Assholes On Parade

If somebody asks you "Hey, did you hear what that Republican asshole did?", your response will need to be, "Could you be more specific?" 

There are, in fact, so many to choose from.  

We've got a veritable parade of assholes.   

Florida Gov. (and ASSHOLE!) Ron DeSantis had 50 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard in order to stick it to the libs!  Apparently the migrants were lied to about where the plane was taking them and nobody bothered to tell anyone in Martha's Vineyard they were coming.  

While a lot of people thought DeSantis was a pulling a cruel and inhumane political stunt,  Fox News host (and ASSHOLE!) Tucker Carlson was just positively giddy with "happy happy joy joy"  about DeSantis sending immigrant-filled planes to Martha’s Vineyard.  

Not wanting to be left out of all the fun, Texas Gov. (and ASSHOLE) Greg Abbott sent dozens of  asylum-seekers to the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Rep. (and ASSHOLE!) Marjorie Taylor Greene was accused of kicking a teen activist outside the Capitol on Thursday in an incident captured on video which Greene posted to her Twitter account. While most people might think an elected official kicking an 18 year old citizen is a bad thing, Greene thought this was something to brag about.   

Last week there was a House Oversight hearing on climate featuring Raya Salter, an energy justice lawyer who serves on the New York State Climate Action Council. She spoke to the impact on climate by the petrochemical industry and the negative environmental impact on communities that are poor and predominantly people of color.   

But Rep. Clay Higgins (and ASSHOLE!) was not buying Salter’s testimony and demanded she answer the following:  “Everything you have – your clothes, your glasses, your car you got here on, your phone, the table you’re sitting at, the chair, the carpet under your feet – everything you’ve got is petrochemical products.  What would you do with that? Tell the world.”

Even as Salter endeavored to answer this rather open ended question, Higgins continued to talk over her, yelling at her and bragging about his religious background. 

Higgins later tweeted about the exchange, calling Salter an “unhinged climate activist.” So Higgins talked over her and raised his voice to her but SHE is the one who is unhinged?

Hey, we can't have "Assholes on Parade" with addressing the biggest one of them all.  

On his Truth Social platform, ASSHOLE Donald Trump reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid with the words “The Storm is Coming." 

In QAnon lore, the “storm” refers to Trump's final victory, when supposedly he will regain power and his opponents will be tried, and potentially executed, on live television. Trump followed that up on Thursday with a statement that if he is indicted for his role in having classified documents at his Mar-A-Lago, there would be “big problems” like we've never before seen.

Given Trump's open embrace of QAnon rhetoric, that sounds like a threat of violence to me.  

Of course, just like a good mob boss, Trump did not say "violence", he just said "big problems".  

Donald Trump is an asshole.

And sadly he is not alone. 

We are, alas, surrounded by assholes.