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"...Despite the best efforts of the Beltway press to present him as a spry young man next to 81-year-old Joe Biden, it's getting harder by the day to ignore that 77-year-old Donald Trump is decompensating rapidly. He wasn't all that healthy or coherent to begin with but, lately, watching him speak has the feel of getting cornered by the weird creep at the nursing home. Around lunchtime on Monday, all three cable news networks cut to Trump awkwardly accepting the Supreme Court nullifying the 14th Amendment on his behalf. After a few semi-coherent, if gross, remarks about how he was "honored" by the ruling, Trump launched straight into a stream of paranoid jabber more appropriate for someone having a psychiatric episode on a city bus than for a major presidential candidate.

He started rambling about how he wanted "immunity" for all his crimes, claiming that without that, "You really don’t have a president, because nobody that is serving in that office will have the courage to make, in many cases, what would be the right decision — or it could be the wrong decision." By the time he got to defining "migrant crime" as a "new category of crime," both MSNBC and CNN were cutting away. Not because it wasn't newsworthy, but I suspect it was more a reasonable worry that viewers would be driven away. It's much like the way folks avert their eyes when a delusional person on the sidewalk starts screaming at the demons he wishes to fight with "sticks and stones," to quote something Trump said about immigrants.

His appearance got stranger after most networks had muted him. A bit later, he complained that it takes him 10 minutes to wash his hair, which he somehow blamed on Democrats instead of on the full bottle of hairspray he uses on his remaining locks every morning.  ..."

"..Noting that the "Christian nationalist" dictator of Hungary, Orbán is being welcomed this week at Heritage Foundation and Mar-a-Lago, Amanda Carpenter asks why MAGA lionizes this dictator.

Then she notes how Orbán's story parallels Trump's. He was in office, then rejected by voters, and he spent time prior to his next run for office laying groundwork for a total takeover of government when he was next elected.."

"...To the @washingtonpost: any acrimony Mitch McConnell and Orange had for each other was mostly cosmetic. Make no mistake: behind and in front of the scenes, McConnell aided, abetted DT and the peril we have now. For over 40 YEARS Mitch has done FAR MORE DAMAGE than DT has..."

"...Ukraine's embassy in DC tells VOA's Ukrainian Service that Ukrainian first lady Zelenska has declined a White House invitation to sit with Jill Biden during tomorrow's SOTU address by the president because she has a previously scheduled visit to a Kyiv orphanage..."

Yup, that's what they said.

25% of Texans, Californians, and New Yorkers want to secede....

25% of Texans, Californians, and New Yorkers want to secede....

Putin will take them in.

"..For anyone who still thinks we shouldn’t prosecute Trump and his co-conspirators because their insurrection failed, consider this: there is no such thing as prosecuting a successful insurrection.."