What's goin' on?

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait says Mueller’s investigation is in "mortal danger." E.J. Dionne Jr. of the Washington Post says the campaign to fire Mueller is pushing us "closer to the precipice" of lawlessness. 
-from this article

Make sure you know your protest spot if Mueller is fired.  If he's fired before 2pm the protest is at 5pm; if he's fired after 2pm we meet the next day at noon.  High noon.
I can't believe I have to tell my husband that we have to do this if Mueller is fired.  I can't believe I have to take my kids to protest against the dictatorship of Donald Trump.  But here it is.  So be it.  The fight continues.

Why did NPR call the MBS power grab in Saudi Arabia an economic restructuring?  Why don't they ever say that this purge started right after Jared Kushner took an unannounced trip and stayed up late with MBS?  Jared's idea for peace in the Middle East?  Why do NPR hosts nervously laugh about the terrible Trump things?  I say it all the time now, but they want normal so bad.  You know what?  It's okay to be outraged.

What are Cuties?  Depending on the season they are either Clementine mandarins or Murcott mandarins.  Clementine are a hybrid between a mandarin and sweet orange.  Murcott are the same, also called a tangor which is also called a temple orange.  A tangerine is a closely related or probable type of mandarin.

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— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) December 11, 2017

World Leader Pretend

Reach out for me and hold me tight
Hold that memory
Let my machine talk to me, let my machine talk to me
Let it say Covfefe


NPR report
El Lobo's job to secure a safe entry into the United States is getting less dependable.  He may have to open up a little store or sell cars.  For now he must charge more, $4800, to paddle his clients across the Rio Grande on inner tubes and scale a metal fence in Brownsville, TX.
 
I can't spend near that much for a vacation!

El Lobo shows the interviewer his friction burns on his inner arms that he got when he shimmied up an iron pole and slid down the other side to tie a rope to haul over his clients.
El Lobo says we can spend the exorbitant amount of US tax dollars to build a wall, "But we'll just climb over it!"

A union official of the National Boarder Control Council response:

"I would say the guy's probably a little full of himself," he says of El Lobo. "I mean I think that a wall is a barrier for him.  Does it stop him?  No.  Does it slow him down?  Yes, it does.  If there was no wall, he wouldn't have any bruises and he'd get his traffic across that much easier."

I need Fred Armisten and Bill Hader to create something out of this.  People are paying for the worst vacation ever.  El Lobo says a wall will not deter him nor or his clients.  US Boarder control official says the wall will not work, but dude will get bruises, so win.

For now, without the wall, there is a dramatic decline in illegal border crossing.  I guess a mix of extra border patrol and Trump not wanting them is enough to pass on El Lobo.  I don't want the fucking wall, I'm for legalizing and regulating drugs and aligning with our southern neighbor so that the people who don't really want to leave don't pay for a shitty vacation.

Come on News

Lately, after I drop my daughter off at school, I tap my radio power button and sing "Tell me something good" in my best Chaka Khan.  Yes, my dial is stuck on NPR.



And then I do a little Rufus cuz it makes me feel better when I learn that Trump is still in the White House.

Facts are not open to interpretation

“One thing that’s been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts. They’re not really facts,” Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said on “The Diane Rehm Show” on NPR. “It’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true. There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”

Definition of fact

1. 1:  a thing done: asa obsolete :  featb :  crime fact

>c archaic :  action

2archaic :  performance, doing

3:  the quality of being actual :  actuality fact

 hinges on evidence>

4a :  something that has actual existence fact

>b :  an actual occurrence fact of damage>

5:  a piece of information presented as having objective reality

in fact

1. :  in truth