A very stupid coup

 Rudolph Giuliani's chances of collecting that $20,000 per diem grew faint as the Trump campaign paid $3 million for a partial recount in Wisconsin.  The whole state would have cost $7.9 million so it looks like corners are being cut.  The campaign has yet to specify the counties it is challenging and the state is waiting for the check to clear, so the Futility Canvass 2020 probably won't start until next week.  Biden's biggest leads were in Milwaukee and Dane counties and unless every vote is tossed out there's no way Trump can claw back the state.  Hey, it's not my money.  

Meanwhile lead lawyer Rudolph notched up another failure in Pennsylvania when the state's Supreme Court ruled that Philadelphia did not violate the law by restricting observers' access to ballots.  In Georgia, the discovery of more uncounted ballots has reduced Biden's margin of victory to 13,000.  That leaves Michigan, where any further delay in certifying the results could remove the state from the electoral college altogether; to date, no judge has indicated a willingness to disenfranchise five million people just because most of them voted for Joe Biden.  

Against the odds and in violation of his usual practice, Trump appointed Christopher Krebs to head the DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.  Krebs was not only good at his job, he was cocky about it, declaring this election "the most secure in American history."  That can't be right because Trump lost, therefore FRAUD AT POLLS!  Chad Wolf, himself illegally appointed (long story) refused to fire Krebs in last week's purge, so Trump had to take time out from his packed schedule of sulking and tweeting and do it himself.  On Twitter, because he is a big fat coward who couldn't even fire someone on the phone much less in person.  (See Comey, James.)  

Since then Krebs has received widespread support including a nice tweet from Mark Hamill, to which he responded:  "In defending democracy, do or do not, there is no try.  This is the way."  Use the Force, Joe, and find a job for this guy.

If you haven't read about Hollywood celebs spending big money to pave their kids' way into Virginia Wesleyan University, it could have something to do with their Business and Economics Department and  former dean Paul Ewell.  On Facebook he called Biden supporters "ignorant, anti-American and anti-Christian," at least one of which offends me.  Ewell resigned last week, protesting that some of his best friends are Democrats even if they do corrupt "our youth...our country."  He promises to work harder at being a Christian.   He could start by repudiating Trump, who picked up on his story and re-tweeted it with a single, baffling comment:  "Progress!"  He won't.

In other "what else can we shit on?" news, the Bureau of Land Management has given oil and gas companies thirty days to submit their plans for fouling pristine Alaskan wilderness.  It's almost as if they don't plan to be doing this after January.  

The Trumps' Thanksgiving just got more interesting:  Ivanka has her very own Stephanie Winston Wolkoff!  Finally she and Step-mom can bond over the cranberry sauce (yech).  Lysandra Ohrstrom finally felt free to vent in Vanity Fair about what a spoiled bitch her one-time friend is.  For instance, Ohrstrom recommended Richard Russo's novel Empire Falls only to have Princess reply, "Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?  What part of you thinks I would be interested in this?"  Aren't poor people mentioned in that Bible she carries around in case Daddy spots a church and decides to hold a photo-op?  I'm pretty sure they are.  And unless the Chapin School makes students sign a non-disclosure agreement, Vanky won't be using Daddy's Justice Department to sue her no-longer BFF.  Best she can do is snip Ohrstrom out of her wedding pictures.

On Two Foul Balls and a Miss today, Brian Kilmeade said, "It's in the country's best interest if [Trump] starts coordinating on the virus and starts coordinating on security with the Biden team."  When you've lost Brian Kilmeade...