Today’s the deadline for Trump to come up with the cash or equivalent in New York, but he took time last night to go to his West Palm Beach golf club to celebrate his victory in – here, I’ll let him tell it: “THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY & THE SENIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY.I WON BOTH!” He’s still miles behind Kim Jong Il’s record of a 38-under-par score of 34, a round that included 11 holes in one.
New Jersey politics would make a great reality cable TV reality series. The latest plot twist in the race to replace “Gold Bar Bob” Menendez in the U.S. Senate has the wife of the current governor dropping out of a primary fight against three-term Congressman Andy Kim (no relation to the Canadian singer who wrote and sang on “Sugar, Sugar” as one of the Archies). Tammy Murphy said she was unwilling to wage what would be a“very divisive and negative campaign.” True, in that Kim would have pointed out how incredibly crooked it looks to run the governor’s wife for a Senate seat.
The media world is abuzz with fallout from the NBC hire of election denier Ronna McDaniel – is she Romney again? – especially Chuck Todd’s strong on-air criticism of his bosses for hiring someone whose job was lying. So the Overton window has shifted so far to the right Chuck Todd fell out of it.
Getting less attention is Israel’s blockade of UN food aid to northern Gaza. If there’s a meaningful difference between starving people en masse and putting them in concentration camps, I’m not seeing it.
The death toll in the Moscow concert massacre reached 139 as Putin tries to blame Ukraine, despite the Islamic State claiming responsibility. Russia is the birthplace of alternate facts – it’s where a lot of MAGA’s were born.
The autocrats who hijacked the federal judiciary fight off reformers like wasps protecting their nest. When Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb started investigating Leonard Leo’s network of non-profits for tax violations, House GOPers launched an investigation of Schwalb. Like Trump, they know they’re guilty, and they’ll do anything and everything to make sure you can’t prove it.
The floor’s yours.