Another fine mess

 

The escalator stopped with a jerk and Trump got off.

Is it possible that his "speech" was reasonable and even factual before the UN general assembly building tried to kill him, triggering memories of Butler, Pennsylvania?  Let's see::

"The Secret Service is involved."  Does he mean they're subjecting everyone in the place to "enhanced interrogation" or that they were plotting against him?  Is he "surrounded by assassins," like the great Jimmy Durante?  What did he find on the White House roof?  MAGA wants answers!  The rest of us couldn't give a wet slap.  

Reality check:  Trump's personal videographer ran up the escalator ahead of him and it's programmed to shut down when someone runs on it.  Health and safety.  After thirty seconds the mechanism reset and resumed hauling his tubby ass to the top.  Don't round up the usual suspects.  

A British tabloid got it right:

A momentary technical glitch folded neatly into his hatred of the UN and most of the world in general, his perpetual need for self-aggrandizement and his aversion to facts ("sharia London"), not to mention his phony concern for what's-her-name, who at 55 is way past what Charlie Kirk would have called "a woman's prime," because women are valued in Kirk's America only as long as they can (and do) make babies.  

What else is going on in Kirk's America?

A couple of students at Syracuse University entered the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house on Tuesday night and threw a bag of pork on the floor while members of the traditionally Jewish fraternity were celebrating Rosh Hashanah.  They are being charged with a hate crime.

A bill in Florida would ban the use of the term "West Bank" in all official documents, and just like that, the West Bank would cease to exist.  Like "climate change," which was outlawed last year.  Words are magic!  Florida will follow the Israeli practice of calling the area "Judea and Samaria."  Also, hurricanes will henceforth be called "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs."

Despite MAGA's efforts Israel is becoming more isolated, with France, the UK, Canada, Australia and Portugal all announcing recognition of Palestine's right to statehood.  Even sporting bodies are getting involved, with FIFA considering a ban prior to the 2026 World Cup.  But Marco Rubio's State Department is riding to the rescue because football is more important than food aid or vaccination programs.

Trump said Ukraine could "win back" its territory from Russia and that NATO countries should "shoot down" Russian aircraft in their airspace, but that was before two Russian bombers and two fighter jets had to be intercepted by NORAD near Alaska on Wednesday.  It's been very quiet in the White House today.

In the absence of a military response Russian drones continue to menace airports in Denmark.  

Yesterday in Dallas a man named Joshua Jahn opened fire on an ICE facility, allegedly targeting employees who he called "people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck."  This evidently makes him "radical left" according to Trump.  Jahn only managed to kill two detainees and wound a third before killing himself.  Calling himself "the president of all the people" the demented felon also amusingly questioned the intelligence of Jasmine Crockett and every other non-MAGA before vowing violence ("It'll be a point where other people won't take it anymore and that will not be good for the radical left").  The search for the elusive Antifa continues.

The American Federation of Teachers and Reporters Without Borders, whose pension funds are invested in Disney, are suing the company for briefly cancelling the Jimmy Kimmel show, which was enough to lower the share price by over a billion dollars.  They accuse it of "improper political and affiliate considerations."  Capitalism -- gotta love it.

Gotta love the Streisand Effect, too.  Kimmel was averaging fewer than a million viewers before last week.  Despite not being carried on Nexstar- and Sinclair-owned affiliates he had over six million viewers Tuesday night, streaming not included.

Congress appropriates funds for government programs (mostly education, health, environment and infrastructure like airports), the regime re-directs it to its favored programs, and suddenly billions of dollars can't be traced.  It doesn't help that records are still disappearing as when Musk's trolls had their fingers in every computer system.  Lisa Murkowski has unanswered questions.

Eric Trump continues to hawk his "book" -- did you remember he has one? -- and recently told Real America's Voice that daddy deserves both a few Nobel Prizes and Mount Rushmore.  Why stop there?  Mount Everest is much higher and already covered with rubbish and shit.  Make Nepal an offer they can't refuse.

Fox News called it "heroic" that Melania Trump walked up the stopped UN escalator despite her six-inch heels, and maybe they're right.  Of course I thought of Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot, wondering how women manage to walk at all in heels.  It's the same as the answer to "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"  Practice, practice.

In Arizona Adelita Grijalva won the House seat that fell vacant at the death of her father Raul Grijalva.  She represents the final signature needed for Thomas Massie's motion to force the release of the Epstein files, meaning that Mike Johnson will have to avoid swearing her in for as long as possible.  Luckily another government shutdown looms and Trump is refusing even to meet with Democratic leadership.  Apparently they're all "whackjobs" like Tim Walz.  He can't even fulfil the minimum requirements of the job.

MAGA has embarked on a strategy of making the nation lose its breakfast.  First Katie Miller described her husband Lord Voldemort as a "sexual matador," and then Alex Jones insisted that women "go wild" for -- well, look.

He's more Oliver Hardy than Adolf Hitler but I'm still going to need brain bleach.