The anger games

 

This is Navajo Marine Pfc Ira Hayes pointing to himself in Joe Rosenthal's photo of the American flag being raised on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945.  In 1954 the photo was reproduced in bronze as the US Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington Ridge Park, DC.  The DoD should try deleting him from that with Kaptain Ketamine's chainsaw.

The Leader's charm offensive doesn't seem to be working with Canada.  To head off protests the Vancouver International Auto Show has removed Tesla from this week's event.  Leisure bookings to US cities are down by 40% and Flair Airlines has cancelled all flights to Nashville through the summer.  They join Air Canada, Sunwing and Air Transat, which have already cut back on flights to the US.  Jasmine Mooney is the latest Canadian citizen to experience what seems like retaliatory detention at the hands of ICE.  Her account of this Stalinesque ordeal can be read in Wednesday's Guardian.  

"I love Canada!  I love Wayne Gretzky!  I love his wife!" The Leader insisted to Laura Ingraham, baffled that Canada does not love him back, although not being loved must be a familiar feeling after 78 years.  He doesn't care who wins their stupid election because "the Conservative that's running is stupidly no friend of mine" and the Liberal is a liberal.  And he just found out that federal judges are a lot like QAnon:  attack one and you attack them all.  Judge James Boasberg ordered DHS to stop deporting random Venezuelans to El Salvador or Guantanamo or anyplace else and The Leader burst his diaper:

Now that's derangement.  Some sheep in the House obediently rushed out articles of impeachment, drawing this rebuke from the normally quiescent Chief Justice:  "For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.  The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."  "As a student of history, which I am," as The Leader assured Ingraham, he must know of a similar disagreement between President Andrew Jackson and Chief Justice John Marshall concerning another case of illegal deportation, Georgia's expulsion of the Cherokee under the Indian Removal Act (1832).  "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it," Jackson supposedly said.  Or as Stalin may have said a century later, "How many divisions has the pope?"  The Leader should study history for real.  It teaches humility.

One of The Leader's fans had a notably blue Monday.  Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn started the week strong, introducing a bill to make "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a legally recognized form of mental illness (wasn't it the USSR that put dissidents in psychiatric hospitals because you'd have to be crazy to criticize the workers' paradise?).  How he spent his lunch hour is not recorded, but by afternoon Eichorn was arrested for allegedly soliciting what he believed was a 16-year-old girl for cuddles.  No doubt he'll claim entrapment and may want to retract this tweet:

Eggs have supplanted gasoline as a shorthand determinant of economic health, with prices topping eight dollars for a dozen in some places and rationing by big retailers like Costco.  Part of the problem is our worm-infested HHS secretary's hatred of vaccines, even for chickens.   He proposes to "consider the possibility of letting [avian flu] run through the flock" to identify birds that may be immune.  Obviously he did not learn about viral mutation while studying law at the University of Virginia and self-medicating his ADHD with heroin.  Meanwhile the Agriculture Department is calling around to places like Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Lithuania humbly asking, "Please may we buy some of your eggs?"  (No.)  There was much hilarity on social media, with one smartass inquiring, "Did they ask politely while wearing a suit?"  But The Leader promised the world would never laugh at us again.