No rest for the weary

 "The news goes on for twenty-four hours a day," Charles Foster Kane had to remind his editor Mr. Carter.  So here I am, working on a Saturday.  No overtime.

First, a couple of items I want to share with those who don't scroll through the comments at JoeMyGod:

Justin, you rule.

That's right -- if not for the Arabs you would have to take the VI train to get to XXXIV Street.

Escorting J.D. Vance around the country has become a hazardous job.  Last month his motorcade to Camp Pendleton was hit by falling shrapnel after a shell detonated prematurely.  Friday night he was being driven to a private fundraiser in Tennessee when a state trooper on a motorcycle crashed into a Maryville police officer.  Both required hospitalization.  

Trump never pays attention to his daily briefings but somebody told him that Britain is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about activities in the Caribbean.  He responded in his usual measured way by attacking London mayor Sadiq Khan, who does not run the Foreign Office.  But apparently he is a "terrible mayor" who will impose Sharia law on the city any minute now and has made it a place where "people are being stabbed in the ass or worse."  

He'd better not let Million Moms Monica hear that.  Just now she's burned up at HGTV and its new show "Cheap A$$ Beach Houses."  "HGTV is obviously going for shock here as there are numerous options which would not be offensive."  How many children young enough to be unacquainted with the word "ass" watch HGTV?  Never mind, just sign her petition.

Mother of mercy, is this the end of MAGA?  Trump spent the hours of darkness raging at turncoats like Thomas Massie, whose discharge petition to release the you-know-what will finally get a vote next week unless the Squeaker can think of a cunning plan.  "Did Thomas Massie...get married already???  Boy, that was quick!  No wonder the Polls have him at less than an 8% chance of winning the Election.  Anyway, have a great life Thomas and (?).  His wife will soon find out that she's stuck with a LOSER!"  Do Kentucky voters care if someone marries 17 months after being widowed?  Why is it the concern of the doubly divorced, chronically adulterous Trump? 

Then there was this:  "Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat's problem, not the Republican's problem!"  (Punctuation?)  "Ask Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don't waste your time with Trump.  I have a Country to run!"  Fine.  Release the complete and unedited files and show us all the video and photographs of Epstein and Maxwell with those three men.  I haven't seen any.  Say...weren't you a Democrat until it became more convenient to be a Republican?  

Saddest of all, by which of course I mean OLYMPIC-LEVEL SCHADENFREUDE is the end of his beautiful friendship with MTG.  Trump was downright poetic:  "Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!)" -- oh, that's beautiful! -- "betrayed the entire Republican party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View" -- he means the ABC daytime show, did you know he watches it? -- and became the RINO that we all know she always was.  Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul, Jr." (his nickname for Massie) "who got caught being a full fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)!  MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN!!!"  

How sharper than a serpent's tooth, huh?  When Bondi, Blanche and Patel were in the Situation Room playing Bad Cop, Worse Cop and Dumb Cop with Lauren Boebert they didn't even try to strongarm Greene.  MTG is no AOC but on this one issue Rep. Peachtree Dish is standing by her principles.  Would I vote for her if she ran for governor?  Hell-to-the-max no.  Is she right about pedophiles in high places?  Of course.  

She's not alone.  Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) was on CNN with a warning:  "We want transparency, and the White House needs to realize the train has left the station.  They need to accept the fact that it's going to happen."  Even if the bill stalls in the Senate, Bacon predicts a veto-proof majority in the House.  I don't think Bacon, who retired after thirty years in the Air Force with the rank of brigadier general, is too impressed with President Bone Spurs.

Then President BS went back to "running the Country" after this exchange on AF1:

REPORTER:  Sir, if there's nothing incriminating in the files --

TRUMP:  Quiet!  Quiet!

This is how he runs the country:  

The newest Trump schlock, Patriotic Pong joins the Donald Trump Record Player in probably violating federal law by "manufacturing or selling likenesses of the presidential seal."  But once you've demolished half the White House and accepted bribes on camera, what's another crime?

More disloyalty!  It looks like Indiana won't be redistricting in time for the midterms.  The state senate will not hold a special session in December as the Republicans don't have the votes, according to president pro tem Rod Bray.

Tsar of All the Borders and self-described "lifelong Catholic" Tom Homan is unhappy with the criticism his CBP atrocities received from the US Conference of Bishops.  "I think they need to spend time fixing the Catholic Church," he said.  Please, we just don't have the mental space for another pedophilia scandal right now.

Devout MAGA and onetime actor Jon Voight has posted a passionate plea to Trump to save "our city" from Zohran Mamdani, although he does not live there.  Angelina!  He's out in the yard frightening the neighbors again!

James Lasher, who is some kind of apocalyptic influencer, writes, "Scripture warns that the end times will be marked by a culture that embraces rebellion against authority...Romans 13 teaches that 'whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed.'"  What's got Jim in a lather?  Starbucks employees walking off the job during the annual Red Cup promotion.  Next year, when we mark the 250th anniversary of America's "rebellion against authority" (King George III), he may have a cow.

Foot-dragging in our time:  Ag Hag Brooke Rollins is forcing SNAP recipients to re-apply for benefits to "prove that they literally are vulnerable and they can't survive without it."  And since these things take time, the freeloaders won't have the money in time for Thanksgiving!  The Ghislaine Maxwell lookalike says 186,000 dead people are currently receiving benefits.  Trump says, "People who are able-bodied can do a job," unaware that millions already have a job, or several, and still can't afford groceries in the Trump-Bessant economy.   (There's a SNAP office on many if not most military bases.)

What's this?  The Bondi Department posted some Trump pardons online and then someone noticed that the signatures were amazingly similar.  Exactly so, according to a couple of forensic document experts consulted by the Associated Press.  Something that only happens with an autopen.  Goodness me.  😆