By Marc Cooper
August 1, 2024
Much to say but first….
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THE TRUMP MELT DOWN
You know it had to happen and just about now. How could Donald Trump (currently campaigning for the ‘black job’ of US president) just sit back and let his quite twisted and, indeed, very weird. running mate keep upstaging him as the country’s biggest asshole. And, worse, Harris was sucking up all the rest of the media oxygen.
So the Don’s fantastic, amazing, jaw-dropping, idiotic, blatantly racist performance on Wednesday morn at the meeting of the National Assoc. of Black Journalists was bound to happen and, man, did it ever.
Just how frickin’ rock stupid do you have to be to appear in that venue and start off insulting the Black journo questioning him — my former USC alum Rachael Scott now working for ABC News— only to transition to insulting the entire room and every American black, too.
The very ugly part of this is that while Trump is, undeniably, the dumbest US president ever, his suggestion that Kamala Harris might be some sort of fake Black and assumed that identity only as a campaign pose, was no doubt in part quite intentional.
Trump knows better than clueless journalists and pundits that he is now dead in the water when it comes to that often predicted but certainly phantom Pro-Trump Black Wave (LOL) and he was not in that venue to win any Black votes nor to curry favor with the hundreds of Black reporters present.
This was a Donald Trump Sistah Souljah on Steroids moment (for you young-ins Sistah Souljah was a Black rapper who during his 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton ruthlessly and with no provocation attacked racially….only to shore up his vote among those I heard him call on his campaign plane “the bubbas”). You know, white racists who might suspect that this Arkansas good ole boy might in fact be some sort of sleazy Hollywood libertine in sheep’s clothing. [sic]
That was Trump’s real intent. He’s like a comedian trying out new material on the road to use in a new stump speech (which he is incapable of delivering without a Prompter). He’s desperately searching for the best way to dirty up and frame Kamala Harris and it ain’t easy.
It’s hard because it is dead simple for Trump to use coded language, dog whistles and sometimes direct insults to attack women and Blacks and by extension black women… in the abstract. Making those smears in the abstract is second nature to him.
Trump, though, has zero experience dealing with strong women, strong black women, and especially a strong black woman who is roasting his nuts out on the campaign trail. You can imagine how Trump would really like to describe or call Kamala Harris but he knows enough that he cannot do it and be socially acceptable. His awkward noodling around what are essentially racist and mysoginist attacks reminds me of Dr. Strangelove having to suppress his Hitler salute while working in the Pentagon :)
Harris knows exactly what she is doing when she says come say it to my face, pal. She knows he is WEAK in those sort of situations…meaning he has no idea how to respectfully talj to a Black woman who is visibly five times brighter than he is.
Anyway, folks, no problem! Let Trump be Trump because Trump continues to be the best campaigner against Trump we have. Harris is doing better than anybody expected but Trump has been off the screen way too long and it’s great to have him back because there will be a direct connection between Trump’s visibility and his chance of losing. The more — the better. Hats off to the NABJ who had to overcome juvenile internal opposition wanting to block him for putting this pathetic, racist, hostile, and clearly muddle-headed and impaired fool on garish and revealing public display. More please! CNN can you give him two hours a night??
The only real positive reaction to Trump’s televised melt down was, drumroll… from J.D. Vance who emerged on camera with a strange brown smear on his nose saying he loved what Trump said and found it “hysterical.” A strange modifier to use when your partner just insulted all Blacks in America!
WE LOVE J.D. VANCE!
Oh Lord, now that you came down to tell Biden to GTFO, please do not dream of kicking J.D. Vance off the Trump ticket. Pretty, please, Lord. I know there’s some buyer’s remorse in the White House. And Kelly Anne Conway is in the doggie house accused of leaking nasty tid bits about old J.D. to that Fake Media. She’s just one big name in a whole faction of MAGGATS who fear that Trump has chosen the toxic vote-killing spawn of Sarah Palin as Veep (he has). Their arguments take on new vigot based on new polling that shows Vance’s favorables has moved from negative six to negative twenty since he was appointed.
Pointing to an ABC News/IPSOS poll, CNN’s Harry Enton declared, “It’s only gotten worse, from negative six points to now, negative 15 points. Mark my words, this is the worst vice presidential pick probably since 1972 when George McGovern chose Thomas Eagleton as his VP pick. He got replaced. I don’t think Vance is gonna get replaced, but that’s what we’re talking about. In no planet did I ever think we’d be talking about VP this late into the cycle after he was picked like 10 days ago.”
In two short weeks, Vance has emerged, immediately after the Donald Himself, as the second most effective anti-Trump campaigner out there. Weird? Um, yeah. But much more weird than just plain weird.
