It’s Friday. Chaos time!
Trump was in residence in Crazy Town yesterday, as he flew back from the UK. With nothing to do but blab to reporters, he went predictably bonkers, and (somewhat) unpredictably erased the First Amendment.
They’re probably going to rest him up before his big weekend of resting up, so they’ll keep him occupied with some more made-up “executive orders” before Big Fun Golfey-Golf Time!
One note on the government shutdown countdown: the House appears poised to pass a quick CR, drop it on the Senate’s lap, and then take off for home and a week-long recess. Which means they’ll have two days or so left before the deadline if the Senate wants any changes. And they always want changes!
Today’s countdown numbers:
- 12 days until the “legal” funding for what’s left of the US government runs out… again!
- 1,219 days remaining in Trump’s legal term of office
- 410 days until the midterm elections, if we have them
- 471 days—if we have those elections—until we seat that new Congress.
Our new random country generator says, today’s an unlucky day for: Croatia!
Trump thinks we should invade Croatia because he thinks it’s full of Cro-Magnon cavemen. But it’s not that he dislikes cavemen. It’s that he thinks they might like to work for ICE. Or possibly that White House guests would think it was funny to see one deliver Diet Cokes, dressed in a Fred Flintstone costume.
Ha ha! Oh, well. That’s Our Trump!™