Schadenfreude Monday

Enjoying the misfortune of others is something that needs to be strictly limited.  It's easy to become addicted and turn into some kind of gloating monster.  But loving it when bullies, shits and creeps get what they deserve, well, I'll bet even Gandhi permitted himself a little laugh when the British quit India.

On December 25, when most of us were mumbling along to A Christmas Story or softly burping turkey, the Washington Post quietly deposited a little gift under the tree.  It seems that as Putin blasts away at Ukraine, Russia is falling apart.  Explosions and fires caused by shoddy workmanship and Texas-like power grids have left people wading through sewage and living in the dark all over the country.  The streets of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) were filled with feces after sewer pipes burst.  Like much of the country's infrastructure they're left over from the Soviet era and were privatized without ever being upgraded or replaced.  "On TV they say that Europe is freezing, but no one mentions that in Omsk, 40,000 houses do not receive gas," one frustrated resident posted on Instagram.  Government money is lavished on the big cities, especially Moscow, but elsewhere even new housing is dilapidated when tenants move in.  It seems that Russian troops in Ukraine are looting out of need rather than meanness, and Putin's solution to discontent is handouts of about $15 (that's a thousand rubles).  

Any thoughts, Tucker? 

However terrible your New Year's Eve was, the party at the Mar was worse.  Trump dusted off his animatronic wife and made a speech to the gathered revelers, who included Eric, Lara, Giuliani and some lesser reporters.  Not even Newsmax carried the usual hash of "weaponizing" the FBI (a favorite trope) and bitching about the election.  See for yourself.  

"We all look like domestic terrorists now," Hope Hicks texted Julie Radford on January 6.  Yes, while America witnessed its most violent insurrection since Fort Sumter, Trump's pants presser was sharing with Ivanka's chief of staff her concern -- that neither of them would be able to find a job.  (What did Ivanka do that required a staff, much less a chief?  We may never know.)  

 

   It's hard out here for a smug little fascist.  They'll just have to hope that Ainsley Earhardt falls under a bus.  Yup.

The Red Tsunami that turned into a sickly drizzle was the mm..mm..good story of the year but Elon Musk's spectacular display of incompetence as the proprietor of Twitter was close behind.  Last we heard employees were quitting or being fired in great crowds, payrolls were not being met, the site was thickly infested with every identifiable kind of rancid racism and disinformation (Russian bots are complaining they can't keep up) and the San Francisco headquarters stinks of shit, literally.  Musk chose to use Tesla as a piggybank for his hobby with disastrous results.  Everything he touches is turning to dross.  Where have we heard that before?  His response to everything is to trash critics -- where have we heard that before?  He has a particular animosity for Anthony Fauci, promising to release dirt on the retired National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director "later this week."  Where have we ...No matter how bad it gets, the Emerald Heir can never run for president.  Repeat as often as needed to get to sleep at night.

I don't want to be greedy but wouldn't it be wonderful if every page of Hunter Biden's laptop just said GYM JORDAN IS A PERVERT?