Can’t quite get there with the inappropriate and un-pc joke. Reference trans athletes, and it is the spectre of a biologically born male dominating the female field of female sports. That is a no-go. I suppose there is a victory of intersectionalityand glass ceiling breaking or maybe something in the stated irony by your Dave Chapelles only woman who makes their mark is an ex-man, or we band back to the shrugging comment — oh dear, JK Rowling was right!

You know. In the early 70s — there was a relative to our daily lives today an astronomical number of bombings. Didn’t explode much in the way of human life but did some , but if you transpose it to the day and media coverage we have — we would all be horrified. Then again, then as now we have that sense of national fault lines cracking, so what does this figure?

Kind of the easy one to mock. We have been here before. John Ashcroft and some statue covering. Madge Flanders one upping Marge Simpson after getting Itchy and Scratchy sanitized and then cancelled and Marge not joinng, so then backing up on her opposition to Itchy and Scratchy. And here, it is important to back up and see precisely what is going on in this case — it is not exactly what gets caricatured even as it is imminently objectionable. Parental permission. Allow the parents a chance to at least explain… Statues have penises. We need to knock some sense in more immature kids, harking the “heh heh… Penis”. Hell — the statues were always idealized forms of humanity — may need a chance to back up to combat bad body image for more sensitive kids.

The National Review article does its best on this score. But we are left with a simple question. You need parental permission on every little thing brought before a class curriculum? I am sure there is something off with Algebra’s over-use of the letter “x”.

Okay.

“Old dudes are eating Jell-O, everyone is talking about how great they are,” Sinema recounted to gales of laughter. “I don’t really need to be there for that. That’s an hour and a half twice a week that I can get back.”

Now she was rolling.

“The Northerners and the Westerners put cool whip on their Jell-O,” she shared, “and the Southerners put cottage cheese.”

The definition of the “South” is a little bit contentious with Southerners deriding other Southerners as not real Southerners, and certainly the North gets plenty of Southern implants and history moves some states in and out — Delaware, as Joe Biden once campaigned for Southern votes with, was a “slave state”, and the US Census defines it as Southern, yet I don’t know if people call it that.

Altogether, the list of Southern Democratic Party Senators that Kyrsten Sinema is mocking as putting cottage cheese on their jello so old they are: Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Jon Ossoff of Georgia, and Raphael Warnock of Georgia. Three. Ages in the 70s, 50s, and 30s. The oldest has occasioned some party switch rumors, but is probably too far along to bother.

Not a lot of cottage cheese there.

Snicker, but it is a fight he has on his hands. Like the Australian prime minister who picked his nose once — and then became prime minister.

Biden down, floats The National Review.

Pence and descent is down, floats The Nation.

Also. The Rich. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Either displaying their wealth or slumming it.

The same people who gloated about Wal-Mart leaving Portland are now gloating about Cracker Barrel leaving. With Wal-Mart it is that case of whether or not it is that canary in a coal mine and advanced past that — wow, finally — the city’s governing council has held the line on their encroachment for decades and finally they retreat! But here I am nust stuck on the question — there was a Cracker Barrel in this city? Damned if I knew. Oddly looking at the location — I guess they will just scuttle a few blocks and land in Vancouver WA — so suggestive of different ecosystem of problems than that which is popularly discoursed.

Like, I could go either way on the pee tape — my gut and sense of things says no and I doubt it, but if it came to pass that it were the case I would not be surprised. But on this?

No freaking duh. His defenders — of whom I guess technically on this matter I am one, believe it is the case. Probably a smaller majority or plurality believe, not think believable, yes. But I am stuck on the — what of it?

Today we get the suggestion from the da that Trump hyped up relative non-news. From the right, this is seen as a wavering. Possibly it is a case of — moving ahead in a case and stopping is routine but more notable and more apt to be given political meaning with a high profile target.

Other amusing lines — AI is creating the scenario. Deep fake videos of Trump getting arrested. As of this moment it is hardly more worrisome than a play that was banned in France during the Johnson administration which had him assassinating Kennedy. We are not in a simultron. Unless, maybe, in reality Trump has been arrested and this deep fake is a fictional distraction to fool us into thinking he hasn’t.

Headline I see today: Americans IQ drop for first time in a century.

