Peaceful transfer

 


January 20, 2021:  The President and First Lady wait for someone to open the White House door.  Somebody sent the butlers home and left them on the stoop like a couple of Jehovah Witnesses.  In light of the unconscionable (but unsurprising) surliness of the previous tenants, could we stop obsessing about Michelle Obama's decision to avoid next Monday's hatefest?  Let's just see if the Leader can climb the steps without help, and without toilet paper stuck to his shoe.

Exchange of the day:

Senator Mazie Hirono:  Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our ally Denmark, by force?

Hegseth:  President Trump received 77 million votes.

So...if a tree falls in the forest, how many eggs can a sturgeon lay?

Thomas Jefferson called for "a wall of separation between Church and State" in a famous letter to a congregation in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1802.  Nevertheless Church insinuates itself into every aspect of State's workings.  The House of Representatives should not have a chaplain, and right now it hasn't.  That's because Margaret Grun Kibben, a Presbyterian minister, led a group of Democratic representatives in a moment of silence and a prayer last week to commemorate the Trump-led insurrection of January 6, 2021, which resulted in seven deaths.  The prayer included the phrase "enemies within" so Mike Johnson fired her.  He's said to be favoring Becky Tirabassi as a replacement.  Tirabassi spent the end of 2020 begging God to overturn the election, which is not as bad as breaking windows and assaulting police, I guess.  Better still, let's just abolish the job.

What Little Mike needs is a referee.  Nancy Mace is pushing more of her hateful legislation and Jasmine Crockett called her out:  "Somebody's campaign coffers really are struggling right now, so she gonna keep saying 'trans, trans, trans' so that people will feel threatened and child, listen -- "  "I am no child, do not call me a child," Mace huffed.  "If you want to take it outside, we can do that."  James Comer chose to interpret her threat as an invitation to "have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer," so Crockett took it to social media:  "Last I checked, threatening members in a committee room doesn't exactly reduce the cost of eggs."  Mace's legislative triumph so far has been to get Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, barred from using the women's bathroom, which also has had no effect on the price of eggs.

He hasn't been accused of rape or public drunkenness like Hegseth and he never took a bribe from Trump like Bondi, so Marco Rubio's nomination to be secretary of state has received relatively little attention.  But anyone who thought "Liddle Marco" would be anything but a ventriloquist dummy for the Leader was disappointed by his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  NATO countries don't spend enough on defense (Denmark will probably dip into its reserve funds now); Ukraine must "compromise" with the country that invaded it and continues to rape, torture and kidnap its citizens; China will pay "too high a price" if it attacks Taiwan (but how high?).  You can be sure the Leader will claim credit for the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement announced this morning.

Oh, look!  He has.  Sweden, can you do us a solid?  Nobel Peace Prize for Antony Blinken.  

The pro wrestling lady has not been confirmed as Secretary of Education yet, but she can get right to work on Republican spelling.


I see the "no jacket required" look pioneered by Jim Jordan has spread to Markwayne Mullin.  Who will be the first to go pantsless?

Putdown of the day:  Marty Kelley (Dr. Zoom) over at Wonkette, responding to the idiots blaming the struggles of the LAFD on DEI:  "We're fairly sure that even a 100 percent white fire department would have been no more able to stop the LA fires in a day than the all-Aryan fire department of Dresden could snuff out that city's firestorms in 1945."


Ladiesh an' genn...genla...your Secretary of Defensh!  Urgh!  Sorry, that get on you?















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