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Just when you thought he couldn't say something even more stupid...

madbrian said: "Polls schmolls, here's the best news of the day: Trump has no plans to change his temperament or strategy. . . . "

I replied to this message earlier in the day but my post seems to have been lost in cyberspace. I wrote that there appeared to have been some impact from the weekend intervention, and that the intervention appeared to have included a lobotomy. Trump read his speech on the economy from a teleprompter, slowly and deliberately as if sounding out each syllable. He was unphased by hecklers and graciously thanked the audience for drowning out the jeers with cheers. He rarely, if ever, went off script.

I was afraid undecideds would be swayed by the act, especially since the speech spoke to all the typical Republican talking points regarding tax rates, the tax code, etc.

Well that was a short-term pivot. It was only about an hour after my post was lost that I read his suggestion that 2nd amendment zealots will (should?) assassinate his opponent, or at least her choices for the bench. Anything his advisors hoped to achieve with the lobotomy was lost in a nanosecond.

I'm genuinely shocked by those comments. And, at this point in the campaign, after everything he's done and said that's really saying something. This is way beyond carelessness and dirty politics. The Secret Service should be investigating him. Revolting.

Former GOP congressman Chris Shays just endorsed Clinton on Morning Joe.

Months from now when President and President Clinton are back in their old home at 1600 Pennsylvania, I'm going to look back fondly on this race. I prefer Trumps brand of overt racism and misogamy to the more subtle forms we got from Republicans in the past. At least Trump's dribble can't be disguised as patriotism or religious freedom or constitutional fundamentalism or some other label that was used in the past to defend social conservative policies that I found to be reprehensible. There's no defense for Donald Trump.

But social conservatives have bought into whatever he is selling. So, irrespective of their reason(s), they now own him and all he stands for. This country needs to make Trump an albatross and hang him around the necks of anyone who supports him.

It's silly to say Donald Trump is "pro-trans." His pro-trans statements were just blurted out and he has made just as many NON-pro-trans statements, partilculary when he is in front of anti-trans audience. He just says whatever he feels like whenever he feels like saying it, so you can't call him "pro-trans":



O'Reilly asked Trump if he provided gender-neutral facilities in his properties. “No, we don’t have that," replied Trump. "I hope not. Because frankly, it would be unbelievably expensive nationwide. It would be hundreds of billions of dollars."



http://www.advocate.com/politics/2016/5/24/donald-trump-claims-accommodating-transgender-people-too-expensive



Billions? And then there's this:



latest response about the Obama administration’s guidance on respecting transgender students andpatients suggests an incoherent desire to toe the Republican Party line while also staying true to his own seemingly more inclusive beliefs?—?to the extent those beliefs are even discernible.

In an interview with the Washington Post Monday, Trump said that if elected president, he would rescind these directives protecting transgender people. With Republicans leaders across the country overwhelmingly opposing the trans student protections in particular, this is no doubt what the Party wants to hear from their candidate.



Oh, and this:



“I would end Obamacare and replace it with something terrific, for far less money for the country and for the people.”



https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trumps-incoherent-position-on-transgender-protections-d4d1edf969b0#.5fty3iz2z

Politico is reporting that these are the names in the mix for debate moderators: ABC’s Martha Raddatz, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly or Chris Wallace, PBS’s Gwen Ifill, CBS’ John Dickerson, NBC’s Chuck Todd or Lester Holt and CNN’s Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper.

Not a fan of Lester Holt, I'd replace him with Martha Raddatz. Actually, I'd go with whoever will scare Trump the most.

But if he drops out of the race Labor Day weekend, someone else will be debating her.

I wake up every morning to turn on the news to make sure he hasn't dropped out, before I pee or brush.