Tumblers, grumblers, fumblers, bumblers

 Based on the last week, MAGA voters have given us a vexing four years to look forward to.

I'm not even sure who's in charge now, much less in January.  Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries agree on a government funding bill and then some South African tells Trump to tell the Republicans not to vote for it.  In return, Margie Greene and Randy Paul demand the South African be appointed Speaker.  Ex-con Steve Bannon calls Johnson "a Democrat.  He holds the Bible."  He goes on with a weird rant about "no Social Security checks...Granny's going to freeze...NORAD not going to track Santa Claus...the media...big old shotgun to your head..."  Sounds like PTSD.  Did they force him to shower in prison?

Trump now insists the looming shutdown "is a Biden problem to solve," because it's December.  Everything was perfect four years ago and now it's shit.  Apparently the Federal Reserve disagrees as it cuts interest rates once again.  

For comic relief, we found a Congressman who doesn't want his picture taken.  Rep. David Scott (D-GA) yelled at someone from Politico photographing him in a wheelchair entering the Capitol.  Scott is 79, and it has been suggested that he may not be as cogent as he once was.  


Or he could be the sharpest person around.  Chip Roy (R-TX) defied Trump to rail against raising the debt ceiling, only to be denounced as "just another ambitious guy with no talent," whatever that means, and threatened with "talented challengers...getting ready to go after Chip in the Primary."  Talent unspecified -- maybe they sing and do rope tricks.  In any case, it looks like the debt ceiling won't be hoisted by the $5 trillion Musk or Trump or Ramaswamy or Some Other Dipshit wants.  

Senator Mike Lee, who has no say in the matter, has thrown Ramaswamy's name into the Speaker running.  Maybe he's afraid Musk won't have time for the job now that he's actively promoting the neo-Nazi Alternativ fur Deutschland in the German election and putting money behind the ludicrous "People's Vote" far-right effort in the UK.  Wrecking three democracies at once is thirsty work!

All this shit-storming has broken Sean Hannity.  Tim Walz posted a video of his family Christmas tree (not the official one in the St. Paul capitol) being decorated with ornaments made by his children.  SpongeSean Squarepants nearly exploded.  "I wonder if they put any feminine hygiene products on the tree," he wondered to the equally disgusting Rachel Campos-Duffy.  "Notice they don't call their tree a Christmas tree, it's a family tree," she riposted.  "These guys were such communists...I mean these people are very strange."  SpongeSean can't stop obsessing about tampons, and Jason Chaffetz (where the hell did he come from?) insists they put a "a toilet paper roll" on top.   I'm pretty anti-Christmas but these sad, shriveled people make me feel like Tiny Tim.  That's Cratchit, Spongy, not Walz.


Appalling.

Now these are fooking Christmas trees.  Bare, bloody looking...say, you know what they remind me of?




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