Cluster Cucks 🌻 🌻 🌻

Cucks:  Just another summer weekend.  Hot, humid, wet and with Elon Musk, the Twit, who despite his questionable mental state somehow or other still runs Tesla and SpaceX, tweeting “Zuck is a cuck,” his bizarrely juvenile reaction to Zuck’s new Meta Threads platform closing in on 100 million users.  By comparison, with 300 million, down 30 million or so since Musk took over, Twitter is still larger, but that lead is shrinking. Had Musk focused on growing, or at the very least stabilizing the financials of his platform, instead of amplifying bigotry and hate, his usage would be up and he’d have probably grown revenues but instead ad revenues are in the toilet, he’s got Zuck breathing down his neck and now he is facing a landmark legal challenge in Germany for failing to taking down hateful anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying and racist tweets, including one that said “Blacks should be gassed and sent to Mars.”  Those tweets violate local law and theoretically also violate Twitter’s policies but were left up after what was left of Twitter’s content moderation team concluded they were hunky dory.  Musk is also lashing out at lawyers, suing Wachtel Lipton, for unjust enrichment.  Musk’s beef, that Wachtel was paid too much for doing its job well when it forced Musk to make good on his $48 million acquisition of Twitter, the purchase that Musk tried to slither out of because even he knew he was overpaying.  By the way, reporters calling Twitter for comments on any of this receive a poop emoji 💩 in reply.  Back in the world of politics, North Dakota’s Governor Doug Burgum, one of the little known candidates running to be the Republican candidate for president, or VP, said that he wouldn’t do business with Donald Trump given his questionable track record but would do business with Musk and would vote again for Trump were he to become the GOP’s 2024 candidate which is about all you need to know about Burgum and his party.  That’s Trump who spent his weekend dunking on his nearest rival, the floundering mini-me Ron DeSantis for daring to challenge him while calling Joe Biden the most corrupt and incompetent president ever.  There’s something very special about Trump calling anyone else corrupt and incompetent and while it’s fair to disagree with Biden’s policies, many Republican politicians even those who didn’t vote for infrastructure funding are out there bragging about all the bridges, roads and factories now being built in their districts with the funding they disparaged.  Remember all those infrastructure projects that Trump funded with his many infrastructure weeks, me neither.  As to corruption, while Republicans continue to accuse Biden of engaging in millions, probably soon to be billions of corruption, so far, they have no evidence. They might want to think about Rudy Guiliani who is one step closer to losing his license to practice law in D.C. about the consequences of lying, but then again, some of them aren’t lawyers and the ones who are, appear to be limiting their accusations to venues where lying is tolerated, even rewarded. As to legal consequences, Trump is still living in the Teflon zone, but maybe not forever, well just maybe. Reports are that Special Counsel Jack is zeroing in on the insurrection planning that took place in the Oval Office in the run up to January 6 and that one time Chief of Staff John Kelly has testified under oath that Trump called for sexting while working FBI Agent Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page to be investigated by the IRS, not for real crimes but for participating in the Russia investigation.     

Cluster:  War sucks and then gets worse which is probably why there are cluster bombs in the first place.  It looks like the US is about to send some to Ukraine to help in their war against Russia’s deadly lethal land grab because with or without the Prigozhin Wagner mercenaries the Russian army is still a deadly opponent.  The problem with cluster bombs is that besides being weapons of war, they too often fail to explode, leaving deadly duds on the ground for future generations to inadvertently trigger, the reason why many of our allies ban them.  Then again one of the reasons we’re shipping them to Ukraine is that our stocks of other “more acceptable” weaponry is getting low and they’re among the items left in our arsenal.. As I said, war sucks.     

And: So, it turns out that Margie Q may still be in the Freedom Caucus but only due to a technicality.  She’s been dodging calls from the group’s leadership so hasn’t received official notice of her ejection.  That would be funny if these clowns weren’t all members of the party that controls the House and is likely to send the country into the shutdown zone come September.  In other House news, Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin plans to stay in the House.  He has announced that he has no plans to seek the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Ben Cardin.  That’s a loss for the Senate, where Alabama’s Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville continues to singlehandedly hold up many military promotions over abortion policy, but a gain for the House especially if the Democrats ever retake control.