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Sorry, no, it's a Cantonese opera company in Hong Kong performing Trump, the Twins President.  If I find a review or an explanation I'll let you know.

Last time he wanted dirt on Joe Biden; this time it's just dirt.  The Leader has been too busy laying waste the government and the economy to end the fighting in Ukraine but now we know what he wants in return for aid:  "We're looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they're going to secure what we're giving them with their rare earths and other things."  He told the rightzi podcasters and cable hosts who are still credentialed at the White House he wants "equalization" for the "$300 billion in aid" Ukraine has allegedly received.  In his world, everything is for sale.

Italy, whose quasi-fascist government meets with The Leader's approval, has not yet been threatened with punitive tariffs but it probably isn't pleased that Junior Trump killed a ruddy shelduck, a rare species protected throughout Europe, while hunting in the Venice lagoon.  A trump instinctively destroys anything beautiful.

Citing the bird flu outbreak and soaring prices, Waffle House announced a surcharge of fifty cents on every egg it sells.  That shouldn't bother many MAGA voters because somehow it's Biden's fault.

The new prime minister of Belgium, Bart De Wever, has long promised to destroy state structures and break up the country.  See, it's not just us.

In December 2020 during the run-up to the insurrection, the Proud Boys vandalized a church in Washington.  The church subsequently won a $2.8 million judgment against the racist gangsters and Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier has ruled that they cannot use the name "Proud Boys" without the church's permission.  The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.  FAFO

Still useless after all these years, Susan Collins has promised to support Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence because she "shares my vision of returning the agency to its intended size" so it will coordinate more efficiently with the Kremlin.

Last summer the most popular lie was "they're eating the dogs and cats!"  Now it's "buying condoms for Hamas!" and The Leader just doubled the expenditure to $100 million.  Do I hear $200 million?  And all to justify the Muskification of the government.  At least there's no mystery about why the co-president hates USAID:  it drove him and his mommy into exile by helping to end apartheid in South Africa.  Hence the end of aid to the country because of its "massive Human Rights VIOLATION," i.e., its alleged "expropriation" of white people's land.  Now they've got his attention.

Democracy has a new hero and his name is Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI).  Taking a page from Coach Tuberville's playbook (see what I did there?) he has pledged to block every appointment to the State Department until the war on USAID ends.  He may look like a slightly pudgy Clark Kent but when the glasses and the suit come off...

But why stop at State?  Drag every atrocity -- lousy legislation, unqualified nominees, racist judges, the lot.  Mitch McConnell showed us the way.  Best case scenario, The Leader strokes out while Truthing his rage at three in the morning.  Filibuster, filibuster, filibuster.