BS Detector Goes Pooey

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

There is only so much that any piece of mechanical equipment can be expected to handle before it wears itself out, and in the age of Donald Trump it is not unusual for me to go through two or three BS detectors in a political season.  This past year I purchased a new one, and on the advice of my good friend, Wiley Coyote, I went with the "Acme 2024" a top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art model that is supposedly unsurpassed in its ability to sniff out the poop of the bull.

I was hopeful that I could make it through an entire election year without having to send this detector in for repairs, but realistically I knew that with Donald Trump in the race, that would be a challenge.  The surprisingly durable device held together through the primaries and even through the sexist garbage that Trump piled on his Republican rival, Nikki Haley, much of it stuff that he had also slathered on Hillary Clinton in 2016.  It even withstood Trump's attacks on various components of the legal system as his backlog of civil and criminal court actions finally began the slow slog toward justice.

But Biden flamed out at the debate in late June, and soon after that a teenager attempted to murder Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, and the bellicose, grandstanding Trump went to Milwaukee where he dominated the GOP convention and seemed to be a lock for returning to the White House.  Trump relaxed and the crazy diminished, at least for a short while.

Then that sneaky Joe Biden withdrew from the race and Trump was suddenly facing his absolute worse nightmare -  an intelligent black female prosecutor - and the crazy returned in full force.  This past week as the increasingly popular Kamala Harris began pulling ahead of Trump both nationally as well as in the swing states, and as she and her exceedingly popular running mate, Governor Tim Walz, were preparing for a week of free, and hopefully positive, press coming out of the Democratic convention in Chicago, Trump started to lose it, big time.

Trump has already played the race card to attack Harris, saying that she used to identify as an Indian American but "turned" Black out of political expediency, which is a total lie about the candidate who has always identified as bi-racial - Black and South Asian.    This week stories began circulating that he was referring to Kamala Harris as "nasty" and "a bitch" in private conversations.   But when none of those slanders seemed to be making an impact, he began questioning her intelligence and referring to Harris as someone with a "low IQ," an assertion that is extremely rich coming from him.  He said:

"I don't think she is a very bright person.   I think I am a very bright person and a lot of people say that. I don't think she's a very bright person, and you know what?   Our country needs a very smart person, but I don't consider that an insult, that's just a fact."

And with that my Acme 200 began to shake and move around.

On Saturday at a campaign event in Pennsylvania he said that in her economic speech the day before Kamala Harris had gone "full communist," a term he used twice, and then referred to her as "Comrade Kamala."  He also shared a fake image of the Vice President at an event with a large communist flag in the background.

It was so Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and the 1950's.   My BS detector did a backflip but had a graceful enough landing to avoid any serious damage.

The true test of my machine's worth came later in the same speech when Trump, who had been seriously rattled when Kamala Harris had appeared on the cover of Time Magazine earlier in the week, and who has created fake covers of himself on Time, decided to compare his own appearance to that of the Vice President.    Trump said:

"But I say that I am much better looking.  I'm a better-looking person than Kamala."

And with that my Acme 2400 BS detector exploded and I have been scraping poop off the walls for the past several days.

It is one of the oldest of political axioms:   Manure in, manure out!