Where we are now: State-run media provides cover for an unhinged, bellicose ignoramus serving a stupider, even more depraved warmonger as a complicit and impotent Congress sits on its hands.

The last thing Trump and his cult want to do is spring ahead. They want to turn the clocks back to when voting rights were limited, education was scorned and ignorance was a proud badge of honor, racism was the order of the day, and women were kept under the thumb of insecure little men.

“This avarice sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root than summer-seeming lust.” “Macbeth”

“This weak and sad man, a draft dodger, a serial abuser of women (and maybe girls), who probably couldn’t do five pushups, has convinced a third of the country that he’s a tough guy; his propaganda outlets and the even weaker and sadder men in his party have reinforced this hideous image.”

“From Epstein’s associates to Jack Dorsey to David Ellison, the rich and powerful share a seeming disregard for proper English.” (Not to mention some editors and prominent writers)

Brendan Carr could pull the plug on Fox and cut off the toxins being willingly swallowed by MAGA.

“[Trump is] making a terrible situation worse; his inability to conduct any sort of diplomacy at any level is harming his own ability to prosecute the war. He will have a harder time declaring victory & going home because he’s not using American diplomatic resources and in fact has dismantled them.”

“Trump has seriously damaged U.S. diplomatic capacity and sidelined what diplomatic tools remain. That will make it harder for the U.S. to manage every conflict it now faces, including the Iran War. It will also make it immeasurably more difficult to pick up the pieces when the fighting stops.”

So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?

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“A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or ‘federalize’ the coming Congressional elections.”

But not a cent for SNAP

“I wonder that you will still be talking... Nobody marks you.” “Much Ado About Nothing”

Follow-up question: “Why don’t you know?”

If Schumer and Jeffries were alive today…

“In the corrupted currents of this world offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice.” “Hamlet”

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“You fight in justice: then, in God’s name, lords, be valiant.” “Henry VI, Part 3” Somebody remind the craven Republicans and impotent Democrats.

“It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp should strike such terror to his enemies.” “Henry VI, Part 1”

Imagine if the Democrats’ leadership was as vigilant or worked as hard as Marc Elias for democracy, elections, and civil rights.

“Because I just don’t know enough about it,” said Trump. The “it” here also applies to empathy, human decency, and basic morality.

The SAVE America Act is not about voter I.D. but about the suppression of votes by millions of Americans

Let’s hope a mass voter turnout proves the Bard’s optimistic note: “For though usurpers sway the rule awhile, yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.” “Henry VI, Part 3”

How about calling for Stephen Miller’s boss to be removed?

No toady wanted to be the first to stop applauding Caligula.

I’ll always love Linda Ronstadt youtu.be/Kp9G0zkorio?...

Good read summed up by one heading: the only imminent threat was Trump.

BLITZER: Trump has said there was an 'imminent threat' from Iran. What's your understanding of that? STUTZMAN: The imminent threat is they were going to continue to build - rebuild - their nuclear program WOLF: But Trump said the nuclear facilities were 'obliterated.' So why the need to attack?

So …. What was the imminent threat again?

Trump said, eight months ago, that he had obliterated Iran’s nuclear threat. But Iran was now, according to Trump, two weeks away from being a nuclear threat?

Question I wish someone had asked Trump today: “Mr. President, former president Clinton sat for a deposition with the House Epstein investigation. Will you agree to a deposition to address the accusation that you raped a 13-year-old?”

And if we can’t have peace, we’ll bomb them into submission.

“Mutilization,” says Trump.

“Lead, monster; we’ll follow,” says Stephano to Caliban in “The Tempest.” Also said by Trump and MAGA to Stephen Miller.

“When I use a word,” Caroline Leavitt said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said the press, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Leavitt, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

"The rise of Trump came at a time of relative peace and prosperity. We have no excuse for having succumbed to the degree we already have."

The great satirist Jonathan Swift was also Dean of the Anglican St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. He had wheels installed on his pulpit in order to be moved directly over any parishioner who fell asleep during one of Swift’s hours-long sermons.

Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi” has been updated in America with the grotesque, avaricious vulgarian Trump, who escaped punishment, in the title role.

The Bard to Miller: This is no answer, thou unfeeling man, to excuse the current of thy cruelty.” “The Merchant of Venice”

“I see you are obsequious in your love.” “The Merry Wives of Windsor” #ShakespeareSunday

New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

The Bard to Trump: “Tremble, thou wretch that hast within thee undivulgèd crimes unwhipped of justice.” #ShakespeareSunday

“Gaze on, and grovel on thy face.”

Rubio to Trump: “Let me lick thy shoe.”

“I will say boldly that both religion and virtue have received more real discredit from hypocrites than the wittiest profligates or infidels could ever cast upon them.” “Tom Jones,” by Henry Fielding

Speaking up against the vile Trump and his spineless party and shameless propaganda outlets: “If people with conscience stop speaking, stop caring, stop insisting on empathy and decency, then the most callous voices are the only ones left in the room.”

Trump vowed to turn the economy around, and in a way, he kept his promise. Unfortunately, as the woeful job numbers prove, that meant turning around a healthy economy and delivering an unhealthy one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...