Okay, so here’s the deal.  Trump is saying that he will “consider” releasing a transcript of the conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.  Yeah, just like he’s considering releasing his tax returns.

And I know you’re gonna think I’m just being mean about this but, I dunno, I just just don’t trust Trump to release an accurate transcript. Especially since he describes the conversation as “perfect.” I have never in my entire life had a perfect telephone conversation except for that one time I told County Commissioner Johnny Putska to blow it out his ear and he thought I said, “Blow away a deer,” and that confused the hell outta him since it wasn’t even deer season. He went around telling people that a proper Texas woman should know things like the dates of deer season so, obviously, I wasn’t a proper woman, which gave me the excuse to write about it in the damn newspaper to clear up the record of my properness.  Johnnie was mad about that for about 15 years because his Momma read the newspaper.  He said I made him look foolish in front of his mother. I assured him that his mother already knew he was foolish and had told me as much.

Wait, wait, one more perfect conversation, I called Johnnie about six months later to ask him about pay raises Commissioners gave themselves.  He said, “I am not talking to you unless there’s witnesses so from now on “all our talking will be in writing.”  I replied, “Johnnie, what the hell good would that do? I know you can’t hear but you can’t read either, so can I send smoke signals?”  He got madder than a wet hen.

So, anyway – I seriously doubt that Trump can be trusted.

I’m operating under the theory that he’s admitted that he is in cahoots with a foreign government to hurt a political opponent and he shot a guy on Main Street and his supporters think all that is fine and dandy.

Screw phone transcripts.

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.