Look, I know that famous people are gonna up and die all the damn time.  I get that.

And, I also know that if there was a rash of our country’s top scientists going to the great beyond, we’d never notice it because they don’t have familiar names and no one would report it, even though these guys probably saved our lives more than once.

But, all in all, 2016 has been a witch of a year.  I am going to stay up until midnight on Saturday night just to watch 2016 go away.  Just go the hell away.

Sadly, I don’t hold out much hope for any year that starts off with swearing in Donald Trump as President.

So, I’ll stay up until midnight and then start drinking.

Hey, it’s plan.  At least I have a plan, which is more than Trump has.

Every year, Media Matters awards a person/organization with the title Misinformer of the Year.  Started by David Brock back in 2004, Media Matters has been on a mission to counter what he dubs the Republican Noise Machine which was actually the title of one of his first books. The Misinformer award has been given to those who you would expect, like Sean Hannity, but also to CBS for it’s bogus Benghazi story a couple of years ago.  The Center for Medical Progress received the award in 2015 for its highly edited video designed to make it look like Planned Parenthood “sold baby parts” for profit, which it most certainly does not.

This year, the award is shared by two awardees: fake news and the “Alt-Right”.  They are both closely related as the “Alt Right” uses fake news to motivate its devotees to harass innocent people who it dubs a threat.  Those threats usually target females and/or people with a skin color that is not white and American.  Media Matters singled out Facebook for the proliferation of fake news by both political groups and simple money grubbers profiting from people’s gullibility.

Fake news and the “Alt-Right” are both cancers on society as they add nothing, but daily crucify truth and knowledge.  Media Matters is correct to call both of these out to the public.

Newt Gingrich is all beside himself.  That boy is so anxious that he could thread a sewing machine while it’s running.

Get a load of this.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is among the loudest Republican voices warning of a rush of big decisions from outgoing President Barack Obama’s administration that could be difficult for Donald Trump to undo.

Gingrich told Fox News he expects a “desperate frenzy” from the Democrat, who in the last few days has banned oil drilling in vast tracts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, dismantled a dormant national registry for visitors from countries with active terror groups and issued the most pardons in a single day in U.S. history.

He claims that Trump will repeal 60 to 70 % of Obama’s legacy.  If only, of course, Trump understands what the word legacy means.

Okay, please let me add that if there’s any type of “desperate frenzy” going on, it’s Newt Gingrich. That boy washed up, cashed it in, disgraced himself, and topped it all off with an amazing whine in 1999 and is willing to do anything to get attention. I mean, Honey, when your last good day was in the last century, you need to hush.

Trumpville has started eating their own. And in the most delicious way.

It’s a convoluted story but I’m gonna try to sort it out.

The Washington Post announced that Jason Miller has resigned his newly named position as the Trump campaign’s Communications Director to spend more time with his family. Well, that right there makes your ears perk up because nobody ever resigns where that’s the real reason.

Delgado

Come to find out, another member of the Trump transition team, a woman named A. J. Delgado, had jumped on Twitter and announced to the whole world that Miller was having an affair. Apparently the Trump campaign uses Twitter for it’s inner-office communication.

Delgado said that Miller was the “The 2016 version of John Edwards.”  She also added that he needed to resign and that it was “spooky” that he hadn’t already done so.

No, here’s spooky:  Trolling a man on Christmas Eve and then deactivating your Twitter account. That’s spooky.

“When people need to resign graciously and refuse to, it’s a bit . . . spooky,” one tweet read. It was followed by another saying Miller “needed to resign . . . yesterday.”

Delgado deactivated her Twitter account Saturday and could not be reached for comment ­Sunday.

Now it gets spookier.  Come to find out …

According to the New York Post, Delgado, Miller and another Trump aide were seen in a Las Vegas Strip club on the night before the final presidential debate in October with three employees from CNN, NBC and ABC.

And it also gets weird.  It seems that Delgado went on the electric teevee and said that Donald Trump’s lewd comments about grabbing women weren’t a big deal.

In early October, as some Republicans abandoned Trump after a videotape revealed lewd talk years earlier by the GOP nominee, Delgado tweeted: “Trump’s talk has zero impact on how his policies would affect Americans. But sure, let’s waste a day in the Ivory Tower feigning outrage.” She frequently defended him in TV appearances during the campaign.

Whoa.  Did she say “feigning outrage”?

You know, I think we haven’t heard the end of this story. At least I hope we haven’t.

Reince Priebus

“Merry Christmas to all! Over two millennia ago, a new hope was born into the world, a Savior who would offer the promise of salvation to all mankind. Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King.”

New King?  Really?  Honey, that right there is some mighty fine kissing-up.

Reince says we misunderstood him and he means Jesus Christ both times.  Oh, I think we understand just fine, Reince.  Just fine.

Traditionally, presidents pose with their spouses and children for Christmas photos.  Here are a few examples:

Then there is Cheeto Jesus:

That’s right.  Because nothing says Merry Christmas like a raised fist.  You know what happened – CJ realized he hadn’t tweeted a holiday greeting yesterday and ordered one of his minions to find a Christmas photo of himself.  Since his handlers hadn’t had a Christmas photo taken, they just grabbed the first one they found.  It looks like this was taken at one of his Gloat Tour rallies and it’s the closest he could get to an actual Christmas photo.

I continue to ponder one word descriptors of this guy, and the only one that comes to mind is vulgar.