Airing of grievances

 The right must have asked White Santa for a big box of self-pity, and they've opened it early.  There's nothing quite as satisfying for the privileged as victimhood.

Tim Unes used to work for Bob Dole back when the Republican Party was a collection of racists and plutocrats who had not yet lost their minds completely.  (Bipartisan!  Reaching across the aisle!  Allegedly!)  But then Tim Unes went over to the dark side to the extent that he was subpoenaed by the Thompson commission to chat about his role in planning last January's coup attempt.  And now, evidently on the insistence of Elizabeth Dole, he has not been allowed to help plan Bob Dole's funeral.  Looks like it was Mitch McConnell who finked.   Tim Unes is sad.  Another target of the Woke Mob.

Won't somebody think of America's political prisoners?  Somebody besides Big Marge from Georgia, who thinks of little else.  It seems every hour in the DC lockup is like one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich for the Putsch people.  Apparently they are being brainwashed with critical race theory, though it isn't clear if the torture is being performed by brutal guards or fellow inmates.  Bologna sandwiches!  No protein shakes!  Tell it to Amnesty International.

Another chapter in American history has been lost with the removal -- finally -- of the epically ugly Nathan Bedford Forrest statue from Nashville.  I say statue, turns out the thing is made of polyurethane and probably could have been pushed over years ago by a determined Girl Scout troop.  As Forrest was not only a Klan founder and a traitor but a war criminal it's hard to make a case for preserving it on some plantation's lawn.  Maybe cheap upholstery.  (Fun fact:  polyurethane was first made in 1937 by I.G. Farben.  Don't read too much into it.)

But nowhere is the self-pity with a side of outrage thicker than at Fox News, where for two solid days the regular gang and guest mourners like Ronna McDaniel have proclaimed the destruction of the outfit's "tree" the worst atrocity since Kamala Harris bought a French saucepan.  As usual Baby Tuckoo won the door prize by demanding Merrick Garland prosecute the sad, homeless arsonist for a FEDERAL HATE CRIME AGAINST CHRISTIANITY.  Will they "rebuild" or will they leave the blackened ruin as a witness to inhumanity like Coventry Cathedral?  Whatever they do, it's bad for the Democrats.  Somehow.  Personally I think the flaming tree on the left would make a better Christmas card than the children of depraved politicians waving their firearms and asking Santa for reloaders and bump stocks, but I'm old fashioned.  Like my ancestors I celebrate Festivus.