We had a good century run. We weren’t educating ourselves during quarantine, even though I guess we should have been. At lea smoothing the rough edges for what makes it seem like this was counterintuitive — Idiocracy is only happening now?

Wait. is the study somehow a lagging indicator? I would look into the study, but I am probably be too dumb to understand it.

Yeah, well.

But the reality is that there’s no investigation against Trump that won’t seem politically motivated to his supporters. Federal prosecutors aren’t elected, and a special prosecutor took over the federal investigations involving Trump as soon as Trump announced he was running for president again, but if Trump ends up being charged in either of those investigations, he’ll say it’s Biden’s doing.

And there are issues to be brought out where Trump’s supporters would have less of a case. This one makes me feel dead and empty. Like, I watched Stormy Daniels become a personality and make public appearances on late night tv shows with Trump caricature characters. This has been a boon to her career, and good for her for packaging the Trump years into a good paycheck and three, but she joins a long list of celebrities I have no interest in. In terms of the federal v state jurisdiction, it is that odd case that the way toward election in state and local districts to throw out flyers asserting “I am going to take on Trump” — all politics are national — and now it becomes a sticky wicket of “someone has to do this”. But why this one and not something that actually matters? Because, I guess, it was what was on a New York docket.

I have no clue if Desantis’s reaction is politically advantageous, but it is about right any way.

After that we get a sense of dejavu. Like, the Republicans are saying identical words as Democrats did in 1998. Both are sort of right and sort of wrong on their points.

The right, or something in it, is holding up comedic comments from Chris Rock relating Trump’s indictment to the unwise ’cause it will only make him stronger jailing of Tupac Shikur. Which seems. Odd.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason on coming Maga protests. She is a sellout mainstreaming herself for RINO consumption. Though, she is not the voice of reason on the matter in congressional matters on the subject — so… Radical Elites, servile plebes.

Trump cap locks social media posts.

DeSantis emphasizes the porn money aspect. As he oughta. It cuts two ways for him — the reiteration of the other part of the Chris Rock thesis — “how romantic”, and the porn prostitute sleaze part that is not his norm.

So. Trump is about to be indicted. It is over the matter I would not care to touch with a ten foot pole — Stormy Daniels porn crap, or to put it another manner an issue that can be circumvented as “not another about politicking, just about sex” — whether the actions were taken for politics or not. At least we have ridden ourselves of Daniels’s conman lawyer, opposition grifter of the Trump era Michael Avenatti.

The chorus comes up. Predictions are made by glib prognosticators trying to be too clever and reading the electorate as they wish or fear it is. Trump. Wins by a landslide. Over Biden. Or. Sure cash in now for the Republican ticket. Or. Now everyone can schlep over to Desantis who — I see a couple weird things in the backlinks from my Tumblr page which have the ring of false conjecture due to not being able to find any reliable news media (even avowedly liberal media) that back it up. He is… The New Hitler!

In the meantime, Trump or Trump supporters vow riotings. If anything happens, they will do what they’ve done for January 6 and blame the Feds.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders quietly signed into law on Thursday a bill that will create a “monument to the unborn” on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol.

Sanders’ team confirmed the bill signing in a release late Friday.

Not withstanding that the gesture is lame and counterproductive to real policy (whether you think the policies this supplements / replaces is great or horrible does not matter to its inherently lame nature) — I am more just a tad put off by the “cover of dark” nature of her signing it. It needs confirmation that she did a signing. And no, I do not know exactly how I would approach the matter of a bill you want to go ahead and support but do not wish to be the figure behind — or have a file photo of the signing. It becomes comical here that we get this instead —

In this Feb. 8, 2023, file photo, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE)

The deed is done. Get a photo out there of you signing the damned bill. Any and all bill signings need at least a photograph.

In other Abortion related news — this is a biased and loaded headline.

Wyoming, the first territory in the United States to grant women the right to vote, just became the first state to ban medication abortion

It presumes a break, which I understand why some see a connection but I also understand why others do not necessarily see it and it becomes loaded against them. Hell, you can stay with a feminist framework in explaining part one — it was a “Mars Needs Women” situation — whatever it took to get women out to Wyoming. And, really, only a handful were needed. Under that rubric, are we to get the storyline that these grizzled men became regressively more unenlightened over the generations?