Department of Redundancy Department

 


Defying political correctness, Trump blacks up and promises to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.  

Are you enjoying your Saturday?  Joe Biden is not.  He had to return to Washington from Delaware because Benjamin Netanyahu is a psychopath.  In the middle of total (if one-sided) war on Hamas/Gaza, he apparently authorized the destruction of the Iranian consular office in Damascus, killing several high-ranking members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.  Now Iran has seized an Israel-affiliated container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.  Biden has spent the last six months trying to calm Bibi down and decided he'd better be in the office in case it all kicks off.  

Deja vu all over again:  Argentina faces a public health catastrophe as dengue fever infected 233,000 people in the first quarter of this year.  The government seems paralyzed, not even trying to eradicate the mosquitoes which carry the disease.  A vaccine exists but the government says there is no reason to believe it is effective and in any case it would not help those already infected.  Nevertheless, those who can pay around $150 are obtaining it from private clinics.  Most people cannot -- 57 percent of the population live in poverty.  Any day now, expect President Milei to complain that it's a conspiracy to make his administration look bad.  At least he hasn't recommended drinking bleach or shining ultraviolet light inside body cavities.  Dengue is also called breakbone fever because it feels like your bones are breaking.

Malcolm LaVergne, the executor of O.J. Simpson's estate, says he will prevent the families of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman from recovering any of the $33.5 million judgment they won in 1997, when a civil jury found Simpson liable for their deaths.  Meanwhile E. Jean Carroll, who has won almost $90 million from Trump without seeing a cent, had to turn her unlicensed handgun over to the police in Warwick, New York.  Alex Jones has a new "book" out but has not paid any of the $1.5 billion he owes the Sandy Hook parents, even after they offered to settle for $85 million.  Instead of passing laws against things that are already illegal, maybe the House Clown Caucus could look at ways to prevent those who lose civil suits from screwing their victims even from beyond the grave.

I hope Carroll will be safe.

Here we go:  Iran is launching armed drones toward Israel.

This example of 2024 political oratory needs to be quoted to be believed:

"You know, Al Capone, if he took somebody to dinner and he didn't like him, he'd kill them.  If somebody looked at him the wrong way he would kill them.  He once had a date, a very lovely young lady, and the man next to him tried to pick her up.  Guess what happened to him.  It wasn't good.  Scarface they call him.  It was not good to go after Alphonse Capone's girlfriend.  I'll teach that to these guys."

WHAT GUYS?






  


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I hate the poorly educated...

Image
 ...when they insist on electing one another. There's a halfwit running for governor of  Missour i on a promise to burn books outside the governor's mansion if it's the only way to protect children from "vulgar pornographic material."  It's not clear what set him off, probably The Diary of Anne Frank again.  If his flamethrower is out of gas, he is also open to bulldozing or "launching books into outer space," which is certainly creative.  (The flamethrower may displace the AR-15 as America's National Weapon, depending on how high Biden drives the price of gasoline.)    Book burning is nothing new, Gott weiss,  but its mainstreaming marks a new phase in American barbarism.  We know what we mean by Orwellian and Kafkaesque -- perhaps we need a new word:  Bradburian, and not only for the destruction of books and what they represent.  In Fahrenheit 451  Ray Bradbury posited a future where firemen would start fires instead of putti...
Read more

Going out of business

Image
 With polls sounding a death knell and red-hats leaving his rallies like they left the oven on, Trump has dimly seen his future.  That's why Trumpworld is holding a sale on all Bibles, gold sneakers (pre- and post-assassination styles), Victory47 cologne ("My eyes!  My eyes!") and the limited-edition Trump diapers: Get a jump on your Christmas shopping and remember who made it possible to say "Merry Christmas" again with a fabulous  Trump Victory Tourbillon watch,  only $100,000.  Three colors, 122 diamonds, only 147 available.  Or a shoddier version for $499 if you're impoverished by Bidenomics.  Profits will not go to the campaign, the website says, and when has Trump ever lied? "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress -- but I repeat myself," said Mark Twain, who died in 1910, so maybe it's always been this way.   Tommy Tuberville,  football's worst mistake, thinks Kamala Harris should drop out of the...
Read more

Still alive

Image
 The story so far...on the night of September 26 Hurricane Helene ignored the projections and thundered past Georgia, knocking out electricity.  Power was restored late on the afternoon of September 29, but internet took considerably longer.  Today we gave up on Comcast and shelled out for one of those AT&T hotspot deals, and just like that...well, I feel like Sweeney Todd ("At last, my arm is complete again!").  Thanks to MarkS for your words of concern.   I've spent the last four hours trying to catch up.  I can't decide whether two weeks without internet, cable and even radio has been a vacation or a nightmare.  My impression is that everything is the same only more so, politically speaking, possibly a little more surreal.  Are people really refusing FEMA aid because the cult has convinced them it's a plot to a. channel money to cat-eating Haitians, b. a plot to disguise the Democrats' control of the weather, or c. a plot to distract e...
Read more