Meet the new Teflon Don...nothing sticks to this guy!

Hey there everyone, it’s Thursday. We’re creeping up on the weekend. The winter storm of death that the weatherguessers have been barking about every chance they get…eh, not so much. Now the models have it as much less snow, ice, and death than originally predicted.

Cousin Fred and Friend Lamont went to town yesterday and have stocked up, so I guess we’ll still be hanging out here.

Friends, those of you who are longtime followers of this blog know that it is a rare occurrence indeed when I quote anything from Fox News whose motto translated from the Latin is “We’ll tell you what you need to know and how to interpret it so you don’t have to think for yourself ‘cuz you’re kind of stupid.”

In my overnight newsfeed there was an article on their website that I was frankly a bit surprised to see. The article cited an unnamed “senior diplomat” as saying that the attack against Americans in Syria yesterday was carried out in direct response to Fearless Leader running his mouth about the defeat of ISIS and subsequent troop withdrawal.

Let that sink in for a minute.

Even Fearless Leader’s lapdog, Lindsey Graham took Fearless Leader to task for running his mouth and suggested he should find a way to put a muzzle on it.

So, now, Trump has American blood on his hands. Suppose he’s losing sleep over it? Nah, not him. He can blame countless minions for his errors in judgement.

You see what bragging that ISIS has been defeated gets you? Nah, you probably still don’t. Jackass.

And, then, even after the attacks yesterday, that ventriloquist dummy of a VP “New” Pence, walked out on a stage and announced that ISIS has been defeated (it’s our story and we’re sticking to it). Of course, he (sort of) tried to walk that back later, but only after every news outlet in the world pointed out the stupidity and insensitivity of what he said.

Hmmm…not much to be heard from Fearless Leader during all of this. He was too busy worrying how it would look if his State of the Union address later this month is postponed or must be submitted in writing.

It seems that House Speaker Pelosi, of the Chuck and Nancy Show fame, sent a note to the White House early yesterday morning suggesting that Trump put off the State of Union out of fears that the shutdown creates security problems. Hmmm. That’s pretty weak, Pelosi. Seriously, that’s the best you can come up with?

An early morning report from Reuters says that the gang of thugs in the WH spent the better part of yesterday agonizing over how best to deal with this.

They want the snapless snapping turtle McConnell to invite the president to address Congress. May not be able to do that, but we’ll see.

According to the folks at Reuters, senior WH officials are egging Fearless Leader on, telling him that Pelosi’s request is a sign of weakness. Well, it is kind of weak, I’ll grant you, but a sign of weakness? They’re whispering in his ear that the Dems fear he will use the stage to his advantage.

Hell, I think we all expect that!

The White House for its part is telling themselves that: 1) the Dems will break, and; 2) that (increasingly shaky) GOP support will hold together long enough for the shutdown stalemate to end.

Guess you gotta have a dream.

So, that’s the crisis du jour for the gang of thugs? Seriously? Well I suppose it does distract from the increasing body count at the hands of a supposedly defeated (“crushed”) enemy.

That is all!