It wasn't me

 I opened YouTube this morning and what do you think I was offered?  A video called "Joe Rogan Losing Patience With Joe Biden."  Excuse me?  A bit player ("News Radio") turned podcaster is losing patience with the President of the United States?  I nearly clicked on it just to savor the self-importance.  Fortunately there are plenty of better ways to do that.

We know the New York Times is in bunched-panties mode over Biden's refusal to submit to vetting by its editorial board, and that the publisher ordered multiple stories about his age in retaliation.  If Biden won the Tour de France they would barely mention it on the sports page, assuming the cheap bastards still have one.  Much farther down the food chain, radio and TV star Mark Levin wants Trump to let him sort through all the vice-presidential contenders and eliminate those who won't sit down with the famous Mark Levin.  "If they're not willing to come on this program and talk to me, and I speak to them on your behalf...that's a telltale sign that they have a problem with you, millions and millions and millions of you."  Who does this clown think he is, Paul Harvey?  Even Trump, the undisputed master of megalomania, might find this excessive.

Listen to any Trump Teleprompter speech and you will instantly know the difference between reading and reading with comprehension.  Kristi Noem seems to have a similar problem.  Although she recorded the audio version of her book, she didn't understand it.  The part about staring down Kim Jong-un went right by, with no suggestion that it was bullshit and should be changed.  So it's not her fault, it was the ghostwriter.  Also not her fault, the dog-killing story she relates with relish ("I hated that dog").  Turns out unspecified "farmers" expect you to "take responsibility for a dog like this and to do the right thing and that's what I did that day."  Also the family Cricket came from couldn't do a thing with it either, this dog was bad to the bone, this was a devil dog.  Maybe it's time to stop talking, before zombie Cricket rises from the grave and runs amok in South Dakota.  At any rate, stop promoting the book.

Over at the courthouse, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche also played Blame the Ghostwriter to distance his client from quotes like "If somebody screws you, screw them back.  When somebody hurts you, just go after them as viciously and violently as you can."  More damningly for purposes of this trial, "When you sign a check yourself you're seeing what's really going on inside your business."  There is no evidence that Trump read his many books, aloud or otherwise, but it sounds like his philosophy of life.  

 

Barron Trump reacts to the joyous news that Dad will attend his high school graduation.  No, wait.

The Minnesota Republican Party's Lincoln Reagan dinner just happens to fall on May 17, graduation day, the day Judge Juan Merchan agreed to pause the trial for this once-in-a-lifetime event.  Which one will Trump attend?  It's a conundrum!  Look at that kid -- he's used to being disappointed.  

We haven't heard much about George Soros since he retired from running his hedge fund and his foundation last year, but that doesn't mean the right has forgotten about him.  Not surprisingly, they have decided he must be the driving force behind the campus protests against Israeli atrocities in Gaza.  Soros is the only Holocaust survivor who is antisemitic and anti-Zionist and probably antimatter, too.  Because he supports progressive causes at the same financial level as Leonard Leo or Harlan Crow, anything goes.  Most Fox viewers assume that the producers Photoshop his photo to conceal the horns.  Any day now we'll be told that he also bankrolls Hamas.  No!  That was Netanyahu.

I should probably go back and check out that Rogan show.  It looks like a hothouse of ideas.  From last month, here he is discussing evolution with Tucker Carlson.  It's like a post-graduate seminar in derp.