This is my shocked face

 Yesterday we were scratching our heads as we tried to figure out why the Trump Treasury Department somehow failed to audit the Trump tax returns as required by law.  This might be a clue:  Two years ago CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) discovered that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, another Trump hire, makes between $100,000 and $200,000 a year from his rental properties at Trump Waikiki Resort in Hawaii.  He not only forgot to audit the boss, he forgot to disclose this information when appointed.  The River Lethe comes right up to the back door of the Treasury Department.

Just as Georgians say, "Oh lordy, not another runoff," Arizonans have begun to mutter, "How much more of this election fuckery do we have to pay for?"  The indefatigable Kari Lake is suing on ten points of "Unfair!" of which the judge has already dismissed eight.  Today she called Clay Parikh, one of Pillow Mike's crew of election deniers, as an "expert witness" on the voting machines in Maricopa County, and he eventually admitted that the ballots were counted despite being printed the wrong size.  Once the county's attorney got him to say Lindell had paid him to speak at another event, it was over.

Coincidentally a case of actual election fraud has come to light in Georgia.  Rep. Drew Ferguson (R) appears to have voted illegally three times this year (primary, general and Senate runoff) using his previous address.  Ferguson didn't sign the letter objecting to the certification of Biden's election, but he did join the lawsuit from Texas officials which even this Supreme Court wouldn't consider.

Could Congressman-elect George Santos (R-NY) really be Keyser Soze?  Or George Kaplan, the man everybody thinks is Cary Grant in North By Northwest?  Everything about his life appears to be fiction, and today a new low was reached.  Santos's biography claims his grandparents "fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine...during World War II."  According to the Forward, records show that they were born in Brazil before the war.  Now why would a man running for office on Long Island invent a phony Holocaust heritage?  It's a conundrum.

What kind of world leader insults America by showing up at the White House without a suit and a tie?

An "ungrateful international welfare queen" (Junior Trump).  An "uppity foreigner...wearing the Fetterman look" (Charlie  Kirk).  A "grifting leech" (Matt Walsh).  A "Ukrainian strip club manager" who's "waging a war against Christianity" (Tucker Carlson).  By now you've guessed they weren't talking about Churchill in 1941.  Josh Hammer, whatever else he is, is "personally DONE with the Ukraine gravy train."  All those people in Bucha burying one another in mass graves -- crisis actors living large on the hard-earned money of the American taxpayer.  Benny Johnson (ditto) let loose with "track suit wearing eastern european con-man mafia," which doesn't even make sense.

Maybe it's a shrewd bit of costuming, but it's not a track suit.  It's what soldiers wear.  I'm not surprised these boys can't recognize it.  They think soldiers dress like this:

Sorry about that.  I also have to post this, just for the expression on Zelensky's face:

We couldn't believe it either, sir.  Slava Ukrayini!

Remember all the fashion criticism every time Gym Jordan walks in with his jacket over his shoulder.  ("Can somebody tell me how to put this on?")

Postscript:  Joe Biden made a Christmas-themed speech on joy, hope, love, peace, kindness, you know, the usual.  It was about as political as the speech King Charles will make on Sunday.  Except at the end, HM won't have reporters yelling questions.  

Go ahead.  Ask Andrew Bates why the President didn't take questions.  I already know his answer.