I got an email today from Mrs. Roger Stone. I do not know Mrs. Roger Stone.  What I do know is that like Blanche DuBois she depends on the kindness of strangers.

Bless her heart. Click the little one to see the big one.

I cut it off because that’s all that would fit in my screen grab, but I did you a favor.

Like Blanche, Mrs. Roger Stone married poorly to an untrustworthy man.

Bless her heart, living in a one bedroom apartment in Washington, DC. Life in the fast lane is so cruel.  You’d think her family friend Donald Trump would at least put her up in a nice suite at Trump Tower.

The Cult of Trump has metastasized into a terminal cancer on our democracy.  The Congress won’t provide proper oversight, the press is running around chasing every little tweet, and Trump spends all of his time either tweeting or watching Fox Noise, and his cabinet of corrupt cronies is busily tearing down every tradition and progressive statute enacted over the last 80 years.

Since the Barr Report exonerated Trump (even though we haven’t seen the Mueller Report) Trump has been spiking the ball and becoming even more emboldened to do something really stupid.  Two possibilities of said stupidity are 1) Reigniting the battle over healthcare; 2) Whipping up the racists over immigration.  Case in point, he’s now threatening to close the southern border next week if Mexico doesn’t stop illegal immigration.  Once again, he is spouting nonsense and demanding the impossible.

I’m weary with the 24/7 train wreck that is the Trump presidency; I have Trump fatigue.   We have to do something different to wake up the Congress and the electorate.  So, I give up.  The Invertebrates in Congress won’t do their goddam jobs to stop this despot, so I say let’s do it.  Let’s close the border.  Shut down all the ports of entry and put the US military along the border.  C’mon shithead, DO IT.  Let’s burn down US-Mexico trade and just see what happens.

Here’s exactly what would happen: In January of 2019, the US imported over $27 BILLION of goods and exported $25 BILLION of goods.  That’s PER MONTH.  The US Trade Representative reports that 1.2 MILLION American jobs exist because of US export to Mexico. However, the Woodrow Wilson center has determined that 4.9 MILLION American jobs would be lost if trade with Mexico was halted.  I’ll say that again – 4.9 MILLION American jobs would be lost if trade with Mexico was halted.  Job losses at that scale would most certainly drive the US economy into another recession costing even more millions in jobs.

SO, I say let’s do it.  Let’s burn down the US and Mexico economies at the same time.  Let’s close the border.  If this is what it takes to wake up the Congress to do something, let’s shut it down, stranding billions of dollars in goods and costing millions of jobs.   I don’t know what else to do to stop this guy.

The Huffington Post has the good parts all underlined for you.

In an interview with CalMatters this week, George Lakoff, linguistics expert from Berkeley, explained why progressives should stop using the term “Mueller Report”.  Lakoff, who wrote Don’t Think of an Elephant, about political messaging, is a long time consultant to Democratic candidates and media pundits teaching them how to effectively frame messages to voters.  In this interview, he told readers that Trump and his talking heads are touting that the Mueller report exonerated him when it most certainly did not.  However, when progressives argue that the Mueller report didn’t exonerate him, they’re actually reinforcing the conservative message.  Instead, Lakoff suggests that rather than use the term “Mueller”, to change that to “Barr”.  So the response to conservatives’ claim of exoneration is “The Barr report cannot be trusted and we haven’t seen the Mueller report.”  Progressives need to keep “the Barr report” out there to reinforce that message rather than conservatives’ message.

As JJ pointed out this morning, Trump’s Rump Nosers are going after Adam Schiff with a vengeance, especially after His Orangeness demanded that he should somehow be forced to resign over the Mueller report that no one outside of the Justice Department has seen.  Fortunately, Schiff is having none of it, and dropped the hammer on said Nosers during the House Intelligence Committee meeting today.  It’s worth the time watching the whole thing:

Okay, okay, I see this headline this morning …

And I think, “wait a minute, wait a minute, settle your butt down and wait a minute.” Nobody can force anybody to resign. By definition, resigning is a self-initiated choice.  Your boss can’t force you to resign. There’s another word for that and you’d think Donald Trump would know that word since it was the catch-phrase of his teevee show.

Trump, who has tussled with Schiff since entering the White House, called the congressman a “pencil neck” during a White House meeting Tuesday with Senate Republicans.

During the confab, Trump also said Schiff would be a horrible golfer because he would only be able to drive the ball 50 yards down the fairway.

A number of Republicans and White House administration officials have called on Schiff to step down since Barr released his summary of Mueller’s findings Sunday.

Pencil neck? Bad golfer? Trump really wants to name-call when he’s wearing an animal on his head, has a triple chin, walks weird so his thighs won’t chafe, cheats at golf, has tiny hands, and has an enormous butt?

Besides, golf is not a sport. It’s billiards on the ground. It’s an excuse to drink, like darts, bowling, and pool.

Holy cow, how in hell did we get here?