Thursday, April 01, 2021

April Fools

 No, no pranks...but a brief comment on the nature of the foolish things being said and done politically right now.

Top of the list: The Georgia legislature and governor--in the long run, this attempt to protect Republican domination of state government there can only result in damage to the state's economy and reputation. 

Next is the defense in the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. So far, their plan seems to be to discredit the various eyewitnesses who are testifying. Such discrediting can work when the only record of events is the testimony of those witnesses...but we have multiple video records of the incident, from multiple vantage points and angles, and so far, the witnesses' descriptions all seem to agree with that video evidence.

Third is Matt Gaetz. The Justice Department probe into his relationship with a teen-age girl began under a Republican administration; it's hard to see how he can possibly decry it as a partisan campaign.

Last is those trying, somehow, to make the behavior of the Bidens' dogs into a cause celebre. Really? The best you can come up with is that one of them has harmlessly nipped at a few ankles and one of them (we don't know which) had an accident on the White House floor? I doubt any of this will make the complainers popular with a dog-loving American public.


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