So, here’s the deal.  Paul Manafort is being locked in federal prison in a special “VIP” cell 23 hours a day and he’s whining about it.  Says his civil rights are being violated.

Okay, so here’s a guy who committed treason against the United States and then while out on bond under house arrest, he committed a mess of blatant witness tampering.  Oh hell yeah, let’s let him out on bond again and loan him Scott Pruitt’s phone booth.

And another Womp Womp

White Nationalist Richard Spencer was picked up in Poland and ordered to return to the US.

The Associated Press reported last year that Spencer had been banned from entering 26 European countries. Those countries, which include Poland and Sweden, are part of Europe’s visa-free Schengen area.

Spencer was not pleased.

“I’m being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It’s just insane,” Spencer said at the time. “I haven’t done anything. What are they accusing me of?”

Apparently they have outlawed Hitler-clones in Poland. Imagine that!

Thanks to Mark for the heads up.

You’re going to have to click on this to enlarge it, but it’s a handy dandy outline of trusted media.

Enjoy and feel free to pass along.

Well, I heard that Trump has ordered flags for his upcoming campaign … from China.  I’m betting you right now that China is gonna put a tariff on those damn flags that’ll force Trump to make the Department of Energy pay for them.

And Mar-a-Lago is also big on American products and services.

President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club has applied for permission to hire 40 foreign workers to serve as waiters during the winter social season in Palm Beach, Fla., according to data posted Thursday by the Labor Department.

I don’t have a problem with that either, just so long foreign workers at Mar-a-Lago are willing to put their children in cages in El Paso while they work in Florida.

All the best people:  not Scott Pruitt.

In his letter to the president, Pruitt says it is all your fault he has to resign.

Us, too, Scott.  Us, too.

So I know you are still just all a’twitter over the way people have treated mentally ill Alan Dershowitz at Martha’s Vineyard.  Sadly, he has discovered that people he thought were his friend do have limits when it comes to tyranny.

But that’s nothing compared to the treatment of Fox and Friends in Colonial Williamsburg yesterday.

Fox and Friends went live with Thomas Jefferson and asked him a few questions.

Asked what it felt like to write the Declaration of Independence, “Jefferson” said the document was “quite literally a call forth for mankind to burst free from the chains of bondage.”

He then proceeded to read the parts of the Declaration of Independence that perfectly describe Trump.

For example … (you can read it all at the link)

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Fox News has not commented, so it is unknown if they even knew they were being punked.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that you don’t go celebrate anything at Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Florida.

For the second time in a few of years, someone who came to see the fireworks got shot because some other someones came to shoot their guns because shooting your gun when there’s not crowds around just takes all the fun outta it.

Celebratory gunfire is also a thing in Texas.  Oh hell, it’s a thing all over the south.  I’m not saying it’s a good thing.