Freaky Thursday

 Back in 2001 when Antonin Scalia told Lesley Stahl to "get over it" rather than justify the outrageous Bush v. Gore decision (and smirked), we should have known what was coming:  We can do whatever we want and you can't stop us.  Why is anyone surprised that Samuel Alito doesn't even try to look impartial in his support for Trump and theocracy?  He hasn't donned gold sneakers and a MAGA hat but he stops just short of taking responsibility for those flags that someone attaches to his flagpoles.  The only thing left is to yank open his robe and show America his flagpole.

In the now predictable 6-3 pattern the "court" upheld South Carolina's racially gerrymandered first Congressional district.  Alito's decision suggested that it only looks gerrymandered because Black voters tend to vote Democratic, or as he put it, "when partisanship and race correlate."  A nice gift to Nancy Mace, who just happens to represent it.  Since the six do nothing gratis, I wonder what she did for them.

Theocracy is no longer a threat.  In Texas an anti-choice doctor who says nine-year-old girls can safely give birth was appointed to a committee which reviews maternal deaths.  In Louisiana mifepristone and mifeprostol are now controlled substances.  Additionally, public schools will have to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom; the Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that a similar law in Kentucky violated the establishment clause, but the religious fanatics like their chances with this bunch.  

Believe it or not, even contraception is on the table in post-Sanger America.  Chuck Schumer decided it was time to introduce a bill protecting the right to contraception after Trump declared his support for it and then his opposition, depending on which printout Natalie Harp handed him last.  He's a little foggy, with no trial to nap through and the thunderbolt of the Big Biden Assassination Murder Plot.  

"WOW!  I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the 'Icebox,' and was shown reports that Crooked Joe's DOJ, in their illegal and unConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE," he raved.  "I nearly escaped death."   Of course, Trump wasn't home when the search was carried out, but maybe Dark Brandon can kill fatally with his mind.

A near escape, which is probably why Trump got a little confused and said too much.  "Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume office...Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!"  Eight years after Hillary Clinton accused him of colluding with Russia, he finally confirms it.  Thanks, Mr, Puppet.  

The news won't upset Nikki Haley, who called Trump "unstable and unhinged," "just toxic" and "like suicide for our country."  She is of course voting for him, and he will of course continue to call her "bird brain," but with more justification.  It's like Lincoln's team of rivals, only with hacks drained of all self-respect.

Last February a picture on Xitter showed three persons, apparently Native Americans, flipping off Mount Rushmore, captioned, "FUCK THE USA...IT'S ALL STOLEN LAND."  All-American killer Kyle Rittenhouse retorted, "Then leave."  I'm sorry, but the Marx Brothers (and screenwriter S.J. Perelman) made this joke ninety years ago in Monkey Business.  To a costume party guest in a feathered headdress who objects to one of his insults, Groucho snaps, "If you don't like our country, go back where you came from."  It was funnier because they weren't nasty little criminals who got lucky.

A Reuters-Ipsos poll found that two out of three Americans fear violence will follow the 2024 election.  Are we supposed to re-install Trump so the violence will be delayed until January 20, 2025, also known as Day One?  Reuters-Ipsos doesn't say.

The House shut down for an hour yesterday but not for a good reason, like a Boebert-Greene knife fight in the cloakroom.  Jim McGovern (D-MA) had his words censored from the Congressional Record because they were critical of Dear Leader and the Republican snowflakes melted.  "Republicans are skipping their real jobs to take day trips to New York to try to undermine Trump's criminal trial."  They have "no time to work with Democrats but plenty of time to put on weird matching cult uniforms and stand behind Trump with their bright red ties like pathetic props...their candidate has been indicted more times than he's been elected."  He got into a parliamentary wrangle with a seriously outgunned Jerry Carl (R-AL), presiding in the absence of Speaker Mouse Turd.  "It's against the rules for me to even acknowledge that the trials exist," McGovern observed.  The People's House. 

Speaking of the parliamentary, Rishi Sunak stood in the rain yesterday and announced a snap general election for the UK on July 4.  Americans can pop a brew and enjoy the spectacle of another democracy trying not to garrot itself.