So all in one day, a whistleblower engineer from Boeing was set to give Congressional testimony about a particular plane, while said plane model went down in India, killing hundreds. Meantime, one of my Senators was being briefed and heard that Kristi Noem was speaking to the press down the hall, so he went there to ask her questions.
Congressional oversight of the Executive being in his job description. A member of the Senate actually doing what he signed up for.
But he was Hispanic.
He said who he was and started asking his questions–and was immediately manhandled, shoved out of the room by quite a few people in uniforms, pushed to his knees and then the floor and handcuffed behind his back. Noem blamed him for not identifying himself, which, of course, was the first thing he had done.
It is a requirement in this Administration that one be as quick with a lie as 47 himself. Because it is always the underlings who go to jail before the boss does and he wants them guilty as sin in every way so they’ll support him in hopes they don’t take the fall. But they will.
You definitely wouldn’t want to vote for Noem for so much as dogcatcher now. Just ask her kids.
Meantime, Israel flew over Iraq and attacked Iran, saying it was taking out its nuclear capabilities and personnel.
Meantime, Gavin Newsom rewrote his original plea to the court, upon which–praise be–it sided with the State of California and found Trump’s orders spurious and in violation of the Constitution and ordered the National Guard, which Trump had deployed without food nor lodging orders because who cares about them anyway, to be returned to Newsom’s control. So, among other tasks, they can be free to monitor–wait for it–the border.
But not today. Tomorrow at noon. Hey–we’ll take it.
I think the protesters need to bring them pizzas and pillows.
And Saturday, if the troops are somehow not yet gone, we need to celebrate No Kings Day with flowers to put in their gun barrels. (Wincing at the National Guardsman who took aim and shot an Australian reporter in the back with a rubber bullet yesterday as she stood in the middle of the street with no protesters immediately around her: shot for telling the camera what was happening.)
Remember when those flowers and sweet entreaties to join the protesters’ more righteous side helped overthrow Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines?
Oh, and one more thing: in Ukraine someone’s cat took out a Russian drone. I just hope the cat was okay.