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Happy Canada Day from your envious downstairs neighbor.
Another symbolic victory, as Mississippi's legislature voted to remove the Confederate emblem from its state flag. Not because they have finally noticed the Civil War is over and they lost, but because the SEC threatened not to hold any more championship events in the Magnolia State. (SEC stands for Southeastern Conference. I don't know why they abbreviate it that way, it's kind of like LIRR for the Long Island Railroad.) Big-money sports are more powerful than racism.
There were 48,000 new cases of covid yesterday, with eight states proudly announcing single-day highs. They'll soon be disappointed, though, because Trump told Fox Business that "at some point that's going to sort of just disappear, I hope." He said the same thing in February so it's not surprising he sounds a little sort of less sure in July. But any day now, and meanwhile it's all right (though not mandatory) to wear a mask. Naturally, people are saying he did a great job. As usual. And he wants to close the border to those virus-shedding immigrants from Mexico and Central America. Which is pretty funny, as Europe posts the YANKEE STAY HOME signs. We have a quarter of the world's cases in spite of inadequate testing.
But on to the important stuff. Trump is livid at plans to paint BLACK LIVES MATTER on Fifth Avenue in front of Firetrap Tower, calling it "a symbol of hate" and complaining equally about property values and disrespect to police. By now it's part of a pattern -- anything critical of Trump is an insult to the flag, the troops or the police. And we all know how much he loves the troops. The Supreme Court just smacked him down for stealing money Congress voted for the military and wasting it on WALL. He promises to veto the current spending bill because it provides for taking the names of his beloved Confederate traitors off military bases. And then there's the rubles-for-scalps business that he now calls a "hoax," though the British are taking it seriously enough. Well, Trump came in trashing a Gold Star family; he can go out the same way.
Dr. Dan Barkhuff, former Navy SEAL, concurs, in the latest take-no-prisoners video from The Lincoln Project. It's hard to stomp anybody from a kneeling position. I have no doubt Trump began his "work" day by phoning the boss in Moscow to congratulate him on his referendum "landslide." Putin is determined to die in office and, without any obvious successor, doesn't care if Russia slides into civil war afterward. He and his puppet have that in common: I got mine, ya sou yebansk.
Leader McConnell (it's how he styles his Twitter account) doesn't like being called Moscow Mitch. It might happen less often if he didn't work so hard to advance the Russian agenda, like removing from the intelligence bill a requirement to report foreign interference in our elections. Now why would he do that? Let's hope Amy McGrath asks him once a day between now and November.
The culture war -- I should say Kulturkampf -- is heating up. They're using snipers. Alexander Feaster of Someplace, Oklahoma, puts Nazi flags in his front yard and waits for appalled people to pull them down. Then he shoots them. Why don't people love their police anymore? Maybe they've watched the killing of Elijah McClain last year in Aurora (warning: it might be even worse than the killing of George Floyd). The newest wrinkle in police culture is re-enacting the killing, like a victory lap. International human rights groups, which usually investigate places like Pakistan and Rwanda, can't get here soon enough.
Another symbolic victory, as Mississippi's legislature voted to remove the Confederate emblem from its state flag. Not because they have finally noticed the Civil War is over and they lost, but because the SEC threatened not to hold any more championship events in the Magnolia State. (SEC stands for Southeastern Conference. I don't know why they abbreviate it that way, it's kind of like LIRR for the Long Island Railroad.) Big-money sports are more powerful than racism.
There were 48,000 new cases of covid yesterday, with eight states proudly announcing single-day highs. They'll soon be disappointed, though, because Trump told Fox Business that "at some point that's going to sort of just disappear, I hope." He said the same thing in February so it's not surprising he sounds a little sort of less sure in July. But any day now, and meanwhile it's all right (though not mandatory) to wear a mask. Naturally, people are saying he did a great job. As usual. And he wants to close the border to those virus-shedding immigrants from Mexico and Central America. Which is pretty funny, as Europe posts the YANKEE STAY HOME signs. We have a quarter of the world's cases in spite of inadequate testing.
But on to the important stuff. Trump is livid at plans to paint BLACK LIVES MATTER on Fifth Avenue in front of Firetrap Tower, calling it "a symbol of hate" and complaining equally about property values and disrespect to police. By now it's part of a pattern -- anything critical of Trump is an insult to the flag, the troops or the police. And we all know how much he loves the troops. The Supreme Court just smacked him down for stealing money Congress voted for the military and wasting it on WALL. He promises to veto the current spending bill because it provides for taking the names of his beloved Confederate traitors off military bases. And then there's the rubles-for-scalps business that he now calls a "hoax," though the British are taking it seriously enough. Well, Trump came in trashing a Gold Star family; he can go out the same way.
Dr. Dan Barkhuff, former Navy SEAL, concurs, in the latest take-no-prisoners video from The Lincoln Project. It's hard to stomp anybody from a kneeling position. I have no doubt Trump began his "work" day by phoning the boss in Moscow to congratulate him on his referendum "landslide." Putin is determined to die in office and, without any obvious successor, doesn't care if Russia slides into civil war afterward. He and his puppet have that in common: I got mine, ya sou yebansk.
Leader McConnell (it's how he styles his Twitter account) doesn't like being called Moscow Mitch. It might happen less often if he didn't work so hard to advance the Russian agenda, like removing from the intelligence bill a requirement to report foreign interference in our elections. Now why would he do that? Let's hope Amy McGrath asks him once a day between now and November.
The culture war -- I should say Kulturkampf -- is heating up. They're using snipers. Alexander Feaster of Someplace, Oklahoma, puts Nazi flags in his front yard and waits for appalled people to pull them down. Then he shoots them. Why don't people love their police anymore? Maybe they've watched the killing of Elijah McClain last year in Aurora (warning: it might be even worse than the killing of George Floyd). The newest wrinkle in police culture is re-enacting the killing, like a victory lap. International human rights groups, which usually investigate places like Pakistan and Rwanda, can't get here soon enough.
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