Happy St. Gertrude's Feast Day!

 

Did you think we forgot? (Happy St. Paddy's Day, too.) We cats PURR.

HIPAA Violation

 

By Zamboni

These two are simply horrible. No morals, no decency.

What was that? You thought that Trump's fundraising email with the photo of the dignified transfer of remains was as bad as he could get? Guess again — except this time, he has help from Preacher of the House Mikey Johnson, who is too simpering and sycophantic to object.

Donald Trump takes such pleasure in other people's misfortune. And he has absolutely no qualms about behaving like this with Susie Wiles sitting right next to him. You know Susie Wiles — the Chief of Staff who's just been diagnosed with breast cancer? Incredible. We cats HISS.

De Adder Du Jour

 

We saw a gas price of $3.75 a gallon today, and we're beginning to think that, all things considered, it might be a bargain. We cats HISS.

(IMAGE: Michael de Adder, deadder.net)

Lest We Furr-get: The DAR Has Always Sucked

 

By Baxter

In 1939, the Howard University School of Music asked the Daughters of the American Revolution to reserve DAR Constitution Hall for a benefit concert starring the renowned contralto Marian Anderson. As you may know, the all-white, all-idiot DAR refused, because Anderson was Black.

They banned Paul Robeson in 1930 for the same reason. However, in 1930 Eleanor Roosevelt was not First Lady.

ER furiously resigned from the DAR, booked Anderson for a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and the rest is the kind of history that the Trumpsters are now trying to erase.

So we cats were intrigued to see this photo in an exhibit of Richard Avedon's portraits at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It's titled The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Convention, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC, October 15, 1963. We need the back story. How did this photo happen?

Look at the expressions on the faces of the white Daughters: fury, annoyance, rejection, resignation. Everyone looking everywhere except at the one Black general in their midst. It's an amazing shot.

Fun fact: This photo was framed and mounted opposite Avedon's enormous (and famous) portrait of Anderson herself. MMFA's exhibit curator really knew what she was doing. We cats PURR.

Three Little Kittens Want These NATO Mittens

 

By Sniffles

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Norway observing NATO exercises and sending the message that no malign actor should think of messing with the Arctic. And he got this nifty pair of mittens. (We still need them — it's snowing picturesquely in Montreal right now.)

Back here in Canada, things are looking pretty rosy for Carney's party. The MP for Nunavut, Lori Idlout, crossed the floor from the NDP to join the Liberals, putting them one vote away from a majority in Parliament. Four MPs have changed parties since November, three of them Conservatives. All Carney needs to do now is win two of the three upcoming by-elections, and he'll have 172 seats. (It'll be a thin margin, but Carney will manage his caucus better than Mikey Johnson.)

Conservatives can whine all they want, but they never had a problem when Stephen Harper engineered high-profile floor crossings 20 years ago. It must be frustrating for them, though — Harper was a much stronger leader for them than the hapless and unappealing Pierre Poilievre, whom they picked to head the party even though polls show that a whole lot of Canadians loathe him.

It's the mirror image of where the Liberals are right now. In fact, the word that pollsters are using is "Carneymania." Wherever Justin Trudeau is, that's got to make him smile. We cats PURR.

Clown Show, Clown Shoes

Does anyone know why the Cabinet members didn't just go online and buy Trump's cheap Florsheim shoes in the correct size? Why would grown men be willing to humiliate themselves for Donald? We cats HISS.

Brigadier General (Ret.) Shawn Harris, WOW!

By Hubie and Bertie

Gosh, is Georgia's 14th Congressional District really going to go on our list of possible House flips? Yesterday's special election to replace Marjorie Taylor "I've-Got-My-Pension-So-I-Can-Leave-Now" Greene landed the Democratic candidate, Shawn Harris, in first place. Harris got 37.3 percent to Trump-backed Clayton Fuller's 34.9 percent, with the other Republicans in the race distantly trailing.

So okay, GA-14 was a jungle primary, which meant the GOP vote was split every which way from breakfast. But nevertheless, the Democrat in Taylor Greene's district came in first. Republicans should be spooked even if Fuller ends up winning the runoff on April 7.

Fuller should have come in first since he had Trump's backing. In fact, once Trump endorsed him the other GOP candidates should have immediately dropped out of the race. Isn't that how it's supposed to work in MAGA World? How dare the other Republicans not follow the Donald Decree? Hmmm.

Maybe Trump's influence is fading? After all, if you'd told us a year ago that Greene would be out of Congress and the special election to replace her would give the Democrat the lead, we'd have said you were crazy. But it's 2026, and anything is possible. We cats PURR.

P.S. If you'd like to contribute to Shawn Harris's campaign, click here. (What the heck, why not?)

Now We Have The Whole Set

 

Benedict Donald said, "Cuba will fall very soon. It may not be a friendly takeover." But Baby Marco's on it, as you can see. We cats still miss Tony Blinken, and we HISS and PURR at the same time.

Gas Up, Donald Down

By Miss Kubelik

NBC News is out with a new poll that shows Benedict Donald laboring under a 54 percent disapproval rating. Hmmm. If you ask us, his numbers are probably a lot worse. Oil prices have jumped, the Dow is sinking, and that's on top of the unspeakable images from Dover this weekend. As it turns out, wearing a baseball cap and looking down your pants at a dignified transfer ceremony doesn't go over well.

Trump wants us to believe that the increasing cost of gas is just a "short-term" problem (it isn't), and that it's going to "drop rapidly" (it won't). Since he's always had people driving him around and has never run an errand in his life, it hasn't occurred to him that paying more for gas has far-reaching effects: DoorDash deliverers and folks like plumbers, roofers, housekeepers, and babysitters (in short, anybody who drives to your home to provide a service) are all going to have to jack up their prices. Are you moving this summer? You'll pay extra for the truck that hauls your furniture. Going on vacation? The cost of flying or taking the train is going to climb, too. It's not going to be a pleasant summer.

Republicans are already in a panic about the elections in November. Why else would they refuse to boot Tony Gonzales out of Congress and hope that his decision to retire would suffice? They must preserve that slim majority in the House, even if it means working alongside a guy who sexted a staff member into self-immolation. We cats HISS.

We've Lost Larner. What Do We Do Now?

By Zamboni

You probably don't know Jeremy Larner, who died a few weeks ago. But he wrote one of the best — if not the best — political screenplays of all time. And even though he wrote it back in 1972, it's barely dated. (Young women in miniskirts and straw boaters no longer dance in kick lines at campaign rallies, thank goodness.) That must mean the foibles and outrages of American politics are still true. In fact, they're worse. We cats PURR at Larner for a job well done, and HISS at the rest.