Y’all, Carter Page has filed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee.  By himself.  No, he’s not a lawyer but God bless that man, he plays one on the Trump Government Show.

You can see most of it here.

First, he alleges that the DNC has hurt him through “extreme civil rights abuses.”  None of these abuses are ever named or explained. That must be a closely held Page Top Secret Thingamajig.

He also believes that the Steele Dossier is part of a “racketeering enterprise.”

And there’s this:

Based on the defamatory information distributed and paid for by the Defendants, the [U.S. Government] waged an unprecedented, targeted, state-sponsored surveillance operation against Dr. Page. Given subsequent death threats and the intent of the Defendants, the outcome of the libel committed against Dr. Page clearly displays the requisite elements of the statutory definition of domestic terrorism

Dude, you are domestic terrorism. You can’t claim that the government is trying to killed you and then blame the DNC for it.  That’d be like somebody printing out all my articles, fashioning them into a club and then hitting you on the head with it. Ain’t my fault, Skippy.

However, he does get an A+ on the pure raw entertainment scale.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

I know this is going to come as no shock to you, but Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker lied on his resume about being an Academic All American.

He apparently flitted from job to job with a big fat lie on his resume.  He says he was named Academic All American while in college playing football at the University of Iowa.

Mr. Whitaker, who was a tight end on the Iowa team from 1990 to 1992, claimed to have been an Academic All-American in his biography on his former law firm’s website and on a résumé sent in 2014 to the chief executive of a now-closed patent-marketing firm, for which he sat on the advisory board. The résumé was included in documents released last month by the Federal Trade Commission.

Mr. Whitaker made the same claim in a 2010 application for an Iowa judgeship. A Justice Department press release, issued in 2009 when Mr. Whitaker left his post as U.S. Attorney in Iowa, said he had been “an academic All-American football player.”

So this isn’t like a typo.

Well, that would be nice had he won it. And I am certain that some University of Iowa football players qualified for it. However, Whitaker was not one of them.

Barb Kowal, a spokeswoman for the awarding organization, also known as CoSIDA, said the group has no record that Mr. Whitaker was ever an Academic All-American.

He won some lesser award, and before you snort-laugh, yes, there are laser “awards.”

I dunno, I think maybe lying with impunity is a job qualification in the Trump administration.

Former Texas Republican Congressman Steve Stockman is spending the next ten years in federal prison.

Now known as inmate 23502-479, Stockman has been transferred to Forth Worth Federal Medical Center, a low security facility for male prisoners with mental health issues.

I kept telling y’all that he is crazy.

Hey, it just increases his chance of spending the next ten years as Donald Trump’s roommate.

Thanks to Alfredo for the heads up.

It’s happening right before our eyes.  When His Orangeness was elected by the slimmest of electoral margins in 2016, normal people cringed, understanding that this chapter in our history was going to be a complete disaster.  Trump has certainly met that expectation; his erratic reality television show behavior has destroyed everything from 100 year-old international alliances to entire industries.  His tariff war has cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in economic value; his withdrawal from the TPP handed international trade dominance to China and Australia; his idiotic rantings on twitter have roiled the markets and destabilized politics in the US.  The entire world is either laughing at us, or worse, preparing for the lunatic in the White House to declare World War III over some fabricated crisis.

Up until now, the markets have shrugged off Trump’s insanity, primarily because they’ve enjoyed the trillion dollars he’s pumped into the economy with unneeded tax cuts causing skyrocketing deficits.  The result was overheating the economy which caused inflation to raise its ugly head, forcing the Fed to act by raising bank rates.  His shutdown of the federal government over his idiotic wall is the last nail in the coffin of the 2018 economy.  The Dow has plummeted 4,000 points from its highs; this is the worst December since the Great Depression.  The market the last 2 years has now returned only 4% per year, barely beating inflation.

Instead of trying to understand what the hell he’s doing, Trump bumbles around, attacking everything that moves; he spent Christmas Eve savaging the Fed for the inflation HE PERSONALLY CAUSED.  Even worse, the Fed is now the only agency standing in the way of this hair-weaved moron from pushing the entire country into the abyss.  He has never grasped that the POTUS is supposed to CALM the markets, not burn them down; this narcissist is playing with matches while standing knee-deep in gasoline, complaining that he doesn’t have a blow torch.  On top of that, of course, the invertebrates in Congress have fled DC to celebrate the holidays in hiding while the economy burns down around our ears and almost a million federal employees go without paychecks at Christmastime.

This is the worst disaster I’ve witnessed, including the last disaster started by GWB ten years ago.  The difference?  GWB was just a dumbass who surrounded himself with evil neocons and Darth Cheney, but at least he wasn’t nuts.  Trump, a loose cannon, is singularly the most corrupt, narcissistic, and insane POTUS in the modern era, including Nixon.  He’s run off all the adults who tried to restrain his worst instincts.  And, as Mueller gets closer, he gets more dangerous and erratic; finally, after almost 2 years of complete chaos, the markets are now destabilized and plummeting.  This one won’t end well.

Merry Christmas.