Not brains, just bile

 Time to unveil a new Official Portrait:

Not to worry -- among the $400 million alterations to Qatari Bribe 1 will be a golden escalator.  Say, that ear doesn't look scarred at all.

Dear Leader was all tuckered out because he seized control of the California National Guard from Governor Gavin Newsom and ordered them into Los Angeles to stop the violent insurrection peaceful protest in the parking lot of a Home Depot.  Mayor Karen Bass repeatedly said that there was no violence on that scale, that the LAPD had things under control.  One man in Paramount is accused of throwing rocks at police vehicles; there is a reward of $50,000 for information about him.  It doesn't sound like the George Floyd protests, much less January 6.  For oldsters like me, it was hard not to think of kids putting daisies in the barrels of rifles c. 1969.

Dear Leader has decreed "NO MASKS!" unless you're one of the armed ICEstapo.  Although I'm not without sympathy for the thug who has to wear one of these in Los Angeles in June:

Can you believe it?  They couldn't find anyone to shoot or beat.  Californians are sophisticated enough to see through Trump's game.  Violence is the excuse he needs to deploy frigging Marines -- not even the 101st Airborne, Donny?  Going nuclear right away?  And so he raged --

"Liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion!"  "Los Angeles will be set free!"  Los Angeles is laughing at you.  Thank you for your Three Stooges-level attempt to escalate a First Amendment petition for redress of grievances into martial law.  Nice try.

Well described by Pee-wee Hermann Goering.  Oh wait, you meant the protesters.  Heard from Katie?

Fortunately, the adults are still in charge.

Trump, Noem, Patel and the rest of the clowns owe an apology to Lauren Tomasi.  The reporter for Australia's Nine News was on air when she was struck by a rubber bullet.  Hit in the calf, she was able to continue.  Members of parliament urged Prime Minister Albanese to confront Trump at next week's G7 meeting.  She was luckier than British photographer Nick Stern, who got first aid from a protester and needed surgery after being shot in the thigh.

It's not only Dear Leader but his minions who are above criticism in the eyes of the Cowardly Corporate Media.  Terry Moran was suspended by ABC News for writing and then deleting this:

"He eats his hate."  Perfect.  But haters have feelings and poor Stevie's were hurt.  I don't think Moran would be disputed by Miller's uncle David Glosser.  He's an interesting case study but he shouldn't be any closer to power than the guy who brings Trump his Diet Coke.

Gary Legum calls him "an irredeemably evil sack of donkey vomit."  I wish I'd said that.

Trump is telling reporters he would support private prison entrepreneur Tom Homan if he arrested Gavin Newsom.  A governor would complete his bingo card of a mayor, a judge and a member of Congress.

And his untreated dementia worsens:

"THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL.  WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR."  Kim Jong-un says tone it down, bro.  But if his goal is to stop the TACO memes, mission accomplished.

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In the words of Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle, "I really don't think I could watch if Trump was assassinated, because I'd be coming so hard my glasses would fall off."

Under "unlooked-for consequences," Glendale, California, has terminated the contract it signed in 2007 to house federal immigration detainees in the city jail, calling it "divisive."  Following an article in the Guardian, the University of Michigan says it has also cancelled a contract -- with private investigators hired to spy on pro-Palestinian student groups.  Cities and universities are beginning to stand up to the bullies at last.  They tried to take over the District of Columbia Bar Association by running Pam Bondi's brother Bradley and a lackey of Ed Martin's, but neither came close in the election for president which was won by Diane A. Seltzer.  The lights are coming back on.