The days dwindle down

I think I understand Jack Smith's strategy.  He's going to hang fire while Trump grows progressively madder and more unhinged.  And based on this outburst, it's working.

"Clairvoyant"?

"'Trump'"?

Anyway, there are disturbances everywhere.  After President Zelensky's speech to Congress Lindsey Graham observed, "How does this war end?  When Russia breaks and they take Putin out."  He has called for Putin's assassination before but this time the fish stick prince would not have it:  "You don't want to play shrink and wonder about...what emptiness at the core of Lindsey Graham's personal life causes him to identify so strongly with a country he's not a citizen of," said Tucker Carlson.  That angered Newsmax's Eric Bolling:  "Putin's press secretary" owes Graham "an apology" for dropping hints about his personal life, which even South Carolina voters have decided they don't care about.  Besides, mocking Graham's presumed orientation is the job of "Radical Left Marxists" like Mock Paper Scissors, although lately they've stopped portraying the "Senatorette" as Scarlett O'Hara.  For the record, I don't approve.

Governor Paresis sent three busloads of asylum seekers from Texas to frigid Washington, some still dressed for Venezuela, with orders to drop them off at Kamala Harris's official residence.  Meanwhile ERCOT, Texas's third world power grid, is struggling to keep up with demand during the unusual cold snap.  No airport sightings of Ted Cruz as yet -- perhaps he invested in a generator this year.

Update your Santos file.  The US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York has been asked to investigate the latest and most serious allegations against the Congressman-elect, including voter fraud due to falsely listed residency, campaign money from Russian oligarchs, lies on his FEC disclosures and spending campaign funds on "lavish travel and personal use."  But there are no dick pics on his laptop so it's all good, right, Whoever the New Speaker Is?

Fourteen thousand customers in Pierce County, Washington, greeted Christmas morning without electricity after three substations were vandalized.  No one has been arrested yet.

Modestly introducing itself as "America's longest-standing civil rights organization" the NRA hoped "Santa brought you all the guns and ammo."  They are incapable of shame, even after Uvalde.

Enjoy Dave Barry's year in review without getting paywalled by the Miami Herald.  His description of the "improvements" to Major League Baseball is only a little exaggerated.

It's never too late for a Red Peters Christmas: