Thursday, June 11, 2020

Nothing to see here

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit against a television station in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, for running a Democratic ad it doesn't like.  They say it defames Trump by including video of him saying words about coronavirus which were dumb at the time and have now come back to bite him on his capacious butt.  Remember how the Kerry campaign sued the "Swift Boat Veterans" for lying outrageously about his military service in Vietnam?  Neither does anyone else.

As the Dow Jones collapsed, Trump blamed the Federal Reserve for underestimating the rapidity of the economic recovery, and not the spike in coronavirus cases or the additional 1.5 million unemployment claims filed last week.

The International Criminal Court has opened an investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan attributed to the United States, among other countries.  Trump has retaliated with sanctions on ICC officials and their families, a tactic familiar to subjects of Stalin and Hitler.  He also wants to investigate the ICC for "corruption."  Afghanistan was the site of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher's crimes, for which he received a presidential pardon.

General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, apologized for taking part in Trump's June 1 Walk of Shame to St. John's Episcopal Church and Bible stunt:  "I should not have been there.  My presence in that moment, and in that environment, created the perception of the military involved in domestic politics."  It is not clear why the general presented himself at the White House in battle dress -- possibly he thought it was a costume party.

NASCAR's Confederate flag ban has already cost it a driver.  Ray Ciccarelli, who drives in the truck division, accuses it of "f____ing one group to cater to another, and i ain't spend the money we are to participate in any political BS!!"  So there.  Will NASCAR get Trump-schooled like the NFL for caving in to the Soros-financed Antifa anarchists?  This is pretty funny.

Elizabeth Warren is frequently mocked for having "a plan for that" but Joe Biden has clearly put a lot of thought into the problem of getting Trump out of the White House.  Physically.  With the military, if necessary.  May I suggest using pepper spray?  Big Bill Barr says it's definitely not tear gas.

Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, suggested there is Republican support for at least some of the Democrats' police reform bill.  He also says he endorses taking the names of Confederate traitors off military bases, an idea that moved Trump to paroxysms of wild capitalization about the "Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations" concluding with "Respect our Military!"  Someone who gets paid to read his tweets will let me know if McCarthy has joined Romney, Murkowski and the Lincoln Project on the hate list.

In the next few days, we're told, Trump will be healing the nation by reading us Stephen Miller's words about racial concord.  Today he warmed up with a familiar racist slur:  "...Senator Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren just introduced an Amendment on the renaming of many of our legendary Military Bases from which we trained to WIN two World Wars."  They're not legendary, they actually exist.  Also, what do you mean "we," Commodore Bonespurs?  And did you know one of those wars was anti-fascist -- ANTIFA for short?  Never mind.  It's pointless.  Enjoy your Dallas fundraiser.  Too bad there was no room at the table for the city's top police, which I'm sure has nothing to do with their race.  Who came up with the figure of $580,600 per couple?  The chicken should be brilliant.

The Ohio State Senate health committee held a hearing to inquire into why covid disproportionately affects African Americans.  This is what Sen. Steve Huffman had to contribute:  "Could it just be that African Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups or wear a mask or do not socially distance themselves?"  Huffman is of course a Republican, a candidate for Congress from the 80th District, and an emergency room physician.

Readers are dismayed to learn that J.K. Rowling holds controversial views on transgender women.  Welcome, readers.  Until you find out your favorite author is a bit of a crank (Faulkner, Hamsun, Bradbury, Orwell, Roth, Bellow, Waugh, Larkin, Mailer, Germaine Greer, Christopher Hitchens, just to stay in the twentieth century), you're not a grown-up.

Just another Thursday.
















0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home