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The outrages of the Trump regime have finally begun to stiffen the spines of the opposition.  Following her indictment on charges so flimsy that a "special" prosecutor from the Florida billboard-ad bar had to be hired to file them, New York attorney general Letitia James spoke at a rally for Zohran Mamdani and brought along the ghosts of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King:  "I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate...You come for me, you gotta come through all of us...we've gotta press on, press forward, continue the journey, claim the victory...and so I fear no man."  No serious person believes that her prosecution, like those of James Comey and soon Adam Schiff, is anything but the petty revenge of the pettiest creature ever to foul the White House.  Despite the old "fool for a client" wheeze I hope she represents herself.  Shampoo model Lindsey Halligan won't know what ran over her.

Typical outrage:  During a peaceful, party-like gathering in front of ICEstapo HQ in Portland a woman was playing the theme from Ghostbusters on her clarinet when she was tackled and thrown face down to the ground.  They ignored the rest of the band.  The clarinetist's husband, who begged for anonymity, says she's in the Clark County Jail being held without charges or bail.  KOIN-TV has video.

I could understand if she was playing "Waltz of the Cuckoos," the Laurel and Hardy theme music, but "Ghostbusters"?

Another outrage:  Paranoid Pete, who has spent weeks administering polygraph tests to Pentagon employees to find "leakers," issued a decree that reporters who cover his Warfightin' Department write only what he approves.  Still smarting from the classified Signal chat where he inadvertently included the editor of the Atlantic, he ordered media to sign a pledge to that effect.  No reputable outlet would agree, and even the disreputable Newsmax declined.  If you want Hegseth-certified coverage of how $78.57 billion is being spent this year, try ONAN (One America News).  Or CBS News once Bari Weiss settles in as official censor executive editor.

Don't get excited about Newsmax.  The haven't had a change in policy -- they still give airtime to the likes of failed Congressional candidate Matthew Foldi.  His analysis of yesterday's hostage release was prime:  how "fat" the people of Gaza look, how the Red Cross is a "terrorist" organization (his mom has stopped giving blood, good news for those in need of a transfusion), how bike lanes are communist -- sorry, that was last year.  

It looks as if Time signed the pledge without even being asked.  Brace yourself.

Was The Leader happy?  He was not.

"Like a floating crown but an extremely small one."  (And the jowls!) Which brings me to NO KINGS, October 18.  Panic is spreading as it appears the crowds will surpass anything Trump can manage without orders from the military.  Roger Marshall, the terrible doctor who became a terrible senator, wants the National Guard to be called out, if they're not busy raking leaves or assaulting musicians, because it's "a Soros-paid-for protest" in support of "the Schumer shutdown."  Imagine having someone that reality-challenged doing your pelvic exam.  Markwayne Mullin, even dumber, can't imagine what there is to protest beside our "deranged hatred" of The Leader ("he's the president of peace, he's literally leading the world now").  Sean Duffy ignored the chaos at the airports to visit his old friends at Fox News and declare the protesters "paid antifa" and hint that it all has something to do with Ocasio-Cortez planning a primary challenge to Chuck Schumer.  But the Squeaker of the Recessed House pulled it all together:  "This hate-America rally...the antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall for outrageous purposes...all this has gotta come to an end!"  All the malls, Mikey, all over America.  Even if Soros is late with our checks again.  He owes me money for the 2017 pussy hat event.  

Mikey's more determined than ever that Adelita Grijalva not get sworn in until she can have "all the pomp and circumstances" not available during Trump's shutdown.  It's been two weeks -- even if her family were driving from Arizona they'd be in Washington by now.  Is there usually a parade?  Not fooling anyone, Mike.

 

Yeah, about that "president of peace" -- the ceasefire is already cracking, with Israel using Hamas's failure to return dead hostages as an excuse to cut aid into Gaza.  (Let's think for a minute about the awful details of retrieving and transporting corpses possibly dead for months.  Now let's stop.)  Neither Israel nor Trump seems interested in a two-state solution and here's international stuff expert Steve Bannon calling for a three-state solution:  "I want to make sure that there are protections for the Christians who are on the ground here, that there are protections for the holy sites, rebuilding of the holy sites, rebuilding of the churches...we can no longer say, take it through the Muslims and the Jews.  It just can't work."  It has worked since Crusaders quit trying to conquer the place in the fifteenth century.  Whoever was in charge -- Ottomans, British, French, Israelis -- has been glad to entertain pilgrims and tourists with money to spend.  Come on, Steve, you know how religion works -- there would be more resentment and squabbling if Catholics controlled the holy sites and gave Protestants grief, and don't even get me started on the Coptic and Orthodox Christians.  As Christopher Hitchens observed, religion poisons everything.  

To close with another noisy podcaster who should think before opening his mouth, the Supreme Court says Alex Jones will have to pay the $1.4 billion he owes the parents he defamed and defamed after their children were murdered in Sandy Hook Elementary School thirteen years ago.  And if he has to sell Infowars to The Onion, tough shit.  MAGA mouths, take note.