I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.
I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a Roy Edroso Breaks It Down free issue link, but as the world’s all-in on Epsteinmania I'll start with my essay on the blow-up and why it’s as potent as it is.
Short version: The people who are accustomed to joke and sneer away Tubby’s other deficiencies can’t do it in this case. You can’t rile your rubes with stories about how you’re not the pedophile, they’re the pedophile, and you have a magic document that proves it, and then tell them the magic document doesn’t exist, and then that it was created by the Democrats, and then tell everybody to shut up, without consequences. Particularly when you’re fucking up everything else.
We’ll have to wait for history to tell us what ratfuckery made them fumble the bag so badly. But I’m guessing this is a clue: That the only fresh evidence (as opposed to the evidence that’s been well-known for years) of Tubby’s pedo-propensities has been supplied by Satan’s emissary Rupert Murdoch.
It kind of figures. The fake-liberal Prestige Press has been effectively cowed by the administration’s goon squad tactics. (You saw how completely CBS folded to Tubby on Steven Colbert, right? “Financial decision” means they can’t afford another extortionate lawsuit.) But rightwing outlets like the Wall Street Journal never needed cowing – they see Trump wreaking havoc on civil liberties, climate repair, racial justice etc. and can hardly believe their luck – all they had to do was make this moron a lame duck, and he’ll happily help them turn America into a corporate slave state.
But with his tariff tantrums Tubby’s also fucking with their money, and Bessent and Lutnick have proven themselves totally incapable of pulling the leash. So it’s time for a little muckraking – on behalf of the oligarchs!
Well, why not – the fascists have long adopted the language of civil rights to steal civil rights; see Gruppenführer Stephen Miller’s lawsuit against Johns Hopkins, describing the school’s scholarships for poor black kids as racism, for a particularly ripe example. So why not jiu-jitsu journalism for those purposes as well? It’s not like any voter under the age of 80 has ever had a decent education in civics.
Please don’t take this to mean I’m against it. Let the fash titans fight! Meanwhile the fake liberal Prestige Press has its hands full trying to hold back the trend of Democrats who will actually fight – with the help of Democrats who will only pretend to fight. If we get some breaks, maybe we’ll get more nominees who’ll offer people something they want more than racism and sabotage (or slightly-less-racism-and-sabotage).
Speaking of which, it’s something to contemplate that another massive failure of conservative governance – Texas' and FEMA’s fuckups in the flash floods that killed a bunch of kids – has disappeared from the news. Joe Biden stumbles over his words and it’s months of front-page stories; a tragic example shows just how antithetical to human health and safety MAGA really is, and it’s like it never happened. Well, we’ll always have the spectacle of the completely unqualified MAGA FEMA head stumbling onto the scene several days late dressed for a luau, as immortalized in my comic playlet. Enjoy!
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