OK, so here’s how bad it is for the Koch brothers….they’re looking for Democrats to support.  That’s right folks, the Kochs hate Trump so badly and understand the damage he is doing to their agenda that they are rebranding Americans for Prosperity as non-partisan.  In previewing the shift at their annual conference earlier this year, Charles Koch said,

“This attitude of holding against others who have different beliefs is tearing our country apart.”

Translation – “We can no longer buy politicians who have sold their souls to Trumpland, so we’re retreating to the middle until we can get rid of Trump and have more successful purchases of politicians.”

When the Kochs retreat, you know that Trump’s takeover is complete.  The conservative wing will have to shed themselves of the cancer that has metastasized in the WH themselves.  Until the invertebrates in Congress manage to stand up, their entire party will be strangled by His Orangeness.  Until that happens, the Kochs will be “non-partisan”.

Yesterday, world leaders gathered in Normandy to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. As we’ve already discussed, Trump took the opportunity to make it all about him, including full on insulting of Robert Mueller and Nancy Pelosi on national television with the graves of heroes in the background.  No other politician would have even dreamed of doing that.

As part of the ceremony, world leaders who had gathered signed a proclamation that was intended to be an historic document.  What did Trump do?  I’ll give you one guess…

His Orangeness signed the proclamation at the TOP, when all others signed where you’re supposed to.  God help us until we can rid ourselves of this menace.

props to Sandridge

Today, at the burial site of 9,388 American heroes on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach, Donald Trump read a speech clearly written by a staffer about the bravery of all those who lived and died on Normandy’s beaches on June 6, 1944 and thereafter.  The bar for Trump is now so low that if he gets through a speech without dropping his pants and wiggling Little Donald at the audience, it’s considered “a major success” and “very presidential”.  He was simply awful, intoning his speechwriter’s words in the cadence of that old Catholic priest droning through the liturgy, just trying to get through one more mass before he drops dead behind the altar and goes to claim that big reward in the sky.  The media gave him props; personally I was having to resist to not destroy my 58″ Samsung flatpanel with my 12 gauge.

The most disgusting event today, though, was Trump’s unbelievably insensitive behavior during this entire event.  From tweeting insults at Bette Midler last night to trashing Robert Mueller and Nancy Pelosi on Fox Noise during an interview ON THE SITE OF THE NORMANDY CEMETERY. Trump embarrassed all Americans, especially in context to his childish behavior and comments to Fox Noise on live television.

Once again, Trump makes the Americans looks like a band of idiots; he’s become a global embarrassment to all of us.

Since his first day infesting the WH, Trump has been trying to produce a militaristic super duper patriotic ceremony to celebrate…himself.  The Pentagon succeeded in shutting down his Soviet style military parade last year, but now he’s decided to co-opt the most American of American holidays and make it about himself.  The National Park Service has announced that, at Trump’s order, they are turning a traditional non-partisan event of American music and fireworks into an event centered on His Orangeness, including giving a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and rearranging the entire holiday celebration to put himself in the middle of it.

My response to Trump trying to take over OUR HOLIDAY to make it about himself?  Fuck you.  I refuse to participate in any way, not even turning on my television for it.  Enough of this nonsense is enough.  He’s turned the entire US government into a reality television show starring him, his criminal cronies, and his entire fucking family.  I’m sick of it. Congress needs to stop this narcissistic asshole in his tracks, get him out of office, and then return our government to some level of normalcy.

For God’s sake, I want my country back from insanity and cheesy reality television.

In a shocking shift that is now appearing complete, the DOJ has morphed from law enforcement to protect the United States to DOP (Defense of the President) against the United States.  Starting under Jeff Sessions, and driven home under Bill Barr, the DOP has turned over 150 years of Constitutional law on its head.  Up until 2 years ago, the DOJ strictly interpreted the emoluments clause, even extending it beyond the president to others in the federal government from receiving ANY funds or gifts from a foreign government.  No more.  After several lawsuits were filed asserting that Trump receiving funds from foreign governments through his hotels and golf courses, his lawyers said that this is perfectly OK since those funds are received by his company in a “commercial” transaction.  They interpreted the emoluments clause as meaning direct payments to the president for actual action from the president; in other words, directly paid bribes.

The DOP has now adopted that very same position, turning 150 years of precedent on its head.  Now that the DOP is 100% Trumpland, along with the Senate, the courts are our only hope, but even that is now corrupted with the radical judges that Trump has succeeded in getting seated on the SCOTUS after McConnell stole a seat in 2016.  The result is that We the People are now completely exposed to Trump’s corruption.  The executive branch is broken; the DOP is corrupted and now representing Trump personally; the legislative branch is broken with the Senate in Trump’s pocket; the SCOTUS is corrupt with grossly unqualified judges political operatives sitting on the court.

What’s needed is nothing short of a complete overhaul of the laws, traditions, and statutes surrounding governance of all three branches of the federal government from campaign finance to ethics rules to term limits for EVERYONE.  Beto has just presented a plan for a constitutional amendment that limits house and senate members to 12 years, and SCOTUS judges to 18.  I would say that’s a good start.

Just like in the Robin Williams’ movie, Awakenings, comatose patients in the Senate came out of their Trumpist comas long enough to speak out against Trump’s latest power grab that would destroy hundreds of billions of dollars of economic growth for no good reason.  His idiotic tariff against Mexican imports over illegal immigration is one of Stephen Miller’s (Trump’s resident white supremacist) worst yet, so bad, in fact, that the comatose have risen to finally say no.  It will be interesting now if Trump is dumb enough to push it to a vote.

I’m popping popcorn and pulling a few beers out of the fridge for this one.