Matt Ford hit the nail on the head this week in a piece published by New Republic.  Titled “Trump’s Tax on the National Psyche“, Ford talks about how Trump not only is an incredible time waster himself, he’s also wasting the time of all Americans with his outrageous behavior, Tweetstorms, and pernicious lying.  Rather than taking care of the People’s business, Trump wastes much of his day in “executive time” watching Fox News, tweeting, and talking to his pals.  He runs the government like his cheesy reality television shows intentionally keeping the public and the media in knots by issuing a continuous stream of idiotic declarations-by-tweet rambling everywhere from buying Greenland to attacking members of Congress who happen to have the wrong skin color in his opinion.  The press has been reduced to trying to get some semblance of policy during his Chopper Talk sessions where he stands before a forest of microphones screaming bullshit over the screaming of his helicopter’s engines.  It’s ridiculous.

It’s exhausting and draining.  Even the people who support him are surely exhausted having to defend their hero’s criminality and corruption, and I believe it will take years to recover from this infestation of the WH, if we ever can.  Ford does a good job with his analysis and his piece is worth a read.

The campaign arm of the Republican congressional committee is selling tee-shirts with Greenland as part of America.

Next month they will offer one with America and Greenland as part of Russia.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Lookie here.

Yep – the day before.

The letter starts out, “If we’re going to DEFEND Texas, we’ll need to take matters into our own hands.”  And it goes downhill from there.

You can read the letter for yourself right here.

The Texas Tribune says that Hector DeLeon the leader of Associated Republicans of Texas, spoke about it.

“It’s easy to go out and shoot a bunch of ‘Mexicans,’ if you don’t view them as people,” De Leon said. “I think state leaders and national leaders cannot pander to the worst in human nature or the worst in their party; they can engage in rhetoric that shows were more than that.

Come on, Greg, get on board the human train.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen kinda grins every time he reads about Roona Romney McDaniels, the chairwoman of the RNC, spending money on her beauty treatments for her personal appearances on teevee or events.  To him, that’s just all the less money they can spend electing Republicans.

So, he found a few to add to the list.

There’s this one:

MODERN SALON AND SPA
201 W. MOREHEAD STREET SUITE 400
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina 28202
07/24/2019 MEDIA PREPARATION 200.00

Was Ronna in Charlotte last month to talk about the 2020 convention?

And this one:

ABOUT FACE BEAUTY SPA
402 S WASHINGTON AVE
ROYAL OAK, Michigan 48067
07/23/2019 MEDIA PREPARATION 500.00

Please notice that these are only a day apart.  I’m just saying that after a $500 spa and makeup treatment, I’d expect to still look pretty good the next day.

Trump this week

—tried to buy Greenland

—canceled Denmark trip because it wasn’t for sale

—decreed self “the chosen one” on trade

—quoted reference to him as “2nd coming of God”

—labeled D-voting Jews “disloyal” to Jews/Israel

—claimed without evidence Google manipulated 2016 votes

It’s just Thursday morning …..

Still, our Ambassador to Denmark is a graduate of Life Chiropractic College & an actress  “best known for her work in Deathstalker & the Warriors from Hell” according to her delightful Wikipedia page! So on the plus side, Trump’s temper tantrum over purchasing Greenland may not make him the most ridiculous American Denmark has dealt with this week.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Wayne Allyn Root is a radio talk show host who decided that Jews should stick with Trump.  Wanna know why?

“I happen to be Jewish by birth and 75% of all Jews vote Democrat, and they don’t like Trump,” Root said Tuesday. “This is the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world. Not just in America, Trump is the best president for Israel in the history of the world. And the Jewish people love him like he is the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God.”

Well, here’s the part that’s really nuts: Trump quoted this crazy man on Twitter this morning and thanked him for his “kind words.”

You can watch the original here.

Y’all, Trump is not a well man.

He called Nazis “very fine people” and opened up concentration camps on our border but thinks the Jewish people see him as the second coming of God.