Bizarritz

The G-7 summit in Biarritz is so whacked up, and Donald Trump is the one whacking it out of kilter.  His positive comments on progress on trade with China and Japan have contradicted the state of trade negotiations with these countries, and yet the Dow is expected to go up.  Trump has positioned himself against every other G-7 leader - even Boris Johnson - on trade, as well as on the Iran nuclear deal (the Iranian foreign minister showed up at Biarritz), and he boycotted the climate-change discussion hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron as if it were a sporting event held in a Communist country. The United States is no officially on record as being on the wrong side of these key issues with no other country on its side.  Why isn't the G-7 the G-6?  Yes, I'll come out and say it - the United States should be kicked out of the Group of However Many as punishment for its many sins.  Don't make me pull out that James Kunstler quote again! >;-(

More from the world of the bizarre . . . Joe Walsh is running for President.  Not the guy from the James Gang and the Eagles, who once ran for President as a member of the "Let's" Party . . . Joe Walsh the former Illinois Tea Party congressman who sounded a lot like Trump when he was in office (for one term) before becoming a talk-radio host spewing out the same sort of racist rhetoric as Trump that he now says he's sorry for.   I know that incumbent Presidents challenged in a primary process and still win their party's nomination end up losing in November.  (No President has been denied renomination since Chester Arthur in 1884.)  But Joe Walsh?  Meanwhile, among Republicans, William Weld has announced his bid to oppose Trump.  Larry Hogan has announced that he won't run against Trump, and John Kasich hasn't decided on a run.

Bizarre.