Bobservations

It seems just like last week—because it was—when _____ was rallying and shouting and inciting fear, and generally having what he calls a good time, just ahead of the midterms. Then …

… the midterms; and his party, and _____, had their asses handed to them and now he is lost and sullen and bitter. Maybe it has something to do with incoming Democratic House majority going after his tax returns and investigating his other illegal actions.

Sorry …not sorry.

Speaking of sad _____s, Melanie has asked for Deputy National Security adviser Mira Ricardel, to be fired, after Ricardel ALLEGEDLY had a series of run-ins with the Melanie’s office, who released this statement:

“It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.”

That’s an extraordinary, if not unprecedented, move for a First lady, but then so is posing with your coochie out.

While the students of Parkland banded together to demand gun control after the shooting at their school, the students at Baraboo High School decided to give a Nazi salute in a prom photo last spring.

Now that the photo has gone viral, they’re all trying to spin it, but it’s hard to spin all those students holding their arms in the exact same position at the exact same moment … and then laughing while they do it.

Asshats; sheep.

I dunno, should he be called Lord Gaga?

At a couple of premieres for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Ezra Miller is doing his level best to make the promotion interesting.

And I think Gaga might be nervous that someone is stepping on her drag.

We all know _____ cancelled trips to both the Aisne-Marne American cemetery in France—where 1,800 Americans died—and a follow-up visit to Arlington on Veteran’s Day because it was raining.

I guess he was right about that Robert Mueller witch hunt; apparently, if he gets wet, he’ll melt? Or, he’s just an over-indulgent, narcissistic, bloated, whining man-baby.

Oh, and also, while in Paris, when seventy world leaders walked to the Arc de Triomphe, marking 100 years since the end of World War I, there were just two world leaders who didn’t participate:

Putin and ____. Maybe they were having special alone time?

Down in the land of my birth, Mississippi, GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is in a runoff election against Democrat Mike Espy, and at a recent event where rancher Colin Hutchinson praised her, Hyde-Smith actually said:

“If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”

In Mississippi. Where’s she’s in a runoff with a Black man; Mississippi, which has a long and brutal history of lynchings and public executions of African American citizens.

But hey, she supports _____ and he supports her, so is anyone surprised?

Speaking of Veteran’s Day at Arlington, while _____couldn’t get his rug wet, guess who showed up to honor American veterans?

The French.

Our president couldn’t be bothered but the French …

Lucy McBath, a member of Mothers of the Movement, a group of black women who have lost children to gun violence, has won her election to represent Georgia’s 6th Congressional District—a seat the GOP has held for 30 years.

McBath is the mother of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old young man who was shot to death by a white man who thought Davis was playing music too loudly outside a Florida gas station.

And now she’s in Congress in Georgia. Brava!

Rumor has it that Hillary Clinton will try to reinvent herself “as a liberal firebrand” and run for president again in 2020.

Please, for the love of the goddess, Hillary, just stay home. We are in a Blue Wave and need some new faces, some strong, faces. You’ve had your chance, twice; let it go.

Oh, and that goes for you, too, Bernie.

It appears that _____is planning to fire Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen very soon.

Poor girl; how is she gonna torture more families and lock more children up in cages if she’s out of a job. Bye bitch.

Finally, it’s a cold wet Thursday in Smallville, and I need a little Henry Cavill to heat things up, especially with his new longer, luscious, curly hair.

And while we’re at it let’s throw in Jay Hayden and Sterling Sulieman, who play gay lovers on ABC’s Station 19; we don’t watch, but I did catch a glimpse of a rather passionate love scene between the two men.

My how TV has changed since Lucy and Ricky slept in double beds.

Just sayin’.

Day Two: Democratic National Convention ... Or ... A Woman's Place Is In The House ... The White House

I’ll keep it simple: the Democratic Party made history again last night with the first woman to be nominated by a major party for President of the United States.

Think on that … 240 years in and this is the first woman ever nominated.

And it comes on the heels of eight years of America’s first Black president, Barack Obama.

I won’t even comment how this speaks volumes about the differences between the two major parties … except that one is making history while the other wants to take us back … somewhere.

After formally voting to nominate Hillary Clinton, the nominee made a surprise appearance by breaking that glass ceiling once and for all — though the next step is to see her on the Capitol steps next January — and speaking briefly about this historic vote, and historic moment for America, and American women.

I’ve been saying for years that we’ve had rich white men screwing up this country for over 200 years, so let’s give a woman a shot and here we are.

But, before the shattering, we had former President, and future First Gentleman, Bill Clinton, offering an intimate tribute to his wife, telling us about their meeting and their courtship and their marriage.

"In the spring of 1971, I met a girl ... "

A lot of people have said things about Bill Clinton’s infidelities, and what kind of marriage the Clinton’s have, and no one really knows except the Clintons, but I will say this:  they’ve been married forty-one years, stood side-by-side during all the things thrown at them, and managed to raise a remarkable young women in Chelsea.

"I've lived a long, full, blessed life. It really took off when I met and fell in love with that girl."

But, while Bill got all personal, he also managed to talk about Hillary’s “grit”, about [t]Rump being the status quo — rich get richer and nothing else gets done — and continued change with Hillary. He asked that we, well, you, some of you, forget about the cartoon of Hillary offered up by the GOP and see her for what she is and for what she’s done in service to this country.

"Some people say she's been around a long time and she sure has and she's been worth every single year of making people's lives better."

That counts for something, [t]Rump, service to the country. And it counts that she has plans and ideas and not just vague promises about walls and deportations and such; she wants change …

"She's the best darn change-maker I've ever met in my entire life … [and] … a real change maker represents a real threat...you nominated the real one."

And he made us a promise, one that I have seen in Hillary Clinton since way back in the day:

"She will never quit when the going gets tough. She will never quit on you."

Think of all that’s been thrown at her; the accusations, the innuendos, the outright lies, and yet nothing comes of it; think of all of those investigations into every bit of her life, think of the millions spent trying to discredit her and nothing’s come of it—oh, except that maybe, maybe, she was a little reckless in her emailing ways –as were Rice and Powell before her but no one cares about them; think of all those Benghazi investigations, think of her testifying, of looking the GOP in the eyes and standing firm, and then nothing comes of it.

She never quit.

And think of it like this …

Donald [t]Rump has heaped praise on people like Vladimir Putin and Saddam Hussein, and as former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, said:

“Putin is eager to see Trump win and that should worry every American.”

Think about this …

Lucia McBath, the mother of a black teenager in Florida who was shot and killed by a driver after an argument over loud music:

 “The majority of police officers are good people doing a good job and we’re also going to keep using our voices and our votes to support leaders like Hillary Clinton, who will help us protect one another so that this club of heartbroken mothers stops growing.”

Hillary Clinton wants change; she wants to fix what’s broken between our police force and the Black community. She doesn’t lay blame, she wants solutions.

And then what about that “revolution”? After that historic roll-call vote dozens of Sanders supporters stormed out of the hall to take refuge in one of the media tents where they vented and ranted and raged about the party’s nominee.

Inside the hall, though, there were no boos and no shouts; sure, Hillary could lean a little more to the left, and I think she might, with Bernie Sanders with her, with Elizabeth Warren with her. But isn’t it better to have Hillary in office, working with the people you like, that having some bloated bigot talking about walls with his tiny hands?

Can you lay your head on the pillow at night, knowing that, by not voting, or even, goddess forbid, voting for someone else, you elected [t]Rump as president?

Just remember what Bill said:

She’ll never quit.