Bootlickers

 


We need to talk about language.  English has so many colorful expressions going to waste and we should honor this guy for his creativity and his sign-making skills.  It's even broadcastable.

Margie Greene thought she could play the Dozens, the time-honored game of insult, with Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  The CrossFit Cracker soon found she had brought a spoon to a gunfight.  The alleged purpose of the Oversight Committee, which has already foundered in attempts to impeach Joe Biden, was to discuss a contempt citation of Merrick Garland for refusing to provide the Hur tapes over which Biden exercised executive privilege.  (They already have transcripts but they figure to make fun of Biden's stutter because they're desperate.)  Right off, Cracker began demanding to know if any Democrats had hired Judge Juan Merchan's daughter's consulting firm.  Crockett:  "You know we're here about AG Garland?"  Cracker:  "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you're reading."  (It is no longer cool to comment on a Black woman's appearance but they didn't get the message in all parts of Georgia.)  Jamie Raskin:  "That's beneath even you, Ms. Greene."  

There was a chaotic exchange where CrossFit refused to apologize and AOC demanded her words be taken down.  Crockett:  "I'm just curious...If someone on this committee starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?"  Chairman Comer was almost pitiable in his inability to figure out what was going on.  As Raskin stifled his laughter, Comer called time-out.  What could possibly top that?  Lauren Boebert, thank you very much, Handy Oakley her own self, offering "an apology to the American people."  Because she hates MTG as much as she hates AOC.  (When she made her ritual appearance at the Trump trial, spectators chanted, "Beetlejuice!  Beetlejuice!"  I love New York.)


Then there's symbolic language.  This is the surprisingly modest home of Martha-Ann and Samuel Alito on January 17, 2021, as the Supreme Court was deciding whether to hear a challenge to the 2020 election.  (They chose not to, despite Alito.)  The upside-down flag is an internationally recognized distress signal popular with Trumpites but Alito says he had nothing to do with it, must have been Martha-Ann's little joke.  An unamused neighbor snapped this photo and kept it private until now, as the Court ponders US v. Donald Trump (the "presidential immunity" gag).  Some people think Alito should recuse himself.  Some people think the earth is flat.

Florida just experienced its hottest year since 1895, with rising sea levels and storms of increasing severity.  To address these problems it will promote the use of natural gas and reduce wind power and regulation of gas pipelines.  And of course ban the word "climate" from as many places as possible, because words have magical power and they don't cost anything.  Ron DeSantis calls this "restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots," which is a strange way to talk about people who want to not die from the heat.  Hurricane season officially begins in two weeks.  

"Bleach blonde bad-built butch body" -- heh.


















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