Tabby Thursday
- Via TMZ: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.I Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Penis. You know, as one does.
- Via Democracy Docket: Key Trump lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election permanently disbarred. What a shame.
- G. Elliott Morris: It’s the prices, stupid.
- Via the CBC: Trump’s respect for King Charles possibly quashed desire to annex Canada, says royal commentator.
- Via Politico: Jim Jordan’s dream might not be deferred much longer.
- Via Politico: ‘A wow moment’: Democrats’ election hot streak goes scorching.
- Via NBC News: Supreme Court paves way for Steve Bannon contempt case to be dismissed.
- Via The Guardian: I was the US soft power czar. Our reputation may never recover from this.
But the Ugly American archetype was also an image of someone naive and even, occasionally, well-meaning. Those clumsy crew-cutted Americans just didn’t understand the world, the thinking went. But Trump has turned the Ugly American into the Immoral American, a prototype of a predatory sociopath who is entirely transactional and probably does know better. The Immoral American is more unscrupulous and corrupt than the Ugly American and, unlike the latter, cannot be evolved but only replaced.
Gym Jordan is an embodiment of the moral and intellectual collapse of the Republican Party.
In Catch 22 Gen. Peckham, who hates his incompetent subordinate, Lt. Scheisskopf, commands “Special Services”, who schedule USO shows, stock canteens, and the like. He wants a combat command and is constantly scheming to get a bomber wing transferred under Special Services. ‘If bombing the enemy isn’t a special service, what is?’ He is finally transferred to command of the bomber wing, only to find his constant requests the wing be put under Special Services have also been granted, so that he finds himself under the command of now General Scheisskopf.
I pray Jordan is made Speaker, just before Ds take over the House.
I haven’t reread Catch 22 in years. I need to. It captures our current reality. Like Dr. Strangelove, some reality can only be properly described in farce.
The CBC/King Charles link doesn’t work.