposals for surrender.”

Echoing the reincarnation of Reinhard Heydrich, er, I mean self-hating Jew Steven Miller, he went on at length about rapes committed by immigrants and how he will carry out the largest mass deportation ever..

When asked if he was still supporting Mark “I’m a Black NAZI!” Robinson in the North Carolina gubernatorial contest, he played “rock ‘n’ roll concertina” with his hands while saying “I know nothing about the situation.”

Amazingly, rump Whsperer Maggie Haberman wrote about the “press conference” in the New York Times, saying:

“Mr. Trump quickly appeared to grow bored with the remarks he read from, and drifted repeatedly toward other topics. He talked about inflation, accused Ms. Harris of lying about working at McDonald’s years ago and nursed his fury over how the ABC News debate moderators handled his face-off with Ms. Harris nearly three weeks ago.

“At the beginning of the news conference, Mr. Trump struggled at times to articulate his thoughts or make a point clearly. He stumbled over some words as he read from remarks he had plainly not written. He bootstrapped one thought onto another based on whether the words associated with something else, as opposed to having a clear through line.

“The group of Trump employees and supporters gathered in the lobby along one of the barricades that penned in where Mr. Trump spoke appeared to grow restless, with some looking around, as Mr. Trump talked and talked.”

Trump had reason to melt down beyond the financial failure of Un-Truth Anti-Social. Thursday saw his 2020 consiglieri Rudy Guiliani disbarred in Washington D.C. (After being disbarred in New York this past summer), while Jack Smith delivered his 180 page filing in which he documents why the charges against Trump for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election are still valid in spite of the Unsupreme Court’s presidential immunity decision. That filing may be under seal, but Trump knows better than anyone that the “juicier” parts will see the light of day before November 5. He is clearly worried about Smith’s filing. On Thursday morning, The filing is clearly on Trump’s mind. He posted on Un-Truth Anti-Social that “Deep State subversives” ignored his orders to prevent unrest on January 6, 2021; at his press conference, he again played an old Greatest Hit, claiming that Nancy Pelosi was responsible for the seditious attack on the U.S. Capitol.

With 39 days left until the election, with his summer leads against Biden erased by Kamala Harris, with some sort of imprisonment for the rest of his life the likely result of his losing the election, Trump is reverting more and more to his Greatest Hits.

The problem is that even the audience at the casino/unlicensed brothel in Elko Nevada, where Fat Elvis impersonator Trump appears on Tuesday nights, doesn’t want to hear his schtick any more. A third of his audience walked out of the Monday and Thursday night hatealongs.

39 days to save America. Hopefully we will prove Mr. Vidal mistaken.

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