Anything catching your ears on fire?

Damn you, Ted Cruz, when are you gonna give it up over Hillary’s emails?

I stood and shoved my fist in the air when Sally Yates shut down Ted Cruz.  If you were watching closely, Amy Klobuchar was leaning forward, looked around to Cruz and smiled as if to say, “she just spanked you.”

It’s here.

NASCAR DRIVER AUSTIN WAYNE SELF HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HIS CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES VEHICLE WILL BE EMBLAZONED WITH DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGN MARKINGS DURING THE UPCOMING OCTOBER 22 RUN OF FRED’S 250 AT TALLADEGA SUPERSPEEDWAY.

I wonder if he has to report the paint as a campaign contribution.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

George Will’s column in the Washington Post last week was as jolting as it was insightful.  I don’t often describe George Will’s writings with these adjectives since almost every word out of his mouth and keyboard is abhorrent to me.  But we do share a common opinion, and that is of Donald Trump’s utter unfitness for the office of president.  Will’s been vocal and frequent in his criticisms, but in this most recent piece and follow up television appearances, he offers a unique solution to minimizing the damage Trump can inflict on the country: quarantine.  In his piece Will’s argument is this:

“Americans have placed vast military power at the discretion of this mind, a presidential discretion that is largely immune to restraint by the Madisonian system of institutional checks and balances. So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict.” [emphasis mine]

Will suggests that not only is Trump subject to serious gaffes, historically inaccurate statements, and offensive speech, but, “Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.”  Will argues that not only is he slothful and lacks basic civics knowledge, but lacks the ability to even absorb knowledge.

So, Will puts it on us, the public, to pressure our representatives and senators to quarantine this menace until we can get him out of office.  He wants a bipartisan effort to not cooperate with his agenda; refuse to support his crazy ideas; repudiate his fascination with despots.  Correct him when he blatantly lies.

Perhaps quarantine will stop the epidemic of stupidity and hatefulness now running rampant from DC throughout the country.

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is scheduled to testify today about her visit to the White House to warn them about Mike Flynn.

I have no idea what she’s going to say, but I suspect that Donald Trump will not be gleeful.  Sad. The biggest sad ever.

So Trump goes to Twitter this morning and says —

He is accusing her of a felony in his own little backdoor way.

The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc’s high-faluntin’ legal counsel Junior Janochek, Jr. advised us …

Witness tampering is the act of attempting to alter or prevent the testimony of witnesses within criminal or civil proceedings. Laws regarding witness tampering also apply to proceedings before Congress, executive departments, and administrative agencies.

Trump, of course, offers no proof or even probable suspicion that Sally Yates leaked to the press, but I think she did it while personally driving 3 million undocumented immigrants to polls to vote.

Is anybody keeping a list of impeachable offenses?

Major media is now reporting that, in France, non-establishment but centrist Emanuel Macron has decisively defeated Trump-like, anti-immigrant candidate Marine LePen.  Hacking of Macron’s campaign seems to have had little effect on the outcome.  Is this the beginning of western civilization pulling back from the brink of hate-filled, racist, authoritarianism that peaked with the election of reality television star Donald Trump as president of the US?