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Fascist camp follower Tucker and greatest-internal-threat-since-the-Civil War DJ will retreat to the sidelines of the GOP debate together.

He knows that he can’t debate; he is simply no longer up to it, if he ever was, and the sideshow shtick that he fell back upon in 2016 has long grown tired. He’s also terrified that Chris Christie will trounce him by full-frontal condemnation of his lies, his failures, and his criminality. So Herr Trump relies on ludicrous claims about his intelligence to try to evade the reality that he can barely compose a single coherent sentence. MAGA!

I stood in front of one of those LinkNYC kiosks, watching the full digital crawl running twice, and while the initial concert of the Ramones 49 years ago in these parts was commemorated, there was not a single mention of any art event that wasn’t pop.

Oh, excuse me, it’s really his large, detailed, complex warrant of exoneration!

His pathetic bragging, the naked insecurity, the bizarre appearance, the lurching, comically bombastic movements may make MAGA-ites feel better about themselves.

The Democrats’ adoption of neo-liberal orthodoxy (just retrain when you lose your job—but don’t ask us to tell you how, or help you pay for it) went hand-in-hand with Republican supply-side cant (the government is totalitarian when it helps anyone but the wealthy) to fuel a cataclysmic downgrading of the American self-esteem.

Since he speaks exclusively in opposite talk, his recent avowals that he will never take a plea deal means that that is exactly what he intends to do.

Trevor Stewart, president of Village Preservation, notes in its annual report for 2022:

“Our city is at an inflection point in so many ways, as it faces real challenges for its future direction. Will we repeat the mistakes of the past and give over vast swathes of our city to big real estate under the pretense that the public will benefit, or will we pursue new and innovative ways to preserve and add to the qualities that make our city and neighborhoods so distinctive and wonderful? Given the will, we can both preserve and improve livability, affordability and diversity.”

The sniffs came fast and furious as Adderal-addled Trump boasted on News Max about his defamation and attempted intimidation campaign against Jack Smith.

He is frenziedly ramping up his attacks on law and order in the U.S.

Tom Joseph suggests that one of the judges  order a (long-overdue) psychiatric evaluation.

Dr. Bandy Lee has been insisting for a long time that candidates for public office be subject to psychological profiling. (Not quite the right word — that’s for criminals— but in this case. . .)

Clearly, Trump’s treasonous insanity and his accelerating dementia require an immediate response.

The shame of the Murdochs.

Laura Ingraham sounded like a snarling hyena, while Jesse Waters emitted noises indicative of a problem with underwear two sizes too small.

Not a bit chastened by Fox’s defeat at the hands of Dominion, its “news” hosts ginned up the hyperventilation to lie through an espousal of Herr Trump’s imaginary innocence.