I had so wanted to be frivolous here this week and then Saturday night happened.
Oh, what the hell. Here’s Jinkx Monsoon, Broadway star and former winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, doing one of the most entertaining impressions I’ve ever seen of…
Oh, just watch it.
Okay, fine.
NOW, let’s bring down the room.
Four guys you’d never want your daughter, son, sister or brother to date stood in the halls of the White House on the evening of June 21st, 2025 and told us we just launched a bunch of mega-bombs on a Middle Eastern country of 90 million people in order to prevent said country from putting together some sort of nuclear material into some sort of weapon that said country was supposedly weeks, months or years away from…. creating… enriching… launching?…. obtaining?
None of us seems to quite know.
Perhaps POTUS does, but he’s not saying. Exactly. Or pretty much any other way.
As for the three other guys behind him – J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth (Note: If this was the track, they’re be an entry – aka three horses owned by the same stable – 1 a, b and c) – they remained suited up and silent in navy suits behind the boss, who was center stage in the blue jewel-toned number.
I mean, they might tell us more by the time you read this. Perhaps in a scheduled press conferences on June 22 or on June 23 in a top secret security briefing to our representatives in Congress. Who are supposed to know this stuff ahead of time and vote before the U.S. launches bombs into another country and ostensibly starts a war.
Of course, that didn’t happen.
And at no point last night was the word war mentioned in their four minute “presentation.”
So I guess that means we’re…. not in a war… with Iran?
Or are we?
I mean when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney took us into the Iraq War twenty plus years ago, at least there was a vote. And evidence, as specious and/or made up as it was. They even called it an actual WAR and gave it a name – Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Note: Yes, we eventually saw what they did there). But this time there was no vote, no evidence – false or otherwise – and nary a peep to any members in the Senate or the House of Representatives.
Just the Four Horsemen of the Christian Right telling us they did this thing that wasn’t a war. Just a lot of… and I quote:
…Great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight…. and no military in the world could’ve done what we did…. Not even close… There’s never been a military that could do what just took place.
In case you were wondering.
FYI, the magnificent machines were B-2 bombers and what they dropped were 30,000 pound bunker busters (MOBs) that bore straight into the ground to presumably blow up nuclear material thousands of feet below thousands of feet of concrete. What happens to the remains of that nuclear material, and what the destruction caused by bombs weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds will be, is anyone’s guess. But presumably, like always, it’s all in the name of “peace.”
Seriously, what could go wrong?
And while you’re contemplating that, here’s Jinkx telling a dirty celebrity story.
Now remember that the man leading us into this war – or whatever he claims it is – is the same person who took over the Kennedy Center a few months ago because a handful of times, among its hundreds of thousands of evenings of entertainment, it served as a venue host for drag shows. This same person also runs a federal government whose national suicide hotline will no longer refer trans or gay kids to the LGBTQ+ hotline specifically for them, run by The Trevor Project. That’s an actual truth bomb that just happened that you can read about here.
Jinkx Monsoon and her kind, be damned.
Meanwhile, stay safe.
As for those of us in Los Angeles, luckily we now have an extra 700 Marines on our streets, courtesy of POTUS, to keep us safe….
…From immigrants.
“One Day More” from “Les Miserables” – Jinkx Monsoon (playing every role)
notes from a chair 