Let’s see if I have this right.

Trump calls CNN “Fake News” and then uses a fake teevee clip of himself with a fake CNN logo doing fake fighting.

Dude, Trump just cornered the market on fake and weaponized it.

However, his enormous, flabby butt probably isn’t fake.  Honey, if I had a butt that size, I’d know better than to stick it in a camera.

This is as twisted and jumbled as a bushel basket of wire coat-hangers, and I think I need a diagram to really understand it.

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal broke this story —

Peter W. Smith

A longtime Republican activist who led an operation hoping to obtain Hillary Clinton emails from hackers listed senior members of the Trump campaign, including some who now serve as top aides in the White House, in a recruitment document for his effort.

Then later that same night, half a world away, another guy’s ears perk up and a light bulb goes off over his head.

UK cyber-analyst Matt Tait reveals in great detail how he himself was recruited by Peter W. Smith to verify the accuracy of emails, purportedly from Clinton’s server, that Smith had either obtained or was negotiating to obtain from an operative on the Deep Web.

So here’s the deal as I understand it.  Peter W Smith goes to the Wall Street Journal and spills his guts about the whole Russian / Hillary email thing and how people on Trump’s team were in on it.  Ten days later, Smith is dead.  (Don’t get your tin foil hat.  He was 80 years old, and everybody eventually dies. Not totally unrelated to this story, Smith was one of the operatives spreading the rumor about Bill Clinton using Arkansas State Troopers to cover his trysts while governor, so I’m sure Republicans are saying that the Clintons had him killed.)

Matt Tait

Back to the other guy who ear’s are perked:  UK cyber-analyst Matt Tait realizes he knows a piece of this story because he was contacted by Smith last year, and some real confusing stuff happened after that contact. Tait admits he still doesn’t understand how his piece of the puzzle fits into the mess, but he spills the beans on everything he knows.  Long read – oh so worth it.

I think the special prosecutor is going to need some more lawyers and maybe a few map makers to figure this out, but it does not look good for the folks surrounding Trump.  That hasn’t changed.

Customer Deb is following this closely on Twitter so I’m hoping she’ll correct me when I need it and add some information when when she gets it.

Thanks to Deb and SGray for the heads up.

As JJ has been reporting, the WH “integrity commission” has been rebuffed by over 20 states which refuse to provide the information demanded by Kris Kobach, who is vice-chair of the commission and happens to be Kansas’ secretary of state.  In a hilarious and ironic head-spinner, Kobach has now announced to himself that Kansas won’t be providing the last 4 digits of all Kansas voters’ social security numbers.

Since Cheeto Jesus attacked the other states refusing to provide the information, I’m wondering if ol’ Kris will fall out of favor and go on the LONG list of the to-be insulted twitter victims instead.  LOL.

Okay, the official White House statement on the Election Integrity Commission:

Nice.

Donald Trump calling something “distinguished” means he squirted some gold spray paint on it.  This is a man who thinks Carter Page is distinguished.  The last thing he said was distinguished was Trump University.  These guys are bozos trying to keep Americans from voting.

This tweet reminds me.  Tax returns.  What’s Trump trying to hide?

The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the head of Trump’s so-called Voter Fraud Commission has made a request of every state’s voter file so he can give it to the Russians.  Okay, okay, I just made up that last part.

“The chair of President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission has penned a letter to all 50 states requesting their full voter-roll data, including the name, address, date of birth, party affiliation, last four Social Security number digits and voting history back to 2006 of potentially every voter in the state.”

He says he’s going to make all this information available to the public.

I don’t know how they do it in other states, but in Texas, we don’t have to give our social security number to register to vote.  In Texas, voting records are public information, but you need certain information to access them.  Here’s how my county does it.  And Texas has laws about how that information can be used.

I’m gonna try real hard to think of a way this information would be important to anyone in the federal government except for voter suppression.

Nope, can’t do it.

Now, close your eyes for a minute and ask yourself what would happen if all registered firearms lists had to be released to the public.  Yeah, that’s the sound of hell breaking.

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events selects art works to place around the city for their Year of Public Art program.

In 2013, Chicago-based artist Scott Reeder made a sculpture and has loaned it to the city for the display.  Seriously, he made it in 2013.

Lord, I love art.

Yeah, it says REAL FAKE in big gold letters.

I love art, y’all.

Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.