The Friday Brief
May 17, 2024
The Big Picture
When someone tells you they’re not in a cult, they’re in a cult.
This week’s display of the MAGA Village of the Damned behavior was the inevitable pilgrimage by the latest tier of masochistic pilgrims to the holy site of the Martyrdom of St. Donald Lachrimosa, e.g. the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan in the ongoing election fraud and porn star hush money.
From the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Anime Catgirl Porntown) down to the human flotsam of Matt Gaetz (R-Venmo), Anna Paulina Maga, J.D. Vance, and Vivek Ramascammy, all were drawn to New York like hungry maggots to ripe roadkill.
Of course, they abandoned their actual duties in Washington and to their constituents to engage in this grunting performance art in an endless bleat of faux-outrage and pathetic tongue-bathing of Don Shinrikyo.
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