Cosmic threads

 

More wondrous stuff in our galaxy, more shabby doings on our insignificant little planet.

If you get Welsh channel S4C you probably don't want to miss the upcoming documentary Trump: Extreme World.  "You have people that go to the Mona Lisa.  They love the Mona Lisa and they'll see it hundreds and hundreds of times and it gets better every time," he tells Maxine Hughes, and it's just like the people that come to his rallies, masterpieces of rage and self-pity.  I'm not sure what it means, apart from his inability to name another famous painting -- are the same MAGAts being transported from place to place to look like a crowd?  Maybe it will make sense in Welsh.

I guess they come for the hate and stay to count the lies.  Trump broke the Fib-o-Meter at a "town hall" in Iowa last night and Sean Hannity let him.  He asked one reality-based question about the new tape where Trump admits holding stolen classified documents and got another lie:  "I don't know anything about it."  So the lawyers are starting to get through to him.  Hannity suggested he might appeal to "moderates" by toning down his insults and Trump reacted like Don Rickles being asked to read Good Night, Moon.  They really love the hate.  By the way, he's now asserting that no one in Washington's Chinatown can speak English.  How would you know, syllabolic?

Shaken by several mass shootings in Georgia, Jon Waldman has closed his gun store in Duluth and is clearing out the inventory.  He'd better hold on to some of it for the inevitable death threats which will come his way, very possibly from former customers.  The Second Amendment is like the Mafia -- nobody quits.

This is why I read the Washington Post:  After Joe Biden fell down at the Air Force Academy commencement (if you haven't seen it, just put on Fox for five minutes), they sent Adela Suliman to the archives for a summary of politicians hitting the deck all the way back to Gerald Ford.  With pictures.  Hillary Clinton was at a 9/11 commemoration in hot weather despite pneumonia -- the rest were just unlucky or wearing high heels.

I have to resume taking the pills so I can concentrate on the loony obsessions of the right.  I keep getting blind-sided.  I know they hate what they call DEI, which is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (nasty!).  There's another one I can't find right now, and yesterday I came across "tuck-friendly bathing suits."  After considerable research and some mumbling, I find that this is a female bathing suit designed to conceal male genitalia, which will spell doom for western civilization if not destroyed in a rain of fire and brimstone.  I need to find a picture of one, because I keep picturing those baggy swim trunks men wore in the pre-Speedo era, the ones with a mysterious pocket (for keys?) and a webbing known as a nut net.  Are those still for sale?  Target only sells "tuck-friendly" in adult sizes but that didn't keep the loons from laying siege to the stores and threatening the help with mayhem because PROTECT THE TODDLERS FROM GROOMERS!!  So now I know.  Unless the culture war has moved on to a new battlefield and I'm left behind with the stretcher-bearers.   

This time period is fucking exhausting.  I'm going back to look at the cosmic threads.