After hastily signing the Make America Poor Again bill on Friday, His Orangeness fled to Cheeto Lago to defile the Christmas holiday on home turf among his sycophants.  In his wake, he left fellow Republicans who were also getting the hell out of Dodge to get away from inquisitive reporters.  All during this debacle, there was one BIG LIE that rose above all other lies, and that was that this bill was focused on tax cuts for the middle class.  Anyone actually paying attention knew that assertion was completely false, but Trumpists and billionaires alike supported it for obvious reasons.

Trump, as we all are painfully aware, is in constant need of praise and admiration, and their is no better place for him than Cheeto Lago, where he surrounds himself with his own rapacious crowd mingling within the cheesy gold-plated walls and dining on “beautiful chocolate cake”.  In these surroundings, when he is immersed in praise and adoration, Trump often lets the truth slip out; Friday was not different.  When mingling among guests Friday night, he told them, “You just got a lot richer.”

And there it is.  This bill was not about kick starting the economy, because it doesn’t.  It’s not about companies creating new jobs with the billions of dollars in tax relief, because they won’t.  The deficit hawks cowered under the Trump McConnell cabal, blowing a trillion dollar plus hole in spending.  This bill was about one thing, and one thing only; fulfilling promises to donors.  It repeals the healthcare mandate; makes the corporate tax cut permanent; it puts over a trillion dollars in the pockets of the rich; it forces mandatory cuts in medicare and other social spending; it even opens the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to oil and gas development.  What the hell do any of those things have to do with improving the lives of Americans?  Answer: Nothing.

It was never about the middle class, and those people in that class who voted for him were (and are) chumps who inflicted this regime on the US and indeed the world.

Thanks for nothing.

UPDATE:  Trump just signed the bill before blowing out of town to Cheeto Lago.  He didn’t get the PayGo waiver, so cuts to Medicare and other social programs should begin in early 2018.  It looks like Trump, like with so many of these issues, could care less what happens to Congress, or he has some trick up his sleeve in a signing statement.  This will be interesting to watch.

There’s a LOT in Trump’s tax bill to be upset about, especially after the vomit-inducing love fest at the White House Wednesday when the sucking up by Congressional Republicans got so pervasive that they actually dropped the barometric pressure in Washington.  This bill is bad, horrible, unsettling, __________ (add your descriptor here).  This bill is so bad that even Marketwatch, owned by the Wall Street Journal, published an editorial this week called The Four Worst Things About the Tax Bill.   And here are those four things: 1) It’s Unnecessary – the economy is growing at an average 2.3% which is normal for our economy and is stable with the growth of the work force.  US corporations are sitting on piles of cash already.  Trump yesterday said that this tax cut will increase our grow rate from 3% to 6%, which is a blatant lie. The economy historically grows at 2 to 3% and tax cuts have little to no long term effect on the economy.  2) It’s Inefficient – We already know what’s going to happen with this windfall to corporations; they’re going to buy back stock.  There will be little short term gain and virtually no long term gain, AND we’ll add over a trillion dollars to our accumulated deficit just because we can. 3) It’s Unjust – Tax cuts for corporations are permanent.  The tiny tax cuts received by the majority of Americans will vaporize in 10 years.  In the interim, Donald Trump and his cronies in Congress stand to put millions of dollars in their own pockets through preferential cuts to taxes on their incomes. 4) It’s corrupt – this is nothing but a shopping list for big GOP donors.  It repeals the ACA mandate; it keeps the carried interest deduction for hedge fund and private equity executives; it opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development.  And, as I already mentioned, it includes the #CorkerKickback, giving preferential treatment to passive income from real estate.

As you dig into the 500 page bill, it gets worse and worse, but that’s not the actual worst of it.  The worst is that the drama and rush to get this bill passed was 100% Kabuki.  The drive to getting this bill on the books by yearend was complete and total fabricated bullshit.  After rushing the bill through, Trump is now sitting on it and won’t sign it until January.  The reason?  The gigantic deficit that this bill creates will trigger the Pay as You Go budget provisions enacted by Congress originally under Reagan and HW Bush which will require mandatory spending cuts including Medicare and Social Security.  If the bill is signed this year, those cuts will come early 2018, which is political suicide for Republicans.  The only way the mandatory cuts would not occur is if Congress passed a waiver to PayGo, but that would require 8 Democrats to cross over and vote with the GOP, and that will NEVER happen after they ran over the Dems to pass this bill before the end of the year.  So, everyone just went home, and Trump is headed off to Cheeto Lago for Christmas.

