Now that Taylor Swift has come out for Harris - forced to, because an AI-generated video showed her endorsing Trump - we’ll see if Republicans call for boycotting the Kansas City Chiefs. Wouldn’t surprise me.

I like Rachel Maddow. But why is she given the moderator spot in the presidential debate discussion on MSNBC? She’s essentially left the network to pursue personal career ambition. Lawrence O’Donnell would be a more appropriate pick, IMO.

There was a book back in the ‘50s, I think, called The Ugly American. What made me think of that now? Because we have a presidential election in which one of the candidates is a liar, a sexual predator, a convicted felon, and the election polls say the race is tied. It makes me lose faith in the exceptionalism of America. That half of the country would vote for such an unworthy, vindictive, childish narcissist who wants to take away freedoms of the Constitution, depresses me all to hell.

I got it! I got the solution to chaos following a Trump loss in November. Harris should say, and keep saying it, that “If I lose to a convicted felon, a failed businessman, a twice-impeached former president, a philanderer and sexual abuser, and a fat, old incoherent man, there must have been massive fraud in the election!

#debate Here’s what I hope Harris says after a typical Trump rant in their debate: “To quote Ronald Reagan, ‘There you go again.’ You keep spouting lies, hoping that enough voters will believe you if you keep repeating them. None of what you just said is true and can easily be fact-checked. Now here are the real facts . . .”

The Fed waited too long!

Still another item in my series, Stock Market Analysts Don’t Know What They’re Talking About: A few days ago, when the market dipped, it was because investors were anxiously waiting on the Nvidia report, they said. That report was issued yesterday. Though positive, it was not as rosy as the experts wanted/expected. So what happened this morning? Nvidia stock went down, but the market as a whole went up. Go figure.

Trump is weaseling his way out of the debate with Harris. Surprise, surprise.

Of course it’s price gouging! C’mon. Why should butter be going up instead of down? The pandemic loss of business is over!

One thing that I’ve learned over the decades is when prices go up for whatever reason, they never go down to the level that existed before that reason became an issue. Folks ain’t gonna boycott butter, or milk, or eggs, or bread. They’re basics. So the corporations know they can get away with it.

What we need is small companies to sell products for less - and make money!

Just saw a bit on MSNBC wherein Yasmin Vossughian went back to a focus group of “undecided” voters who were not excited about a Biden candidacy after Harris became the nominee. Wow, what a cross-section of undecideds. Not! Two actually were wearing Arab/Muslim garb. Not surprising that only one had decided to vote for Harris. And this segment was supposed to tell us what? That Muslims are not happy with Israel’s war in Gaza? That they thought Biden/Harris should have stopped it? Give me a break.

Most people who were kids in the ‘50s had IQ tests administered then. Trump keeps calling other people dumb, especially Harris. Maybe the Dems should demand to see his IQ test result!

Wow! Hawley’s opponent for senator from Missouri just said that one of the two jobs of a senator is to bring back money to the state. Really? Bring it back from where? The federal government? Shouldn’t a senator’s job be to make his state prosperous so as not to need money from D.C.? Hawley is a dick, but this guy turned me off with that comment.

On the one hand, Trump disparages soldiers wounded or killed in battle as suckers and losers. On the other hand, his campaign claims Walz resigned from the National Guard because he didn’t want to be at risk by being deployed to a combat zone. But shouldn’t Trump think Walz was being smart for doing that (he didn’t) then? Trying to have it both ways.

Trump wants his sentencing to be delayed until after the election. Well of course he does! And guess what? The request will likely be granted.

Who was the last real-person vice president before Walz? John Nance Garner?

Inflation is down, crime is down, illegal border crossings are down. But according to Trump, they’re worse than ever. Even when the press calls him on that - which they seldom do - Trump calls the questions nasty and a disgrace. And the American public, never known for its acumen, doesn’t know what to think. Gotta hand it to Trump. He learned from the dictators in the past and used their tactics effectively.

Okay, I get that it’s the rate of inflation that’s down, so prices will increase gradually over time, as they always have done. But why can’t we go back to near what the prices were before we got hit with the big iinflation?