November 2021
“There was a significant blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to skirt accountability for the 6 January attack on the Capitol after a federal judge denied Trump’s petition to keep certain White House records secret. The judge ruled that a list of records compiled by the National Archives including handwritten notes specifically about 6 January, call logs between Trump and Mike Pence, White House visitor logs and daily schedules must be made available to the House’s 6 January select committee. I’m shocked to learn there even was a daily schedule. Remember when we found out most days it said ‘executive time’ and that was just code for Trump not wanting to leave the bedroom? He’d just spend the morning in his PJs calling in to Fox & Friends while viewers waited for them to blink to make sure they’re still alive? Maybe that’s why Trump didn’t care about the pandemic – he was the first president to work remotely. And even when he did show up to the office, I’d be shocked if there were ever actually records or official documents in that White House. Do you think anyone ever took notes in a meeting with Trump? When they finally subpoena those notepads, they’re just going to be filled with random doodles and inscrutable comments like ‘ingest bleach, maybe?’” —Seth Meyers
“Federal judge Tanya Chutkan denied Trump’s attempt to shield records from the committee. That is the worst denial for the former president since anytime he tried to hold his wife’s hand. In the court filing, Trump argued that he maintained a ‘residual right’ to executive privilege even while out of office. You don’t get to keep any part of a job you lost! It’s all gone! That’s why you didn’t see Christian Bale playing Dick Cheney in a Batman suit. Chutkan wrote in her ruling that Trump’s request for executive privilege was ‘outweighed by President Biden’s decision not to uphold the privilege’ because ‘there can be only one president at a time.’ She wrote that ‘Presidents are not kings,’ and ‘Plaintiff is not President.’ I have not seen such a brutal attack on an elected official since January 6th.” —Stephen Colbert
“The last time Trump got a spanking like that was with a copy of Forbes magazine by Stormy Daniels.” —Jimmy Kimmel
“Now Trump’s legal team is going to have to figure out what to obstruct next. At this point Trump’s lawyers are, like, the losingest team in history, of any team ever. More than the Clippers. More than the Lions. More than the Washington Generals. And the Globetrotters beat them, like, 5,000 games in a row.” —Jimmy Kimmel
“And there’s no way Trump himself ever wrote anything down. He never even wrote any of his own books. They were ghostwritten, which I’m sure Trump took literally. [imitating Trump] ‘I didn’t write it — a ghost did, and I was pretty disappointed when I met the ghost. They said, ‘Donald, we’re getting you a ghostwriter,’ and I was hoping for a Slimer or, even better, a Patrick Swayze.” —Seth Meyers
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night
of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
