What is wrong with these people?

 ...asked Hillary Clinton.  It's a question that occurs to many of us on an hourly basis, but she was referring to the fifteen Republican governors who turned down a federal food assistance program to see poor kids through the summer.  They have all kinds of reasons, the dumbest being Kim Reynolds's (Iowa) assertion that it would contribute to the problem of childhood obesity.  Making the little freeloaders go hungry in the hot weather will definitely melt off the pounds.

Or they can go to work and buy their own food.  That's the plan in Indiana, where state Rep. Joanna King introduced a bill to allow 14-year-olds to leave school after the eighth grade and find work on corporate farms.  (She wants to "protect" kids from gender-affirming care as well as high school.  This King person is a multi-tasking monster.)  Child labor laws have already been rolled back in Iowa, Florida and Arkansas, coincidentally states with large agricultural sectors.  It's difficult to find people to pick America's crops, especially since Texas would rather kill migrants than process them.

Marco Rubio and Kayleigh McEnany are spitting nails because CNN and Fox News carried only a few minutes of Trump's Monday night victory rant, and MSNBC didn't air it at all.  McEnany yelled "censorship" and Rubio invoked "undemocratic regimes" using "state run media" against the opposition, as if Joe Biden makes editorial decisions for cable news.  They won't be happy to read that the vast majority of Americans were watching the Tampa Bay-Philadelphia playoff game, with a few million more tuned in to the Emmy Awards.  In other words, a good call by the news organizations, which are not in fact "state run" but corporations with bills to pay, "Little Marco."

Some of us opted out of all these choices and watched the documentary "King:  Montgomery to Memphis" on Turner Classic Movies.  If Nikki Haley had seen it she might not have asserted to Brian Kilmeade, "We are not a racist country.  We've never been a racist country."  A minute later she added, "I faced racism when I was growing up," which is why Kilmeade looks like this:

Haley ran third in the Iowa dog race, so Republicans clearly preferred a wannabe dictator who is proud to be a racist over an Indian-American who doesn't remember what flag flew over the South Carolina state house in 2015 and why she changed it.  (Mother Emanuel Church?  Nine dead?  You were the governor, yes?)

Ron DeSantis, who continues to campaign for president for some reason, decided to agree with Haley.  "The US is not a racist country.  And we've overcome things in our history," he told a New Hampshire TV event.  He did not elaborate on the doctrine of slavery-as-job-training which became part of the Florida school curriculum under his rule.  

Trump spent the morning turning the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial into one of his trademark circuses with contempt for the law and common decency.  He seems more agitated by his (previously adjudicated) sexual assault victim than he was by the disclosures of financial chicanery in the last trial.  When one of Carroll's lawyers pointed out that the jury could hear him growling "witch hunt" and "con job" during her testimony, Judge Lewis Kaplan said, "I hope I don't have to consider excluding you from the trial...I understand you are probably very eager for me to do that."  "I would love it, I would love it," the defendant said.  "So I can whine about being silenced," he didn't say.   "You just can't control yourself in this circumstance apparently," remarked Kaplan.  It's a symptom of cognitive decline.  In New Hampshire, Trump reminisced about the beginning of this disaster in 2015 when he and "the great first lady" came down the "Escalade."  He's still struggling to remember her name.

John "Put Some Clothes On That Statue of Justice" Ashcroft -- W's AG, you remember -- must have spawned at some point because there's a Jay Ashcroft who is Missouri's secretary of state.  He's been threatening to remove Joe Biden from the state's primary ballot because other states have been mean to Trump.  Boris Sanchez of CNN asked, "What would be your justification?  Has he engaged in your mind in some kind of insurrection?"  Floundering, Ashcroft suggested that Sanchez is "scared of the truth," then made vague references to the border.  He would have been better off citing the legal precedent of "He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue."  (Malone v. Capone, The Untouchables, 1987).  

His speakership already tottering to its basis, Mike Johnson made another loud and insanitary enemy today when he said during a press conference that Biden's presidency "must have been God's will."  Steve Bannon exploded:  "Have you lost your freaking mind?  This election was stolen!"  Then it got weird:  "Guys like Johnson are gonna lead to mass conversions to Islam by young men.  Wait for it.  If that's what Christianity gives you as far as being a warrior when you roll over to your enemies, disgusting!"  Hey, Steve, remember this?  "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you."  What was that guy talking about?  Pussy.

If the mosques are filled with Trumpanzees this Friday, I'll be as surprised as anyone.