Donald Trump has almost certainly never read Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t in his 78 years heard and taken inspiration from “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” (The New York Times):
President Trump broadened his campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes with a new memorandum that threatens to use government power to punish any law firms that, in his view, unfairly challenge his administration.
The memorandum directs the heads of the Justice and Homeland Security Departments to “seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious litigation against the United States” or in matters that come before federal agencies.
Mr. Trump issued the order late Friday night, after a tumultuous week for the American legal community in which one of the country’s premier firms, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, struck a deal with the White House to spare the company from a punitive decree issued by Mr. Trump the previous week.
Trump cannot obey the law and will not uphold the Constitution, but nobody knows more than him about “frivolous, unreasonable and vexatious litigation.” He ran for president in 2024 to avoid spending the rest of his life in a jumpsuit matching his slathered-on complexion and to exact retribution against perceived enemies. He’s making good on both.
The biggest legal thorn in Trump’s side, attorney Marc Elias, had a pithy response last night to the “deal” Trump stuck with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you?My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
May we all be as defiant when the brownshirts come for us. Elias went further:
“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."
Anna Bower, Senior Editor at Lawfare, posted a thread on Trump’s attacks on the legal profession:
THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers.(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)🧵⬇️
Keker, Van Nest, & Peters: “We encourage law firm leaders to sign on to an amicus effort in support of Perkins Coie's challenge to the Administration's executive order targeting the firm, and to resist the Administration's erosion of the rule of law."
Kwall Barack Nadeau PLLC: “Make no mistake, the goal of the Trump Administration is not only to punish specific lawyers or firms, but to chill the legal profession itself, until there is no one left willing to stand up in court and say, 'This is wrong.'”
Kwall Barack Nadeau PLLC: “Make no mistake, the goal of the Trump Administration is not only to punish specific lawyers or firms, but to chill the legal profession itself, until there is no one left willing to stand up in court and say, 'This is wrong.'”
Trump 2.0 started with non-citizens. Now it’s moved on to lawyers. Don’t think that if this administration sees you as an enemy, it won’t in time come for you on whatever they can “Trump” up.
So. There’s a lot of spooky stuff going around. People are worried. Thousands of Americans with means “are applying to visa programs abroad” or hedging, purchasing new passports in other countries. (I know several who’ve gotten out.) Donald Trump’s deportations in defiance of federal courts has people unnerved. “We’ll Always Have Las Vegas” from Thursday is about incidents like Canadian Jasmine Mooney‘s unwelcome encounter with DHS harming the tourism industry. As things go with Americans, it’s one thing for DHS to throw brown-skinned “foreigners” in prison. It’s another when it happens to someone who might be nice, white you.
On Friday I posted this (below) on Threads (where I have no followers) to see if I could stir up some shit. Guess I did. It’s gotten 11.5K views.
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Friends ask me how I am and my stock reply is now “Managing my stress.”
The Good News
Nineteen-sixties leftovers tend to like big, high-profile actions on the Mall that get lots of one-day press. Gather with your tribe, make a lot of noise, and go home feeling better about an issue you’ve accomplished little to change. When we don’t see those actions today, we think nothing of consequence is happening to push back against the madness of King Donald. But Digby sent along a post you need to see. Sometimes smaller and everywhere is a better 21st-century strategy.
Many underestimate resistance to the current Republican administration because they view resistance through a narrow lens. The 2017 Women’s March in particular — immediate in its response, massive in its scope and size — may inform collective imaginations about what the beginning of a resistance movement should look like during Trump 2.0.
In fact, our research shows that street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest. Although it is true that the reconfigured Peoples’ March of 2025 — held on Jan. 18 — saw lower turnout than the 2017 Women’s March, that date also saw the most protests in a single day for over a year. And since Jan. 22, we’ve seen more than twice as many street protests than took place during the same period eight years ago.
In February 2025 alone, we have already tallied over 2,085 protests, which included major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, and demonstrations against Tesla and Trump’s agenda more generally. This is compared with 937 protests in the United States in February 2017, which included major protests against the so-called Muslim ban along with other pro-immigrant and pro-choice protests. Coordinated days of protest such as March Fourth for Democracy (March 4), Stand Up for Science (March 7), rallies in recognition of International Women’s Day (March 8), and protests demanding the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil suggest little likelihood of these actions slowing down. These are all occurring in the background of a tidal wave of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s early moves.
This resistance movement is built upon but doesn’t look like past movements. “From mass refusals to boycotts to walkouts, regular Americans are bravely pushing back against the administration. Their actions are diverse and multiplying — and already having an impact,” reports Waging Nonviolence:
And about those mass protests of past decades. You and I both know that King Donald is just itching to have “his generals” shoot protesters. He just needs actions large enough that he can invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, declare martial law (he’ll call it marshal law), and send out troops (if they’d comply) to create the largest mass casualty shooting in American history.
A multitude of smaller Whack-a-mole protests by the thousands may frustrate Doanld’s wet dream and probably be safer for the resistance. Keep it up.
Depending upon whom you might ask, MOVE was an “organization”, a “religious cult”, a “radical group”, or all of the above. The biggest question in my mind (and one the film doesn’t necessarily delve into) is whether it was another example of psychotic entelechy. So what is “psychotic entelechy”, exactly? Well, according to Stan A. Lindsay, the author of Psychotic Entelechy: The Dangers of Spiritual Gifts Theology, it would be
…the tendency of some individuals to be so desirous of fulfilling or bringing to perfection the implications of their terminologies that they engage in very hazardous or damaging actions.
In the context of Lindsay’s book, he is expanding on some of the ideas laid down by literary theorist Kenneth Burke and applying them to possibly explain the self-destructive traits shared by the charismatic leaders of modern-day cults like The People’s Temple, Order of the Solar Tradition, Heaven’s Gate, and The Branch Davidians. He ponders whether all the tragic deaths that resulted should be labeled as “suicides, murders, or accidents”.
While it arguably wasn’t as self-destructive, Japan’s “Aum” cult shared many similar traits, and was no less lethal. If you’re as ancient as me, you may recall the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system that resulted in 13 deaths and thousands of injuries. This shocking incident introduced the world to a bizarre spiritual sect hitherto unknown outside of Japan.
In an engrossing (albeit disturbing) new documentary called Aum: The Cult at the End of the World, co-directors Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto paint a “couldn’t make this shit up” portrait of leader Shoko Asahara tantamount to a Bond villain’s origin story (replete with his rejection as a child, seething hatred of society, secret laboratories, evil plans, kidnappings, assassinations, and the inevitable stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction).
The story of Aum follows a trajectory that has become depressingly familiar. The sect was founded in 1983 by Chizuo Matsumoto (who changed his name to Shoko Asahara). Asahara’s original philosophy was centered on yoga, meditation, and self-enlightenment.
That didn’t last.
By the mid-80s, Asahara was getting extensive coverage in high-circulation Japanese occult magazines; this helped spur a sizeable youth following. A canny self-promoter, Ashara seized on this and over the next several years published a series of books and produced anime that portrayed him as having supernatural powers (including the ability to levitate). He even trekked to Tibet with the express purpose of arranging a photo-op with the Dalai Lama.
In the cult hierarchy, members who were scientists and chemists were at the top (which makes a sick kind of sense in hindsight). As the number of followers grew, so did Asahara’s increasingly draconian rules. As journalist Shoko Egawa points out, members were directed to forgo earthly possessions, money, the enjoyment of good food, etc., as such trifles were roadblocks to spiritual enlightenment. The Aum tenets praised not sleeping, not eating, even not changing clothes. The communal diet was “Aum food”, which one former member describes as “boiled vegetables with no flavor at all…rice and natto, day after day.”
Yum.
The turn to the dark side occurred circa 1989. In the film, journalist Andrew Marshall (who co-authored a book about the cult) observes “By 1989 the stock market had peaked and Japan was really entering this period of economic stagnation, and possibly cultural and political stagnation as well, and I think what was about to happen was a symptom of that.”
