The longest day

 At the climax of the film Inherit the Wind Henry Drummond puts Matthew Harrison Brady on the witness stand and grills him on the Biblical account of creation.  "The Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day.  That first day -- was it a normal day, a literal day, a twenty-four-hour day?...could it have been twenty-five hours?   Isn't it possible that the first day could have been a day of indeterminate length?"   As in the 1925 Scopes trial Brady, the fictionalized version of William Jennings Bryan, has no answer.

A day of indeterminate length.  It sounds sinister.  In the course of a typically incoherent "town hall" presided over by Sean Hannity, Trump assured his followers that no one need fear the promises and threats he has issued about invoking the Insurrection Act to avenge himself on practically everyone:  "He says, 'You're not going to be a dictator, are you?'  I said no, no, no, other than day one.  We're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling.  After that I'm not a dictator."  

What can he mean, mean, mean?  The mass arrests of journalists, the deportation of millions of "illegals" and birthright citizens, the replacement of federal employees with an army of storm troopers, the "retaliation" promised only hours ago by Steve Bannon and Kash Patel ("Steve, this is why they hate us.  This is why we're tyrannical.  This is why we're dictators") -- it sounds like they got the message and are drawing up the lists.  Day One is going to be longer than a day on Jupiter and harder to survive.

Chris Cuomo says we should chill:  "He's not a megalomaniac...he isn't gonna destroy any of the institutions 'cause he doesn't understand them."  Comforted?

Over on Fox the Four Blind Mice are exhilirated by Trump's skill at media manipulation.  "It's incredible what he does!"  Handsome, too.

Did he want an underling executed for revealing that he hid in the White House bunker like a panty-pissing draft-dodger when Black Lives Matter protested the murder of George Floyd?  Well, is anybody missing?  Joke, joke!

What does "come down hard" on CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, Comcast, ABC News, etc, mean?  Could be flowers and balloons, I guess.

And what can traitors like the Wisconsin fake electors expect?  Something lingering, with boiling oil?  They acknowledged Biden's victory and agreed not to serve as electors again.  Jesus had one Judas, Orange Jesus has ten.  

Day of days indeed.  

Elsewhere...

Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados says her country is owed $4.9 trillion in reparations for the enduring impact of slavery.  King Charles laughs because the entire UK doesn't have that much.

Protests continue in Iran where, according to Amnesty International, boys and girls as young as twelve are subjected to torture and rape.  "Morality police" must mean something different in Farsi.

While the world is distracted, the invasion of Ukraine is being echoed in our hemisphere as President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela proposes to annex most of Guyana.  They've got oil and Venezuela wants it.

Once again Trump will not be Time's Person of the Year.  Expect the rage-tweeting at Taylor Swift to begin shortly and continue into the weekend.

Kim Jong-un pretended to weep while imploring North Korean women to have more babies.  Does anyone know the minimum number of calories a woman needs every day to get pregnant?  Should South Koreans hide their infants?

Once you've wielded the Big Hammer it's hard to go back to being one of the nameless rabble of Congressmen.  Kevin McCarthy is bugging out of the House this year, although he has a year left on his term.  His weekend fill-in Patrick McHenry says he won't seek re-election next year.  Run away, run away!

As hate crimes and terrorist threats skyrocket, the Senate FBI Oversight Committee decided Christopher Wray has nothing better to do than serve as an unwilling participant in one of Josh Hawley's farcical campaign videos.  This time ol' Run Like Hell accused the FBI of "targeting Catholics," recruiting priests and choir directors as informants.  Voices were raised, arms were waved.  Nothing was accomplished.  

Here she is, Donzo.  So much losing you'll be sick of it.