The most wonderful time of the year

 ...and everybody is pissed off.

James Comer's butt is hurt because Joe Biden exercised his Constitutional power to pardon his son.  After alleging that the administration is obstructing his righteous efforts to investigate the "Biden crime family," despite the fruitless years he and the Comettes have devoted to it, he's threatening to make the Leader's turbocharged Justice Department continue the harassment until every last Biden is imprisoned or dead.  Goldurnit, they must have done something!  

Penelope Hegseth sent her son Pete an email in 2018, maybe because he wouldn't take her calls:  "You are an abuser of women -- that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego.  You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that but it is the sad, sad truth."  She says she subsequently apologized and is very angry that the New York Times not only got the email but, uncharacteristically, published it.  Now she says he is a good father and husband.  I guess she doesn't read The New Yorker.

The Leader has a string of grifts going right now, including a repackaged version of the cologne he was peddling in 2011 and a particularly ugly guitar.  Beneath the screaming eagle paint job Gibson discerned the distinctive shape of its Les Paul model, and the Nashville company has sent a cease-and-desist letter:  signing the guitar does not give him the right to sell it.   By way of response, I suppose, he posted this AI depiction of himself groping Elvis Presley, who is not playing a Les Paul.

South Korea is in chaos after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and depicted his political opponents as "shameless pro-North Korean anti-state forces."  The National Assembly has voted to set aside his declaration, despite being occupied by the military.  (How easily this can happen.)  New York Times readers looking for clarity were instead confronted by a much more important story.  The Hunter Biden pardon is getting the kind of hair-on-fire coverage not seen since Lewinskigate.  And only Jeffrey Toobin ("Biden's Pardon for his Son Dishonors the Office") is labeled "opinion."  If you cancelled your subscription over the paper's presidential endorsement cowardice, can you cancel it again?

Speaking of dishonor, the Leader's flunkies are already targeting the scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce standards for drinking water and it isn't even Day One.  James Comer -- him again -- is complaining that scientific integrity will "hamstring the incoming Trump administration's ability to implement their own executive agendas."  Drink up while you still can.

Black Republicans who swallowed vast amounts of sewage to support the racist rapist are said to be unhappy that no plum appointments have come their way.  An unnamed Trumper said, "I can't tweet that we need more Black conservatives because the left will attack me saying it's a DEI hire."  Yeah, we're snarky that way, since Rightzis call every Black appointment by a Democrat a DEI hire.  Payback is a bitch.  Cheer up, you could still be made ambassador to a "shithole country."  

Finally!  Cat-eating in Ohio has been documented.  Allexis T. Ferrell has been sentenced to three years in prison for killing and eating a cat after pleading guilty to cruelty to animals.  It happened in Canton, 170 miles from Springfield, and Ferrell is a US citizen, but everything else checks out.  It was her bad luck to draw a judge who ignored descriptions of mental instability in her psych report and is also a cat lover:  "An animal's like a child...they bring a lot of love to a lot of people.  They don't have a voice, but their only voice today is me," Judge Frank Forchione said.  No dogs were involved.

At least somebody's happy.  "All of them are totally wonderful!" exclaimed Olga Skabeeva about the Leader's Team of Trifles (in Russian on Russian TV, of course).  "All of them personally despise Zelenskyy," agreed her husband Evgeny Popov -- they're the Joe and Mika of Kremlin propaganda.  There's not much they can do about the mess in Syria or the three-week "special operation" in Ukraine until January, or the unfortunate and totally accidental death of ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov, another victim of treacherous Russian gravity, but good times are just around the corner.  

Or are they?  Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994 in return for security assurances from the US, Britain and Russia.  I think it's safe to say that Russia has violated the fuck out of the Budapest Memorandum, rendering it null and void.  Now that everyone has already decided that Joe Biden is the Worst Person in the World, it would be a good time to hand them back.  Jake Sullivan told ABC News that it's not under consideration, but we know what a big liar Biden is.  Putin is an even bigger liar and I'll bet his nukes don't even work.  Put up or shut up, little man, we're tired of you thumping your flabby chest.  Your droogs drank the missile fuel years ago and you can't even keep your sewers from exploding.  To quote a famous American Christmas movie, "I triple dog dare you."

  Expect more such outbursts in the years to come.  I'm sitting on a lot of rage here.