Just as an asterisk on that, it’s worth noting that Melania came to the US on a tourist visa, which forbids employment. Of course, she did, violating the law.

Joe Biden almost called them “racist fucks” at a presser today. He paused for a bit and went with “folks” instead.  Hugely disappointed.

....I wasn’t ready for that next part, even with the warning.

NASCAR is banning the confederate flag.

Good to hear. The Shut Up and Sit Down review had me a little wary about purchasing (it seems really, really easy to have an absolute terrible time playing this).

Does not even compare, but while we’re posting tea, let’s not forget George P. Bush.

Certainly helps when your dad, the former senator, now governor, appoints you to his old seat.

In grad school, one of my classmates was known for always asking what we started calling “monkey questions” - far out there hypotheticals not based on any of the facts that we were presented with. Just pure “what if” questions. They got that name because we all had bets on how long it would take before asking “what…

My point is that statements like this are super unhelpful:

I think a couple dozen of us posted this exact screed in late 2016, but with “Clinton” instead of “Biden.”

Goes back to Peter Thiel (of course)‘s idea of taking the President seriously, but not literally.

What are the odds that the feds, after having closed this investigation, announce that they’re re-opening it, let’s say, 11 days before the election? Nope? They only do that with Democrats, you say?

In other news, Press Secretary Kayleigh Mac-a-ninny has voted by mail in every election she’s voted in since 2010.

Bernie voted for the crime bill in 1994, and Warren was still a Republican. You’re not gonna find anyone who came out of the 90s unscathed.

I don’t know if that’s totally accurate.  Warren as a unity VP, Klobs as a paean to the Midwest - each have been frontrunners from the start.

Here’s hoping that Biden’s “you ain’t black” comment winds up in enough pressure that he has to pick up a black VP.

100% she's being considered because the Party is overreacting to losing the Rust Belt in 2016. 

I dont think he mentioned the bit about WW2. I think that was just a poorly-composed tweet.

According to the very effective people running the 2016 HRC campaign, he hates being called Donald, which is what they stuck to during the debates. Just subtle enough to not seem childish. “President Tweety" is just dumb.

I get the feeling that Trump usually refuses to wear protection. It’s just that usually, that’s exclusively Melania’s problem.