Days of infamy

 When Pearl Harbor was bombed, Winston Churchill reacted with delight.  Quietly and inwardly, of course, but he knew Britain was down to its last Lancaster.  And now they would survive.

I have to tell you that there is no uniformity of response to the Russian assault on Ukraine.  Boris Johnson, who fancies himself Churchill's heir, has called for this year's Champion League final to be moved out of St. Petersburg.  That's fighting them on the landing ground, or at least the football pitch. (He also sanctioned five banks and three people, according to the BBC.)  Olaf Scholz announced that Germany will hold off certifying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which is more likely to get Russia's attention than footie.  It's also a brave step, considering that it's still winter in Europe -- Russia has always been clever about deploying cold weather -- and if all the gas stops flowing life could get dangerous and miserable for a lot of people.  As for the US, I guess we'll find out what there is left to sanction.  Is the Russian Tea Room on 57th Street still open?

And then there's Putin's kukla.  On something called "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show," which unfortunately does not seem to be a showcase for country music, Trump swung like an unmedicated bipolar patient between whining about the election ("Had I been in office not even thinkable") and burbling delightedly about how "savvy" Putin is, what a "genius."  ("He's gonna go in and be a peacemaker.  I said 'How smart is that?'  We could use that on our southern border.  That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen.  They're gonna keep peace, all right."  At that point Hope Hicks had to sponge him off.  "I know him very well.  Very, very well."  This is precisely why 81 million of us conspired to steal the presidency from this degenerate.  And we all remember why he hates Ukraine.

Nothing very startling here -- Trump has always been aroused by violence as long as he can watch from a safe distance as a weaker party is abused by a stronger one.  (If only Ukraine were a woman...)  And he has plenty of company from the fascists in Congress and on the Murdoch payroll.  Mike Pimpeo also calls the poison dwarf "savvy" -- I don't own a Word-A-Day calendar, is that today's?  It's all a splendid distraction for the knuckle-draggers.  

For what feels like the fiftieth time the Supreme Court told Trump he can't claim executive privilege to hide his coup evidence from the Thompson Committee.  Judge Engoron says Trump and his oldest spawn have to answer the subpoenas from the attorney general of New York, even if she is a racist, leftist, crazy Black woman.  Jean Carroll's defamation suit continues to work its way through the system.  The classified documents recovered from his lair are in the hands of the Justice Department.  How long?

Of course, madness rolls on no matter how many Ukrainian neighborhoods the poison dwarf "recognizes."  There was a particularly weird outbreak in Utah today:  A man in Midvale had a dispute with the drive-through window at McDonalds and pulled a gun.  As you do.  He pulled over to wait for his food and some nervous Nellie called the police.  They ordered him out of the car and he was heard to instruct his four-year-old to fire at the police.  Everyone's fine, so I guess they were white.  Later that same day people had to vacate their dorm at Brigham Young University after an explosion caused by a student making rocket fuel on the stove.  (Not a euphemism apparently.)  Whatever happened to "No cooking in the dorm"?

Eager to prove that he's even dumber than George Zimmerman, Kyle Rittenhouse is launching the Media Accountability Project to sue everyone who calls him a murderer just because he got away with two murders, which is one more murder than Zimmerman.  The teenage murderer is taking aim at "quite a few politicians, celebrities, athletes" who hurt his feelings, and also Cenk Uygur and Whoopi Goldberg, who are at least arguably part of the media.  Don't forget the Sky Organization, Kyle, we could use the publicity, you baby-face murderer.

The governor of Iowa will deliver the response to next week's State of the Union address, which makes me wonder how many people turned them down.  Also, when did this response thing start?  We haven't had a fairness doctrine since it was abolished in 1987 by Bonzo's FCC.

Canada's House of Commons has confirmed the emergency powers granted to the prime minister to deal with Rightzi-funded insurrectionists in Ottawa and elsewhere.  I tell you, Trudeau is practically a dictator.  You watch, he'll be closing down the Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve and making pancakes unaffordable for those brave truckers!  What are they supposed to eat, tofu?

Poison Dwarf Putin made a speech that was Trumpesque in its incoherence and self-pity.  He even evoked "our ancestors."  Enjoy.