When Trump said he was going to call the government shutdown a “strike,” I got real confused.

It couldn’t be a union strike because in that case the workers voluntarily walk off the job. The meaning is that the little guys band together to face off the big guy.  That’s not happening here.  In union terms, this is a lockout, not a strike.

Maybe he meant bowling. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Trump takes his big ball and smashes the little pins every which away.  No, wait, there  problem with that.  No big ball.

Baseball? A strike is a bad thing.  You only get three of them before you have to go back to the bench.  Trump is way over three so he probably wouldn’t admit to many more.

However, I think umpire Pelosi calls like she sees it and a baseball strike is probably what’s happening here.

Thanks to Chloe Bear for the heads up.

Okay, I have to admit that I was blissfully unaware that Donald Trump was blissfully unaware of any damn thing the federal government does.

I have now come to understand that he has no idea what a government shutdown would mean. Or what government means.

Come to find out …

The Department of Housing and Urban Development sent letters to 1,500 landlords Friday as part of a last-minute effort to prevent the eviction of thousands of tenants. A lot of those tenants live in units covered by a HUD program that many agency officials didn’t realize had expired on Jan. 1 and that they are now unable to renew.

And that’s only the beginning.

The IRS and Treasury Department can’t figure out how to start providing tax refunds next month.  But, I’m sure that Steve Mnuchin can cover that out of his own pocket.

The National Park Service is suffering horrific damage to our parks and seven people have now died at National Parks.  It’s apparently Lord of the Flies out there.

And, 38 million Americans will lose access to food stamps next month.  That means children.

No damn wall.  The wall is hurtful to South Texas but most importantly, it won’t work. No damn wall.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Trump and his enablers have been desperately been trying to change the conversation this week to “You’re either for my wall, or you’re for open borders”.  It’s BS, all normal people know it’s BS, and even Chris Wallace of Fox Noise knows it’s BS.  Yesterday, Chief White House Liar Sarah HuckaSanders was on Fox Noise Sunday and faced a more than skeptical Wallace.  When she used the 4,000 terrorists caught on the border talking point, he immediately called her on it saying, “Wait a minute, I know this; I’ve studied up on it, but didn’t know you would use it.  Those 4,000 people were caught in airports…”  It was one of those sweet rare moments where one of Trump’s liars gets their legs cut out from under them, caught completely off guard by an interviewer who normally tosses softballs.

Then I got to thinking – If most terrorist suspects are caught in airports, why don’t we then move all major airports to Mexico, then build The Wall?  That’s it, The Wall would then be effective, and Trump would be happy.

Good idea, right?

This is a test to see if you are a radical partisan:

If you believe this video made in college of a now member of Congress dancing to a show tune is offensive and highly inappropriate,

And this picture of the “elegant and sophisticated” now First Lady doesn’t concern you in the slightest,

Then you are a radical partisan to whom truth means nothing.

YOu’re welcome.

One of our readers suggested this piece in the Washington Post yesterday, and it’s a good one. Entitled What’s so wrong with motherf—er?, writer Molly Roberts points out the silliness of the Republicans’ outrage over freshman member of Congress Rashida Tlaib’s use of the word during remarks at a private celebration the evening of her swearing in.  I don’t know if Tlaib is involved, but a movement started very early on in Trump’s term called ITMFA, or Impeach the MotherF—er Already, has nationally grown in strength as he has assaulted everything that is decent about our country.  The organization’s logo is this, and seen regularly at gatherings of progressives and never-Trumpers:

When the video of Tlaib surfaced yesterday, the rightwing noise machine went into Full Snowflake, suddenly regaining its sense of hearing after years of total deafness to Trump’s continuous stream of childish insults and profanity.  Not only were they shocked, shocked, I tell you over the notion of even mentioning the word impeachment, they were really shocked that Tlaib would use the word mother—er to describe him.  Many Americans, including me, regularly use this descriptor for Trump.

When I heard serial liar Kevin McCarthy feigning insult over the incident yesterday, I actually burst out laughing.  Being one of the leading Invertebrates in Congress who have dismissed concerns over Trump’s actual conduct, it’s hilarious that now he’s worried about decorum.  Here’s my position of this issue – First, anyone who still supports His Orangeness has forfeited any right to be insulted by profanity and lack of decorum for life. Second, the Dems need to stop worrying about motivating his base of angry, old white people.  They can’t get any more angry since they are teeth gnashing, drooling, pissed off 24/7 fed a red meat diet of Fox Noise bullshit in a continuous stream.  Third, I agree with Roberts that suburban middle of the roaders are not going to base their votes on some bad word uttered by a freshman Dem at a private event, but on Trump’s actual record of ripping children from their parents and caging them in “tender age” detention facilities.  It insults the intelligence of those suburbanites for Dems to be so fearful of backlash over an insult that doesn’t even approach Trump’s egregious and illegal behavior.

Lastly,  I also agree with this:

“‘Motherf—er,’ in short, is about civility. ‘Shithole countries’ is about character. Democrats who conflate the two weaken themselves. They minimize the abuses of the Trump administration, and they invite the president to go on committing them without expecting anything more than an anemic reprimand. Democrats, he understands, won’t ever really fight back.”

It’s long past time to start fighting back, Dems.  The real snowflakes are on the OTHER side.

Kevin McCarthy threw himself a walleyed snot nosed hissy damn fit today because a female Democratic Congresswoman used a foul word.

He was outraged, outraged I tell you, that a member of congress would cuss because Republicans would never do that because they are so much more polite and kind than Democrats.

So a member of the press asked:

“Leader McCarthy, with all due respect though, the president not too long ago referred to a woman as ‘horseface,’” Durkin said, referring to a tweet Trump posted in October slamming Stormy Daniels, a woman who claims she had an affair with him and was paid to remain silent about it. “Who within your caucus called out the president for that type of language?”

McCarthy, without citing any examples, responded by saying, “I think a lot of them did.” He then walked off before reporters could ask him any follow-ups.

Oh really, McCarthy?  Can you give us a copy of what you said?

I think he saw some people coming up with all the foul language Trump has used.

Republicans don’t use foul language.  They just starve children, take grandma off medical care, and call that God’s will.

Kevin McCarthy needs to find his safe place where little snowflakes can survive without being insulted.