Schumer sent McConnell’s 2009 letter back to him, reversing sending and receiving parties.  LOL.

So Kellyanne Goebels says that we should not listen to what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth, but instead should listen to his heart.

You mean the th-thug, th-thug, th-thug of ice cold gold running through his veins?

Talking about Trump imitating a disabled man, Kellyanne explained …

“You have to listen to what the president-elect has said about that. Why don’t you believe him? Why is everything taken at face value?” she asked anchor Chris Cuomo. “You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart? You always want to go by what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart.”

Ya know, Kellyanne, if Trump will take out his heart and lay it on the table, I would be glad to look at it.  Meanwhile, words are all he’s got.

Personally, I don’t think he has a heart.  I think he’s totally powered by solar ego – he thinks he’s the center of the solar system.

I’ve always had a problem with the term unborn.  Would that make me undead?

Anyway, as you have heard the Great State of Texas wants to require women who have miscarriages or abortions to either bury or cremate the fetal material.  District Judge Sam Sparks temporarily blocked this last month saying that it may violate a woman’s constitutional rights.

The Supreme Court standard on abortions is that when a rule creates an undue burden on women or when the burdens of the rule outweigh the benefits, then it’s unconstitutional.  So, Sparks is holding hearings where both sides can present their case.

On our side: the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Texas believes that the rule will add about $2,000 to the cost of an abortion.

On their side: well, we didn’t mean actual burial.

The State of Texas says they meant a mass burial at $2 per fetus.

The mass grave appears to be the Department of State Health Services’ attempt to work around this problem. In court, Sims alleged that bulk burial would bring the cost down to $2 per buried fetus. This discount would remove the burden created by the rule, rendering it constitutional.

Bulk burial? Well, I’ll be damn. Ain’t that just real dignified?

Good God, Texas, you have no class whatsodamnever.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.  

I’m not going to promise that this is the last column I ever write about the shortcomings of Dat Guy.   There is an overwhelming wealth of material, refreshed daily from the source, as Hair Twitler sits on his Golden Commode every morning and lets his miniscule thumbs do the talking. However, to daily respond to these inherent, incessant outrages is to get lost in the orange coils of what passes for a mind in Dis Guy.

But we need to understand him, first, from the level of that psyche, so that we can indeed separate the important from the immature. He is a physical coward; any courage is skin-deep. We all saw the look on his face those few times during the campaign where the Secret Service had to approach the podium. His first instinct was flight, not fight.

Connected to this, he is a germophobe.   Even while running for President, he minimized hand shaking. He prefers fast food, like McDonalds, because he believes that a successful corporation’s quality control will provide the most germ-free meal.

Further connected to this, he is a bully. He is physically unable to protect himself, so he uses his wealth like a shield and a club. He revels in punching down, in beating the little guy who dared stand up to him, or just said something honest about him.

He has no taste, no sense of the sublime, no artistic inclinations, no aesthetic appreciation of art, poetry, music etc. The net monetary worth of these things is the measure of their worth to him. Net monetary worth is also equivalent to self-worth for him.   It has to be: as a functional illiterate, it’s the only area in which he excels, and that only because of Daddy’s money, not his. If he had had to make it on his own, he’d have died a long time ago.

Also inherited from Daddy: a Klansman’s sense of superiority over lesser mortals, especially other races, rooted in a belief in eugenics, which provides a pseudo-scientific rationale for everything from segregation to slavery, from apartheid to genocide, simultaneously “proving” that his wealth is a mark of superior breeding.

Unsurprisingly, Dis Guy has become the poster child for Grandiose Narcissistic Personality disorder. He is so jealous of his carefully constructed Übermensch persona that every deal or contract of employment includes ironclad non-disclosure clauses. He sues anyone who questions his personal version of reality, especially his net worth.

