Watching The Clown Car Spins Its Wheels

Linda Sharp
5 min readJul 26, 2024

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Calling the Trump campaign/support brigade a clown car is not exactly history making. Given its endless supply of buffoons, blowhards, and batshit, likening it to a red nose parade is pretty easy.

You’ve got James Donald Bowman James David Hamel James David Vance J.D. Vance JD Vance out there caterwauling about childless women and their felines so much that Jennifer Aniston actually came forward with a statement regarding his pathetic stance and hopes that his own daughter could someday conceive lest she be thrown into the conservative litterbox.

Old JD is also on the record as stating that people with children should have more stake in voting, That their children should get voting rights and that their parents should exercise those rights on their behalf.

JD Vance says Americans without children should “face the consequences and the reality” and not get “nearly the same voice” in democracy

Vance: “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.” pic.twitter.com/uYS6NcGkKn

— Pat Rynard (@patrynard) July 24, 2024

Hmmmmm, so much for Jesus being worthy of a vote, huh, JD? But it gets better. Here he is advocating for punishment for women who travel from their abortion banned states to obtain abortion medical care. Bonus: it includes one of their favorite spank bank add-ons: George Soros…

Unearthed audio: JD Vance calls for a “federal response” to block women in red states from traveling to another state to get an abortion pic.twitter.com/t9YAbFuoPc

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 26, 2024

And while old heterosectional Vance is out there stinkin’ up the political couch cushions with his sticky past and milquetoast presence present, you’ve got the Batshit Barbies, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene literally demanding proof of life from Joe Biden.

I’m not kidding. This is what the MAGAts have to offer. Derision, delusions, and DJT. That’s it. They have placed all their eggs in a fraying human basket with a maxipad on its ear.

That “took a bullet for you” strategy? With each passing day it falls further and further apart. The latest official salvo in the Eargate mystery came from FBI director Christopher Wray who said Thursday while testifying before Congress, “With respect to former president Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”

Of course, Diaperload Don lost his shit on Truth Social over that.

Then there was the “Where’s the Obamas?” talking point they all began to latch upon since Kamala began running. Oooooo, there must be something amiss! Why hasn’t Barack endorsed her yet? They don’t believe in Harris! Right up to yesterday when Trump ALL CAPSed his way through another post calling her a “radical leftist Marxist” (words courtesy of the Sarah Palin Word O’ The Day toilet paper) and that Dems were “still holding out for someone ‘better”.

As the clown car started revving its engine on that one, BOOM. Their engine backfired again and the wheels just spun in place. Again.

We greeted the morning with a glowing endorsement from Barack and Michelle Obama.

Timing is everything, as they say, and the Harris campaign seems to have it down cold. Just as Biden’s announcement came after the RNC spent their week in the spotlight deriding his age, mental acuity, and his age, his age, his age… those running her campaign, and those who support her — LIKE THE OBAMAS — know when to pull the political trigger for maximum effect.

Just yesterday as Trump called into his favorite padded room, Fox “News”, with the sole purpose of smearing Kamala Harris, her campaign did what has needed to be done for years. It fired back, with a wink and a nod via a press release.

Calling him what he is — a 78 year old criminal. And highlighting his every frailty and flounder from naming Vance as his running mate to his praise of Pr0ject 2O2five (remember the rules for outsmarting the algorithms).

And yesterday Kamala made short shrift out of Trump’s refusal to debate her in September. While he mealy mouthed his way with excuses (see lack of Obama endorsement), she called it what it is: COWARDICE. She’s ready, he’s not. Back on his lifts heels he goes.

And I am loving it all. With two women at the helm of her campaign — Julie Chávez Rodríguez and Jen O’Malley Dillion leading the team as campaign manager and campaign chair, respectively — they are showing why women will win this race. Why Trump fears women. Why the entire MAGAt apparatus clings to their misogyny and attempts to relegate women back to the kitchen making them sammiches.

That whole ‘women are too emotional to lead’ garbage? That Hefty bag was thrown into their dumpster fire long ago. If ever a human was too emotional to lead, one need only look at year after year of Donnie’s midnight, ALL CAPS tanTrumps online. I’d sooner nominate a toddler denied an extra handful of Goldfish. They are far more temperate.

What is happening is that women are showing exactly why we make little incel knees quiver. Why the JDs and DJTs of the world throw every worn out trope at us. We are smart. We are cagey. And in an argument when we come at you with a smile (God help you if we laugh)? Life, as you know it, is over.

WTF? Absolutely. WATCH. THE. FEMALES.

It is so far past the time that this side begins calling BS out as BS when it happens. That is why a debate will be delicious. The thought of him rambling and lying and gaslighting being met by a slow burn smile and then a signature Harris laugh right to his Maybelline face? Inject that shit directly into my veins.

With just over 3 months to go, I expect their clown car to continually try to get some traction on something, anything, against Kamala Harris and whoever she chooses as her running mate. But putting bigger layers of misogyny, racism, and sexism down? All they’re going to do is spin their wheels even harder as this Blue Bus steadily pulls out, ahead, and over the finish line.

We’re not going back.

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Linda Sharp
Linda Sharp

Written by Linda Sharp

Author, columnist, blogger. Don’t Get Me Started and Transparent Trans Parent blogs