Trump is Having a Nervous Breakdown

...Appears the big tough guy is having a nervous breakdown; the campaign says it's merely "exhaustion"

Trump cancels multiple events — campaign says he’s “exhausted”

Last week “The Donald” backed out of an interview with “60 Minutes” — an opportunity that all candidates for Prez have done for more than 50 years, because, God forbid, they were gonna fact-check!

Earlier this week he cut off questions from a town hall audience to ….sway to the music for 40 minutes instead of taking questions from members of his cult….

…And then pulled out of two mainstream media interviews, with NBC News and CNBC's "Squawk Box."

Now we hear he’s standing up the NRA next week…That’s right, cancelling on the f-g NRA! Who could be more welcoming to “the big guy” than the NRA?

Appears the big tough guy is having a nervous breakdown, though the campaign says it's merely "exhaustion."

In a conversation earlier this week, when describing why an interview hadn’t come together just yet, a Trump adviser [said]…that Trump was “exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change” at any time, according to two people familiar with the conversations.

Ironic, isn’t it? The blowhard who has attacked opponents like Jeb Bush as “low energy Jeb,” and mocked Joe Biden, a man whom history will recognize as a great President, as too doddering to do the job, is now shrinking in front of his cult’s eyes to be revealed as an overweight, tired and bitter old man with a dyed comb-over and a spray tan.

Whaddaya think…Is he more like the witch or the wizard?

…Even as he Channels Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff under Trump, Mark Milley told legendary reporter Bob Woodward that Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the greatest danger to this country.”

We learned this a few days before Trump told Maria Bartiromo on Fox “News” that he’s planning to deploy the military against “the enemy within,” specifically citing members of congress Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi.

The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum writes:

Delegates at the Republican National Convention held up prefabricated signs: Mass Deportation Now. Just this week, when Trump was swaying to music at a surreal rally, he did so in front of a huge slogan: Trump Was Right About Everything. This is language borrowed directly from Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist. Soon after the rally, the scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat posted a photograph of a building in Mussolini’s Italy displaying his slogan: Mussolini Is Always Right.

These phrases have not been put on posters and banners at random in the final weeks of an American election season. With less than three weeks left to go, most candidates would be fighting for the middle ground, for the swing voters. Trump is doing the exact opposite. Why? There can be only one answer: because he and his campaign team believe that by using the tactics of the 1930s, they can win. The deliberate dehumanization of whole groups of people; the references to police, to violence, to the “bloodbath” that Trump has said will unfold if he doesn’t win; the cultivation of hatred not only against immigrants but also against political opponents—none of this has been used successfully in modern American politics.

But neither has this rhetoric been tried in modern American politics. Several generations of American politicians have assumed that American voters, most of whom learned to pledge allegiance to the flag in school, grew up with the rule of law, and have never experienced occupation or invasion, would be resistant to this kind of language and imagery. Trump is gambling—knowingly and cynically—that we are not. — Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

Anyone know where can I get my I Am The Enemy Within T-shirt?

An Epic Bat-Flip in a “Instant Classic” MLB Playoff Game

Finally, on a lighter note, this round of the MLB playoffs has provided some very entertaining games, but none better than Game 3 in Cleveland. In that game Aaron Judge brought the Yankees to a tie in the 8th inning with a 2-run homer against an all-world closer…followed by another homer by his teammate Giancarlo Stanton to go up by a run.

Then:

The Yankees tacked on a run in the ninth, so New York closer Luke Weaver had a two-run edge to work with as he sought to get the final three outs and put the Bombers into a commanding 3-0 advantage in the series…With two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the ninth, Lane Thomas doubled off the left-field wall to keep the game alive. Still, Weaver had that two-run lead and needed just one final out. Vogt sent up a rookie to face him, powerfully built 23-year-old Jhonkensy Noel, whose first season has featured prodigious homers -- 13 of them -- and prolonged struggles as he seeks to establish himself at the big league level. In choosing Noel in that moment, Vogt had one thing in mind.

"I mean, he pinch hit to hit a homer," Vogt said. "That's why we sent him up there."

…and the bat-flip following the blast was epic in it’s immediacy and simplicity…watch it here: https://twitter.com/i/status/1847075651481645187

…an inning later his teammate David Fry launched the winning homer to end it.

WOW!