Strawberry blond ambition

 

What the hell, Fulton County?  You don't get a profile shot (I've seen Raising Arizona, someone is supposed to say "Turn to the right"), you let the accused lie about his height and weight (6 feet 3 and 215 pounds sounds like a high school basketball player), did you even take prints?  How are we supposed to recognize this perp if we spot him trying to sneak through an airport like Ted Cruz headed for Cancun?  And "strawberry blond"?  

This is Miss Rita Hayworth in the title role of The Strawberry Blonde (1941).  I mean really.

Apparently we are headed for a civil war, according to former (temporary) Governor Sarah Palin.  It may have started.  Has anyone heard from Fort Sumter?  Sarah asked the troublemakers (via Newsmax), "What the heck?  Do you want us to be in civil war?...And Eric [Bolling], I like that you suggested that we need to get angry.  We do need to rise up and take our country back."

We need to get angry.  So the assaults on Michael Fanone, Brian Sicknick and other Capitol police had nothing to do with anger?  The death threats against Judge Chutkan, DAs Bragg and Willis, Attorney General James et al. were non-violent?  The mobs yelling at Speaker Bowers's house while his daughter was dying inside, just some peaceful Arizona citizens airing out the First Amendment?  That clown in Utah who wanted to kill Joe Biden?  That other clown who tried to storm the FBI office in Cincinnati?  The one Trump sent to the Obamas' house to look for "tunnels"?  How will we know when you people get "angry"?  Can we sign up for alerts?

It's not your country, nor was it even in 1790, when the very first Congress passed a law denying naturalization to non-white people.  In 1790 the real Americans still outnumbered the Europe-descended squatters by several million.  That would change, brutally, but it would never make this "your" country, because by then enslaved Africans and disenfranchised women and the first Asian immigrants would already be here.  It's our damn country, you silly entitled menopausal little girl.  Tell your allies.  

We're tired of you, your idiotic lies, your bottomless self-pity, your constant assaults on democracy, science and common sense.  We're tired of your semi-literate, pompous, ignorant orange cult leader and his gang who couldn't lie straight.  We laugh at your fake concerns, your unhinged exaggerations, your deranged projections and absurd threats of impeachment for anybody whose name you can pronounce.  We laugh as you lose and lose by duct-taping your so-called party to "woke" and anti-choice and climate change denial, by blaming Democrats for everything from Hawaiian wildfires to Prigozhin's plane crash.  You're funny and funny-looking and pathetic.  We're nauseated by your assault rifle pins and your contempt for grieving parents.  We're disgusted by your presence among us, but so far we've left you in peace.  

So far.

Get a sixth grader to tell you how the last civil war turned out, and then decide if you want to be burned out and stomped into the ground again.