Beyond a treasonable doubt

Did you know that only Vladimir Putin stands between the United States and nuclear annihilation?  Tucker Carlson says so, and you can tell by his ratings that he's really smart.  If Putin falls, "some anti-American terror group" just might use all 6,000 Russian nukes against our civilian population.  He didn't say how he knows this, but it's clear Baby Tuckoo is so anxious to prop up Putin that he'll say any scary shit to his highly impressionable audience.  Clearly Joe Biden should stop being so mean to this great statesman who only wants what's best for the Russian Empire.

While Tuckoo holds high the red, white and blue banner -- not that one -- elsewhere Fox is rushing to support Florida's vile governor DeSantis as he attempts to, oh, what's the word, cancel the Disney Corporation.  Florida now has a "Don't Say Gay" law that prohibits public school teachers from acknowledging that there is anything but normal, Christian mommy-daddy sex to their students and Disney, after some reprehensible fumbling and stumbling (and a strike by employees) has decided to support its repeal.  This has earned them the dreaded sobriquet "woke," which no one can define but most Trumpanzees can spell, like "red" sixty years ago.  Tuckoo left off defending Uncle Vlad long enough to accuse Disney of being involved in human trafficking and "chemical castration" of children.  Looks like the kids of Qcumbers won't get to visit Pirates of the Caribbean this summer.

Most Americans don't watch Yevgeny Popov on Russian TV.  They should.  Popov not only called for "regime change" in the US but for "our partner Trump [to] become president again."  Russian TV speaks with one voice so he can't be dismissed as some Candace Owens fringe nut.  I continue to await a response from the "sane" Republicans.  Mitt?  Liz?  Are you waiting until he hosts the Carlson White Power Hour?

Susan Collins did her bit for sanity today when she promised to vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation.  She is probably in a secure location until then.

Don't expect to hear from Mitch McConnell.  He's too busy protecting Clarence Thomas from "clumsy bullying" over the revelations that his wife was involved in the insurrection up to her chins.  How dare anyone suggest this "great American" ever listens to her?  Or shares her contempt for democracy?  How dare they?  Humph.

The phrase of the day is "burner phone," as in Trump's claim that "I never even heard the term."  It's being suggested that his calls to organize the insurrection were made on such a phone or phones.  But it seems he brought it up in connection with Mary Trump's lawsuit, and John Bolton says he often used the term.  He seems to have been excited by all the secretive spy stuff, as by the prospect of using nuclear weapons and "invisible" stealth bombers.  It's too bad the term "second childhood" has given way to "Alzheimer's disease."  I'm sure the missing logs disappeared long ago down a White House toilet, but this is not the era of Rose Mary Woods.   Those calls are in a database somewhere.

For those keeping track of Trump business failures, add Truth Social, the media platform that was going to bring Twitter to its knees.  Traffic has dropped by 93 percent, which means more people are using AOL.  How could this be, with dairy farmer Devin Nunes at the helm of Trump Media & Technology Group?  I think it was Paul Krugman who observed that Trump would be richer today if he'd put his father's money in a savings account.  Of course, they never would have let him into Studio 54.

Alex Horton in the Washington Post writes:

"Russian troops in Ukraine have scrambled to avoid detection and attack by using tree branches and straw, even swaths of carpeting, to conceal tanks and other armored vehicles, in what analysts call a surprising lack of sophistication for such an advanced military and further evidence of how ill-prepared some commanders were for the sustained fight that has unfolded."  

As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move.  

And Macbeth responds, "Liar and slave!" and threatens to hang him.  Tyrants do not like bad news.  "A breathtaking degree of amateurism," says Horton.  I think it's pretty creative.  Desperate but creative.

With the phone log scandal, the "Putin, if you're listening" scandal and Ginni Thomas inadvertently reminding us olds of Martha Mitchell, CBS chose this moment to add Trump henchman Mick Mulvaney to its roster of seditious Solons.  Nobody knows why.