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Holy crap, y’all.  I don’t think I’m overreacting when I say that this is not making American great again.

The entire west coast is on fire.  My friends living there cannot breathe and those who can kinda breathe are getting the hell outta Dodge.

The pictures they send mortify me.

Friends who live close to Salem, Oregon, have orange skies at noon.

Any other time in history, this would be front page coverage all day news, but Trump purposefully killing 190,000 people so he could win reelection made the fires look like, “oh hell, what’s another couple of states destroyed?” seem trivial.

I have been feeling out of sorts lately.  A friend sent me this, asking if I was feeling what she was feeling.  It made me feel better.  I have anxiety.  So, please vote this sumbitch out of office.

Government should be like your digestive system.  When everything is working like it should, you hardly even know it’s there.

Dana Milbank has come up with some dandy ways for Trump to raise money from for his campaign since the 1 billion dollars he started with has been squandered.  He’s saying he’ll finance it himself but he doesn’t have any money.

Here’s one of my favorites.

TMZ reports that a Bible signed by Trump is being sold through a memorabilia company, Moments In Time, for $37,500. In the photo on the merchant’s website, Trump’s Sharpie signature is scrawled generously across the title page, where the author’s name might go, right below “HOLY BIBLE/KING JAMES VERSION.”

Think of the other things he could auction – that NOAA weather map he altered with a Sharpie, chunks of the wall that fell down, the toilet paper stuck on his shoe, a scroll of all his chiefs of staffs, a copy of the check Mexico sent us to pay for the wall …. oh wait, oops.

Enjoy poking fun at the haughty this morning.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

The Washington Post started releasing audio tapes of 17 interviews Bob Woodward held with Trump since last December.  They are blockbuster, including Trump actually admitting ON TAPE that he lied to the American people about the severity of the Coronavirus pandemic for months.

Woodward’s book also quotes Trump as saying of US military leadership, “my fucking generals are a bunch of pussies”. They care more about their alliances than they do about trade deals.”

In other news, Brian Murphy, a senior career DHS staffer, filed a whistleblower complaint against senior current and former DHS political appointees, former DHS Secretary Nielsen, Chad Wolf, who is serving as acting DHS secretary; and Ken Cuccinelli, the deputy DHS secretary. The complaint details orders from said appointees for DHS to lie to congress and downplay Russian interference and other foreign threats that would “make Trump look bad.”

To add insult to injury, today Trump named right wing nut bags Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton to his list of potential Supreme Court nominees.  No shit.

Yesterday, Bill Barr’s Justice Department announced that it was taking over the defense for Trump against E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him in relation to her charge of a 1990’s rape she alleged.  The Justice Department has claimed that Trump calling Carroll a liar was within the boundaries of his official duties as president.  No shit.

Lastly, the House Oversight Committee has announced the beginning of an investigation into Postmaster General Louis DeJoy into an illegal reimbursement scheme that paid his executives back for making contributions to Trump and other Republicans, a felony.

Happy Wednesday!

Jerry Falwell was one of the first evangelicals to endorse Trump and after that, they just lined up to become enamored about Trump and bask in all the publicity and White House photos that followed their endorsement.

Falwell was the leader of the Trump Jesus Parade.

Wanna know how that happened?

Michael Cohen.  Cohen had copies of the photos.

Now Cohen has confirmed in his book, Disloyal: The Memoir, that he was called in to “kill” the photos that the Falwells were being blackmailed with

“In good time, I would call in this favor, not for me, but for the Boss, at a crucial moment on his journey to the presidency,” Cohen wrote in his book.