One of the things that happened in the immediate aftermath of 47 illegally killing Iran’s Ayatollah in 47’s illegal war was video of Iranians dancing in happiness that the Ayatollah is gone. That was supposed to “justify” his illegal invasion. “See? The Iranian people are happy we did this,” we were told, “so it’s okay.”

If the message is that it’s okay to eliminate a nation’s leader – or even their “leader” – if some people would come out into the streets and dance, I can think of at least one nation in which about 300 million people would hit the streets dancing, if only some foreign nation would do them that favor.

Yeah, I only mentioned 300 million people dancing in a nation of about 340 million. Some of the MAGA wouldn’t be happy. (Some would.) That happened in Iran, too. Yes, there was video of people dancing. There were also protest rallies. Oh, and it turns out, people who don’t even like their horrible leaders might react badly to having their countries bombed anyway.

But I’ll tell you this: if “dance party” is the criteria for acceptability of eliminating leaders someone doesn’t like, we could have the greatest dance party in history – and it would last a long, long time…

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CBS is being gutted. They’ve taken the saying, “No news is good news” to a ridiculous extreme. Paramount is working overtime to dismantle any credibility CBS ever had. That’s their plan for CNN and Warner Brothers, too: convert useful information into fawning coverage of Dim Leader.

This merger shouldn’t be allowed. It WILL be, of course. Not only did we abandon good rules about media monopolies, Dim Leader LIKES the idea of controlling the media and the message. On the up side, it should save many of us money in monthly subscriptions…

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Oh, crap, NOW that idiot is floating the idea of putting ICEholes in airports in place of TSA. Can you imagine that? “You tried to bring this oversized shampoo onto one of our planes?” Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! (Reloads) Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! Blam! “Uh, I feared for my life.”

Incels working TSA? Hell, the groping, alone, is reason enough not to go there. Donny will never think of that, though. To him, groping is just something one does to pass the time. It won’t be his concern. Oh, look, yet another area of life Donny is sticking his nose into and messing up. That guy destroys everything he touches. Everything.

I’ll tell you the truth. Sometimes, I don’t believe his magical ability to destroy anything and everything is accidental. It’s not even down to incompetence. After a while, his destructive runs go on for SO long and are so completely consistent, I begin to suspect he might have a team of people around him, working day and night, coming up with new and better ways to undermine the US of A. I actually and honestly start to believe failure – or the appearance of failure – is the goal.

I say, “the appearance of failure” because normal people assume he has normal goals. But with Donny, his only goal is to get rich while staying out of jail. He does things people pay him to do. He doesn’t care if his actions directly contradict earlier positions or about the outcome so long as he, personally, gets to pocket lots and lots of money…

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Speaking of money, hold on to yours. Or not. I suspect it’s about to become worthless. Okay, ‘worthless’ might be a bit hyperbolic. Then again, it might not. Because he’s stupid, Donny has been trying to get rid of Jerome Powell, the Chairperson of the Federal Reserve Board. The Felon wants Powell out because Powell keeps doing his job properly and won’t just do whatever some dumbass tells him to do.

I point to the “stupid” part because Donny is SO impatient to get rid of Powell he has been attacking him in any way, in every way, he can think of. The stupid part? Powell’s term ends in May. Donny doesn’t have to take any action to get rid of Powell. Powell is gone no matter what. Donny attacked anyway.

Donny wants a toady. Donny thinks he needs a toady. Donny doesn’t realize that Powell has been saving his bacon by keeping the economy even somewhat stable in the face of near-felonious recklessness on Donny’s part by making solid determinations about our situation and responding accordingly.

Donny wants lower interest rates, making it easier for rich people to get their hands on more borrowed money, and he doesn’t care about the fallout. Likely, he doesn’t understand the fallout. But when Donny posts a toady to the Fed, a guy who does as he’s told, when he’s told, the dollar becomes an unstable investment and investors will flee. Ultimately, this could lead to wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread – and it starts in May…

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A guy named Mark Robinson ran for governor of North Carolina. During the campaign, he was accused by CNN of inflammatory and racist posts on a porn site. He denied the charges, then went on to get his ass kicked in the election. Now, he’s out there confessing: “I lied.”

He says he lied about the CNN report to protect those around him, including President Donald Trump, because it was “the most expedient thing to do.” Then he added, just to make sure we understand about the Republican way, “If I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do.” Lying. He felt like lying was “the right thing to do.”

There have been some attempts at teaching morality in the past. I wonder what they say about lying and whether it’s “the right thing to do.” Oh, look, here’s one now. Proverbs 6:12 says, “A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord.”

‘Winking with the eye’ is a Biblical term for “lying because you think it’s the right thing to do.” There aren’t any examples where ‘winking with the eye’ is presented as a good thing…