The Oldest Hatred

Jew Who? Hate’s back, well really it never left.  Shortly after he was welcomed back to Twitter by Elon Musk who is still trying to obtain financing for his Twitter acquisition and not long after the Republican House Judiciary Committee tweeted “Kanye, Elon, Trump,” to celebrate that an Elon acquisition will result in the return of the FG to Twitter, Ye, or Kanye as most of us uncool folks still call him, tweeted to his 30 million followers “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” you know those people who “blackball” anyone and everyone who don’t agree with “their” agenda. Around the same time that the crazy one, or crazy as a fox one, was tweeting his hate for Jews, Congresswoman Margie Q took to the podium at another one of the Former Guy’s endless campaign rallies, this one in Arizona, to warn the largely white and quite bloviated crowd that “Biden’s 5 million illegal aliens are on the verge of replacing you, your jobs and your kids in school….they’re also replacing your culture.”  Because what’s a little replacement theory among friends? Not to be outdone, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville spoke at a rally in Nevada where he linked African Americans with crime while asserting that Democrats were pro-crime and that reparations were all about giving payments to criminals.  Then to complete the racism superfecta while also proving that hate isn’t limited to the crazy, Republicans, or crazy Republicans, a recording of Los Angeles’s Democratic City Council President Nury Martinez was leaked.  In it, Martinez is heard calling the black son of a white Councilman a monkey being raised like a white kid when what he really needed was a beat down.  For good measure she was also heard uttering a few homophobic remarks.  Kanye is now in Twitter jail and is frozen out of Instagram at least for now, Martinez has relinquished her council president position but remains on the city council, the unrepentant Margie Q is still out there doing her thing as is Tuberville who ironically owes his fame to a lot of young Black football players who put their bodies on the line for him week after week.  Worth noting, Tuberville was in Nevada campaigning for Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt who is running neck and neck with Democratic incumbent Senator Catherine Cortez Masto for a seat that the Republicans believe represents their best pick up now that Herschel Walker is mired in abortion lies, while Margie Q was in Arizona where Blake Masters, the Peter Theil endorsed Republican is challenging Senator/Astronaut Mark Kelly in another way too close race.  Speaking of close races, a lot of them are very close right now so to the extent you can consider helping out Cortez Masto in Nevada, Fetterman in Pennsylvania, Barnes in Wisconsin,  Beasley in North Carolina, Ryan in Ohio, Kelly in Arizona, and Demings in Florida and anyone else I may have missed because Republican funders are throwing a lot of money around right now.  Governor races matter too, particularly close ones are being held in Arizona and Wisconsin, two states where Republican candidates are promising that they won’t certify future elections unless the results go their way.

What’s Up with the Docs? As to the twice impeached Former Guy, he too is out and about, campaigning, rallying crowds, issuing statements, and attacking anyone not in his camp.  His current position on those purloined documents, some of which he previously claimed were planted by the FBI and most of which he at one point offered to trade for the FBI’s file on the Russia investigation, is that they should all be returned to him because why not? For the record, except for a few personal medical records and the like, what was taken in the “raid” is not his but since when did telling the truth matter?  Certainly not to his lawyer, Christina Bobb, who recently spoke to Federal investigators about the document that she signed, the one where she certified that all of the Former Guy’s cache had been returned to the National Archives.  She told investigators that instead of trying to confirm that the certification was correct, she added a little caveat to the end of the letter and anyway she only signed it because two other FG lawyers, Evan Corcoran and Boris Epshteyn told her she should and didn’t law school teach that you could sign anything if your client asks as long as you added a disclaimer?

And:  Vladimir Putin, the FG and Tucker’s BFF, is once again bombing civilian locations in retaliation for the partial destruction of the Kerch bridge he built to link Crimea to Russia. Some members of Congress, including New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez who is also the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are calling for freezing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia as punishment for cutting oil production, because reduced oil production will raise US fuel costs, hurt Democrats’ mid-term election prospects while higher oil prices will pad Russia’s pockets. And, lastly, one of the key transit unions has voted to reject the agreement that was negotiated last month raising concerns that a freight rail strike could be imminent, hardly a good thing.