I have often gritted my teeth and made snarling sounds when someone referred to my social security as an  “entitlement.”  It makes me want to tie their tail in a knot and toss their goofy butt over the fence.

I worked for my social security.  I paid for it.  I am also entitled to drive my car because I damn well paid for it, too.

Let me show you entitlement:

Come to find out, the United States passed an anti-nepotism law in 1967.  There are a series of memos from the Department of Justice saying that family members of presidents cannot work for the government, even in an unpaid position.

The Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and Obama White House all received the memos when they tried to hire family members, even in unpaid positions.  They followed the good advice they got.

Then comes Trump.  If you can’t change the law, change the damn lawyers.

The opinion longtime Justice Department attorney Daniel Koffsky issued in January at the request of the incoming Trump administration concluded that another law passed in 1978 and conferring broad authority on the president to appoint White House officials essentially overrides the earlier anti-nepotism measure.

“We believe that the President’s special hiring authority [in the 1978 law] permits him to make appointments to the White House Office that the anti-nepotism statute might otherwise forbid,” Koffsky wrote in the opinion sent to White House Counsel Donald McGahn at his request.

So there are new rules for Trump. Thank you, Don McGahn. That right there – that’s entitlement!

First, I need to tell you that Don McGahn is the most soul sucking lawyer on the planet.  He is Dr. Julius No with a Black Law Dictionary.  He comes to government from the law firm of Jones Day.

As little Bubba once said, “Jones Day helped themselves and their banker friends feast on the corpse of the once great city of Detroit.”

A friend of mine was courted strongly by Jones Day when she graduated law school.  She sent them this letter.  You will love it, especially lawyers, who will get the few inside jokes.

Getting rid of Trump is not enough. The swamp is now a cesspool.

First, let me state one critical fact – EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY ON THE PLANET HAS FIGURED THIS ONE OUT. The United States is the only country with the chronic problem of mass shootings.

A few points:

1. Do we have mental health problems?  Of course, but so does every other country.
2. Do we sell violent video games?  Yes, but so does every other country.
3. Do we have violent television shows and movies?  Yes, but so does every other country.
4. Do we have a breakdown in the family unit?  Yes, but so does every other country.
5. How about churches?  Are our churches shrinking?  Yes, but they are doing the same in other countries.

So what’s the difference? Why do we have such a wrenching problem with mass shootings?  The difference is the omnipresence of guns.

The US is awash in a tsunami of guns that is drowning our country and the lame gun laws we manage to enact are designed to fail to protect our society from people who have no business owning a gun.  As a country, the US is 4.4% of the world’s population, yet we own 42% of the world’s guns.  Let that sink in.  Our homicide rate in the US is over 300% that of the average of the rest of the OECD.

The problem here is obvious.  The solution is simple.  The population of the US is not crazier, or more evil than other countries’ populations.  The only factor that makes our country an outlier  is the overwhelming presence of guns.  Guns can be easily acquired in private sales with no background check.  Guns are trafficked by the millions.  The NRA has successfully stifled research into gun violence, has kept the ATF hamstrung in enforcing existing laws, and has even prevented the electronic tracking of guns from being done.

The real crime here, besides the massive murders of innocents, is that committed by our elected representatives who have taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the NRA and other pro gun industry lobbyists to keep us awash in guns.

That’s the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about.

Gun sales have been way down since Trump was elected because that meant Obama or Hillary couldn’t come get your guns.

That changed today.

Gun stocks rose Monday following the deadliest mass shooting in American history late Sunday night. A gunman in a hotel room at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas killed at least 58 people attending an outdoor concert and wounded over 500 more.

Shares of Sturm Ruger (RGR) were up 6%, while American Outdoor Brands (AOBC), the company formerly known as Smith & Wesson, gained nearly 7%. Both stocks have tended to rally in the immediate aftermath of mass killings, which sadly have become more routine.

That chills my bones.

Americans are dying to increase gun sales.

I do not care about his motivation.

I do not care about his race.

I do not care about his emotional problems.

I care about his method.

And the Twitter Machine keeps on giving.

America put a man on the damn moon. On. The. Moon.

D-Day?  The Marshall Plan?  Interstate highway system? Inoculating every American against polio?

We are threatening North Korea when we can’t even do food and water drops on an damn island?

We look like damfools. And you’re not helping.

From the Twitter machine.

Dude, that was Kim Jong-Il.

I guess all Rocket Men look alike to Trump.