Here’s the start of good news …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the US government’s top consumer watchdog, hit Wells Fargo with a $1 billion fine on Friday for improperly charging thousands of customers for auto insurance they didn’t need — it’s the agency’s second-largest fine in its history …

… that quickly turns to stink worse than a goat on a crawfish diet because the Republican’s tax “reform” bill, but corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%.

According to a Goldman Sachs report from December, the tax cut will boost Wells Fargo’s profits by $3.7 billion this year.

We fine Wells Fargo a billion dollars so the Republicans wink and give them $3.7 billion for the trouble.

When you make ripping off consumers so damn profitable, we’re not gonna stop crooks.

Which may be the whole point.

I thought this was perfect for a Sunday morning.

Click the little one to see the big one.

Rudy Giuliani just announced that he’s joining the Trump legal team.

How’s he gonna do that?  Hire a hit man?

Does Giuliani not know that he’s … you know, Rudy Giuliani, the man that we’re trying real hard to forget?

I’m betting $10 cash American money that Giuliani gets indicted before all this is over.

Michael Cohen got a new first name.  It’s “Embattled.” Every time you see his name, it says “Embattled” first.

Embattled attorney Michael Cohen has dropped a pair of much-touted libel suits against BuzzFeed and the private investigation firm Fusion GPS over publication of the so-called dossier detailing alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.

I think somebody explained to Embattled Michael what a deposition and a subpoena are. I don’t think he paid proper attention in law school.

Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s lawyers, found a great way to make a living.

Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.

Telemarketers for the nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case), were instructed in contracts signed by Sekulow to urge people who pleaded poverty or said they were out of work to dig deep for a “sacrificial gift”.

Hey, the dude has payments on his airplane and God only knows what else. In his defense, he was trying to raise enough money to burn a wet elephant.

Here’s the script for his “Christian charity” phone calls.

Some people are going to a real special place in hell.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Y’all, this is my baby boy.

I cannot imagine where he got a fighting spirit.

And yes, I am very, very proud of him.