March is Mad ✡️🌻✡️🌻✡️🌻 🍀 🍀 

WTF Feed:   X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, lets you choose between viewing posts from sources you “follow” or posts that they choose “for you.”  Since I mostly follow mainstream media sources and individuals whose observations on current events I value, despite Elon Must moving X to the right side of hell, I still find the platform to be a useful newsfeed as long as I stick to my “follow” feed. However, every now and then I wade out of my “follow” comfort zone into the morass of posts on the “for you” side, more often than usual these days because that’s where the juiciest #KateGate streams hang out and admittedly I’ve fallen down that rabbit hole. The #KateGate posts are conspiratorial, but they pale in comparison to the political posts that X’s algorithm has decided to push my way.  Those posts include an endless stream of messages from the likes of the Jim Jordan headed Republican Judiciary Committee, an assortment of dedicated Trump fanboys/bots, RFK Jr, Elon Musk and, for some reason I can’t fathom, from former White House doctor/current right wing Congressman Ronny Jackson. Those “for you” posts are chock full of nasty rantings about dangerous immigrants, murderous crime waves, vaccine denial, the “sinking” economy, and yearnings for the great days of the Trump administration, the days we can have again, if only we bring the Orange one back.  Naturally, they attack all things Biden including his and Hunter’s “obvious” criminality, while poking holes in all the cases against the “unfairly” targeted Trump. The posts are depressing and distressing, providing a window into what the half of the country who either adore Trump or just hate anything that’s not labeled Republican think.  Distressing being the key word here. Over the weekend, while campaigning in Ohio, Trump who continues to assert that any election, past or future, that he hasn’t or doesn’t win is tainted and fixed, promised once again to free all the “patriots” convicted of storming the Capital after the last presidential election while warning that a bloodbath lays ahead if he doesn’t win in 2024. His X fans quickly defended his remarks, with some including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, saying that they’re being taken out of context. They’re not being taken out of context, Trump means what he says, if the election doesn’t go his way, he will push for a repeat of January 6^th and based in part on what’s being posted on X and also what’s repeated daily on Fox, Newsmax and the other even more right leaning media outlets, it’s folly to think that his followers won’t heed his call. On the #KateGate front, Kate was or wasn’t seen shopping at a market this weekend and Buckingham Palace is or isn’t making a bigly announcement on Wednesday. 😂😂

Crazed and Crazy:  Trump was in Ohio campaigning for Bernie Moreno, the candidate that he’s endorsed in the contentious, too close to predict Republican Senate primary that takes place on Tuesday. The far-right Moreno who is also supported by Ohio’s Republican Senator JD Vance and Jim “Gym” Jordan is very Trumpian with lots of warts which may or may not include him posting on a gay dating website.  As evidenced by Ohio Governor DeWine’s endorsement of Matt Dolan, one of his opponents, Moreno is not the favorite of the more mainstream set. The winner of the primary will face off against Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown, who despite Ohio’s red glow, has managed to hold on in the state. Republicans view Ohio as a possible pick-up in their quest to retake the Senate in November, but fear that a Moreno win will dash their hopes.  Democrats are hoping, even counting on Republicans selecting Moreno. Elsewhere in crazy town, RFK Jr who is counting on delusional voters thinking that he is the second coming of his father, is no longer pairing up with fellow anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers, maybe because his conspiratorial thinking on gun slain kids really being crisis actors was too much for him.  Nepo Kennedy is now teasing that his vice-presidential nod will go to the relatively unknown Nicole Shanahan, a lawyer who is also the former wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Brin and Shanahan’s divorce had something to do with an affair she allegedly had with Elon Musk because isn’t there a Musk angle on everything these days? On the subject of nepos, Jarred Kushner, together with one of Trump’s former special envoys/National Security Directors Ric Grenell, is close to locking up what looks to be a $500 million sweetheart deal for some prime real estate in Serbia. Both Kushner and Grenell’s contacts with the Serbians were made during the Trump administration and though Kushner asserts that he’s out of politics, Grenell is reported to have his eyes on serving as Trump’s Secretary of State should he return to office, not that conflicts count for Republicans. Elsewhere in nepo land, Hunter Biden is due to go on trial for gun charges, odd because at one point he had plea bargained himself out of those charges but then again politics is politics, and his special counsel is a Republican appointee.  By the way, it turns out that the now arrested for lying FBI informant who was the chief witness against Hunter and his dad Joe in the impeachment trial that’s fizzling was paid $600,000 by a Trump related Dubai based company in 2020 which is not so coincidentally the year that he started lying to the FBI about all things Burisma.

Legally Loony:  Judge Juan Merchan who is overseeing the New York Trump election interference/hush money case has pushed that case’s trial date off one month to give Trump and his attorney’s more time to review the documents that the Southern District of New York had been sitting on. The Fulton County case which had been on hold for a while due to the allegations against DA Fani Willis is kind of back on track but without her one-time beau/prosecutor Nathan Wade. Wade stepped down after Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the Fulton County case, split the baby, ruling that Willis could continue on the case but only if Wade exited.  McAfee was ready to issue his ruling earlier in the week but because of threats against him, he waited until Friday to give local authorities time to make sure that adequate security was in place.  Though it’s not clear yet if they can, Trump and his co-defendants are trying to appeal McAffee’s ruling because, of course. Former Trump aide Peter Navarro who is due to start his jail term this week is also appealing to the Supreme Court where the wife of one of the presiding Judices was also a participant in the overthrow the election scheme that Navarro refuses to testify about. It’s not clear that SCOTUS will take his case.