You know what, I never knew what this was called until this week.
Well, looky here -- for the first time in weeks I got one of these R-T-Hs published on the appropriate Friday. Of course, I had the assistance of a federal holiday. Thanks, Joe Biden! Juneteenth has fast become one of my favorite days of observation. The first one, which I experienced in DC, was a treat, as was, in a perverse way, the bitching of white rightwingers over it. (Go here for Dan McLaughlin’s 2021 complaint at National Review that Juneteenth “is presently being pushed by progressives... who wish to use it as yet another club with which to denounce America over slavery” and that we already had too many federal holidays. No, I’m not kidding.) Now it’s a great reminder that, as fucked up as America can be, we still have the capacity to right the ship, as I hope we’re going to see in the coming months.
In that spirit, we have two (2) ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN freebies this week, brought out from beyond the paywall for you folks who have yet to realize what a bargain it is (SUBSCRIBE WHY DON’TCHA).
The first is another rarity: A free Fun Friday edition. Fun Fridays are when I give a prompt, like what’s your favorite comic strip with a female lead character, and our brilliant readers (you can be one! It’s easy and cheap!) sing out. Today’s FF is about small acts of citizenship -- that is, little things you do out of civic-mindedness. The responses are well-said (natch) and heartwarming. Go on, dip in.
The second is (mostly but not entirely) about Tubby’s Iran debacle and what it says about him and us. There’s obviously a lot going on there, not the least of which is the total mismanagement of one of the few crucial duties of the executive; in this case the Commander-in-Chief, with no apparent casus belli, threw soldiers and ordnance like a tantrum, fucked up the region and world trade, and, after months of bluster and slaughter, called the whole thing off.
The thing about it that I can’t get over is its incredible unseriousness -- most obvious in Tubby’s post-war (I guess we can say) yammering about how if no one likes it he’s gonna blame it on Vance. Imagine if LBJ went on TV and said “if Vietnam goes tits-up, remember Westmoreland did it.” This has opened the Republican floodgates for some of the craziest shit I’ve ever seen American politicians say, e.g.:
Worse yet, I’m now seeing allegedly serious people asking why liberals like me aren’t praising Trump for ending the war. As if the old dotard weren't perfectly capable of telling his goons, “Look, there’s this classy broad I wanna bang, I said I’d give her a south sea island paradise, so go steal me one, we can tell people they had nukes.”
(BTW be fully prepared: When we haul these bastards before tribunals, they’ll start claiming they were actually in the resistance -- like Hegseth will say he kept Trump from bombing Minneapolis by dangling a suncatcher in front of him. I don’t care what Merrick Garland says, don’t go easy on him!)
A big part of our problem is that many citizens can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy, and between actual people-get-killed war and a funny show on TV. Looks like there’ll be some forced tours of former concentration camps in our future.
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