As you know, I am a neighbor of Truth the Vote’s head honcho Cathy Engelbretch.  We are not close.  Not at all.

I have long accused Ms. Engelbretch of caring about voter fraud as long as it gets her on Fox News and makes some damn money for her, and she in turn has done nothing to dissuade me of that reckoning.

She’s back.

After Donald Trump claimed that there were 3 million fraudulent votes in the 2016 election, Engelbretch announced that they would begin to document it.  In fact, Trump’s right hand man for voter fraud named her in a tweet saying,”Catherine Engelbrecht and .@TrueTheVote will lead the analysis and reporting effort from here. .@realDonaldTrump,”

Yeah, well, that’s not gonna happen.

True The Vote says it’s running short on the cash needed to complete an audit of 2016 presidential voting — an effort Donald Trump, while spreading unproven claims of fraud, applauded in his first days in the White House.

Well, isn’t that convenient?

See, that’s kinda weird since one of True the Vote’s employees, Gregg Phillips, assured everyone just days after Trump’s election …

At the time, Phillips said his team had already verified more than 3 million non-citizen votes. When pressed for details, he said the group was still finalizing its audit. In January, Trump tweeted: “ Look forward to seeing final results.”

In March, Phillips told The Texas Tribune the final results were still forthcoming. But apparently, the audit is no longer taking shape.

If they had already “verified” 3 million non-citizen voting in January, why do they need more money?

“We knew that this was a project that would take millions, but the major funding commitments haven’t materialized,” Engelbrecht said in Tuesday’s video.

Neither Engelbrecht nor Phillips responded to interview requests this week.

I bet they didn’t.

Here’s what happened.  They can’t find any fraudulent voters, but they need money, money, money.  Two birds, one stone.

Donald Trump has millions of dollars.  I wonder why he doesn’t help them prove his fake news?

Something is really wrong with our thinking mechanisms.

Remember when 7% of adult Americans thought chocolate milk comes from brown cows?

Oh, we’ve topped that one.

Discovery Channel hyped that Michael Phelps was going to race a great white shark to see who’s faster. People were extremely upset that Phelps raced a CGI shark instead of getting into a swimming pool with a live one.  Did these people not see Jaws? Did they not realize that a shark has more teeth than Michael Phelps does? Yeah, and next week Sylvester Stallone will wrestle a tiger in a locked cage.

And you wonder why Donald Trump still has supporters?

Compensation Alert!

The two smallest men in Texas …

Captions are welcome.

Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.

I think he wants some cheese with that whine.

Uh, I hate to mention this, but I think Trump “forgot” that he has insulted them all.

And …. a proper president doesn’t need protection.  A proper president can stand on his own.

Here’s an idea, though.  Let’s let the congress protect Trump and let the Secret Service make laws.

Well, this is kinda fun.  The only damn thing that Congress can agree on is that Donald Trump cannot be trusted.

Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on sweeping sanctions legislation to punish Russia for its election meddling and aggression toward its neighbors, they said Saturday, defying the White House’s argument that President Trump needs flexibility to adjust the sanctions to fit his diplomatic initiatives with Moscow.

So here sits Donald Trump.  If he vetoes this sucker, that means that he’s in Putin’s pocket.  If he accepts it, Putin’s pocket is gonna get kinda tight around Trump’s patootie.

It’s not written in cement yet.

There are still hurdles to clear. Neither Speaker Paul D. Ryan nor Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, immediately issued statements on Saturday to give the agreements their blessing.

It will be fun watching those two bless one side or the other.

Ken Starr is as worthless as cornflake recipes.  It always stuck me as odd that while chancellor of Baylor University he purposefully averted his eyes to rape on campus, but was horrified at a consensual blow job a few years before.

However, while he was prosecuting Bill Clinton for something completely unrelated to an Arkansas land deal (See what I did there, Trump?), there was a memo produced that has been hidden in the national archives for two decades.

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the president’s official duties,” the Starr office memo concludes. “In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law.”

And it was written by a conservative law professor.

This produces a couple of questions, though.

Can Trump he tried as an adult?

How will we find handcuffs that small?