Oh, behave!

 

Trump is all (Diet) Coked up on the power granted him by the Supine Court to decide, on any given day, who is and is not a citizen.  Zapping the Creature with more electricity was not an option for Victor Frankenstein, but John Roberts thinks he knows better.

Bibi Netanyahu was scheduled to appear in court today in his slow-moving bribery/fraud case, but his lawyers sought and received a delay after citing "classified diplomatic and security grounds."  He was indicted back in 2019 but he's just been so busy, and of course it's a "witch hunt."  The court's grant of another delay follows Trump's threat to withhold aid unless it is slowed again, but surely the Jerusalem District Court would not be influenced by any such attack on the nation's sovereignty.  Classified grounds are just...classified.

Millions of people filled the streets for New York City's Pride Parade, still the nation's largest despite the cowardice of several traditional sponsors.  Among the marchers was mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.  The young assemblyman from the Bronx continues to enrage Trump, who threatened to cut off federal funds to the city if he "doesn't behave himself."  For instance, stop quoting Martin Luther King:  "Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.  There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country."

A better distribution of wealth is exactly what the Big Bastard Billionaires' Benefit bill will not provide, of course, and the few token Republican objections (mostly based on the extra trillions it will add to the deficit) were meaningless.  The abomination passed 51-49, with Rand Paul and Thom Tillis, the majority leader, voting no.  This caused Trump to load up his diaper and rant about primarying Tillis, who courageously announced his retirement.  As the Wall Street Journal observed, he "couldn't leave victory alone" and may have contributed to replacing Tillis with a Democrat.  Speaking of Democrats, at least Chuck Schumer had the satisfaction of forcing the clerk to read all thousand pages of the bill aloud.  He should apologize to her after she recovers.

Needless to say, the perpetually concerned Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski decided to behave after special language was added to exempt Alaska from work requirements for SNAP recipients.  Collins didn't get anything except a $50,000 expenses write-off for whaling captains, if Maine has any.  But Murkowski has a book out, so watch for her on CNN and other low-wattage platforms.

Writing in Forbes magazine, Dan Alexander repeated the oft-told tale of how Trump has exaggerated the size of his properties to get loans (and got caught) and how a court-appointed monitor has to figure out what the truth is.  This brought forth the expected response -- really, we can make it up ourselves ("badly failing" publication, "terribly untalented" writer, "evil sleazebag," "don't want the facts" which are available only from him, ad nauseam).  You'd think even he would get bored.  No slight is too small, no praise too fulsome.  

Trump may be pleased to know that he is considered "a 'muharib' or 'warlord,'" according to Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi.  The G.A. has issued a fatwa against him and Bibi for threats against Ayatollah Khamenei.  Besides raging at Tillis, Alexander, Paul, Ramdani and various other entities, Trump issued a fatwa of his own, asserting that he (alone) saved Khamenei from "A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH" for which the cleric was not even grateful.  Am I wrong in thinking that Bibi has begun to smirk like Putin when he poses with this idiot?

Despite complaints from environmentalists it looks like tomorrow will be the grand opening of Alligator Auschwitz and there may be a very prominent orange-colored Floridian in attendance.  The DHS is already pushing alligator-free states to open similar camps for miscreants from other lands, equipped with the "showers" that Kommandant DeSantis bragged about.  Meanwhile, those who can't get enough of The Leader can visit the Hall of Creepy Animatronic Presidents in Disney's Magic Kingdom Park.  There he is, strategically located in front of Andrew Johnson.

If you wanted to see Bob Vylan, on the other hand, you're too late.  Their US visas have been cancelled and the police are investigating their appearance at Glastonbury.  The punk rap duo who are known as Bob Vylan and Bobby Vylan misbehaved by leading chants of "Death to the IDF" and "Fuck Keir Starmer," and the British approach to free speech is basically "No, thanks awfully."  Unfortunately their act was live-streamed by the BBC, which was appalled by language like "fucking Zionist."  (The F word is only acceptable when Trump uses it.)  Otherwise it's "very strong and discriminatory language."  I have no idea how the police come into this but they would like people to stop calling them -- "an investigation is already taking place."   Crom help us if a challenge to the First Amendment reaches the Roberts court; we could wind up in the same mess.