Laughingstock Stock?

Paper:  Yesterday was the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection or as the FG and his crowd call it a the day that patriots visited the Capitol to engage in a group grope with Capitol policemen, Congress and hang former VP Pence.  Both President Biden and VP Harris gave speeches. Biden’s speech was described by many, none of whom work at Fox, as the most forceful and impressive of his presidency, though the FG who wasn’t mentioned by name but was repeatedly slammed as the “defeated former president,” an anti-democracy loser, wasn’t all that impressed.  We know that because he sent out one of his from the “desk of the 45^th“ statements in which he once again claimed that the election was rigged,  asserting this time that hurtful, laughingstock stock (his typo, not mine) Biden only succeeded in becoming president because he bought votes for $10 apiece adding that there’s no way all those Black people really voted for him, while also saying that Biden was the worst ever, perhaps a bit of projection and maybe some regret because he didn’t think to offer voters cash?  There was a memorial ceremony in Washington where many recounted last year’s horrors. Though most of the attendees were Democrats, Liz Cheney and her father, former VP Dick Cheney, were in attendance.  He was there to support his daughter and to make it clear that he agrees with her assessment that the FG is a dangerous buffoon.  It was particularly odd to see so many Democratic politicians greet him warmly given that until recently he was their Darth Vader but the times are unusual to say the least.  A large number of Republicans instead attended former Republican Senator Johnny Isakson’s Georgia funeral which was conveniently scheduled during the same time slot.  Mitch McConnell was there as was presidential wannabee Ted Cruz who later appeared on Tucker Carlson’s evening show where the fish stick scion intimidated Cruz into walking back a statement he had made earlier in the week, the one where he accidentally admitted that many of those those nice tourists at the Capitol last January 6 were terrorists.  Though it was fun watching Cruz squirm, it was fairly terrifying watching how he kowtowed to Tucker, a repeat of the way he previously forgave the Former Guy for attacking his wife and father.  One more truly disturbing thing, we still don’t know who placed those bombs at both the DNC and RNC shortly before last year’s “tourist” festivities, but yesterday we learned that Kamala Harris, then the VP elect, was at the DNC when the police found the live bomb that had been placed there. Think about what would have happened had she been injured or worse.  It’s fair to assume that the day’s violence would have been far worse. On Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland kind of reassured us that he and his team are working hard to bring people to justice, we just don’t know which people he’s focused on and whether or not he’s reaching high enough up the food chain and by food think hamberders and diet coke.

Playing Football:  Remember Peter Navarro, he was the FG’s trade advisor whose only positive attribute is that he was one of the first to recognize that COVID 19 would lead to a worldwide pandemic.  He’s also one of the FG’s most ardent supporters.  Earlier this week Navarro appeared on Ari Melber’s MSNBC evening show.  My initial reaction to seeing him was to question  Melber’s judgment but I have to admit that I was wrong as Navarro admitted on air to Melber that he, Steve Bannon and the rest of the FG team really were trying to pull off a coup.  Navarro’s position is that going the coup route, undoing the results of the election and overthrowing the government, was okay, that it was just the violence of the day that wasn’t so good. Navarro provided details of their plan to engage in a “Green Bay Sweep” with “scores” of Republican officials and politicians teed up to object to the results of the 2020 presidential vote in six states. Navarro hated the day’s violence, not because people got injured and killed, but  because to succeed the football strategy “required peace and calm on Capitol Hill,” and all the violence of the day ruined the master plan, as a few too many of those members of Congress who were supposed to object to the Electoral Vote count reneged on their promise to do so.  Think about that, Navarro admits that a coup was the plan and most of the other members of his party and everyone in its leadership wants us to think nothing bad happened, that it’s time to move on or as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, another aspiring Republican presidential candidate says, January 6^th is now the Democrat’s Christmas, whatever that means.  By the way, that’s the same DeSantis whose current raspy, breathing impaired speech pattern sounds a lot like he’s still in the throes of a holiday case of COVID.

Viral Musings:  Here, there and everywhere, maybe peaking in New York, but still on the rise in other parts of the country, most notably in Florida where the state’s widely discredited surgeon general says that the problem is too much testing not the disease, hospitalizations or death.  Sound familiar? You know, if you don’t test for it, it’s not there, right? Not much more to say about COVID right now, because what is there to say?