This is 2020 Friday the 13th Edition

Just throwing this out there.

After 87,000 turkeys exploded in fire, Greenberg shuts down for holiday season (via Dallas Morning News)

The newly-elected Senator for Alabama, former football coach from Auburn Tommy Tuberville, doesn't know who the United States fought against in the Second World War (via Political Wire). Yeah, Tuberville is pretty much going to be the DUMBEST Senator in toady's Congress (and in a field containing Marco Rubio, that takes some effort).

trump is threatening to start his own trump-flavored Far Right media empire (via Bloomberg). Considering how every other trump-promoted endeavor has turned to ash, Fox News shouldn't worry...

Oh, and we're seeing massive spikes in COVID-19 infections meaning an equivalent spike in the number of deaths within the next week.

GODDAMMIT WHERE IS OUR LEADERSHIP?

Where Do I Even Start With This Day?

Just to top it all off, right now trump is trying to distract everyone from this whole week's worth of scandals by calling air strikes into Syria. As though starting a war would help him.

And wasn't this a goddamn movie plot point from the Clinton years?!

But this all follow-up to the ongoing news about trump's criminal lawyer Cohen (both meanings apply right about now) and the fact he traveled to Prague without reporting it to anybody because that trip involved a meeting with a key Russian official. Damn, everybody can afford to travel to Prague except me. *I'D* love to go to Prague, but then again I'm honest enough not to work for a scuzbucket like trump...

It's not helping that federal investigators likely got to Cohen's taped conversations with people. Considering that the warrants to search his materials - and that it's officially a criminal investigation on him now - any of those conversations relating to trump AND Russia and/or Manafort and/or anyone else under investigation opens up a can of worms where the worms are from Arrakis (the spice MUST flow...).

Throw in the roiling turmoil that is the Republican Party, where another rich white guy connected to Cohen had made arrangements with a Playmate (NOT the one who had an affair with trump by the by) to cover up their affair, covered up that she got pregnant, and then covered up that she had an abortion(!) which kinda violates a lot of things the goddamn evangelical base is supposed to care about.

Not to mention the fears that trump is one temper tantrum away from firing Deputy AG Rosenstein in another attempt to shut down the criminal investigations into Russia's interference with our 2016 elections and their questionable business ties to trump and his partners.

Also consider how trump is reacting to the guy he fired to commit Obstruction, smearing former FBI Director Comey over Comey's latest tell-all book that describes just how unhinged and dangerous trump is behind the scenes.

So yeah, this WAS Friday the 13th after all.

We are so very very VERY royally fucked, America.