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No Colbert or Kimmel last night, but some fun from the great Joyce Wadler, imagining Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards back home in Minneapolis right now, illustrated by Jeff Danziger above:
Traffic is jammed and there are dozens of Masked Ice Agents in army gear, carrying submachine guns, questioning drivers and suspicous looking fourth-graders.
Mary: (Looking around, worried) “I’m not sure you want to get involved with these guys. They look a little aggressive. But y’know, the sun is shining, this is still America, where everyone is welcome, and I’m so full of positive good feeling I’m gonna throw my hat in the air.”
ICE agents turn on Mary and Rhoda, screaming: “What was that?” “She threw a grenade!” “There’s two of them — a mob!” “On the ground bitch.” —
Ten burly ICE agents throw Mary and Rhoda to the ground, kicking them and yelling….
Anne Appelbaum in The Atlantic: “Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize.”
Heather Cox Richardson:
Tonight Danish troops—the same troops who stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021—arrived in Greenland to defend the island from the United States of America.
On MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov reacts to Stephen Miller’s Greenland comments: ‘I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying.’
Ann Telnaes:
Bramhall:
Paul Krugman:
It’s Sundowning in America
A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose
How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia? That’s an important question, the answer to which I believe lies in the straight line from Bush vs Gore and the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what’s more important is that we realize where we are right now, that we don’t try to sugarcoat and sanewash what’s happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America.
“Song Sung Blue” movie is….about what you’d expect, but 60 years ago there were these first two singles:
From Tunes to Toons
Ohman:
Brodner:
Noth:
Wuerker:
de Adder:
Anderson:
Some genius made a series of pages for a coloring book for “ICE Slipping on Ice.”
Photo Finish
From my camera to you, “Not Bob Dylan’s Motorcycle, Woodstock, N.Y.”
I have to disagree with one point. While the straight line might have started with George W., the real beginning of the decline is with Ronald Regan who dismantled safeguards that had been established over generations. He was a B-list actor looking for fame and jellybeans.
Much will be written about that. America got soft.