FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CHEESY SCENES OF WINTER EDITION.

RAWK.

In the not-too-distant future, I hope and pray, we will look back on the Age of Tubby II and think, “Holy shit, I know I complain about the mandatory compositing and President AOC’s land acknowledgements but have we forgotten FUCKED UP AND FASH things used to be?” Things are pretty crazy for yet another week. For one thing, if you thought Republicans’ Iraq War-era love of extraordinary renditions and black sites was as disgusting as it could get, now we have Trump, Drunken Peter Hegseth, and assorted GOP flunkies like Tom Cotton endorsing the murder of some guys clinging for dear life to the wreckage of a boat WE BLEW UP from a country WITH WHICH WE ARE NOT AT WAR. (Makes sense Cotton would go for it, as during Trump I he endorsed sending U.S. troops to shoot U.S. citizens.) 

The Prestige Press is acting like the big takeaway is that Hegseth might get in trouble, but if we were anything like the country we pretend to be, we’d be worried that an angry God might just blow us all up. 

Also the Supreme Court, the conservative majority of which just endorsed a gerrymander obviously animated to suppress the minority vote in Texas because it will favor the party that gives them bribes, has agreed to hear a case that hinges on whether, when the Fourteenth Amendment says “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” they didn’t mean “except if it makes bigots mad.” 

Smart people are saying SCOTUS would never, but I’m not so sure. All Democrats to the left of Schumer and Jeffries (that is, most of them) are saying pack the court for fuck’s sake, these guys are crooked as Satan’s pecker, and even the normally indifferent public has grown sick of their janky jurisprudence. The Roberts gang know it’s curtains for them if the Democrats ever get back into power, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they did fuckery and sprinkled some Latin over it in hopes that Tubby and his mob will appreciate it let them keep their jobs when they go full Franco and I don’t mean Zeffirelli.   

I could go on, but it’s Friday, let’s not make ourselves miserable -- in fact, the two (2) ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN freebies I’m linking are comic sketches, which is to say fun if you don’t mind a darker blend of laffs: First, a meeting of Top Centrists on how the Democratic Party can best hem and haw and bothsides its way into irrelevance and sellout dipshits can make big bucks; second, a look at Tubby backstage in these the deep days of his dotage -- the old bastard's looking rough these days and his minders have taken to giving him fake Peace Prizes to keep his fading mind occupied, so who knows -- maybe someday soon we’ll open the news and get a more pleasant sort of surprise than usual.