There’s a perfectly good reason that Donald Trump is not releasing his taxes.

You wouldn’t understand them.  Because, I guess, you’ve ever paid taxes.

“You would have a bunch of people who know nothing about taxes trying to look through and trying to come up with assumptions on something they know nothing about. It would be foolish to do,” Eric Trump said in an interview with CNBC.

His other kid jumps in, too.

“He’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from [his father’s] main message,” Trump Jr. said in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review published Wednesday.

And his main message is You Cannot See My Taxes.

On the other hand, I do suspect that the fact Trump doesn’t pay taxes would distract from his message.  They got that part right.  And that, my friends, would be easier to find that the pitcher’s mound in Yankee Stadium.

Well, another one falls.

Conservative Republican Jeremy Durham, a Tennessee state representative, was only the second person expelled from the house by his fellow members since the Civil War.

He’s a stinker.

The attorney general found 22 women who said Durham had acted sexually inappropriate with them. The report includes an array of allegations, from lewd comments and inappropriate hugs to giving beer to and having sex with a 20-year-old “college student/political worker” in his legislative office and home.

He’s also being investigated for campaign finance violations.

Why is all this happening to him?

Durham previously has denied sexually harassing anyone, calling the investigation unconstitutional and an attempt to remove a conservative stalwart.

Yeah, because he’s a conservative.

The vote was 70 – 2.

I just heard that Mexico has a retaliation plan if Donald Trump is elected and tries to force them to pay for a wall.

Mexican Senator Armando Rios Peter proposed that if Trump is elected, Mexico should repeal the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.  That treaty ceded Texas, California and varied places in between to the United States.

“The goal is to foresee and prevent any negative effects on Mexico if Trump becomes president of the United States,” he said.

Yeah, and negative effects to me, too, Senator Peter.

Plus, taco trucks on every corner!

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Okay, so the Republican dominated Missouri legislature has decided that everyone needs a gun without the hassle of a background check or training because, you know, they don’t need no stinkin’ training.

Missouri lawmakers pushed through bills on Wednesday eliminating the need for permits to carry concealed weapons and requiring voters to show a photo identification before casting a ballot, overriding Democratic Governor Jay Nixon’s vetoes of the bills.

Both votes by the Republican-controlled state House and Senate reached the two-thirds majority required to enact legislation over the governor’s veto.

The weapons bill abolished a state law requiring a permit, training and background checks for people who want to carry a concealed weapon in the state.

So, you have to have a photo ID to vote but if you want to make this county great again, just buy a gun.

Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a pistol-packing elementary school teacher at a Christian school had to go to the bathroom.

A teacher at a Christian school accidently left her loaded pistol in a bathroom, where elementary school children found it, state police said Tuesday.

Beth Jean Dixon, 63, put her holstered pistol on a toilet tank when she used the unisex, one-toilet bathroom Aug. 25 at Cumberland Christian School, in Chambersburg, police said. They said she forgot about it and left.

And in New Orleans a nine year old boy shot himself while handling a gun.  His 10 year old cousin called police.  The boy is expected to recover.

And after Tennessee became the #1 state in accidental gun deaths, Jonathan Metzl, research director with the Safe Tennessee Project and director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University found himself in the Catch 22:

“Metzl said he’d like to prevent such killings, but says a congressional ban on gun violence research is a hindrance.

“‘There are studies that we could be doing,’ he said. “Would trigger locks help? Would gun safeties help? Would smart guns that only fire when the user is handling the gun — would that help?’”

Metzl is legally prohibited from researching ways to lower accidental gun deaths. He literally cannot look at this problem and try to fix it.”

See, we don’t need no stinkin’ permits or training.

Thanks to Charles, Tina, and John for the heads up.

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You know the picture I showed you below from Asheville, North Carolina?

Well, a Trump supporter got revenge.

Police say they arrested five people at Trump’s night rally Monday in Asheville, and as of publishing have warrants out for two more people.

Police plan to arrest Richard Campbell of Edisto Island, South Carolina for assault on a female.

That female is 69-year-old Shirley Teter.

Shirley Teter is on oxygen.  And what did Shirley do to warrant this?

“Whenever groups of them would start chanting ‘Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump!’ I would chant back, ‘Dump, dump, dump, dump.’ It was kind of comical,” Teter said.

“I said you better learn to speak Russian, and I said the first two words are going to be, ha ha. He stopped in his tracks, and he turned around and just cold-cocked me,” Teter said.

She was punched in the face.

She says she fell on her oxygen tank and has sore ribs, a sore jaw, and cut her elbow. She later went to the hospital and is thankful she did not break any bones.

I wonder if Trump’s offer to pay the legal fees of anyone who punches a protestor still stands?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.