Warning: This scene contains violence.

As I watched Trump’s post election response yesterday, including the unceremonious firing of Jeff Sessions, I was reminded of this scene from the Untouchables where Robert DeNiro, as Al Capone, dispatches one of his “team” with a baseball bat for disloyalty.  The impression was reinforced for me, though, when Trump went full-on De Niro during his press conference, gloating about how Republicans (which were individually named) who refused to kiss his ring were defeated on Tuesday.  The meltdown came, thought, after members of the press started asking Trump really tough questions.  He paced, shouted at reporters, and almost walked off the stage as Jim Acosta from CNN pressed him about the racist fake caravan issue that Trump had relentlessly flogged in the run-up to election day.  The day ended with Acosta being banned from the White House and Sarah Sanders falsely accusing him of putting his hands on a WH intern when she tried to wrench a microphone out of his hand during Trump’s meltdown.  In a statement, CNN responded to Sander’s lie, calling her lie a lie.

After Sander’s false allegations, the Twitterverse erupted, attacking Sanders, and pointing out the irony of the White House accusing a reporter for touching a young female intern after defending Trump against almost two dozen accusations of actual sexual assault.

So what’s really going on here?  What’s going on is that Trump is terrified of what happens next.  The Dems can now subpoena his staffers and his sycophants.  He’s installed a goon as acting AG.  The Dems have already requested document retention of all communications between said goon and the White House for further investigation.  In January, the House will most certainly subpoena him to testify under oath about his record of partisan defense of Trump and his allies.  Mueller is coming, and I have to believe that he has disceminated his findings among other law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction.  Trump most certainly understands that he’s in a box now that he’s lost the House.  If he fires Mueller, the House will ask him to testify before the Judiciary committee and he’ll sing like a bird.  If Trump’s goon, Matthew Whitaker, is nominated for permanent AG, that hearing in the Senate will be ugly.

Many, including me, have predicted that this presidency will not end well.   We’re getting ever closer to that end, and the strain on His Orangeness has turned him, if that’s even possible, into an even more clownish figure with his heavily made up tanning bed glow that exaggerates his raccoon eyes and ugly ducktail hair weave.  Add that to his ever increasing erratic behavior and temper tantrums, and the picture is ugly.  Really ugly.  My only question now is not how his presidency will implode, but when.  I just hope he doesn’t get a lot of innocent people killed or injured before that happens.

The White House released Jeff Sessions undated resignation letter today, throwing the government once again into absolute chaos after a frenzied election day that ended less that 12 hours earlier.  After forcing out Sessions, Trump named a radical partisan talking head, Matthew Whitaker as interim AG.  Whitaker has often talked on television about how the Mueller investigation is too far reaching and that he would have indicted Hillary Clinton for her emails.  What a great choice as the US’s top cop.  The drinking game continues where you name the absolute worst person Trump could name for a top job, then when that person is named, DRINK!  This is how the day began (after he threatened to use his political power in the Senate to retaliate if House Democrats dare investigate him for his numerous violations of the rule of law and common decency.

It’s clear now that Trump is going to try to shut down the Mueller investigation.  I’m hoping Mueller is about done, if he’s not, he better hurry.

Tomorrow, we’ll be talking about Trump’s meltdown during the press conference today.  That’s worth a post only about that.

Nigerian army used Donald Trump’s words as an excuse to murder rock throwing protesters in Senegal.  Dear God.

Trump is doing it again.

• President Obama
• President & former SOS Hillary Clinton
• Eric Holder
• George Soros
• Maxine Waters (2)
• Robert DeNiro
• Vice President Biden
• CNN

These are the recipients of letter bombs targeting critics of Trump that started surfacing on Tuesday.  We don’t know who’s sending them, but the Noise Machine is already running at full throttle, screaming about a supposed “false flag” operation funded by George Soros to make Trump look bad.  As we’ve seen for years now, facts don’t matter to Trump or his sycophants, and after calling for unity while reading off a White House teleprompter, Trump reversed himself in the evening, stepping up his verbal attacks on the media and opponents, trying to turn responsibility for the growing threat of domestic terrorism away from himself by blaming the media for recording and playing back what he says word for word.  Knowing his adoring fans would support him, he took ZERO responsibility for the threats and violence that result from the bile pouring out of his own mouth.  The deplorables cheered.

Anyone paying attention knows precisely where responsibility lay for the toxic environment that now pervades all American’s lives.  Our democracy is threatened, and could easily crumble, even as Trump and the invertebrates in the Congress step up their destructive rhetoric and political actions.  We don’t yet know who’s sending the letter bombs, but it’s my guess that the terrorist is some gun-humping weirdo sitting in his basement wearing a MAGA hat who actually believes that Hillary Clinton and members of Congress open their own mail.

Culberson is in serious trouble for the first time since he started his decades-long camping trip on Capitol Hill.  Culberson, known for being a smartass on social media and for his pet projects that do nothing for Houston, is being challenged by practicing attorney Lizzie Fletcher whose calm voice (completely devoid of nonsensical talking points) is giving Culberson a real run for his money.  Culberson is a horrible congressman who has not yet been held to account for killing mass transit funding, ignoring our massive flooding problems (until a good part of his own district went underwater during Harvey), taking money from special interests like the NRA and big pharma and voting for their profits rather than his constituents.

Welp, ol’ John got a wake-up call this time.  He’s finally realized that his idiotic support for Cheeto Jesus, and his own name brand deplorable ideas is not helping.  Fletcher has taken the fight right to Culberson, shaming him for his own lame record of pet projects, voting against FEMA funding and infrastructure projects.  She’s taken advantage of Trump’s unpopularity, successfully branding Culberson as a clueless partisan, completely out of touch with his own district.

Lizzie’s strategy is working.  Culberson is backing away from Trump so fast that he needs flashing lights and a beeper tied to his backside.  Perfect example – Trump is coming to Houston on Monday to infest the Toyota Center in support of Ted Cruz Grandpa Munster, and suddenly Culberson has an urgent need to attend a neighborhood meeting about flooding.  Culberson has been smeared with the filth of Trumpland, but his problem is that it won’t wash off.  Because of that, he’s trying to stay as far away from Trump as possible, while hurling invectives at Lizze like, “Lying Lizzie Fletcher”, and “Liberal Lizzie Fletcher” from dark money PACs trying to run interference for him.

Nothing cleans like sunlight.  Finally the Dems have a bright ray of sunlight in Lizzie Fletcher.  That’s why Culberson is cowering in the corner, afraid of his own record.  If nothing else, the entertainment value is pretty high.

UPDATE:

There has been a question from one of our readers about how a toad like Culberson can be re-elected so easily.  It’s called gerrymandering, which the Republicans have raised to an art form for the last 20 years.  Gerrymandering either packs minority or similarly situated groups into one district, or more often spreads them out to dilute their voting influence.  It’s classic voter suppression, taking away people’s Constitutional right to vote (or more accurately, makes voting useless).  Culberson’s 7th district is one of the worst gerrymandered districts in Texas:

This district dilutes the urban vote, which tends to lean Democratic, by a torturous path through distant suburbs and even rural areas.  According to fivethirtyeight.com, the 7th district gives the Republicans an 88% likelihood of winning.  On average Texas gerrymandering is designed to for R+10, which means to win, you have to beat the Republican by 10% to overcome the gerrymandering advantage.  Texas is one of the worst states for gerrymandering, born out of one-party rule and corruption since the late 1990s.