How white men fight

 Jordan Neely was "ranting aggressively" on the New York subway but, according to a witness, had not attacked anyone.  Another passenger, described by the New York Post as a Marine veteran, threw Neely to the floor and put him in a chokehold, killing him.  The NYPD decided the Marine did not need to be arrested for strangling a homeless Black man with mental problems.  Who will miss him?

Russia is claiming that Ukraine tried to assassinate Putin with a drone attack on the Kremlin.  People who can remember all the way back to 1999 were not convinced, remembering the "terrorist attacks" which were used to justify Russia's invasion of Chechnya.  Also, Putin doesn't live in the Kremlin.

Jesse Watters staked a claim on the coveted 8 pm slot at Fox "News" by asserting that he can tell if people are undocumented immigrants by, well, "you can tell."  This shocked even his co-host Jessica Tarlov.  So if he gets the job I doubt the c--- will come along.  She's not ready for prime time. 

Reports of Joe Biden's imminent death are, as Mark Twain actually said, "an exaggeration," but they keep coming.  Today it was Trump's turn, in a hard-hitting interview with Nigel Farage.  Like Jesse Watters he just knows why Biden has chosen to skip this Saturday's coronation:  "I don't think it's hard for him to do it physically.  I think getting over here."  According to royalist Trump it's "disrespectful," but not as bad as Prince Harry's "horrible" book, which he pretended to have read.  Farage didn't remind him that Eisenhower did not attend the 1953 coronation because he's not a real journalist.  And would the UK need a draconian new law against protests if it were shaping up to be a joyous day?

Trump doesn't like real journalists.  On the flight from the Waco hate rally, NBC's Vaughn Hillyard wouldn't stop asking him about Alvin Bragg and his impending indictment and the statesman ("I have the best temperament") grabbed Hillyard's phones and threw them away, snarling, "Get him out of here."  It's not clear whether he was banishing this irritant from the presence or ordering him thrown out of the plane, a favorite disposal technique of South American dictatorships. 

But he's happy to engage in a CNN "town hall" moderated by Kaitlan Collins because the ex-Tucker Carlson employee will arrive with a suitcase full of nerf ball questions.  You thought he hated CNN?  He does, but he needs to be stroked and they need ratings, their swing to the right having alienated many viewers.  

Elsewhere on CNN Anderson Cooper talked to Abby Grossberg, who says Carlson wanted Kevin McCarthy to "grovel" for the Speakership and planned to extract concessions during a "Hunger Games-style" spectacle.  And she has tapes.  This has more to do with Tuckoo's megalomania than anything else, even if it's more or less what Margie Greene and her minions did.  The Carlson plan was to "save the Republican Party."  I think it's already his.

Of course, Tucker examines his putrid soul like St. Augustine obsessing over the pears.  After being deposed in the Dominion suit he called their lawyer a "slimy little motherfucker" and then lamented, "It was so unhealthy, the hate that I felt for that guy.  It's totally bad for you to feel that way."  And in today's TM release he recounts the happiness he felt watching "Trump guys [who] surrounded an antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him."  (Translation:  some red-hat goons beat up a Black man they found on the street in Washington.)  "Somewhere deep in my brain an alarm went off:  this isn't good for me...the antifa creep is a human being."  "It was three against one at least...It's not how white men fight."  But it is, you cockroach.  From lynch mobs to Russia bullying small countries, it's always been how white men fight.  It doesn't bother Putin or Trump, don't let it bother you.  And don't pretend, even to yourself, that you're better than that.