Today is Saturday, June 4, 2022. During last night’s primetime Bill Maher show HBO’s Real Time, former Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a stunning prediction about the fortunes of the former president who fomented an insurrection against his own government and has not been punished for it – yet. He now speculated with the acerbic host that there is a wealth of evidence that could lead to criminal indictments of Donald Trump and multiple “high-level” members of his administration. Being the first guest to speak with the host, Holder claimed that, if he were still heading up the Department of Justice (DOJ), Dumpf would be in big trouble. This blockbuster statement was covered in an online RawStory article by Tom Boggioni entitled “‘A lot of high-level’ Trump people can expect to be indicted: former attorney general.”

Directly asking Holder what he would do if he were still attorney general today about Dumpf and January 6, Holder said, “If you had asked me that question about a year or so ago, I would have been awfully concerned about the divisive nature of a case against the former president.” He added, “But now because of what we know from what great journalists have done, the leaks that have come from the January 6th committee, if you show me that Donald Trump was involved in the efforts to foment a coup, and you can show the requisite intent, he has to be indicted,” Holder concluded to cheers from the in-house audience viewing the interview.

After the audience applauded, Holder went on to add, “A lot of high-level people in the Trump administration, I suspect the President himself, people at the Justice Department, are all going to find themselves on a little document that says, ‘The United States vs. ‘fill in the blank.'” If only this were true, dear Lord.

In the meantime, Dumpf lapdog Senator Lindsey Graham was slammed by critics for stupidly proposing that schools recruit military veterans to protect school buildings from active shooters. Here this sniveling coward proposed a shitty strategy that has been lambasted for its utter ineffectiveness. This proposal would turn schools into military prisons rather than citadels of learning. Again, republicans shame themselves for deflecting attention away from the better and necessary solution: a ban on high-powered rifles like the AR-15! So on Friday Graham went to his Twitter account to suggest this proposal, not realizing how nonsensical it really sounds. Unashamedly, Graham wrote this in his tweet: “Schools should be treated like courthouses, banks, capitol buildings, etc., when it comes to security.” Is this guy fucking out of his mind? This is pure bullshit, and rightly so, it was condemned by other Twitter users. Many users bashed the senator’s poor recommendation with their own warped proposals in an explosion of sarcasm. One writer wrote this on her Twitter account: “The stupidest fucking thing I’ll read all day.” Well said, Lynn. Another angry Twitter user reminded Dumbass Graham that the only place people are safe from gun violence is NRA conventions, while crossing off hospitals, elementary schools, grocery stores, Walmart, high schools, churches, malls, synagogues, and night clubs, practically everywhere in the United States.

In light of the continuing Wear Orange Weekend to honor those who have lost their lives to gun violence, I wore my orange outfit today upon traveling to Manhattan and to the Angelika Theater to see a new film called Benediction. Elliot eschewed seeing the film in order to see another movie with our friend “Mark” at the Kew Gardens Cinema. They went to see the new film Eiffel about the building of Paris’s Eiffel Tower. We later met at our apartment to go to dinner on Metropolitan Avenue.

I attended the 2:05 showing and I must say the British film was very thoughtful and appropriate to see in light of Pride Month occurring right now for the month of June. The film was very touching, in my view, in its examination of British war poet Siegfried Sassoon (here played by Jack Lowden) and his experiences during World War I and how he became a conscientious objector to the war’s continuing carnage and his discreet involvement with several male lovers throughout the Edwardian period, culminating in his marriage to a woman who was interested in him from an earlier time. The second half of the film ranges over Sassoon as a haunted, old man full of regret over not pursuing his true self. Through voiceovers, we are exposed to the young poet’s wartime poems that are intercut with black-and-white images of dead, young soldiers. Maybe this is not everyone’s film, but I thoroughly enjoyed it for its lyricism and its honest exploration of a man’s life journey and his quest for salvation, trying to find it within the confines of marriage and religion. And ends up ultimately disillusioned! The writer and director of the film was Terence Davies.

So have a good Sunday. Let’s hope it is as beautiful as today was.

Stay safe and be well.