The kids at that Florida high school have learned something important: All the talk in the world won’t influence politicians. They do a lot of talking themselves, so they know how little it’s worth. So the Florida students are taking action, organizing a March on Washington for March 24. Republicans are going to find out once and for all that nobody outside their fat, waddling core buys their bullshit.
The fight against the Republican Party is no longer a fight with a partner in governance. It is a fight for the survival of self-government, and in that fight no Republican should be spared. For example, this hand-wringing about Trump judges accepts the notion that we are powerless before the GOP’s perfidy. We’re not. Judges can be impeached, and Jill Abramson makes the case that we should get to workimpeaching Clarence Thomas over the lies he told to get his job.
I can find no stronger indictment of the inadequacy of The News Journal than the fact that, having missed Tom Wagner’s retirement announcement, it then buried the news in the peevishly childish way it should be famous for. It didn’t break the story, therefore it’s not a story. Never fear, though — the paper managed to find a Delaware native who’s a screenwriter for a hit TV show and plays that story far more prominently on its web page. I’m not saying that’s not a story — it is, if you’re reading the Bumblefuck Gazette. It’s the kind of story that newspapers in small towns run to demonstrate to the rest of the peckerwoods that someone occasionally finds his way out.
The State News, by contrast, highlights Delaware’s poor standing in Gallup’s “well-being” index — a debatable “statistic,” to be sure, but give the paper credit for bringing bad news to its semi-literate audience. Today’s State News also carries an op-ed by Rep. Ruth Briggs King about the high cost of emergency transport that ought to embarrass whoever handles her PR, considering she all but admits she’s done no homework outside of a single phone call before taking keyboard in hand to opine.
Oh, look. The unmitigated ass who destroyed the American Green Party, Russian stooge Jill Stein, comes unglued when asked about how cozy she is with the Russians. I’m not saying the Green Party was any great force for good, but it’s now as dead as ACORN.
Why do I think it’s important to fight the Russians? Well, they were all aboard goosing “public” sentiment against Al Franken. I’m not against the Russians because they’re Russian, though that’s actually good enough reason for me. I’m against them because they’re aiding my enemy.
If you enjoy terrible renditions of the national anthem, we have a treat for you: Fergie, whom nobody ever accused of having talent, butchered the song as badly as anyone has ever recorded. If you’re scared to follow the link — and you should be — suffice it to say she drew it out to Bleeding Gums Murphy length while doing a Jessica Rabbit impersonation. Actually, it’s worse than that makes it sound.