Well, well, well, the walls are moving in.  Trump and his bambinos were just ordered by a New York judge to pay $2 million for “persistent” violations of charities law.  The money will merrily dance its way into a fund for real charities.

Filed in June 2018, the lawsuit alleged that the President and his three eldest children — Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric — violated federal and state campaign finance laws and abused the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s tax-exempt status. According to the lawsuit, the Trumps allowed the foundation to be used “as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.”

Honey, Honey, Honey, the whole damn government operates as little more than a checkbook for Trump’s business and political interests.

The story is just breaking so there is more to come.  Enjoy! You’ve earned it.

UPDATE:  Here’s some more background.  Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen says that he would have loved to have been in the room when Trump found out he had to give money to the United Negro College Fund!

Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh decided it would be a great idea to meet privately with some folks who sponsor and ferment hate.

The man on the far right of the picture (and also in real life) is Brian S Brown, founder of the National Organization for Marriage.  The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies another of Brown’s anti-LGBTQ groups as a hate group.  His NOM group rallies across the country fear mongering against marriage equality.

So a photo of Brown with two Supreme Court Justices is troubling, especially since the Court is currently considering three cases related to LGBTQ rights: Bostock v. Clayton County, Altitude Express v. Zarda, and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. NOM filed amicus briefs in those cases, asking the Court to reject LGBTQ equality.

These two judges should recuse themselves on those cases. They won’t.

It’s so much more fun to flaunt it in our faces and shove their hate down our throats.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Would somebody please boo Louisiana Senator John Kennedy if you see him? He spoke at the Trump rally last night.

“In three short years, President Trump has doubled the growth in the greatest economy in all of human history. And do you know what our Democratic friends have done for him? Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach him.”

“I don’t mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb.”

Now even assuming that extremely rich people making more money is far more important than anything else, by Kennedy’s logic Trump could start shooting people as long as the stock market is okay.

And the only reason that Kennedy knows “it must suck to be that dumb” is because people have said it to him so damn many times.

My congressman, Pete Olson, isn’t running for re-election because he’s a damn coward.

So now that he’s a lame duck, he doesn’t give a fluffy flaming fancy buckeroo about doing things properly.  You know, like spending taxpayer dollars in an appropriate manner.

He sent out an email today.  None of his emails are what you would call enlightened or meaningful, cheerful, or even typed well.

The one today is a poll.  On impeachment.  And it’ a push poll.  Wanna see it?  Remember, this is his official government email system, not his campaign email.  So, you know what to do.  By taking the poll, you’ll get on his email list.  When the first one comes, unsubscribe and where it lets you say why you’re unsubscribing, here’s the correct spelling of dumb sumbitch.

Thank you for making me feel better.

Ambassador Bill Taylor says that $400 million in security aid to Ukraine and a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were conditioned on Ukraine announcing investigations into the 2016 election the company that hired Hunter Biden.

Trump didn’t want an investigation. He just wanted it announced that an investigation was ongoing. You know, kinda of like his investigators in Hawaii who were close to proving that Barack Obama wasn’t born there.

The Biden deal is just another shiny thing Trump uses for bait to distract the attention away from him.  It’s the law of media thermodynamics: if the heat is on someone else, it’s not on you.

More on Taylor as it gets read …

Come to find out, Rick Perry has got some ‘splainin’ to do.

Newly released testimony from the U.S. ambassador to the European Union provides further evidence that Energy Secretary Rick Perry played a central role in the Ukrainian saga that’s resulted in an impeachment probe against President Donald Trump.

But Gordon Sondland’s deposition, released on Tuesday, also leaves unanswered many questions about what exactly the former Texas governor knew – and when.

Reminder:  Perry has refused to testify under oath.  More reminder: Sondland, Volker, and Perry were named The Three Amigos. Mother of all reminders: Perry sought to put two Texas businessmen on the Naftogaz board. That’s how Perry works – gets jobs for his friends and then expect friendly kickbacks.

Y’all nothing will be more entertaining than watching Rick Perry before a congressional panel because he’s even dumber than you think.