It’s all coming together in President Trump’s push to find a way to bring criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James: the retribution, the denigration of the rule of law, the evisceration of the Justice Department, and the ultimate unbridled unitary executive.
In another important story, ABC News reported overnight that Trump is poised to fire U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert of the Eastern District of Virginia for not seeking an indictment of James on the bogus mortgage fraud claims the administration has drummed up.
The latest news comes after a deeply reported ABC News piece earlier in the week that prosecutors had turned up considerable exculpatory evidence in the case. So even though the investigation had begun on a pretextual predicate, it had done more to exonerate James than to implicate her in the supposed mortgage fraud. For that reason, Siebert wasn’t going to seek a grand jury indictment in the Virginia mortgage fraud case.
The refusal to bring a case against James apparently enraged Bill Pulte, the Trump-appointed head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who pushed Trump to fire Siebert, ABC News previously reported. It appears now that Trump is expected to follow through on Pulte’s demand.
As someone on BlueSky pointed out, “knowing that a prosecutor might well get sacked if they don’t find incriminating evidence in matters deemed politically important by Trump really makes you wonder about the incriminating evidence in ongoing matters deemed politically important by Trump.”
That’s not to say that I have many doubts about that already. The dynamic duo of Bondi and Patel hardly inspire confidence in the integrity of the DOJ. But this will be the final nail in the coffin.
Remaining late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers stood up last night for suspended colleague Jimmy Kimmel. In part, with satirical fawning over the most insecure man ever to occupy the Oval Office, a man whose skin is as thin as his hands are small.
STAND WITH COLBERT, KIMMEL AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT!
WATCH: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers rally around Jimmy Kimmel.
📌 Fox spent years spewing absolute lies about Obama and Biden, yet neither of them tried to yank Fox or any other critic off the… pic.twitter.com/41NAJGoxaF
Colbert, whose show was cancelled in July, had called out his own network’s $16 million settlement with the White House over a CBS “60 Minutes” segment. It was mere conincidence that his network’s parent company had an $8 billion merger deal between Paramount Global and Skydance Media pending before the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Colbert on Thursday insisted, “With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch. And if ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive.”
Colbert went after FCC chair Brendan Carr, calling the Trump 2.0 administration’s strong-arming of networks. That’s because shutting down political speech is “a serious threat to our freedoms.” So said Brendan Carr 1.0 in February 2020. That was then.
“Oh, man,” said Colbert, “do not tell Brendan Carr that Brendan Carr said that or he’s going to get Brendan Carr to cancel Brendan Carr.”
Regarding free speech, a former Marine, 28, walked up to the drive-time sign protest yesterday afternoon and began playing a conservative version of evangelical “20 Questions” with the woman beside me. (Perhaps he just had an impulse to spar with the opposition, a la Charlie Kirk.*) Playing dumb, he asked me about my First Amendment-themed sign and what it meant. He wondered why I seemed so personally invested. Maybe “NEXT YOU” was exaggerating.
Maybe because I have a threat letter (similar to this one) sitting in my printer tray and sent to me in 2019 on behalf of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. Only it’s dated seven weeks earlier.
Jon Stewart made a special The Daily Show appearance last night in solidarity with Kimmel. But he had as a guest Nobel Peace Prize-winner Maria Ressa from the Philippines.
It’s a sobering conversation.
* “20 Questions” is where the streetcorner evangelical asks if you’ve been “saved” and, if you say yes, they interrogate you in a game intended to expose the heretic. Because if you’re not attending their church, you must be one.
“Director Patel’s testimony raises more questions than answers.”
FBI Director Kash Patel bobbed, he weaved, he sneered, he smeared, but he would not answer. Before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) nine times asked a yes-or-no question: Had he told AG Pam Bondi that Donald Trump’s nemae was in the Epstein files?
That’s pretty much how it went with Patel. Asked why he hadn’t released all the Epstein case files in the FBI’s possession, as Donald Trump promised to during his campaign, Patel claimed he could not:
“I’m not going to break the law to satisfy your curiosity,” Patel said during the second day of Congressional oversight hearings after Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) challenged him on why he hasn’t released more of the files.
But Patel appears to be mischaracterizing those recent court orders, which came amid a hurried effort by the Trump administration to ask federal judges for permission to release grand jury materials stemming from the case of Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Judges considering the ask said it appeared to be an effort to confuse the public, noting that the materials consisted of only a few dozen pages of hearsay — much of which became public during court proceedings — and were dwarfed by the FBI’s massive trove of records.
