ACE OF SPADES HQ, IN THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS POST HAS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING AND ACCURATE METAPHORS FOR OUR PRESENT SITUATION:

Good morning, kids. I’ve got an image stuck in my head this morning and I can’t seem to shake it. It’s from the final scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s wartime thriller Saboteur where the heavy, played by Norman Lloyd is dangling from Lady Liberty’s torch as the hero, Bob Cummings, strains to hold on to his sleeve, desperately trying to save the guy he’s chased for the entire picture who framed him for treasonous sabotage. And then Hitch cuts to a close up of Lloyd’s shoulder where, one by one, the stitches on his jacket sleeve start popping loose…

Everything about that entire scene combines into a metaphor that perfectly encapsulates where the Democrat Party and even more frighteningly the nation as a whole is at this moment in time. We’re coming apart at the seams. The better angels of our nature are desperate to cling to something, anything in our political enemies that will pull them back from the brink, knowing full well that if the situation were reversed, they’d be doing what Martin Landau did to Cary Grant as he dangled from a precipice atop Mount Rushmore in North By Northwest: grind his heel into Grant’s hand.

Beyond any shadow of a doubt (no pun), the Democrat Party has gone from being merely a political enemy and morphed into a mortal enemy not just of the GOP and conservatives, but of the nation as founded, its distinct culture, traditions, heritage and its people.

AS SOMEONE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED SOCIALIZED MEDICINE? YES, YES WE WILL:  Private Health Insurance? You Won’t Miss It, Says AOC.

LIKE AN ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT STD:  Michael Avenatti Tries To Climb Back Into Spotlight.

GIVEN THE BABYLON BEE OBVIOUSLY HAS A TIME MACHINE (AND AN UNSWERVING DEVOTION TO NEWS REPORTING) THIS ONE WORRIES ME A LITTLE:  Facebook Event Proposes Storming Space Force Base To Obtain Trump’s Death Star Plans.

THE BABYLON BEE — AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD — DENIES IT’S NOW IN POSSESSION OF TIME MACHINE, TO PUBLISH NEWS BEFORE IT HAPPENS, BUT WE’RE ONTO THEM. TAKE THIS: Trump 2020 Campaign To Simply Air Unedited Footage Of Democrats Talking.
NOTE HOW FAST IT OVERTOOK MY POLITICALLY ASTUTE FRIEND:

AND SPEAKING OF NUKING THE MOON (PUT ANOTHER PUPPY IN THE BLENDER, BOSS! IT’S CELEBRATION TIME!*), MY FRIEND FRANK J. FLEMING HAS A NEW BOOK OUT:  Hellbender.

Doug wasn’t sure whether he should trust Satan.

The red flag was that he said he was Satan. But the deal was good: Listen to Satan’s story in exchange for some donuts. And Doug only half-fulfilled his part of the bargain.

But maybe he should have listened better, because during his friend Bryce’s next scheme (theft with light to moderate treason—the usual), Doug and the rest of his friends—Lulu (the fun one) and Charlene (the not fun one)—end up with a powerful artifact, a small metal cube with world-ending power that Lulu decorated with bunnies. And now everyone wants the bunny cube, which means Doug, Bryce, Lulu, and Charlene are being pursued by an insane supermodel general, an army of sadists, a vast criminal organization, a smaller, more-in-startup-mode criminal organization, and an unstoppable killing machine—the worst kind of killing machine.

Doug and his friends may be a bunch of losers who aren’t particularly smart or good at anything, but they have one thing going for them: a really cool name for their mercenary group. And now it’s up to Hellbender to save the world—well, what’s left of it. It’s pretty ruined and war-torn already. But, you know, they live there, so they kind of need it.

It’s a mess, but that’s what you get for listening to Satan. Or half-listening.

*For those who are new to the world of blogs. No puppies were harmed in making this post. It’s a very old joke between Frank J. Fleming’s IMAO and instapundit involving the world’s cheesiest photoshop.
It’s puerile and therefore, of course, appeals to me. Now stop gawking at me and go buy Frank’s book.

ALSO get off my lawn!

