Nelson Mandela and other brain blips

 

It only looks like the House Republican caucus.  It's a 158-vehicle accident in Louisiana caused by dense fog and smoke from marsh fires.  The confusion is understandable.

Just when we were all learning to say "Speaker Emmer," the Minnesota (comparatively) moderate announced that he is dropping out.  Yesterday he thought he had made merit with King MAGA but today it seems he is a "Globalist RINO" who "actually spent more time defending Ilhan Omar, than he did me."  By "defending" he means trying to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's election, of course, as any patriotic hero would.  Down goes Emmer!  Down goes Emmer!

Trump can't remember the names of his lawyers or his children, he thinks Viktor Orban is the president of Turkey, he insists he was "never indicted" and he compares himself to Nelson Mandela because he wants to claim he's a political prisoner, but the Gang of Putin still fears and obeys him as it devolves back into the Whig Party.  

Look.  It's barrels of fun watching the Republicans soil themselves and then play patty-cake with the contents of their pants, but sooner or later an adult will have to clean up the mess.  Could they find one, please?  Before Trump succeeds in shutting down the government not by violent insurrection but by tantrums and crashing paralysis?  Because the world is not just pointing and laughing, it is deeper in crisis than at any time since 1945 and we need to get involved.  

You people make me tired.


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