The Orange King was indicted (again) on felony charges (again) yesterday, this time for working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the run-up to the January 6th insurrection by his supporters (stop me if you’ve heard this before). For the umpteenth time, the Justice Department is trying to hold Trump accountable for his hilariously unsuccessful effort to block the transfer of presidential power. As with the other cases against him, Trump will find a way to wriggle out of the incompetent hands of the judicial system, a system he may well take charge of in 18 months.
The four-count indictment, the third criminal case against Trump, provides deeper insight into a dark moment that has already been the subject of countless think pieces and exhaustive investigations. The indictment chronicles a months-long campaign of lies about the election results and points out that even when those lies resulted in the chaos at the Capitol, Trump tried to exploit the violence by using it as a reason to further delay the counting of votes.
Anyways, that story has been told before, and the outcome isn’t likely to be much different this time around, so here’s a much more interesting story:
It’s the story of three Marines found dead in a car in North Carolina. It’s definitely NOT a story about three Marines dying from drug overdose (an increasingly common issue). Experts claim that these three soldiers died from carbon monoxide inhalation as a result of issues with the car. But what exactly are three soldiers doing in an idling vehicle for several hours? Conveniently, military officials haven’t released a toxicology report or explained the details leading up to the Marines’ deaths.
Side Items
Every Action: Israel’s national security minister and head troll Itamar Ben-Gvir decided to lead a group of more than a thousand ultranationalist settlers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. This is his third such entrance to the site this year, with each serving as an increasing insult to Palestinian worshippers. This particular provocation comes as some hardline Israeli Jewish groups promote the outright destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the construction of a third Jewish temple in its place. For context, Al-Aqsa and its golden dome represent one of the holiest sites in Islam and a Palestinian national symbol. Ultraorthodox Jews, along with Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, expressly forbid even the entrance of Jews to the compound for religious reasons, but nationalist Zionist scum like Ben-Gvir have encouraged it in recent years
Equal and Opposite Reaction: A 20-year old Palestinian was shot and killed by an off-duty, apartheid-defending Israeli police officer after he allegedly opened fire in an illegal Israeli settlement, wounding at least six people. The shooting took place yesterday outside a shopping mall in the sprawling (and sprawlingly illegal) Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank. It’s important to remember that while ignorant Israelis consider these neighborhoods fair game, these settlements are not only deemed illegal by international law, but Palestinians consider them a form of active colonization, perennially encroaching and occupying Palestinian lands. These two events, the visit by Ben-Gvir to Al-Aqsa and this shooting, may not be directly connected, but it’s yet another example of an unstoppable force (Zionism) meeting an immovable object (Palestinian existence)
When Pigs Fly (Slide): Enjoy this video of a police officer doing what these idiots do best: making a complete fool of himself and hurting himself in the process. A Boston police officer, in full uniform, was caught on camera coming down a kid’s slide at a newly-renovated playground at City Hall Plaza. The officer got a faster ride than he bargained for when he tried out the slide, as video shows him tumbling out of the slide and crashing into the ground. Everything about the video is perfect: The knocking/rattling sound getting louder as the officer comes down, the person filming giggling as they realize what’s unfolding, the absolute rag-doll physics at play as he shoots out like a banana squeezed out of its peel. 10/10, no notes