Trump is unhappy with Justin Trudeau and he’s gonna make Canada pay.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s assertion that Canada “will not be pushed around” will end up costing Canadians “a lot of money.”

Trump was upset because he felt that the G7 meeting was like recess in heaven – everybody was happy and playing nicely.

He also said that Trudeau “probably didn’t know” that there are like 20 tv sets aboard Air Force One.  I dunno, I suspect that Trudeau probably knows how tv works and figures someone might tell Trump what he said.  Or, you know, record it.

Trump also said this morning that he did not need a recording of his meeting with Kim because … you’re gonna love this.

When asked by a reporter if he had notes to verify details after the meeting in Singapore, Trump said he didn’t need to.

“I don’t have to verify because I have one of the great memories of all time,” Trump said.

Yeah, except about stuff that actually happened.

And yesterday. He has no memory of yesterday. Ever.

Friday, the DNC Rules and Bylaws committee proposed a rules change for the 2020 campaign.  The new rule is directed straight at Bernie Sanders:

The new rule specifically requires that someone running for president must declare in writing his or herself as a member of the Democratic party and that they will run and serve as a Democrat.  Easy, right?  Not so fast.  The two party system in the US is cemented in place by statute, creating an almost impenetrable wall to outsiders.  Party primaries are paid for by the taxpayers, and getting on the ballot in all the states as an independent presidential candidate is virtually impossible.  Because of this, the only realistic path to the presidency is as insurgency in one of the two entrenched  political parties.  You saw that in spades in 2016 where Trump used his television persona to hijack the GOP and Sanders’ grass roots campaign almost uprooted Hillary’s coronation.

This rule seeks to stifle competition for the nomination, all while DNC political operatives are loudly denying that fact, which is as obvious to normal people as a hillbilly at a Newport garden party.  Even while these operatives are all sniffy that outsiders understand their actual intent, Sanders supporters aren’t happy.  Mark Lonabaugh, a senior Sanders advisor, call the new resolution “stunning”.

Someday, establishment Dems will have to face the fact that they are way out of step with their constituents.  The Sanders phenomenon should have shaken these pillars of the party to the core, but it didn’t.  They are ignoring, at their own peril, the 13 million voters, many first time voters, who went for the tottering old candidate from Vermont instead of the tottering old candidate from New York, Chicago, Arkansas (pick your accent).  He brought a message of social justice, equity, and fairness that the Dems abandoned in the 1990s.  And it appears that, rather than learning from that experience, the DNC is trying to keep it from happening again by further rigging the rules in favor of the establishment.

Oh, and one last thing – While the DNC specifically designed a rule to keep out insurgents, there are no adopted rule changes to eliminate or significantly reduce the influence of superdelegates, and no rule that prevents a presidential candidate from controlling the national party until AFTER they are nominated.  It appears the Democratic party is the LEAST democratic organization in US politics, and that should piss you off.

Apparently, boy despot Kim Jong Un is very concerned that outsiders learn more about him that he wants.  For that reason, no sh*t, he brought his own portable toilet to “deny determined sewer divers insights into the supreme leader’s stools,” for DNA and health condition.  Yeah that’s weird.

Oh Republican man, look at you.

Blake Farenthold still owes $84,000 to taxpayers, $125,000 to cover the cost of the special election to replace him, he’s still collecting his $160,000 congressional salary, and now he’s expecting taxpayers to pay $400 an hour to lawyers to help him keep his new job at the Calhoun Port Authority which created a new job for him and hid his hiring from the public.

Blake has that Republican disease – you know, the one where he can’t keep his hands in his own pocket.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

The Houston Chronicle did an editorial that may be some of their best work.

They are not happy with what Trump said about Hurricane Harvey.

Unfortunately, we’ve grown accustomed to bizarre Trumpian bloviations. (No, Mr. President, Canada did not burn down the White House.) The ad hoc remarks are often best ignored. U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz did just that, discretion being the better part of Republican valor in these peculiar times. And yet the president’s Hurricane Harvey inanity is too serious for Houstonians to let slide.

Help from the federal government, from the White House, from the Texas congressional delegation. If the man in charge is abysmally ignorant about what happened in the wake of a Category 4 storm and the epic deluge that followed, who’s to say that government agencies — Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Flood Insurance Program, among others — will understand the urgency of Houston’s needs? Who’s to say that Ben Carson and other Trump appointees will be any better informed?

Good damn question! And they use trickle down down to handle Greg Abbott.

We need political leadership — from Washington to be sure, but also from Austin. Gov. Greg Abbott, whose mealy-mouthed response to the president’s remark was nearly as inane as the remark itself — “no information on that one way or the other” — ought to have called a special session of the Texas Legislature months ago to address relief, recovery and preparedness. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick needs to tend to local needs.

My favorite is them calling Trump “abysmally ignorant.”

Thanks to everybody for the heads up. 

Remember Sheriff David Clarke, the guy who resigned as the sheriff in Milwaukee County to join the Trump administration as assistant secretary of Homeland Security.

Then it came out that he plagiarized his master’s thesis, so he couldn’t get approval.  Now that he stopped plagiarizing, he has become a twitter sensation.

Like this:

I really don’t know where to start.  First off, it’s “couldn’t care less.”  Could care less mean that he … well, he cares and he could do it less if he set his mind to it.

Second off, I do not know what your average Triple Crown winner thinks about leftist identity politics.  For all I know, they could be strongly in favor it.  I would need to see more evidence of Sheriff Clarke’s claim before I could pass judgment about a horse’s stand on political science.  They are notoriously closed mouthed about their philosophical standing.  However, I do know what a horse’s butt thinks about Donald Trump and if I forget, I can always call Clarke to remind myself.

Plus, there’s one other thing – George Soros is an owner in Justify. So, if Trump wants to invite Justify, I suspect Soros would come along. That would make sorting out the winners much easier.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.