On Wednesday, The Felonious Guy reaches the lauded
100-Day mark of his administration Reign of Terror. Only 100 days.
[sigh]
It feels sooo much longer, doesn’t it? When was the last
time you got up in the morning without worrying what the MFer did this time?
Every day, it’s a new test to see if you can withstand the latest assault on
America. We’ve seen tariffs, sky-high prices, destroying federally funded
science, schooling, rolling back safety precautions regarding our food and the
environment, general bellicosity involving invasion threats to Greenland and
Panama, and I could go on for the rest of the page, but it’s just too
depressing. Also, arresting judges, threatening law firms, human trafficking,
selective prosecution of anyone who dares criticize him, and gutting services
to Americans to trade off cutting taxes for those who have the most already.
Sorry, the rest tumbled out after I meant to stop.
America has become a laughing stock, no longer an anchor at the Cool Kids’ Table. He can’t even make it through a funeral without embarrassing himself. There he was at the funeral of Pope Francis, shining blob in his blue suit amidst a sea of mourning black. And the putz falls asleep, right in front of everyone.
(No, do NOT tell me he was deep in prayer. That guy
wouldn’t know how to pray for rain if his ass were on fire.) He’s checked out.
If they’re not kissing his butt, he’s not listening.
If you need more proof that Melania is checked out, it’s
the fact that she didn’t wake him up. She could have at least offered a nudge or
two in the ribs to get him back among the living. Or maybe a stiletto heel to
the top of the foot.
I think the people in charge of Vatican funerals put him
up front on purpose, just to highlight what a low-forehead clown he is.
But yes, the 100 Days… That means today we’ve got
1362 more to go, assuming he isn’t re-re-elected or self-appointed in 2028.
There is so much more time for who knows what damage he’s prepared to
do. Three years down the road, we may be looking back at THIS as the Good Ol’
Days.
Today, resistance is most certainly NOT futile. It’s a
requirement if we’re going to live in a people’s democracy ever again.
Sundowning
Meanwhile, the Conservative Media continues its psychological influence operations. The Sinclair Media-run Baltimore Sun laid some cards on the table last week, if you know what to look for. In this case, it’s the one bit of local good news. Naturally, they buried it on page 8 of the paper, bottom left corner.
You’ve got all the Ugliness/Incompetence in Baltimore
stories front and center, and the part where the city came off the 25 Most
Dangerous Places in the US list is placed where it’s most likely to be
overlooked. You gotta hand it to them… they keep coming up with new ways to
claim even more turf for the richest Americans. Stay tuned; soon you’ll see an
OP/ED asking for Jeff Bezos to buy Baltimore outright and use the infrastructure for Amazon warehouses and storage. They can’t wait to hand over the keys to the
kingdom to one of their own kings.
And today, we have this adventure in Headline Distortion:
This is a story about how Democrats are working out amongst themselves how to move forward, with David Hogg and the new crowd looking to make big changes, shake things up, and usurp the Old Guard. And the old guys, naturally, won’t go without leaving claw marks on the door frames.
The headline suggests something else, though. “While Dems search for identity…” OK, the
usual Dems in Disarray story, “Lawmakers
take a different approach.”
See what they’re doing? The Dems are over here, while the
Lawmakers are over there, even though the story is literally about Democratic
lawmakers. But the headline suggests they’re two different things, and they’re
at odds. If you read the article, you find out what the real story is, but so
many people only glance through the headlines on their way to the sports and
comics. The headline is often the only impression they get from the paper.
It’s kind of like they used to do with magazine ads back in the 70s and 80s, when they’d bury subliminal messages in the periphery or add sexual imagery in the markings on the ice inside a glass of Scotch. (They may still do that, but with the lack of circulation in print media, they probably can’t afford it anymore.) They are designed to leave an imprint in your mind, whether you actually absorb the ad/story or not.