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Photo: White House Correspondents Dinner - Eric Lee/Getty Images

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Glee Violette

And THAT's what happens when you don't have a laugh track. Trump tried to hold a rally in front of normal, ordinary, sane, intelligent people last night.

It bombed. One solid hour and four minutes of Trump's Greatest Hits landed flat on the floor, stone cold dead. They've BEEN dead for a long time. They were dead to begin with, just disgusting roadkill, like RFK Jr's racoon penises, which, yes, Trump brought up to mock him. Nasty rotting garbage that just stunk up the place.

And they were met with total silence. Disgusted silence. Angry silence. BORED silence. Mostly, that. Just BORED silence.

They were never funny in the first place.

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Like, "The word dumb has a "b" in it. Bet you didn't know that. Most people don't."

Yup. He read that off the teleprompter last night. Along with the same sh*t about Biden's sleepiness and Pritzker's size. But, DAMN, he went ALL the way back to his FIRST term, repeating crap about Rosie O'Donnell's body and Adam Schiff's neck - nothing witty, just bare, ugly, juvenile jibes about their looks.

The only FUNNY thing about his speech was that HE was OBLIVIOUS to the fact that he has become worse looking than ANY of them. And it's not even close, Donnie. Not even close.

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When Trump holds a rally, hand picked fans stand behind him, and a hand picked audience sits in from of him, all primed and ready. His staffers are distributed throughout the audience to cue the cult, and they respond like teens at a beer bash.

But lately, even they are bored with Trump's tired old routine. They are leaving before he is halfway done, to get a jump on the traffic. They only stayed at his "miraculous" 4th of July event to watch the fireworks.

There were no fireworks at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. But, the audience stayed, because mentalist Oz Pearlman was going to do the entertainment. However, the vibe was SO dead when Trump got through with it, that not even the amazing Oz could revive it.

There is only one true thing about Trump, and that is THIS; everything he touches dies.

And that goes for himself.

"There is no opposition to this within the political establishment. The democratic party has completely capitulated to this. I mean 'capitulation' is actually not really the right word - it's just open collaboration."

Liberals enabled this. At best, they are not part of the solution, at worst, they are part of the problem.

Getting started on this one. Goldleaf, copper, aluminum & oil on canvas.

Through the Years → Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (1,221/∞)

By Shuran Huang and Eric Lee

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States, increasing from 4.6 million in 2000 to 11.1 million in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. And in Pennsylvania, one of the states that’s most likely to decide the presidential election, some 4 percent of the voting-age population is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Yet much mainstream political coverage ignores the importance of this crucial demographic.

Last month, we traveled across Pennsylvania, profiling 12 Asian American voters in the hopes of rectifying that problem. From a hospital manager to small-business owners, a first-time voter in high school to a former green-card holder and new citizen, a lifelong Republican to a newly declared Democrat, each of these voters lends insight into a complex and diverse community.

One of us (Eric Lee) is a second-generation Asian American who grew up in Brooklyn, New York. His inspiration for this project came from learning that his extended family didn’t speak to one another after arguing about politics. Some of his family members were born in the United States, while others are naturalized citizens who were born in China, leading to differences in their beliefs. Nearly two-thirds of Asian American eligible voters are immigrants, the largest proportion of any racial or ethnic group. When Lee was growing up, his family didn’t talk about politics much. But after the past four years of the Trump administration, events on Capitol Hill and at the White House are leading topics of discussion at the dinner table, during cousin FaceTimes, and in family text threads. Lee was curious: Do other Asian American families now talk politics more too, and if so, what issues are they debating?

The other one of us (Shuran Huang) has struggled with fitting into a society that’s not hers. Huang has lived in Singapore, Italy, Ethiopia, Japan, and other countries, where she was one of the few Chinese nationals in most of these nations. Huang moved to the United States in 2014 and earned her master’s degree in photojournalism at Syracuse University in 2018, where about 6 percent of the student population is Asian, almost mirroring the U.S. population. After living in the United States for six years, and watching the 2016 election unfold, Huang is still figuring out how to find a niche in a constantly evolving country.

We understand that Asian Americans are not a monolith, and that this is a limited snapshot of a diverse demographic group. That said, we both hope to raise the voices of Asian Americans in a process that has historically ignored them.

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The Master Demon (1991)

“Demons are tricky mother fuckers. It would seem everyone's demon has a particular set of rules or requirements to be dealt with. It could be a special necklace, some bloodletting or a fucking priest spouting gibberish. You never know, so you have to have to ride it out till it makes a little sense and you can try out some cures. That’s if it ever reveals a weakness. It's always possible the demon cannot be defeated at all or will keep coming back for sequel after sequel until your character dies off and beyond. Worse still, each of the beasts comes packing a unique technique or instrument of torment, with varying degrees of discomfort. Your demon could be the kind that runs around wearing your persona to mess with your folks, a surprise scary face in the mirror at night or the simple version that sticks to pointy metal and violent disfigurement. There are no real rules to how and why you end up with one, but It's not entirely random, because the negative power is personalized by case. It's always perfectly crafted to prove a point. While at the same time, there isn't a predictable merit system or anything to look for. Of course, some people go searching for cursed objects or will invoke an evil presence willingly. But you don't have to do something stupid to summon one or two into your life. If there is some science to it, I can't figure it out. While one person can get a demon that looks like Scott Valentine with a mullet and a tail (possibly annoying but not fatal), others get completely screwed. You could just as easily end up on the wrong side of an evil Kung Fu entity, who only possesses large bald men and calls himself The Master Demon...”