Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.

Happy Sunday, dear friends! And a very Happy Father’s Day! Dads, granddads, dads-to-be … we lift our glasses to you in love and gratitude. A fine brunch to be had in your name — of course, loads of bacon, eggs however you want them, crispy hash browns and more. And considering the week we’ve had, a veritable cornucopia of adult beverages to choose from. Gentlemen, please be seated, let us know what you want, and we’ll be happy to serve it to you. Now, let’s get to it. Kanpai!

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Coffee and conundrums

When satire is close to reality:

Kids Avoid Felony By Defacing Pride Mural With 'Free Gaza' Skid Marks https://t.co/YEGJWAwiqp pic.twitter.com/TfTE1Sy1kI

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 10, 2024

Background:

Three teenagers were arrested on June 5 for using their Lime e-scooters to create black scuff marks on the colorful Pride flag crosswalk at Howard Street and Spokane Falls Boulevard. The offense carries a maximum of five years in prison under the state’s newly enhanced felony hate crime law. (snip)

the specter of teenagers facing years in prison for scuffing up a street mural trampled each day by innumerable cars, bicycles and pedestrians struck some observers as excessive.

Ya think? There are no enemies (or accountability) on the Left.

Realize where we are.

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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 9, 2024

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Foxes, chicken coops and N@zis

Let’s appoint an embezzler as a corporate accountant, a rapist as a women’s prison guard and, of course, an anti-Semite as director of a Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Raz Segal worked as a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey.

But Segal has spent his career bashing Israel, equating everything it has done to survive and defend itself as genocide.

Karen Painter and Bruno Chaouat resigned from the department’s advisory board in protest of Segal’s appointment:

“Dr. Segal has positioned himself on an extreme end of the political and ideological spectrum with his publications on Israel and Gaza, including an essay in which he accused Israel of genocide a week after the October 7 terrorist attacks,” Painter wrote in her Friday night resignation email to Provost Rachel Croson and Interim President Jeff Ettinger.

And before the usual party-crashers to our brunch together come to throw a tantrum about how “anti-Zionism” isn’t Jewhate … Natan Sharansky would like a word.

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Remember, Gavin Newsom is running for President

And if “Dr” Jill can’t pull off a Weekend at Bernies style rescue of Creepy Joe’s walking corpse by convention time, you just know Gov. French Laundry will ooze to the nomination.

Haven’t seen one – not a single one – of these CA National Guard soldiers in Jacumba where the mass illegal crossings of adult men from around the world are taking place. BP there so overwhelmed that the migrants wander aimlessly on highways and call Lyfts for themselves while… https://t.co/cpvjGdlSo1

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 13, 2024

As goeth California, so Newsom wishes for the nation.

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BLM = Buys Large Mansions

Grifters gonna grift, but Marxists want the marks to sanction their own mugging.

Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors resigned from the embattled charity in 2021, but the charity suffered from the excesses of her tenure well into 2023, according to a copy of its latest tax return obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Under Cullors’s leadership, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation doled out massive contracts to her friends and family, purchased a $6 million mansion in Los Angeles in 2020, and financed the purchase of an $8 million mansion in Canada in 2021. By the end of its 2023 fiscal year, the tax forms show, Black Lives Matter saw the $80 million windfall it raked in during the George Floyd riots of 2020 diminish to under $29 million as it hemorrhaged cash fulfilling lingering contractual obligations to Cullors’s associates.

Those individuals include Damon Turner, the father of Cullors’s only child, whose art firm Trap Heals received $778,000 from Black Lives Matter in 2023 despite performing no work for the charity that year.

Commies are the granddaddies of con artists, swindlers, flimflammers, hornswogglers, bamboozlers, cheaters and deceivers everywhere. Always there with charity on their lips and larceny in their hearts.

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No more French in France

More Joy of Diversity:

Nantes, France — Far-left extremists and Antifa threw rocks at the window of a person’s apartment because of a French flag being displayed. An extremist then climb up and rips it down. Nantes has a large & violent Antifa network allowed by elected locals. pic.twitter.com/gN6XAqxvin

— Andy Ngô ️‍ (@MrAndyNgo) June 11, 2024

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Germany 1934

It’s going to get a lot worse. https://t.co/7RmokRQqXp

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) June 12, 2024

Leftwing, ethnic Jews should understand that no amount of Joosplaining how they aren’t like those other icky-religious Jews are gonna keep the Hamas/Hezbollah/et al cretins from wanting you dead. Wake up and smell the burning matzo.

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Your Sunday smile

A wistful smile today. Let’s come to the end of our day to honor the dads who are no longer with us. This is mine, who I lost six years ago. One of my favorite pictures of him, circa 1953 prior to my arrival on the scene. Young married man at home with his beloved bride — no tv, just a radio and books. Lots and lots of books.

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And yes, dears, time has flown and we’ve come to the end of being together this week. Please go enjoy the rest of your Sunday, if your dad is still on the sunny side of the grass, cherish him and tell him so. I’ll see you next week. Cheers!

featured image original graphic by Darleen Click