No kidding

I need a vacation from the news.  When your internal response to every story is "yeah, and?" you are too cynical to do this.  

Hundreds of Americans have received unsolicited packages of seeds from China and have been warned not to plant them.  Does the Department of Agriculture think we've never seen a scifi movie?  I wouldn't plant mystery seeds from my Uncle Bob, who was an eminent organic chemist and dedicated gardener.  

The man with the umbrella who was filmed breaking windows during protests in Minneapolis has been identified as a white supremacist and member of the Hells Angels.  I could have told you that.  (Not the Angels part, he wasn't in club gear.)

David Perdue (R-GA) is one of that gray mass of senators who are distinguished by nothing but their reliable awfulness.  He's not out there day after day trying to out-Trump Trump like Cotton or Johnson, he just does as he's told.  So it was unsurprising that when he looked at his poll numbers and decided it was time to Willie Horton his opponent Jon Ossoff, he used the weariest trope in the anti-Semite playbook, enlarging his nose and picturing him next to Chuck Schumer with the words, "Democrats are trying to buy Georgia!"  The ad was deleted after protests, but the next one will doubtless feature George Soros and a six-pointed star.  (They even used that against Hillary Clinton.)

It looks like the Trump campaign is in violation of numerous campaign-finance laws ...I wasn't asleep, I just dozed for a second!

Holy cow!  Trump wasn't asked to throw out anything at Yankee Stadium next month -- he invited himself!  He was jealous of all the attention Dr. Fauci got at the Nationals game, not to mention the record-setting sales of his Topps baseball card.  (It's selling for two hundred dollars on eBay.)  Donzo's going to need three scoops of ice cream on his chocolate cake tonight.

In other Fauci news, a reporter asked why he wasn't present at any of the Trump "briefings."  Response:  "He has a very good approval rating and I like that...so why don't I have a very high approval rating?  Nobody likes me.  It can only be my personality, that's all."

Or it could be his habit of re-tweeting utter bullshit.  Like this video of Dr. Stella Immanuel, who starts by pitching hydroxychloroquine and then veers into deep crazy.  Self-billed as "physician, author, speaker, entrepreneur, deliverance minister, God's battle axe and weapon of war," she says masks are unnecessary, that malaria/lupus drug cures covid, Congress is run by reptilians and endometriosis is caused by women having dreams about demon-sex.  Scariest of all, she is licensed to practice (medicine, not that other stuff) in Texas.  At least she doesn't prescribe injections of Janitor In a Drum.  Junior Trump RTd her "press conference" and got a twelve-hour timeout from Twitter, but they don't have the guts to suspend his daddy.  Daddy called Immanuel "very impressive."  The only surprising thing about all this is that we have run out of home-grown frauds and begun importing them from Cameroon.

The attorney general went before the House Judiciary Committee and lied about everything except his name.  Is it dinner time yet?

"I'm not sure I could have done any more" about the pandemic, Trump told a news station in North Carolina on Monday night.   That's not an admission of failure, he's proud of himself.  "We've done more than I think any administration has done...nobody even challenges that."  Since the virus only entered human society last year -- oh, what's the point?

One hundred fifty thousand dead in the richest country of all time.  No kidding.