Kristi, we knew you enough

Best of luck to Kristi Noem as America’s first and likely only envoy to “The Shield of the Americas”, a multinational military cooperative initiative Trump trumped up recently. Actually, Noem is a “special” envoy, even further distancing her from her egregious ad campaign in which she dared to insinuate her Botoxian facial features with the Mount Rushmore chaps. Perhaps she didn’t know that her boss had already tried that in 2020.

Not to worry. There will still be ample macho/macha posturing with Aging Orange and Pete Hegseth on the job. And they got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do. A preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the American military, using outdated intel, bombed the Iranian girls’ school that killed 168. So it’s probably Biden’s fault. Or wind turbines.

I firmly believe that current technology cannot accurately measure the depths of Donny Jay’s avarice and shamelessness, but he gave us a useful metric recently. At the “dignified transfer” of the first six fatalities of the war, he wore a white ball cap with a gold “USA” on it. You can get a copy of it on eBay for $126.95.

It’s adding up. Democrats are enthused and winning special elections they normally wouldn’t. Seasoned Republican office holders aren’t rerunning. The Iran invasion doesn’t have the mission-creep Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan vibe to it yet. Yet.