I have noticed that Trump is a man of few words.  I mean, he talks a whole lot but he only knows a few words.

If he likes something, it’s beautiful. Beautiful piece of cake, beautiful bombs, beautiful letters … things he likes are beautiful.  Things he does not like are nasty. Nasty questions, nasty reporters, nasty signs, nasty voters, you get the picture. Beautiful and nasty are the only adjectives he knows.

It’s the nasty that bothers me.

Think hard. I’m serious now. Can you think of anything nastier than Trump in person.  I mean, that tie scotched taped on the back. Okay, maybe that’s not nasty as much as it is stoopid looking.

The hair. Nasty. Those swept back wings on the side – nasty. Look, I’m no expert on hair, but … no wait, I, in fact am an expert on hair and I have a diploma and license to prove it. The wings are held back with duck fat. That’s why he smells … nasty.

The pompadour hair-do. God only knows what nasty crap he puts on his hair to make it stand up like that.

Stormy Daniels. Look, I don’t care how much you like her, she’s still nasty.  She tried to extort him.

The elevator shoes that make him constantly look like he’s walking downhill.

I will be a happy woman when one of the reporters says back to him, “Sir, you are the nastiest man to ever occupy this office.”

I just needed to say that.

Deep in Baton Rouge, Pastor Tony Spell of the Life Tabernacle Church, has treaded softly among the sassafrass and found his spiritual calling: to get everybody killed in the name of Jesus.

Yesterday he said that “if his church members die from coronavirus, they’ve done so in the name of religious freedom.” Out loud. He did.

Speaking to TMZ, Spell said that true Christians would be willing to die from coronavirus, adding that those who “prefer tyranny over freedom do not deserve freedom.”

Oh, but he wasn’t finished yet.

“The bible teaches us to be absent from our bodies so we can be present with the Lord,” Spell said. “So like any revolutionary, or like any zealot, or like any pure religious person, death looks to them like a welcomed friend.”

Also like any drunk, member of alQaeda, or insane person, but we don’t want them to have machine guns. The church people can cough on the produce section of farmer’s market and wipeout a zip code.

Now, if they’ll just leave the children outside and lock themselves inside the church together until this is over, that’ll be just fine with me.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Passover begins tonight at sundown.  One of the most beloved passover stories of the Seder is The Four Sons.

Our friend Sue sent us a modern adaption of The Four Sons.

THE FOUR SONS

In telling the Passover story, we are told to tailor our message and are asked to consider four types of listeners:

The wise child asks, How can I help flatten the curve?
To him we say, listen to the scientists, stay at home, and wash your hands.

The wicked child asks, Can’t grandma take one for the team? I’m too young to worry about Kung Flu. It’s a Chinese plot! Or a hoax!
To him we say go lick a doorknob, dipshit.

The simple child asks, Are we going to be OK?
And to him we say yes, son, we’re all in this together.

And to the child who does not even know how to ask, we say: Please sit down, Mr. President, and let us hear from Dr. Fauci.

Thanks, Sue, for the smile.

I was talking to a reporter today from a local network affiliate who expressed frustration at Trump’s successful hijacking of the evening news by holding his Coronavirus “briefings” every single day during that time.  During said “briefings” Trump stumbles from one irrelevant subject to another, lies in a continuous stream, attacks previous administrations, insults everyone who dares disagree with him and has now taken to cutting off medical experts from answering key questions asked by the media.  Very little important information comes from these briefings and the incessant lying has become a serious threat to Americans’ very lives.

It’s long past time to cut Trump off.  His oxygen is media coverage.  He’s a gameshow host who doesn’t know shit about actually running anything successful except attracting media coverage.  It’s time to cut off that oxygen and send the clear message that 1) HE doesn’t control the media, and 2) The media’s obligation is to provide actual useful information that is TRUE to their audiences.  I don’t care in the slightest about Fox and OAN suckers.  They’re on their own.  I’m talking about normal Americans who desperately need information that can help them make their own decisions for their own lives.

It’s time for the networks to wake up and cut Trump off.  Report what happened, but take away his stage.  Take back control of the news hour.  In other words, get off your ass and do your goddam job and stop being intimidated by the biggest bully in the history of the US.

Or maybe we all just yelled loud enough.

Thomas Modly has resigned as the acting secretary of the Navy, according to CNN.

Modly was caught on tape attacking Capt. Brett Crozier in a call with the crew of the USS Roosevelt after the captain’s letter to leaders begging for help was revealed online.

Well done, Loud People!

So Trump thinks he doesn’t need an independent watchdog overseeing the expenditure of $2 trillion in emergency coronavirus funding.

I do not trust this sumbitch with lunch money and he wants to oversee $2 trillion. I can damn well promise you that $1.999 trillion will end up in Jared’s bank account. Or Rudy Giuliani will eat it.

Fine’s removal marks Trump’s latest attack on the world of independent federal oversight.

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Since Friday, Trump has fired the Intelligence Community inspector general who informed Congress of the whistleblower complaint that led to his impeachment and attacked the Health and Human Services inspector general who found vast concerns at hospitals over supply shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Democratic chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, called Fine’s removal “a direct insult to the American taxpayers — of all political stripes — who want to make sure their tax dollars are not squandered on wasteful boondoggles, incompetence, or political favors.”