I’m over here in the peanut gallery and I know that. But I’m wondering if I’m alone on this one issue.

I am all for the Democratic House investigating Trump. Good idea. Needs doing.

But first, above all, we have got to address health care. We have got to send a health care bill (and that includes prescription drug prices) to the senate every damn day until they finally give in or don’t have any answers left. That has to be first and that has to be constant. We’ve got to personalize it. We have to run ads on teevee. We need billboards that say insurance and drug companies are ripping you off, and dammit, for profit hospitals ain’t helping the situation any at all.

Democrats were elected to get something done. If we spend the next two years doing nothing but fighting Trump and then exchange him for something even worse, then shame on us in 2020.

Seems to me I’ve heard this song before, it’s an old familiar score …

Florida, you cannot hide Democratic ballots, count only the Republicans and then say that the counting is over once the Republicans are in the lead.

That’s the rules. Just because you got away with stealing an election in 2000 does not mean you can do it again this year. You have to wait at least 20 years before you steal another one.  I think that’s in the rules, too.

If you’ll recall, the last election you stole ended in a crashed economy, banks failing, a couple of wars that cost $4 Trillion dollars and 6,648 American lives and a debt that could choke a horse.  So, Florida, you can see why we’re a little anxious about you doing it again.

And then there’s this …

“The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!”

Donald Trump

Well, there ya go, Florida.  You screwed up the election so Republicans win because they are experts at screwing up.

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We all saw it yesterday – Trump, on Twitter, of course, attacked California blaming the state for “poor forest management”.  Here’s the tweet:

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”

The Twitterverse exploded, rightly accusing him of victim-blaming and calling him stupid, which are both true.  But what was generally missed?  60% of forests in California are FEDERAL, under authority of the National Forest Service, which is HIS RESPONSIBILITY.   His own 2019 budget reduces forest management spending by $170 million, and this comes on the heels of 2018 reductions.  He has signed executive orders ending clean air and water rules, and is known as a radical climate change denier.  Climate change is a now major factor in the devastating forest that now regularly rake not only California, but other western states.

The California Professional Firefighters Association responded to Trump’s attack pointing out that not only are 60% of forests under federal authority, but that another 30% are in PRIVATE hands.  They also scolded him for being such an asshole when hundreds of thousands of people are suffering and thousands of homes are being burned to the ground.

And that’s the point.

Trump is catching hell from everyone from CNN to Winston Churchill’s grandson for flying all the way to France for WWI commemoration ceremonies to simply skip a US cemetery visit because of…wait for it…rain.  Our low energy president chose to stay in his hotel room watching television while dignitaries from all over Europe and North America visited cemeteries all over France.  Apparently he didn’t want to muss his hair weave.

While his sycophants defended his lack of motivation to actually do his goddam job, I’ll just leave this little remembrance of how real presidents deal with poor weather conditions: