Tabby Wednesday
- Via The Guardian: Only one in 10 Europeans now see US as an ally, survey suggests.
- Via MS Now: ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump.
- By Paul Campos at LGM: Ain’t that America.
- Via the AP: Troubled Reflecting Pool faces fresh scrutiny over vandalism claims and duck deaths. The duck deaths are just another ridiculous flourish to this story.
- Via the NYT: A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees. Gifts if you have the right hue!
- Via the Hollywood Reporter: A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target. Worth a read; it was not what I expected.
- By Steve Kennedy at Liberal Currents: Callais Affects More Than Just Congress.
- By Justin Briley at Liberal Currents: Let Us Reflect.
For a year and a half, we have watched an 80-year-old demented, effluvient, affluenza patient stifle our economy, trample our constitution, terrorize our neighbors, insult our sacred traditions, threaten our allies, promise genocide, guarantee holocaust, and start (then promptly lose) an illegal war, the consequences of which we will be living with for a generation. They call him the “king of deals,” but he’s bankrupted six casinos. At every turn, we’re reminded why. We’ve watched as a talentless totem of meaningless celebrity gutted scientific research, pardoned traitors, paid off terrorists, tortured families, murdered innocents, and wrapped himself in the flag of freedom while demanding our gratitude for each humiliation. We see the rosy-cheeked marionette, Speaker Mike Johnson, stumble through some absurd denial of any knowledge of the day’s most significant event to avoid the risk of an octogenarian making a mean post about him. The Supreme Court scrapes and bows and invents new dogmas to crown him godking. The media stumbles around, drunk on the fumes of his power and attention, no matter how bitter the glass. Meanwhile, we are treated as if we cannot taste, read, or hear.
Indeed.
Isn’t today Wednesday?
@CSK:
Living in the felon’s world, there is every reason for wishing the calendar would turn quicker.
@CSK: It is. I think I have Retirement Brain this week when it comes to keeping track of what day of the week it is!!
@Steven L. Taylor: LOL. I’m always asking what day it is. If my wife ever stops working her three days a week, I would be totally in la la land.
What Paul Campos calls “deep blue patches” I would describe as “this is what prosperity looks like”. It looks like this everywhere. In my home town, which is a LOT smaller than Sioux Falls. A LOT.
Non-prosperity looks like abandoned gas stations. Or a drive-in restaurant with 20 parking spots, all of which are empty. Stephen has posted a few photographs of this, it is quite photogenic, to my eye. It’s a low-rent version of Ozymandias.
I can’t tell, but I’m guessing that Dr. Campos has not really spent much time in rural America, and he thinks of them as Them. I don’t. I am quite aware that some of them are liberal, even if it isn’t the majority. And many of them, most of them, are capable of having a human conversation with someone that doesn’t involve politics. Which is something I quite appreciate – even if I spend part of every day talking politics here.
Did you see the AI generated meme picture of the baby duck at the bottom of the reflecting pool with a box cutter? Lol, simply says “It was me! Muahahah” lmao. Gotta have some laughs in these crazy times.
@Steven L. Taylor: @Scott: Y’all are Dowager Countess coded today. https://youtu.be/4KBAXMpklDU?si=dggQd_RVA-VspIMp
@DK: Indeed. Everyday is the weekend!
@DK: I’ve never really watched that show, but wow, that clip was a comedy bomb.
In Texas, they give you 50 years behind bars if they find some tenuous connection to a different guy who shot and wounded a police officer during an anti-ICE protest.
And if you’re caught hiding left-wing literature from the feds, you get 30. Even so, quite a bit more than anyone received for J6, I should add.
The presiding judge explained why:
Thought crime is so back, baby.
ETA: Oops, this was supposed to go into today’s forum. My bad.
@Scott:
My wife retired last month, so it’s really her fault!
@DK: I’ll take it!