Those dependent on him or wishing to curry his favor feed into his pathology – note the compulsory use of “Mr” in front of Dat Name or the article where his ex-butler reported that he routinely told Dat Guy his practice golf shots were going 20% farther than they actually did. Advisers reported during the campaign that the only way to approach him with a critique was to first wax rhapsodic over his personal greatness, then to introduce the detail they’d like to change as seemingly insignificant. Outright criticism is seen as hostility, no matter how well-intentioned.

Chuck Todd recently made a throwaway comment that echoed what we’ve heard several times: Dat Guy not only can’t take a joke, which inherently is a criticism, he also seems not to understand a joke or even to grok humor in any way other than as a weapon (yet another) against his perceived enemies. He never laughs, not in any sort of an honest, jolly way, and any attempts at “humor” are actually mean-spirited disparagement – what is known as “aggressive” humor.

This is no mere quirk, but a key to Dat Personality.

Psychiatric studies recognize four types of humor: affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing and self-defeating. At various times, we make use of all four types. However, your basic personality is closely correlated with some types of humor, and not so much with others. The way you make or take a joke is, obviously, closely linked to how you view your relationship to the world of others.

For example, people who have a solid, positive view of their own self-worth rarely engage in humor injurious to others, whereas people who have an unstable, inflated or negative view of their own self-worth usually do.

Here are some traits that studies show correlate with aggressive humor: neuroticism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, detachment, and, most especially, antagonism.

People who are detached and/or antagonistic are personally cold. They do not share communal values. They do not make close friends. They are not given to expressions of warmth. They are unconcerned with how their moral decisions affect anyone outside of themselves. Without that moral compass, they lack inhibition. They are manipulative in their dealings with others. Their main concern is the protection of their own agenda, whatever they conceive that to be; therefore, they often use aggressive humor to dominate or intimidate (aka, bully).

Lyin’ Ted. Little Marco. Low-energy Jeb. Crooked Hillary.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Coldness, detachment, manipulation, amorality, unstably inflated self-worth, neuroticism, psychopathy, disinhibition, bullying: it’s all a not-very-funny joke to, for, and about…

Dis Guy:

Psychomedy: if you laughed, get help.

I have been asked to pass along the following information about January 21st.

If you knit, crochet, or weave, please make some hats for the march on Washington, DC.  Click right here for more information.

There is also a march in Texas.  Sign up today, TODAY, for a bus ride to Austin and save yourself a load of hassle trying to park.  I know of one last bus with empty spaces but the deadline is today.  It leaves and returns to the Target store on the Katy Freeway at Fry Road.  The cost is $30.  The deadline is today.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Y’all, I don’t drink much but think I’m gonna have to start.  Or, we could make this easy and legalize weed.

Flat out truth: if you need any further evidence that this election was helped by raw racism, all you gotta do is close your eyes and picture Jeff Sessions as head of the Justice Department for the whole damn country.  Jeff Session, who once claimed that he liked the Ku Klux Klan until he found out that they smoked marijuana.  Which makes me need some marijuana.

Deval Patrick wrote an amazing letter to the House Judiciary Committee on his dealings with Sessions.  The rightwing media is calling all this “slander.”  Honey, to be slander, it has to be untrue.  Jeff Sessions is a racist and cares not one twit about women’s rights.  So, sue me.

I watch Meryl Streep last night. I thought she was brilliant. In the wee hours of this morning, alleged president elect Donald Trump spent 25 minutes writing three tweets about Streep’s speech.   Yep, three tweets eight minutes apart.

Also happening yesterday, North Korea says it has ICBMs ready to launch.  I guess that’ll have to wait until Trump clears his Twitter calendar.

KellyAnne went on Fox News this morning for her usual grooming and said …

“I’m concerned that somebody with a platform like Meryl Streep is also, I think, inciting people’s worst instincts,” Conway said.

Yeah, I’m bumfuzzled, too.  The Queen of Appealing to Worst Instincts doesn’t own a mirror.

Kick it into second gear and lets get this week started.