What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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Oooh, the elves are at work these days, primarily in the red states, where they are invited in enthusiastically by the various rubes and suckers until, one fine morning, the rubes and suckers wake up and the family silver is headed to a pawn shop in Murfreesboro. For example, let's begin in Arkansas, where nepo-Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her constituents are FO-ing in a big way. |
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I know it's futile here in the New American Golden Age to mention it, but there's a reason we had an FDA. When President Theodore Roosevelt proposed the new agency to replace the patchwork of federal and local health ordinances, the condition of the country's milk supply was of particular concern. It was adulterated with all kinds of dubious additives, including formaldehyde and plaster of paris to enhance its whiteness. By 1924, the U.S. Public Health Service introduced the Standard Milk Ordinance, which began the process of pasteurization for all milk sold in the United States. |
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It wouldn't be a day with a sunrise if there wasn't some new foolishness emanating from the Katzenjammer Kabinet. (And, no, I'm not even referring here to Pete Hegseth installing Signal on his work computer to synch up with his unsecured cellphone despite the fact that no fcking cellphones are allowed in Pentagon's classified locations.) Instead, the Department of Labor has stepped up to the plate to contribute its own bit of authoritarian nonsense to the New American Golden Age. |
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Palin and her lawyers saw an opportunity to a) keep her in the spotlight and b) overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which allowed for considerable freedom in criticizing public figures. That has been squad goal for conservative lawyers since forever. On her first try, three years ago, she lost in federal court. But she scored with a long-shot appeal and the case was tried again, and Palin lost again Tuesday. |
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My guess is that even this Republican Senate majority isn't willing to swill down this vinegary old wine of undiluted Krazee. But honest to God, Wisconsin, can you please stop inflicting ol' Shreds of Freedom on the rest of our battered republic? You traded down from Russ Feingold and then rejected him again, and you couldn't quite get Mandela Barnes, a seriously charismatic candidate, across the finish line in 2022. So instead we get Ron Johnson, exhuming the bones of ancient paranoia and proposing to run his own Cadaver Synod on a long-closed investigation of an unforgettable national trauma. |
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