New York Times has 10 years of Trump taxes.  He paid zero taxes in 8 of the 10 years.

Between 1985 through 1994, he lost over One Billion Dollars.  He lost 500 million dollars in two years – the biggest loss of any taxpayer by far.

Still breaking news.

Okay, I’m fixing to scare the ever-lovin’ poop outta you because I don’t want to be the only person around here scared
poopless.

No specific reason was given for the cancellation. The press pool traveling with Pompeo has not been told where they are going next, and have been warned they may not be able to report from the country they are going to until after their departure.

Now, when you have a Secretary of State you wouldn’t trust to oversee high school wrestling match say there’s something “pressing” but he won’t tell you what or where, you would really like to know if you’re in the fallout zone of where this secret place is.  This guy is CIA and a Trump lover.

Here we’ve got a guy who wants to start a war in Iran, Venezuela, and probably the House of Commons.

God love the press pool.  I know I am not getting on an airplane with Mike Pompeo not knowing where I am going or even if I have a return ticket.

Okay, so Steve Mnuchin, who is a creepy guy no matter how you look at it, has announced that he will not allow the Treasury Department to turn over Trump’s tax returns, calling it a “fishing expedition.” I suspect that’s different from a witch hunt because it appears that the last witch hunt found bunches of witches and a few goblins.

This is proof that Trump isn’t the only guy in this administration who cannot read.

The chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee have had the authority since 1924 to obtain the tax returns of any American, and the law stipulates that the treasury secretary “shall furnish” the information once it is requested. This law was put in place during the Harding administration because of financial improprieties that stemmed from the Teapot Dome scandal.

Shall is a pretty definite word. It does not say, “if you want to” or “except for fishing expeditions.” It says shall.  They could have said can but they didn’t.

I’m not saying that congress should also request Mnuchin’s tax returns, but it might be fun.

UPDATE:  Deb T reminded me of something timely today:

Don’t mess with Texas, y’all, because Texas is messed up enough already.

Republicans in the Texas legislature are cognizant of the high probably the even their gerrymandered districts aren’t going to help much in 2020 to get them elected.  As it stands now, they are cruisin’ for a bruisin’.

So in an overabundance of overstupidity, they have come up with some ideas.  All of these ideas have the weight and guidance of a turkey feather in a strong breeze, but honey, that ain’t stopping them from pulling themselves up to their full intellectual stature of a frog and leaping over the United States of Damn America Constitution.

Here’s their first idea:

I wanted you to see that in black and white because, admit it, you would not have believed me if I had just told you.  That means that the bus my 92 year old Momma used to take from her retirement apartment to go vote would be illegal, even if they were all voting Republican. Hell, they used to make it a social event and all went to have lunch at Luby’s cafeteria afterwards. We couldn’t get them to vote by mail because they just love the apple salad at Luby’s.

But, where the Republicans were trying to go wasn’t about upper middle class ladies who vote Republican mostly. No, they just did that accidentally. What they wanted to eliminate is Souls to the Polls, where black churches on the last Sunday of early voting, load up the church busses and head to the polls.  Or Democratic candidates driving through neighborhoods in rented busses to get everyone to the polls.

And they did this because they are mean and don’t love Jesus.

They also have this little ditty.  Nazi guards at polling locations. They want to make innocent mistakes a felony.

SB9, poised to pass the Senate, makes it more difficult for people who need assistance at the polls, such as seniors and the disabled. It gives partisan poll watchers the right to be in the voting booth when a volunteer is helping someone, a clear encroachment on the secret ballot. It also imposes new hoops to jump through for election volunteers, including those who drive voters to the polls.

They are foaming at the mouth, Darlin’, and there doesn’t seem to be a sacred right they ain’t trying to murder.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Trump would have been indicted for obstruction of justice in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation if he wasn’t president, more than 370 former federal prosecutors argued in an open letter publish on Medium on Monday.

Take a look.

Not just one indictment, but several.

The Mueller report describes several acts that satisfy all of the elements for an obstruction charge: conduct that obstructed or attempted to obstruct the truth-finding process, as to which the evidence of corrupt intent and connection to pending proceedings is overwhelming. These include:

· The President’s efforts to fire Mueller and to falsify evidence about that effort;

· The President’s efforts to limit the scope of Mueller’s investigation to exclude his conduct; and

· The President’s efforts to prevent witnesses from cooperating with investigators probing him and his campaign.

Since it was posted this afternoon, more have signed and it’s up to 418.

I think we should elect a few of these guys to Congress.

Oh, now Trump has a bright idea – reparations for himself.  Jerry Falwell decided that since we’ve been so damn nasty about Trump enriching himself in the White House, selling out our country to the Russians, trashing American institutions and destroying the English language, he should get two extra years in the White House.

I guess it’s become increasingly apparent that he’s not going to get four more years, huh?

Okay, I’ll agree to that – 2 extra years right over Barack Obama gets 8 extra years for Trump running around claiming Obama wasn’t born here and Jerry Falwell claiming Obama wasn’t a Christian.

And then I cannot believe some people are worried that Trump won’t leave office if the election is close in 2020.  That’s just dumb.  I’ve got a hay wagon and a pitchfork for instances just like this. You throw his fat butt out.  Or if he leaves to go play golf, you change the locks.  This is not rocket science. You get a big ole sign that says “LOSER!” and hang it on the White House – he’ll leave.

Look, Nancy, if you’re going to worry about something, worry that Trump is separating families, putting children in cages, and getting his friends high paying jobs to oversee the operation which means it ain’t gonna end anytime soon.

Former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly has joined the board of Caliburn International, the parent organization of the company that runs the largest facility housing migrant children in the United States.

Caliburn is a for profit company.  You and I are paying for their profit.

The second best way to end this sooner is to turn it over to nonprofits.  The first best way is to stop caging children.

If congress can’t stop this, what the hell good are they?

Which is a damn good question for a Monday.