So, by signing the bill in January, the mandatory spending cuts will come AFTER the mid-term elections, and most voters won’t realize they’ve been pantsed once again while they stupidly vote for the people who are doing the pantsing.

This is not a “giant Christmas present” as Trump calls it.  It’s nothing but a giant bait and switch.

NBC News has broken the story that Trump was personally warned by counterintelligence agents of the FBI in JULY of 2016 that the Russians would try to infiltrate his campaign.  He and senior campaign officials were told to communicate to the FBI about ANY attempt by the Russians to contact them.  There is NO evidence that any Trump official did so.  Instead of taking the warning, Trump cronies were actively communicating with the Russians on multiple levels.

Wanna know why Trump lawyers went off the deep end this weekend with the panicked letter to Congress?  Wanna know whey they wrote Congress instead of Mueller?  How about why Trump’s lawyers didn’t file a lawsuit stopping Mueller from using the GSA provided emails?

Welp, here ya’ go.  Trump provided transition team emails to Mueller.  They just didn’t provide ALL of them.  That’s a crime.  Being reported this morning, it appears the famous leaked email of KT McFarland’s claiming that Russia threw the election to Trump was withheld by the Trump team, and acquired from another source.

Tick, Tick, Tick

The parallels between Trump and Nixon’s administration are getting downright creepy.  We all knew that Nixon was a crook.  We know that Trump is a crook.  We remember the Watergate break-ins, using the FBI to spy on political enemies, and the Plumbers, Nixon’s private espionage and revenge squad.

Welp, Nixon’s ghost has risen from it’s Watergate grave and is now stalking the halls of the West Wing.  Erik Prince, criminal and founder of discredited and disbanded Blackwater, a mercenary company that infamously killed over a dozen Iraqis in a shooting spree and got away with it, is back.  His sister?  Unbelievably, she’s Betsy DeVos, religious nut and anti-education zealot who is now…wait for it…Secretary of Education under Trump.  Prince is now “advising” White House staff, and has apparently proposed a private intelligence operation, loyal to no one but Trump, to operate OUTSIDE of US intelligence agencies to counter the delusional “Deep State” operation.  You know the Deep State theory, right?  That’s the one where Obama and a bunch of latte-sipping panty waists are actually running a shadow government out of Chicago to take down Trump.  Or some similar nonsense.

Apparently, Mike Pompeo, who Trump is planning to tap for Secretary of State as soon as he can snuff out Tillerson, has endorsed the plan, repeating the same BS that his own CIA operatives cannot be trusted.  It’s insane, and saturated with Nixonian paranoia and fabricated conspiracies.

Trump has gone completely off the rails.  He has no judgement, eats and thinks like a 12 year old high on airplane glue, careening around the White House from one end to the other, embracing every screwball theory and tweeting ridiculous BS in an almost continuous stream.  This is like Celebrity Apprentice merged with the Madness of King George, and House of Cards.

Our situation has gone from unbelievable to mildly entertaining to appalling to full on, sirens blaring, lights flashing red alert.  We all predicted this would be a disastrous presidency; but the rapidity in which it’s happening is simply breathtaking.

Fired campaign manager ( I mean the one before Paul Manafort, who was also fired) Corey Lewandowski wrote a book about Trump’s campaign, along with a campaign aide, David Bossie.  I won’t link or name the book here in an effort to deny it a few web clicks.  One of Trump’s more disgusting habits is his taste in, uh, food, and Lewandowski describes some of his favorite indulgences.  He loves everything that’s bad for you –  huge slabs of beef overcooked to the extreme, double scoops of ice cream, “big beautiful chocolate cake”, Diet Cokes, and fast food including KFC and his favorite, McDonald’s.  Lewandowski described Trump’s favorite meal – TWO Big Macs, TWO Filet of Fish sandwiches, and a LARGE chocolate malt.  That’s a whopping 2,430 calories in one sitting.

Not only does he live the intellectual life of a 12 year old, he also eats like one.  No one his age eats like this – his cardio vascular system must be a wreck.  Maybe he’s trying to commit suicide by Big Mac?