I just got home from our trip to New England last week, and now we’re flying out to Colorado tomorrow.
As I mentioned in a past column, my youngest daughter is going to Boulder for a 10-week research program in astrophysics. (She’s focusing on planet formation and other things I don’t understand, and if this summer goes well, she might be applying to CU for a PhD starting next August.) So my wife and I are using our little brainiac’s summer gig as an excuse to take her out and move her into her summer apartment, and then spend 5 days seeing various beautiful parts of God’s creation.
The two cousins with whom I take regular road-trips are going to meet us in Boulder, and the three of us will be temporarily civilized by the presence of my better half. (Our adventures in the old Caddy convertible on Route 66 in 2021, circumnavigating Lake Michigan in 2022, and last year’s re-tracing the route our families took 90 years ago to migrate from Kentucky to Illinois can all be found on Martinsimpsonwriting.com.)
I’m going to try to post from the road, but I can’t promise anything. As usual, too much is going on, so I’ll hit a few things that crossed my radar this week.
I’ve been simultaneously depressed and encouraged by the dumpster fire that Trump’s NYC prosecution has devolved into. Depressed because the existence of these cases shows how corrupt our justice system has become, and because there are at least some low-info voters out there who vaguely believe that he must be guilty of some bad stuff if he’s facing so many charges and trials.
But it has been amazing to watch just how badly the trial has gone for Bragg’s bozos. I can’t think of two worse prosecution witnesses than a porn star who can’t keep her mouth shut (but not in a good way), and an oily conman like Michael Cohen.
Stormy could offer no relevant testimony to the case at hand, and her appearance in the trial made plain the corruption of the wildly biased judge. He should obviously have recused himself, if for no other reason than that his daughter runs a lefty consulting firm that has raised millions for Democrats, and her resume includes being “Director of Digital Persuasion” for Que Mala’s 2020 presidential campaign. I swear I am not making that up.
Maybe it’s just me, but that sounds A LOT sleazier than Stormy’s resume, which boils down to “banging strangers on camera for cash.” In fact, I think Stormy and the judge’s daughter have a lot in common.
The daughter handled “digital persuasion” for a dingbat who slept her way into a career, and Stormy, though I have never seen any of her greatest hits, has a filmography that I’m willing to bet is replete with more than a few digits and a hell of a lot of persuasion. (Not to mention a long line of Willie Brown types, even though they might be credited only as “Pizza Delivery Man 1” and “Horny Boss.”)
And then Michael Cohen slithered into court, and he made Stormy Daniels look like Mother Theresa’s more pious sister. The climax (you’ll pardon the expression) of his testimony was admitting that in addition to his other convictions for perjury, tax evasion and campaign finance violations, he also stole $60K from Trump!
That’s larceny, and it is several standard deviations more serious than the (bogus) bookkeeping infractions that Trump is being prosecuted for.
Good job, NY judicial system. You’ve all covered yourselves in glory!
Speaking of stomach-turning corruption and incompetence, who is the genius who invited our Cadaver in Chief to give a graduation speech at Morehouse?
Even if the typical graduation address now begins with a morose land acknowledgment (“You should all feel guilty for throwing four years of frat parties on the sacred burial grounds once owned by the Ojibwas and the Indigenous Warrens…”) (#wemustneverstopmockingher), they usually quickly turn to a bunch of banal happy-talk.
“You graduates are the future. Your education has prepared you to go out and blaze new trails. The world is truly your oyster!”
But not the late Joe Biden. He hollered his way through a Jeremiad that must have had half the graduates contemplating whether they could fashion their tassels into nooses and put themselves out of their misery.
“What is democracy, when black men are hunted for sport every day by MAGA-hat wearing gun nuts? White people hate you, and America blows, and you’re all victims. Now get out there and suffer, until things get so bad that you gladly accept the sweet release of death, probably at the hands of a lynch mob.”
I’m paraphrasing. But only slightly.
Seriously, what kind of decision-process leads to inviting Joe Biden to inspire your graduates? Were all the less-depressing speakers unavailable? (“Well, the Unabomber and Dr. Jack Kevorkian are both dead, Paul Ehrlich is in his 90s and doesn’t travel, and Greta Thunberg wants too much money. So I guess it’s Joe.”)
