"This is going to get worse"

 Whether he was talking about the world in general or the Trumpandemic, Anthony Fauci gets no credit for prophecy.  Anyone who checks the Florida infection rate for a week and the policies of its gleefully stupid governor only has to extrapolate to the rest of the country.  Spurn the vaccine, throw away the mask, crowd into Grant Park in Chicago for Lollapalooza and you might as well reserve your vent now.   (I assume you have already signed up for a concierge doctor.)

Just wait until the evictions begin.  The CDC moratorium expired at midnight and the unhoused will soon be moving in with family or friends or looking for shelters.  There is no excuse for this except the unwholesome haste of the House Democrats who made a belated, half-hearted attempt to extend the deadline before rushing off to their second (or third) homes for the summer.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pissed.  Cori Bush slept on the Capitol steps; she's lucky they didn't step on her as they exited.  President Biden was fixated on lining up "bipartisan" votes for his infrastructure bill, as if we care who votes for it.  After one wrenching public session the 1/6 Commission has no more planned.  Welcome to "Why people hate the government" part 8,645. 

Are you bored by the Olympics minus Usain Bolt, Simone Biles and further temper tantrums by Novak Djokovic?  Turn it off and read a book.  One camera operator is catching hell because he cut away from the women's hockey game between Spain and Argentina to focus on a cockroach walking up a handrail.  Sure, but it was the director's choice to put it on the air.  Will a Japanese official commit ritual suicide from shame at the evidence of insanitary conditions?  Will Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson devote their programs to denouncing Djokovic for his selfishness, lack of team spirit and general letting down of the Serbian nation?  I can't wait to find out.

In mental health news, Trump is apparently telling people he is meeting with his "cabinet," and Mark Meadows backs him up in his capacity as "chief enabler of staff."  Meadows says "the president" is "fully engaged, highly focused and remaining on task," adding, "the magic is still there."  It's the saddest thing I've read this week.  Can you stand more excitement?  Sarah Palin says she'll run for the Senate "if god wants me to."   Why not just pretend she's still the governor?  Delusion is all the rage.  Just look at Michigan, where Mellissa Carone wants to run for the state house of representatives because "THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE THAT HAS ABORTED BABY TISSUE IN IT...THIS IS SOLID EVIDENCE, WE ARE DEFINITELY IN THE END TIMES."  Who wants to be in some committee meeting when the apocalypse starts?  Shouldn't she be on a mountain with Michele Bachmann and that Florida faith healer with the pink hair?  

Boris Johnson lost a titanic struggle with an umbrella and CNN's John Berman was there to provide narration.  I think he misses Trump.  Earlier this week Joe Biden was in a meeting with the Vice President and some governors about wildfires when an aide passed him a note:  "Sir, there is something on your chin."  When you treat your staff with respect, they look after you.  Biden will never climb the steps to Air Force One with toilet paper on his shoe.