You gotta laugh to keep from crying
The country’s taking crazy pills.
Back in table-waiting days when the evening’s business and customers got weird, we’d run out the back door to check the night sky. What was it? The full moon? I did the same online this morning (the sun is up). The full moon was the 23rd.
Maybe that’s when these bits that popped up first thing were crafted. People need to let off steam.
Bette Midler’s on the job.
Notice the name of Denver Riggleman’s podcast: Coalition of the Sane. Then there’s the Lev Parnas story.
It’s not just that Trumpublicans are trying to transport the entire country into Alice’s Looking Glass World. They’re working both sides of the mirror as it suits them, as if no one will notice.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes did.
They’re thinking it over
So did Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times:
It was a farce befitting the absurdity of the situation. Trump has asked the Supreme Court if he is, in effect, a king. And at least four members of the court, among them the so-called originalists, have said, in essence, that they’ll have to think about it.
Those of a certain vintage may remember an old bit by comedian Jack Benny whose comic persona was a penny-pincher. A robber points a gun and demands, “Your money or your life.” Benny hesitates and insists, “I’m thinking it over.”
I recalled that line as I shook my head during Thursday’s oral arguments. Trump’s attorneys at the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday demanded, “Your country or Trump!” At least four of the justices are thinking it over.
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