First this:
"Leadership, Senator, leadership, should I have the honor to be nominated." — Nominee Pete Hegseth, speaking to Sen. Tommy Tuberville at his confirmation hearing.
Such were the first live words I heard broadcast from Trump's 30-ring circus of wonder-striking incompetence now on tour in Toontown. No high-wire act from Hegseth, but gobs of excellence in bungling and self-preservation.
Thus began the bottomless void of Trump-appointed unfitness. Also abysmal were the Senate committee's Hegsethian carnival barkers as they tippytoed their way through the malodorous heaps of Pete's monkeyshit.
For them, off the agenda were any troubles or worries, this business of managing an $850b hellfire machine. One Trump-pocketed bagman asked the potential defense secretary how many pushups he could do. Earlier, the denseness-insuperable Tommy T. consumed his time for yet-plumbed unseriousness by gibbering about woke pansies forcing DEI seminars on our manly troops.
Day One only, only one hearing. And this is the high point of Trump's Toontown, for it's not yet begun to lay waste.
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Update 3
Well, yes and no. The page under construction is not this one. It's moving. In fact it has moved, and what's more, its construction is done — save for a third party flipping an on-switch (as I understand it).
Any minute, that's the word. As of midnight last, the official, automated word from this commentary's new platform was that the spark of creation will occur within 48 hours. Whereupon my vast team of computer engineers and graphic designers advised me ... Who the hell knows. Could be Tuesday. Could be Wednesday. Probably a conservative CYA word.
Thus, I am now doing as you may do. Every so often I go to pmcarpenter.com and take a look. The easier way to do so from time to time, if you so choose, is by entering that precise address in your url window, bar, or whatever it's called, and then bookmarking it. (Important: For the new site, any other, preexisting address ist kaput. So bury it.)
Any ... minute.
“We might as well start speaking it now”
Niiiiiiice.
Posted by: ssdd | January 12, 2025 at 06:55 PM