A Few Of My Favorite Things From The Past Week

I have been thoroughly enjoying politics of late. Here are my three favorites happenings from the last few days, in no particular order:

BIRTHER DEBATE REBORN: This surprised me because I really didn't expect Trump or his campaign to comment on it this cycle. The most I expected was a debate question to Trump about Birtherism, a question he would dodge. But Trump's own people brought up the issue of Donald's status as Birther-in-Chief. Ben Carson was the first to jump in, saying last Tuesday that Trump should apologize for demanding that Obama produce his papers. On Thursday, Rudy "Batshit-Crazy" Giuliani told Chris Matthews that Trump no longer thinks Obama was born outside this country. Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, said basically the same thing today.

Of course, the one person who really needs to chime in on this issue is Donald himself.  At first I thought folks like Carson, Giuliani, and Conway might be paving the way for Trump to finally come clean and admit he was wrong about the President.  But then I came to my senses and realized there is no way Trump would ever apologize for this because the Media would have a metric fuck-ton of follow-up questions for him (e.g., When did you stop beating your Birther drum? Did you actually send investigators to Hawaii and if so, can we talk to them?  Are you really as big of a racist as you seem?).

TRUMP/PUTIN--AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER: Seriously, what is going on between these two?  Trump has to know that the more he praises Vladimir Putin, the more he appears like a traitor to his fellow Americans. Yet he is willing to look like a KGB puppet because he wants to stand by his man. Christ, he even came to Putin's defense the other day by denying -- I guess on behalf of the Soviet Union Russia -- that Putin's folks weren't responsible for the DNC hack, and he did so during an interview on Russian State-Controlled television! You just can't make this shit up.

INTEL HELL: Trump pissed off the U.S. Intelligence Community big time this week when he stated he could tell from the body language of his classified intelligence briefers that they were not happy with Obama. This is a great example of something that cannot be proven one way or t'other but that everyone -- including Trump -- knows is complete horseshit. It was also revealed that retired General Michael Flynn, who accompanied Trump on one of those briefings, lost his shit and got testy with the intelligence guys, so much so that Chris Christie had to talk him down. I also heard he slapped a couple of soldiers. Okay, I made up that last part, but it wouldn't surprise me much if something like that happened at a future briefing.