In 1989, a man began photographing suspicious activities by a “weird group” of people who “suddenly showed up” in his small village of Kammikushiki, which is nestled near the foot of Mt. Fuji. The newcomers were reticent to interact with the villagers, and hostile to any inquiries. They set up a compound containing some unusual equipment (including gas tanks and chemical barrels), and over time were regarded as “bad neighbors” due to non-stop construction noise and loud chanting emanating day and night. When Marshall was poking around, he discovered they also had a “massive Russian helicopter” parked on their premises.
The story gets weirder, and the bodies start piling up even before the Tokyo subway terror attack made international headlines. Equally troubling to learn is how the Japanese media characterized the sect as “silly” and colorful (perfect fodder for a kicker at the end of the newscast, but nothing worth a deeper investigative dive, despite many red flags over time),
As I was watching the film, I was looking at all the footage of this guy and just not seeing the appeal, although thousands of his devoted followers would surely beg to differ. One observer helpfully offers, “No matter what they asked him, he gave them an immediate answer.” (does that remind you of anybody?).
As Woody Allen says in Manhattan, after meeting his girlfriend’s highly-lauded ex-husband, the “little homunculus” portrayed by Wallace Shawn, “It’s amazing how subjective all that stuff is.” Maybe that’s what lies at the the crux of why I’m endlessly fascinated by cults. As I wrote in my 2012 review of Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama The Master:
What he has crafted is a thought-provoking and original examination of why human beings in general are so prone to kowtow to a burning bush, or be conned by an emperor with no clothes; a film that begs repeated viewings. Is it a spiritual need? Is it an emotional need? Or is it a lizard brain response, deep in our DNA?
As Inspector Clouseau once ruminated, “Well you know, there are leaders…and there are followers.”
The best hope for humankind is that, at some nebulous point in (whatever time is left of) our future, we will finally learn the lessons of history and stop repeating the same stupid, stupid mistakes.
(In theaters now; available on all rental platforms March 28th).
Another good insight from Josh Marshall on BlueSky (who is really tearing it up right now. You should subscribe to TPM if you can.)
Soon after DOGE landed at IRS very early in the admin their first demand (which wasn’t just DOGE but the immigration folks at the WH) was let’s let the ICE folks come over here and cross reference with their target lists. This was both to target individuals for …
The first and most important thing to know about last night’s Exec order is that it’s intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it’s intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt. deportation but also to request audits of companies or individuals ICE suspected of hiring or shielding undocs.
The lawyers at IRS/Treasury were like, that’s literally against the law.
DOGE: don’t be so uptight and literal. LAWYERS: No, really, that’s literally against the law.
A few people got bounced and new appointees started trying to become more creative. This set of conversations was at the root of most of the resignations and firings. This part is from memory but I think IRS staff is legally obligated to report when they get individual requests like this let alone mass requests and I *think* IRS staff can be individually legally responsible in these cases.
Those last two points are from memory abt legal culpability. But the overall point is that these are hard laws, not interpretations or regs. They seem to be moving to more and more creative interpretations of the law under more and more cooperatives appointees and lawyers. But one thing to remember is that all of this stuff is done in secret. If someone is sharing your tax info illegally you’re not going to know it unless someone leaks the info.
To the extent anyone’s going to get in trouble it’s not going to be from the current DOJ. The point is that this kind of info and action is highly secret. So it can be happening even though it’s remains a federal crime. A more probable scenario is one in which a facially absurd interpretation of the relevant laws gets made inside the IRS and it’s done on that basis. That way no one has to think they’re breaking the law. They’re following the relevant persons guidance/interpretation.
The key point here is that since it’s all secret it’s not that easy to get any of this in front of a judge who says no, stop, that’s clearly not what the law says etc. Obviously these latter points are hypothetical. The point is they’ve already axed most or all of the people who are going to say, no, stop, you can’t do that.
So the law remains the law. But inside the IRS we’re pretty much in choose your own adventure mode.
I think the only thing average folks have to fear is that all the firings will end up delaying refunds and information. But for anyone on the MAGA radar, I suspect there will be eyes on you. I have no idea what criteria they will use since there are millions of vocal Trump critics all over the MSM and social media. But maybe Elon’s AI brain Grok will be able to figure that out.
