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Kagro in the Morning


Apr 26, 2022

Elon Musk was thwarted in his hostile takeover of KITM yesterday when the board of directors of Twitter, Inc. stepped in front of the bullet for us. Twitter users will now need to transition from dealing with many trolls to dealing with all the trolls. Or, Elon might just flick a switch and turn it all off, once he becomes bored.

It takes more than $44 billion to buy David Waldman. Probably. Only one way to find out.

A new book comes out every week revealing new details on the planning and execution of Donald Trump's coup on January 6, 2021.  Then there’s Mark Meadows’ 2,319 text messages spelling out (even when the participants can’t spell) how many were in on the insurrection from the get-go. Propublica has released exhaustive research on the creation of the Big Lie which was pretty much the foundation of the insurrection. You know who’s not worried by this evidence? Yep, you know who. 

Joan McCarter reported last week on President Joe Biden’s plan to request more Ukraine aid, which normally wouldn’t be a problem with Republicans who like military spending and need to pretend to love Ukraine. Of course, finding support for COVID-19, climate, energy, etc. with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will be impossible. Biden can figure out how to do it without them, and as for Joe Manchin, his popularity just keeps going up, so…

Never content to repeat their war crimes, Russia is bringing back an oldiefléchettes, which are turning up in civilians left in mass graves. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s ballistic missiles are turning up in Russian fuel and ammo depots. The next country on Russia’s hit list, Moldova, is not as land-locked as we thought, as it shares the Port of Giurgiulești with Romania. Eh, what’s another country or two to Vlad?

Romania might have one less Trumper to worry about after the King of Toxic Masculinity was somehow linked to human trafficking.