As JJ has already reported, attorney for former Trump advisor, Mike Flynn, is trying to trade his testimony for immunity.  As a reminder where this guy came from, I’ll just leave this right here:

https://youtu.be/R-UCb5rOGXo

Karma is a B*tch (Sorry Momma).

New York Magazine reported today that George W. Bush gave a short assessment of the inaugural ceremony after leaving the dias:

“That was some weird shit.”

(Sorry Momma)  For the first time in memory, I find myself agreeing with GWB.

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

When Donald J. Trump was elected to the office of…jeez, I still have a hard time typing it – president, I vowed to never use his name publicly so as to not help raise his name identity on social media or to acknowledge that he was legitimately elected to the office.  I have maintained that stance until today.

But facts and media have changed. Since January 20, social, mainstream, and cable media have made a marked shift in the way they report on Trump.  Before the inauguration, the media glibly repeated virtually every claim made by him, cowed by his vicious twitter attacks and afraid of WH recriminations.  They gave him billions of dollars of free media coverage that helped elect him.  That has now changed.  The Washington Post is now tracking his lies on a daily basis.  Scott Pelley of CBS is becoming well known for his steadfast truth telling and calling false false.  Last night, 60 Minutes did a cover story on fake news and the damage it does.  Time Magazine’s cover story this week asks if truth is dead. Numerous fact checkers are piling up mountains of corrections to Trump’s continuous stream of lies.  NPR has stopped using the name Mara Lago, wanting to avoid inadvertent advertising for his highest profile property.  Hell, even Fox Noise has moderated some  of its lies because he simply repeats them on twitter.

Trump’s name is now more associated with negative than positive, so I’ve decided to use it – a lot.  So, for those of you who have openly and privately complained to me about using the monikers SCROTUS, Cheeto Jesus, The Orange One, and His Orangeness, you can now stop complaining.  But just know that I’m not switching due to your complaints; I’m switching because using his name is more effective to connect it to the damage he’s doing to our society.  From now on, it will be TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP.

So there.

Last week was one of the most disastrous weeks of Cheeto’s administration where his biggest promise, kicking 24 million people off of healthcare, came crashing down to decisive defeat.  Republicans, knowing he actually is nuts and would sign anything they put in front of him, finally woke up and decided that taking healthcare away from their voters would actually lower their chances for re-election, their only true goal.

So, CJ put that promise back on the shelf and has now moved to making government “sleek”, by assigning his son in law, Jared Kushner, to yet another new job.  So far, his primary job has been trying to keep his father in law from chopping up the Resolute desk and using it for kindling to burn down the White House, and so far, that has been pretty much a full time job.  Now young Kushner is going to head up the shiny new White House Office of American Innovation, a supposed think tank made up of an amalgamation of billionaire inventors and business people who have been charged with making the US government run like a business.  Of course, the US Government is not a business and CAN’T be run like one, but no matter, here’s our new shiny thing to talk about while the Congress continues to ignore the actual threat to the US government – the Russians.

I’ll give this one two weeks or so, then we’ll be consumed with another incendiary tweet from His Orangeness.

Jesus.  No, really.  Jesus.

Yesterday, Cheeto Jesus made a fool out of himself (very GWBesque) by clowning around in semi-truck parked on the WH lawn for a meeting of trucking company executives.  The memes immediately swamped social media.  My favorite:

Shockingly, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a determination letter yesterday that the lease of the old post office in Washington, DC, now known as the Cheeto International Hotel, is VALID, even though it states in plain language in the lease that, “No … elected official of the Government of the United States … shall be admitted to any share or part of this Lease, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom…”   Stupidly, the letter hides behind the fact that Cheeto Jesus put this business in a trust.  Yes, it is in a trust – a revocable trust, run by his children.

The Daily Beast interviewed George Washington University Professor of Government Procurement Law Steven L. Schooner who said, “Not only is the conclusion unexpected and unpersuasive, as a matter of law, but, as a matter of policy, it is harmful to the integrity—and thus credibility—of GSA, the Presidency, and federal procurement process.” When asked how the GSA could come to the conclusion it did he gave a simple reason, “Spine-ectomy.”

So lets lay this out in plain language – the GSA employee who negotiated the contract, Kevin Terry, has just stated publicly that his boss’s boss, who is in clear, undeniable conflict of interest, is not actually in conflict of interest, even though he is the highest elected official in the land.  It’s basically “Nothing to see here, move along.”

If you had any doubt, this is what creeping corruption looks like.  We are becoming Russia, one lease at a time.