Trumpusha!

 Here we are wondering what Trump will do when he finally realizes his eviction notice was signed by eighty million people, and Russian state media has the answer:  "Our Donald" should be granted asylum in Russia so he can avoid prosecution -- sorry, persecution -- in this country.  One member of the Defense Ministry compared his troubles to the Stalinist terror of the 1930s but added a stipulation that he should "transfer his capital here and finally build his famous Trump City somewhere in our New Moscow."  At that point I realized it was a Borat-level put-on:  Trump has no capital, as any Russian insider would know.  The pity bucks he continues to squeeze out of the MAGAts, for now, don't come near the amount he owes just to Chinese banks.  He never paid attention during classified briefings so he has no information to trade that he hasn't already blurted out ("super duper missiles").  Just another old man kicking pigeons in Gorky Park.  Nice try, Russian Sixty Minutes.  Real original name, too.

(Do enjoy the proposed New Moscow, though.  Unlike Germania, it might actually be built.  Not exactly Haussmann's Paris, but maybe better than Brasilia.)

In hate news, Moscow Mitch is still resisting even a tiny check for needy Americans -- there's your "war on Christmas," Fox News -- but the Payment Protection Program has shoveled $4.3 million to some of America's finest hate groups, including the American Family Association, the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Church Militant/St. Michael's Media.  What, nothing for Opus Dei?  Not a "small business"?

With that in mind it's hard to be shocked when the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial is defaced with swastikas and Nazi propaganda.  Yesterday a mask mandate vote had to be cancelled because Ada County commissioner Diana Lachiondo got a call from her twelve-year-old son about protesters surrounding the house and pounding on the door.  Lovely spot,  Idaho.

Speaking of hate, the newest member of Trump's legal team of dreams is racist/homophobe John Eastman.  His last imposition on the national dialogue was that Newsweek op-ed about how Kamala Harris is too [birther garbage] to be Vice President, for which they had to apologize.  He sounds perfect.  Yes, that assault on the legal system the Paxton Lawsuit is still awaiting dismissal by the Supreme Court, with seventeen other Republican attorneys general as passengers.  Do they all need pardons?  It would be wrong to speculate.  

Trump is still spewing most of his bile at Brian Kemp ("What's wrong with this guy?  What is he hiding?") which just fills me with holiday spirit.  The gist of it is that Georgia elections are hopelessly corrupt but everyone should vote for Perdue and Loeffler because Biden won and Vice President Harris will be the tie-breaker if Ossoff and Warnock win, although Trump won bigly, all the bookies say so, and therefore no big deal.  #CONFUSE-A-CRACKER.  Twitter can't cancel his account soon enough.  Meanwhile Giuliani, who got the deluxe covid therapy you can't afford (the one that involves tissue from aborted fetuses, ssshhhh, don't tell anyone), is out of the hospital and testifying virtually to the Georgia legislature about his latest thrilling accounts of computer hackery and ballots being delivered by carrier pigeon.  Whatever.

The "legal" challenges are going nowhere, even if Alito says to Roberts, "Let's hear this one just to listen to the Cruz guy pretend he's Perry Mason," but not to worry:  The Big Guy will make it right.  I refer to Jericho March, the problem Barack Obama described back in 2008, "clinging to guns and religion."  They're going to #OVERTURN the old-fashioned way, by marching around and around various government buildings making noise and talking to themselves.  When the "patriots and people of faith" are finished, Joe Biden better not pretend he's the president because -- I can't wait to see.  Earthquake?  Lightning?  Walls a-tumblin' down?  Superstition, it's super.