I knew it

 As the death toll rose and the shocking devastation filled screens, I said to myself, "How can they make this Joe Biden's fault?"  Like this:  "Big, huge geoengineering systems...sucking carbon dioxide out of the air...millions of years ago...plants and animals were so much bigger and healthier...the question is, did Biden this year order the power turned off in Texas?...did they use weather weapons to cause the tornadoes?"  

Alex Jones, of course.  (If you guessed Stella Immanuel, Lin Wood or Paul the Octopus, thanks for playing, come back tomorrow.)  Jones did add, "This is insane, ladies and gentlemen."  This is also what millions of Americans regard as science.

And what of the underpaid people struggling to teach them otherwise?  If you think Japan is home to the world's cruelest game shows, you've never been to South Dakota.  During a high school hockey game in Sioux Falls, ten local teachers entertained the crowd by scrambling for $5,000 in one-dollar bills.  The money was contributed by a local (and cheap) mortgage company and is to be spent on classroom supplies not covered in Kristi Noem's budget.  Some appalled onlookers compared it to Squid Game or the Hunger Games films, but I have not seen those.  To me it sounded like the way the Germans fed Soviet prisoners of war, by tossing a piece of bread or a potato over the barbed wire.  But one teacher pronounced it "really cool" because her expectations are that low.  Perhaps she was grateful that they lent her a helmet.

Fox News continues to bang its dying and reviving Christmas tree like a cheap drum.  This morning Peter Doocy suggested that the homeless man's arson was Joe Biden's fault, like the weather, because he doesn't support the tactics of the NYPD and the courts, which often release low-level offenders before trial.  Presidents have no say in such local matters, of course, and if they tried to interfere the Doocys pere et fils would burst into flames (unless it was Trump with some misspelled Tweet), so Jen Psaki had to slap him down again, a regular part of her job.  She's good at it.  

It looks like Mark Meadows will join Steve Bannon on the Group W bench where you have to sit when criminal contempt charges are filed.  Meadows won't testify about the coup but he has released thousands of documents and a book; what more could he be holding back?   Prior to the insurrection he sent an email promising that the National Guard would "protect pro-Trump people," presumably from members of Congress.  Even in sedition they must play the victim.  I'm waiting for someone to set the How To Coup power point to music. 

On the lighter side, Devin Nunes will not seek another term in Congress because he's going to work for Trump Media & Technology Group, if you please.  TM&T is already being investigated by the SEC (Very unfair!!), which has some questions about a shell corporation called Digital World Acquisition Corp.  It seems like a long way to go just because Twitter shut you down.  Devin N. will be working with Josh A. and Billy B., which sounds totally above-board to me.

And Trump?  He's still furiously dumping on the man who once named a rest-stop or something in his honor.  Netanyahu is the reason there is no peace settlement with the Palestinians, not the bumbling incompetence of Jared Kushner.  As for Mahmoud Abbas, "He was almost like a father.  Couldn't have been nicer.  I thought he wanted to make a deal more than Netanyahu."  Trump is the best deal-maker, he practically invented deals, and the prime minister just wouldn't cooperate.  Welcome to the Trump Official Shit List, Bibi.  Grab a seat between Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence.  Feel free to chat about the good old days, when he adored you.  

The Geminids are coming.