The United States Commerce Secretary, ladies and gentlemen:
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster. pic.twitter.com/W5yz18tzea
Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law who is 94, she wouldn’t call and complain. She just wouldn’t. She’d think something got messed up and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining.
Like all the guys at Paypal, like Elon knows this by heart. Anybody who’s been in the payment system, in processing knows that the easiest way to find a fraudster is to stop payments and listen.
What???
Lutnick is a billionaire so I would guess his mother-in-law isn’t going to miss her cancer treatment because the Medicare premium wasn’t paid for and she’s run out of food. So sure, she won’t complain. He believes that anyone who does must be fraudulently collecting their social security because in Lutnick’s world nobody legitimately needs that check to live. (If they do, they’re losers anyway, amirite?)
But think about that fraudster claim for a minute. They “always make the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining.”
Sound like anyone we know? Someone who has literally been held liable for fraud to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars? Yeah, it sounded very familiar to me too.
The Paul Weiss law firm caving to Trump’s demands was bad enough. But the way they did it was even worse. What they agreed to was humiliating:
President Trump on Thursday rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent international law firm after it pledged to review its hiring practices and to provide tens of millions of dollars in free legal services to support certain White House initiatives.
The move follows a meeting between Mr. Trump and Brad Karp, the chairman of the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Garrison & Wharton, over the White House order issued last week.
The order, the latest in a series of similar actions targeting law firms whose lawyers have provided legal work that Mr. Trump disagrees with, threatened to suspend active security clearances of attorneys at Paul, Weiss and to terminate any federal contracts the firm has. It singled out the work of Mark Pomerantz, who previously worked at the firm and who oversaw an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office into Mr. Trump’s finances before Mr. Trump became president.
To avoid those consequences, the White House said Paul, Weiss had agreed to “take on a wide range of pro bono matters that represent the full spectrum of political viewpoints of our society,” to disavow the use of diversity, equity and inclusion considerations in its hiring and promotion decisions and to dedicate the equivalent of $40 million in free legal services to support Trump administration policies on issues including assistance for veterans and countering anti-Semitism.
In a statement issued by the White House, Karp said: “We are gratified that the President has agreed to withdraw the Executive Order concerning Paul, Weiss. We look forward to an engaged and constructive relationship with the President and his Administration.”
A fabulously wealthy, white shoe law firm acting like little Trump bitches is a sorry sight to see. And I had been under the impression that all the big firms that had been similarly targeted were getting together to fight this so it was especially depressing to read it. Presumably if Paul Weiss did this it looked like that effort was over. But Josh Marshall had some info on this that brightened my day a little bit:
So I had been led to believe, mostly by news reports but perhaps also by inertia, that that big amicus brief that some Big Law law firms had been trying to put together had fizzled. That seemed even more clear when news came out yesterday that Paul, Weiss had agreed to undergo a self-criticism session with President Trump and commit $40 million of pro bono work to Making American Great Again. But I’m told that effort is very much still underway. I’m not making any promises. I have no great insight or visibility into the effort. But I’ve been told by what I believe are knowledgable sources that that’s still very much underway and not in a slowly dying on the vine kind of way. So we’ll see.
Let’s hope so. First of all, these firms should think about whether anyone’s going to want to hire them if they are the Trump government’s loyal servants. After reading about that nauseating capitulation I wouldn’t trust them.
Update — This NY Times tick-tock is interesting but it really doesn’t explain why Paul Weiss did it. It claims that the agreement they reached isn’t what Trump said it was so I think they believed they’d appease him with a “win” that doesn’t mean anything. But every time one of these institutions give him a “win” and perform a ritual humiliation dance for him, it makes him stronger. So, in the end I guess it’s just cowardice.
“I didn’t sign it!” Trump plays dumb and lies, says he didn’t invoke Alien Enemies Act, “other people handled it”. Then Erin Burnett busts him by holding up a copy of the order with his signature on it. Maybe he uses an autopen. pic.twitter.com/FHvJhJ06kB
When are people going to ask the question? I mean, Joe Biden stumbled over his words in the natural way of aging in many 80 year olds. Trump’s issues are different. He’s delusional. Someone should look into it….
