Fed up

 The country is filled with the sound of nerves snapping.  

Let's begin in California, one of the few states with a strong enough economy to secede and actually make a go of it (not that they would).  Governor Gavin Newsom is tired of certain redneck governors involving his state in their anti-immigrant kabuki as they attempt to pry white nationalist voters away from Trump.  He tweets:

@Ron DeSantis you small, pathetic man.

This isn't Martha's Vineyard.

Kidnapping charges?

Read the following:

Newsom goes on to quote California law regarding taking persons "by force or fraud" from somewhere and conveying them to California, implying that Trump may not be the only Republican candidate under criminal indictment when the primaries begin.  "Small" and "pathetic" are the exact words I will always think of when I hear about the Governissimo.

Like this encounter with a voter who called him a "fucking fascist."  First he twitches and waits for the rest of the room to shout at her, then he accuses her of "imposing an agenda on our kids."  Big courage.  His already irritating voice gets higher when he talks about "pernography."  I hope that woman got out of the room unharmed.

This is how his wife, described by Charlie Pierce as "the brains of the operation" like Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate, dressed up for her venture into Iowa:

If Vogue won't give her a cover, maybe Popular Mechanics?

Then we come to James Comer's continuing "investigation" into the perfidious Bidens and all the bribes they probably took years ago when Joe was vice-president.  It was such a scandal that Bill Barr assigned US Attorney for Pittsburgh Scott Brady to look into it and between them these two Trump hires found exactly zilch.  But Comer and Chuck don't care if it's true or not, they want to keep inflating it like a mylar balloon for another year and a half.   Ranking Democrat Jamie Raskin wants it known he's tired of their insinuations because it's the same warmed-over vomit that Rudolph Giuliani was serving in 2016.  He'll have to shout to be heard over Comer's backup singers Margie Greene, Lauren Roberts f/k/a Boebert, Nancy Mace and Ana Paulina Luna, a/k/a The Comettes.  I hope I'm spelling that right.

Gender identity is real, even in Florida.  So says US District Judge Robert Hinkle in overturning the law that prevents minors from receiving puberty blockers and other therapies.  Moreover, the Governissimo violated the First Amendment when he fired Andrew Warren as state attorney for Hillsborough County.  A good day's work for Pudding Paws and one that can only endear him to haters across the country.  

Whatever else you think of it, the Biden White House has an outstanding line of snappishness.  Having bent Kevin McCarthy and his clown caucus over in the proverbial prison shower, they went right after Fox News for its obsession with Biden's impending demise after he tripped over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy.  But Fox can't use any of it because every sentence references "y'all's 92-year-old chairman" and his array of lawsuits and other challenges.  Andrew Bates, their in-house Mort Sahl, also likes to remind them of the nepotism that got Peter Doocy on the payroll.  He might also object that when Mitch McConnell, 81, fell down some steps he was in rehab for weeks and few if any Democrats thought it was funny.  

If DeSantis wants a surprise running mate he need look no farther than Kandiss Taylor, the answer to the Jeopardy! clue "She would have been a worse governor than Brian Kemp."  Taylor's project is proving the earth is flat and anything else is so much NASA propaganda (to what purpose I can't say).  Her children are being brainwashed by all the globes.  "Everywhere there's globes.  You see them all the time.  My children will be like 'Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe' -- they're everywhere."  Well, of course, Kandiss, they parrot back what they hear from you.  I thought a round-ish earth was settled, but then I thought that about Roe v. Wade.  (I can't prove it but I'll bet she had something to do with bombing the Georgia Guidestones.)  

Speaking of Roe, the goalposts continue to be moved.  Doomed presidential candidate Nikki Haley has staked out a position she calls "humanizing the issue."  Of course it should be illegal but she's not willing to say that women who have an abortion should go to prison much less face the death penalty.  She seems out of step with South Carolina Republicans, but this now represents the moderate position.  

I don't have any idea if the PGA/LIV merger is good or bad for golf, the sport that's barely a sport.  But the 9/11 families are angry and Trump calls it "A BIG BEAUTIFUL AND GLAMOROUS DEAL" so I guess it's shit.  His lawyers got a DOJ meeting on the stolen documents case and he's been raving about it all day.  Bad news?

Newsmax snagged a very important interview with Matt Gaetz to discuss the economy.  According to him, the Gen-Xers are struggling to survive because no one will buy their CD collections and that's why John Fetterman suffers from depression.  It didn't make a whole lot of sense but it's Matt Gaetz.  Elsewhere on the 'Max, Kari Lake defined conservatism in a way that Barry Goldwater probably would not have recognized:  it's someone who "would rather die of thirst than take a sip of Bud Light."  As the Waco Kid would say, "You know, morons."

Bud Light is still a thing and so are gas stoves.  The Republican grownups wanted to advance some bills concerning regulation of gas stoves and the Crazy Caucus voted NO because they are so mad at the Squeaker for letting Old Man Biden chase him off the White House lawn.  Really?  Gas stoves?

Enough.