Thom Hartmann on the court’s possible loss of the power of contempt as contained in the MAGA Big Ugly Bill (8 minutes):

Normally, I would put a little blurb here about Memorial Day weekend. It is Memorial Day weekend and I honor those who gave their lives to preserve our democracy. Unfortunately, our congress is in the process of destroying our democracy. Our media is almost silent about it. We won’t be.

In the wee hours of Thursday morning, the US House on a straight MAGA vote passed a bill that included a part that would take away the courts’ ability to level contempt charges on the executive branch. In effect, this makes Stinky Pants a king. And thus ends our democracy.

So this Memorial Day, remember the country that was once the shining beacon for liberty in the world. She was killed by a conspiracy of dunces known as the MAGA congress.

Oh – and Stinky Pants took a $400 million bribe from Qatar this week. A little out of the usual for an elected official.

A) As if taking a massive bribe this week wasn’t enough, Stinky Pants also held a dinner at a private club in DC Thursday to do what? 

B) Wait! There is more! How much will it cost taxpayers (that is you and me) to get Stinky Pants’ bribe – the Qatari airplane – into shape?

C) Unfortunately last week ended with the announcement that who had been diagnosed with an “aggressive form of prostate cancer”?

D) While Stinky Pants continued to threaten Greenland, Greenland did what to fortify their situation?

E) Back when I was a kid! Memorial Day was known as Decoration Day. Why?

F) Homeland Security Barbie (aka Kristi Noem) displayed some ignorance this week before a Senate committee when asked about what basic concept of the constitution?

G) Stinky Pants hosted the President of South Africa last week. Stinky Pants ambushed his guests with what during the visit?

H) Thursday DHS Secretary Kristi Noem revoked what university’s ability to have foreign exchange students?

I) Friday morning started with Stinky Pants imposing a 50% across the board tariff against who?

J) When does the above tariff start?

K) Arlington Cemetery is the US National Cemetery. The land on which the Cemetery sits previously belonged to whom?

L) As MAGAs focused on Stinky’s Big Ugly Bill, what MAGA senator was begging the administration to send FEMA to his state to help with storm damage?

M) Farmers in Iowa, who voted overwhelmingly for Stinky, are outraged as HHS Secretary Kennedy pushes what rules that will greatly hurt famers?

N) Three weeks from yesterday (June 14th) there’s a big military parade planned where?

O) The poem “In Flanders Field” was inspired by the Second Battle of Ypres during what war?

P)  Bottle baby Pete Hegseth seems to have stepped over the line last week when he conducted what at the Pentagon?

Q) What daytime TV talker was told to lighten up on the political talk by Disney CEO Bob Iger?

R) SCOTUS surprised many when it deadlocked on what MAGA desired issue Thursday thus leaving a state Supreme Court decision in place?

S) What “journalist” pretty much gave up any credibility he had with the publication this week of his book bashing President Biden?

T) And finally what sort of controversial football play was allowed to remain in professional football this week after an owners meeting?

A healthy media ecosystem would be spending the day discussing the major scandal of Trump and FEMA going completely MIA as tornadoes killed at least 28 across Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia. No federal response. No comments from the admin. This is a major scandal!!! – Brett Meiselas

Answers:

A) Meet with the largest buyers of his meme coin (another form of bribery). Spokeser Karolyn Leavitt said it was on his personal time so its OK

B) At least a billion dollars!

C) former President Biden

D) Sold mineral rights to a European company

E) That is the day people would decorate the graves of dead soldiers with flowers

F) Habeus Corpus – she had no clue what it meant.

G) Fake pictures and videos that purported to show genocide of white farmers in South Africa – as I said they were fake

H) Harvard – pretty dictatorial thing to do

I) The European Union

J) June 1st or a week from today!

K) Confederate general Robert E. Lee

L) MAGA Senator Josh Hawley was begging for help for St. Louis 

M) His MAHA or Make America Healthy Again rules that will ban many farm chemicals, especially Roundup. Farmers have now lost their markets and pesticides under Benedict Donald

N) Washington DC. Stinky Pants is throwing a big military parade for himself for his birthday. You and I will pay $50 million for this

O) World War I

P) A Christian prayer service- that really crosses that freedom of religion line

Q) The View

R) Public money being directed to support religious (in this case catholic) schools

S) Jake Tapper 

T) The “tush push”

Most attendees at Trump’s private memecoin dinner this week will likely be foreign buyers, according to CNBC. One of the top buyers is Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who was facing fraud charges until Trump’s SEC dropped them. Call it what it is: corruption. – Robert Reich

In honor of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country:

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
     Between the crosses, row on row,
   That mark our place; and in the sky
   The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
   Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
                          In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
   The torch; be yours to hold it high.
   If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
                            In Flanders fields.