Swing and a miss

The Rightzis sometimes give the impression of being tightly organized, with so-called news organizations in lockstep with SuperPACs and religious corporations, but there's an awful lot of flailing going on.  They have never worried much about consistency and now they're picking targets at random, a little like the Russian army.

For example, Charlie Kirk has decided it would be popular with the MAGAts to attack women's basketball.  It's not as if Caitlin Clark's salary of $76,000 a year compares with what an NBA bench jockey gets, but the rivalry between her and Angel Reese is already being compared to Magic Johnson and Larry Bird over four decades ago.  WNBA games draw large, enthusiastic crowds and take up space on America's surviving sports pages that isn't being devoted to the boys.  So Kirk, known to have issues with women anyway, announced based on nothing that only LGBTQ people attend the games and has called for "Straight Night."  Everyone knows how oppressed straight people -- be fair, straight men -- are in a country where a few Pride flags have not been pulled down.  Won't someone think of their wounded self-esteem?  Charlie will.  His fellow idiot Blake Neff dismissed the whole idea that women should play sports at all, so presumably Real Men wouldn't attend even on Straight Night.  Flailing doesn't have to make sense.

Men like Kirk and Neff would like their women to be at home popping out babies.  But a study by Johns Hopkins suggests that isn't working out.  Since Texas imposed a six-week abortion ban in September 2021, states with equally restrictive laws are seeing a spike in infant mortality because women are forced to carry to term fetuses with severe abnormalities which cannot be detected so early in a pregnancy.  When the babies die or are born dead, the suffering of the mothers and indeed the whole family is intensified.  In other words, it's working as planned.  Perhaps the definition of an Alito Abortion ("forgetting" a baby in a hot car) could be extended to include this form of Christonazi sadism.

The daycare center for crack babies formerly known as the House of Representatives is working on a cunning plan to save Steve Bannon from his date with the prison de-louser:  They want to pretend that the January 6 committee he blew off never existed.  This would create a precedent for future Congresses to erase all the actions of this one, but Mouse Turd Johnson is not capable of thinking that far ahead.  He has his orders and they come from Motel a Lago, not Mount Sinai.  What other act of a previous Congress would they like to undo?  Could it be the reviled Fourteenth Amendment?  Would that require that three-quarters of the states invalidate it, too?  Are they really prepared to rip up the space-time continuum for the mephitic Bannon?

Trump is such an ingrained liar that he will even lie about lunch.  In Philadelphia for a hate event he went to Tony and Nick's for the local specialty, cheesesteak.  His comment:  "Oh, that was good.  I haven't sampled it yet but I will, in a little while."  Nobody pointed out the contradiction, obvious to any six-year-old.  

Finally some consistency -- and from the Supreme Court!  In a 6-3 ruling they narrowed the scope of a federal corruption law under which an Indiana mayor was convicted.  From Brett Kavanaugh:  "Some gratuities can be problematic.  Others are commonplace and might be innocuous."  To which Ketanji Brown Jackson retorted that it's "an absurd and atextual reading...that only today's court could love."  Ouch.  Thanks, Brett, your RV is in the mail.

The settlement of a voting rights case means the end of Jim Crow in Newbern, Alabama.  The town will hold its first official election in sixty years and Patrick Braxton will be reinstated as its first Black mayor.  Happy Juneteenth and welcome to the 21st century.

And another historical wrong is righted, as President Biden extends clemency to veterans who were convicted by military courts of sodomy between 1951 and 2013.  Or as the Uniform Code of Military Justice called it, "unnatural carnal copulation."  Those who qualify can have their discharges modified and receive benefits that were withheld.  They can also join the rest of us in enjoying the tears of the Christonazis.

Meidas, you got there first:  "Trump Celebrates Lauren Boebert Beating Off Primary Opponents in New District."  They also have her winning "handily."  Come on, leave something for the rest of us.