In fact, one of the judges who ruled on the grand jury matter — and who presided over Epstein’s criminal case before he died by suicide in a jail cell in 2019 — said the Trump administration had the power to release the records.
Asked whether there was evidence of other men to whom Epstein may have trafficked young women, Patel claimed there was no credible evidence. Rep Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) shot back:
“According to victims these documents in your possession, detail at least 20 men, including Staley, CEO Barclays Bank, who Jeffrey Epstein trafficked victims to. That list includes 19 over individuals, one Hollywood producer worth a few hundred million dollars. One very prominent banker, one high profile government official, one high profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician, at least six billionaires including a billionaire from Canada. We know these people exist in the FBI files.”
HELL YEA: Rep. Thomas Massie just grilled Kash Patel on his attempted coverup of the Epstein files.
Patel admitted under oath that the documents include “a high-profile government official” linked to Epstein’s crimes.
Citing those names, survivors of Epstein’s abuse responded Thursday night with a public letter:
“Director Patel’s testimony raises more questions than answers. For years he has railed about the incompleteness of previous investigations. He is right about that: previous investigations were indeed incomplete. So what is his plan to make sure that a thorough and unbiased investigation is conducted at last?”
There is none.
“Those previous administrations are the ones that Kash Patel spent years accusing of a cover-up. Now he will pass the buck to them to decide that information about other men in the Epstein-Maxwell trafficking ring is not even worth following up on? There are victims and witnesses who, to this day, have still not been interviewed. Will they continue to be ignored?”
For as long as possible.
“As head of the FBI, Director Patel can work now to remedy that, in a way that finally centers survivor voices and finally pursues the whole truth. The public demands it; the victims deserve it; and our system of justice without fear or favor requires it.
The president’s net approval rating is -17%, down 2.6 points since last week.
39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure
How are people seeing Donald Trump on those issues?
He’s even underwater on crime and immigration.
This is something I’ve been wondering about:
Using YouGov’s data, The Economist has projected Mr Trump’s approval rating state by state. As you might expect, approval of Mr Trump is lowest in states that tend to vote for Democrats and highest in those that tend to vote for Republicans. Mr Trump’s voters still overwhelmingly approve of his performance as president. But the projection also shows how dissatisfaction with Mr Trump is widespread even in states that voted for him just a few months ago. The numbers will make anxious reading for Republicans facing competitive races in next year’s midterm elections.
Here is the country as a whole:
Note that the Biden 2020 to Trump 2024 states are not happy with him.
Here are just the people who voted in 2024:
That looks a little bit better for Trump. But I would invite you to look at the swing states GA, NC, PA, NV and AZ. And take a look at Texas.
Why is Texas unhappy? Well:
Trump/the GOP have made a big bet on Latinos with Texas redistricting. It may be a bad bet.
Among Texas Latinos: Trump's net favorable has fallen through the floor since 2024 (a 32 pt drop)!
Why? The economy. He's 40 pts underwater on it, while he beat Harris by 9 on it. pic.twitter.com/4BdIX8FOyv
Donald Trump is a dramatically unpopular president and he’s living in a bubble that tells him he is extremely popular and everything is going perfectly whole surrounded by people who are carrying out his every daft order while consolidating their power and carrying out their own wish list.
I’m not entirely sure how much public opinion matters anymore but at least we know we aren’t crazy.
REPORTER: Do you have some sympathy that he lost his job over historic links to Jeffrey Epstein?
TRUMP: I had heard that and uh, I think maybe the prime minster would be better speaking of that. What is your answer to that? pic.twitter.com/FZVhLtnVmD
Trump has difficultly pronouncing "Azerbaijan" while taking credit for ending a war between "Azerbaijan and Albania" (he meant Armenia) pic.twitter.com/7b80sMlVXZ
Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend asks Trump about "the autopen" during his joint news conference with the UK prime minister pic.twitter.com/rWcZOB6LwO
He is a demented old autocrat blurting out anything that passes through his mind. And he’s empowered fascist, fringe characters to fulfill a radical agenda in dozens of different ways. The combination is lethal.
And he’s got a good part of the world bowing down like the Brits just did because he’s in charge of the most powerful country in the world. (I’d guess that the new policy of using he U.S. Navy to blow up civilians in international waters might just have them all spooked.)
The debate over the shelving of Jimmy Kimmel’s show isn’t really a debate, as such.
