I think we all always assumed he’d run, but IIRC, he never quite committed to it until the last second. Though, as I’m thinking about it now, I believe part of that had something to do with the RNC saying they wouldn’t be able to fund his legal battle if he was a candidate (or their nominee?). I do also see a few articles where he was being told not to announce his presidential candidacy while at someone else’s midterm rally.
In any case, ISTR, possibly incorrectly, that we heard a lot of “are you going to run for president” questions that were answered with “a lot of people are saying that I should”, instead of a yes. But, like I said, that may have been his way of hinting that he would without putting his RNC money in jeopardy.
Now, if someone could figure out a way to capture billions of mosquitoes and process them into meat that tasted even vaguely like beef or bacon, I’d be happy to see that industry replace our current factory farms.
ETA: I wonder if we’ll see cicadaburgers this summer?
“Midgemeat”
I remember vaguely that he wasn’t “officially” a candidate, but he never stopped campaigning! He kept his rallies up throughout his administration, and kept them up after he was out of office. What were those rallies if not campaign stops? No one believed he wouldn’t run.
Just for the record, some species of locust are kosher:
Although some maintain that we can no longer properly identify the kosher sorts, and so, in the interest of taking nom chances, effectively no locusts are permitted.
According to Matthew 3"4, John the Baptists lived on locus
ts and honey, and he was Jewish. (Despite the efforts of some to define locust as a plant, like the American Honey Locust – probably named after this reference – it’s pretty clear that he was eating bugs.)
And it’s not unreasonable, depending upon circumstances. If you have a plague of locusts that eats all your crops, you’ve got a plethora of stunned, gorged locusts right there just begging to be eaten, and you don’t have anything else at hand.
Marvin Harris devotes an entire chapter of his book The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig to insect eating. Even the classical Greeks did.
Sure, they were campaign stops.
But mainly they were an income stream. It’s not that the campaigning never stops - the grift never stops, and campaigning is the means to that end. That’s what it all boils down to for him. Money and avoiding legal consequences.
And, lets be honest, even if he wasn’t raising money (lets say he broke even), he’d still do rallies just for the attention. If there’s one thing he likes, it’s crowds of people watching him talk.
Because the profits of those factory farms are at stake. If lab-grown meat becomes competitive with or even (horrors!) cheaper than farmed meat, those profitable cattle operations will suddenly be less so.
(I almost typed their profits are at “steak.” Freudian slip!)
So that’s why they have a beef with vat-grown meat…
It almost seems like this is rising to the level of a challenge. What else can we make fun of Donald Trump for that will get his MAGA cult to do the most stupid, outrageous and embarrassing things in public in support of him? Can we get it to the level of proudly smearing themselves in shit?
Yeah, that’s it all right. It’s not enough that they don’t read a book they find offensive, or they don’t marry a gender that angers their god, etc., nobody else is permitted to either. I guess because they might catch cooties or something from the unclean.
Hey, just you wait until “they” start selling you a bife de cultivo …
I gather from some of my more fundamentalist relations that there’s another aspect: that the world is forever on a knife-edge, and the slightest slip from Morality and Righteousness (as their religion defines it) may prompt their Ever-Loving God and Father to cast the whole shebang, including them, into the abyss where they’ll be enmeshed in the Toils of Satan.
(Or something like that — I’ve never really been able to parse it.)
Hmm. That god sounds like kind of a dick.
Read Jonathan Edwards’ sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God sometime. There’s a long tradition of Tough Gods
They’re obviously the ones with the cloven mandibles
Back to new Republican Stupidity.
Republicans in Congress are upset that DC police aren’t instigating violence with peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Georgetown University.
(gift link)
Par for the course:
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Government is the problem! / USPS would be better run as a business! / the protests are mindlessly violent!
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Wait, that’s not true?
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Put us in charge and we’ll make sure it is!
Wow – kosher bacon??? Not that I’m constrained by any dietary laws, but just imagine how wonderful that would be for those who are!
Back in college one of the guys on my floor who kept kosher opened a can of kosher bacon.
I swear, it looked like Play-Doh. And I suspect it might have been.