(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Full Speed Ahead Thursdays and Saturdays [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-08-08 By David Glenn Cox You go on and campaign for me, I’m going home. Don the con is only running for President on a part time basis, a couple of days a week. And what does the former President and future resident of the Federal Prison system do on his time off? Away from his grueling schedule of campaigning, a couple of times a week??? Golf? Reruns? Nap time? Trump sends out J.D. guy liner crash test dummy to do his leg work. “What Mr. Trump meant to say was.” Trump like Big Brother speaks through his Twuth Social visoscreen. It’s a question of energy and logistics. “Attention, Attention a new Fuhrer directive will be announced in ten minutes!” It’s expensive to run that jet. Those damn people just eat and eat and eat. They eat money and if the candidate is 78 years old, maybe better to just run a largely electronic campaign. This a trap many campaigns fall into. They get only positive feedback from their people. Nobody wants to be a buzzkill or a wet blanket by pointing out problems. They come to believe what they hear from all the happy talk. I asked my friends, and they asked their friends, and we all agree we’re doing great! Throw in a Narcissistic personality with delusions of grandeur and you grasp my meaning. Go on, tell the boss your bad news! Sure, he wants to hear it. Don’t forget to duck when he throws the ketchup. I was watching the latest Elvis picture about how they kept the King comfortably numb. It got me to thinking about how you keep an out of shape 78-year-old fat man running for President. How do you keep a Model T running in the Indy 500? What additives might you need to use to raise the octane? What ever happened to Michael Jackson’s oxygen chamber? When I was a kid, I saw the film star Gloria Swanson coming out of her hotel room. She was somewhere in her 60s when I saw her, she just looked like an old lady to me. But when I saw her on TV soon after. It wasn’t the same woman I saw at all. I once stood on the side of a public road for minutes just for the opportunity to flip off Ronald Reagan. But fate intervened, It was a hot day and as the limo approached the back window was down. There was figure in the car window which looked like a lifeless mannequin. Ink black dyed hair with white pancake face makeup with more rouge than a Kansas City hooker. I stood there stunned in disbelief. What the hell was that I’d just seen? Was that Krusty the clown? And by the time I realized that was Ronald Reagan he was gone. And I stood on the side of the road and understood the plight of the slack jawed yokel. But Donald Trump is even older than Ronald Reagan was. What do they use to get him started in the morning? Perhaps a couple of times a week is all that they can squeeze out of him. Perhaps it takes a day or so to get him ready and put him in one of his blue suits and five-foot-long red ties. (To help look thinner by accentuating the vertical) A day or so to recover in the oxygen chamber or transfusions with the blood of South American virgins. Like Bart Simpson or Fred Flintstone always in the same costume. Five blue suits and Rollo Tie’s. The only tie that comes on a roll. I think they were counting on running against Joe Biden at a more senior pace. But now the Democrats have upped the tempo. Can Mr. Trump keep up? Will he even try to keep up? Or will the campaign stay in the Part-time mode and do what they are doing now. Perhaps, because that’s all they can do. Donald Trump might be running at full speed now. Juiced up, for one day on the road and two days recovering in the oxygen chamber. With nurses and IV bags littering the floor. We just don’t know anything about what goes on behind the scenes. Is it possible they believe Part-time is good enough? Or is it all they have? Give him his cell phone and lock him in the bedroom. Then when the time comes, we’ll hose him down, paint him up and put him in a blue suit! In the meantime, send out the rummy. But there is a flaw in that slaw. J.D. has shown himself about as cuddly as a possum in your trash can. So, sending out J.D. to attract the independent voters is a definite fail. So was his stalking of Vice President Harris’s campaign. If that is all that they have to run on, they’re in trouble. It seems clear the Trump campaign is flustered and unsure of what to do in the face of a more vigorous campaign. Just ranting and random name calling without direction or plan. The type of campaign that appeals only to the fervent base. “They love us! We’re doing great!” But from the size and tenor of the Trump tantrum, I’d say they’re scared. Only they know why really. It could be they fear being unable to keep up. If they push too hard, they might break him. He’s an old man. It makes no sense not to campaign with every last ounce of your strength. Perhaps this is every last ounce of his strength! Maybe this is full speed ahead Thursdays and Saturdays. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/8/2261645/-Full-Speed-Ahead-Thursdays-and-Saturdays?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/