As we roll into the new year, a few observations:

As of this moment, we have no Attorney General, no White House Chief of Staff, no Interior Secretary, no Director of the EPA, the Secretary of Education is a religious nut trying to destroy education, the VP is a religious nut who believes women should be subjugated, the Secretary of State is a political hack helping cover up the murder of a Saudi journalist, the Director of National Security wants to bomb Iran, 18 countries have no US ambassador (including Australia), half of the positions in the State Department remain unfilled, the stock market is down almost 3,000 points, China now owns Pacific rim trade, the US is the only major power to NOT be in the Paris accords, the entire world is either terrified or laughing at us, and the president has shut down the government for the last 10 days over his 5th century solution to a 21st century problem. Notice I didn’t mention anything about everyone convicted, in jail, or on the way to jail, or Trump’s current average of telling over 500 lies per month.

This is great? Are we tired of winning yet?

I’m just tired.

Happy New Year

#myattorneygotarrested #pleasetellmethisisanightmare #ITMFA #gotemoluments? #trumpresign

Trump says that most federal employees want the shut down.

“Many of those workers have said to me, communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall,” Trump told reporters on Christmas day. “These federal workers want the wall.”

Maybe federal workers in another country, but not this one.

About 71 percent of federal workers oppose the shutdown …

And …

About 30 percent of federal workers support a wall, though 35 percent of those individuals say the means of a shutdown do not justify the ends.

What this means is that you’ve got Jim Bob and Lester working for the Department of Agriculture in Vance, Alabama (yeah well, they never heard of you either) enjoying the time off while Ethel and Brenda take a second job to pay for the beer. Trump talked to them because they speak Trump. In fact, they’ve been researching the back of hunting magazines for ads where you can get yourself one of them foreign wives who knows to shuddup and do what a man says because Brenda whining all the damn time about that second job is getting real old.

So now you’ve got government by Trump, Jim Bob, and Lester. Oh yeah, and Mitch McConnell.

Thanks to Chloe Bear for the heads up.

Okay, it’s official.  Elizabeth Warren has formed an “exploratory committee” to start raising money for her bid for the presidency.

She might as well run. Everybody else is.

At 8:30 this morning, Warren emailed her supporters to ask for money to get this show on the road.

I like her and her anti-Wall Street perspective. I also like how she was one of the first to sass Trump back.  However, I worry about her handling of the whole “Pocahontas” thing. That was a disaster.

The New York Daily News is reporting that a New Jersey attorney representing undocumented former employees at Trump’s National Golf Club in Bedminster turned over to Robert Mueller fake green cards and social security numbers given to them by managers at the club.  The fake credentials were used to make the employees appear to be legal to work in the US.

While Trump has the government shut down over his idiotic wall, his own criminality continues to come to light as the clock relentlessly ticks.

Eight days into The Trump Shutdown where 800,000 federal employees are either furloughed without pay or still working without pay, Trump decided to add insult to injury by signing an executive order stripping away a 2.1% pay raise that was coming on January 1.  He cited “fiscal sustainability” as his reason, this after blowing a gigantic trillion dollar hole in the budget by ramming through an unseeded and cynical tax cut for his billionaire donors in 2017.  Happy New Year.

If you’re a federal employee and voted for this carnival barker, you’re getting what you deserve.  The rest of you, I’m sorry he’s been inflicted on you and the rest of us normal people.

I’m taking a couple of days off, so unless El Jefe gets the itch, I’m outta here today and tomorrow.

However, I want to give you some damn place to talk if something BIG happens.

So jump right in and say whatever the dickens you want to.