Shooters

 It's so preposterous that people are already checking with Snopes -- yes, Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) introduced a bill to make the AR-15 America's "official gun."  I would have gone with the Colt .45, a very handsome weapon with a deep history, but these Republicans today are only interested in how fast you can kill a bunch of people.  There's no artistry anymore.

 

Love the snake.

Naturally I was curious about Moore -- like, is he related to the pedophile judge Roy Moore -- but all I know is he grew up on a farm and owns a garbage company.   Your basic Trumpanzee -- hates Anthony Fauci and Mark Milley, goes to a Baptist church, Freedumb Caucus, 2020 election denier, beat a perjury rap in 2014.  This bill is his bid for attention and it's already gained the support of infamous freshman "George Santos," as well as Lauren Boebert (see below) and Andy "Bar the door!" Clyde. 

Moore hasn't announced his candidacy for president yet but he might as well.  At this stage of the perpetual election cycle the hopeless hopefuls are claiming their five minutes of fame.  (Attention spans have shrunk since Andy Warhol's fifteen-minute estimate.)  Chris Sununu, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy -- soon you'll see them vanishing from the far edge of the debate stage, one by one.

Yes, I said Vivek Ramaswamy, biotech entrepreneur. hedge funder and author of Woke, Inc., a jeremiad aimed at people who think society should try to clean up its capitalist act and stop abusing marginalized people, woke being the new pinko.  Despite his own success since immigrant parents arranged for him to be born in Ohio, Ramaswamy thinks Rightzis need "protected class" status as an embattled minority under constant attack from the deep state swamp or whatever they're calling it now.  With so many states legislating against everything from AP history to drag performers, it's surely a matter of time until some place like New York or California tries to outlaw armed insurrections or Fox News.  Well, not on President Ramaswamy's watch!  It's bad enough that Clinton Obama Biden grabbed everybody's gun.

It's all right to laugh at this popinjay.  Guy gets a little money, he thinks he should be in charge.  Remember Ross Perot?  Howard Shultz?  Andrew Yang?  During the last Gilded Age men like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie knew real power didn't reside in the White House.  Where did that wisdom go?  Why do we have to be grateful that Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk were born elsewhere?  I blame Trump for proving that any asshole can do the job as long as he watches television, tweets and plays golf all day.

"______ will not replace us!" is the chant of proponents of (what else?) the Great Replacement Theory and it looks like they're right to be afraid.  Lauren Boebert's Ptomaine-a-rama in Rifle, Colorado, is being replaced by a Mexican restaurant!  Tapatios has applied for a liquor license and probably will not feature waitstaff armed with handguns.  Which does not mean you should dine and dash.

Yesterday was the first anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine and some German activists had a present for him:  a rusted-out T-72 tank left in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin.  Plenty more where that came from, Vlad.  (Don't bother to ticket it, German traffic wardens -- diplomats never pay those things.)

While Trump was bragging about the Florida tap water he sells in bottles and buying junk food for the residents (and probably confiscating the toys in the Happy Meals), Joe Biden was sending the CDC, EPA and FEMA door-to-door in East Palestine to check on the welfare of each resident.  This despite Governor DeWine's continued refusal to ask for a federal disaster declaration.  I'm sure Trump would have done that in Puerto Rico if it weren't full of brown people who speak Spanish.  Since it is, they didn't even rate a Filet-o-Fish.

There's a fascinating document in Floridastan rich with "whereases" from a bunch of Lee County Republicans who want covid vaccines not just discouraged but outlawed.  They call the vaccine a "bioweapon" and invoke the Nuremberg Code about "informed consent."  The professional hypnotist who composed it told a TV station, "If you got this shot you go home and hug your pregnant wife; she can have a miscarriage through skin contact."  (I hope no one tried this at home.  Everyone knows you have to fall down stairs like Scarlett O'Hara Butler.)  It would be fascinating to hear what former Senator Jim Inhofe has to say, now that he has admitted he quit the Senate because of long covid.  Before retiring, of course, he voted against every covid aid bill.  "Five or six others have long covid but I'm the only one who admits it," he told Tulsa World, forgetting about Tim Kaine. 

"The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.  Just get the fuck away.  Wherever you have to go, just get away.  There's no fixing this. You just have to escape."  So said cartoonist Scott Adams in a video you can watch on YouTube, unless it's been cancelled by the radical leftists who run it.  Already "Dilbert" has been dropped by countless newspapers, leaving Adams with more time to hit the CPAC/Fox News/Daily Stormer circuit.  Strange -- that's exactly what Malcolm X said to Black people half a century ago, before he made the hajj.  He was probably thinking about lynchings and race riots.  I don't know what Adams is thinking.  Did a Black driver grab a parking spot he wanted?