While Patty Hearst was in the hands of the Symbionese Liberation Army (half a dozen members, as I recall), one of their demands was food for the poor of California. Governor Ronald Reagan, man of God that he was, proposed distributing food infected with botulism. At least the mob baying for an end to SNAP have not suggested anything that ghoulish yet. And Reagan didn't act on his threat to poison people.
It's plenty sickening out there. "A little party never killed nobody" was not a reference to the GOP but to the fancy dress gathering at Florida's tackiest catering hall last night. CNN says Trump "opted not to wear a costume," but who can ever be sure? It's described as "Great Gatsby-themed," so he probably spent most of the evening waiting for Jay Gatsby to arrive.
The real scares were at the airports. At Logan a Delta flight that was landing narrowly missed a Cape Air flight that was taking off. "What the heck?" asked the Cape Air pilot, and the Delta pilot responded, "Yeah, man, not cool." A United flight pulling up to the gate at LaGuardia hit the tail of a stationary United plane headed for Houston. Ground stops all over the country delayed flights, with the FAA reporting 80 percent absenteeism at New York area airports. Then there was Nancy Mace, experiencing one of her manic episodes at Charleston International. She tried to use the Known Crewmember entrance, an expedited gate for flight crews, and was turned back, whereupon she began calling the TSA "fucking incompetent" and informing them that "this is no way to treat a fucking US representative." One officer reported that "she said we would never treat Tim Scott like this," which could mean senators get better treatment. Or something. Eventually she boarded her flight, still cursing everyone. Mace would like to be governor of South Carolina but I don't think she picked up any votes that morning.
On Monday Mace was brimming with justification for behaving like a drunken sailor. She was, as the police say, in fear for her life after the Kirk assassination, and she took it out on the TSA agents who insisted she go through security like any other passenger. In case she had, for example, a loaded gun in her carry-on. The South Carolina attorney general Allen Wilson called it "an entitled temper tantrum," which sounds accurate. Needless to say, the toilet nazi wants investigations.
Multiple musicians have demanded the DHS end the Trump campaign(s) practice of using their work without permission to support things they hate, but I think this is the first such protest from the estate of a painter. The family of Norman Rockwell published an angry op-ed in USA Today insisting that he was the opposite of the keep-America-white nationalist he's accused of being, "profoundly shaken by the injustices toward Black Americans that were brought to the forefront during the Civil Rights movement," and pointing to work like this famous depiction of six-year-old Ruby Bridges...
...being escorted by four towering men to school in New Orleans. I'm not sure I've ever seen this one from 1967, "New Kids in the Neighborhood (Negro in the Suburbs)":
The girl with the cat, the white kids with the dog -- that's some Renaissance-level iconography. (Contrary to myth, dogs and cats get along well once they know each other.)
Trump's fellow Epstein Island tourist Prince Andrew has been downgraded to Mr. Windsor, so with great fanfare
Kash Patel announced that his FBI had foiled a terror plot in Michigan "inspired" by Islamic State. Terror is always a useful distraction but the lawyer for one of the suspects says they are online gamers whose chat was misinterpreted. All are US citizens between 15 and 20. By the way,
Trump told reporters he "feels badly" for the royal family.
He feels nothing for the millions of American families whose SNAP benefits ran out during his Gatsby party, though they will get partial funding because a judge in
Rhode Island ordered it. Trump's compassion is reserved for the devoutly MAGA cartoonist
Scott Adams, who has metastasized cancer and needs a drug called Pluvicto, newly approved by the FDA. His insurer has not yet agreed to cover the IV treatment so Adams begged his favorite president for help and got the response "On it!"
I'll give odds Trump has no clue who Adams is. Last night The Show Formerly Known as
Sixty Minutes aired a heavily edited interview he gave Norah O'Donnell and he said he never heard of
Zhao Changpeng, the cryptocrook he pardoned last month. The one who directed $2 billion to Trump's grift World Liberty Financial. "I'm too busy doing the other." That's when he pulled out a printout of this tweet from an impeccable source, Little Marco's State Department:
At which point they would have stopped the tape so Scott Pelley could stop laughing, I imagine, but O'Donnell is made of sterner stuff or just wants to keep working for Bari Weiss. A 73-minute session edited down to 28 minutes -- I thought they weren't going to edit anymore after his Kamala Harris lawsuit/shakedown. I make many mistakes. Anyway, he has more important issues:
Seth Meyers laughed at his steam catapult obsession, among other things, which is "PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!"
Not "treason," like Chuck Schumer calling the Cringe Tour of Asia "a dud," so that's something.
Apart from using heavily armed troops against his own citizens, what has the President of Peace been up to? The war/not war against
Venezuela continues, with fishing boats paying the price for fentanyl that doesn't come from there. Next up: Trump suggested he might attack
Nigeria because of alleged abuse of Christians ("They're killing record numbers of Christians"). People in Niger are nervous because he might not know it's a different country. Norah O'Donnell asked, "Would you order US forces to defend
Taiwan?" and couldn't get a straight answer ("You'll find out if it happens"). Last summer he refused to approve $400 million in aid to Taiwan, which didn't go unnoticed in China.
Trump is worried about Christians in Nigeria but what about
Chicago? Saturday was All Saints Day, a day of obligation when Catholics are supposed to go to mass. Bishop Jose Maria Garcia-Maldonado, accompanied by a procession of nuns and laity, attempted to bring the Eucharist to prisoners at the Broadview Processing Center and was turned back by ICE. Safety and security reasons were cited.
Sean Dunn went on trial today in New York for throwing a sandwich at a CBP agent -- think how much damage he could have done with a communion wafer!
Well, look at this. Last week Brainworm Bob decided that there's no provable link between autism and Tylenol and today we learn that Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, was sold to
Kimberly-Clark in a $48.7 billion deal. Isn't that remarkable.
We also learned that
Kash Patel likes to use his official FBI jet to attend his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins's appearances around the country, the kind of thing for which he attacked
Chris Wray. Flight logs for FBI planes are available to the public but someone had to suffer for this newest evidence of Patel's ineptitude so he fired Steven Palmer, the 27-year veteran who oversaw the agency's aviation units.
The dying echo of
Sixty Minutes was not without its lighter moments. Norah O'Donnell must have received a pair of official
Newsom Kneepads ("for all your groveling to Trump needs") and decided to try them out. "Some people have compared [Zohran Mamdani] to a left-wing version of you -- charismatic, breaking the old rules. What do you think about that?" "Well, I think I'm a much better looking person than him, right?" he replied. You make the call.
Andrew Windsor may not sweat anymore but Trump sweats enough for both of them.
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