World Capital Washington

 

I planned to kick back and read while sipping a healthful fruit juice but it's just too strange.  For a start, I know what Trump was doing on the roof.  Barack Obama and his Nobel (not "Noble," Karoline) Prize haunt his dreams.  He had Obama's portrait moved again, to a "secluded stairwell" where the eyes will not follow him around.  He had the two Bushes moved as well to make it seem less racist.  Last week he was checking the roof in case Obama was hiding up there, casting spells while he slept.  Eventually all the presidential portraits will be replaced with his shit-eating grin and thumbs-up sign.  Saddam Hussein would have suggested toning it down a little.

The American press is so cowed that once again it was a foreign paper which reported on an interesting flub.  During a press conference to announce the military occupation of "dirty and disgusting" Washington, DC (wait, I'll get there) Trump blurted, "I'm going to see Putin.  I'm going to see Russia on Friday."  It was the UK's Mirror that picked it up.  Actually his performance review with the boss is scheduled for Alaska, which has not been Russia since 1867.  When Putin sees all the improvements we've made he may object that $7.2 million was highway robbery and the Great Dealmaker would have to agree and then, well, who knows?  It's a reliably red state but an order is an order.  And wouldn't it teach that uppity Murkowski a lesson!  

All dictators dream of model capitals, like Hitler's "World Capital Germania," and when Trump spotted a homeless encampment while being driven to a golf course that was all it took.  He proclaimed "liberation day" and the rescue of Washington from "crime, bedlam, bloodshed and squalor, and worse," while Piss-drunk Pete promised 800 National Guard troops.  The other alky, Washington's new US attorney Jeanine Pirro, demanded that more juvenile crime be tried in regular courts.  Al Sharpton cut through the bullshit:  "Let's call the inspiration for this assault on a majority Black city what it is:  another bid to distract his angry, frustrated base over his administration's handling of the Epstein files."

Trump a racist?  Maybe it wasn't the right day for this:

I feel certain Congresswoman (not "Congresswoman") Crockett can pick a camel out of a set of three drawings, but why dignify his blather?  Forget Epstein, I want to see the file on this "physical."

Advocates have worked for decades to get cannabis/marijuana/weed out of the Schedule 1 classification it shares with heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy.  The answer is now clear:  bribery.  The cannabis company Trulieve is only one which donated piles of dosh to The Leader, who has come to see the wisdom of a sane drug policy.  Smoke 'em if you got 'em and keep the money coming!  I can see even Fentanyl being available in vending machines, for the right price.

It's one thing to take the collection of Bronze Age myths and legends known as the Bible literally.  When you insist that others share your psychosis, there's a problem.  Mr. Normal Guy here...

...listened to a podcast which convinced him that the Smithsonian has a collection of bones from Nephilim -- you know, "giants in the earth" from Genesis, the supposed offspring of angels and human women.  Since he is Eric Burlison, the life-form that some Missourians decided would make an amusing Congressman, and since he's on Jamie Comer's Oversight Committee, he's in a position to "investigate" the museum and force them to display the "evidence."  And then, Eric?  Are they also concealing Noah's ark and Joshua's horn?  I've read that after the Crusaders returned from their shopping trip, Jesus's foreskin was on display in six churches in France alone.  Why don't you go check that out while all the French people are on vacation?  Don't hurry back.

Journalists were shot by police while covering the invasion of Los Angeles, but it looks like Israel has surpassed us in cracking down on troublesome reporters.  Two Al Jazeera correspondents, Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qreiqeh, were first accused of being Hamas and then killed in a targeted air strike near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, along with several other staffers.  Terry Moran got off easy.  The men who wrote the First Amendment knew that tyranny can't tolerate a free press.  I don't have a copy of the Israeli constitution but it probably contains something similar.  To quote Hamlet, "Words, words, words."  

Words are all we have, and Gavin Newsom had a few for The Leader today.  

Tune in tomorrow for the semi-literate ALL CAPS  RESPONSE!!!  Yes, I can't stay away.  Some people slow down to look at road accidents, I'm mesmerized by the death of democracy.