They're on it

 

Even with no more Bidens to impeach, the House Oversight Committee remains a three-ring circus of clowns and animal tamers.  This week they held a matinee performance called "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena:  Exposing the Truth" and naturally the star was Lauren Boebert.  There were four UFO "experts," and she questioned them on some rumors she heard about the Defense Department using "non-human genetic material" to enhance human capabilities.  None of the four had heard the same rumors, which probably involved the gentlelady from Colorado dozing off during a rerun of "The Six Million Dollar Man."  Boebert was specifically focused on "oceanic UAPs," because the possibility of civilizations beneath the sea is a major concern for Colorado voters.  "We will not relent until we get those answers to the American people," she vowed.  

We are in good hand hands.

Twenty-four hours later they were back under the Big Top to discuss "Preparing for the Next Pandemic:  Lessons Learned and the Path Forward," featuring the conspiracy theorizing of Margie Greene.  Covid, she trilled, was a "crime against humanity" created by mad scientists like Anthony Fauci to sell vaccines or something, but Matt Gaetz will ensure that it never happens again.  Then she vanished in a puff of red smoke.  I wish.

Trump continues to act out his hatred of all Americans, not just the foreign-born -- or as the New York Times spins it, "take on the pillars of the 'Deep State.'"  As expected, Roadkill Bob Kennedy and his companion Biff the Brain Worm will be in charge of Health and Human Services, vowing to end vaccines, fluoridation and pasteurized dairy products in the name of Making America Healthy Again.  Like we were in the nineteenth century, the occasional outbreak of cholera, yellow fever and typhoid notwithstanding.  And remember what great teeth grandma had?  (The Official Announcement is a little Masterpiece of Trumpian prose, replete with needless Capitalizations and phrases like "Gold Standard Scientific Research."  Try it for laughs.)

Meanwhile Mr. Tats...

...is unlikely to be squeamish about using the military against America's real menace, The Enemy Within.  The new Secretary Pete was investigated for a sexual assault in California in 2017 but no charges were filed.  The complainant probably mistook him for another man covered in medieval markings.  Anyway, we know how he first attracted Trump's attention.

Let's play a round of It Could Have Been Worse.  Allies are quietly suggesting that they would be more comfortable sharing intelligence with Hezbollah than with Tulsi Gabbard, but Laura Loomer would have been worse, right?  Roadkill Bob is going to kill more Americans than covid, but Stella Immanuel did a pretty good job, treating patients with hydroxychloroquine -- and she's a Christian preacher, too.  This planet's dying -- Doug Burgum at Interior will just speed it up.  Speaking of which:  cancelling the Biden tax credit for electric vehicles will at least stick it to Elon Musk just as he starts sticking it to all but the richest Americans.  

And in Some Things Never Change, Eric Hovde (Wisconsin) and Kari Lake (Arizona) can't believe they lost their elections and won't get to dress up and play senator next year.  They won't concede!  Won't, won't, WON'T!  So there!  The Constitution says you must be 30 to be a senator, but that's chronological age, not emotional.  

The Washington Post reports that Americans who know or suspect that they're on the Trump Retribution List are getting their passports in order and scoping out good places to go into exile.  Mark Zaid, a lawyer who has represented government whistleblowers, says, "Thankfully, this isn't the 1930s; we have time to make decisions about what will be done and where people can go."  He means, of course, Germany in the 1930s.  We benefited enormously from the scientists, writers, academics, artists and ordinary Jewish citizens who were lucky enough to be admitted to this country despite its onerous immigration laws in the 1930s.  Who will reap the rewards of not being Trumplandia?

Enjoy your weekend.  It may be a long time before you see New England in autumn again.