Trumpettes and Boaty

It's way more than the Bushes not backing Trump, they are abandoning him in droves.  There are also some jumping aboard what he likes to call the Trump Train.  So far they are mostly lesser figures, guys without much to lose.  I see where the spectacle wearing cowboy is hoping to get the veep spot.

The biggest banana opposing Trump right now is Ryan.  He said kind of an odd thing along the line of he can't back Trump now, but maybe he can later if Trump works to unify the party, which is kind of vague but probably what he means is Trump abandoning some of his most outrageous positions like banning muslims and that wall.

Well fat chance of that I am thinking, and sure enough I am watching Wolf when Trump sends over one of his Trumpettes.  They are mostly relatively young women, though some of them are guys.  They are something to watch because they never know exactly what to say because who knows what Trump is going to say next, but they are all a little batshit crazy and they seem to have no doubts about anything.  Anyway she says, and who knows if she is carrying a message from the great man himself, or if she is just making this up herself, she says well maybe Trump is not so crazy about Paul Ryan's agenda and maybe it is up to Ryan to change his ways to accommodate Trump.
 
I read a third party op-ed in the paper yesterday.  The guy starts out talking about Republican principles and standing up for what you believe in and not bowing down to some blowhard, and blah, blah, blah, as he weaves his garment of red white and blue bunting and finally at the end he proposes... Romney.

Mittens, yeah right.  You have to wonder how many simoleons the Mittster pressed into his mitt to write that one.

See here is the problem, and this was discussed on Wolf's panel after the Trumpette sang her song, in some ways a third party doesn't seem like such a bad idea, a way to keep their consciences clean, and to give the sens and the reps with iffy seats someone to say that they are for, but then comes the question, who is going to lead that third party.  Boaty McBoatface?

That was a criticism of the NeverTrump movement; who would they prefer?  The republican electorate started out with a buffet dish of seventeen candidates and this is who they chose.
Maybe you haven't heard the story of Boaty McBoatface, and I am just dying to tell it.  It was a pretty big story in Britain, but not so much on the other side of the pond.

The Brits had built this swell scientific ship and they wanted to get the public more involved in the affair so they set up in this election as to what to name the boat.  Some wag suggested Boaty McBoatface and it took off and won the election.  Everybody was chagrined even the wag who thought up the name, but there were the election results.

And then in a move strongly reminiscent of the infamous Sawyer School Blue Jeans Incident, the powers that be said screw you public, we are naming it after Sir David Attenborough, a well-known naturalist, I have even read one or two of his books, but I'll wager the next time he answers the phone somebody will be asking, "What's up Boaty?"

http://gizmodo.com/boaty-mcboatface-will-actually-be-called-rrs-sir-david-1775067999