Okay, just for note, there are usually at least three stories a day which are batshit bonkers coming out of this administration, but I felt like sharing a today's batch.
I've commented before, I tend to notice when reality seems more fictional than reality. I've written a big essay on the topic (KanriKyara writers: are we clear to move it out of draft into a public space?) but the summary of it is that if the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics is true, then there must exist alternate universe where what we are experiencing is fiction. Any depiction of a fictional reality is physical must exist somewhere, and as a corollary our physical reality here must be elsewhere be a fiction. Fun, right?
So we get to this quote:
Quote:As David Simon, head writer and producer of The Wire, remarked,
“This metaphor is ridiculously obvious and unsubtle. Fire the writers. They’re hacks.”
This particular incident here is where Secretary of "War" Pete Hesgeth wanted one of the globes that Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower used in his office, then got impatient and sent his own guys to be movers.
They broke the globe. Ridiculously unsubtle.
This of course isn't the worst news of the day. How about:
DOJ Is Suing to Decertify Alaska’s Senate Results—But Only If Republicans Lose. You see there's a guy named Daniel Sullivan running against the incumbent named Dan Sullivan, which means the election is unvalid if Dan loses. (A local election saw a retiring county supervisor named Kathy Long replaced with Kelly Long, who shared neither party nor ethnicity with the former... but all we did about that was grumble and inform voters.) Just to make clear there was no political interference at the DOJ, Trump made it clear that he ordered the lawsuit himself.
Of course, that wasn't the worst news of the day, either. Let's go with this one, for sheer ethical bankrupcy:
MAGA Media Learns to Love Vile Vivek Ramaswamy Ad. So Vivek is running for governor of Ohio against Amy Acton of the Democratic Party. And he's spending $4 million to put out an ad where Acton's own mother denounces her daughter and says she's not fit to run, and needs help. Sounds like an effective ad, right?
Well, brace yourself, because each part of the next gets progressively more abyssal: Acton hasn't seen her mother for over 40 years... because she abandoned her children... so that she could live with the step father... who had skipped bail... because he was accused of raping Amy Acton... at age 12... and her mother lived with that man until he died... without ever serving jail time. It's somehow worse than
The Aristocrats, isn't it? Apparently Vivek's own campaign staff have disavowed the ad, since it did terrible in the focus groups (roll eyes here), but Vivek likes it. And with the exception of a couple like Ohio's current governor, the whole MAGAverse seems to love it.
If you had any doubts about it, both Trump and Vance loved the ad. Wouldn't everyone run the ad? Trump was asked about the ad by a reporter, and he thanked God for the ad. The follow-up:
"But do the sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you?" Trump immediately asked for her credentials, called her fake news, and reiterated his support. The sexual abuse did mean nothing.
This, my friends, is the Epstein Class.
