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FG Follies:  We keep on learning more about the final days of the FG’s regime and to put it bluntly, they were more dangerous than we thought; his coup attempt was for real and it wasn’t spontaneous.  Moreover, the FG had the help of a number of his closest aides and allies including several of Congressman Devon Nunes’ former aides including Kash Patel who almost made it to acting head of the CIA.  At least that was and remains the assessment of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley who, according to “I Alone Can Fix It,” the newly published book by the Washington Post team of Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker feared a “Reichstag” moment and did everything he could to impede the FG’s efforts.  Milley saw the FG’s successful firing of Defense Secretary Esper and the attempted removals of CIA head Gina Haspel and FBI head Chris Wray for what they were, part of a plan to fill the top ranks of government with toadies who were all in on helping the FG fulfil his autocratic, Hitlerian ambitions.  Despite all that, GQP Leader Kevin McCarthy remains fully on the team FG bandwagon, before attending a Biden hosted dinner for German Chancellor Angela Merkel who the FG not so fondly called a bitch during his days in office, McCarthy traveled to Bedminster NJ yesterday for a meet up with the FG purportedly to discuss mid-term election strategy but really to talk about who, if anyone, McCarthy should put on the House’s January 6^th committee.  Panhandle Putz Matt Gaetz also remains fully on the FG bandwagon.  Apparently, Gaetz who has been running up some bigly legal bills fighting off those hopefully impending child trafficking charges has also been making payments to various and sundry entities associated with the FG.  Among those payments is one to none other than that other Floridian/pardoned felon Roger Stone.  Two more of the FG’s Kraken lawyers, Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, appear to be on their way to joining Rudy Giuliani in the bar penalty box, and by bar, I am not talking local tavern.  A judge in Michigan is likely to kick them to the curb shortly, something to do with all of their false claims about election fraud.  On the election fraud front, the Arizona cyber ninja audit is still out there. At least one Arizona Republican, State Senator Wendy Rogers, believes that the results will “prove” that the FG won. She’s calling for a new election, something that the FG in one of his increasingly frazzled statements from the desk of the 45^th President agrees with.  Elsewhere in the political universe, Senate Leader Chuck Schumer plans to move forward with votes on the as yet unwritten infrastructure bills as early as next week, Biden’s child tax credits started hitting bank accounts yesterday and the increasingly controversial filibuster remains intact because Senator Manchin appears to remain team filibuster.

Viral Musings:  That Delta variant continues to spread, more in unvaccinated “red” states and counties but everywhere else too because COVID is apolitical.  It still doesn’t look like the Delta variant is more virulent than other forms of COVID but unfortunately because it is so much more contagious it is making more and more people, including children, sick.  That explains why Los Angeles County is now mandating that everyone, even the vaccinated wear masks when indoors.  The CDC isn’t calling for indoor masking for the vaxxed but Israel and the WHO are so give serious thought to  wearing one the next time you step into a store, elevator or a closely packed crowd.  On the children front, it’s looking less and less likely that shot will be approved before the school year starts, at least that’s what an “unnamed FDA” official said yesterday.  His or her, or should I say their, prediction is that the kid jabs won’t be available until early to mid-winter.  None of that seems to be of concern to Florida Governor DeSantis who is raising campaign cash by selling anti-Fauci merch while his state coronavirus levels are in the midst of another spike.  That’s DeSantis who, if the FG doesn’t run, could be the next Republican candidate for president unless of course he turns into the next Scott Walker or Jeb Bush.

Stay safe, keep a mask handy but enjoy your weekend.