Greetings! Dept. of Sticks & Stones: There’s an entire Wikipedia page devoted to the derogatory nicknames that Trump gives his adversaries. An astonishing 120 nicknames are listed including “Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley, Gavin “Governor Newscum” Newsom, and Adam “Pencil Neck” Schiff. It’s a shameful compilation of low-brow insults from the former leader of the free world and it reflects poorly on the United States…Dept. of Surprises: Red Sox player Jarren Duran has the top-selling jersey on the Major League Baseball website after calling a belligerent fan a homosexual slur, according to Breitbart. He was suspended for two games and then sales started taking off. “Despite the team’s woke response to the incident, many fans seem to have had the opposite reaction,” Breitbart wrote…Job with least security: Ivy League university president. Five presidents have left their jobs in the last year, most due to campus unrest. Columbia’s Minouche Shafik is the latest. (Politico)…Trump’s rallies may have become political losers. That’s the opinion of the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger because they do nothing to expand his base. Henninger suggests town halls instead….Not good news for female Secret Service agents. Susan Crabtree of Real Clear Politics tweets this morning that a female agent left her post without permission at a North Carolina Trump rally to breastfeed her baby. Alarm has spread among right wing outlets like The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and RedState….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard
Aug. 15, 2024