Hey, I thought 47 wanted to be the Pope. Aw, Jeez, does this mean we’re going to have to listen to MAGA blathering on about how the conclave was “rigged” for the next million years?

Instead, we should probably focus more on the $2 billion dollars a United Arab Emirates group just dumped into 47’s crypto. In Bizzaro United States, the President is for sale. He’s not cheap, but if you’ve got the money, honey, he’s got the time…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I think the record for shortest Drumpf Team Evil is still held by Anthony Scaramucchi, who lasted all of ten days. Cameron Hamilton lasted longer, but it still wasn’t very long. Hamilton is – was – the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was put into that position by Donny when Donny seized power. Hamilton went before Congress on Wednesday and testified that he thinks FEMA does a fine job and should NOT be dismantled. On Thursday, he was escorted from FEMA headquarters, out of a job.

It’s an article of MAGA faith that FEMA does a poor job. No, as always, it isn’t true – or wasn’t, when we were a decent country – and when there IS an actual emergency, red hats line up for assistance right along with everybody else. (“It’s wasteful government spending – except when I need it!”) They get it, too, or used to – before their chosen precious started telling them they have too much.

But it’s an article of faith. If The Felons says it, in their mind, it MUST be true. So when he tells them they didn’t get any Federal assistance money, they regurgitate that line – while simultaneously pocketing the assistance money they just received. That’s just crazy-making, which, upon reflection, explains a lot.

Hamilton simply told the truth. How was HE supposed to know that’s the ultimate sin in this regime? He knows now…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Um… I don’t know.”
“Oh, you’re just telling me about that now.”
“I don’t know, you’ll have to ask someone else.”
“First I’ve heard of it.”
“I don’t know, that’s up to them.”
“Couldn’t tell you. Ask whoever’s in charge.”

It’s a tough call. Is he completely out of touch from, perhaps, playing so much golf on the taxpayer dime that he honestly has no idea what’s going on in his name, or is he pretending he doesn’t know anything in an effort to create a blanket of plausible deniability, a layer of separation from accountability?

Isn’t it irritating, the number of times 47 accused Joe Biden of being completely out of touch with the actions of his administration, then listening to him insist he has no clue what’s going on with Team Evil? Yet another example of accusation being confession, yes?

When he was asked if his tariffs were permanent or temporary, he answered, “It could be both.” He spent several minutes trying to convince a reporter that a Photoshopped picture was not Photoshopped. He’s choosing people to work with because he’s seen them on TV. ALL of those indicate some serious mental failure.

Then again, he IS the captain of Team Evil and he’s perfectly capable of pretending to be a blundering, blowhard, buffoon while planning his next, even more despicable, evil move. I don’t know, though. Maybe it IS both. Maybe he’s easily evil BECAUSE of his serious mental failures…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Quick question: when you’re driving down the highway and you see a traditional, black and white California Highway Patrol (CHP) car sitting on the side of the road, what do you do? You check your speed. You lower the joint or the beer. You set your phone aside (for a second). You fold the map, close the book, or put the mascara wand down.

That is, you end whatever distracted driving you might have been engaged in and you behave for a few moments. That tends to be true, even when there’s no cop IN the CHP car on the side of the road. You have the same reaction when you look into the mirror and see a police car cruising along with traffic. You mind your ‘P’s and ‘Q’s.

If traffic control and safety were the true and only goal of the CHP, their cars would be painted some bright, maybe fluorescent color because, for the most part, the mere sight of a CHP cruiser controls traffic AND driver behavior.

TO that end… no, wait. To some OTHER end, California has now purchased a bunch of brand new, shiny, “stealth” patrol vehicles. They’ve been specifically designed to blend in with traffic, to be hard to see. The CHP is highlighting how awesome it is that the lights they’ll use to pull you over aren’t on a light bar on top of these new cars so the cars are harder to see.

More, the cars have been painted in a way one doesn’t expect from a CHP vehicle. These cars hide in traffic, making it easier for the cars to pounce when they get the chance. CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee said, “The new vehicles give our officers an important advantage. They will allow us to identify and stop drivers who are putting others at risk, while still showing a professional and visible presence once enforcement action is needed.”

That statement is a bit of gaslighting, isn’t it? California is trying to sell it’s residents a bill of goods. Since we all know that very visible cruisers “stop drivers who are putting others at risk,” hidden cruisers must be intended for some… other purpose. And, the whole bit about “showing a professional and visible presence” makes me choke a little. The whole idea of a stealth vehicle is to NOT “show” at all. Eliminating the “visible presence” is the entire effing point!

I suspect it’s more about revenue enhancement and/or worse, the “important advantage” of being able to stop and check out vehicles just to see what’s going on in those vehicles. Are they being driven by brown people? Maybe they need a closer look.

I’ll tell you this: one does NOT go stealth when transparency and “visible presence” are the goal…