Don't cry for Trump, Argentina

Putin and Saudi crown prince high-five at G20 summit 
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shared a joke at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, laughing heartily as they took seats next to each other in the main meeting room.

Trump, Putin Meet Briefly At G20 to Discuss Paint Colors for Putin’s Penthouse - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Top White House China hawk at G-20 summit after reports he would not attend
• Man detained by ICE killed himself after being taken off suicide watch: report
• Senate passes resolution condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine
• ‘Very legal & very cool’: Trump confesses to ‘lightly’ engaging in talks with Russia during campaign
• Ukraine bans Russian men from entering country
• Justin Trudeau just humiliated Trump at the signing ceremony for the new NAFTA

Trump is such an aggressively inept bozo of a criminal that if he hadn't been born into obscene wealth, right now he'd be on an episode of Cops, drunk and with his shirt half off. - Jeff Tiedrich

Trump Boasts That Mueller Refers to Him as Number One. - Andy Borowitz

Another Sex Club Uncovered
Even from jail, a sex abuser manipulated the system. His victims were kept in the dark.
A decade before #MeToo, a multimillionaire sex offender from Florida....In her 2015 affidavit, she discussed in detail some of her alleged sex encounters with Prince Andrew and Epstein’s other friends, including lawyer Alan Dershowitz. .

Republican Shenanigans

• In Argentina, Trump keeps Mueller on his mind
• Manafort transferred ownership of million dollar Florida mansion near Mar-a-Lago for $10 from jail: report
• Conservative tells GOP to buckle up: Mueller is about to expose ‘the unseemly underbelly of Trumpland’
• Tim Scott sinks Trump judicial nominee
• Trump's wealthiest Cabinet members earned millions in 2017
• Acting AG Whitaker trashed Trump’s behavior as ‘outlandish’ — and said he should release his tax returns: report
• Jordan to lead Oversight GOP, Collins to lead Judiciary

The one part of Trump’s Presidency I’m looking forward to is the sentencing phase. - Andy Borowitz

The Dept. of Vocabulary Adjustment In Action
Two million federal workers receive memo warning they can’t use the word ‘resist’ or discuss Trump impeachment at work

Who else thinks that Melania is also going to be legally implicated in this whole mess... - Roland Scahill

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Today would be a really excellent day for Mueller to make yesterday seem like a slow news day. - Jeff Tiedrich

Rock The Voter News

• ‘The perfect witness’: Dems want Cohen to testify on the Hill
• Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' declared best-selling hardcover of the year

You want to get Trump out of office?  Buy him off. - driftglass tweet

Manafort Is Hoping He Isn't Manaf*cked
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort may face additional charges after lawyers in the special counsel's Russia investigation said he lied to them and broke his plea agreement, prosecutors said Friday.

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Business/Tech News

• Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg requested research on Soros: report
• Marriott data breach: What to do if you were affected
• Elon Musk says Tesla tried to license in-car Mario Kart
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled charged for cryptocurrency fraud

If you're a member of the Trump administration, get a lawyer.
If you're a lawyer for the Trump administration, get a lawyer.
If you’re a lawyer for a Trump administration lawyer, get a lawyer. - Middle Age Riot

Just In Case You Don't Have Enough To Worry About...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning about a new tick species in the U.S. that it says is capable of spreading diseases dangerous to humans and other animals.

On a walk with my grandson a group of ladybugs lighted upon us. It was delightful and I realized I haven't given the mysterious world of insects enough heed. I vow to change that. Did you know a group of ladybugs is called a "loveliness?" How poetic. How true. How perfect. - Dan Rather

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18th Birthday Fundraiser

Yee Haw! Over a third of the way there! Thank you!

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Odd News

• Drunk pilot receives 10 months in prison after failing breathalyzer test before takeoff
• School apologizes for a teacher who told first-grade students that Santa Claus isn't real
• Pastor makes zip line entrance for sermon
• Marathon disqualifies 258 people caught cheating
• Payless tricks 'fashion influencers' with fake luxury store

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Aww, cinnamon rolls.

Peace.

Oh, yeah, there's collusion, lots of collusion...

Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress
Trump's ex-lawyer admitted to making false statements in 2017 to a Senate intelligence committee about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

The Kremlin denies the existence of Michael Cohen. - Darth Putin tweet

Trump's attacks on the Mueller probe late last night and again early this morning raise a huge question: did Whitaker brief him on what was coming today? - Matthew Miller

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Ukrainian leader says Putin wants his whole country, asks for NATO help
• Former FBI agent tells CNN Trump’s lies show Russia has kompromat over president: ‘This is a national security issue’
• Trump cancels G20 meeting with Putin
• Macron says Trump acting to 'detriment' of allies
• Corker: Saudi Crown Prince is 'out of control'

California May Sue Trump Over Gassing Refugees
California is considering if the state can take legal action over the Trump administration's use of tear gas on a group of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border...California has limited jurisdiction, because the federal government has a large authority over border and immigration policies. 

America is signaling the waiter to ask for the check. - Rob Reiner 

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump: 'I miss New York'
• Trump ramps up attacks on Mueller
• Federal agents have raided the City Hall office of Chicago Alderman Ed Burke this morning. Burke's small law firm did tax work for Trump for 12 years
• Donald Trump says Rod Rosenstein "belongs behind bars" because "he should have never picked" special counsel Mueller
• After Trump repeatedly says Cohen is lying, he adds: "Even if he was right, it doesn’t matter because I was allowed to do whatever I wanted during the campaign"
• Agreement between Manafort and Trump attorneys to share info may have doomed president: Constitutional law professor
• Jeff Flake caves again — withdrawing his ‘no’ vote on controversial judge so Pence could break the tie
• Melania Trump lashes out at media for mocking her blood-red Christmas Trees

You know who else assuredly lied to Congress about the Trump Org’s “real estate” dealings in Russia?
Traitor Tot.
Donald Trump, Jr.
In a few weeks, Dems will be releasing the transcripts. -The Hoarse Whisperer

#BeBest, Sometimes!
First lady Melania Trump said Wednesday that while she encourages young people to be kind on social media, sometimes there are exceptions.
"Sometimes you need to fight back, I'm sorry," she said, while answering questions during an event at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., that focused on the opioid epidemic.

It evens out, because most climate scientists can't believe Trump is president.- Conan O'Brien

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Rock The Voter News

• Schiff: Americans should have 'no confidence' in Whitaker's control of Mueller probe
• Stormy Daniels: Michael Avenatti filed Trump suit without permission
• US should follow Canada's model of diversity, Clintons say in Montreal

FUN FACT: Today's Cohen guilty plea proves yet another fact in the Steele Dossier. - Tea Pain

The New York Times Should Apologize To The World
Study: Hillary Clinton’s emails got as much front-page coverage in 6 days as policy did in 69.
A stark finding from an analysis of New York Times coverage.

It is hilarious that all the guys who were desperately trying to get Clinton's emails to "take her down" are now being taken down because Mueller got their emails describing how they were trying to get her emails. - Wil Donnelly

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Business/Tech News

• Oil prices fell below $50 a barrel
• Trump says GM plant closures are 'counter' to nationwide trends
• Warren to vote against Mexico-Canada trade deal in current form
• Fox News’ Twitter silence stretches into 3rd week, even as streaming service premieres

Putin starting to wonder if his puppets are smart enough to pull this off. - Andy Borowitz

First Cohen, Then Burke, Now Deutsche Bank. Wow. Trump Must Be Bouncing Off The Walls.
The Frankfurt headquarters of Deutsche Bank have been raided by prosecutors in a money laundering investigation. Germany's public bank...

I'll bet right around now, with Cohen, Stone, and Manafort imploding, Trump might finally be wondering whether he actually does hire the best people. - George Takei

Smart Cat

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The 18th Birthday of AllHatNoCattle

Almost 1/3 of the way there! Thank you!

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Odd News

• Arizona man carrying handgun in waistband shoots himself in the groin in Walmart meat department
• Singing and talking fish can be hooked up with Alexa
• Teen freed after being stuck in vault at abandoned bank
• City charging couple $50,000 for Christmas decorations
• Nepal teenager dances for 126 hours, breaks world record

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London, Paris and Brussels from the International Space Station.

Peace.

The Witch Hunt Continues

Mueller protection bill blocked in Senate for second time
Legislation protecting special counsel Robert Mueller was blocked on Wednesday for a second time in the past month.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), joined by Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), tried to get consent to schedule the long-stalled legislation for a vote.

