CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times are now reporting that both Supreme Court nominees are going to be present in the White House for Cheeto Jesus’s network announcement tonight of his choice.  Yes, you heard that right.  Apparently, His Orangeness thinks he’s hosting a big television game show, and is planning some kind of Celebrity Apprentice style rollout of his nominee.

Holy Jesus.  It is absolutely humiliating to be an American with this cancer infecting the White House.

Last week I told you about Gregg Phillips, a completely scam artist who is Donald Trump’s expert on voter fraud.

Phillips ran some scams with taxpayer dollars in both Texas and Mississippi.  Now he’s angling to head up Donald Trump’s investigation into voter fraud and prove, by gawd, that there’s people registered to vote in more than one state.

And he should know.

A man who President Donald Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud was registered to vote in multiple states during the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press has learned.

Gregg Phillips, whose unsubstantiated claim that the election was marred by 3 million illegal votes was tweeted by the president, was listed on the rolls in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi, according to voting records and election officials in those states. He voted only in Alabama in November, records show.

When questioned about the obviously hypocrisy, Phillips replied that this only proves that the system is broken.  Yeah, guy, you broke it!

Thanks to everybody for threads up.

Here ya go —

Yeah, he wishes.

Republican Colorado Senator Cory Gardner has been getting a mess of phone calls.

Gardner said his office is getting so many calls and emails, his has staff assigned to do nothing except respond to them. In one night, his office received 3,000 voicemails. Many of them were from what Gardner calls paid protesters from other parts of the U.S.

Paid protestors?  Yeah, whistle past that graveyard, Buddy.

I guess he meant to say “pissed off protestor” and it just came out “paid protestors.”

To their credit, the Denver teevee station adds this —

Editor’s Note: CBS4 has asked Sen. Cory Gardner’s office for evidence of out-of-state paid protesters calling the office, and CBS4 plans to follow up on the story this week.

Bless Cory’s heart, Hillary carried Colorado.  So, you know, you might give him a call.  His Denver office number is (303) 391-5777.  You might let him know you’re not being paid.

Charles Johnson of the conservative website Little Green Footballs pointed out yesterday another alarming move by Cheeto Jesus’s administration – the removal of the judicial branch from the official website, whitehouse.gov.  Here’s the tweet from Johnson:

Steve Bannon, avowed racist and Cheeto’s extreme right hand man, is a big fan of Andrew Jackson, another white supremacist who defied the courts to maintain racist policies.  Looks like the ghost of Old Hickory is back; there’s even a portrait of Jackson now hanging in the Oval Office.  The removal of reference to the judicial branch on the website is not an oversight; it’s intentional and likely the first shot in a constitutional crisis that Bannon is trying to incite.  Here’s the web address so you can see for yourself.

Week one of this presidency ended as it began – by scaring the sh*t out of the entire planet (sorry, Momma).  A week ago Friday, the worst, most unqualified candidate in history became the worst, most unqualified president in history.  My most uttered phrase this week?  Holy Jesus.  And I uttered that phrase over and over at each terrifying revelation.

As a case in point, at this very moment, the tabs on my browser summarize the reasons that normal people around the world are filled with fear and dread: US News’ Temperament Tantrum; NPR’s How Does [Cheeto Jesus’s] Immigration Freeze Square with His Business Interests?; [TwitterFinger] Shuffles NSC; and China Military Official Says war with US…’Becoming Practical Reality’.  

Ruth Marcus’ opinion piece in the Washington Post this morning though, sums up this erratic week that we all experienced – alarming.  Cheeto Jesus seems to be intentionally trying scare the world, and it’s working.  China is resigned to a war with the US.  For the first time in our history, we have official US government policy of institutional religious discrimination.  Muslims are banned, Christians are given priority.  Oh, and conveniently, the ban applies only to Muslim majority countries where Twitterfinger has no business interests.  The others?  Not so much.

Of the legion of alarming decisions, though, the one reshuffling the National Security Counsel is the most disturbing.  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Director of National Intelligence were removed and Steve Bannon, propagandist and alt-right racist was made a permanent member of the council.  Think about it – the most experienced voices of the military and national intelligence are now excluded from the highest level discussions of security and intelligence.  This decision boggles the mind and will have disastrous consequences.  The, uh…urp, president has zero foreign policy or defense experience (with the possible exception of his pee-pee parties with prostitutes in Moscow).  His direct reports are either warmongering nuts or self serving billionaires.  The senior diplomatic staff at the State Department has walked.  There are no ambassadors sitting in any of our embassies.  The Director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, is a hayseed teabagger from Kansas whose most important issues in his career have been destroying the healthcare system and denying women the right to control their own bodies.  The Secretary of Defense publicly disagrees with CJ on several issues, including torture.  Essentially, he is walling himself off from those with experience or decent judgement.

Cheeto Jesus talks in the word salad of a 5th grade playground bully.  Add that oddity to his intentionally provocative behavior and isolation and you have a volatile combination.  The risks of him touching off a major international crisis increases everyday.  He’ll finally poke someone in the eye, like China, and they’ll respond with a tactical weapon or shoot down an airliner.  I’m afraid that’s what it’s going to take before the Congress finally acts and removes this lunatic before he starts WWIII.