Intestinal derpitude

 

It's not funny.  It's hilarious.  Is he wearing pants in this picture?  Did he eat at Boebert's?

Christopher Rufo, having slain "critical race theory" (which was never taught in any K-12 school anywhere), has invented a new thing for the Rightzis to panic about, "gender ideology."  All teachers are "grooming" all children for unspeakable preversions and he can prove it.  It's all part of the larger effort to end public education, with this thug pushing from one side and Betsy DeVos pulling for the Department of Education to be destroyed from the other.  We don't need no education -- it's un-American.

Rufo is not even the biggest rash on the body politic to be identified today.  Meet former Peter Navarro apprentice Garrett Ziegler, who was hauled in front of the House Select Committee this week.  He's credited with leaving a side door open so Sidney Powell, Giuliani, the Overstock guy and others could slip into the Oval Office for what's being called the Crackpot Summit of December 18, 2020.  Ziegler insists he didn't say anything but "[invoked] my right to silence under executive privilege in the Fifth Amendment," which seems to be a mash-up of self-incrimination and a right which does not actually exist.  (You see what I mean about education.)  But there's so much more to Ziegler, who casts a wide net while Rufo focuses narrowly on getting teachers assaulted.  He claims to have stolen and published the diary of Ashley Biden as well as thousands of documents from her brother's celebrated laptop.  He also takes credit for some of the more colorful fantasies about Dominion voting machines and, according to Navarro, plans to visit "an Indian reservation investigating outrageously illegitimate bribes for Biden votes."  (Firewater?  Many ponies?) 

Ziegler may have stiffed the Committee but he had plenty to say on the Telegram platform.  The Trump is strong in this one.  The investigation is "a Bolshevistic anti-White campaign" targeting him because he's "a young Christian who they can basically scare, right?"  Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, who testified previously, are "thots and ho's" (in other words, sex workers) while he's "the least racist person that many of you have ever met."  I gaze into the future and I see a Ziegler-Rittenhouse ticket. 

Joe Biden tested positive for covid.  He has mild symptoms and is isolating.  You wouldn't think that was enough to fill a five-minute news bulletin but it was repeated endlessly to the exclusion of the killer heat, the fall of the Italian government, the war in Ukraine and everything else.  They brought in "presidential historians" to talk about every executive ailment back to Lincoln's constipation.  Even the price of gas was temporarily given a rest.  And now the shocking fist-bump with Prince Salman looks like the height of wisdom, not that anyone would admit it.  

A more sinister health story out of Rockland County, New York, was the report of a case of polio, the first since 2013, the first "naturally occurring" case since 1979.  Are there parents so irresponsible that they are avoiding the Salk vaccine, too?  Was this a person from a country where it is still common?  Nobody is saying yet.  And we have to assume that no disease is eradicated, not even smallpox. 

It's too dark in here.  Have a tea rose.