Originally published at: With JD Vance, Things Just Get Weirder And Weirder
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. What On Earth? JD Vance is coming into focus as a living breathing embodiment of the caricature of the Republican man as obsessed with controlling women’s bodies and eager to reduce the complexities of human…
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“He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” the Republican close to the campaign said. “He may actually legit have PTSD.” A campaign official confirmed that the shooting continues to weigh on Trump.
The Long Dark Omelette Bar of The Soul.
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Or, Trump’s campaign schedule is light because the old guy lacks the stamina to do more without sundowning.
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I’m finally starting to enjoy this campaign.
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It doesn’t matter how Trump got it. It is not a matter of fairness. It is a bad idea for any country to experiment with having a President with PTSD.
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Fundamentally JD Vance is intentionally & just by nature - an attention whore!
This has to be working every paranoid narcissistic nerve in Trump’s body & every remaining brain cell.
One wonders if it would be the breaking point for Trump if social media started pranking them by calling it the:
VANCE - TRUMP ticket …
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The memo neglects to mention that some of that $90 million air TV and online commitment is in Ohio. Even though it’s in the Toledo and Youngstown markets which are smaller, cheaper and reach a bit into MI and PA, this is still a big signal to Trump and the GQP that they’re going to have to compete for the state and perhaps Harris thinks it’s winnable on her momentum and Senator Brown’s and the gerrymandering referendum’s reverse coattails. September and October are going to be so riveting that fiction will suffer for our attention.
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NYT: When Will They Speak Again? Once Close, Biden and Pelosi Are at Odds.
Who gives a shit, they both staying longer than they should. As does too big a portion of the Democratic so called “leadership”. True leaders know when to give up control and make sure they have someone prepared to take the reins.
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I don’t think TDICFFG comes up with his own schedule. His handlers have to be making most of the appearance management for him. He just shows up, rants his greatest hits, then goes out for a hamberder. They’re putting him in tiny venues or “press conferences” and private interviews to disguise crowd sizes and limit news coverage and I think he’s quite literally gun shy about the large outdoor rallies
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AOC took out the guy Pelosi had been preparing as her successor.
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When Mr. Trump loses in November he will claim that ‘JD was a Dem plant’! 
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To the dismay of abortion rights advocates, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the informational pamphlet sent to all voters about the proposed state constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being.”
Yeah, the same assholes that thought an 1864 abortion ban was just hunky dory. We are going to flip the AZ Leg this year, and start replacing these f$ckers.
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