Tomorrow belongs to them

 

Your US Department of Labor and the workers they want for tomorrow.  Not one of them even wears glasses, although the jobs of tomorrow will mostly involve staring at screens.  And shouldn't the couple in church have a lot more children?

Xi Jinping knew it was going to be a good day when Trump asked him how to get off the stage.  He agreed to buy some of the US's now-surplus soybeans and Scott Bessent acted like it was VJ day.  Next year China may buy more.  It's not definite.  Nothing is definite except Trump's sad need for the strong man to like him.  "Tariffs are remain exactly the same."  REPORTER:  "55 percent."  TRUMP:  "No, it was 57 and now it's 47 because we reduced it by the fentanyl."  (He's obsessed with fentanyl but can't remember if it comes from China, Venezuela or "Aberbaijan.")  The point is, most people will pay more for all the holiday stuff they buy.  When Chuck Schumer called the deal "a total dud," Trump denounced him instantly ("Words like that are almost treasonous!!!").  Xi met him in Busan, South Korea, so he wouldn't have to waste time and money on a big reception or present him with a gold toy.

The good news keeps coming:

Shipbuilding is making a BIG COMEBACK.  For a start, they'll have to build a shipyard in Philadelphia, where the shipyard was turned into a tourist attraction and corporate park twenty-five years ago.  A South Korean company bought Hanwha Philly Shipyard last year but it's not equipped to build submarines or handle nuclear material.  Other than that, another triumph.  

The former Prince Andrew, now Mr. Mountbatten Windsor, is getting turfed out of the thirty-room house known as Royal Lodge in Windsor and will move to a house on the grounds of Sandringham, which is private property, according to the BBC.  Meanwhile we're told that numerous Trump courtiers are living at public expense in housing intended for the military, including Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller.  This is in response to what's being called "a wave of political violence," almost all from the MAGA cult.  More like a wave of entitlement and greed inspired by their master.

In other news of shutdown luxury, flight logs for Kash Patel's government jet synch up with appearances by his girlfriend, singer Alexis Wilkins, around the country.  Apparently that "wave of political violence" makes it impossible for the FBI director to fly on a commercial airliner.  I don't really blame him -- overworked, unpaid air traffic controllers and TSA agents would make anyone hesitant about flying.  And based on his brief term as acting head of ATF, Patel is not what you'd call a putting-in-long-hours guy.

Also worried about safety are United and Delta Airlines, which urged passage of "a clean funding bill" to reopen the government and pay the ATCs, "many of whom are already working mandatory overtime."  Yes, but the Epstein file!

A small ripple in that "wave of political violence" -- Billy Joe Cagle, the man facing all kinds of charges for plotting to shoot up the Atlanta airport.  He's a big fan of the Confederacy, gun rights and his fellow felon...

She's back!  Remember Reagan's "welfare queen," who drove a Cadillac and used her food stamps to buy liquor even though this was impossible?  She has morphed into the 300-pound SNAP recipient who haunts the fever dreams of Newsmax's Carl Higbie, raging daily about this "morbidly obese" person who spends taxpayer money for "hair, nails, car payment, etc."  Higbie should try paying for his next visit to a men's hair salon with a SNAP card.  Then he should try working a minimum wage job (or two) without resorting to feeding his kids high-calorie fast food meals.  Right, boys?

Hey, Carl, can you use SNAP benefits to buy ammunition?

Carl's fellow MAGA Matt Walsh wants SNAP recipients to be weighed and tested for drugs because they're "self-entitled, lazy and barely literate."  That sounds a lot like Trump, who reminds us constantly how hard he works.  While he was humiliating us in Asia, his publicity crew released a bizarre video that conflates him with industrious British gangster Tommy Shelby (Peaky Blinders) going to work despite illness.  Cillian Murphy should sue.  So should Rick Ross.  Mo' cars, mo' hoes, mo' clothes, mo' blows, do they even listen to the lyrics?