No turning back?

 Trump hates dogs but he loves polls, so when he saw that 81 percent of Americans disapproved of Kristi Noem shooting her puppy Cricket, he dumped her faster than Jeff Sessions.  In January, pretending to have read her book, he pronounced it "a hard hitting story of a very interesting life" and urged TRUTHers to "Get it now!"  Fortunately for him, most MAGAts have the memory capacity of a goldfish.

The word of the day is "submitted."  As in, bowed down before Trump's dominance.  He re-posted a QAnon video claiming that a cross-section of world leaders "submitted" to him.  It's hilarious.  I note that "UltraMagaRocky0017" omits the United Nations General Assembly, which famously greeted his single speech with laughter.  To get the full flavor you have to watch him handing an enormous trophy to a sumo, who of course bows.  Yes, even traditional Japanese wrestling knows it is in the presence of One Greater Than Itself.

And yet the Master of the Universe continues to obsess over a former Congresswoman from Wyoming.  He wants Liz Cheney prosecuted for "withholding evidence" about January 6 that would have exonerated him.  As always, no such evidence is detailed, but maybe Joe Biden sent a violent mob to the Capitol that day after outfitting them with dumb costumes and Trump flags.  It sounds like something he would do, and only Cheney know the truth.  She didn't even share with Adam Kinzinger, the other Republican who sacrificed his career to serve on the House Select Committee.  

He also spent Melania's birthday raving about "Democrat plant" Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., more evidence that Kennedy is drawing off the low-information, low-IQ voters that Trump relies on.  Also, according to Maggie Haberman (who he now hates and inventively calls "Maggot"), Trump is mad at his lawyer Todd Blanche for not being aggressive enough in attacking the judge, the witnesses and the jury.  Also, he charges too much.  Not sorry for Blanche, who could have said no.  I know of a parking garage in Florida that's looking for legal representation.  In other Kennedy news, the racist American Independent Party is putting him on the ballot in California.  He will be a worthy successor to its first nominee in 1968, George C. Wallace.

It's about to get worse for Trump, as the Constitution Party nominates Randall Terry for president.  You may remember this huckleberry from "Operation Rescue," the fanatical anti-choice group he founded to harass women and clinics.  Since Trump keeps waffling on how he would ban abortion at six weeks or fifteen weeks or leave it up to the states or have doctors toss a coin, Terry could swoop in and claim the votes of fanatical woman-haters.  Terry acknowledges that he can't win, he just enjoys running TV ads with pictures of aborted fetuses.  He's only on the ballot in twelve states, but two of them are Michigan and Wisconsin.

Indicted yet again in the Arizona fake-elector scam, Rudolph Giuliani responded with his customary dignified reserve:  "This is just straight-out communist corruption.  These people are massive crooks, the people in Arizona.  They're despicable anti-American traitors."  Please do not use the word "communist," as it has been emptied of all meaning.  I've spoken to Webster's about dropping it officially.

It looks like Trump's white rural rage demographic can expect more urgent demands for money.  His pal Steven Witkoff tried to throw a $250,000-a-ticket fundraiser at the Paddock Club during the Miami Grand Prix Formula One race on May 5, but the organizers got wind of it.  No political stuff allowed.  Witkoff testified in the Trump Organization fraud trial, to no avail.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat? Pink Floyd asked.  Spare a thought for Joe Biden, attacked for eating ice cream and salad.  Eric Bolling of -- some right-wing outfit, does it matter which? -- practically shat himself complaining of the way Biden deliberately ate his salad at the White House Correspondents Dinner.  Come on, Eric, isn't it the very fact of eating salad like some woke Michelle Obama food nazi that you can't handle?  You'd like him to show up at a Chik-Fil-A salted with "Ridin' with Biden" voters and buy them all some ghastly sandwiches, wouldn't you?  Have you ever eaten a salad?  It's not easy to scarf it down with gusto, especially when millions of people are hoping you'll end up with lettuce on your shirt.  

I can understand Bolling having nothing better to do on a Saturday night than watch the dinner on C-SPAN, but how did Trump find it?  And why was he not out "campaigning"?  "Colin Jost BOMBED and Crooked Joe was an absolute disaster!" wrote the TV critic of TRUTH SOCIAL.  In other words, like Obama in 2015 they made fun of him.  Must have revenge!

Trump appears to be napping through another day in Judge Merchan's gulag, waking long enough to hear the good news that he can attend the tall kid's high school graduation on May 17.  No doubt he will demand to address the crowd, while Barron dreams of digging a hole and crawling in.  Earlier in the day he was ordered to pay $9,000 in contempt of court fines and reminded that jail is a possibility.  He managed not to smirk.

Why are pro-Palestinian demonstrators on numerous US campuses wearing masks? asks the Guardian.  Arrests, expulsions, doxing, professional repercussions, blacklisting, online harassment, could be one of those.  Also, the scarves afford some protection against police with teargas.  If only the Founders had thought to include some protection for peaceful protest in their Constitution, or one of its Amendments.