When MAGA Meets GIGO: The Garbage In, Garbage Out Phase of 2024

<![CDATA[I must say, I did not have Oscar the Grouch as being the official mascot of the final week of Campaign '24 on my Bingo card. The most remarkably eclectic election season of my lifetime went from appealing to a nation built on the wretched refuse to the dumpster fire of the President of the United States calling half the country actual garbage. I am of a vintage that when I grew up, garbage was garbage. It all went into the cans. Now, there's normal trash. There's mixed recycling. We have a greens bin now. Since garage has become part of the political lexicon in the last week of October, it is important to differentiate between the different types of garbage that has now become part of the national rhetoric. First, let's talk about Donald Trump's latest edition of Undercover Boss. His Wisconsin press conference from the cab of a white garbage truck complete with a vinyl MAGA wrap on the side was the best troll job I've ever seen on a presidential campaign trail. And that's just a couple weeks removed from the previous best troll job I've ever seen on a presidential campaign trail - the McDonald's drive-thru stunt in a collar county north of Philly. Trump is at his best in this environment. The former President took the stage in a packed Green Bay venue, with former Packers Hall of Famer Brett Favre as his warmup act, and gave five minutes of the charming, affable, self-deprecating, and genuine Donald Trump regime media will never let you see. If you haven't watched it online, yet, you owe it to yourself to learn how the garbage truck stunt and the vest came to be. There are plenty of people casting a vote for Kamala Harris solely because of their hatred of Donald Trump. And that intractability when casting a vote for president is impossible to overcome. But make no mistake. Donald Trump does have charm and charisma. He does have a human side. He's very obviously not the Hitler regime media and their allies on the left are trying to make him out to be. Even one of his surrogates, Vivek Ramaswamy, decided to help take the trash out. ]]>