Subs and Heroes 🤡 😱 ✡️🌻😱 🤡

From Russia But No Love:  Trump is in Anchorage for his meeting with Putin.  For the most part the pundits, or at least those who are experienced in international diplomacy and/or things Russian, believe that he’ll accomplish little in the way of peace but might concede part of Ukraine with some rare minerals thrown in as a sweetener.  They are also concerned that the bluster and strong arming that Trump has been able to work to his advantage with weaker, less experienced leaders, law firm heads, and his party will fall flat with the wily Putin.  We should know soon enough although it wouldn’t be a push to assume that Trump who apparently doesn’t know that in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union, Leningrad’s name was restored back to St Petersburg, its pre-Soviet name, will spin the meeting as a huge accomplishment.  Illusionary peace being another reason that he should get the Nobel Peace prize that he covets so much that according to the Norwegian news outlet Dagens Naeringsliv, he called Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg “out of the blue” to tell him so, more than hinting that things could turn darker on the tariff front if Norway doesn’t make it happen. Norway’s five-member Nobel committee is responsible for choosing the Nobel laureates that are announced in October. While Trump is hanging in the 49^th state, things are getting darker and weirder in Washington DC where his occupying forces have federalized the police.  Last night AG Pam Bondi who should be disbarred when or if we ever get through this dystopian time, appointed Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administrator as “Emergency” Police Commissioner usurping the powers of DC’s police chief.  Her actions are likely illegal but since when has that matter to anyone in Trump’s orbit. To be clear, if Trump or any of his minions really wanted to improve law enforcement in DC, they would restore the $1 billion in funding that they took from the city’s coffers and work as a team focusing their efforts on things like drug enforcement rather than stopping cars and otherwise acting like bullies.  The situation is now so stupid that Trump’s federales charged a now former employee of the Department of Justice who threw a Subway sub at the “invading” forces while screaming F-You with a felony.  Since a DC grand jury has twice refused to indict the woman who was accused of “assaulting” an FBI agent despite video evidence that shows her doing little more than flailing her arms at an ICE agent, it’s highly likely that the sub offender will not be indicted either, though he might have started a trend because who doesn’t feel like following a turkey sub or two right now and anyway, sandwiches are a whole lot more dispensable than shoes, which as George W Bush once learned is the item more typically tossed in protest in some cultures. Also stupid, Ivanka, the daughter who other than appearing in Jeff Bezo’s wedding pictures, we haven’t seen much of lately has assumed the job of organizing the UFC cage fight to be held at the White House next year to celebrate the 250^th independence anniversary.  I don’t know, nor want to know what a cage fight is, and will be busy that day washing my hair.     

Hero Special: Not a sub but maybe the hero we need right now, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, who is clearly positioning himself for an Oval Office run, is the spicy meatball living inside of Trump’s head.  Not only is he younger and infinitely better looking than the doughy 🍊 🤡 but he’s taken to gleefully mocking him on Twitter with ALL CAPS missives, witty ones like this:

DONALD 'TACO' TRUMP,  AS MANY CALL HIM, 'MISSED' THE DEADLINE!!! CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE 'BEAUTIFUL MAPS,' THEY WILL BE HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!). BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR 'MAGA.' THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GN.”  

Newsom followed his Twitter jibe with an announcement that he’s initiating a process that should it work will lead to the redistricting of enough California districts to make up for the ones that Texas, at Trump’s insistence, is seeking to redistrict away from Democrats. The process in California is more complicated given that Newsom unlike Texas’ Governor Abbot has to hold a state referendum to accomplish his objective, but his message is clear, Democrats need to fight fire with fire, no more knives at gun fights. As to guns, a bunch of Trump’s INS thugs made an appearance outside of Newsom’s press conference.  If anything, their threats emphasize Newsom’s argument, that democracy is at risk because Trump could give two 💩 💩, he just wants to stay in power no matter what it takes. Further proof of that is that he’s now invited Missouri’s state Republicans for a sit down at the White House to see if they can gerrymander him a few more House seats.  And given that inflation is once again out and about because tariffs, Trump likely needs to cheat to get those seats because things really are costing more and though it may be possible to manipulate statistics, when coffee, bananas, and schools supplies cost more, and jobs are difficult to find people on the ground notice.   

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