As I’ve noted before, any game starting with “women’s beach …” has viewership potential.

Women’s beach badminton would be a particularly awesome sport because of those winds on the beach. I’d even be willing to donate the equipment so I could see them play with my shuttlecock.

But it could be any game. Women’s beach Go Fish. Women’s beach Parcheesi. Women’s beach bullfighting. For that matter, women’s beach cockfighting.

“Mr Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports raised US$20.8 billion through Wednesday (July 10), according to data from United States Customs and Border Protection. Mr Trump has already committed to paying American farmers hurt by the trade war US$28 billion.”

Of course this is only the impact on the public sector. In the private sector, some business have been helped, others hurt, and that complex calculation has not yet been performed.

The subject of Ed Anger came up in another thread, so I went searching for some of his columns.

Some of his classic opening lines:

  • I’m madder than a leprechaun with a crooked shillelagh
  • I’m madder than a zombie with a mouth full of Biden’s brain
  • I’m madder than a Arab with a three-legged camel

I didn’t remember that the WWN had a running gag where they blamed Biden for everything. (Example) I have never blamed Joe. It is my belief that one can always blame the Bossa Nova (the dance of love). On those rare occasions when the Bossa Nova is innocent, I blame the Oprah Book Club.

Here’s something scary. I’m pretty sure the WWN was satirizing right-wing anger, ala The Colbert Report, but they genuinely attracted a right-wing audience who took it seriously. I took a quiz from their pop-up, just to see the results, and I found that 80% of the people who answered were in favor of a border wall.

I wonder how many fans of the old Colbert Report were right-wingers who must have been shocked to hear his vitriolic anti-Trump monologues on the CBS show.

Interesting. I heard some “expert” on a radio talk show declare that there has never been a case in history in which there is such a gap between somebody’s fund-raising and their poll numbers. Obviously Mayor Pete has lots of enthusiastic and prosperous adherents, but is not yet resonating throughout the mainstream.