I mean J.D. Vance is so obnoxious, so off-putting, so tone deaf, so blindly both ambitious and obsequious, that he makes Ron DeSantis look like a warm and fuzzy avuncular professor who volunteers at the food bank. It’s been a long time since we have seen such a vile creature as JD Vance slither his way to the top since Trump rode down that golden elevator 9 years ago.
Looking very hard at Vance, his book, his history, his wonderfully I hate Trump and I hate Cops and I love Immigrants emails and texts, looking at his pathetic and ineffective “clean-up” interviews, I THINK, I repeat I THINK I understand who this chump is.
Vance has an IQ that is double that of your average red-hatted dumbass. He did not get into Yale Law by accident. His Hillbilly Elegy, whose content I was not crazy about, is nevertheless a very well-written memoir and piece of sociology.
If you look at the totality of his statements and writings till around 2020, you can see that Vance’s disdain for Trump is not partial or about this or that policy. His is a wholesale rejection of the man, the myth, the supposed vision, the ever-present racism, the stop the steal bullshit and to a great degree a slam on the uneducated who follow him.
When he’s asked nowadays about his conversion to the most extreme edge of MAGA he very simply says, “I misjudged Trump and I was wrong. I changed my mind.” Well, BULL_SHIT.
Vance’s negative assessment of Trump and Trumpism would requite a whole lot more than just changing your mind to become the subservient lackey he has become. No. You would need ill-managed electro-shock therapy. Or getting blackmailed. Or somebody holding your child for ransom. Or a simple brain transplant from Mr. A.B. Normal.
Or…. as I am convinced… Vance made a completely conscious and coldly calculated decision to create a new public persona for the strict goal of achieving political power, quite possibly the Oval Office. J.D. was chosen not only as running mate, but clearly also as Trump’s hand picked successor to run the new election-free American state once Donald re-ascends to heaven. And he knows it.
I deeply suspect that Vance, having observed Trump and Trump followers, said to himself, “Hell, I can do that same act better than that old fart and I’m gonna replace him. These dumbfucks in the red hats don’t know shit from Shinola and are gonna be easy marks for me — including Trump.” Vance HAS to have complete scorn for the Trump masses and for King Trump himself because it is crystal clear from writings up to 4-5 years ago and his critique was deep enough, thoughtful enough, correct enough, that it just doesn’t change so easily. And you do NOT unlearn a Yale education.
Meanwhile, he has gone completely nuts — intentionally or otherwise. Makes no difference. This stuff about cat ladies and especially the deluded, completely dog shit crazy denunciations of childless Americans as not being real Americans defies ALL political classification and demands the study of a board of psychiatrists. I don’t know what you call that kind of rabid disorder other than Fuckin’ Nuts! Pk, again there is more to this than just mental illness. It is, however, political kryptonite. Huzzah!
Just like Trump’s appearance before NABJ, Vance actually has a strategy behind his verbal madness. He’s butt buddies with two other miscreants — Tucker Carlson and Don Junior— all part of J.D.’s plan to worm his way to the top. He had to befriend them to get ahead. And those boys are big time into promoting “masculinity” with Carlson talking on the air about the benefits of toasting one’s testes. This is clearly an appeal to all those embittered men out there who believe that the advance of women has cut off their peckers and their armpits just don’t smell as much as they should in this “feminized America” and they’re not gonna take it anymore! No sir! Tomorrow they’re gonna put one of them Don’t Tread on Me banners on the beat up F-150 and send Vance $25 instead of buying some other than pork rinds for your kids.
So there is an audience for J.D.’s incredibly twisted arguments about gender. It’s just small. And somehow it hasn’t dawned on him that women voters outnumber males and the former are already somewhat agitated by Clarence Thomas insisting he accompany them on OB-GYN visits. Not that smart a line, J.D.
But great! Again, the more Vance the better. He’s not gonna take away a single vote from anybody you know. Every time this very confused guy who can’t keep his own history straight opens his yap, you gotta figure he’s blown off another few thousand swing voters, no doubt left shaking their heads at the blather that comes out of this dude’s mouth — and always delivered with tremendous smugness, arrogance and…yes…ultra-weirdness.
Let’s keep this guy around, He’s a valuable asset in the campaign against Trump. But let’s make sure YOU AND I do everything to politically crush the MAGA extremists in November. If we beat Trump, he stays on trial, will wind up in jail for sure, and will die in obscurity.
Elect him and nutball Vance and we kill American democracy. Have some laughs at J.D.’s expense. Then crush him like a bug. If Trump is elected, there’s a 50-50 chance he won’t survive the four years and the little bearded turd from Ohio will be your president. +++
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