It's not just me

 The cold, the encroaching darkness, the end of another year, there's an appropriate acronym for what so many of us feel around this time:  SAD (seasonal affective disorder).  People who can seek out sunny beaches or buy lamps that promise to simulate sunlight because our remote ancestors lived in the savanna of Africa before migrating to places like Scandinavia.  We need warmth and light.

Laughter helps.  For instance, I enjoyed this post from someone who isn't afraid to be known as an idiot:

How did "Chill Bill Hick" know it was Southeast Asia and not, say, a cafe in Chinatown, yet not know Obama was having lunch with Anthony Bourdain?  Sorry, RepubliCLOWN, no points for you but thanks for making me smile. 😃

Are you concerned that the man who shot up a lecture hall at Brown University and killed two people is still at large?  Don't worry, the best people are working on it.  Rhode Island is our smallest state -- how long can it take to search every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in the area?  Look under the snow, too.

K$H Patel isn't worried -- he posted a $50,000 reward for information leading to, etc.  Then he and his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins went off to the Katie Miller podcast to answer the questions America is asking:  How do they make long distance work?  When is the engagement?  How much are the taxpayers coughing up to protect her as she opens wrestling matches around the country?  Does he wear an FBI jacket made for a female agent?

Dearborn, Michigan, is full of monuments to Henry Ford, who made it the epicenter of American antisemitism in the twentieth century.  Jew-hatred continues to flourish in Trump's America but in Dearborn it has been replaced with Muslim-hatred.  It's where Jake Lang, January 6 rioter and senatorial candidate, tried unsuccessfully to burn a Quran last month before counterprotesters knocked it out of his hand.  He claims the police allowed him to be assaulted and is suing the city for $200 million.  (Harmeet Dhillon of the Bondi Department, who supposedly works for us, has offered to represent him.)  Now this bozo is promising to "storm" La Vista Prison in Colorado and "break Tina Peters out" unless she is released by January 31.  Lang is running for the Senate in Florida but I guess hate is portable commodity.  For some reason he's calling January 31 "Bastille March."  A little learning is a dangerous thing.  

Peters is becoming the fascists' Nelson Mandela.  When Jared Polis ignored his "pardon" of the election felon, Trump declared the governor "run by Tren de Aragua," the Venezuelan gang he blames for trafficking fentanyl when he isn't blaming Mexico or China.  That's why "he won't allow our wonderful Tina to come out of jail -- a high intensity jail."  (He means "high security.")  It's not clear why Tren de Aragua would care about her, but maybe Trump knows.

In actual Florida Randy Fine has decided that all Muslims everywhere are bad and wants to "kick them the hell out of America."  Henry Ford would understand.  Not that he'd be caught dead agreeing with Randy Fine.  By the way, Ahmed al-Ahmed is still undergoing surgeries in Sydney as doctors try to save his left arm.  Many more people would have died without his action, or if Australia allowed the sale of assault rifles -- the terrorists were only able to obtain rifles and shotguns.  So what do you say we all just shut up about guns and immigrants and Islam, OK?  Just until the end of Hanukkah?

This one is really funny.  Remember how Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize board claiming that prize-winning reporting by the New York Times and Washington Post about his Russia connections damaged him financially and physically?  The defendants have now demanded he prove his contention by turning over all records of income and financial holdings, and also "health records and prescription medications."  When he sued in Okeechobee County, Florida, Trump must have thought they would have to retain the kind of parking garage lawyers he uses.  Pass the popcorn.

Once again Sarah Palin tried to sue the New York Times for libel and once again the judge sent her back to the permafrost empty-handed.  Palin didn't like a 2017 editorial connecting her infamous "crosshairs" tweet to the shooting in Arizona that killed six people and left Rep. Gabby Giffords disabled.

Given an opportunity to walk back his appalling Rob Reiner attack, Trump naturally made it worse:  "He was bad for America."  Nobody expected flags to be lowered as they were for Charlie Kirk -- all he had to do was shut up.  Russell Moore, evangelical editor of Christianity Today, was enraged:  "How this vile, disgusting and immoral behavior has become normalized in the United States is something our descendants will study in school, to the shame of our generation."  Not funny but true.

Don Lemon, formerly of CNN, was a little more street:  "You know what, Donald Trump, fuck you.   Just fuck all the way off.  What an asshole and a small dick shit to do.  You have no couth, you are an immature child, you are a bigot, a fucking racist and a small penis asshole.  Yeah, I said that."  Do you feel better, Don?

Commander Op at Large CA Gregory K. Bovino, DHS official and Rudolf Hess cosplayer, says all US citizens must carry proof of citizenship or risk being arrested like Mubashir, who was walking through Minneapolis despite having been born in Somalia.  We have officially reached the "Papiere, bitte" stage of the Turd Reich.

Tick tock, Donnie.  Three more days...