The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously for the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Bill after Jon Stewart shamed them yesterday.

Now he has to go to congress and shame them, too.

And then Trump.

I say we call for a Jon Stewart Shaming Tour.

When Trump smugly waved around a single piece of folded paper claiming it was the deal with Mexico, everybody just assumed he was lying and it was a menu from that latest popular eatery in DeeCee, Hombre Sin Cajones.

But, come to find out there was actual typing on the page with the signatures of two low level government officials from the US and Mexico. “They appear to belong to Marik A. String, acting legal adviser in the U.S. State Department, and Alejandro Celorio Alcantara, a deputy legal adviser in Mexico’s Foreign Ministry.”  Don’t get snotty – they haven’t heard of you either.

The Washington Post got some nice shots of the letter before Trump hid it in his pocket like it was the nuclear codes.

They’ve figured out some of the language.

[UNREADABLE] such agreement would [UNREADABLE] party’s domestic and international legal obligations, a commitment under which each party would accept the return, and process refugee status claims, of third-party nationals who have crossed that party’s territory [UNREADABLE] other party. The parties further intend [UNREADABLE] an agreem[ent] [UNREADABLE] to burden-sharing in relation to the processing of refuge[es] [UNREADABLE].

Mexico also commits to immediate[ly] [UNREADABLE] domestic laws and regulations with a view to identifying any changes that [UNREADABLE] to bring into force and implement such an agreement.

If the United States determines, at its discretion and after consultation with Mexico, after 45 calendar days from the date of the issuance of the Joint Declaration, that the measures adopted by the Government of Mexico pursuant to the Joint Declaration have not sufficiently achieved results in addressing the flow of migrants to the southern border of the United States, the Government of Mexico will take all necessary steps under the domestic law to bring the agreement into force with a view to ensuring that the agreement will enter into force within 45 days.

Signed on this 7th of June, 2019 in Washington, D.C. by:

[SIGNATURE 1] [SIGNATURE 2]

On behalf of the United States On behalf of Mexico

First of all, it means nothing until it is signed by someone with more authority than an acting deputy assistant adviser or some damn thing.

Second of all, Trump had to put it in his pocket because he couldn’t read it.  He only reads love letters from dictators.

The New York Times has decided not to run political cartoons.

Beginning next month, the Times will cease running daily political cartoons in its international edition, editorial page editor James Bennet said Monday in a statement — a move that brings the overseas newspaper “into line with the domestic paper,” which in recent years had ceased running weekly roundups of syndicated cartoons and experimented instead with longer-form editorial comics.

Two hundred and fifty years of political cartooning in America has resulted in social and economic change beyond anything written on the Times editorial page.

If the Times is afraid of offending people, it should open a cheerful chain of Jiffy Lubes and get the hell out of the newspaper business.

And that’s all I have to say about that.

My favorite headline today so far.

Trump’s response?

“No one has ever asked us to lie about anything,” a Trump campaign official told The Hill in a statement on Tuesday. “The poll in question shows President Trump beating a defined Democrat opponent.”

Lie about lying. Look, look, it’s Wonderland.

Smacking Jim Jordan in the face with a banana cream pie.  That’s what.

Okay, first but most unimportantly, does this guy own a suit?  He shows up at every hearing in his shirt sleeves.  What’s with that? Is he trying to pretend he’s working?  Would somebody get this man a Hawaiian shirt and some flip flops?

Remember earlier this year when he ran against Kevin McCarthy for minority leader and lost 159–43?  That’s not a loss, that’s a cremation.

And let’s not forget the Ohio State sexual abuse scandals while he was the assistant coach.  He was apparently blind during those years.  Oddly, Jordan told Anderson Cooper on CNN that he had never heard Trump lie or say anything he should apologize for. This was Jordan’s deaf period.

And now here’s his blubbering idiot period.

Anybody got a banana pie?

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

To be honest, one of the most soul-busting things that I believe happened under Trump was Brett Kavanaugh.  I saw first hand not only the slippery intelligence of the man they put on the Supreme Court but also his character.  Both were just a shiver looking for a spine to run up.

Now comes the story of Amy Chau, the self-described Tiger-Mom, who defended Kavanaugh with all her might.  At the time, her glowing recommendations for Kavanaugh gave rise to suspicions that she was doing it only to get a SCOTUS clerkship for her daughter should Kavanaugh be approved.

She denied it.  Even her daughter, Sophia Chua Rubenfield, did. A year ago —

We silly liberals, seeing closed-door deal making behind every Republican insider event.

Both mother and daughter denied it was ever happening and we were all just crazy, wild crazy, to suspect it would.

Yesterday:

So, when they deny something, write it down somewhere.  It won’t stop them but it will help you keep your sanity and your Republican cynicism.

Thanks to Don A. for the heads up.