Kimmel has been a target of Donald Trump’s for years, with the president predicting in July that the ABC host’s show would be next to be shut down after CBS cancelled Stephen Colbert. […]
Trump got his desired outcome. And Trump desired that outcome because he pays far more attention to television personalities and ratings than nearly anyone else in America.
Analysis from the Hollywood Reporter published last year found that ABC had a median primetime viewership age a bit lower than CBS in 2024 — 65.6 years versus 67.8. The youngest audience that tuned into ABC’s primetime lineup was for “NBA Primetime,” which enjoyed a youthful median age of 57.1 years.
Trump seeks a ban all criticism of him across the board. He’s suing newspapers and media companies and getting at least some of them to capitulate (looking at you Jeff Bezos.) But it’s been notable that it’s the broadcast TV networks that have really come crawling on their bellies, begging for forgiveness.
But the fact is that broadcast TV is dying anyway and, as you can see, (with the exception of sports) is really only watched by old people — like Trump.
Obviously, the moves by Carr are violations of the First Amendment and must be opposed at all costs. But the fact is that these people are just hastening the demise of broadcast TV. And at this point I have to say — good riddance. They are all owned by corrupt corporations willing to lay down for an authoritarian monster.
At a meeting of CEOs and other executives on Wednesday convened by the Yale School of Management, dozens of America’s business leaders sounded off on their concerns about tariffs, immigration, foreign policy matters and what many described as an increasingly chaotic, hard-to-navigate business environment.
“They’re being extorted and bullied individually, but in private discourse, they’re really upset,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor who organized the event, referring to recent deals that give the U.S. government a cut of certain Nvidia chip sales and a “golden share” in U.S. Steel.
The meeting included prominent corporate executives such as Motorola Solutions Chief Executive Officer Greg Brown, who also received an award for leadership; Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel; and Ethan Allen CEO Farooq Kathwari. Other attendees included the heads of major manufacturers, consumer brands, automakers, technology companies and investment firms. Many who shared their concerns Wednesday in the confines of a private conference room didn’t want to speak publicly for fear that their companies could be targeted by the administration or that they could attract criticism from Trump.
Have the U.S. tariffs been helpful or harmful to your business?
Helpful 29% Harmful 71%
Source: Yale CEO Caucus (Sept. 17)
Executives also said U.S. consumers and domestic importing companies were the ones bearing the brunt of the costs on tariffs, not international exporting companies or countries.
The Trump administration has made tariffs core to its economic agenda, hoping to spur a resurgence in domestic manufacturing by bringing jobs back to the U.S. from overseas. And while some companies, like Apple and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, have announced plans to make more of their products domestically, most of the CEOs gathered Wednesday took a different view. When asked whether they planned to invest more in U.S. manufacturing and infrastructure, 62% of respondents said they didn’t plan to do so.
The reason, Yale’s Sonnenfeld said, is because tariffs, immigration policies and concerns about the economy are all weighing on leaders and preventing them from feeling confident enough today to make new investments. “They’re holding back doing anything,” he said.
I’m pretty sure most of them voted for him. Not that it matters. It’s just one vote per person. But they probably gave him money and licked his boots enthusiastically every chance they got. They empower him at every step of the way and then whine behind closed doors that he’s killing their golden goose.
Imagine if all the Masters of the Universe stood up and said “no, we’re not going to let you destroy America.” They wouldn’t even have to make a political argument if that’s just too uncomfortable. They could just say that it’s bad for business. Clearly, they believe it is. But apparently they’d rather let it happen than stand up and tell the truth.
Foreign business leaders seem to be much braver(or they take their customers desires more seriously, anyway.) In S. Korea, the blowback from businesses for how their citizens were treated by ICE is severe and may have permanently damaged the business relationships. And anyone who exports to other countries has got to be just a little bit concerned. Those customers aren’t too keen on America these days. They can vote with their wallets too.
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five “Aryan” actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.
Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless” and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the “society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence.”
As regards the details of the “crimes” of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler’s monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.
What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders—sometimes with bon mots that made the rounds of the country.
Dr. Goebbels says that the National Socialists proved during their struggle for power that they had a keen sense of humor that could kill opponents with ridicule. But as National Socialism proposes to remain in power 2,000 years it has neither the time nor the patience to apply that method to the “miserable literati.”
If the anti-German press of Paris, London and New York, Dr. Goebbels says, or the democratic governments in Western Europe, should now again complain about the lack of freedom of opinion in Germany it does not matter, “for after all during the last year the Fuehrer reconquered 10,000,000 Germans for the Reich.”
That is a real story. Sound familiar?
History doesn’t repeat itself exactly but sometimes it comes awfully close.