AMERICA’S WEBSITE OF RECORD:  Trump Truths: Preference.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  Trump 2020 Campaign To Simply Air Unedited Footage Of Democrats Talking.

BECAUSE TEEN GIRLS WHO ARE GOOD WITH MATH ARE ALSO OFTEN GOOD WITH WORDS. AND? IS THERE A LAW THAT GIRLS MUST ACT LIKE BOYS?  Teen girls on par with male peers at math pick humanities jobs.

HOW INTERESTING. I’M DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE UN REFUGEE AGENCY:  UN refugee agency ‘deeply concerned’ about US asylum curbs.

WE’RE A NATION, NOT THE CHARITY OF THE WORLD: New Asylum Rule: You Can’t Have it Both Ways.

JON MEACHAM, WORLD’S WORST PSYCHIC AND ALSO STONE COLD PARTISAN AND BIGOT:  Historian Says Trump Tied for Most Racist President.

… Unless socialism is a race. than i suppose trump is racist. of course in that case, i’m also racist. and you’re racist, and you’re racist, and any sane person is racist.

Fortunately socialism and stupidity are just flaws of human nature. not races.

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NOTHING EXCUSES ILHAN OMAR. SHE WAS OFFERED THE GIFT OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE GREATEST LAND ON EARTH, AND SHE WASTES IT ON HATRED AND STUPID SOCIALIST AGITATION:  Length of Citizenship Excuses Ilhan Omar.

OH, IT’S JUST MORE ATTEMPTS TO SHOCK THE SQUARES. THEIR PROBLEM IS THAT THE SQUARES THEY IMAGINE NEVER EXISTED AND WE, NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS WITH JOBS AND FAMILIES DON’T FIND THEM SHOCKING AT ALL. WE FIND THEM TIRESOME:  Slate: Crude and Classless is Now “Revolutionary”.

JUST A DASH OF LSD. AND ANOTHER DASH OF LSD. BAM:  Salvador Dalí’s Eccentric Cookbook Is Being Reissued for the First Time in Over 40 Years.

YEAH. BECAUSE THE CURRENT ART WORLD IS A VEHICLE FOR MONEY LAUNDERING AND CORRUPTION. IT’S WHO THEY ARE, IT’S WHAT THEY DO. WELL THAT AND FUTILE, STUPID ATTEMPTS TO SHOCK THE SQUARES:  Disgraced Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s Art World Connections.

THIS IS DEDICATED TO SQUID-MEMBER (WHAT? YOU THOUGHT “SQUAD” WAS A THING? NO. THEY’RE A SQUID QUARTET. UNDER THE HUMAN SKIN THEY’RE ALL OLD-ONES. THIS IS WHY NONE OF THEM HAS ANY ACTUAL IDEA WHAT HUMANS FEEL OR THINK.) AYANNA PRESSLEY SHE WHO THINKS THOUGHTS AND MINDS HAVE “COLORS.”

FROM MY ENORMOUSLY TALENTED FRIEND, SYNOVA, WHO DOES CARTOONS:

LOOK, ONE OF THESE LIZARDS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER:  Between Lizards.

YEP:  Elitism Allowed Jeffrey Epstein to Escape Justice.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Scenes From a Starbucks.

I’D THINK ABOUT IT A LOT LESS IF IT WEREN’T FOR ALL THOSE SMUT SITES FLOODING MY SPAM FILTER:  This is how many times Americans think about sex a day.

FASTER PLEASE:  An ‘EpiPen’ for spinal-cord injuries could prevent paralysis.

THE GASLIGHT MEDIA SELLING US A NARRATIVE? SAY IT AIN’T SO! USWNT isn’t the feel-good story we’re told they are.

(IN VAIN I HAVE STRUGGLED. I CAN’T HELP IT!) I GUESS THE FLOCK CAME TOGETHER: Riverside Church pastor out amid sex toy harassment accusations.

In my defense, it’s a fair cop but society is to blame.

OH DEAR LORD:  The Washington Post Publishes Op Ed Claiming That The Lion King is “a Fascistic Story”.
Hamlet must be too…  I guess Shakespeare had a time machine or something.