Missing, inaction

 "A liar should have a good memory," said Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, and for those who don't, there's the internet.  It never forgets that, for example, on August 30, 2021, George Santos tweeted:  "BIDEN IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!"  (Like his hero, he speaks all-caps.)  Praise from Caesar, as Quintilius might say.   

Has David Miscavige returned to the home planet?  Lawyers have tried 27 times to serve the Dear Leader of Scientology in a trafficking lawsuit but security guards at the Clearwater headquarters claim they don't know where he is.  

Financial adviser Thomas St. John is trying to sue a former client for back payment but it seems Ye (f/k/a Kanye West) is also missing, at least for service purposes.  Looks like his lawyers are missing, too.  Lots of people doing the process two-step.

Kickboxer/influencer/pile of waste Andrew Tate is not missing -- he's locked up in Romania on charges of rape and human trafficking.  He got into a Twitter fight with Greta Thunberg and she kicked his box.  Really.  Pizza boxes were the clue.

Junior Trump isn't missing but $240 million is -- the money raised for all those rapidly dismissed lawsuits challenging Daddy's 2020 loss and entrusted to him for some reason.  Asked by the House Select Committee if he knew where it went, he responded, "I do not."  They should have looked up his nose.

They say you can tell a lot about judges from their clerks.  Actually, nobody says this, I made it up, but it's probably true.  Polk County, Iowa, chose Kimberly Graham as its new County Attorney and Mike Davis, a former clerk of Neil Gorsuch, is far from happy.  He is advising Iowans to "arm up" because Graham is "woke" and plans to "coddle violent criminals."   And the Slow Coup picks up speed among the soybean fields.

Jair Bolsonaro is living up to his nickname "Trump of the tropics."  He still has not conceded the election.  He insists the voting was rigged.  He won't attend the inauguration of Luiz Lula da Silva on Sunday.  Shedding manly, heterosexual tears he bade Brazil adeus and flew to Florida today, probably for some ketchup-soaked commiseration at the Mar.  The only thing he hasn't done is urge his followers to violence, but there's still time.

Speaking of losers...if you were scrolling through Ministry of Truth Social you saw Trump re-tweeting an article by someone named Dan Gelernter called "The Coming Split," which seems to call for a third party.  He cites Theodore Roosevelt and his Bull Moose Party to propose a sort of Trump-Bullshit party.  Surely he knows this led to the election of the Democrat Woodrow Wilson in 1912.  (Not Trump, Gelernter.  Trump never heard of Wilson.)  TR's face scowls down from Mount Rushmore where Trump wants to be, so this is a good idea to him.  I like it, too.  

This man is saying, "As God is my witness I'll never ask for a white Christmas again."

Trump's tax returns are finally out there and he's blustering again:  "It's going to lead to horrible things for so many people."  He's sounds like an actor playing Lear who can't remember what he plans to do to Goneril and Regan.  "Line!"

It seldom gets cold in Baton Rouge so Kasey Weber probably thought the homeless woman in front of the store where she works might enjoy having water thrown over her.  It was 25 degrees and Weber was fired and arrested.  She appears to have posted the video on Facebook herself.  It's not Greg Abbott-level shittiness but it will do for someone who isn't a public official.