Profoundly destabilized
While everyone was distracted by its landmark "no one is above the law" holding in Democracy v. Trump, the Supreme Court quietly issued a much more exciting decision: a large part of eastern Oklahoma belongs to the Creek Nation. "To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and longstanding injustices over the law, both rewarding wrong and failing those in the right," wrote Neil M. Gorsuch for the 5-4 majority. Thanks, Mitch! I'm still enraged about Merrick Garland, but your guy was also part of the 7-2 Trump decision, along with your other guy Kavanaugh. Some day!
The Trump ruling says that of course a grand jury can subpoena his taxes or anything else it wants, just not right away. Like Trump's own attempt to strip Americans of health insurance during a pandemic, back it goes to lower courts for a do-over. I had long since concluded that the storied tax returns are as useless and mendacious as Trump himself. We can figure out his finances just from the giant mess Deutsche Bank is in. Reading his impotent and incoherent tweets as he thrashes around like a hippo in quicksand is all I ask. Last I heard, all of New York City was a "hellhole" which people are fleeing because its law enforcement officials are mean to him. He even attacked the thoroughly neutered Lindsey Graham for not using the Judiciary Committee to protect him through the fantasy known as "Obamagate." Poor Lindsey.
Oh, and even Bill Barr says Roger Stone should be in prison. What is this, Opposite Day?
It's well established that journalists are singled out at all protests against police brutality. The Independent's Andrew Buncombe writes of exactly what that entails in Seattle, the new Birmingham. He survived, and should seek a quieter posting, maybe in Cairo or Istanbul. Let someone else cover the courageous people who continue to march, more than sixty of whom have been deliberately hit by cars. This kind of thing appalled the world when it happened on London Bridge in 2017 and in Nice on Bastille Day 2016. It was identified as terrorism. Say its name.
Senator Kelly "Sticky Fingers" Loeffler is appalled at the intrusion of politics into sports. She has no problem with fly-overs, "salutes" to the troops or forcing people to sing "God Bless America," you understand, she just doesn't want "her" players in warm-up jerseys that say "Black Lives Matter" or "Say Her Name," a reference to Breonna Taylor. Her WNBA team is called the Atlanta Dream, which sounds to me like an allusion to Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, the only one most people know, but apparently that's all right. "The truth is we need less, not more politics in sport," she says, because asserting that people should not be strangled on the street or shot in their beds is divisive and partisan. Sticky Fingers is right -- everything is politicized, from wearing a facemask to saying "Happy holiday" to a stranger. Unfortunately, she and her party are the problem, so they don't get to be the solution.
Where does it end? The statue of Melania Trump carved out of a tree in Slovenia was set on fire over the Fourth of July. Could be political, could be because it was unspeakably ugly. I couldn't possibly comment.
The pundits are writing column after column expressing wonder at how unified the Democratic Party is right now, disarray being its default condition. I think I can help with that. What unified the British empire, the United States and the Soviet Union, at least in the short term? Yes, it's that level of monstrousness.
Unnamed intelligence officials are saying Trump ordered the CIA to share information about the Middle East with Russia "despite no discernible reward." Easy for them to say, Putin doesn't have pictures of them with underage girls. I have no proof, of course, except a dozen snaps of Daddy fondling Ivanka, all the Epstein-Maxwell partying, and now Mary Trump's book that makes him look like the creepy uncle you hope will crash his car on the way to Thanksgiving dinner.
And finally, Rudolph Giuliani got pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen, so he called the po-po. We'll have to start calling him Karen.
The Trump ruling says that of course a grand jury can subpoena his taxes or anything else it wants, just not right away. Like Trump's own attempt to strip Americans of health insurance during a pandemic, back it goes to lower courts for a do-over. I had long since concluded that the storied tax returns are as useless and mendacious as Trump himself. We can figure out his finances just from the giant mess Deutsche Bank is in. Reading his impotent and incoherent tweets as he thrashes around like a hippo in quicksand is all I ask. Last I heard, all of New York City was a "hellhole" which people are fleeing because its law enforcement officials are mean to him. He even attacked the thoroughly neutered Lindsey Graham for not using the Judiciary Committee to protect him through the fantasy known as "Obamagate." Poor Lindsey.
Oh, and even Bill Barr says Roger Stone should be in prison. What is this, Opposite Day?
It's well established that journalists are singled out at all protests against police brutality. The Independent's Andrew Buncombe writes of exactly what that entails in Seattle, the new Birmingham. He survived, and should seek a quieter posting, maybe in Cairo or Istanbul. Let someone else cover the courageous people who continue to march, more than sixty of whom have been deliberately hit by cars. This kind of thing appalled the world when it happened on London Bridge in 2017 and in Nice on Bastille Day 2016. It was identified as terrorism. Say its name.
Senator Kelly "Sticky Fingers" Loeffler is appalled at the intrusion of politics into sports. She has no problem with fly-overs, "salutes" to the troops or forcing people to sing "God Bless America," you understand, she just doesn't want "her" players in warm-up jerseys that say "Black Lives Matter" or "Say Her Name," a reference to Breonna Taylor. Her WNBA team is called the Atlanta Dream, which sounds to me like an allusion to Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, the only one most people know, but apparently that's all right. "The truth is we need less, not more politics in sport," she says, because asserting that people should not be strangled on the street or shot in their beds is divisive and partisan. Sticky Fingers is right -- everything is politicized, from wearing a facemask to saying "Happy holiday" to a stranger. Unfortunately, she and her party are the problem, so they don't get to be the solution.
Where does it end? The statue of Melania Trump carved out of a tree in Slovenia was set on fire over the Fourth of July. Could be political, could be because it was unspeakably ugly. I couldn't possibly comment.
The pundits are writing column after column expressing wonder at how unified the Democratic Party is right now, disarray being its default condition. I think I can help with that. What unified the British empire, the United States and the Soviet Union, at least in the short term? Yes, it's that level of monstrousness.
Unnamed intelligence officials are saying Trump ordered the CIA to share information about the Middle East with Russia "despite no discernible reward." Easy for them to say, Putin doesn't have pictures of them with underage girls. I have no proof, of course, except a dozen snaps of Daddy fondling Ivanka, all the Epstein-Maxwell partying, and now Mary Trump's book that makes him look like the creepy uncle you hope will crash his car on the way to Thanksgiving dinner.
And finally, Rudolph Giuliani got pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen, so he called the po-po. We'll have to start calling him Karen.
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