What just happened?

 That high-pitched sound that probably woke awakened you has been identified as the extremest of the extreme spontaneously combusting.  I understand the colors were unearthly.

Uganda passed a law which imposes life in prison for being gay and it met with condemnation from Joe Biden and Ted Cruz.  Can anyone remember the last time they agreed on anything?  No, because never.  Biden's fine but Cruz is catching all kinds of flak from Christofascists on his right, a place that barely shows up on a map.  Perhaps the saddest came from those sad young men the Log Cabin Republicans:  "The Biden Admin squarely owns this setback in Africa.  Weak leadership and feckless foreign policy positions have eroded American human rights values."  Not like the Trump Admin, a golden age for human rights everywhere.  I don't remember Cruz or Trump denouncing hate laws in Texas, Florida or other states, or even defending Target's right to stock Pride merchandise, but a "shithole country" like Uganda is a safe target.

Nothing is certain until the gavel gets banged but it looks like Wily Joe managed to negotiate a debt ceiling that preserves climate and clean energy funds, protects health care for veterans (along with Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP with more work requirements), caps non-defense spending and gives Joe Manchin his precious natural gas pipeline to further endanger West Virginia's environment.  When the Squeaker got back to his office I assume he checked to make sure he still had his watch and wallet.  The MAGA caucus is enraged but he doesn't need their votes.  Oh, and prepare to spend more time on hold if you need to call the IRS.  

Of course, McCarthy may no long be head boy when it comes to a vote because the likes of Chip Roy and Dan Bishop are already threatening to use the "motion to vacate the chair" in their promised "reckoning" with his betrayal.  Who would replace him?  Well, George Santos is otherwise engaged, preparing for his trial and serving as, I swear, his own campaign finance chair.  Margie Greene is openly jeered and laughed at.  Never mind, plenty more fruit on that poisonous tree.

Wanted:  Lindsey Graham.  By Russia, which issued a warrant for his arrest after he described US aid to Ukraine as "the best money we've ever spent."  Graham's response was almost admirable:  "I will submit to jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court if you do.  Come and make your best case.  See you in The Hague!"   Putin has more important things to worry about, like the possibility of a coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group and the drone strikes on Moscow.  (He had the brass to accuse Ukraine of using "intimidation tactics" and "terrorist activity" against Russian civilians.  Bitch, please.)  Anyway, Lindsey Graham won't be a guest on the Tucker Carlson show anytime...oh, wait.

I don't think he'll be assassinated, either, no matter what Margarita Simonyan says.  Putin's Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment was outraged:  "If Lady Graham really said that money for killing Russians is the best money ever spent, I hope that in our country the sons or grandchildren of Sudoplatov are alive...It's not even hard.  We have his address."  (Sudoplatov was the dude who helped plan the murder of Trotsky.)  "Lady Graham"?  Only we're allowed to call him a closet-case, honey.  Go listen to some Lady Tchaikovsky and calm down.

What is the Republican obsession with the gorgeousness of their wives?  Is it supposed to be a measure of their manliness?  Trump was constantly whining that Vogue should be investigated for its refusal to put his 51 percent silicone First Escort on the cover.  Now Ron DeSantis is crying on Mark Levin's shoulder about the conspiracy to keep America from seeing how spectacular his wife Casey is.  "If she were a Democrat she'd be on every fashion magazine," he pouted.  I don't know, what do you think?

She coordinates her Nancy Reagan red with her husband's tie, but a knockout?  And what's up with that wave?  She's no Martha Stewart.

DeSantis has vowed to "destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology in the dustbin of history," which is quite a mouthful of pudding.  He'll have to work on his apocalyptic ranting if he wants to compete with Trump, whose Memorial Day message was about himself like all the others, climaxing with a promise to "stop the communists, Marxists and fascist 'pigs' at every turn."   Enjoy the music because the lyrics aren't supposed to make sense.