Damn Twitter.

You know, the upside is that Donald Trump hasn’t gotten us into a weapons of mass destruction war yet – he’s done his fighting with words.  If you think about it, that’s quite impressive considering that Trump doesn’t know very many words outside of: me, wonderful, me, pussy, me, believe me, me, Nazi Germany, me, and unfair.

I dunno if it’s a good idea to get into a word war with the CIA, but I probably suspect it’s not.  However, with Trump holed up with those Breitbart people and every other conspiracy freak in the world, I am kinda surprised he hasn’t gone after the illuminati and ancient aliens.

The CIA director is fighting back.

So here I am kinda confused. As a liberal, I have a natural distrust of the CIA.  As a human being, I have a raging distrust of Donald Trump.  I have to think that Trump is undermining the legitimacy of the CIA so he can form his own CIA with the intent of … I dunno, world domination or some damn thing.

And then when you think, “Nope, this is as low as it goes, it can’t get any worse than this,” we find ourselves in a prostitute war.  Seriously, whore wars with Russia.

First Putin says that those who spread false rumors about Donald Trump are … you guessed it …

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday an unsubstantiated report that alleged Russia had gathered compromising material on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was a hoax, and slammed those who are propagating the allegations as “worse than prostitutes.”

Taking it from there, Putin also says he does not have compromising pictures of Trump with prostitutes.

The Kremlin has denied that it holds any compromising material on Trump after U.S. intelligence officials informed the president-elect about unsubstantiated reports that Russia had compiled potentially damaging personal information on him.

And if that doesn’t give you a complete picture of the Trump/Putin mind meld, lookie right here.

Trump is “a grown man, and secondly he’s someone who has been involved with beauty contests for many years and has met the most beautiful women in the world,” Putin said. “I find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world.”

If I close my eyes, that’s Donald Trump talking, right? “Ours are the best in the world?”

I’m gonna give myself a heart attack.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I am kinda tickled to be the one to let you know that even the Bruce Springsteen cover band has quit the Trump inauguration.

The B-Street band pulled out.

Wanna know why?

“We felt that we had to make it known that we didn’t want to seem disrespectful, in any way, shape or form, to Bruce and his music and his band,” Forte says. “I don’t want to upset them. We owe everything to him and our gratitude and respect to the band is imperative above all else. It became clear to us that this wasn’t working and we just had to do what we thought was the right thing to do and that was to pull out.”

Okay, so maybe Clint Eastwood and Gary Busey can quickly form a band.  Otherwise, there’s not going to be much dancing at the balls.

Well, well, well, Trump’s choice for Director of Health and Human Services seems to be one of the bigger alligators in the swamp.  And, damn, that animal is plenty hungry.

Price, as a congressman, purchases shares in a company that makes stuff of hip replacement operations, Zimmer Biomet.

Less than a week after the transaction, the Georgia Republican congressman introduced the HIP Act, legislation that would have delayed until 2018 a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulation that industry analysts warned would significantly hurt Zimmer Biomet financially once fully implemented.

Not only that but …

The Wall Street Journal reported last month that he traded roughly $300,000 in shares over the past four years in health companies while pursuing legislation that could impact them.

And then because alligators have really big appetites, Price needed more money so he sent a letter to CMS asking for a delay for the implementation of the new policy. And then …

Two days after the letter, Zimmer Biomet’s PAC cut Price’s reelection committee a check worth $1,000, according to campaign finance filings.

Three months after he introduced the bill, the company’s PAC cut Price’s campaign committee another $1,000 check, according to records.

Bless Trump’s heart, he had to look really hard to find a Republican congressvarmint with that big an appetite for self-enrichment.

His hearing starts Wednesday and if the Democrats don’t walk out of there with a new pair of alligator boots, I’ll be very disappointed.

Price wants to reform Medicare, y’all.  Under his plan, from now on, you don’t get health care until you send Price $1,000.  In return, he’ll send you a gift card for $100 to pay for your medical expenses.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

As expected, the tsunami of lies pouring out of Cheeto Tower have reached Fukushima proportions.  After biting his lip over Alec Baldwin’s masterful SNL portrayal of him Saturday night, CJ exploded yesterday, ranting about Baldwin, insulting the director of the CIA, and, of course, Democrats.

But the most interesting lie, though, was the one he told during a telephone interview with the Washington Post on Saturday.  In that interview Trump declared that he’s close to a new healthcare plan that includes “insurance for everybody” and that the federal government was going to negotiate drug prices with Big Pharma.  What?

So, after railing for years about the evils of Obamacare, CJ is going to replace it with Hillarycare, rebranded as Cheetocare?  The chances of getting this through Congress?  Infinitesimal to zero.  But then he can blame them, right?  More chaos on Bullshit Mountain (sorry, Momma).

My head is spinning.

There’s this right here breaking news today.

And far more likely, there’s no contact between the Trump campaign and Mike Pence.

So I think we have a slight problem.

There’s a tiff between Congressman John Lewis and alleged President-Elect Donald Trump.

Reince Priebus says the whole thing is just awful and it needs fixing.

Reince Priebus tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Obama should “step up” and “call it what it is – it’s wrong what is happening, it’s wrong how some of these Democrats are treating President-elect Trump.”

So, Reince needs Obama’s help?  Yeah, I am certain that Trump can count on President Obama to help him with this illegitimate president thing.  After all, Donald Trump personally gave President Obama a whole lot of experience with that.

So I heard that the Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey’s Circus is closing down after 168 years.  They knew they couldn’t compete with the Trump administration.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.