Just want to mention one thing. I watched a short bit of Old Donnie’s “press conference” a couple of weeks ago. Donnie’s “accordion hands” really grabbed my attention. Trump is always lying, but when he is telling his big whoppers and trying to wriggle out of some lie with even bigger lies he starts waving his hands as if he is playing the air accordion. The bigger the lies the bigger the accordion gets. So use this as a guide: “When the hands are flying, Old Donnie be a-lyin’”

Trump versus Johnathon Swann – watch them hands: (4 1/2 minutes)

Today we will add some questions about the times when political parties get together every four years to select a candidate.

Let me first thank Paul Deaton for covering for me most of the year so far. We had a family crisis, a small period of sanity followed by another crisis. We are hopefully stable now. All the while Paul was more than willing to jump in to help. That is what Democrats do. We think we are stable for a while, anyway.

On to the Quiz!

A) Folks running the Texas State Fair made the sensible decision to ban guns on the fairground during the fair this year. How did the Texas AG react?

B) The 1844 Democratic convention was the first reported on nationally using what new form of communication technology?

C) The lawsuit against the doctor who performed an abortion for a 10 year old Ohio girl was dropped by the AG of what state?

D) What presidential candidate is trying to get their sentencing for hush money convictions delayed until after the November election?

E) Out of touch much, JD? The MAGA VP candidate says that new cars cost how much?

F) Republicans (real ones) met for the first time in 1856. Who was defeated in the contest for Vice President?

G) Minnesota held its primaries last week. What former Iowa State basketball player was chosen by the MAGA party to oppose Senator Amy Klobuchar?

H) In a meeting of massive egos Tuesday what obscenely rich business man interviewed what narcissistic presidential candidate?

I) In that interview, the presidential candidate indicated they would move to what country if they lose the election?

J) in 1900, incumbent Republican VP Garret Hobart died just before the convention. Who did the convention choose to replace Hobart, despite the party leadership preferring another candidate?

K) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Global Health Emergency for a deadly strain of what disease currently raging in Africa?

L) Celine Dion and the estate of Isaac Hayes joined a long list of performers objecting to whose unauthorized use of their music as campaign music?

M) Using seismographs scientists were able to claim water has been found in what unexpected place?

N) In 1956, Democrats chose Tennessee’s Estes Kefauver as Adlai Stevenson’s VP, beating out what upcoming senator?

O) In a prime example of concentration in the business world what company bought Kellogg’s snack spinoff company Kellanova for $36 Billion?

P) Vice-President Kamala Harris unveiled parts of her economic agenda which included a child tax credit of how much for the first year of a child’s life?

Q) The Harris-Walz ticket is getting some unexpected support from what usually MAGA aligned group?

R) The first woman to be nominated for Vice-President by a major party was done by Democrats in what year?

S) In what is an aberration for political candidates, what national office nominee was revealed last week to own no stock, securities or real estate?

T) Who will be the first female, black South Asian to be nominated by a major party for president?

The politicians who said Clinton & Obama & Biden were coming for your guns… 

who now say Kamala Harris is coming for your guns…

…are the ones coming for your Social Security. – John Fugelsang

Answers:

A) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he will sue the Fair if people are not allowed to open carry at the fair.

B) telegraph

C) Indiana

D) Trump of course

E) $50,000 per year

F) Abraham Lincoln

G) Royce White

H) Elon Musk “interviewed” Old Don Trump

I) Venezuela – uh – doesn’t that make him a flight risk?

J) Theodore Roosevelt

K) Mpox – formerly known as Monkey pox

L) Trump’s  – he never gets permission just rips it off

M) Mars

N) John F. Kennedy

O) Mars

P) $6000

Q) evangelicals

R) 1984 – Geraldine Ferraro

S) Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz

T) Kamala Harris!

The pro lifers want children to have empty stomachs and full wombs when they’re shot in their classrooms. – Taylyn777