By the way, if he says that he didn’t sign it perhaps it was done without his knowledge by autopen?
Legal experts say there is nothing to President Donald Trump’s claims that several of former President Joe Biden’s pardons are “VOID” because they were signed via autopen.
White House lawyers during the George W. Bush administration said the use of an autopen is perfectly legal, and constitutional scholars say that nothing in the Constitution even requires pardons to be signed anyway. And, they note, pardons cannot simply be overturned by a subsequent president.
Trump is correct that pardons would be invalid if, in fact, as he has claimed, any pardons were signed by a staffer without Biden’s knowledge or consent. But Trump has offered no evidence of that.
Trump has repeatedly invoked the autopen issue in the last several days. As NPR explains, autopen is “a generic name for a machine that duplicates signatures using real ink, making it easy for public figures to autograph everything from correspondence to merchandise in bulk. They are printer-sized machines with an arm that can hold a standard pen or pencil, and use it to replicate the programmed signature on a piece of paper below.” Trump acknowledged that he himself uses an autopen, but “only for very unimportant papers.”
In a post to Truth Social on March 17, Trump claimed that some pardons issued by Biden were “hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.”
The Dolly Parton mural on Haywood Road near Beauty Parade Hair Salon now has a new addition: RuPaul! (Photo credit: WLOS Staff, 2021)
The Ink this morning offers weekend reads that for some reason include a 2021 essay by Tressie McMillan Cottom: The Dolly Moment. Meaning Dolly Parton. The singer both embodies southern woman and subverts it by portraying it in drag. She somehow effortlessly (with great effort and ambition).
As a Black fan of Parton’s, Cottom writes, “Being pretty got her out of the foothills, but her genius with embodying country music’s most oppressive forces — gender and class — was possible because of her ability to leverage race and gender. That is what us sociologists would call the place where self meets society.” She is rich and elite without the taint.
Parton performs blondeness, an unstated synonym for white while caricaturing Southern womanhood and being very un-Southern womanly ambitious. “Her authenticity rings with the charm we demand of Southern womanhood,” while she carries herself as a drag version, and people across race and culture love her for it. Besides, Cottom observes, “The woman can write her ass off.”
It is well worth a read. But the essay popped into my in-box while I was contemplating how Democrats fail at being authentic for many voters by trying too hard to please everyone. They’ve convinced themselves that to sell their inclusiveness and earn their big-tent bona fides, they must name-check every marginalized ethnic, racial, and gender subgroup, and taught those groups to listen for it (the way Democratic politicians name-check HBCUs). Not to hear themselves name-checked means they’ve been excluded and should seek allies elsewhere. Super-particularizing also leaves people who don’t see themselves falling into any of those categories (and who resist categorization) feeling left out even as Democrats mean to include them.
What that name-checking has also done is make many HDCW’s (historically dominant communities of white people) feel left out. The Republican Party has leveraged that to the hilt by stoking resentment.
What Dolly does effortlessly by singing of Home, Love, Longing, Desire, and Faith, Democrats fail at by trying too hard.
Bradley Bartell and his wife, Camila Muñoz-Lira. (Gofundme)
Back when I observed the New Age “manifest” in the early 1990s, I created a series of mock flyers for New Age services and workshops and posted them on bulletin boards beside the genuine articles. My difficulty was that as fake-crazy as I made them, I found that I couldn’t keep up with the real crazy. Recently, an interviewer asked a filmmaker how they could invent a credible dystopian world while living in one.
Some people of the people I met around town and at New Age expos, for example, were committed to natural healing to the detriment of their own well-being:
I knew a young woman with porcelain skin who contracted some common skin infection back in the 1990s. It was the sort of thing a physician might knock out with a prescription. But she didn’t trust western medicine. She went for months using “natural” remedies to heal herself as her face grew more mottled, swollen and pockmarked. It was a painful thing to watch and surely worse for her. When finally she became desperate enough to seek licensed medical help, the damage was done. The infection cleared up, but her face would never be the same. I don’t know if she chalked that up to the failure of western medicine or not.
