Anguish on the right

 The white nationalists continue to tear one another apart.  It's sad.  Thoughts and prayers.

Kayleigh McEnany becomes the latest Trump loyalist to be cast into outer darkness, for saying on Fox & Friends that Trump is leading DeSantis by 25 points in some silly poll.  WRONG!  The real number is 34 points!  "The RINOs and Globalists can have her.  Fox News should use only REAL Stars!!!"  This is Kayleigh McEnany, one of his press secretaries, thrown to the Globalists and branded a "Milktoast."  And so early in the morning.  And I thought Trump had stopped watching Fox.  And "Milquetoast"?  Even if you spell it right, it makes no sense.

As his REVENGE 2024!!! tour revs up, Trump is also promising to end the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship ON DAY ONE, right after he pardons all the insurrectionists and orders the arrest of everyone currently investigating him.  Didn't we go through this during his interminable residence in the White House?  It was so long ago I'm pretty sure Jeff Sessions was the AG who had to explain that you can't amend the Constitution with an executive order scrawled on a McDonalds napkin.  He doesn't listen.

He clearly wasn't listening last week during his video court appearance, where Judge Merchan lectured him about clearing his schedule for the criminal trial that begins next March in Manhattan.  Scowling, glaring, and plotting how best to disrupt the proceedings, tapping his fingers as if producing another all-caps screed about WITCH HUNT and HOAX.  If any of the judge's words penetrated, he wouldn't be trying to find out the names of the FBI agents and DOJ employees working on the stolen documents case.  Now why would he want those?  Christmas card list?  Or narrowing down the abuse and death threats currently being received by random agents (like the nail-gun attack on the Cincinnati office)?  I'm just asking questions.  His lawyers are actually trying to use the FOIA, which was not written for the purpose of witness intimidation.

Yesterday the indispensable Lisa at All Hat No Cattle presented this lovely collection of restaurants which will mark Pride Month starting tomorrow.  I was startled to see (third row from the top) the notoriously LGBTQ-phobic Chick-Fil-A.  They have a VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  The chicken has gone woke! and the wingnuts (no pun intended) can't find anyplace to eat.  (Hobby Lobby does not have a buffet.)  One mourner is sure the Marxists have stolen the chain out from under its founder and his "Christian values" and that "Marxists won't allow belief in Jesus Christ," who was particularly virulent in damning trans people.  I assume the MAGAts will be brown-bagging in future, and all because Chick-Fil-A decided they wanted to sell more chicken.  That's how Marxists get you, with capitalism.

The Republicans are chewing their legs off as they try to escape from the debt-ceiling trap that Kevin McCarthy led them into.  It's funny because only two months ago they were joking about Joe Biden's mental agility, with the Squeaker promising his troops he'd bring "soft food" to the negotiations.  "Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can't find his pants," tweeted Nancy Mace (R-SC).  But Ronny Jackson hasn't demanded that Biden take a cognitive test lately, nor has Nikki Haley predicted his imminent death.  Wait till they realize the whole "debt ceiling" thing is off the table until after the 2024 elections.  Old Joe does OK on soft food.

(Mr. Squeaker, if they ask you to take the Trump test, the answers are "Person, woman, man, camera, TV."   Don't forget now.)

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Here are some stories I didn't click on today:

"India:  Official fined after draining reservoir in search of mobile phone"  (The Guardian)

"UK crime:  Man admits freezing leg of alleged 'eunuch maker' who was accused of broadcasting live castrations"  (also)

"The worrying rise in dengue fever and what it could mean for the UK"  (The Independent)

"11-month-old girl dies after allegedly being left in car as parents went to church"  (HuffPost, and yes, it happened in Florida)

"Tara Reade, former aide who accused Biden of assault, moves to Russia"  (HuffPost again)

All right, I took a peek.  She's not at all sad.