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It doesn't matter if you can read this touching tribute on Ministry of Truth Social.  What matters is "DONATE TO SAVE AMERICA."  Yes, he's fundraising.  Always Be Grifting.

She was found "unconscious on a staircase" and the medical examiner is investigating.  I believe this was the point in the Watergate case when Martha Mitchell was abducted and tranquilized during a call with Helen Thomas of UPI.  But I could be wrong.

For sheer trumpishness it would be hard to top Tina Peters, the former clerk/recorder of Mesa County, Colorado.  Although Trump won the county by 28 points, Peters insisted there was vote-rigging and created a fake ID for a man named Conan Hayes so he could "document" the updating of Dominion voting machines.  Allegedly.  Judge Valerie Robison removed her from office when she was indicted.  She then ran in the Republican primary for secretary of state, finishing third.  (More vote-rigging, she says.)  She violated the terms of her bond and left the state.  In Nevada for the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers cookout she made a speech blaming -- wait for it -- Lauren Boebert for conspiring to copy data from the voting machines (which had to be replaced).  As for Tina, she's in the jailhouse now.  Yeah, judge ordered it.  Here's Tina in happier times, with big pillowy Mike:

 

Did you know the uterus is as extraneous as the appendix?  Listen to this expert:

"The womb is the only organ in a woman's body that serves no specific purpose to her life or well-being.  It is truly a sanctuary," says Brad Tschida, candidate for the Montana state senate.  No, he's not asserting that trans women are women, too, no matter what Joanne Rowling says.  No, he doesn't appear to be confusing it with a marsupial's pouch.  No, he's not a doctor (fortunately).  He's a graduate of the University of Montana, but I can't determine what his major was.  What he is is a Republican, which means he can just make shit up.  And this is some Herschel Walker-level made-up shit.

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) doesn't see it that way.  She has introduced the "Freedom To Travel for Health Care Act of 2022," which does what it says on the tin, keeps reactionary states from preventing women from traveling for necessary medical procedures.  It's almost as if Senator Cortez Masto suspects them of planning to do just that, maybe by electronically tagging the breeders, maybe by some form of pre-natal confinement.  Steve Daines (Montana, for fuck's sake) calls it "very very extreme" and even worked "woke" and "abortion tourism" into his rant.  I have read the bill -- very dry, frankly -- and I don't see the word abortion.  Suppose one needed to leave the state for a kidney transplant, say, or some experimental cancer treatment?  Anyway, like so many others, it will likely die in the Senate like a woman in Oklahoma with an ectopic pregnancy.

This is one reason Dr. Meg Autry, a California ob/gyn, wants to put an offshore clinic in the Gulf of Mexico.  In the great tradition of Radio Caroline and Prohibition rumrunners it would circumvent repression while waiting for the law to catch up with the people.  It's too bad Montana is so far from a coast.

"Ultimately what's important in this family is the brand and the name Trump...The presidency, democracy, ransacking the United States Capitol, these things are all secondary to the most important thing which is the brand, which is the family name...and keeping, at least in this case, their father in power."  That's Alex Holder's take on the most toxic family since Saddam Hussein's.  The truest of true believers seems to be Eric, while the smarter Ivanka dares to tell the Select Committee she doesn't believe the Big Lie.  Holder, director of Unprecedented, says trying to argue with Trump is like "dealing with somebody who is saying the sky is green."  He pronounced himself "unnerved."  We had four years of this, mate.

As temperatures in the Southwest rise to the level where stray cats explode, take a moment to thank Joe Manchin for making sure nothing will be done about climate change this session.  Manchin is worried about inflation.  Do you know how much it costs to fuel a yacht?

According to a new book George W. Bush thought Rick Perry was dumb.  And Rush Limbaugh thought Oprah was fat.  Is it the weekend yet?