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- Disney should shut down its entire Florida operation for the last two weeks in August, through Labor Day. Brand it “The Summer without Disney.” It can afford to take the financial loss, but DeSantis can’t afford to let people see how much more of an impact Disney has on their lives than DeSantis does.
- With every accusation of “grooming” made by Republicans, realize that the GOP has become Q. They are parroting the claims QAnon have made in 2016. Q has become inculcated in Republicanism.
- Kevin McCarthy will be out as leader of House Republicans very shortly for his words against Trump. He should be out of Congress for his words supporting him.
- I think I figured out Ron DeSantis’s plan in attacking Disney: He wants them to vacate their amusement parks and then hand them over to Trump to operate as TRUMPLAND, where nothing works and everything costs four times normal.
- Junior’s texts to Meadows– “We have multiple paths We control them all.”–is just as treasonous as his 2016 “I love it!” emails celebrating the Russian government helping the Trump campaign.
- With her myriad claims of faulty memory, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s testimony moves the GOP from the Party of Personal Responsibility to the Party of Persistently Problematic Recall: You can’t take responsibility for your actions when you have no functioning memory of those actions (when you’re in a courtroom).
- Greene may skate on the charge that she’s unqualified to sit in Congress because of her faux sworn forgetfulness; it doesn’t absolve her of her crimes, but it will make her smarmier than Trump after Trump felt empowered because Republicans let him off of his impeachment.
- Science says that to make sperm, testicles should be temperature regulated, which is why they’re in the scrotum to move them close or far away from the body as needed. Tucker Carlson wants to heat the testes up to manufacture testosterone, production of which is actually regulated by the pituitary gland in the brain, not the testicles, and which would kill sperm motility. Welcome to Carlson Pharmaceuticals, where dogma is king and science doesn’t matter.
- Is it just me, or was everyone’s life better in that period when you listened to a lot of ska? Is life better because you’re listening to ska, or are you listening to ska because life is better?
- If al Qaeda had destroyed a quarter billion dollars in American cargo, the US would mount an all-out attack on them. But when Y’all Qaeda, led by the Crippled Sheik Greg Abbott, does it, his followers cheer even as they complain about higher prices.
- In the GOP, reality TeeVee stars and Party leaders are interchangeable. No Party has embraced celebrity more in the history of the United States.
- “First they came for the NFL, but I am not a football player, so I didn’t care. Then they came for Sesame Street, but I am not a Muppet, so I looked the other way. But now… now they come for Disney, and I am but a mouse who will roar.”
- Yes, it’s true, flight attendants are relieved that the mask mandate was (at least momentarily) struck down. It’s not because of discomfort wearing a mask. It was because they no longer have to act like a lunch mom for toddler-brained, self-indulgent anti-vaxxers who think they’re above the law, and they won’t have to be enforcers in dealing with violent idiots.
- Republican tactics in campaigns center on tossing out manufactured outrage after manufactured outrage that aren’t actually problems, putting in policies that (they claim) fixes the problem (that doesn’t exist), and declaring victory to show its base that it’s doing something. It preys on the conservative need to be angry and scared. Democrats, on the other hand, address actual problems that require long-term solutions, which the electorate won’t pay attention to because the benefits happen over years or decades. Infrastructure is a key example of this.
- ObamaCare is so popular Republicans are going to start calling it the Affordable Care Act and pretend they passed it under Bush.
- In 2014, I wanted to start a movement called “Elevate the Discourse” to promote a civil exchange of ideas in a public forum. But now? Fuck it.
- Seriously, this one week: Ted Cruz gets sexual with Pluto (the dog, not the planet), Rudy Giuliani on The Mask Singer, Marge under oath, a Piers Morgan/Donald Trump soap opera, and Tucker’s Testicle Tanning. And that doesn’t even touch the various Florida disasters.
- You can make grilled cheese sandwiches in a variety of ways–bacon, tomato, ham, different breads, various cheeses–but the old fashioned white-bread-with-American-cheese is the definition of the sandwich as comfort food. (Tomato soup is a good side, but so are olives.)
- Celebrate Earth Day by going out and looking at the stars, trying to figure out which blinky light has another “Earth” orbiting it. Our ancestors might be living here in a century or two.
