Forever blowing Bubba

 If there is anyone left in the government doing actual science, they need to look into the possibility of a major Upsidasium leak.  Each day seems to turn the last on its head.

Only last Tuesday the National Catholic Reporter was lamenting the "close and deeply disappointing" election of Archbishop Paul Coakley as president of the US bishops' conference, describing him as affable, well-liked and probably not someone to stand up to Trumpism.  Today, presumably with Coakley's blessing, the conference issued a "special pastoral message" condemning the regime's abuse of immigrants.  This time the vote was close to unanimous.

When Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York, MAGA's demented response could not be measured even on the Fujita tornado scale.  Sharia law was the least of the catastrophes predicted for the Rotten Apple.  I think Sean Hannity wet his pants on the air.  Ten days later the votes have been counted in Seattle and self-described democratic socialist Katie Wilson has defeated incumbent mayor Bruce Harrell.  Her program is even more ambitious than Mamdani's (universal childcare, affordable housing, living wage jobs, "land and wealth stewarded by communities instead of corporations").  I keep checking but there's no evident panic.  Maybe because she's a 43-year-old mother of a toddler who relies on her parents -- college professors, hardly rich -- for help in paying for daycare, maybe because she has never held office before, maybe because she's a nice married white lady who doesn't scare people.  Oh no -- could the real problem with Mamdani be racism and Islamophobia?

Dismember a journalist, win big prizes!  Trump has never concealed his hatred of reporters (other than the ones his alter ego "John Barron" used to phone with hot tips about the exploits of needy outer-borough schlub Donald Trump), but feasting with their assassins is a new level of vile even for him.  A formal dinner is scheduled for Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman even though he is not the head of state (that would be his seldom-seen, probably senile father King Salman).  The prince is, however, extremely generous and willing to do business deals with the Trump crime family, so the Khashoggi family can just seethe.  I plan to join them.  Too bad the Bowelroom won't be ready in time.

The prince may be even more generous than Switzerland, but the Gnomes of Zurich know how to get things done.  Seeking a reduction in the 39 percent tariff on pharmaceuticals, watches, fondue, etc., they dropped by the construction site bearing a "top of the line" Rolex and an engraved gold bar definitely not made from gold stolen by Nazis and left with a 15 percent tariff from TACO 47.  Probably get that down to 10 percent with a small chalet for Tiffany and Michael.

It's no picnic working for official state media.  Back on "Liberation Day," when tariffs untethered to reality were announced, all the Fox News pundits were lost in admiration of Dear Leader's genius.  Now they've realized or been told that tariffs on products like bananas and coffee have contributed to the high price of food, so they praise Dear Leader for rolling them back and assume their audience won't remember all the way back to August.  But surely other countries pay us tariffs, right?  And then we hand the money out to struggling ranchers and farmers and everybody gets $2,000 to spend on healthcare, right?  

Nobody is getting $2,000 and if they did, it would cover about three months of insurance premiums, already doubling and tripling.  The army of doctors who keep Trump more or less functioning should bill him.  He won't pay, he never pays, but he might get an idea of how much for-profit medicine costs.  The MRI alone was well over a thousand dollars.  What am I saying -- get an idea?

In Epstein news today, it seems Jeffrey's brother Mark has surfaced in connection with a weird email from March 2018.  He asked his brother to ask Steve Bannon if Vladimir Putin "has photos of Trump blowing Bubba."  This is a head-scratcher.  Everyone who lived through the 1990s knows that Bill Clinton (sometimes known as Bubba) is partial to oral stimulus, but the idea of getting it from Trump is not something even us TDS sufferers can comprehend.  In at least two emails I've seen Jeffrey Epstein insisted Clinton never visited his island.  Maybe another Bubba?  Surely the best course would be to ignore it.  So naturally Pam Bondi, obedient as ever to her master, has assigned US Attorney for NY Jay Clayton to investigate Bill Clinton.  Master had a fit on his phone today:

Everyone but he was on the island (or "Island").  Got that?  Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Anthony Fauci, Jack Smith, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Jimmy Kimmel, Rosie O'Donnell, George Soros, George Clooney, George Stephanopoulos, Hannibal Lecter, the late, great Alphonse Capone, ALL ON THE ISLAND!  THANK YOU FOR YOUR COVFEFE!!!!!

Fire up the calliope as the circus rolls on.