News Of The Weird 👑

Clearly, you’re unfamiliar with my long history of tracking this kind of judge-shopping. I’ll leave the emptiness of the antitrust claim for the antitrust experts.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 6, 2024

This was as much as I knew about Elmo’s latest legal stunt. I wasn’t sure there wasn’t a restraint of trade claim, mostly because it’s not my area of expertise (or knowledge, for that matter). Until I read this:

Everyone who has been boycotted should file a lawsuit in every country they’ve been boycotted https://t.co/TG2nE5LZAk

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2024

I mean, I’m pretty sure it’s not restraint of trade for companies to not advertise where they don’t want to (any more than it is to urge companies and investors to make “ethical investments”).  But “file a lawsuit in every country where they’ve been boycotted”? Yeah; people with too much money to spend on lawyers are the new bane of the legal system.

MAGA Weird actor clip #2 is Dennis Quaid explaining the reason why he supports Trump: “People might call him an asshole, but he’s my asshole.” pic.twitter.com/nvl83NGuiA

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 7, 2024

That doesn’t come across the way you think that comes across. (Nobody wants Dennis Quaid’s asshole for POTUS.)

Nice to see they have transitioned from “she laughs too much,” to “she slept her way to the top,” to “SF liberal,” to “she ain’t black,” to much more effective messaging. The Trump campaign is on a roll. pic.twitter.com/uQ0SgbDuan

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 7, 2024

A) Trump is in charge.

B). They are no better than Trump.

C). They are not allowed to be any better than Trump.

D). All of the above.

These are interchangeable between Trump’s campaign and Trump’s legal representation.

I didn’t realize she was going to nationalize every business in America and confiscate all private property. pic.twitter.com/HCAjUO9vDj

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 7, 2024

A bullhorn to Boomers. A”Huh?” 🤷🏻‍♂️ to everyone else.

It took 36 hours for Kamala to fix the one day drop in the markets. https://t.co/gT9QtdOK8O

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) August 7, 2024

Not weird, except the attempt to make a one day market correction into a full-blown crash, a la 1929. That was weird.

Trump supporters have called for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Christopher Wray, and General Mattis, but folks at a Harris-Walz rally chanting “lock him up” and Tim Walz making a JD Vance couch-fucker joke seems exceedingly divisive for America.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 6, 2024

So is this:

BE THERE! WILL BE WEIRD! 🤡🤡 https://t.co/waIaCTYZbk

— Hannes Kächele (@hannes_1961) August 7, 2024

I already know what they're going to talk about:

"This is a ticket that would want this county to go communist immediately if not sooner ... he's very heavy into transgender. Anything transgender he thinks is great ... I think it's very insulting to Jewish people" -- Trump on Fox & Friends on Harris/Walz pic.twitter.com/61Phj3OTVx

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 7, 2024

The Red Scare of school lunches,

Not forgetting the end of the real Red Scare, when JFK defeated Nixon in 1960, Nixon famously told the assembled microphones: “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” It was the single most self-pitying statement in American politics. Until this week:

Dear Mr. Trump: We write to let you know that a seriously disturbed and impaired individual is posting on Truth Social and signing your name. pic.twitter.com/aXcN9DKsQz

— John M. Talmadge, MD (@JohnMTalmadgeMD) August 7, 2024

Donald Trump is the undisputed King of Weird. 👑