Yep, it's not Friday yet, but since we said a few days ago that this was going to be a week to remember, we thought we owed you faithful readers a recap. Because who knows what'll happen tomorrow!
On the Benedict Donald front, things are rapidly going south. "My Kevin" has become the first Speaker in American history to be fired by the House of Representatives. The judge in Trump's New York civil fraud trial hit Donald with a partial gag order, and then Forbes scratched him off their top 400 list. (As Tish James is showing, maybe he never qualified for the list in the first place.)
Meanwhile, Georgia co-defendants are flipping. Lawyers for Rudolph Giuliani and the Pillow Man are dropping like flies (they don't work for free, ya know). George Santos's campaign treasurer is taking a plea deal. The Republican knives are out for Matt Gaetz. And tonight, ABC News says Benedict Donald shared American nuclear secrets with an Australian billionaire (not Rupert Murdoch).
But wait, there's more: We don't want to raise expectations, but there have been five sealed cases filed in DC court in the last several weeks — "sealed," as in, not available to the public. Are indictments of Congress members coming down for January 6? Gee, it's not as if there's anything going on in the House these days anyway.
And here's some excellent news from the True North. Not only did the House of Commons elect its first Black speaker, but on the same day, the province of Manitoba turned out its Conservative government and voted in the NDP, installing Canada's first First Nations premier, Wab Kinew.
This is a warning shot to federal Conservatives and their detestable leader, Pierre Poilievre, who are working overtime to be as Trumpy as they can get. Tories in Manitoba followed the same playbook, running awful attack ads in the last days of the campaign that turned off voters in droves. "The US-style ads...were sleazy and sensationalist," a Winnipeg Free Press columnist observed. "They were cooked up by inept, far-right zealots in the Tory central campaign who are hopelessly out of touch with the political culture of Manitoba."
Because the news is often wall-to-wall Trumpism, it can seem like Benedict Donald and his acolytes are taking over the world. They aren't. In fact, they're failing badly. We cats PURR.
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