Just heard Marco Rubio described as "America's top diplomat" and briefly felt dizzy, as if I'd lost touch with reality.

A link here took me to the Epstein files and they are disgusting for sure. One sort of funny note, though, is that.....

........Robin Leach, remember him from "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous", is mentioned in the fourth paragraph or so, down the page. Call me petty, but I'd love to see that pretentious asshole go down with this large crew of child abusers. Hey, here's an idea, let's do a Nuremburg style trial with all of them in the dock together. Good times. Woody Allen!

This article from "The Literary Hub" should make comfortable, establishment Democrats less comfortable as it......

.......ties together our sides anemic responses to both Minneapolis and the Gaza Strip. How's that for a pairing?

https://lithub.com/from-gaza-to-minneapolis-we-are-still-being-told-to-disbelieve-our-eyes/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Somebody tell Sen. Scott that if the Obama video is "the most racist thing that I've seen out of the White.....

......House", that he admitting that there have been other racist stuff that he has ignored.

Should I be worried? As a quasi-socialist, non-practicing Buddhist and non-flag-waving, somewhat embarrassed.....

......American, should I be worried when I read the following and surmise that the government may be coming after me?

"But after Trump DOJ leadership issued a series of memos demanding that prosecutors target those who espouse “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity,” both the focus and the standards in these cases have changed. The memos direct federal law enforcement to use speech — including “extremism on migration, race, and gender” — as key criteria for who to investigate and against whom to bring the most aggressive charges possible".

This from TPM this morning.

Some Repubs have started to Blame Trump's excesses lately on Steven Miller. As if. They can't bring themselves.....

.......to find fault with their "Dear Leader". I'm reminded of House Republicans when Ronald Reagan started disappointing them by veering off the path of Conservative Purity. Remember Speaker Robert Michel's plaintive calls to Ronnie's advisors to "Let Reagan Be Reagan"? Pathetic then and now,

Axios' take on Tom Homan's new gig in Minnesota. (Hint: Worse than Bovino?)......

Six "ICE" agents, all dressed differently and wearing masks. How is this to be perceived any different.....

.......than cosplay militia or wannabe cops living out their idiot fantasies. Bovino is now saying that protestors should not be armed. as an excuse for this latest killing, but one wonders if it isn't because his clowns are so amateurish that they could easily be mistaken for vigilantes.

Der Spiegel characterized Bovino's cosplay overcoat get-up as NAZI, and they would know, right. See video.....

Learned something from "The Newshour" on PBS tonight. "The U.S. has tried to acquire Greenland three times.....

......in the past. In 1867 after acquiring Alaska, a three-way land swap suggestion in 1910, and a $100 million offer in 1946."
Who knew? Or better yet, who put this bug in Trump's ear?