My 10-year-old grandson asked me what Juneteenth was. When I told him it was when the news of the Union victory in the Civil War, which had technically been over for weeks, reached slaves in Texas, his only question was why the news took so long to get there. Then he went back to playing Fortnite with some kid in Australia.
In what I suppose is poetic justice, a Virginia congressional primary between the deplorable Bob Good, head of the Freedom Caucus, and his even more abhorrent Trump-sucking opponent remains too close to call. I look forward to this two yobbos going at each other hammer and tongs, since anyone who voted for either one of them deserves a steel-cage death match. And so do we.
A friend of mine has been saying for years that the political poles have flipped since the ’60s – right-wingers are now the radicals calling for revolution, and liberals are the establishment they’re fighting. Michael Tomasky makes much the same point in noting that today’s “silent majority” is liberal, which could mean a better-than-expected Democratic performance in November.
Time for your periodic reminder that, while nobody is calling it genocide, the famine brewing in Sudan could be worse than the famine in Gaza, and for the same reason – food aid is interdicted while arms shipments get through.
Roger Stone, the only living American more odious than Trump, says Trump will be president again no matter how the voting goes in November because he has judges in his pocket, and he said this on tape. I can never decide what’s worse, their reprehensible politics or their arrogant prickitude.
The floor’s yours.