Probing for our gag reflex?
Sen. Tim Scott calls it ‘the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’
WASHINGTON 02-07-26 —President Trump posted — and later deleted — a video on-line that included imagery depicting former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes, prompting swift condemnation from Democrats and Republicans.
The video was deleted late Friday morning, after the White House initially defended it, following calls from lawmakers of both parties to remove it.
The roughly one-minute video, which was posted on Truth Social at 11:44 p.m. on Thursday, features a narrator questioning the security of voting machines used in competitive states in the 2020 election. In the final seconds of the video, images of the Obamas’ faces on the bodies of cartoon apes appear. They bob their heads against the backdrop of a jungle as the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” plays.
Trump said he wouldn’t apologize for the post. — Wall Street Journal
A Faustian bargain
At Sacred Hearts elementary school, Sister Mary would have worn out her sharp-edged Westcott© ruler on this sybaritic scoundrel.
The President’s serial and increasingly unhinged insults impose a heavy tariff. Just ask Eric Hovde, Tim Michels, and Brad Schimel here in battleground Wisconsin. All heavily endorsed by Trump Inc., all soundly defeated as more Republicans go RINO.
Blame the state party apparatus at your peril; the trend is national: Republicans are 0 for the last year. We’ve lost eight state legislative seats held by Republicans in states like Texas, Mississippi, and Georgia. We lost two governor’s races, allowing Virginia to flip blue. Vicki McKenna blames Republican voters for not turning out. Coca Cola should have blamed customers for not swilling more New Coke! Blaming “Fake Media” persuades no one.
→ The President’s most ardent supporters circled the wagon, gaslit us, and defended it. — Erick-Woods Erickson
Even before his latest slur, influential conservative Ross Douthat determined: “Donald Trump has lost the country.”
From the first days of DOGE through the debacle in Minneapolis, the Trump administration has consistently governed as if swing voters aren’t part of its coalition. And now, guess what? They’re not. … you just can’t have a transformative agenda …. if you don’t keep moderates and the general public on your side.
A call to conscience
Until Blaska gets the heave ho, this dues payer intends to circulate the following petition at next Saturday’s 02-14-26 Republican district caucus:
We, the undersigned Republicans of Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District, denounce President Trump’s racist portrayal of the Obamas as jungle animals and for heartlessly blaming Rob Reiner for his own murder. These are only the latest examples of the President’s destructive coarsening of the public discourse. It must stop.
We encourage all figures in the public eye to treat those with opposing views as participants in the contest of ideas, not as enemies or traitors.
We’ll let you know how many signatures we get, if any. Especially if Second District Chairman Billie Johnson signs.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The fault lies with us Republicans, dear Brutus. Playing “Whaddabout” and “Look Over There” to excuse his every assault on common decency isn’t cutting it. The party of responsibility must act responsibly — that includes ending the paranoid “Stolen Election” conspiracy mongering. Admit we lost 2020 and move the hell on!
If Republicans crash and burn at the polls this November, it won’t be because Democrats out-worked us or because they have better ideas, it’s because his enablers issued too many pardons to the vulgarian in chief.
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