Ship of State of Fools

Trump's choices for his cabinet are a motley lot and under normal circumstances we'd know that such a parade of meat-heads and grifters wouldn't stand a chance against real Congressional oversight. But "ordinarily" doesn't factor in photos of American Senators caught on Russian video playing "capture the flag" with a den of Girl Scouts.

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Trump seems to be planning on using the courts to quiet his critics, using his DOJ to quiet any negative vibes from the free press by driving them into bankruptcy defending themselves. He can't win such cases but winning isn't the point. It's stifling unfriendly opinions before they reach critical mass.

Here's hoping the non-Trumpian judges bring such attempts to a screaming halt before one can't even tell a knock-knock joke in public about Tiny-Hands McTitty-Baby. Like:

(Knock knock)
“Who’s there?”
“Donald.”
“Donald who?”
“Donald Trump.”
(Deadbolts latch) “Honey! Quick, hide the kids! That incestuous pussy-grabber's at the door!”

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I read that the Vatican is crying "bankruptcy" as a result of declining donations.

I borrowed the following eye-popping facts from a Reddit user named "ReverendDizzle" on the subject of taxing the Church's real estate holdings:

"The Roman Catholic Church owns so much land that if it were all consolidated into a single unified landmass it would be almost exactly twice the size of Germany, a bit bigger than France, and the 40th largest country on earth.

If anyone wants to compare it to the U.S., it would be like if the Church owned the entire West coast with just a bit of the farthest eastern edges of Washington and Oregon state shaved off to bring the total down. The only U.S. state that has more land mass by itself than what the Church holds is Alaska.

Every other state is smaller, and the land holdings of the Church are so big that they could hold the land mass of the 19 smallest U.S. states plus, the District of Columbia and all the U.S. territories including Puerto Rico."

So tax the damned Church, says I.

- Lefty