For the past decade or more, the American right has been on a crusade to end what they see as the scourge of “cancel culture.”They have railed against firing people for what they say in the classroom and boardroom or for things they posted years ago as teenagers on social media. They ranted that no one should lose a job simply for expressing an unpopular opinion, a fate which they believed was happening to conservatives throughout society. This has been a fundamental organizing principle on the MAGA right as they fulminated against leftist “woke” ideology they believed was being forced down the throats of average Americans who were intimidated into going along lest they be shunned or expelled or fired.
This was always a bit much. The right has its own very long history of “canceling” those with whom they disagree. Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee back in the 1940s and 50s successfully ruined the lives of many people who were suspected of being members (or simply member-curious) of the Communist Party, which was not illegal. In the lead up to the Iraq war, dissenters were warned to be careful of what they said lest they be seen as terrorist sympathizers. Radio stations famously renounced the country act “The Dixie Chicks” for telling their audience they were ashamed that President George Bush was from Texas. And in recent years we’ve seen a spate of book banning and repression in the classroom by right wing school boards and politicians.
But during the grievance driven Trump era, complaints among the right reached fever pitch as cultural upheavals like “Me Too” and “Black Lives Matter” fed their resentment over social changes they believed had gone too far. And nothing exercised them more than the idea that “hate speech” could be sanctioned either informally or by the government. As the late Charlie Kirk wrote on X in May of 2024, “Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.”
Ironically, in the wake of the assassination, there has been tsunami of calls and activity to shut down “hate speech” in the name of the free speech defender, Charlie Kirk. Many high profile Republicans, including the Vice President have called for people to dox those who have said negative things about Kirk on social media and contact their employees to have them fired. Even the alleged principled libertarians are calling for a crackdown.
Trump’s right hand man Stephen Miller asserts that there is a vast left wing terrorist network that is destroying everything Americans hold dear. Appearing with Vice President JD Vance who was podcasting under Kirk’s name in the White House this week, he vowed:
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again. For the American people, it will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
He has plenty of company. Attorney General Pam Bondi said earlier this week that the Department of Justice plans to target people who have engaged in hate speech and she put employers on notice that they will be held legally accountable if their employees refuse to serve people who wish to valorize Charlie Kirk. She later had to walk those threats back after being schooled by MAGA influencers that the First Amendment still exists. (She’s only the top government lawyer in the country, you can’t expect her to know everything.)
Donald Trump has never really believed in all this free speech folderol. I don’t think anyone can credibly assert that he is a man of deeply held principles about liberty and justice (except as they pertain to himself.) From his first campaign in 2015 he’s often said that one person or another should not be “allowed” to say things he disapproves of and it’s only surprising that he’s held back as much as he has from abusing his power as president to clamp down on the media.
He’s not holding back any longer. He’s been leading the charge against “the left” in the wake of Kirk’s shooting, but is reserving most of his ire toward the press. Having successfully extorted $15 million from ABC and $16 million from CBS’s parent company Paramount through absurd lawsuits that legal experts say could never have won in court, he’s now taken to suing any media outfit he believes has not been properly reverent toward his personal magnificence. He sued the Wall St. Journal for $10 billion (yes with a “b”) and now, using what seems to be nothing more than an extended Truth Social post, he’s filed a defamation suit against the NY Times for $15 billionbecause they keep criticizing him and are failing to acknowledge his vast success. (This is a common lament from Trump these days — he’s very upset that everyone’s talking about things other than his greatness.)
The suit has to be read to be believed. It’s hard to fathom that any lawyer would put his or her name to it. In fact, it’s almost certainly nothing more than a sop to appease Trump because the NY Times, unlike the other media companies he’s blackmailed, is just a newspaper company not a huge conglomerate with business before the government so Trump doesn’t have the same leverage. They’ve said they will not settle and there’s little reason to think they would.
But Trump is on a tear, telling an Australian reporter who asked him about all the money he’s making while in office to be quiet and menacingly asserting that he’s bad for his country because Australia wants to get along with him. (Nice little country you have there…) Then he insulted ABC’s Jonathan Karl for bringing up Bondi’s promise to go after people for hate speech saying “We’ll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they’ll have to go after you.”
It would be easy to just write that stuff off as “crazy old Trump being Trump.” But when you put it in the context of what his entire administration has been saying for the past week it takes on a much more ominous cast. Are they all just reacting to the loss of their young leader and acting out in anger or is that event being used as a pretext to go to the next level of autocracy and use the government to punish their political opponents and the media as Stephen Miller vowed to do?
