No rest for the wicked
"The news goes on for twenty-four hours a day." (Charles Foster Kane)
And what news! Trump apparently did not get a "bump" from the Republican fireworks show/Nuremberg rally, but he has picked up two big endorsements: MLB umpire Joe West and Osama bin Laden's niece Noor bin Ladin. Actually, hers was more of a threat. Trump's re-election, she says, is vital to the very continuation of western civilization. So add that to all the other dangers posed by Joe Biden, puppet of China, destroyer of suburbs and running dog of anarchic socialistic anarchy. If that doesn't bump Trump, what will?
Since its establishment in the 1970s the right has been working to abolish the Department of Education, because of its devotion to states' rights and local control and certainly not because an ignorant public is a Republican's wet dream. Now Trump ("I love the poorly educated!") wants to deny funding to schools that teach Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 Project. "We grew up with a certain history and now they're trying to change our history," he complained, comparing it to assaults on beautiful statues of Confederate traitors. If Gone With the Wind was good enough for your grandparents, it's good enough for you.
Although he keeps getting removed from state ballots for some transgression or other, Kanye West's presidential campaign got a boost yesterday in Atlanta, when he performed his "Walk On Water" routine. (I keep thinking of the old joke that ends, "Should we tell him about the sandbar?") They could have used him on Lake Travis. (rimshot)
Trump can't pick up his phone without insulting, slandering, mocking or denouncing someone but it's a one-way street. Somebody showed him a cable where the British ambassador Kim Darroch called his administration "uniquely dysfunctional," and now he wants Darroch gone. I thought it was a rather fine example of British understatement. And I wonder if Boris still considers Trump a "kindred spirit" as Darroch -- pardon me, Lord Darroch -- suggests in his new book.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has determined that the El Dorado fire, which destroyed 7,000 acres, was started by the pyrotechnics at one of these idiotic gender-reveal parties. I hope the parents are still doing time when the kid, of whatever sex, is graduating from medical school.
In Saudi Arabia you can be beheaded for almost anything but apparently not for murdering and dismembering a journalist. Good to know.
Francis Brennan is director of strategic response for the Trump campaign, and he decided that Joe Biden's visit to a cemetery needed a strategic response because Biden ignored questions from the media. Biden visited the graves of his first wife, daughter and son Beau. "Joe Biden just keeps meandering along," Brennan tweeted. How dare he. Probably went to mass yesterday instead of playing golf, too.
In the Philippines you can be shot without a trial if you're suspected of selling drugs, but you get a presidential pardon for murder if the victim was transgender. Good to know.
A twelve-year-old girl shopping for art supplies was brutalized by police and she isn't even Black. That's because it happened in Hong Kong. Good to know?
You don't see many drive-in movie theaters these days, and at $40 a ticket you won't see many more. That's the price of a classic film at Sandringham, the queen's estate in Norfolk, and it doesn't include snacks. No, they're not showing The Queen. Since she only spends a few weeks a year at Balmoral, why not make it into a B&B?
And what news! Trump apparently did not get a "bump" from the Republican fireworks show/Nuremberg rally, but he has picked up two big endorsements: MLB umpire Joe West and Osama bin Laden's niece Noor bin Ladin. Actually, hers was more of a threat. Trump's re-election, she says, is vital to the very continuation of western civilization. So add that to all the other dangers posed by Joe Biden, puppet of China, destroyer of suburbs and running dog of anarchic socialistic anarchy. If that doesn't bump Trump, what will?
Since its establishment in the 1970s the right has been working to abolish the Department of Education, because of its devotion to states' rights and local control and certainly not because an ignorant public is a Republican's wet dream. Now Trump ("I love the poorly educated!") wants to deny funding to schools that teach Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 Project. "We grew up with a certain history and now they're trying to change our history," he complained, comparing it to assaults on beautiful statues of Confederate traitors. If Gone With the Wind was good enough for your grandparents, it's good enough for you.
Although he keeps getting removed from state ballots for some transgression or other, Kanye West's presidential campaign got a boost yesterday in Atlanta, when he performed his "Walk On Water" routine. (I keep thinking of the old joke that ends, "Should we tell him about the sandbar?") They could have used him on Lake Travis. (rimshot)
Trump can't pick up his phone without insulting, slandering, mocking or denouncing someone but it's a one-way street. Somebody showed him a cable where the British ambassador Kim Darroch called his administration "uniquely dysfunctional," and now he wants Darroch gone. I thought it was a rather fine example of British understatement. And I wonder if Boris still considers Trump a "kindred spirit" as Darroch -- pardon me, Lord Darroch -- suggests in his new book.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has determined that the El Dorado fire, which destroyed 7,000 acres, was started by the pyrotechnics at one of these idiotic gender-reveal parties. I hope the parents are still doing time when the kid, of whatever sex, is graduating from medical school.
In Saudi Arabia you can be beheaded for almost anything but apparently not for murdering and dismembering a journalist. Good to know.
Francis Brennan is director of strategic response for the Trump campaign, and he decided that Joe Biden's visit to a cemetery needed a strategic response because Biden ignored questions from the media. Biden visited the graves of his first wife, daughter and son Beau. "Joe Biden just keeps meandering along," Brennan tweeted. How dare he. Probably went to mass yesterday instead of playing golf, too.
In the Philippines you can be shot without a trial if you're suspected of selling drugs, but you get a presidential pardon for murder if the victim was transgender. Good to know.
A twelve-year-old girl shopping for art supplies was brutalized by police and she isn't even Black. That's because it happened in Hong Kong. Good to know?
You don't see many drive-in movie theaters these days, and at $40 a ticket you won't see many more. That's the price of a classic film at Sandringham, the queen's estate in Norfolk, and it doesn't include snacks. No, they're not showing The Queen. Since she only spends a few weeks a year at Balmoral, why not make it into a B&B?
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