Justice is blind and kind of stupid, but she has great arms.

It’s a beautiful day in Missoula, but I have to stay inside with the windows tightly sealed against the ongoing workstorm. You would not believe how much I billed this week if I told you, but I have covered a year’s rent since May first. Money is useless to me now, but I have to keep grinding away to get it because…okay, I actually do not have a good reason why I don’t just tell all my clients to stick it. But I’m going to finish their work, because I’m selling reliability in addition to craftsmanship, originality—everything but customer service, really. All this meandering ends in the sad announcement that there is no real Combat! blog today. There kind of is, though, if you read my latest column in the Missoula Independent. It’s about how the Republican Party successfully blocked Medicaid expansion in Montana, even though it was federally funded and would have insured 70,000 people. House Democrats would have stopped them, but one of them accidentally voted wrong. It’s a saga, and I complained about it. We’ll see you tomorrow for Friday links.

Non-serious presidential candidate Trump, with stick

It’s the busy season here at Combat! blog, and the interns who write these posts on my behalf are prohibited from doing anything fun so they have more time to work. Before we all sink into a vortex of drudgery, though, I thought I’d draw your attention to Donald Trump’s satisfyingly uncool Twitter reaction to being called “Fuckface Von Clownstick” on The Daily Show. I submit that his series of tweets—which begins by calling people who picked up the hashtag “losers” and ends in attacking Jon Stewart for changing his name—encapsulates what is wrong with Trump’s personality. Also what’s wrong with the personality of a spoiled adolescent—your brain stops developing after you become the owner of a building in Manhattan, though, so that should not surprise anyone.

I more abstractly submit that the Von Clownstick Affair captures the ideal function of comedy in society. Donald Trump is a nuisance. Over the last few years, he’s run a vanity campaign for president and perpetuated one of the more baseless, destructive rumors in American political history. It’s not illegal to tell people without evidence that the president is not constitutionally allowed to be president, but it is irresponsible. In a free society, what do you do about wealthy narcissists? Enter Stewart, whose juvenile attack on Trump is not illegal either, but merely mean. Welcome the exchange of ideas, Mr. Trump. Your money is no good here.