There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that Eddie Gallagher is a psychopath.  The horrors he committed while wearing the uniform of honorable men and women amounts to real flag burning at its most visible. But, he struts today standing on the murdered bodies of women and children non-combatants.

Gallagher is real good at killing unarmed people but not so good at performance during combat.  Kinda like Trump putting refugees and children in cages.  That’s not heroic. That’s chickencrap.

We end this year of Trump with another brutal thuggish stain on America, all because our Commander in Chief is vicious but is too cowardly to fight with anything other than juvenile name-calling behind a glass screen.

He’s trying to prove to Putin and Kim that he’s just as evil as they are.

My héros are people I would share a tent with on a camping trip.  I hope Trump feels the same way about Gallagher.

So Trump, who has as much control when it come to talking as your average gag reflex, decided to name the whistleblower on his Twitter diary.  He’s spilled it twice and soon erased it both times.

As dangerously goofy as that is, it’s nothing compared to how he got the name of the whistleblower. Both times he retweeted the name from an account held by @Surfermom77.  That account shows all the signs of being a Twitter bot … uh, Russian disinformation.  The account uses stock photos.

Surfermom77 has also tweeted far more than typical users, more than 170,000 times since the account was activated in 2013. Surfermom77 has posted, on average, 72 tweets a day, according to Nir Hauser, chief technology officer at VineSight, a technology firm that tracks online misinformation.

“That’s not something most humans are doing,” Hauser said.

While many bots only repost benign information like cat photos, others have been used to spread disinformation or polarizing claims, as Russian bots did in the lead up to the 2016 election.

In past years, Surfermom77 has described herself as a teacher, historian, documentary author and model.

I guess she forgot astronaut, notary public, and handsome race car driver.

I have an idea. Kick Trump off Twitter but give him a box of chalk and he can write on sidewalks when he has something to say.

Okay dokey, a new study by the Federal Reserve shows that Trump’s tariffs on imports, which were intended to boost the economy and protect jobs, ultimately led to job losses and higher prices for consumers.

Well, shock-a-roni, Skippy.

Do you want to know why this happened?  Because Trump does not know what he’s doing.  Never has and always won’t.

However, there is an upside.

The world’s richest 500 people increased their collective wealth by 25% in 2019.

Phew.  So everything’s okay because of Newton’s Equal Stuff Out Law.

Rudy Giuliani says that the Southern District of New York is investigating him because of jealousy.  Sadly, they are upset that they aren’t as good as he is.

Wait, wait, you have to hear him say it.

“It’s a terrible thing to say because it will get the Southern District all upset, but I know why they’re all upset. Because they’ve never done anything like me since me. They haven’t done in eight years like I did since I left being U.S. attorney. Nothing close.”

Oh my stinkin’ goodness.  He caught severe unrelenting chronic reoccuring infectious trumpism.

He’s the best in the history of the Southern District or more likely, the universe.  And everybody wants to be Rudy.

Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski found her voice. She says Mitch McConnell’s behavior is “disturbing.”

I think it’s real nice of her to notice.  Finally.

Murkowski indicated she’d prefer to see a “full and fair process” that possibly uses the Clinton precedent as a model.

But would not say how she plans to vote on the question of conviction.

“For me to prejudge and say there’s nothing there or, on the other hand, he should be impeached yesterday, that’s wrong, in my view, that’s wrong,” Murkowski said.

Two things:

They cannot use the Clinton model.  Clinton testified under oath.  Trump refuses to do that.  Clinton did not send a 6 page letter to Newt Gingrich that went beyond disturbing and into the Land O’ Scary as Hell.

Second, Murkowski will do what the hell ever her handlers – the Alaskan oil and gas industry – tell her to vote. Trump supports raping the Alaska environment so she will support Trump.

She’s talking a good game, but she couldn’t find courage with a map, a sherpa, and a mission statement.

See you all next week.  I hope your holidays are warm and wonderful.