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Random thoughts Friday, Volume CXXI

  • We’re getting to FIFA-level corruption within the Republican Party.  I’d be worried, but thankfully they have a Keystone Kops-level of competence.
  • That CNN town hall was disastrous. No one could control Trump.  No one vetted the questions.  The crowd laughed at sexual assault.  No one came out of it looking good. Not Trump. Not CNN.  And not New Hampshire.
  • I’m curious how the history books that will be written long after I’m gone will treat this era of American history.  The good history books, I mean, not the ones Florida will use.
  • Comer and Jordan personify why the American public has negative views of Congress:  they don’t want to accomplish anything other than political hits.  They’re not serving the People of the United States; they’re serving their own ambitions.
  • DeSantis’s entire campaign strategy is to hang on until Trump gets booted from the campaign because of [indictment, death, flight to Russia, etc.] and then he’ll swoop in.  First, that might not happen, and second, Republican voters won’t cotton to the second choice. 
  • Thank you, Tommy Tuberville, for admitting you understand white nationalists are Trump’s base:  “I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican.” That you didn’t think that was a bad thing is still troubling, though.
  • As deuterostomes, the first orifice a human fetus develops is its anus, meaning we are all first and foremost assholes.
  • Lost in the jobs report released last week:  workforce participation rate has recovered to rates from March 2020, just after the pandemic started.  A Democratic President rebuilding after a Republican economic disaster, again.
  • Think the GOP isn’t into performance art?  The GOP could have made the cuts they’re demanding in the current debt ceiling temper tantrum in the first two years of the Trump administration.  They didn’t.  And they increased deficits by $300 billion pre-pandemic.  They’re stomping their feet now because we have an adult in the White House who will ignore their theatrics.
  • I really like the Biden camp’s “Do you really want to do this again?” campaign after the CNN town hall.  Simply remind people how constantly irritated they were constantly during the Trump administration.  Reinforce that people just want Trump to go away.
  • Are the Baltimore Ravens and Tottingham Hotspur really the only two “major league” sports teams named from literature?  Surely there’s a non-English language team somewhere.
  • Republicans are fond of inaccurately comparing the federal budget to a household’s checkbook.  But a household’s checkbook is used to pay down the household’s credit card balance, the previously-accrued debts, to avoid serious short- and long-term penalties, something McCarthy and Republicans seem to forget when it comes to the debt ceiling.  (For the record, I really fucking hate that “federal budget/household checking” analogy.)
  • An early Happy Mother’s Day to all who qualify.  Motherhood has no job description besides, “And other duties as required.”
  • I hope Trump writes E. Jean Carroll the $5 million check soon, although with appeals, it could be years.  She’s a ballsy woman who deserves the satisfaction of having Trump scrawl his signature on what might turn out to be the first of many defamation judgments. 
  • The day after the embarrassing town hall, CNN head Chris Licht reportedly congratulated his team on a company-wide call saying, “Made a LOT of news that is our job.”  This is why Licht needs to resign immediately.  Set aside the poor judgment of hosting a man who the day before the event had been found liable for sexual assault.  A news operation’s mission is to report the news, not make it.  As an old editor once told me, the only time a newspaper should make the news is if its offices are literally on fire.
  • Can’t wait to see the “a.k.a.” section of George Santos’s booking form.  Did they continue it on the back?
  • Favorite tweet from this week comes from a writer on the WGA picket line in California:  “Strangest thing to happen today on the line at Silvercup East.  A guy on a motorbike stops, motions one of us over, and pulls out two test tubes, filled with perfectly rolled joints.  ‘Sativa.  Good stuff.  For you guys.’  Then he bikes off.  That didn’t happen in 2007.”
  • Proper toppings can transform the bagel from a simple bagel to a full sandwich. Smoked salmon, cream cheese, onion and tomato is a sandwich.  Peanut butter and jelly is another option on the right bagel.  Short of a grilled cheese or a Monte Cristo, bagels are perfectly good sandwich breads, and they can give you added flavor.
  • End of a hectic week.  Mentally fried.  But for a week when Trump loses a court case and George Santos gets indicted (after admitting to theft), it’s a good kind of exhaustion.  

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