During Trump’s silly visit to his wall south of San Diego last week (the one where he tried to reveal secret sensing built into the wall), he made the remarkable claim that 20 world class mountain climbers tried and couldn’t climb it.  The claim was bullshit, of course, like the virtually all of his claims.  The press immediately tried to confirm Trump’s claim by…wait for it…talking to world class climbers.  Said climbers said they had no knowledge of any climbers participating in any test of Trump’s wall, and even added that would help even if asked.  They also gave the parting shot that the wall could be easily scaled.

LOL.

George Conway teamed up with Neal Katyal yesterday to opine on Trump’s latest outrage of holding up aid to Ukraine as inducement to dig dirt on Joe Biden.  Katyal was solicitor general in the Obama administration.  It’s become obvious now that the whistleblower case that Bill Barr is covering up is a blatant incident of Trump violating the Constitution and US law to induce a foreign power to assist him in defeating a domestic political opponent.  Another weekend must-read, this one is powerful.

In the NYTimes Opinion section, political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explain the GOP scorched earth strategy and how it’s destroying our democratic system.  Good read for a Saturday morning.

I rarely work on Fridays, and I still have 20 boxes to unload and a major haul to make at Costco.  But, I cannot leave you guys nowhere to holler when this crap is happening.

I feel like Charlie Brown with Lucy’s football.  Every time I believe that Trump is finally gonna get kicked out of office, another hole is punched in the Constitution and he stays.  Hell, I thought it was over when he mimicked a handicapped man. That seems almost charming now.

Extorting a foreign country to get dirt on a political opponent may do it.  Probably not because if they dump Trump, they also have to dump Mike Pence, who apparently also made a trip to Ukraine to help this project along. You know who that leaves.

I’ll try to get back here if something big happens. If I can’t, y’all keep the comments going.

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