Everything is fine

 

As you can see Trump is now using doubles like Saddam Hussein.  The inert sack of flesh being shadowed by a doctor as he tries to remember why he came to this restaurant (?) is a brilliant impersonation to convince America's enemies that no one is in charge.  The red flower signals to the cognoscenti that all is well.  When it's replaced by a blue one, we're in trouble.

MAGA-to-the-MAX and PTSD poster boy Robert J. O'Neill, who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden with his mind, posted this symptom on social media and Grandpa Dementia thought it should have a wider audience.

In case you missed it this week's Epstein Distraction is FOREIGNERS ARE EVIL AND MUST BE EXPELLED OR KEPT OUT OR WHATEVER except the whitest ones.  Because an Afghani who risked his life for the US forces shot two National Guards for reasons we still don't understand.  This is how reasonable people respond to criminal acts.

Yesterday in Stockton, California, someone opened fire on a child's birthday party killing four guests aged 8, 9, 14 and 21 and wounding ten others.  Round up the usual suspects.

Big-brained Greg Abbott has not yet figured out how to impose a tariff on the wretched refuse fleeing New York for Texas, assuming there are any, but Bruce Blakeman isn't taking any chances.  He says he will install "cameras and security technology" along the border to keep Islamic socialism from seeping into Nassau County.  There are no natural barriers so searchlights and barbed wire will have to do, and possibly border guards to check IDs on the LIRR at Jamaica station.  The Nassau County executive also allows (and probably encourages) local police to go along on ICEstapo raids wearing masks.  This is how reasonable people respond to election results they don't like.  Build that wall, Bruce!

Secretary of Warfighting Hegseth is giddy from a weekend of war crimes and special cider and has opened up a sideline in children's books.  Too busy to write his own and just sentient enough to know that Yertle the Turtle is protected by the Theodore Geisel estate and its lawyers, he stole the work of Paulette Bourgeois and perverted it into this:

Get it?  Because "narco terrorists" are evil and therefore not protected by international or maritime law.  If those laws don't apply anymore, who's to say the Universal Copyright Convention and the Berne Convention exist either?  Paulette Bourgeois is Canadian, which means Pete can just help himself, right?  MAGA!  Boo-ya!

Trump is not at all worried about tomorrow's special election in Tennessee.  That's why he uncorked this masterpiece of scare fiction:

Hey, I openly disdain Country music, want open borders and hate Christianity as defined by Trump -- it's like meeting a friend!  (Men don't play in women's sports so that doesn't count.)  "Transgender for everybody" is the basis of my favorite Ursula LeGuin novel The Left Hand of Darkness.  Van Epps must be a real jerk.

That's some district, that District 22:  Rep. Troy Nehls announced he will not seek re-election in the Texas 22nd.  His twin brother Trever says he will run for the seat.  Since Trever has had no luck in previous attempts at office (Fort Bend County sheriff 2020, Fort Bend County judge 2022) why doesn't he run under Troy's name?  I doubt Fort Bend County would notice or care.

This sounds frighteningly woke:  Utah became the first state to approve small, plug-in solar devices to power home appliances, with bills pending in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maryland.  It's designed for renters who cannot install rooftop panels and people who don't need to run air conditioners or charge EVs.  Seven percent of American homes have rooftop solar, compared to thirty-three percent in Australia.

Meanwhile Trump's EPA says we don't need such high standards for soot pollution because they were set by Biden's EPA.  No other reason is necessary.

Is it a good day for Trump to screw himself?  Metaphorically, of course.  He's desperate for Indiana to gerrymander all Democrats out of contention in the midterms and he just lost the support of state Senator Mike Bohacek by repeatedly describing Tim Walz with a term offensive to people with developmental deficits (and their parents).  "My daughter has Down Syndrome," Bohacek said.  "This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references...I will be voting NO on redistricting.  Perhaps he can use the next ten months to convince voters that his policies and behavior deserve a Congressional majority."  How did Walz come into this?  He's governor of a state with a large community of people from Somalia so Trump decided it was time to pull out some old lies about how depraved they all are and how Ilhan Omar married her brother because 1. He's a racist and 2. He's too demented to stay on topic.  Today's example:  REPORTER:  "Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results."  TRUMP:  "They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached."

I wonder if Bohacek is among the Indiana Republicans blocking the gerrymander and getting pipe bomb threats and visits from SWAT teams on instructions from Dear Leader.  I hope his daughter isn't frightened by the armed men appearing at the door.  Governor Mike Braun is getting them, too -- everybody knows where he lives.

The Washington Post used to keep a database of Trump's lies but does anyone have a compendium of his insults?  Please forward to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.  He says he's always telling his members to not "make your differences with people personal."  Has he told Trump, who calls female reporters "piggy" and "stupid" and "ugly inside and out"?  Who invents witty nicknames like "George Slopadopoulos" as if he were still struggling to pass second grade?  Who can't see the irony in branding anyone else a "fat slob"?  Or is Scalise afraid of being nicknamed himself?  Clean out your own stable first, Mr. Leader.