O voi che siete in piccioletta barca

Rough waters on Lake Travis as hundreds of boats in Trump boat parade. Several swaamped. #Statesman @bobphoto pic.twitter.com/DPpKKhgljF

— bobphoto (@bobphoto) September 5, 2020

Forgive me that I have nothing more poetic to say than is depicted in the image, which is worth perhaps a thousand words. To the left, you can see antifa are not to blame for any sabotage, but the local lake naiads. (Watery tarts occasionally do interfere with politics, I hear. But that's usually by distributing swords, not, um, the shaft.) And also the weight of perhaps too many Trump flags and maayyybe too many White Claws. But I can't be too snarky over the small mishaps regarding Trump's civil navy. Did they not know what they were getting into?

I assume they did and were appropriately insured. Just as they knew what Trump was when they picked him up.

Postal Service Arrests Boater For Trump Over Wall Fraud

NEW: Law enforcement source tells @NBCNewYork Steve Bannon was arrested this morning on board a boat off the coast of Westbrook, CT #nbc4ny https://t.co/hV9egi3SiZ

— Steven Bognar (@Bogs4NY) August 20, 2020

The funny old thing about Trump's former campaign manager and White House staffer Steve Bannon being arrested by the Post Office while on board a boat for a money laundering scam involving ripping off Trump-loving racists who wanted to privately fund a big old border-wall when that's not even a thing and totally sounded like a scam in the first place is, well...everything. Everything about it is funny except, you know, the part where that actually happened and isn't even considered balls-to-the-wall crazypants here in 2020. It's just Thursday.

UPDATE: Well, okay, one of the funniest things about it is that Don Jr. endorsed the hell out of it and lent it authenticity. Did he know it was fishy? Inquiring minds might want to know.

UPDATE: The Trump Org has a statement about Jr's apparent endorsement:

From Trump Org spokeswoman Amanda Miller re Donald Trump Jr’s visit to the Bannon Wall project: pic.twitter.com/mutJfc8LgN

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 20, 2020

He thought they were doing good things because he's a large adult boy who was just as taken as anyone else of course! (Well, he is, after all, the guy who Mueller deemed too dumb to collude because he literally sat in a meeting with people who said "We're from the Russian government and we're here to help the Trump campaign" and....didn't get it.

Expanding the Map with Boater's Choice

The President rambles about boat parades pic.twitter.com/E11BM1pjk4

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) August 15, 2020

I have a gnawing suspicion after watching Trump carry on about his 2016 election map crowing about the area of the map that's red, he decided that he might not be able to captivate the dark blue areas of the map--but look at all the white part! That's water baby--why wasn't anyone going after that area before?