-MTG can slam Mike Gallagher’s early exit from Congress, but she also has to look in the mirror and realize that she’s probably no small part of the reason for his exit. Who in their right mind would want her as a colleague? If she and Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan are the face of the Republican party going forward, we can probably expect more desertions, er vacancies. They’ll “freedom” their way right out of what was already a slim majority.
-I didn’t realize that authorities in Florida had left the Parkland HS shooting scene undisturbed since it happened in 2018. Papers strewn, bullet holes and bloodstains everywhere—it’s all still there, suspended in time.
-I hope Fani Willis is as feisty as she appears. She says a train is coming. I hope she’s right, and that she can remain in place and drive that train right through the middle of Donald Trump’s revenge tour. Maybe she’ll yet be the one who shuts him up, and down.
-Speaking of Trump, the whole country is onto his strategy. An eighth grader could sit in the judge’s chair and see through the delay tactics. Maybe the process needs fewer off ramps. There should be provision for catching slimeballs at their own game, but the water gets muddy when the judge him- or herself gives the appearance of being sympathetic to Trump’s “plight.” Maybe justice properly meted is by nature a slog, fraught with slowdowns and road blocks along the way. It’s ironic that Trump is benefiting, at the moment, from a system he has designs on dismantling.
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