CSotD: Push the Reset Button – It’s Monday!
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Always good to touch base with First Dog for a reality check. You can’t get much farther away than Tasmania, and so you can’t accuse him of being too close to the subject, and, as near as I can tell, he’s consistently right throughout, including that discouraging final panel.
The Democrats have finally sprung into action, but only to toss one of their own into the volcano. I think they’re right to give Swalwell the heave-ho — it’s certainly more valid than their bogus lynching of Al Franken — but it might be nice to turn some of that righteous wrath on the sex-creeps and scam artists across the aisle, too.
Anyway, as First Dog says, we can’t expect the 25th Amendment to come to the rescue, and it’s pretty dumb to keep talking about it. You might as well hope for Batman or a well-aimed meteorite.
If this were a parliamentary system, we’d have a vote of no confidence and a general election immediately, but we’re stuck for four years, or at least until the midterms, which could turn things around if everybody just keeps their pants on and behaves until then.
Speaking of things we probably shouldn’t count on.
Still taking cues from our Aussie friends, David Rowe notes the idiotic attacks on the Pope for preaching woke policies like “Love thy neighbor” and “Turn the other cheek” and “Don’t commit genocide.”
I’m not all that concerned with what Dear Leader thinks of him, since Trump isn’t Catholic and, in fact, was reared in the Gospel of Prosperity, in which God makes people wealthy if he likes them.
There was an edition of the Bible published in 1631 with a typo that made Exodus 20:14 read “Thou shalt commit adultery” and I think maybe that’s Dear Leader’s scriptural base.
But the trained seals at Xitter are all clapping their flippers and honking in support of hating the Pope, and if half of them are Catholics as they claim, it’s quite a bizarre development. Conservative Catholics are supposed to hate permissiveness and wokeness and choose-your-own-morality religion, but here they are rejecting the Pope and dismissing his spiritual authority.
As a recovering Catholic myself, I’d point out that the major difference between Episcopalians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics is that the Catholics accept papal authority and the other two don’t. Saying you’re Catholic but don’t accept the Pope is like saying you’re vegan but eat cheeseburgers.
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with a good cheeseburger, but get your damn head straight, Bozo.
I guess it’s all consistent with the Gospel of Prosperity. Stalin allegedly responded to a papal criticism by asking how many armies the Pope had, and Trump may well judge him by how many barrels of oil the Vatican can pump in a day.
Meanwhile, there’s an alarmingly significant cluster of evangelicals who are rooting for Israel because they believe bringing all the Jews back to the Holy Land will trigger the return of Christ and the End Times. So they come across as “Christian Zionists” — which is an oxymoron — but are actually hoping for the end of the world.
And that includes Mike Huckabee. If you don’t find Stephen King novels scary enough, read about what our ambassador to Israel believes.
Juxtaposition of the Day
There seems to be an overall impression that JD Vance’s touch-and-go landing in Pakistan was not a serious attempt to end the war in Iran (and surrounding countries). Kumar, who is from India, notes that Pakistan furnished lunch and is also furnishing fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, suggesting that the meal was not the entire key to their policy intentions.
However, Esquivel salutes Vance’s diplomatic skills, or maybe he just depicts the salute JD got from the Iranian negotiators.
I don’t think anybody thought a one-day chat was going to solve things, but when you come to the table refusing to compromise on anything, why drag it out? The Paris Peace Talks that ended the Vietnam War went on for five years and, well, the war ended, but so did South Vietnam. And, as far as I know, the Korean War is still technically going on.
The last bit would be trivial, except I had a friend who we thought was lucky because he got sent to Korea instead of Vietnam, and then he was shot and killed in an incident on the DMZ. Either you’ve got peace or you don’t, and Vance didn’t come home with peace.
JD had a tough week. We sent him to Hungary to help Dear Leader help Vladimir Putin get Viktor Orban reelected, and despite several appearances with our VP, Orban got bounced, as Juri says, that third clunk being former Slovenian PM Janez Janša, whose Slovenian Democratic Party was backing Orban. Juri is Slovenian, but the caption over their heads is Hungarian and reads “Good-bye, Friends!”
As Chappatte indicates, if you had any doubt about the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the masks have come off, and they were both intent on keeping Orban in place because Hungary is a member of both EU and NATO, and so, with the proper leadership in place, can make sure neither organization stands in Moscow’s way or messes with America’s ambitions.
Vance’s heart may not have been in this one, Gary Huck suggests, at least based on what he said about Trump before he became his running mate. Though that assumes he thinks being like Hitler is a bad thing. It’s been hard to keep track, and some of us even think of Russia as an adversary instead of a good buddy, but, in any case, as a candidate, Trump invited Nick Fuentes and Ye to lunch with him at Mar A Lago.
Which isn’t the same as shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue but apparently had the same impact on his voters.
I don’t suppose it’s any consolation to know that the Masters is over for another year and Dear Leader can now return to work, because Mac is joking. The President didn’t watch golf while all this was going on.
He was attending an MMA fight.
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