Some of my fun friends are measuring the time somebody stays in the Trump administration as Moochies.

Anthony Scaramucci lasted ten day before getting fired.

But I have no idea how to rate this one on the Moochie scale.

President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase.

“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning.

And those conflicts would be?  They don’t know anything about law?

So, they got fired before they got hired. I think that’s a -2 on the Moochie Scale.

Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.

It’s the day after the March for Our Lives events all across the country.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen thought you’d like to see the NRA’ latest political contribution filings.  Needless to say it’s heavy on Texas.

Which brings us to this guy who showed up in Austin at the march determined to be heard but letting it be known he will not listen.

You can see more photos here.

Thanks to Alfredo and Sarah for the heads up.

And Lynne from Juneau, Alaska sends a picture of her one protestor.

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Thanks to Bud Malone for the heads up.

The high school kids from Parkland Florida are having a profound effect on America; tomorrow, there will be over 800 March for Our Lives events worldwide, over 700 in the US alone.  El Jefe is going to the one in Houston.  To find a march near you, click here.

But that’s not all that’s happening.  The boycotts against business partners of the NRA are being effective. At least 18 companies have severed ties with the NRA.  Additionally, several large chains have established a minimum age of 21 to purchase guns.  But now even more steps are being taken by large business.  Yesterday, Citigroup announced that it will require all of its clients who deal in guns to raise its age limit to 21, do background checks on ALL gun sales, cease selling bump stocks and high capacity magazines. This policy not only applies to borrowers from Citi, but also all retailers who accept Citibank credit cards.  If clients refuse to comply, Citi will drop them.  This move have been considered more of a social statement than real, but I disagree.  If Citi has been moved enough to declare this policy, so have other banks, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.  In 2012, the NRA started “anti-gun” shaming, telling its members to boycott companies it viewed as hostile to guns.  Well, now the worm has turned, and there are a lot more of us than the NRA membership.  Companies are focused on profitability.  Normal people are now threatening that profitability of companies which are irresponsibly supporting unlimited gun ownership.

The kids from Parkland are shaming Washington, shaming state governments, shaming the gun lobby, and shaming all of us adults for miserably failing at protecting our own.  It’s our fault, and it’s long past time for us to fix it.

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Thanks to Bryan for the grin