I watched part of Trump’s interview at the National Association of Black Journalists. Those interviewers were not “nice” to him at all and forced him to motor-mouth faster than usual. But he did manage to make a query about: “What is Kamala Harris, really? An Indian not-like-us, or a Black not-like-us?” This set me to wondering “Is Trump white or orange, really?” Yes, some days he looks a little white, but most days his complexion and hair scream “orange.” But in photos from years ago he looks white. So although over the years his tint has morphed into a definite orange, those photographs make me ask “Is he really orange deep down inside?”
31 VII 2024: Cannon and Thomas
Clarence Thomas has lost all credibility. He may not technically be “on the take,” but he surely is “on the take.” Can anyone now believe that he is capable of an unbiased decision? Similarly, his apparent protege, Aileen Cannon, may not technically be “on the take,” but she too has lost all credibility. One only has to ask: Is she stupid or crooked? And the answer seems to be that it doesn’t matter, for either would explain her behavior.
I would very much like to see some investigative reporting about the Federalist Society, a reactionary secret society. Yes. It seems to do much of its business in the public eye, but what can be seen is not its real business. No, it does its business with a wink and a nudge and a luxury vacation and the promise of advancement on the bench for those who do what they are told.
31 VII 2024: Josh Jerkoff
I see that Sen. Josh Hawley, winner of the fist-raise contest and the 40 yard sprint in the Republican House, is once again jerking off in public. Josh loves to act out the indignant bully, at least when he is on camera, and, of course, when he does this he is an embarrassment to his party, to his country, to everyone except the state of Missouri.
Hawley and J.D. Vance are trying to make a career by appearing nuttier-than-the-nuts in their efforts to appeal to retro voters. This probably won’t come back to haunt Hawley, wannabe Führer of the Christian Nationalism party, as long as he runs for office only in Missouri.
Vance, on the other hand, has not taken into account the potential media permanence of his crazy-right statements and is running into trouble. Vance has been called a chameleon, because his response to “What do you think, J.D.?” seems to be “What do you want me to think?” He has always paraded reactionary imaginings before the retro voters, and now he is learning how rational voters respond to them.
29 VII 2024: Nation of war criminals?
Bernie Sanders called a spade a spade recently when he referred to Netanyahu as a war criminal. To disagree with this you have to be living in as bizarre and make-believe a world as the MAGA crowd. Israel acts-out the helpless, innocent victim. They cry anti-semitism and predict a Holocaust re-run. Why oh why would anyone want to attack Israel?
People attack Israel because Israel attacks them. Israel is a militaristic colonist state that does what other colonist states, the USA, for example, do: they kill off or drive out the inhabitants of the land they want for themselves, all the while shouting “Manifest destiny” or “God gave this land to me” or “The white man’s burden.”
Why the constant unreserved support for Israel? It is based partly upon the perception that Israel is a democracy and an ally, however inconstant of the United States. But this unreserved support for Israel is, I believe, based mostly on the fact that the vast majority of Israelis look like us. If the vast majority of Israelis were brown like their neighbors, Israel would long ago have been told “Good luck. You’re on your own.”
28 VII 2024: A natural firestorm
I read in a report about the wildfire in California that it had turned into a “fire tornado.” It seems that the one in California is a naturally occurring firestorm, in contrast to the firestorms caused during WWII by the allies in cities in Germany and Japan. In those cases, the firestorms were man-made, caused by countless incendiary bombs.
27 VII 2024: Trump the Chriiistian
Rev. Trump is waving his pretend Christianity around quite a lot these days to appeal to folks like Sen. Hawley who lately announced that he is a “Christian nationalist.” But Hawley is no more a Christian than Trump, and Trump is on a good day only a cheap Hallmark Christian. People who care are going to have to speak out against feigning Christianity in the political sphere and against fake Christianity.
25 VII 2024: Bibi and Trumpi
Netanyahu and Trump are practically twins. They would be, except for the fact that Trump has not yet committed genocide.
22 VII 2024: Investigation. What fun!
Republicans, especially in the House, have dropped everything so they won’t be left out of a grand investigation of the attempt on the life of Trump. I know that they have to distract themselves with melodrama since they do no real work, but this is going to get well out of hand. These days, Americans can’t get enough of anger. Whatever happens must be someone’s fault and it must be investigated, that is to say, theatrical Republicans and right-wing mouths get to act out furious and deeply concerned. Ten members of the house wandering around on the roof whence the shooter got a bead on Trump! A demonstration of earnestness and concern and maybe a photo-op. Nancy Mace gets to make the news by using coarse language while brow-beating the Director of the Secret Service, whoopee! Speaker Johnson is planning a select bipartisan committee to investigate what we already know everything about. The attempted assassination of Trump will be more investigated that the assassination of Lincoln.
16 VII 2024: Trump is still Trump
It needn’t be said, but I will say it anyway. Trump’s having been nearly killed by a crazy kid does not change the fact that Trump is a compulsive liar, compulsive swindler, compulsive sexual predator, and compulsive semi-criminal. If some people want to celebrate and thank the Lord for Trump’s deliverance from peril, let them do it, but it will not make them any the wiser nor Trump any the less revolting.
15 VII 2024: Aileen delivers!
Judge Aileen Cannon is a good little girl and always does what the grownups tell her. She can take her place with Thomas and Alito and her fellow Trump appointees on the Supreme Court, all of them obedient to the people who put them where they are, all traitors to jurisprudence.