Yesterday, when Trump announced North Korea had launched a missile, there was a piece of paper n front of him with something written bigly in marker pen.

So your friends and mine over at the Daily Mail enlarged it and, I imagine there will be all sorts of jokes about what was written on there.  However, what was written on there is better than any joke.

The piece of paper was spotted on the table in front of Trump as he addressed reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House a few hours after the missile streaked across Korean and Japanese skies.

‘MISSILE WAS LAUNCHED FROM NORTH KOREA – WILL TAKE CARE OF IT,’ the note read.

Not straying far from his notes, Trump then told reporters: ‘A missile was launched a little while ago from North Korea. I will only tell you that we will take care of it. It is a situation that we will handle.’

I do not know what “We will take care of it” means, but it scares the crap outta me.

Maybe he can be taught Sarah Palin’s trick to write it on his hand.

Thanks to Epp for the heads up.

Our own BarbinDC was at the Progressive Change Campaign Rally in DeeCee today.  That’s her and her hat standing behind Elizabeth Warren!  Barb is carrying a Pantsuit Nation bag.

Barb ain’t going down without a fight!  Please thank her for taking a stand.

Also, thanks to Elizabeth Warren.

Okay, Sluggo woke up this morning and decided to pick a fight.

Chuck and Nancy ain’t playing that game.

In response, Schumer and Pelosi said that “rather than going to the White House for a show meeting that won’t result in an agreement,” they’ve asked to meet alone with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).

“If the president, who already said earlier this year that ‘our country needs a good shutdown,’ isn’t interested in addressing the difficult year-end agenda, we’ll work with those Republicans who are, as we did in April. We look forward to continuing to work in good faith, as we have been for the last month, with our Republican colleagues in Congress to do just that.”

Yeah, Trump, shut down the government during December.  Nobody wanted to see your damn Christmas decorations anyway.

The sticking point is that currently government spending on defense and non-defense is about the same: $549 billion for defense programs and $516 billion for non defense.

The defense hawks running the White House want to boost defense spending to $600 billion, which we wouldn’t need if the damn president would quit needlessly pissing off every other country in the world.

Democrats also want to insure that DACA isn’t ended, and that CHIP remains a top priority.

So Republicans are in the position to hurt children in all possible ways they can.  Merry Christmas, Trump.

Okay, needless to say, I did not get a White House Christmas Card this year.  And from the looks of the way the place is decorated for Christmas (I haven’t seen anything that white since the last Jimmy Buffet concert), I’m kinda glad I didn’t.

Here’s the weird part.  Either Donald and Melania have merged their handwriting or he just signed for both of them.

Close up.  In gold, of course.

Weird, right?

More weird —

I miss Michelle.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is racking up a strong and undeniable record of being wrong damn near all the time.

He says it’s okay for him to post wrong stuff on his Facebook page because he’s not a news reporter.  Well, to be honest, he ain’t much a man either but he still pees standing up.

So now we have this:

It did not happen.

A story on conservativefighter.com and similar stories on other sites claim a judge named Hansam al Alallawalahi-Smith made rulings allowing “tenets of Sharia Law” to be practiced in Dearborn, Michigan, and that Trump removed him from office. The story says the judge works on the 22nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which does not exist at the federal level. It is accompanied by a photo of a real judge, but he’s from Florida and has a different name. Finally, the Constitution stipulates impeachment — not presidential executive orders — as the method for removing federal judges.

Ya know, we ought to have a name for Miller’s posts.  I dunno, is Fake News already taken?

The Associated Press reports …

Even though Trump says he doubts all the women who reported that Roy Moore is a pervert, he thinks it’s best if he doesn’t actually go to Alabama.  My guess is that Trump doesn’t want to sully his spotless reputation on women’s issues.

And did you see this?

Trump is now contending that the Access Hollywood tape is fake news.

But, apparently, Trump now believes that, somehow, the tape is either false or has been doctored. And, not only that, but, according to the Times report, Trump has shared his theory with at least one adviser and a sitting US senator. (What I wouldn’t pay to be a fly on the wall of that conversation!)

It use to be true but now it’s not.  Magic.