Everything old is new again
I didn't know anyone was still using pagers, but they're still popular with Hezbollah. Nine of its members died and several thousand others were injured when their pagers exploded in Lebanon. Not all of them were terrorists -- the Lebanese health minister said one victim was a ten-year-old girl -- but if Israel has this capability, why are they bombing hospitals, schools and refugee camps? Ironically, Hezbollah began using pagers to avoid being traced by their cell phones. They have of course vowed revenge -- maybe with letter bombs. (Amazon still sells pagers. I just checked.)
Taking their cue from Dean Martin and the Friars Club, the Proud Boys and funnyman Milo Yiannopoulos announce a "roast" of Kamala Harris tomorrow night at the Columbia campus of the University of South Carolina. The organizer is the South Carolina chapter of Uncensored America, whose mission is to fight "censorship and cancel culture" through "honest and fun conversations with controversial figures." Sadly Proud Boys founder Enrique Tarrio will not be one of them, as he is serving twenty-two years for seditious conspiracy. More than 26,000 students signed an online petition calling on the university to stop the show, but they clearly have a problem with free speech (i.e., racism, sexism and homophobia).
Gesturing toward his crotch, gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson can be seen in a 2022 video telling young women they need to "get this under control." Not his, theirs. He's not talking about his regular visits to porn shops but his opposition to abortion and birth control. "Here's how you don't have a baby. You don't have what you do to make a baby until you're ready to have that baby." In other words, abstinence for her, XXX tapes for him. Coo-coo-cachoo, Mr. Robinson, this election is about women getting their bodies "under control" instead of losing it to hypocritical Trumpanzees like you. That's why Josh Stein is running away with it. Keep talking. Did your wife pay the money she owed the Girl Scouts?
"The depths to which our society in the age of Trump have [sic] fallen is unprecedented in our history." Don't guess, I'll tell you -- Peter Navarro, fresh from serving his time for contempt of Congress. Unable to get a real job like many ex-cons, Navarro is the fill-in host of "Real America's Voice" while Steve Bannon is, uh, away, and has been reduced to flying on Southwest Airlines with the rabble. They don't even have a first-class section! He was exiting the plane one day when a woman, "middle age, middle class, little chubby," yelled, "Go back to prison!" Where does she get off, speaking to him like that in public? "And wants to take my freedom away from me!" I'm not sure a Southwest passenger has that capability, but maybe check the back of the ticket.
Then he really lost it. "Kamala Harris, do not apologize or say there's no place for any violence when you are the perpetrator! When Merrick Garland is the perpetrator, when Jack Smith is the perpetrator, when Fani Willis is the perpetrator, when Juan Merchan is the perpetrator! These people are scum! You are scum! You are violent scum! It's time to put that to rest!" Jeez, Pete, what did they do to you in prison? "Anybody in this country now thinks they can say anything the hell they want to anybody anywhere!"
He's right. They can threaten violence and order their mobs to carry it out. They can promise revenge and bloodshed and lie about people eating cats and dogs. They can make crude sexual jokes about presidential candidates. They can invent wild stories about gender-altering surgery in prisons and elementary schools. They can threaten to deport millions regardless of immigration status. And chubby middle-class women can humiliate very important people on planes with no fear of consequences. The country has gone to hell, Pete. Why don't you?
At the risk of sounding like Groundhog Day, the Republicans are threatening to shut down the federal government again. Sing it with me: "I got you, babe..."
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