In a very Trumpian show of Trump’s Trumpiness, Trump held a ceremony at the White House this week hailing himself as Great Peacemaker in his quest for the “deal of the century” claiming to achieve Middle East peace.  This whole charade is really just being held to whip up outrage in his base when he again doesn’t get the “Noble” Peace Prize he wants so badly, but knows he’ll never receive.  The whole thing is really just an arms deal, not a peace deal.  To sign with Israel, the UAE is receiving fighter jets and drones.  Bahrain is getting new missile defense systems.  Israel, already the recipient of billions in war toys, has a new shopping list that includes Osprey tilt rotor helicopters, and other war machines.

The real problem with this “peace” accord?  It leaves out the Palestinians.  Israel is not at war with the EAE or Bahrain.  They’re at war with the Palestinians, and have been for over 70 years.  Not one concession was made in these “accords” that help the Palestinians.  Like all other things Trump, this deal is 100% showmanship, 0% substance.  Trump is using US tax money AND kicking off a new arms race with his new “peace” accords.  This “peace” is just pouring gasoline on the fire.

Y’all, the Scientific American magazine has made their first ever political endorsement.

The endorsement is fact based and relatively calm but devastating.

“His administration has been even worse for science than we feared,” Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Laura Helmuth told HuffPost in an email. “We couldn’t include all of our objections to his record in two print pages.”

I dunno, I guess I’d have to agree with him being even worse than I expected. I said he was going to get us all killed. I just didn’t know that he was also going to cook us and eat us.

Thanks to Epp for the heads up.

The GOP Senate candidate in Delaware doesn’t just believe in QAnon, Lauren Witzke also believes the earth is flat and that Trump should be president for life.

With her victory still just hours old, the newest Republican Senate nominee publicly thanked a white nationalist leader who marched in the “Unite the Right” rally and has questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

She also claims that she used to be a “low level drug runner” for the Mexican cartels, She claims that Trump’s win inspired her get off drugs and become a Republican “political operative.”  Think about it, though, Mexican drug runner and Republican political operative aren’t that far apart and require the same skill set. I mean, in both you force people to take things that will actually kill them but they thank you for doing it.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Democrats in the Oregon State Senate could not reach a quorum to vote on a climate change bill because 11 Republican state senators walked out of the senate and some even left the state.  The Republicans could stop the debate and the vote, but they could not stop climate change.

Fred Girod was one of those senators. He refused to come back to the senate for a full month.  So the cap and trade bill never got a discussion or a vote.

Fred Girod’s house burned down.

Girod, a 69-year-old state senator, made an impromptu trip Sunday into his sprawling district that includes many of the most hard-hit areas decimated by wildfires that have now burned more than 1 million acres across the state and killed at least 10 people.

‘It hurts,’ Girod said, hands in his dark denim jeans.”

Well, damn, it’s the first time Girod’s hands have been in his own pockets.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

The Stephanopoulos town hall will be taught in both political science classes and abnormal psychology.

I think it’s interesting how normal, every day people were more apt to press Trump than reporters do.  People are not afraid of him like reporters are.

Trump told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News that he has a new heath care plan ready to unveil:

TRUMP: I have it all ready. I have it all ready.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But it’s … you’ve been trying to strike down preexisting conditions…

TRUMP: It doesn’t matter. I have it all ready, and it’s a much better plan for you, and it’s a much better plan.

Trust him, believe him, it’s a much better plan for George Stephanopoulos. Although I doubt even that.

One thing you can say about Trump.  He does not feel anyone’s pain.

Top HHS spokesman Michael Caputo, who proved himself to be a crazy man last weekend, called an emergency staff meeting on this afternoon to apologize for acting like a damn fool on Facebook Live.

On Sunday, Caputo took to Facebook Live to level a series of wild and false accusations that warned of an armed insurrection after the election and asserted without evidence that public health officials were trying to undermine Trump’s reelection bid.

I dunno, telling people that they better start clipping coupons for ammo …“

And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin. The drills that you’ve seen are nothing… If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

He blamed his behavior on a combination of physical health issues and the toll of fielding death threats against his family. So this bozo thinks he’s the only person getting death threats in America?  Maybe he’d like to be a black father who lost his job and is going to be evicted from his home during a pandemic.  Or maybe just a nurse or a school teacher who face death every damn day.

Or maybe he thinks threatening to shoot people at the inauguration is the nice and polite way of treating your fellow Americans.

This guy doesn’t need to be fired. He needs to be locked up.