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Good morning all. Did you sleep well? Splendid. Just thought you might like to know that we re all fcking lucky to be alive or, at least, the American republic is. A sample, from Axios:
At one point, with Flynn shouting, Byrne raised his hand to talk. He stood up and turned around to face Herschmann. You re a quitter, he said. You ve been interfering with everything. You ve been cutting us off. Do you even know who the fuck I am, you idiot? Herschmann snapped back. Yeah, you re Patrick Cipollone, Byrne said. Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!
For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,
As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene 2
You have to admire them for their speed. Not 48 hours after elements of their political base ransacked the Capitol in what now appears to have been at least in part a very well-organized lynch mob, they ve gotten their followers ginned up about the fact that large private American corporations at long last have come to the realization that being vehicles for armed sedition against the United States is bad for business. They ve explained that they are the real victims of their own looting and pillaging. And, since both terrified congressional staffers and the guys who erected a damn gallows on the National Mall have been equally traumatized by the events of last week, it s time for us to move on, in unity, lest the tender fee-fees of the MAGA Ostrogoths once again drive them to insurrection.
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Sorry for the delayed opening of the shebeen. I was up late at a funeral for a friend I thought would live forever, or that certainly would outlive me. I stayed until the final funerary rights were complete. I stayed until the last dog died, and the last dog was Rep. Louie Gohmert, Padishah Emperor of the Crazy People, who, a little after 3:30 a.m., objected to the counting of the electors from Wisconsin. Not even Senator Josh Hawley had enough sedition left in him to join Gohmert in his objection, so it fell to earth right there at the feet of Mike Pence who, it should be said, presided over the obsequies with as much dignity as any vice president can reasonably be expected to muster. He laid constitutional government to rest with all the respect due, while all over Washington, its murderers toasted themselves as they blew town with its remains.