Pottersville Digest

 

("Well, we're having a Cabinet meeting, aren't we?")

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     Lo, how the mighty have fallen. Richard Spenser, who had ambitions of being Trump's Rudolf Hess, is now reduced to living in Mommy's house and is unable to get a table at a restaurant in his hometown.

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     Excuse me, Uncle Fester, but who was in charge on 9/11?

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     It was only "complex" because the Supreme Court used words that had more than one syllable.

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     And this was after an active shooter threat. It's a small-minded world, after all.

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     Really, is there any difference between these loping jackals and the Bund of 1930s Nazi Germany? Maybe the Bund were better disciplined. And better dressed.

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     Chris Christie completely loses the point. Roe v Wade was never about abortion. It was about a woman's right to privacy and what is discussed between she and her doctor. Texas' bounty hunter bill essentially strips away all that privacy by opening up women who'd gotten an abortion after six weeks to public litigation, ridicule and abortion-shaming.

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     Republicans have been pushing lies for over a century. So this election cycle is different from any other... how?

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     At the end of every day, Peter Baker will always be a piece of shit.

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     Cartoon intermission.

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     Mount Rushmore develops cancerous cyst. Film at 11.

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     "I'm willing to compromise and give you a living wage." Wow, what a guy, huh?

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     When the cops begin to act like guilty criminals.

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     "I need to find 154,001 votes."

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     "(W)hen the then-president was told about the flood of vulgar or violent threats against officials not cooperating with his anti-democratic efforts, Trump would sometimes remark that if they wanted the threats to stop, all they had to do was what Trump kept demanding of them. The then-president would also praise those issuing threats—“my people”—for harassing and pushing Georgia GOP officials to overturn the state’s legitimate election results in Trump’s favor..."

     "My people."

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     I've been wondering when these spittle-flecked factions were going to discover each other. Cue the Romeo and Juliet theme.

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     Ron DeathSantis is so horrible a governor, he's literally become a reverse model of governance.

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     Your Brad o' the day. And finally...

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     Happy fucking Labor Day.