Okay, so carry me off to Alex Jones and the conspiracy thugs because oh boy holy cow, I’m getting on one conspiracy that is almost unbelievable.

According to the Washington Post, nine damn days before Trump is inaugurated …

The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.

Prince was seen at Trump transition offices last December. He donated $250,000 to Trump’s campaign. He has close ties to Steve Bannon. His sister is Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education.

In polite company, this is called incest.

Prince told anyone who would listen that Hillary Clinton was only a half step from the Muslim Brotherhood, even appearing on Bannon’s show to blast her.

Prince, of course, denies any connection between his and Trump.

A Prince spokesman said in a statement: “Erik had no role on the transition team. This is a complete fabrication. The meeting had nothing to do with President Trump. Why is the so-called under-resourced intelligence community messing around with surveillance of American citizens when they should be hunting terrorists?”

Prince has his own army and he’s meeting with the Russians over Syria and Iran. So there ya really go – a half step from the terrorists.

While Prince is no longer the owner of Blackwater …

Prince sold the firm, which was subsequently re-branded, but has continued building a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He now heads a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group.

And in other uncomfortable news, Trump kissed-up to Egypt’s despot and lavished praise on him for doing “a fantastic job in a very difficult situation.”

Yeah but, the guy made the difficult situation.

The scene provided a powerful counterpoint to Mr. Sisi’s many critics, in Egypt and abroad, who know him as the leader of the military takeover that removed an elected president, oversaw a vicious security operation in which hundreds of protesters were gunned down in the streets of Cairo and has cemented his authority by filling prisons with his opponents while strangling the free press.

Yeah, he wants sympathy for being an orphan after he killed both his parents.

Okay, so maybe he’s got it out of his system and won’t do anything else crazy today but don’t count on it.

So now we have to worry about North Korea nukes AND Republican nukes.

One of those arsenals is guided by a chubby immature guy with a weird haircut who is not fully grounded in reality, and the other is guided by Kim Jong-Un.

Democrats have locked in the votes to block Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, meaning Republicans will have to take the extreme step of using the so-called “nuclear option” to blow up Senate rules to confirm him.

Personally, I do not believe that a President elected through Putin deserves a supreme court nomination.  But, like their leader, Senate Republicans can dish it out but they sure can’t take it.

From ProPublica

Come to find out, on February 10th an addendum was added to the original trust, which was already as flimsy as a bride’s nightgown, that says …

Trump can draw money from his more than 400 businesses, at any time, without disclosing it.

The previously unreported changes to a trust document, signed on Feb. 10, stipulates that it “shall distribute net income or principal to Donald J. Trump at his request” or whenever his son and longtime attorney “deem appropriate.” That can include everything from profits to the underlying assets, such as the businesses themselves.

Holy damn crap.  I guess you can do any crazybutt thing you want when your approval rating is at 35%.  I mean, what do you have to lose?

Propublica put it online line by line.  Go have look-see for yourself.

Okay, so Donald Trump got himself worked into a raging lather of sassy this weekend and announced in the Financial Times (sorry, subscription only so you’ll just have to trust me) that he has a plan for North Korea.

He says that during the upcoming Great China Golf Tournament and Talks About Trump Investments, he will ….

“Yes, we will talk about North Korea. And China has great influence over North Korea. And China will either decide to help us with North Korea, or they won’t. And if they do that will be very good for China, and if they don’t it won’t be good for anyone.”

That’s a lot of little words meaning, “North Korea will be a subject for discussion.”

Then with a little twinkle in his eye, he added …

Well, if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you.

Somehow, that doesn’t make me feel better.

This is from Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen, everybody’s favorite hamburger flipper.  It is the honest to God stone cold dead solid perfect truth.

Deep in your heart you always knew this was true, but now it’s the law.

Last Thursday, U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood ruled in the case of Foster v. Schock, No. 15-cv-03325 (N.D. Ill.) that a candidate’s campaign promises are worthless.

Or at least not actionable. An Aaron Schock donor, Howard Foster, had sued Schock for mail and wire fraud for soliciting campaign contributions on the basis that he was an honest politician.

Aaron Schock, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, was indicted on fraud charges last November after an investigation revealed that he allegedly used taxpayer money to fund lavish trips and events.

Judge Wood wrote, “The parties in this case have not cited any precedent involving fraud claims based upon campaign speech or solicitation of political candidates, and this Court’s research has revealed none. But courts reviewing communications in other contexts have long referred to campaign speech as the paradigm of unreliable puffery. . . . [G]eneric claims of honesty and integrity . . . are too vague to be considered definitive representations upon which Foster, or any reasonable person, could rely. The elevated skepticism directed toward political communications only pushed Schock’s statements further into the realm of inactionable puffery.”

Whether or not eventually Aaron Schock goes to jail, he will go down in history for setting the precedent that a candidate’s campaign promises are worthless.

There is no truth to the rumor that the champagne was flowing in the White House Counsel’s Office last Thursday upon learning of Judge Wood’s decision. In addition, there has been no independent verification of this alleged quote from White House Counsel Don McGahn: “Judge Wood is a brilliant jurist. The President is relieved to know that the Trump fortune will always be protected from the legal claims of 50,000 unemployed coal miners.”

UPDATED: This explosive story is breaking on every network:  About 30 minutes ago, Donald Trump renounced his affiliation with the Republican Party, saying he’s going to switch to the Democratic and form a political alliance with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.  He also announced that he’s introducing legislation on Monday to expand Medicare to everyone in the US, including undocumented immigrants.  He will also donate his entire fortune, including real estate interests, to Medicaid.  In making this announcement, Trump said:

“When I awoke this morning I was hit with the revelation that I’ve been spending far too much time on Twitter and have not been doing my job since being inaugurated.  From now on, I will work 24/7 to get healthcare for all, to protect the climate, and to stop Russians from interfering with our elections and government.  To prove my commitment, I’m giving all of my worldly goods to Medicaid to help assure its solvency.  Further, I’m requiring all of my billionaire cabinet members to also give their fortunes to Medicaid.  Failure to do so will disqualify them from membership in the cabinet.”

This shocking story is still developing today, April 1, 2017.

UPDATE: In a follow up announcement, Trump revealed that Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to distribute all of Trump’s fortune through the Clinton Foundation.