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Woburn, Massachusetts, police officer John Donnelly was an organizer of the murderous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Trump praised the "very fine people on both sides."  Only five years later Middlesex County district attorney Marina Ryan is looking into all pending and closed cases Donnelly was involved in.  Like Trump, he liked to post antisemitic rants on social media, but I'm sure that never affected his professionalism.

"U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel -- Before it is too late!" Trump threatened.  So that's three ways Trump differs from Hitler.  Hitler loved dogs, Hitler served in the military and Hitler did not expect gratitude from Jews.  Trump expects it because "No President has done more for Israel than I have."  Has he heard of Harry Truman?

In her debate with Marcus Flowers, Margie Greene depicted herself as a "victim" of the scary January 6 coup attempt despite her many texts cheering on the rioters and urging Trump to declare "Marshall law."  Also "There was election fraud in the 2020 election and my husband has the proof of it."  But instead of producing Perry's proof, or indeed Perry, she raged about "genital mutilation" and "child abuse" and called Flowers a liar.  So your basic 2022 political discourse.  This is the first day of voting in Georgia and two-hour waits are already being reported.  Don't forget to bring your own bottled water -- acts of charity are illegal in this notch on the bible belt.

They were all over the place with ignorance-based medical advice this week.  The HuffPost reported that during 2020 Don Bolduc, Trump-selected Senate candidate in New Hampshire, said Narcan, the drug administered to overdose victims, "keeps them addicted," presumably because it stops them from dying.  Herschel Walker, when asked about lower drug prices, said people don't need insulin at all if they "eat right."  (Perhaps he's an honorary endocrinologist as well as an honorary sheriff.)  And Mehmet Oz, putatively a doctor, described various urine flavors to Jimmy Kimmel and revealed that he once stuck a syringe in his sister's head.  "It didn't go in!  The skull got in the way!"  I'm assuming they were children.  Am I too generous?  And is that the sister he's fighting in a Turkish court over their father's will?

Jerry Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee and fifteen-term Congressman, is about to become a sixteen-term Congressman, but the New York Republican Party decided they should run someone against him anyway.  (You at the back -- did you yell "sacrificial lamb"?)  They have nominated Mike Zumbluskas.  But there's an independent candidate named Mike Itkis running on a promise to decriminalize sex work.  To that end he hired a professional and made a thirteen-minute sex tape which can be seen on Pornhub.  Yes, in 2022 a candidate is campaigning with a video that previous candidates would have decried as a fake or paid cash money to suppress.  O tempora, o mores, o good grief.  (Wait, could Zumbluskas have changed his name to Itkis to sound more "American"?)  

I need this election to end.