That's what they said

 

There are three photographs everyone knows:  The sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on VJ Day, the girl kneeling beside a dead student at Kent State and this guy.  No one seems to know his name, but he entered history on March 23, 2003, expressing his support for Bush's invasion of Iraq during a peace demonstration at the Boeing missile plant near St. Louis.  If he keeps popping up it's because the forces he represents are noisier and dumber than ever.  Although I prefer this one:

 

Eighteen years on, Moran would be considered an intellectual.  He's probably writing for the Federalist Society.  Maybe he's one of Trump's smart lawyers!  Look what they've got now.

CPAC is in session again and it brings them out like earthworms after a rain.   Exhibit A is Hitler fanboy Madison Cawthorne, who knows what that knock on the door means:  "Now they're talking about going door to door to bring vaccines to the people.  Think of the mechanisms they would have to build to actually execute that massive of a thing...they could then go door to door to take your guns, to take your Bibles."  Then it's off to the FEMA camps for compulsory macrame.  I wonder why all the previous Bible confiscations failed so dismally.

Bill Montgomery and Charlie Kirk founded a right-wing student Bund called Turning Point USA, and last year Montgomery died of covid.  Undeterred, Kirk continues to inveigh against vaccination, most recently on Tucker's Trust-fund Twerp Hour.   First Tucker invoked The Handmaid's Tale as a warning, not against theocracy but about putting things into your body ("they had full control of your body, you no longer had dominion over your body!").  Charlie rose to the craziness challenge:  "It's almost this apartheid-style open-air hostage situation, like oh you can have your freedom back if you get the jab.  This is unacceptable!"  Like the apartheid-style open-air hostage situation when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, right?  This aggression will not stand, man. 

Did you know Trump's court includes an official cartoonist?  His name is Ben Garrison and his specialty is making Trump look heroic and victorious always.  His latest effort suggests that Cervantes is no better understood on the right than Margaret Atwood:

On Twitter Garrison helpfully explains why he has turned the windmill episode on its head "slowly so the leftist twits can understand."   Just as he carefully labels his character "Don Trump Quixote" and his lance "lawsuit."  Thanks, Ben, this twit will take another look at that book you clearly know so well.  (Is the horse a MAGA?)

We haven't heard from the ladies auxiliary, have we?  Marsha Blackburn hates Taylor Swift, but she also likes to pretend she's worried about what will happen to poor Taylor if/when the socialists take over:  "When you look at Marxist socialist societies, they do not allow women to dress or sing or be onstage or to entertain or the type music that she would have.  They don't allow protection of private intellectual property rights."  Which explains the cultural wasteland Europe has become since the advent of free health care and education and all those other horrors like parental leave and old age pensions the old can actually live on.  Although in keeping women out of show business Marsha may be thinking about Iran or Elizabethan England.  Or not thinking at all, which seems likeliest.

If you were waiting until the weekend to donate to the Rudy Giuliani Legal Defense Fund established at GoFundMe by his pardoned pal and police commissioner Bernie Kerik, you're too late.  It has been closed, not because it hit the $5 million goal but because it managed to hoover up just $9,590 from fans of America's Mayor.  If wife number three claims half of that, Rudy will soon be at the Lincoln Tunnel approach with a pail and a squeegee.  And I will be flipping him these subway tokens I kept as souvenirs.  How much lower can he get?  Read Sister Carrie.