I cannot swear or attest to this for a fact, but I am told this is English.  There are even those who say that it was written by an adult.

So now Saturday Night Live does not have First Amendment protection?  And Trump wants to sue them for what? Making fun of him?

Bigger question yet: how does he know they are a spin machine if he doesn’t watch the show, which he swears he doesn’t.  Is stuff leaking in under his tin foil hat?

It has long been my opinion that what makes Republicans different is their total and complete lack of a sense of humor.  Seriously, they have had humorectomies.  Name me one funny Republican. See?  Okay, so Roseanne Barr.  No. And here’s why. Political humor is the powerless poking the powerful. Republicans make fun of the powerless and that’s not funny. It’s mean and hateful.

More importantly, have you ever heard of a Republican who could make fun of themselves?  Oh hell no.

There’s my soap box.  I still don’t think that’s English in his tweet.

Stephen Miller, Trump’s in-house Nazi who is orchestrating the gleeful cruelty and dickishness of this president’s immigration policy idiocy, was on Face the Nation yesterday.  I responded to his appearance by using my normal coping mechanism of turning off the sound when one of Trump’s toads is spewing BS on national television; but, in the silence I noticed  that this guy looks different than usual – he had hair on his normally Gollum-bald pate.  Sure enough, looking closer, it appeared that Miller had suddenly grown a hair line; the problem with that hair line is that it was…wait for it…sprayed on.  I went to my usual source for research (Twitter) and it had already lit up with the same observation that indeed Miller had sprayed on a new hairline.  Here’s a before and after pic:

Best line in many tweets following Miller’s appearance was “I did Nazi that coming!”  Which was entertaining and almost worth the price of witnessing this creature polluting the national airwaves with his hate.

Works for me.

It’s just getting worse for Trump.  As his Trumpist base calcifies into fact-free paralysis, normal Americans have grown weary of the reality show that has played 24/7 since His Orangeness rode down the escalator at Individual 1 Tower alongside his third wife, the nude model from Slovenia.  Are we finally reaching the point where America has had enough of this train wreck?  Perhaps.

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 62% of respondents believe that Trump is not telling the truth about Russian interference in the 2016 elections.  Additionally, they also want congressional Dems to take control to correct the course our country is taking.  Only 10% believe Trump got the message in the 2018 election, and 56% believe the US is on the wrong track.

We’re finally seeing cracks in Trump’s big beautiful wall of bullshit.  While his base remains sycophantic, normal people are turning against him.  This presidency will end badly, and insiders acknowledge that, besides all of Trump’s bloviating and bluster, he now fears impeachment.

Good.

CNN is reporting that unknown attorneys argued yesterday in a locked courtroom before a three judge federal appeals court panel over a challenged subpoena to Mueller’s grand jury.  This is the third such hearing, but this time, the entire fifth floor of the courthouse was cleared of all press and observers but for a few judiciary clerks.  The lawyers, who remain unidentified, arrived and left the courthouse under cover.  About 10 minutes after the hubbub on the fifth floor ceased, a black car carrying two of the Mueller team were seen entering the building where Mueller’s team resides.

Very interesting.  With all the secrecy, this witness is clearly highly placed.  My guess it’s a Trump family member; Jr.? Ivanka? Kushner?  This will make a great study in governance after this is all over.

Remember George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign aid who lied to the FBI and spent 14 days in prison for it?

He says, “we all make mistakes.”  Yeah, but lying to the FBI about meeting with Russians to influence the United States elections, is a bigger mistake than, say, forgetting paper towels at the grocery store.

He’s running for congress.

In the Telegraph interview, Papadopoulos, who resides in the Los Angeles area, named Orange County as where he hopes to find a congressional seat.

“Now that Los Angeles is home I just have to find a little Republican enclave somewhere in this part of the country and run there,” he said in the interview.

Okay, so best I can figure Papadopoulos was in prison when Orange County flipped blue and the poor soul is totally unaware that Republicans no longer get elected there but it sure will be fun when he finds outs.