It appears to be the latter. When CBS’s Stephen Colbert was fired after Paramount completed its merger with Skydance Last July, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings… I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!” His orders were clear.
Yesterday his FCC chairman Brendan Carr went on a podcast and claimed that Kimmel had said “the sickest thing possible” about Charlie Kirk on his show and warned, “when we see stuff like this, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” (Kimmel had said the “MAGA gang” was denying they had anything to do with it and was “trying to score political points” and he made mock of Trump’s behavior.)
What Carr seemed to be implying with that mob boss talk was that the FCC would not approve a big merger between some of ABC’s stations if they didn’t cancel Kimmel, a tactic they also used to extort that $16 million from Paramount. The stations immediately complied followed shortly by ABC/Disney announcing that Kimmel had been”suspended indefinitely.” Carr sent CNN’s Brian Stelter a celebration text.
As a private company, ABC has the right to fire anyone they choose but this interference by the FCC is encroaching on the First Amendment. However, the media companies have to be willing to defend themselves and so far, the only one to step up is the NY Times. They may be our last hope for preserving freedom of speech as we’ve known it.
Listen. Silicon Valley moguls Larry Ellison and son David are close to owning Skydance Media and Paramount Global. They could soon control “CBS News, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Pictures” and the content of everything from your “children’s cartoons to nightly broadcasts.” The Financial Express adds:
Paramount Skydance is now rumoured to be weighing a $70 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. That would bring DC Comics, Harry Potter, Barbie, CNN, and HBO under the Ellison umbrella…. Amid the Hollywood manoeuvring, Ellison has also resurfaced in Washington’s battle over TikTok. After U.S.-China talks in Madrid last week, President Donald Trump teased a deal that would “save” a company beloved by young Americans. A report by WSJ also suggests that the Oracle consortium is acquiring an 80% stake in TikTok in the US.
Media consolidation is on track to turn your information streams into the 21st century equivalent of Alien‘s 22nd-century “The Company,” a.k.a., the Weyland-Yutani Corporation:
In 2120, Weyland-Yutani’s sphere of influence emcompassed all of North, Central, and South America,[1] as well as Mars and Saturn.[3] Weyland-Yutani, along with Threshold and Dynamic, were known as the “Triumvirate” before becoming “The Five” with the addition of Lynch and Prodigy.[4]
This is happening now. Meta, News Corp., etc. and other billionaire-controlled media outlets are on track to control what constitutes news and reality as you know it. Inconvenient facts that already exist will be memory-holed. Other data that your tax dollars once captured and archived will vanish like water down a drain.
Hang in there with me as I shift gears.
Do not squander this moment. Those of you reading about ABC and CBS axing Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, about The Washington Post firing Karen Attiah, its last Black full-time opinion columnist, need to use this moment before it vanishes as well.
There is a lot of hostility in America about the impunity the rich enjoy in our corrupt system of economics and justice. Convicted felon Donald J. Trump, now president of the United States agaion, is the poster child for millionaire-billionaire impunity (with help from SCOTUS).
On that, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) hammered FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday in a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. Patel had told a Senate hearing that there was no credible evidence that multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein trafficked underage girls to anyone except himself (Miami Herald):
But Massie cited files used by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York which summarize interviews with witnesses and suspects.
The lawmaker claimed those files include “one Hollywood producer worth a few 100 million dollars, one royal prince, one high-profile individual in the music industry, one very prominent banker, one high profile government official, one high profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician, at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada. We know these people exist in the FBI files, the files that you control.”
Americans know in their guts that the reason the Epstein files have not been made public — as Trump promised — is that there is a massive coverup to protect elite men like those Massie referenced, including Donald Trump whose name appears in them but may not have been inviolved in the trafficking. Those files will come out. Public pressure will build and you will help build it.
People are angry about how blatantly the rich flaunt flout the rules and evade accountability, including those behind media consolidation. Wednesday at drive time, I stood again at a major intersection rotating overhead a sign that reads “Grab him by the | Epstein files.
The response, especially from women, was loud and vigorous. There were not only horn toots, waves and thumbs-up aplenty. People cheered! Carloads of women cheered and applauded as they drove by. A passenger waiting at a light climbed out of his window to cheer and pump his fist over the roof of the car. A woman jogger told me all the bastards need to go, and then “the orange menace.”
They say never waste a good disaster. Don’t waste this one. Get out there and pump it up. Work the eye.
(h/t IW on my messsing up flaunt/flout. Not the first time.)