But lest you think our country has the stupidity market cornered, consider the Germans’ latest masterstroke.
One of the most corrupt parts of the thoroughly corrupt UN – the competition is tough, what with terrorist and communist countries on various “human rights” commissions, and UNRWA funding and supporting Hamas – is the “International Criminal Court.” (Insert your own “You misspelled ‘kangaroo’ jokes here.)
This sleazy convocation of hypocrites – we are thankfully not a member nation of the ICC, though I’m shocked Joey Gaffes didn’t sign an executive order making us join – pretend to adjudicate disputes and war crimes claims. Yet they somehow don’t issue arrest warrants for the most evil dictators or terrorists in the world.
But now they are on the verge of issuing such warrants for Bibi Netanyahu and Israel’s defense minister, for the “crime” of fighting the terrorists who slaughtered their civilians and now hide behind civilians. The ICC is set to issue the same kind of warrant for the Hamas top terrorist Yahoo Serious, too, which is obviously just a fig leaf to allow them to try to arrest the Israelis.
(If they had wanted to issue an arrest warrant for the chief Hamashole, October 8th might have been a good time to do so.)
So a German spokesman for Chancellor Olaf “Sergeant” Scholz (“I know NO-THING!”) has warned that his government will arrest Bibi if he enters Germany. Every EU country has submitted themselves to the ICC, so they would presumably all arrest Israeli leaders. (Which is reason enough for us to cut off all formal ties to the EU and the UN immediately, IMHO.)
It’s galling enough that the other European nations would agree to this. (Though they do have a history of cooperating with the Germans, especially when it comes to identifying and turning over the Juden.) But Germany? Where it has only recently become legal again to own a copy of Mein Kampf ?
Way to steer into that reputational skid, Germany! (Please tell me that this press release came out of Nuremberg!)
But let’s not end on a down note. Because some good things are happening, too.
For example, even in Portland – where AOC would be close to the median IQ – the numbskull voters might finally have hit rock bottom, and made the first baby step toward digging out.
For four years, they’ve had a Soros-funded (i.e. pro-crime) DA called Mike Schmidt, who was elected with 77% of the vote. Once in office, he resolutely declined to prosecute BLM and Antifa thugs as they rioted and destroyed the quality of life in that town.
Unexpectedly!
But on Tuesday, the voters fired Schmidt, giving Nathan Vasquez a 17% margin of victory over him. Vasquez is still a Dem (of course), but he’s promised to get tough on crime, and if he does, we should celebrate. Soros poured a bunch of cash into Schmidt’s re-election campaign, and he lost big.
In a similar karmic beat-down, a bunch of angry leftist hacks at MMFA – “Media Matters For America,” though that “F” should really stand for something else – no longer work at Media Matters, having been laid off yesterday.
When Elon bought Twitter/X, MM went on a slander campaign targeting his advertisers, falsely charging that he was posting racist material that would hurt their companies. Elon is suing MM and is likely to win, and as their fortunes decline, they’re starting to cut employees.
Ironically, you can read their whining and wailing on… wait for it… X! (HA!)
For example, one fired guy says, “Unfortunately, I have been impacted by the MM lay-offs… and am now open to any research/analyst roles, specifically regarding RWM narratives [I’m guessing that stands for “Rotten White Males?”] on DEI [ooh, I know this one: “Didn’t Earn It”], education, and LGBTQ+ issues.”
Another one, a guy named Alex who gives his pronouns under a picture of himself in some kind of pink feather boa, says, “I got laid off from MMFA today, proud of the 5 years of intense work I put into fighting right-wing hatred.”
Oh, you brave boy or girl, fighting the good fight against those nasty right-wing meanies!
If I weren’t such a classy, high-brow gentleman, I’d quote someone named “OneFineJay,” who posted a response to the list of whining ex-MM employees.
Oh, who am I kidding? Let’s give OneFineJay the last word:
“MMFA layoffs? #schadenboner”
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 