Meanwhile back at the ranch…
I continue to believe that no matter how Donald Trump’s attempt at inciting violence in Los Angeles plays out, the end result is that it’ll make him weaker, not stronger. We’ll see. In the meantime, there are other political stories playing out that aren’t getting the attention they probably should. So let’s spend this morning addressing those.
For starters, Trump’s budget bill – the corrupt disaster that he’s trying to distract you from by sending the military into Los Angeles – is continuing to struggle in the Senate. Trump is counting on you not paying attention to it, and thus not applying any political pressure to the cowardly Republican Senators who can’t make up their mind about how much or little to cave on. That means you should definitely be focused on the budget bill.
Last night we saw the primary elections in New Jersey for this November’s race for governor. We learned what we thought we would learn. Democratic turnout was very strong, continuing a trend that’s happened in every election over the past five years with the singular exception of the 2024 presidential election. If the media hadn’t rigged that election by suddenly forcing President Biden out the race with just a hundred days to go, we’d have won that election as well.
Meanwhile, the Republicans nominated a Trump-aligned candidate for Governor of New Jersey, which means that their already smallish odds of winning just got smaller. But the Republicans still haven’t learned, or quite possibly, just don’t care anymore.
What else is happening? Elon Musk is now trying to get on board with Warren Buffett’s decade old proposal for eliminating the national debt. With all due respect to Buffett, he’s not even a political figure. Just two weeks ago Musk had the keys to the entire federal government. What a swift, hard, humiliating fall for him. Good.
