Democrats who base their political decisions on what they think independents and Republicans might do still want to dump Joe Biden, so it probably won’t change their minds that Biden continues to enact more progressive policies than anyone predicted. His latest move: creation of an American Climate Corps by executive order, after Republicans in Congress shot it down by pretending to care about how much it would cost.
Next on his agenda: a federal office of gun violence prevention, though I doubt it would propose the one thing that would do the most to accomplish that goal.
Hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug, of GOPers, but it’s still a laugh yuck riot to hear these mooks pretending to support organized labor. Their blindingly obvious antagonism was spoken aloud by token Black Republican Tim Scott: striking United Auto Workers should be fired.
Given their inability to govern, or even to articulate any vision for the country other than making rich people richer and using government to crush everyone but white males, how do Republicans ever win elections? Old-line GOPer Rick Wilson says it’s simple. They have two rules: Rule 1: Just win, baby. Rule 2: Stay on message. This works because, sadly, half of all people are of below-average intelligence.
Speaking of below-average intelligence, scumbag guitarist Eric Clapton helped raise millions of dollars for scumbag failson RFK Jr. I would have headlined that story “Chinless Wonder Endorses Brainless Wonder,” but I also would have invoked my rule that any mention of RJK Jr. must include the reminder that he kept a sex diary of his extramarital trysts, complete with ratings, and that his wife killed herself after she found it.
On a lighter note, you never know what you’ll find at the thrift store. A woman who bought a painting for $4 posted a picture of it on social media, where someone noticed it was a long-lost N.C. Wyeth illustration. It sold at auction for $191,000.
The floor’s yours.