Crude and stupid
"In honor of friendship month, we celebrate the long-standing bond between President Donald J. Trump and his closest friend Jeffrey Epstein," said the plaque on this sculpture, which had a permit to remain on the National Mall until 8 pm September 28. Park Police said it was "not in compliance," though they didn't say how, and it has already been hauled away. We'll never know for sure whether it depicts Jeff and Donnie skipping or dancing.
"Last time I went after them they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative." You know who that is. He's threatening to sue ABC/Disney because they put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air (in certain cities) and made him look even more petty and ridiculous than his mental breakdown in front of the UN. He doesn't even try to make the "last time" seem like anything but a gangster's demand for a payoff. If ABC doesn't care about "bad Ratings" why is it a matter of national security? They have to pay Kimmel even if he sits at home watching Stephen Colbert, and Trump's vindictiveness (and Brendan Carr's impersonation of Luca Brasi) almost certainly galvanized people who wouldn't otherwise tune in. Law firms, universities, even media are figuring out that if you give the bully your lunch money on Monday, he'll be back on Tuesday demanding your bus fare, too.
As Trump and his nurse -- sorry, that was Melania -- prepared to show the UN what we have to put up with every day, Copenhagen Airport was forced to close because of "two to three" large drones in what Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called "the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date." This would have been a good opportunity for a real president to reinforce our alliance with Denmark and the rest of Europe and condemn Russian aggression. Unfortunately, we don't have one of those. Trump was there to proclaim his "love" for the white people of Europe and to warn them of doom if they don't stop immigration by "people that you have nothing in common with" and abandon the "green energy scam." Not a word about his good friend Putin. Not a word to the majority of the delegates, diplomats from "shithole countries" who could also hear his oral sewage. Just another reminder about the "seven wars" he personally stopped. (Seven appears to be the number he has settled on, like Senator Johnny Iseley deciding there are "fifty-seven communists" in the State Department because it's easy to remember the number on the ketchup bottle.) "Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements." Seven in one year? Everyone?
The big story today is the apparent attempt on his life which occurred when he stepped onto the escalator and it momentarily stopped working.
"Even if their equipment is somewhat faulty." Asshole, your staff operate the Teleprompter you say you don't need. If you weren't too vain to wear glasses you could read Miller's version of Colonel Lindbergh's "America First" speech off paper.
Believe it or not, Trump's response to another near assassination is on the moderate end of the hysteria spectrum. ("If the First Lady wasn't in such great shape, she would have fallen. But she's in great shape. We're both in good shape.") His flying monkeys are ready for colonoscopies, having lost all their shit:
Mike Cernovich: "I don't want a Truth Social post about the UN elevator [sic] putting Trump into a sitting duck situation. I want the UN building seized and secured by Ranger Regiment until further notice!"
Jesse Watters: "This was an insurrection...what we need to do is either leave the UN or bomb it."
Karolyin' Leavitt: "If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately."
Anonymous person seeking to avoid death threats: "The UN understands that someone from the president's party who ran ahead of him inadvertently triggered the stop mechanism on the escalator."
Must be more to it! Has Comer scheduled hearings?
Is it possible to undeclare bankruptcy? I'll bet Trump would know. Right now the Bondi Department is working to overturn the judgment against Alex Jones for defaming the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School so he won't have to pay more than a billion dollars to them. If they succeed he won't have to hide assets all over the hemisphere. I'm sure Jones will be appropriately grateful to his godfather president.
"Nothing is more New York than rich New Yorkers yelling at Chuck Schumer at the Met to endorse Zohran," said Democratic strategist Chris Coffey. Boy, howdy, is it. Schumer was there on Sunday night for the premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Mason Bates and Gene Scheer. Peter Gelb, the boss, talked about "freedom of expression" in art, yadda yadda, and then he invited Schumer up on stage to be booed for failing to endorse Zohran Mamdani. I think this is not the usual opening night audience -- new opera, Sunday night -- but it sounds like an exciting one. Chuck, the people have chosen, it's time to get in front and pretend to lead them. Kamala Harris endorsed Mamdani on Rachel Maddow's show this week.
In other performing arts news, composer and guitarist Yasmin Williams fulfilled her booking at the Kennedy Center despite her social media disagreements with Ric Grenell. Herr Intendant in turn distributed passes to some Log Cabin Republicans and got them in the mood with free drinks. Andrew Minik, president of the DC LCRs, wrote on social media, "She is apparently vocal opponent of President Trump and Kennedy Center's decision to hold a vigil for Charlie Kirk. Let's make sure the audience is filled with patriots!" No patriots showed up but a bunch of louts began booing as soon as Williams started to play and left, exhausted, after fifteen minutes. Considering the Center's inability to sell tickets and the number of artists who have cancelled, this was really dumb even for Grenell. Pleasing Dear Leader now takes precedence over everything.
The Kirk poison continues to seep into society. Ryan "Porn Dog" Walters announced that all Oklahoma high schools will be forced to have Turning Point USA chapters to counteract the "woke indoctrination" of "radical leftist teachers unions" with Christofascist indoctrination. Texas and Florida propose spending public money to put statues of Kirk and his weird little face all over. And a couple of House MAGAs introduced a bill authorizing the Treasury to mint 400,000 silver dollars with that same weird face on them. Silver dollars! John F. Kennedy only merited a fifty-cent coin. To paraphrase my spiritual adviser Rick Blaine, "Two weeks ago Kirk was just another nuisance with a podcast. Today he's The Honored Dead."
From University College London comes the amazing news that Huntington's disease has been successfully treated with gene therapy, slowing its progress by 75% after three years. The trial was led by Professor Sarah Tabrizi, who says, "This is absolutely huge. I'm really overjoyed." It's not a cure for the hereditary degenerative disease which most famously killed Woody Guthrie, but it's a start. In the US, meanwhile, we're still "studying" the imaginary link between vaccines and autism and arguing about whether it's caused by Tylenol. The chief medical officer of uniQure, Walid Abi-Saab (who sounds like one of the people Trump wants European countries to exclude), says they will seek FDA approval for the gene therapy next year. Good luck.
Forget the Rothschild space lasers and the weather manipulation -- Margie Greene has a new cause. "George Santos has been in solitary confinement for nearly 30 days in FCI Fairton, NJ. They say it's 'for his safety' due to threats. I'm told he is in his cell 24 hours per day and he is only allowed to get a shower 3 times a week. He does not get any sunlight...there are no windows. This is torture," she writes, demanding that his 87-month sentence be commuted. She does not mention his history of telling outrageous lies about everything from his grandmother to his work history, nor does she express any interest in prison reform for everyone, not just far-right ex-Congressmen. All right, gentlelady, I'll see your Kitara Ravache and raise you Andry Hernandez Romero. The Venezuelan makeup artist/hairdresser came here legally last year fleeing anti-LGBTQ persecution. He was deported under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act before the Supreme Court ruled it could only be used against gang members. Hernandez Romero was sent to a real torture prison, CECOT in El Salvador, released thanks to the advocacy of one of your colleagues, Robert Garcia, and returned to Venezuela, probably to fill Stephen Miller's daily quota of brown bodies. There he remains, in worse danger than a weekly three-shower limit. Want to link their cases?
I thought not.
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