Why is shutting down the Government supposed to be a threat?It's been shut down for almost 2 years. - Renee Davis

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Three U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan blast
• 'Put Putin in his place', Ukrainian ambassador tells Germany
• Putin accuses Ukrainian president of provoking confrontation to boost popularity
• The Trump administration's systematic separation of children and parents at the border is unprecedented
• Mother of toddler who died after ICE detainment sues US for $60 million

nevada elected a dead pimp and mississippi elected a live confederate statue and excuse me while i drink this tequila straight out the bottle. - mith tweet

Right Wing Media Manipulation
As the media outrage toward the Trump administration’s harsh border policies escalated this week, Sinclair Broadcast Group required their roughly 200 local news outlets to air a defense of the Border Patrol’s use of tear gas against migrants crossing the border on Sunday.

Republican Shenanigans

• Comey: If a Democrat acted like Trump, Republicans’ heads would explode
• Fox News to discipline employees who provided topics to Trump EPA chief before interview
• Manafort attorney relayed info about Mueller probe to Trump lawyers: report
• CNN airs fact-check graphics during Sanders press briefing 
• Trump retweets fake Pence account giving thanks for Clinton's 2016 loss
• Ivanka Trump, Tim Cook visit Idaho school district
• Ivanka Explains Nepotistic Relationship with President Trump: 'He's My Father and My Boss’ 
• Hyde-Smith prevails in Mississippi runoff after 'public hanging' stumble
• Unidentified donors gave millions to nonprofit that funded pro-Trump groups
• Trump’s Christian apologists are unchristian. Polling data prove it

Who could’ve expected that Paul Manafort, a guy who used Bond007 as his Dropbox password, would suck at hiding the truth? - OhNoSheTwint

Sarah Spinmeister Sanders Says Climate Change Is Not Based On Facts
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said that the federal government’s latest climate change report, which outlined how global warming will cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, is “not based on facts.”

One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean. - Donald Trump

Scientists have again landed a spacecraft on a proverbial dime on a planet 40 million miles away that rotates at 241 metres per second. Think I'm gonna trust them on this climate change stuff. - Scott Linnen

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Hi Lisa:  I have been with you since the beginning.  Don't really remember how I discovered you, but life has not been the same since - I anxiously await each of your posts so I can be reassured that I am not alone in my thinking, and also get a good laugh!  Like you, hope the end is near for the Trump mob squad.....especially Jared and Ivanka.

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I don't what I would do without you helping me keep my sanity. I've been reading you since you started in 2000. Keep it up!!!

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I hope you had a great vacation, you deserve it, but happy that you are back. Happy Holidays!


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Congrats for 18 yrs online.  You deserve an award!!! Thank you for all the memories and memes.

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Please, please, please, never take another vacation. Pretty please.

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Rock The Voter News

• Barack Obama talks about 'no indictments' in his administration
• House Democrats to vote on Pelosi 

Sarah Sanders always looks like she has a structured settlement but needs cash now. - Marie Conner

Schumer Offers Trump $1.6 Billion For His Wall. In Exchange For What?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). ... is willing to provide the president with $1.6 billion in funding for his border wall

Chuck Schumer Proposes Slightly Smaller Swastika on Garage Door. - hey there mister! tweet

Trump: The Corporate Environmentalist
The Trump administration has been accused of using the deadly wildfires in California to push for weakened environmental rules in forests, opening them up for more logging.

When someone starts an argument with "I'm not a scientist, but..." maybe we should stop listening to them weighing in on science. And maybe news shows should stop asking these pundits to talk about something they’re not qualified to talk about. - Dan Rather

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Business/Tech News

• Dollar nears 2018 high ahead of Powell speech
• Trump tests his dealmaking powers in a trade showdown with Chinese leader Xi Jinping
• Trump reportedly thought Janet Yellen was not tall enough to lead the Federal Reserve
• Facebook and its ‘black people problem’

If Colin Kaepernick had beaten a woman instead of kneeling during the anthem he'd still be in the NFL right now. - David Dennis Jr.

Gag Me With A Burrito
Mexico will bestow its highest honor for foreign nationals on US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner for his role in saving the country's free-trade agreement with the United States an

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AllHatNoCattle will be 18 years old

Thank you so much!

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Odd News

• Syrian man who spent seven months stranded in a Malaysian airport, lands in Canada
• A Texas cotton farmer is battling cancer and couldn't harvest his crop. So his neighbors did it for him
• Scientist reports 2nd gene-edited pregnancy
• Squirrel Rescue Puts Out Urgent Plea for Acorns – Community Goes Nuts with Donations
• A woman was jailed for 3 months because police thought her cotton candy was meth
• Steer too beefy to become burgers reprieved to life on farm

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Thirteenth century Eilean Donan castle is in the Highlands of Scotland. Is that where all the knights in shining armor are?

Peace.