As predicted

 "The Democrats are all 'giddy' about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at 'half mast' during my Inauguration.  They think it's so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don't love our Country, they only think about themselves."

There's a lot to unpack in that Troof, starting with Democrats' joy in the death of the thirty-ninth president and ending with the amazingly revealing "they only think about themselves."  I'm surprised that the Leader didn't accuse the Carter family of lying about the date of his demise just to ruin Donny's big day.  It's the same VAST CONSPIRACY that created all the empty seats last time.  I'm also surprised that he's insisting on attending Carter's state funeral in the National Cathedral.  Has he forgotten how long a walk it is from the entrance to the front row?  And there are steps.

Of course our "magnificent" flag has been lowered during other inaugurations -- those of Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman and Lyndon B, Johnson in the last century alone.  They also had even fewer onlookers.  But who am I to teach history to someone who was sent by God to make America great again, again?  Because one term wasn't enough greatness, apparently.  

He wasn't done.  "There has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I."  Followed by more bile about "corrupt Democrat judges and prosecutors," "evil and sinister" Jack Smith, "the Biden/Harris Injustice Department," "dumb as a rock, Sleepy Joe Biden," the falsified business records, and how he never even met, much less raped, E. Jean Carroll.  The triggering event seems to be Judge Juan Merchan scheduling his sentencing for January 10, months after any other felon would have seen his bond revoked.  Instead of the four years John Doe could expect, Don John will get an "unconditional discharge," which is pretty sweet.  He'll probably try to cancel the judge's naturalization on Day One.

I refuse to make a "discharge" joke.  I'll let this billboard make it.

The Leader's erstwhile lawyer Rudolph Giuliani was also up before a "corrupt New York judge" yesterday and it was weirder and funnier than we have any right to expect.  He's still clinging to his condos in New York and Florida, despite the court's order to turn at least one over to Moss and Freeman.  At different times he has claimed one or the other as "primary residence," but yesterday he sang a paean to Florida because in New York the health nazis object when he fires up one of his El Stinkadoro cigars.  (Could that be the reason for his sudden "lung issues"?)  It's also unclear whether he fired his last batch of lawyers or they quit, or the turnover is just another delaying tactic.  Also some of his World Series rings from the Yankees -- I didn't know he played for them -- may have been presented to his useless son Andy (to hide?).  When deposed last week he refused to give the court his email address because it's "frankly none of your business."  He also claimed he never had a driver's license, not for the perfectly good reason most people give -- I'm a New Yorker, I never learned to drive -- but because "I have fatwas issued against me by the Ayatollah personally."  Even if it's true, since when does the Ayatollah run the DMV?  And doesn't he own Lauren Bacall's Mercedes?  My head hurts.  

Speaking of heads, you'll never guess who's in favor of c-section births and why.

Maybe you will.  The white nationalist thinks there's a correlation between brain size and intelligence.  That's why white men like him are so much smarter and more successful than most other men and all women.  For example, he has sorted out America and Germany and turned his attention to the UK.  His rabid support for Reform UK (formerly UKIP, formerly the National Front, formerly the British Union of Fascists) is well known, but he seems to want its leader and founder Nigel Farage replaced by Tommy Robinson (formerly Stephen Yaxley-Lennon).  Imagine, Farage isn't extreme enough for him.  Watch out, Putin, he might come for you next.

 
Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because they refused to print her cartoon, so I will.  Mickey Mouse, of course, represents ABC News.  Yeah, I had to think about it.