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February 9, 2024
Short takes, no. 8
By EDWARD MORRISON MORLEY
Editor’s note: Mr. Morley is back as TLD’s AI generator of apparently disconnected observations. But are they? Only the Shadow knows. BTW, did you know that Orson Welles voiced the Shadow on radio?
1. Republicans score own goal. Unbelievably, the Republicans seem to be handing the Dumbocrats a victory on border security, turning what looked like a surefire Republican election talking point into a surefire Dumbocrat talking point. In fairness, one should point out that they’ve been doing this for years, so they have considerable practice in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. (For extra credit: How many clichés do you see in the above item?)2. Big government in action: What could possibly go wrong? Kenya has decided to save “critically endangered” rhinos by moving 21 of them to a new home. This follows on a 2018 Kenyan transfer in which all 11 of the hapless “critically endangered” critters died. Bizarrely, this story appears on a Voice of America website called “Learning English.” (For extra credit: Guess why rhinos are “critically endangered”?)
3. Feeble-minded: Yes he is, no I’m not. The special counsel (you need a score card to tell which is which and what) dealing with Sleepy Joe’s absconding with classified files and blabbing about them to friends, relatives (including the completely reliable Hunter Biden), assorted servants, and casual passersby, has decided not to prosecute the Prez on grounds that he has “diminished capacities” and, therefore, wouldn’t make a credible witness in court. Joseph Robinette Whatever riposted immediately that he wasn’t senile. Is not, is too, is not, is too. The dialogue continues.
Several conclusions emerge from this:
• Since Joey (“I remember my dad telling me, ‘Joey, always tell the truth unless it’s inconvenient, inexpedient, or pretty much any other excuse.’”) affirms that he is compos mentis, why not take him at his word and indict him. Let the court decide.
• Since Orange Man has been indicted (How many times? Let me count the ways), and given that we only have one standard of justice (snicker), we deduce that DJT is compos mentis, which clearly puts him a leg up on our current dictator.
• If JBB isn’t in command of his faculties, we can deduce that son Hunter is running the White House, which, further, explains why the Republicans are after him.
• Or is Karine Jean-Pierre really the puppet-master here since she repeatedly uses the royal “we” in press conferences, “owning” as it were everything said on behalf of the regime. (KJ-P has got to have an IQ in single digits, especially obvious as she shuffles her cue cards desperately trying to find the correct talking point.)
• Or, or, is the 388-page special counsel report a bizarre means of greasing the skids under the hapless Biden’s candidacy for re-election. (Let’s see, there are multiple hapless Bidens, so we’d better specify here that we are talking about Sleepy Joe.) The report can be found here. For Eric Holder’s take on this, great defender of “long-standing DOJ traditions” that he is, see this, at The Hill.
• And for a bit of a giggle, check out “White House Senior Living.”
4. John Caldwell Calhoun, please call your office. The Ha’wa’i’i Supre’me Cou’rt has declared that “Aloha” trumps the Second Amendment, apparently because armed people aren’t perceived as welcoming. And you thought nullification was dead. Look for California to follow suit (in the Golden State, if your gun isn’t made of gold ...), New York (if your gun isn’t made of clay ...), Illinois (is that a gun in your pocket or are you happy to see me?), and Michigan (the governor there is a loony, so whatever). Coming up next: challenges to all the rest of the amendments and attempts to reinstate repealed amendments by state supreme courts run amuck with newly found power.
5. The Prez takes the Supreme Court to task. President Biden took time out from his busy schedule of mainly going to his beach home to denounce the Supremes. His beef: they removed “Roe v. Word” as the law of the land. Apparently this removal of the Word (i.e, the Bible, the Word of God) from the public sphere has incensed the some-time Catholic president. He is even hotter under the collar since in a phone call on the super-secret black phone to the Vatican, Pope Franny told him the Vatican doesn’t give a rip about the Word and referred him to the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as “making far more sense than Matty, Mark, Luke, and Johnny.” No word (get it?) from the Vatican whether the Pope was just speaking off the top of his head or ex cathedra (= speaking as he leaves a cathedral) or thought he was talking to Vladimir Putin on the super-secret red phone.
6. Has there ever been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy? You be the judge. I’m not complaining that the Prez spends most of his time away from Washington, since presumably while he frolics on the beach, rides his bicycle, and checks the garage 
to see whether the FBI missed any secret documents therein, he isn’t actively destroying the country. On the downside, this leaves his Cabinet Clown Show (Mayorkas, Buttijudge or however the heck he spells it, Garland, Blinken, Austin, Yellen, Becerra, Granholm, Su, Cardona, not to mention the hilarious Kamala Harris) are busy doing immense harm. Take a look at the list of these doofuses and see if you don’t agree that this is the most pathetic group gathered in the White House since James Buchanan dined
February 9, 2024
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