Honestly evil

Don Lemon said a stupid, sexist thing about Nikki Haley last week.  (Haley, who is 51, is "not in her prime" as a woman, which according to Lemon is "in her twenties, thirties, and maybe her forties."  Perhaps he meant childbearing years.)  Instead of being allowed to apologize, Lemon was yanked off the air and sent to CNN re-education camp to receive "formal training."  As if that was the worst thing ever said about a woman who dares to engage in politics.  

Also on CNN Piers Morgan, dean of political journalists, sat down with George Santos and got him to confess, "I've been a terrible liar," which is like The Who acknowledging, "Sometimes we're a little loud."  Morgan spends most of his time trashing Meghan Markle and her husband the Duke of Sussex, but CNN has no problem with that.  Anyway, the New York Congressman whined that society's to blame, what with its unreasonable expectations that people tell the truth about their ethnicity, education, finances and other personal details.  He "absolutely would not" have run for office had he imagined all the attention he would face.  Yeah, you and Trump both.

Speaking of which, the Forever President is "donating" cleaning supplies and bottled water to East Palestine, Ohio, the town so cruelly chemical-bombed by Joe Biden.  That might distract the residents from the safety regulations his administration rolled back -- they seem to be white, right and easily distracted -- but it reminded everyone else of his racist response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.  

Being on a grand jury is no fun, especially when it meets for months.  That's no reason for Emily Kohrs, forewoman of the Fulton County grand jury that investigated Trump's election tampering in 2021, to embark on a media blitz for her own aggrandizement.  "I know something you don't know..." she seemed to be teasing.  As long as she doesn't name (redacted) names, it's probably all right, but even Trump's lawyers will be ready to pounce on "juror impropriety."  Meanwhile it's good to know that she found Brad Raffensperger "really geeky kind of funny," while Brian Kemp looked uncomfortable.  She probably didn't recognize them, having told the AP she didn't even vote in 2020 and has no party affiliation.  It may be easier to find a Trump jury in Atlanta than I thought.

I didn't think I could get any more cynical about mass shootings and the formulaic response to them, but Vanderbilt University left me at the post.  Their Peabody College of Education and Human Development used an AI (artificial intelligence) bot called ChatGPT to "console" students after the shootings at Michigan State last week.  "A culture of care...building strong relationships...beep beep..."  If only someone had deleted "Paraphrase from OpenAI's ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication."  They'll know better next time.

Brace yourself, wokeness haters:  Seattle has become the first US city to outlaw discrimination based on caste.  I didn't even know it was going on.  In fact, I'm not sure the city has any say about a 3,000 year old Hindu religious practice.  "So what, they'll end circumcision next?" some Foxnik will squawk, suddenly concerned about Muslims and Jews.  Religion has always had a giant legal loophole in this country -- look up Prohibition and the exception for "sacramental wine" -- but just a heads-up, it's coming to a culture war near you. 

There was another trail derailment, 31 cars full of coal in Gothenburg, Nebraska.  Not to worry, though, it's not excessive speed or poorly maintained track or any of that obvious stuff -- it's Russia!  They're retaliating because we blew up their gas pipeline.  Junior Trump says so.  "We've had derailment after train derailment, with environmental disasters, no one asking if it's Russia retaliating after the article came out about us possibly attacking the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and they don't care."  "They" are of course the Biden administration and "the article" is a Substack post by Seymour Hersh that basically says, "We have the capability so we did it."  Why all this sudden interest in environmentalism and the infrastructure, Junior?  And when did you start agreeing with Sy Hersh?  Political alignments slide around like that game where you have to get the BBs into the bear's eyes.

Take Kari Lake.  One day she sniffs Ron DeSantis over and declares him to have BDE (that's "big dick energy" for those who didn't take Poli Sci.  Then she pronounces him a tool of Satan's big brother, George Soros.  Who knows what went sour there?  "Governor" Lake is mulling a run for the Senate because if anyone can do both jobs at once while spinning plates, she can.

What short memories they have.  How do we know the Chinese are not derailing trains with their weirdly sophisticated balloons?  Why is Junior trying to drive a wedge between America and the peace-loving people of Russia?  Well?

On March 21, 1861, in beautiful Savannah by the sea, Alexander H. Stephens, soon to be vice-president of the Confederacy, delivered his "Cornerstone" speech proclaiming the inequality of "the negro" and  the need to preserve slavery forever.  (This, not "states' rights," is what the war was always about.  Accept no substitutes.)  On February 21, 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on "Insanity With Hannity" to explain her very detailed and thoughtful proposal for a "national divorce" of red and blue states, which even the Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, had called "destructive and wrong and -- honestly -- evil."  The Reds -- I almost wrote Rebs -- would have prayers in their schools instead of "antifa communist training," a national anthem that is just for white people, and no dildos displayed near children's toothbrushes, a real obsession of hers.  Blues who move to God's Country would not be allowed to vote for five years, to prevent them infecting the air with their "bad politics."  Transgendered people would be required not to exist as, I suppose would swing states.  Choose a side or go be Canadian.

Thanks to Dominion Voting Systems and their very enterprising attorneys, we know that Hannity and the other Fox eminences don't believe the shit they swallow and obediently vomit up about Trump, his election grievances, his idiot lawyers and his toxic narcissism.  So when SpongeSean gravely responds, "I actually favor that idea," we have to admire his ability to keep his weirdly square face straight.  

That's show business!

Don't tell Margie.  She's not in on the joke.

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Hang on a second...didn't Junior share this last September?