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Guilty, Guilty, Guilty:  It didn’t take much time for Hunter Biden’s jury to come back with a verdict. He was found guilty on all charges.  Not surprising because he did buy that gun while in the throes of his crack addiction but nevertheless sad for him and his family who, as his dad Joe said again, loves him warts and all.   In a weird way, many in the Republican echo chamber were a bit disappointed because it’s hard for them to press the theme that Biden and Garland’s Department of Justice is biased against Republicans named Trump when the DOJ keeps indicting prominent Democrats and actually wins a case against the president’s son. The very nonsensical House Oversight Chair James Comer however is thrilled, he said that the Hunter verdict proves that Dad Joe should be impeached for heading a “crime family.” Count Republican, Panhandle Putz Matt Gaetz as one who saw the prosecution of Hunter as “kinda dumb tbh.”  As one staffer of Gaetz’ nemesis ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy put it, “that’s because you (Gaetz) also love to do cocaine, sleep with prostitutes, and own guns.”   Frankly, subjecting all members of Congress who carry guns into the Capitol to drug tests would be a good idea, Donald Trump Jr too, because who doesn’t believe that at one or more of them would fail a test.  The federal law that was used to convict Hunter also prohibits convicted felons from owning guns which should be a problem for 34 times felonious Trump too because as of yesterday it’s reported that he still has one of his guns at Mar a Lago.  That’s Trump who on Monday addressed the Danbury Institute which describes itself as an “association of churches, Christians, and organizations aligned to affirm and preserve God-given rights to life and liberty.  The group advocates for the total eradication of abortion which it calls “child sacrifice.” Trump promised that if he’s reelected the group would “make a comeback like just about no other.” Might be worth mentioning to friends and family who think that that Trump really doesn’t plan to further restrict abortion.

The Supremes:  We keep learning more about Justice Sam Alito and his flag flying wife Martha-Ann, none of it comforting. Presenting herself as a sympathetic, conservative Catholic, liberal filmmaker Lauren Windsor chatted with both Alito and Chief Justice Roberts at a meeting of the Supreme Court Historical Society where she is a member.  Alito revealed his personal biases and desire to impress them on the rest of us by saying of the culture wars “One side or the other is going to win…..There can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.” He agreed with Windsor who baited him by saying “I think that the solution really is like winning the moral argument. Like, people in this country who believe in God have got to keep fighting for that, to return our country to a place of godliness” by godliness.  By contrast, Roberts, hardly a liberal darling, politely rejected Windsor’s suggestion that the court should lead the nation on a Christian path saying instead that each case should be decided on its merits, albeit as he interpreted those merits.  Windsor also chatted with Martha-Ann who defended her flag flying, saying that she had to fly her Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because her neighbors across the lagoon were flying a pride flag for a whole month.  Alito’s admitted biases and desire to impose them on the rest of us matters, as we’re about to find out bigly.  SCOTUS announced earlier this week that it will be releasing opinions on both Thursday and Friday of this week.  In addition to presidential immunity, opinions on further limiting abortions, eliminating gun restrictions, the use of a federal statute that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding to prosecute the rioters, or as Trump calls them the patriots, who raided the Capitol, and the overturning of the Chevron Doctrine which for forty years has given deference to agencies like the EPA when they make regulations geared to protect the environment.  Not all of those opinions are expected this week, but some are likely because there are only so many days left in this term.

Primarily Yours:  It’s hard to believe it but it’s still primary season.  Yesterday bolstered by Trump’s endorsement, Republican Nancy Mace, the beneficiary of a Supreme Court decision that keeps her gerrymandered South Carolina district red, won hers and is now a shoe in to return to Congress.  That’s a disappointment for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy who had been working to oust Mace as payback for her vote to dethrone him. On the subject of ex-Speakers,  in an interview broadcasted on Fox, Paul Ryan called Trump unfit for office, saying that he won’t be voting for him.      

Fog:  The Wall Street Journal reported this week what’s been obvious for some time, that Hamas military leader Yahya Sinwar admits to resisting the cutting of a ceasefire and hostages deal with Israel because more fighting and more Palestinian civilian deaths work to his advantage.  His equation, more death equals more international sympathy and who cares if that sympathy comes at the expense of Gazans. With that in mind it shouldn’t be all that surprising that he’s still refusing to sign off on the “final” agreement that’s currently on the negotiating table.  

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