Thanks to Ada for the heads up.

Trump has announced that all Medicare recipients with be receiving $200 cash cards to “buy their prescriptions”.  It’s yet another brazen example of Trump’s mafia tactics, this time trying to buy votes from seniors.  AND, it’s yet another subversion of the rule of law and use of taxpayer money to personally  benefit himself.  How’s he doing it?  He’s using a provision in the Social Security Act that allows agencies and even the private sector to test programs to improve Medicare.  That provision is NOT intended to just give away money to buy votes.  This provision allows for demonstrations of new programs, but requires extensive review and approval; as well such demonstrations are supposed to be revenue neutral.  In bypassing the law, the administration is waving away questions saying that his executive order on prescription drugs (which doesn’t actually do anything) magically makes this $6.6 billion vote buying scheme “revenue neutral”.

The lawless Trump corruption train continues barreling towards the abyss as this latest brazen attempt to rig the election in his favor with him shouting from stages all over the country that it’s actually Democrats doing the rigging.

I’m so tired.

I wake up this morning, take a shower and brush my teeth, fix my coffee and then see this —

Brain. Eating. Amoeba.  That’s sooooo 2020.

It’s all around me but I am blessed to sit on a little island among brain eating amoeba in a city, only because it’s been here forever, that has its own water supply.

This morning Epp wrote me that she’s not a religious person but if Bidens wins she’s going to light a candle in a church, any church.  I’ll join in that soul of sacrifice to the gods. If Biden wins, I will put a light-up plastic nativity scene in my front yard for Christmas.

So, here’s the deal.  It’s kinda like a bushel basket of wire coat hangers after a trip through the spin cycle on an industrial washing machine, but somehow all the money ends up in Trump’s back pocket.

President Donald Trump has charged his own campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars in rent for offices in Trump Tower for more than five years. But the campaign doesn’t always send its rent to Trump Tower. In fact, most of the checks have gone to a post office box in Hicksville, New York, a suburban community on Long Island. It’s not clear why, or who is receiving those checks.

Campaign money ends up there and it’s been shown to pay Trump’s own personal bodyguard, maybe the half a million he pays himself rent for an office he has in Trump Tower, and Lord only knows what else.

Interviews with state income tax and commercial property tax experts familiar with the workings of New York city and state yielded bafflement: Comments included, “Totally bizarre,” “No idea,” “I’ve never seen something like that” and “Holy s***, that’s absolutely weird.”

Which are the usual words to describe Trump.

People who love numbers games will enjoy the full read at Salon. The bottom line is that you cannot trust Trump with money and the probable reason that his campaign is flat broke is that he spent it all on himself.

The Hill has this Breaking New headline right now.

Oh wow, it sounds like Republicans are finally growing a pair and are willing to put it on the line to keep democracy.

Hold on. Not so fast.

The criticisms, in a series of tweets that didn’t mention Trump by name, came from Sen.Marco Rubio (Fla.), a former presidential rival of Trump four years ago, and Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012.

There’s two, but neither of them want to be nailed down as supporting something the psychopath in the White House opposes, so that’s really like 1.4 when you add them together.

There’s more …

In the House there was Liz Cheney (if her daddy couldn’t be monarch, nobody can) and Steve Stiver from Ohio.  So, that’s two more.

And then there’s Lindsey Graham with the oddest answer of all.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a Trump loyalist who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said on Fox News: “If Republicans lose we will accept the result. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Joe Biden, I will accept that result.”

Holy damn cow. You mean after stacking the Supreme Court he’ll support whoever they pick?  Why the hell are we even voting?

So let’s see how many Republican lawmakers would stand up to Trump against breaking America.  I did my math and I got 3.4.  And then there’s Lindsey Graham who would throw gasoline on it.

I don’t feel better.

From Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen:

In 2016, the Russians used the stolen personal information of real Americans and used it to create fake Facebook accounts to support Trump and purchase $100,000 of Facebook ads.

This year they could use credit card numbers stolen from real Americans to make contributions directly to the Trump campaign.

Sound far-fetched?  Stolen credit card information has already been used to make contributions to the Trump campaign.

And, of course, stealing Americans’ credit card information is an industry in Russia.

And here’s the best part for the Trump campaign.  If the Trump campaign receives contributions which, on their face appear to be illegal, they do not have to return them for 60 days.  11 C.F.R. § 103.3(b)(3).

So any illegal contributions the Trump campaign receives between now and the election won’t have to be returned until after the election is over.