Once Upon A Crime

"This evening Democratic Representative Al Green was removed from the House chamber during Trump's speech. They had to. He was carrying a spine." - Steven Colbert

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Can you just imagine Grimm's Fairy Tales re-written to suit a Trumpian world? Where the witches and the wolves always successfully eat the children. Where the stepmothers always triumph, where the Devil always wins the musical contests, where no one can guess the imp's true name, and no mortal has a happy ending.

Trump's rise to power is, in fact, a true Trumpian fairy tale. The bad guys win, the children suffer, the evil stepmother "doesn't care", and there is no moral. Or morality.

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Remember when Reagan killed funding for mental institutions in the early 80s, which resulted in Americans with serious mental issues roaming the streets? It was like today's homeless but with an extra helping of lunacy.

Well, it's 1981 all over again if Trump and Elon have their way by reducing funding for Medicaid, which provides care for over a million older Americans in nursing homes.

Yes, soon the streets could be filled with the moans and screams of old, sick people, staggering around in tattered hospital gowns or rolling down the street in a jury-rigged wheelchair made of a couple of skateboards and a garbage can.

As the Oaf of Office said last night: "America is back, baby!"

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When Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in the White House, being grilled by Trump and his glistening white goon squad, I'm 100% absolutely certain that the one phrase that kept racing through his mind was: "These people are fucking idiots."

And he'd be correct.

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Food Story:

They sell these really delicious cookies at Tom Thumb that I can't resist.

They're huge and dense and strewn with massive chunks of chocolate. They're so big and calorie laden I dare only eat one at a time.

So I had one last night and then watched Trump's speech before the State Duma, uh, I mean, the U.S. House of Musk.

(Long, slow and heavy sigh)

It was a two-cookie night.

- Lefty