"Finish them"

 Donald Trump, historian, offered this insight to a gathering of Jewish donors:  "You know, you go back through history, this is just like before the Holocaust.  I swear.  If you look, it's the same thing.  You had a weak president or head of the country.  And it just built and built.  And then all of a sudden you ended up with Hitler.  You ended up with a problem like nobody knew."

If a fourteen-year-old came up with this in a class on twentieth century history, they would fail.  It's gibberish.  But I assume the checks got written because what they really came for was the pledge to support Israel until the Palestinian people have been expelled or exterminated.  That's the twenty-first century Holocaust and the MAGAs are here for it, from Trump promising to throw out of his country "any student that protests" to Nikki Haley writing "FINISH THEM" on Israeli artillery shells.  She may have called Trump unhinged and unfit, but the prodigal daughter has returned.  Haley's a Republican, so her moral compass never had a needle.

The whole cult is equally lost.  On Monday some fool tried to deliver a January 6 "Memorial Stone" to Arlington National Cemetery painted with the names of insurrectionists, including their official martyr Ashli Babbitt.  Part of their myth involves Rosanne Boyland, who died of a drug overdose; they have some fake video which purports to show police beating her.  The donation was refused.  Meanwhile a plaque honoring the police officers who lost their lives defending the Capitol that day was supposed to be unveiled in March 2023 as required by law.   Speaker Mouse Turd has no explanation other than his obvious fear of Trump and his thugs.  For someone who holds his job through the benevolence of Hakeem Jeffries, that's either brave or stupid.

If there are class action lawsuits beyond the River Styx, a bunch of people Trump has favorably compared himself to should serve him as he steps off the ferry:  Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Elvis Presley, Ronald Reagan, Jesus Christ, and now Mother Teresa, a/k/a St. Teresa of Kolkata.  As the jury began deliberations he waddled into the now-familiar Trump pen with his lawyer and his imaginary concertina and began to rant: 

"Mother Teresa could not beat those charges but we'll see.  We'll see how we do.  It's a very disgraceful situation.  Every single legal scholar said there's no case and it shouldn't be brought."  I'm sensing a lack of confidence.  The defendant was more expansive last night on TRUTH SOCIAL:  

Sure you are.  You could have taken the stand.  Judge Merchan told you that.  Your dollar-store lawyers probably told you that, with panic in their eyes.  You left it to them to "rebut or correct" the prosecution, without reference to George Soros, Taylor Swift, Robert DeNiro, Ken Burns or anyone else you're currently blaming your troubles on.  Now shut up.  Sorry you thought the prosecution's summing up was boring, since you slept through so much of the actual testimony.

I'm surprised you found it tedious to listen to someone talk about you for five hours.  Did you happen to catch Ken Burns at Brandeis University?  Here, I'll embed it for you.

"No real choice."