Under the very Politico Playbook-esque headline of “‘The vibes are very bad’ in Texas” the mega-buzzmaxxed, always-plugged-in daily email newsletter powered by Anthropic – get 0 percent off your Claude Pro subscription when you use promo code “playbookzero” – reports the signals from the noise are achieving escape velocity into the conversation surrounding the “Trump-a-Palooza” kicking off in Dallas on Wednesday night amid a slump in the attention and, uh, real economies.

“My only hope is that no one watches it since it’s competing versus NFL opening games,” a “person close to the White House” told Playbook, adding “Hopefully nobody notices [convicted felon President Trump’s] embarrassing show,” before self-soothing with “I don’t think it will matter. No one knows about it, no enthusiasm, and it’s during football. Only DC people care.” The “vibes” person quoted in the headline, a “Republican lobbyist” added “Dems are salivating. Our people are debating Israel. Or melting down about this or that. No one is motivated to vote. Only the DSA rise is what’s keeping us in the game,” referring of course to what’s expected to be a “socialism”-themed two-night program in Dallas. Only the most liver-scarred should make a drinking game out of it.

“If you’re just a generic white Republican male, like Mike Collins or Mike Whatley… you’re struggling this cycle due to the national environment and the drag that the president’s popularity has on the ticket,” a “senior GOP operative working on midterm races” told Playbook, adding that convention has put some GOP candidates in a “tight spot,” but the party “might as well try something instead of just having Trump on Twitter all day. It’s probably a net wash at the end of the day.”