Erik Prince, the mercenary billionaire who’s high on the list of Republicans who should swing from the gallows, has violated the UN’s arms embargo on Libya by procuring $80 million worth of weapons, drones and mercenaries to a Libyan warlord seeking to overthrow the government. Republicans are such fucking hypocrites. Reagan talked of a shining city on a hill and turned the country into a stinking dungpile in a ditch.
Look what they’ve done to their ideal state, Texas. The Texas Tribune reports that the state was “seconds and minutes” away from catastrophic monthslong blackouts, officials say, averted only by the alert action of people running the state’s go-it-alone power grid.
Another Repuke who needs to swing by the neck for his Russia ties, Devin Nunes, had another lawsuit against the meanies who point out what a wet fart of a human being he is dismissed. This one was for a laughable $435 million against CNN.
The small core of old-fashioned Republicans is trying to rally behind its deep-pocketed donors, seeking to combat the Trumpian forces of chaos with their good, old-fashioned, misbegotten money, with Liz Cheney and Nimrata Haley leading the charge. I’m rooting for heavy casualties on both sides.
Finally, some evidence that we have FUBARed spaceship Earth: Scientists are rushing to understand a puzzling thiamine deficiency affecting animal life all across the Northern Hemisphere. It seems to be based in a lack of the vitamin in the oceans and travels up the food chain.
The floor’s yours.