A noun, a verb, and the southern border With this, and Ronna Romney McDaniel declaring the attacks a “great opportunity”—and really everything since Benghazi—it could not be clearer that the GOP salivates for barbarism and human calamity when the president is a Democrat. Utterly ghoulish party. https://t.co/HS5MB1FtvZ — Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 10, 2023 Note the flat affect when he’s talking about the carnage in Israel. It’s just a lead-in to his renditon of The Snake which he apparently thinks is a good metaphor for the Israel Hamas conflict when in the past it was a metaphor for the border. This is how his addled brain works: That imbecile is going to be the GOP nominee for president. For the third election in a row. Here’s more on his speech yesterday when everyone else was watching the horrific events in the Middle East: In a weekend filled with politicians offering criticisms and condemnations over the state of the world, Donald Trump on Monday had a few. For the Wall Street Journal editorial page (“globalists”), for windmills (“we see whales washing up on shore”); for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (“He’s fallen like a wounded bird from the skies”) and his indictments (“a great badge of honor”); for transgender athletes (“Have you seen the weightlifting records?”) and even for one of the region’s most cherished institutions: the New England Patriots (“not a good game” Sunday). The attack on Israel may have been consuming much of official Washington. But in the small auditorium…