Watching Trump 2.0 manifest carries echoes of that period 30 years ago. Today it’s vaccines:
The Texas parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who died from measles Feb. 26 told the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense in a video released Monday that the experience did not convince them that vaccination against measles was necessary.
“She says they would still say ‘Don’t do the shots,’” an unidentified translator for the parents said. “They think it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.”
Their 6-year-old is dead of a dis-ease we’d essentially eradicated with vaccines.
A Donald Trump voter from Wisconsin similarly stuck to his irrational faith in the face of family adversity and lived experience of his Peruvian wife:
A Wisconsin voter who backed President Trump in November is still sticking by the Republican — even after his Peruvian wife was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a federal crackdown on illegal immigration last month.
Bradley Bartell is worried about the well-being of his wife, Sylvia Camilla Muñoz-Lira, locked inside a detention center — and is seeking donations — after she was nabbed by ICE agents Feb. 15 at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan. The pair were traveling home to Wisconsin Dells from their belated honeymoon in Puerto Rico when she was taken into custody.
[…]
Muñoz-Lira, 26, secured her temporary visa in 2019 after she was accepted to a work-study program in Wisconsin but was then unable to return to Peru a year later when the pandemic limited her ability to travel. She instead chose to continue working in the States and eventually met and married her husband in May 2024.
She’d overstayed her visa but thought it safe to travel within the U.S. while her citizenship case was under review. No, not under Trump’s zero-tolerance policy.
“It was kind of like a slap in the face,” Bartell, 40, told The New York Post. But Bartell doesn’t regret his vote for Trump. “I still support our president.” And he wouldn’t say otherwise in a media story.
The denialism at work here in both families, especially where it’s in submission to an authoritarian bully, is not funny. It’s disturbing. And disturbingly reminiscent of a Monty Python bit about a pair of English gangsters, the notorious Piranha brothers, Doug and Dinsdale. Look how submissive Stig is:
Presenter
Another man who had his head nailed to the floor was Stig O’ Tracey.
Cut to another younger more cheerful man on sofa.
Interviewer
Stig, I’ve been told Dinsdale Piranha nailed your head to the floor.
Stig
No, no. Never, never. He was a smashing bloke. He used to give his mother flowers and that. He was like a brother to me.
Interviewer
But the police have film of Dinsdale actually nailing your head to the floor.
Stig
Oh yeah, well – he did that, yeah.
Interviewer
Why?
Stig
Well he had to, didn’t he? I mean, be fair, there was nothing else he could do. I mean, I had transgressed the unwritten law.
Interviewer
What had you done?
Stig
Er… Well he never told me that. But he gave me his word that it was the case, and that’s good enough for me with old Dinsy. I mean, he didn’t want to nail my head to the floor. I had to insist. He wanted to let me off. There’s nothing Dinsdale wouldn’t do for you.
Interviewer
And you don’t bear him any grudge?
Stig
A grudge! Old Dinsy? He was a real darling.
Interviewer
I understand he also nailed your wife’s head to a coffee table. Isn’t that right Mrs O’ Tracey?
Camera pans to show woman with coffee table nailed to head.
Mrs O’ Tracey
Oh, no. No. No.
Stig
Yeah, well, he did do that. Yeah, yeah. He was a cruel man, but fair
How many like Bartell are taking Donald Trump’s word for it that every one of those Venezuelans sent to a notorious Slavadoran prison were violent gang members merely based on deliberately misinterpreting their tattoos? Because they must have transgressed the unwritten law. A cruel man, Donald, but fair.
— San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (@sandiegozoo) August 23, 2021
Those are all videos from the best zoo in the world, the San Diego Zoo. If you ever get a chance to see it, as well as the Animal Safari, do it. It’s a beautiful zoo and the animals are amazing. I went there right as it opened on one spring day a few years back and was just walking along the path and coming toward me were some people with four animals on leashes. As we got closer I could see that it was two cheetahs with their companion Golden Retrievers! They veered off down another path before we met but just being in such close proximity was magical.
