America adrift!

 How are we surviving our first day without a Speaker?  Depends on who you read.  North Carolina's Patrick McHenry has assumed the job because his name was on a list in Kevin McCarthy's pocket when he was dragged out of his office, and not because "McHenry" sounds a little like "McCarthy."  Know for his retro bow ties and little else, McHenry was not among those who objected to certifying the votes of Pennsylvania or Arizona on January 6, 2021, which makes him a moderate by Republican standards.  "One of McHenry's first acts...was to oust Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi from her honorary office at the Capitol while she was away in California to pay tribute to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein," says AP News.  (He ordered the lock changed.  Probably sent someone to take down her grandchildren's drawings and throw them away.)

Matt Gaetz, the Caius Cassius of the assassins, is already griping about McHenry recessing the House for a week instead of negotiating a budget (now he's in a hurry?).  Jim "Mark Antony" Jordan has allowed as how he'd be open to taking over the job, but he'll have to get past Steve Scalise, whose signal achievement was to support gun madness even after getting shot.  Scalise once called himself "David Duke without the baggage."  He sounds perfect.  And of course sniveling crawler Troy Nehls of Texas wants to nominate Trump.  In this he has the support of Vivek Ramaswamy, because why not?  

Trundling between hate rallies and courtrooms, Trump would probably be too busy for the job, which involves more than speaking.  Today he suffered the unkindest cut of all (I'm sorry, I can't get Julius Caesar out of my head this morning):  Forbes magazine has booted him from its list of the four hundred richest Americans.  It had nothing to do with the fraud action against the Trump Organization -- mostly it's the social media platform he insisted on starting during his banishment from Twitter, the ludicrously named Truth Social.  Maybe hiring Devin Nunes to run it was not such a brilliant move.  Forbes suggests that "Truth Social will join Trump Steaks, Trump University and GoTrump.com in the graveyard of failed Trump ventures."  Probably, but not until it sizzles with abuse of the "Marxist Communist Democrat Forbe's which nobody reads and is STUPID!!!"  

GoTrump.com?

Speaking of social media, somebody on Xitter posted, and Trump shared, this astonishing...thing;

I guess Forbes will be sorry they dissed the best-connected billionaire of all time.

As Edward G. Robinson says to Boris Karloff (dressed as a clergyman) in Five Star Final, "You're the most blasphemous-looking object I've ever seen."

Most people believe McCarthy's speakership was doomed when he worked with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.  Well, they're just wrong.  According to Nicholas Langworthy (R-NY) it's still more proof that the tentacles of George Soros reach everywhere.  Even before McCarthy's fall he was tweeting, "You've got to start to wonder out loud if George Soros or some other liberal dark money is behind the idiotic move to derail the House Republican Majority..."  Langworthy represents the New York 23rd, way the hell up in Erie County, where the Northeast turns into the Bible Belt.  He also wants a criminal investigation of Jamaal Bowman for that dumb fire alarm stunt Saturday, which is as bad as January 6 if not Pearl Harbor.  As for Soros, Sherlock Holmes called Professor Moriarty "the Napoleon of crime" but he had nothing on Soros.  Expect him to be invoked by all the usual conspiracy-minded suspects in the months to come.

FEMA just sent a test alert to phones and televisions across the country.  Or did they?  Maybe it's Bill Gates checking the location of everyone who got the covid vaccine.  Any thoughts, Mr. Kennedy?

With no agreement in place, the National Zoo's three giant pandas will return to China next year and will not be replaced.  Yet more evidence that Joe Biden is too senile to do his job.  When Trump is president there will be so many pandas you won't be able to stand it.  And Mexico will pay for them.

Awww.....