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A day in Trumper Central ...

I passed a weathered pickup truck flying a big tattered Confederate flag from a mast as it drove up the highway.

In Cocoa Beach, I passed a parked Jeep with a big sign:

KENNEDY 2024
UNITE THE STATES

The Trump roadside stand around the corner got drenched during a downpour. The banners got soaked, but they had to scoop up all the smaller merchandise. I still haven't seen a single customer there.

#Politics I just had the misfortune to listen to a #MAGA talk radio show. The host claimed he had the "smoking gun" to prove Nancy Pelosi was responsible for January 6.

In the audio recording he played, Pelosi clearly is talking about #Trump, but the host claims she's actually talking about herself. He declared that the liberal media will try to cover it up.

The host also said Hunter Biden's five-year old daughter should be taken away from him because otherwise he'll addict her to cocaine. 🤬

#Politics From #CNN: #Trump spent most of his hour today with congressional Republicans ranting about his various perceived slights.

BTW, House Republicans are trying to move through Congress a bill that would allow former Presidents to move their criminal state trials to federal court. Scared of Georgia much?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/politics/trump-closed-door-meeting-house-gop/index.html

#Politics #Economy From #CNN ... And right on cue, today's strong economy news is bad news for #Biden.

"The economy is strong, but it might not be enough for Biden"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/opinions/biden-economy-presidential-election-brown/index.html

#Politics This week's "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow on #DailyKos.

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/Tom%20Tomorrow/

#Politics #Trump

"... she rebuked prosecutors’ approach to the indictment and wrote that it is confusing and that 'much of the language in the Superseding Indictment is legally unnecessary to serve the function of an indictment.'"

(Well, confusing to her ...)

#Politics Breaking from #WaPo: Judge Aileen Cannon tosses one paragraph in the charges in #Trump classified documents case, says it should be introduced at trial.

(Whenever that is ...)

https://wapo.st/3VCGVan

#Politics #Economy From #CNN: They double down on the "bad news for #Biden" message.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/economy/bad-news-in-good-jobs-report/index.html

#Politics #Economy You might have thought I was joking when I wrote upstream, "More bad news for #Biden ..."

Here is a screen capture just now from the #CNN web site.

#Politics #Economy From #CNN:

More bad news for #Biden as the U.S. economy adds 272,000 jobs in May. 🤣

The unemployment rate reached 4%, which should please the Fed.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/economy/may-jobs-report-final/index.html

#Politics From #CNN: Federal judge orders #Trump adviser Steve Bannon to prison on July 1.

Nah nah, hey hey, good bye! 🤣

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/steve-bannon-jail/index.html

#Politics #Trump From #CNN: Judge Cannon will hold a hearing to decide if Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel should be invalidated.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/cannon-trump-special-counsel-hearing/index.html

#Politics #Biden From #CNN: Hunter Biden's lawyer, in his opening statement:

*****

Defense attorney Abbe Lowell highlighted the word “knowingly” in the charges brought against Hunter Biden as he began his opening statement Tuesday. Lowell said that prosectors had “left out the word” and argued it is a key part of the case.

#Politics From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- #Wisconsin Attorney General files felony charges against three involved in #Trump fake electors plot.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/04/wisconsin-kaul-charges-former-trump-associates-in-fake-elector-scheme/73969528007/

#Politics From #Riverside #California Press-Enterprise:

#MAGA Riverside County Sheriff endorses #Trump for President, says, "It's time we put a felon in the White House."

https://www.pressenterprise.com/2024/06/03/riverside-county-sheriff-jokes-in-trump-endorsement-its-time-we-put-a-felon-in-the-white-house/

#Politics #Trump Today's "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow on #DailyKos at:

https://www.dailykos.com/blog/Tom%20Tomorrow/

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Just to show how Trumpy #MAGA this burg is, here are demographic data for my precinct and for Brevard County. The supervisor of elections doesn't collect education data, alas, but that would be another useful insight.

#Politics As an aside ... Driving down the road this morning, I was behind a car with this message stencilled on the rear window:

VOTE DEMOCRAT
NO BORDERS NO WALLS
GIRLS WITH BALLS

I'm sure it was intended as an insult, but as a Democrat I took it as a compliment that our women have the huevos the MAGA savior lacks. (Yes, I know, they meant it as a trans slur ...)

#Politics I've never seen that trailer get any business at all, even here in Trumper Central. Now that #Trump is a 34-time convicted felon, maybe this is the going-out-of-business sale?!

I've seen these roadside stands throughout Brevard County and wondered what is the business model. One has to think that they buy this crap wholesale from #Trump for retail. If you can't sell TRUMP 2024 I'LL BE BACK flags in this county, you can't sell them at all. (2/2)

#Politics I've mentioned that someone has set up a roadside #Trump souvenir stand around the corner. The trailer filled with merchandise is parked in the front yard of a house with windows boarded up and stripped cars on blocks in the driveway.

Yesterday I noticed the trailer had a pink sign with a handwritten message that the inventory was now for sale.

Today I saw a second trailer with someone who I guess bought the goods. His trailer's sign read, "TRUMP 2024 THE REVENGE TOUR." (1/2)