Doom Report (Week 18: What? More Snippets???)

This week marked yet another insane Oval Office meeting with a foreign head of state.  This time the strategy seemed to be to overwhelm the President of South Africa with conspiracy theories of “white genocide.”  Of course, all these theories have been thoroughly (thoroughly) debunked, but reality has never stopped President Musk’s sidekick Trumpy from telling a good story.  And no doubt President Musk himself is the driving force here.  This motherfucker: nearly 50 years of apartheid, and he’s decided white people are the ones getting oppressed.  As for Trump, I think Ronny Chieng summed it up best on The Daily Show this week: “It’s like someone told him, hey, it’s not just a genocide, it’s a white genocide.  You know: the bad kind.”  But the person who really had Trump’s number this week was Heather Lofthouse; on this week’s Coffee Klatch, she says:

I mean, watching Trump bring these foreign dignitaries in to be so horrific to them—I mean more to some than others, right?  We had Zelenskyy; we had the president of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa.  It’s not lost on me that one is Jewish and one is black.  And Donald Trump goes after them.

Let’s see ... who hates Jews and black people?  Nope; can’t think of anyone like that.

Top things to watch this week:

• On The Daily Show this week, Charlamagne tha God deconstructs the whole “Daddy’s home” bullshit that Repulicans were doing for a while there.  Charlamagne is always incisive, and this take does not disappoint.

• Brian Tyler Cohen discusses the brain drain to Europe that Trump and flunky Kristi Noem have kicked off by attacking international students.

• I’m really starting to love Ezra Klein.  Too often progressives decide he’s a “closet Republican” when he points out that we’ve overregulated ourselves.  But I’m convinced those people aren’t actually listening to what he’s saying.  This week Hasan Minhaj interviews Klein and, as usual, it’s a banger.

• Medhi Hasan interviews Molly Jong-Fast (daughter of seminal author and feminist icon Erica Jong) where they discuss just how stupid Trump is (it’s entitled “Thank God Trump is a MORON,” if that gives you a clue just how entertaining it gets).

And the continuing proof that Trump—and most of the people around him—are utterly incompetent is about all the hope I can offer this week.  Maybe it would make you feel better to know just how bad Trump’s lawyers are; my father might say they couldn’t find their asses with both hands, a map, and an ass-finding machine.  Well, Liz Dye from Legal Eagle has got you covered.  Enjoy.