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 The first of many Trials of the Century took place in 1907, when Harry K. Thaw was charged with the murder of celebrity architect Stanford White.  Bolstered by family money, he wound up in a mental hospital instead of prison.  Years later, it is said, Thaw attended the opening of Radio City Music Hall and, gazing around the lobby, remarked, "I shot the wrong architect."  I sometimes wonder if Sirhan Sirhan watches the news in the prison rec room and thinks, "I shot the wrong Robert Kennedy."

If that sounds crass, read today's Guardian summary of the racist, antisemitic, anti-science and random demented idiocy that has filled his public discourse for decades.  When he expounds the Bill Gates "injectable chip" theory or insists "African blood" is more sensitive to vaccines, he's not just reaching out to the MAGA mobs -- he really believes this stuff.  He uses his family name to secure a public hearing that the nut on the corner could never reach from his soapbox, and it is impossible to tell how many lives have been damaged or ended by his anti-vaccine crusades, reaching back to "HIV does not cause AIDS" and fluoridation "drugs children."  

It's about to get worse.  The Gym Jordan Egomania Project, officially known as the subcommittee on "Weaponization of the Federal Government," has invited Kennedy to share his crackpot notions with Congressional imprimatur as another way to undermine Joe Biden and promote social chaos.  If people die, that's not their problem because people should "do the research" and make up their own minds about medicine, just as Kennedy did.  He's a lawyer, by the way, not a doctor or a scientist or even a med school dropout.  And he may have information about Hunter Biden's laptop.

Republicans don't believe poor Americans have a right to eat -- they made that clear when Empty Greene raged against Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs at Turning Stomach Florida  --  so it's not surprising that two of their worst decided to welcome Israeli President Herzog to Washington by blocking $75 million in food aid for Palestinians.  The hope seems to be that this will increase violence in the occupied territories, giving Israel an excuse to step up retaliatory attacks.  Jim Risch of Idaho is especially concerned that the UN Relief and Works Agency, which would distribute the aid, may be "promoting antisemitism."  If Senator Risch is troubled by antisemitism, he may want to look into these folks reviving the Aryan Nations in his own state.  Or possibly not.

Sticks and stones...For weeks Trump has vented his impotent rage at Jack Smith by calling him every name from "globalist" to "mutant."  Eyeing that second slot on the MAGA ticket, Empty Greene decided to pile on by describing him as "a weak little bitch" who is bad at his job.  This followed surprisingly fast on Trump's extended rant about receiving a target letter suggesting he will soon be charged with more crimes in the January 6 coup attempt.  Also, his dear friend Judge Aileen Cannon ("very smart and very strong, and loves our country") may not be smart enough to grant the postponement he wants in the Poolshed Papers case, in which case she too will be a "weak little bitch" and possibly a mutant.  Words are all they have, and not many of those.  

Of course, words come with an implicit or explicit threat of violence.  The latest example is a video accompanying Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town," which celebrates lynching as a way to express support for police and death for everybody who does not accept their unquestionable authority.  It was apparently filmed in front of the courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, where a man named Henry Choate was lynched in 1927.  When Ashton Pittman wrote about this in the Mississippi Free Press, CMT took the video out of rotation, leading to the usual accusations of "canceling" Aldean's free speech.  Guess who "stands with" Aldean?  Coiffure victim Marsha Blackburn.  (Aldean insists the video is not racist but his Halloween blackface says otherwise.)

Aldean was performing at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas in 2017 when Stephen Paddock killed 61 people and wounded more than 400, but he still loves guns as much as he does cops.  Maybe he'll write a song about the three-year-old in Fallbrook, California, who shot and killed a year-old sibling with an unsecured handgun.  The video could star Lauren Boebert, who was presented with a pin showing the green Converse sneakers Maite Rodriguez was wearing when she was murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.  Gracious as ever, she threw it away in full view of the gun-control advocates.  In the video, she could spit on it and then cackle.  (The Converse shoes have been adopted as a symbol because they were the only way Maite's body could be identified.)

If the Second Amendment (God save it!) means anything, it means the rights of Stephen Paddock and the toddler in Fallbrook and all the rest of our well-ordered militia.  Where they go one they go all, am I right?