Let's take the temperature down a bit.
Yeah, been a few weeks since I did this -- sorry about that, life’s a bitch and sometimes it's hard to get it on a leash.
ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN has not faltered, though -- still five days a week of premium content. Also cheap! If you want a steady flow feel free to sign up.
No sense in going back two weeks for outrages to review -- though, talking of ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN, here are a couple of editions concerning JD Vance’s recent dispute with the Holy Father that I’ve brought out from behind the paywall.
Trump’s beef with Leo XIV is just stupid — he’s old, senile, and vicious, and thinks everything including the mandate of heaven should be his. Vance is another matter: As with everything else he does as Vice-President, his theological dispute with the actual Pope was an act of craven suck-uppery to his boss, of the sort that has made him a figure of fun and contempt across the political spectrum; but the fact that he became a Catholic a couple of minutes ago and decided to lecture the literally infallible leader of his Church on Just War Theory really lifts the degree of insufferability. If Vance keeps it up he’ll have us lapsed Catholics back in the pews by Christmas.
Speaking of moxie, it’s also rich that, when New York Mayor Mamdani recently proposed an exceedingly modest tax on unoccupied second homes in the city worth more than $5 million, and used hedge fun tycoon Ken Griffin’s pied-a-terre as a backdrop, Griffin threatened to retaliate by withdrawing his plan to build a new tower in Manhattan. Oh, no! How will New York live without yet another big, expensive building! This stuff probably plays well with rightwing rubes who think Atlas Shrugged was a documentary, but if Griffin’s really red-mad about it, let him go build his tower in Bumfuck. I bet the employees who would suddenly find their workplace relocated to a red state business park will be thrilled.
Meanwhile I see Tubby proposed (or pretended to propose -- as he can never be trusted to tell the truth, one can only speculate of the level of lying he’s at) to kick Spain out of NATO because they criticized him on Iran. Again, this probably excites what remains of the MAGA base, who have no idea how anything works, but I bet the other NATO members feel very differently about it; they’re smart enough, too, to reckon that with Trump no capitulation will satisfy, that if they flatter him on this he’ll next require them to send troops and, who knows, maybe kiss his ass in Harrods’ window, so they’d better stand by a partner they can actually count on rather than indulge the feckless Putinite.
Trump’s mismanagement is something only the badly damaged would consent to assist, and that helps explain why his lieutenants are such transparent frauds and losers and why many of them seem to be cracking under the strain of even the modest requirements of their sinecures. Take hard-drinking FBI Director Kash Patel, for example, who seems to spend more time getting liquored up and then denying he was liquored up than catching crooks (though he can be counted on to stumble over to the press conference when Tubby pushes through another transparently phony political prosecution). The only thing that works efficiently in this administration is its constant looting of the U.S. Treasury. Like all honest people I worry that Trump and his goons may steal the coming elections that are otherwise destined to curtail his power, but if we can avoid that we’re going to have to do more to clean up afterwards than walk through the White House with a smudge stick.
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