Swing and a miss

 Margie Greene forged ahead with her hopeless attempt to change Speakers again, and her Motion to vacate was tabled by a vote of 359-43.  That's parliamentary language for "Don't waste our time, we're busy doing the nation's business."  Like the Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act (HOOHA), which stands a good chance of passage.  If so, it will open the door to the Refrigerator Freedom Act, the Liberty in Laundry Act -- look, at some point you think they're just writing parody.  They're not.  Margie denounced the "uniparty," which is what she used to call "communism."  I think there was a cease-and-desist letter from attorneys representing the descendants of Trotsky.  Or maybe I have a brain worm.

It's hard to tell.  Everything seems blurred at the edges, like Prospero's "insubstantial pageant."  Like the comedy stylings of Mike Collins, coming off his celebration of racism at Ole Miss:  "You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain."  How does he come up with these zingers?  Or Tulsi Gabbard assuring Piers Morgan that despite never having killed a dog she would love to be chosen by Trump.  Or third-stringer Ann Coulter telling fourth-stringer Vivek Ramaswamy that he's very "articulate" but she couldn't say that if he were Black because she would be called a racist, which would be very hurtful.  To her.

Surprisingly Gabbard was not at the Victory Day parade in Moscow, described as "pared down" because they expected to have a post-1945 victory to celebrate by now.  It featured a single T-34 tank, all the rest being at the front.  With that ends the annual Nine Days That Cause the World to Shrug and it's back to soliciting bribes and kidnapping children.

 

Michael Flynn, another VP wannabe, announces the launch of a new venture, MAGA Realty.  "As part of our commitment to the 2nd Amendment and to make liberals [sic] heads explode, we are giving an AR-15 to every Client that uses Revere Realty.  *Certain conditions apply contact for details."  The part about exploding heads is disturbing, but not in a Mike Collins way.  Revere is the old name; the web page is still under construction.  Never mind the weaponry, can you find me a one-bedroom for less than three thousand a month?

The Biden administration paused bomb deliveries to Israel following the rejection of the ceasefire and the attack on Rafah, causing Netanyahu to go full Churchill:  "If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone.  If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails."  Then he reached back to the 1948 war for independence, which is not a bit like Russia's obsession with the German surrender three years earlier.  The exchange triggered one of the worms in Trump's brain and he waddled out of the courthouse to repeat his condemnation of Jews who refuse to vote for him.  In other words, your basic Thursday.

Climate Power cheered more than three hundred initiatives of the Biden administration, saying he has "delivered more climate action than any other president in American history."  At around the same time, Trump was hosting oil executives at Motel a Lago and demanding they give him a billion dollars so he can take back the White House and roll back every one of them, starting with the hated windmills.  How do you feel about breathing?

Calling it "a stain on not only society but the entire dating culture," Trump operative John McEntee promises that the coming Reich will ban pornography, adding, "The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned."  I'm sure that has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels.  Oh, John, pornography (which once included the writings of Margaret Sanger and Alfred Kinsey) has been banned and banned and it never went away.  Have you heard about the internet?  We've tried banning abortion, contraception, prostitution, liquor, gambling, cockfighting, drugs, and every kind of sex except man-on-top-of-woman.  Drives up the price and often increases demand.  But you keep on trying.  Bless your heart.

New frontiers in nepotism:  Congratulations to Barron Trump on his first job after high school.  He will be an at-large delegate from Florida when the Milwaukee convention ceremonially nominates his father for president.  I'm sure he got the job on merit and not because his sister-in-law is party chair.  Or because the whole party is a terrified MAGA cult.  A dynasty is born.