Chaos

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The government was partially shut down at midnight.

The stock market is in a freefall and just had its worst month since the Great Recession.

Mattis quit because he wasn’t actually consulted on the troops leaving Syria...

...a move that was basically only loved by Putin.

Trump put out a photo of steel slats that he wants to put up at the border to stop the Mexicans from pouring in to rape and pillage.

It’s an unmitigated disaster.

And it’s hard to watch...

...3 days away from Christmas and it feels like the whole thing is going up in smoke.

Yet, I did laugh.

At around 8:00, Trump posted a photo of himself behind the desk in the Oval Office.

There were a stack of folders to his right.

There was one open in front of him and he had the pen poised to make its mark.

“Working hard after everyone else has gone home.”

(Was the basis of his tweet).

Because he knew the government was to be shuttered and he really wants to go to Florida...

...so he was pretending to work late!

The folder he was so diligently working on...

...was a blank sheet of notebook paper!!

I’m not kidding. I zoomed in.

Now, here’s my prediction:

Around noon today we will get word that he’s taking off for Florida because he did all he could, but the damn Democrats were mean.

Nothing more he can do.

He’ll keep an eye on it.

He’ll work hard in Florida.

By 2:30, he’ll be on the first tee.

What more could he do?

He was up half the night signing blank sheets of paper.

My God.

What have we done?

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