CSotD: The Attorney General Speaks
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In case you missed it, Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday in order to throw an astonishing Mean Girl Hissy Fit because Representatives had the gall to ask her questions she didn’t want to answer.
In another era, it would have been the end of her days in government, but she was performing for an audience of one and doing so in an America in which behaving as if you were brought up in a barn is considered a sign of strength.
And she really did express outrage that the Honorable Members were criticizing “The Greatest President in American History.” Seriously. Better than Jefferson, better than Lincoln, better than Washington.
Her devotion to the Cult of Personality is a mind-boggling testimony to what you can buy for $25,000 in the current market.
Brodner and Telnaes make a good combination: Telnaes expresses the mood of the day and Brodner drills down into a specific example. However much MAGA and Dear Leader may have been impressed with her behavior, the Representatives were not cowed. They had a little trouble from time to time getting a word in edgewise, and getting any sort of answer to the questions they asked, but, as Brodner says, Lieu did okay.
Though the days when you could successfully appeal to a bully’s sense of decency are long past. You probably had to be watching, or at least see the clips, to fully appreciate her content-free pyrotechnics.
Slyngstad puts a second, fictional sentence in her mouth, but she really did cite the performance of the Dow as the spectacularly irrelevant answer to a question, content in the assumption that the only goal of the American government is to raise stock prices, and that achieving this would make the horrific abuses catalogued in the Epstein Files an unimportant, irrelevant sideline.
But as Molina notes, it was presented not as justification for sexual slavery and rape but as another distraction to avoid facing the issue she had been called before the committee to discuss.
Sack does marvel over what seems to be the one time Donald Trump doesn’t long to see his name attached to something. The effort to keep the Epstein Files under wraps, and to literally cover up the names of anyone famous or powerful within them, has begun to crumble.
As Ro Khanna observed, “If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3 million files.”
Still, this side of the Atlantic seems quiet, though if any prominent people here were suspected of preying upon young girls, we’d certainly probably think about maybe looking into it. But so far, apparently only foreigners have been guilty of such outrages.
But we’re not ignoring the scandal, and so Bill Clinton’s wife has been subpoenaed to testify about what her husband might have been doing on Epstein’s plane, because neither marital privilege nor investigative logic apply when members are grandstanding for partisan purposes.
Such a pity that so many members missed the days of Whitewater. But they are not to be deprived of their turn in the batting cage.
And on the topic of legal over-reach, and blathering political propaganda, while the White House has been bragging about the number of violent criminals ICE has taken off the streets, Homeland Securities’ own figures show this to be a lie: Only 14% of those arrested by ICE have a record of violent criminal offenses.
The other “criminals” have only minor records for things like DUI or drug offenses, while nearly 40% have no criminal record at all, beyond civil charges for violating immigration regulations.
But, not to be satisfied, Gary Varvel implies that native-born truck drivers are never involved in accidents and that the fatalities on our highways are caused by truckers without green cards or full citizenship.
And he wonders aloud where the lynch mobs are to bring these people to justice, since police don’t write tickets and the courts never level charges against the drivers in these incidents. Or do they?
But now we’ve got a president with a record of demanding the death penalty for those who are suspected of violent crimes. Sure, the Central Park Five turned out to be completely innocent, but that just shows why we need to move things along faster when undesirables are charged.
As said before, people admire a decisive leader. Accuracy is for eggheads.
It’s simply a matter of giving the people what they want, and making them feel good about themselves and their country. And when we say “the people,” we mean the people the government cares about and wishes to serve.
This, for instance, is apparently not a forgery intended to make the President of the United States look like an ignorant boob. We’re going to get another golden statue, by golly, of the man who set foot on the American Continent although of course he never did, but it’s woke to point out where he did actually land and what he did there.
And we can’t have wokeness destroying our beloved mythological history. The liberals have been deliberately destroying our history ever since Columbus landed at Plymouth Rock and proved that the world is round thanks to Queen Isabella hocking her jewels.
Perhaps we should meld history and current events into a single course, so that our children can learn what happened in history as of today, through the lens of proper, patriotic modern research and the elimination of woke and DEI sorts of things like slavery, which only sort of happened but didn’t matter, and false rumors of people being mean to Indians, which also didn’t really happen but was manly and heroic if it did.
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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