Under siege

 

It's not Cuba and it's not Colombia.  These are people in Argentina expressing themselves about yanqui activities in Venezuela.  Good likeness for his next set of trading cards.  But don't they love him for rescuing the Argentinian economy from Javier Milei's incompetence?  Not so much?

WMDs redux:  The Bondi Department has already acknowledged that part of the Maduro indictment is pure moonshine.  The "Cartel de los Soles" he is accused of heading does not exist.  It's Venezuelan slang for what their media call "officials who are corrupted by drug money," according to the New York Times.  Like the way lazy people talk about a "gay mafia" which has no connection at all to nineteenth century Sicily.  Or exist.

Since it's now seditious to tell members of the armed forces not to obey illegal orders, the Department of Warfightin' (and kidnappin') is proceeding with its vendetta against Senator Mark Kelly.  But it must be HACO Tuesday (Hegseth Always Chickens Out) because Secretary Crusader Tats has changed his mind about a court martial made up of line officers and will dock Kelly's pension instead.  Maybe he'll be deleted from NASA websites, like all those unwhite unmale DEI veterans.  It probably didn't help that Thom Tillis and Susan Collins denounced the plan for a show trial as even more troops are ordered to violate still more laws.  

The War Man has more important matters to deal with, like getting to the bottom (sorry) of Operation Butt Plug.  Someone has been sending butt plugs to the US fleet post office in Bahrain where pleasure is illegal, and they're getting returned to Bonjibon, a shop in Toronto, by the Navy Department.  The owner, Grace Bennett, said, "I don't know why they're sending me very cross letters saying, 'Stop sending items that could cause bodily harm to this country.'  This sounds like a you problem.  The call was coming from inside the house."  (I assume she doesn't mean the House of Representatives.) The "pornographic" items were not described, but I'm sure she doesn't want to be responsible for causing a cross-border invasion during hockey season.

It's January 6.  Where were you and what were you wearing five years ago when this happened?

From Tampa to Anchorage there was no doubt about what people saw and reported.  The revisionist "history" began later, some of it spread by people who cowered in Capitol safe rooms or fled like "Run Like Hell" Hawley.  The gaslighting continues, with a shiny new White House website devoted entirely to blaming Nancy Pelosi for failing to call out the Super Secret Speaker's Shock Troops.  At least 174 Capitol police were injured and the despicable Mickey Mouseturd Johnson won't even allow a plaque to their heroism to be dedicated.  The insurrectionists, on the other hand, are back on the street and committing fresh crimes, usually involving violence.  

As part of last year's "Treason is Cool Again!" celebrations Dear Leader issued a blanket clemency to all who tried to hang Mike Pence, shat on the Capitol and otherwise contributed to his historic return.  The question is whether it covers Brian Cole, the man who allegedly planted bombs at the DNC and RNC offices the night before.  If it were only the DNC, sure, but the other one?  It's a conundrum, one that I predicted last year.  I hate being right.