Seems to me I’ve heard this song before, it’s an old familiar score …

Florida, you cannot hide Democratic ballots, count only the Republicans and then say that the counting is over once the Republicans are in the lead.

That’s the rules. Just because you got away with stealing an election in 2000 does not mean you can do it again this year. You have to wait at least 20 years before you steal another one.  I think that’s in the rules, too.

If you’ll recall, the last election you stole ended in a crashed economy, banks failing, a couple of wars that cost $4 Trillion dollars and 6,648 American lives and a debt that could choke a horse.  So, Florida, you can see why we’re a little anxious about you doing it again.

And then there’s this …

“The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!”

Donald Trump

Well, there ya go, Florida.  You screwed up the election so Republicans win because they are experts at screwing up.

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We all saw it yesterday – Trump, on Twitter, of course, attacked California blaming the state for “poor forest management”.  Here’s the tweet:

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”

The Twitterverse exploded, rightly accusing him of victim-blaming and calling him stupid, which are both true.  But what was generally missed?  60% of forests in California are FEDERAL, under authority of the National Forest Service, which is HIS RESPONSIBILITY.   His own 2019 budget reduces forest management spending by $170 million, and this comes on the heels of 2018 reductions.  He has signed executive orders ending clean air and water rules, and is known as a radical climate change denier.  Climate change is a now major factor in the devastating forest that now regularly rake not only California, but other western states.

The California Professional Firefighters Association responded to Trump’s attack pointing out that not only are 60% of forests under federal authority, but that another 30% are in PRIVATE hands.  They also scolded him for being such an asshole when hundreds of thousands of people are suffering and thousands of homes are being burned to the ground.

And that’s the point.

Trump is catching hell from everyone from CNN to Winston Churchill’s grandson for flying all the way to France for WWI commemoration ceremonies to simply skip a US cemetery visit because of…wait for it…rain.  Our low energy president chose to stay in his hotel room watching television while dignitaries from all over Europe and North America visited cemeteries all over France.  Apparently he didn’t want to muss his hair weave.

While his sycophants defended his lack of motivation to actually do his goddam job, I’ll just leave this little remembrance of how real presidents deal with poor weather conditions:

This morning, during one of his now famous Helicopter-Whining-In-The-Background press gaggles, Trump disavowed even knowing Matthew Whitaker, who he had just appointed as acting Attorney General of the United States.  That’s right, folks – Donald Only the Finest People Trump just appointed a guy to the Justice Department that he says he doesn’t know.  Which is funny, since Whitaker has visited him several times in the Oval Office.

Trump has been receiving withering criticism from all sides for Whitaker’s appointment which jumped him over a number of highly qualified professionals in an unprecedented move to obstruct justice, since as a Fox Noise talking head, Whitaker has argued vehemently that the Mueller investigation should stop and that Hillary should be in jail.  What a sweetheart.

Anyhoo, the fat lady ain’t sung on this one yet, and I predict it won’t end well, for Whitaker, anyway, since everything Trump touches dies.