CSotD: The Whole World is Watching (Except Us)
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Rod Emmerson offers this view from New Zealand, which is that he is gobsmacked that we put such an undeserving person in charge of our nation and, given America’s international standing, in charge of much of the world.
While in Britain, Ella Baron is appalled at how Trump swooped in to turn a tragedy into an opportunity for political posturing, and for declaring that if we’d stop employing women and minorities, such things wouldn’t happen.
I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t be appalled, and yet Dear Leader explains that common sense tell us you shouldn’t allow women and minorities to have jobs that don’t involve mops and spatulas.
Apparently that sounds worse in New Zealand and in England than it does here.
Trump explains that he is against the idea of giving jobs to unqualified minorities and women, which isn’t how DEI works anyway.
However, Kal Kallaugher points out, in Dear Leader’s administration, giving jobs to otherwise unqualified people is okay if they have the only qualification that matters: Abject loyalty.
That, too, is common sense, if you’ve been paying attention.
Clay Bennett depicts Trump conducting the orchestra for an appalled audience holding their hands over their ears, but I question whether they are actually appalled. It’s not like they’re shouting or throwing things.
I certainly accept the idea that they’re holding their hands over their ears, because I don’t believe they’re listening, just as they weren’t listening during his first administration when he was nearly impeached twice and they weren’t listening during the January 6 Committee hearings when his traitorous actions were examined and they weren’t listening during the election when what he intended to do was clearly presented by both sides.
As Uncle Sam says in Emmerson’s cartoon, we did this to ourselves, and there’s some tsk-tsking going on, but not a whole lot else.
In fact, I’ve seen advice on social media saying we shouldn’t demonstrate in the streets because that’s not effective, and I don’t know if it’s being posted by collaborators or cowards or Russian trolls. And I’m not sure it matters.
It’s not just a matter of policy disagreements or his lack of empathy and good taste. It’s not even that his firings have violated the requirements of the law.
RJ Matson points out that he is openly defying the Constitution by setting his own budget regardless of the plain language in which the Founders gave that power specifically to the Legislature.
And this is the second blatant defiance of the document, the first being his attempt to overturn the 14th Amendment by an executive order.
And as Matt Wuerker notes, he has nominated a man for head of the FBI who has promised to dissolve it and who blatantly lied in his confirmation hearings about having an enemies list.
It was one thing for Supreme Court nominees to fudge on the abortion issue before overturning it, but they didn’t quite lie. Patel lied. And Tulsi Gabbard lied in her hearing about meeting with a Hamas leader. And RFK Jr lied in his.
Here are the receipts: Read it for yourself.
We’re not talking about evasive answers. We’re talking about outright, blatant, fork-tongued lies. For instance, Senator Durbin ask Patel if he was familiar with white supremacist conspiracy theorist Stewart Peters:
To rework an old nursery rhyme:
I do not like you, Kash Patel
The reasons why are plain to tell
So this I know and know it well
I do not like you, Kash Patel
But whether or not I like him may not matter, just as it may not matter that he lied under oath. Perjury only counts when somebody decides to enforce the law.
Juxtaposition of the Day
Asked and answered: Stahler accuses the Republicans of ignoring what Dear Leader is doing to the nation, while Fell explains that they’re terrified of losing their jobs if they take a stance based on honor and duty rather than loyalty and obedience.
I guess there’s a reason JFK’s book “Profiles in Courage” only profiled eight Senators.
While the GOP lockstep is contemptible, I’m not too happy with New Hampshire’s Senators, both Democrats, who voted to confirm the Treasury secretary who just gave Elon Musk access to the Treasury’s payment records, documents that are not even supposed to be accessible to employees without specific cause.
Australian Glen LeLievre has it right: The “Department of Government Efficiency” is not a real department and Elon Musk is not only an unelected snoop but isn’t even a real government employee. Jokes about him being the Shadow President may get a laugh, but his meddling in government affairs deserves more than snickering and it certainly doesn’t deserve acquiescence.
One of the flaws in the Parliamentary System is that party members must vote along with their leaders or face serious ramifications. However, its major strength is that members are elected locally and so not only are they more responsive to their constituents but the system produces minor parties rather than splitting government between two major parties.
We’ve got Independents Bernie Sanders and Angus King, and then 98 Senators and 435 Representatives who are either Republicans or Democrats.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries promise to stand up to Trump, and the White House is already demanding an apology from Jeffries for his failure to toe the line.
I guess we’ll see.
David Horsey takes off the gloves, and it’s about time to quit dancing and offer some bare-knuckle confrontation.
We can’t seem to count on Congress, and between the shameful bootlicking at the LA Times and CBS being on the verge of echoing ABC’s chickensh*t payoff to avoid a lawsuit, we can’t count on the major media, either.
Like Fell’s elephant, they’re more scared of losing their jobs than losing their honor.
I wonder how those who stayed home in November to protest Biden’s Mideast policy feel now, since, as Guy Venables (UK) points out, once Trump finishes clearing out the refuse and the refugees, there’ll be room for Jared to spend his $2 billion Saudi development funds.
If we still have midterms in 2026, y’all had better show up.
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