Remember the end of Scarface when Tony Montana goes nuts and machine guns everyone? Trump is rapidly reaching that point

Clearly his lust for revenge is spinning out of control.

In the very near future the Republicans are going to have to invoke Amendment 25 just to protect themselves from his reckless insanity.

This is how you manufacture outrage to cover a multitude of sins and sinners.

As a cat person I found this history of cats very interesting. I thought others might as well.

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Trump was crowing that Walmart's Thanksgiving dinner is 25% cheaper than last year. That's a lie.

That's because last years dinner included 21 items and this years only includes 15 items. And some name brand items have been replaced by Walmart store brands.

If Republican lips are moving they are lying.

OK Democrats - Let's not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Stand your ground on the shut down.

Here is the real take away from Tuesday's elections. Trump and MAGA are both on an accelerating death spiral. Broad swaths of the electorate rejected both on Tuesday.

The Democrats principled stand on the health care issue has already won over a majority of the people. Even a large number of Republican Senators and Representatives realize this. Senate Republicans have already defied Trump by refusing to entertain his demand to do away with the filibuster. That could have something to do with they realize that they may be in the minority in the next Congress. I have no doubt they are ready to cut a deal with the Democrats on health care and several other things as well.

Dynamics amongst Republicans in the House are rapidly changing. Trump is greatly weakened and his threats of primary challenges to sitting members with ever more far far right wing candidates no longer is the real threat. After Tuesday they now realize that the real threat is from pissed off voters in both parties. They also realize that the only way they can possibly hold on to their seats is to make some sort of attempt at rational governing. That means that the shut down must end ASAP. When the Senate sends a compromise budget bill to the House, it will only take a few sane (more or less) Republicans along with Democrats to pass it. The pressure on Trump will be overwhelming from all sides and he will be forced to sign the bill.

I'm going to go out on a limb here. Over the next few days Republicans are going to continue to get an earful from angry constituents. The handwriting is on the wall. Republican Representatives are going to demand that MAGAt Mike (who I'm betting is going back down the road to obscurity fairly soon) reconvene the House. Both houses of Congress will cut a deal by next week. It will cover health care costs, SNAP benefits, guarantees that furloughed employees will get back pay, and several other small goodies. The Democrats will be handed the best campaign issue ever too take into the midterms. Trump's weakness will be even more obvious.

Donna Jean has passed on to the great gig in the sky. RIP beautiful lady

Donna Jean has passed on to the great gig in the sky. RIP beautiful lady

The news I'm seeing is that tRump is dispatching an aircraft carrier to Latin American waters.

The peace, aka POS, president is planning a land war in Venezuela in the name of stopping drug trafficking. Actually the purpose is to steal Venezuelan oil. They have the worlds largest proven oil reserves, larger than Saudi Arabia. This will be an international crime of the highest order. Venezuela does have a large military. They will most certainly fight to defend their country. If need be they will go under ground and fight an endless guerilla war (See Vietnam, Iraq, etc.). American men and women will die and be maimed for life in order to satisfy a mad man's ego and greed.

I guess we will see if the American military has been so hollowed out that it will carry out such a blatant illegal order.

My dinky town in Redlandia turned out 800+ people. That is about 10% of the entire town.

For the mathematically challenged such as the Donald, that is greater than 3-1/2%. That seems to be the magic number considered necessary to to effect change.

More importantly, across Main Street in front of the hardware store there were 6 or 8 men (all men) scowling at us. The crowd marched up and occupied several blocks along the highway for about 20 minutes. There was one lonesome redneck cowboy across the way yelling insults at us. The counter demonstration (if you could call it that) was less than pathetic.

The reaction of cars passing by was a nonstop cacophony of horns and cheers. I only saw one middle finger salute. All in all I thought it was a great day.