Oh yeah, it’s Ollie!

Y’all, it’s kinda sad.  The GOP doesn’t have any leaders left who haven’t been convicted of some damn thing.

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is poised to become the new president of the National Rifle Association, according to a press release. North, a Fox News host and key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, will become president “within a few weeks, a process the NRA Board of Directors initiated” Monday morning, the release says. North is retiring from Fox News immediately.

Remember how he had to be granted immunity before he’d testify before congress on Iran Contra?  Delicate little snowflake.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Well, Jim Bakker is out of prison and he’s trying to save your soul and your butt.

Tammy Faye passed to the great running mascara in the sky, but Jim remarried and found secret information about saving your butt when the apocalypse comes and there’s all that fire and brimstone. Jim has a hide out for you.  He’s not jacking around this time, y’all.

Jim’s selling safe cabins in the Ozarks and supplies to keep you safe, including his six 28-ounce “Extreme Survival Warfare” water bottles for $150.

Has Jim reformed and become legitimate or is he cashing in on fear?

Answer that at your own risk, Bakker tells viewers:

“One day you’re going to shake your fist in God’s face and you’re going to say, ‘God, why didn’t you warn me?’ He’s going to say, ‘You sat there and you made fun of Jim Bakker all those years. I warned you. But you didn’t listen.’ ”

Jim also says that God and God alone made Trump president and that Hillary … oh hell, you just gotta read it yourownself.

Bakker even saw God’s divine hand in Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s physical collapse, because of illness, just after she attended a 9/11 memorial in New York City. “9/11 was probably the most stern warning God ever gave to America,” Bakker said on his show. “There’s a collapse coming that’s much bigger than (Clinton’s) collapse. … It’s time to be ready.”

Yeah, go ahead, laugh at Jim.   But then don’t shake your fist at God when you get sick and fall down.

The big news today is that Trump has some financial dealings worthy of a circus sideshow.

About 10 years ago, suddenly outta nowhere Trump starts spending $400 million in cash to buy some really weird stuff.  Described as the “worst time in Donald Trump’s entire adult life to pay all cash for properties,” the cash buys included golf courses, which are not known for a high return on investment, while interest rates were at an all-time low.

Nobody knows where Trump got this sudden infusion of cash.

Oddly enough, Michael Cohen started working for Trump around this same time.

I think this deal stinks of money laundering.  The question is – who is her doing it for?  I’ll give you two guesses and The Little Sisters of Charity is out of the running.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I’m beginning to think that Donald Trump needs brief appearances by a court jester to remind us that he could be crazier.  Remember five-day-man Anthony Scaramucci, who can best be remembered as loud, wrong, and had weird mannerisms.

Now fast forward to Rudy Giuliana, who is Scaramucci two.

My favorite among Giuliana’s explanations about how he can be so wrong about the funneling of money to pay Stormy is that he was “focused on the law more than the facts.”

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” -Carl Sandburg

Jimmy Kimmel has it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA-fY2dr9jc&wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202

Start your Monday giggling.

Okay, see, I don’t know what this means.

Trump was speaking at a tax reform roundtable in Ohio and the subject of the wall came up.  What that has to do with tax reform beats the hell outta me, but Trump loves to talk about his wall.

So, here’s his new threat.

The President was in the midst of criticizing Democrats during a riff about border security when he slipped in the idea that people might “have to think about closing up the country.”

“They don’t want the wall, but we’re going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while,” Trump said.

Okay, so what does that mean, close up the country for a while?  Maybe more importantly, who told him that he has the power to do that and where can I find them to knock them upside the head?  Does he think he can plant a CLOSED sign in Nebraska or some damn place and declare the United States closed?

Oh no, this wasn’t just a slip on the tongue.

Trump then mentioned the notion a second time, saying, “And we may have to close up our country to get this straight, because we either have a country or we don’t.

Here’s what troubling me.  The day Trump came up with this whole wall idea, I didn’t like it.  I think it’s a trick not to keep Mexicans out, but to lock me in.  I do not like the idea that my escape route is being closed.

And they say the third time is the charm, but not so here. He just had to talk about it one more time:

Trump also told supporters at a speech in Michigan last weekend that if Congress did not meet his funding demands for border security, he may support a government shutdown this fall.

All I hear is the sound of a spoon being beat on a high chair tray.

Yeah, go ahead.  Shut down the government during an election, Buddy.  Smart move.  Did Jared come up with that?

Thanks to Papa for the heads up. 

Okay, so here’s the deal.  Manafort is set to go to trial on July 10th.  None of it is about Manafort and trump.  All of it is about Manafort and Russia.

… he is accused in cases filed both in Alexandria, Virginia and Washington, D.C. of hiding the work he did for and the money he made from a Russia-friendly political party in Ukraine and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

In Virginia, he is also accused of concealing foreign bank accounts, falsifying his income taxes and failing to report foreign bank accounts.

In Washington, Manafort faces counts of conspiracy to launder more than $30 million, making false statements, failing to follow lobbying disclosure laws and working as an unregistered foreign agent.

As we say in Texas, he’s in a heap o’ trouble.

Now, here’s the fun part:  Yesterday, Mueller requested 70 blank subpoenas in preparation for the trial.  Yeah, seventy. That means the odds of you or me getting subpoenaed are better than average.

Thanks to Marcia for the heads up.