Donald Trump just blocked Vote Vets on Twitter.

Several years ago, I got an email from General Wesley Clark asking me to donate to Vote Vets.  I give a small donation each month.  I have never been sorry because they do good stuff.

Can you even imagine if President Barack Obama had done that?  Can Ivanka Trump even imagine?

If Trump’s Tweets are indeed official policy, then maybe this blocking crap needs to stop.  Right, Supremes?

Vote Vets.  He blocked Vote Vets.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting —

Y’all, I consider this his eulogy and it’s real sweet of him to get that behind us so we don’t have to sit around thinking of nice things to say about him after he leaves.

Groveling is not a pretty sight.  Rick Perry spoke thusly —

“Mr. President, an honor to be on the team,” Perry told Trump, a man he branded as a “cancer on conservatism” when he ran against him for the GOP presidential nomination. “This last week, I had the great privilege to represent America in China at the Green Energy Ministerial. Good timing. They needed to hear why America was stepping away from the Paris Accord and they did. And that America is not stepping back but we’re stepping into place and sending some messages that we’re still going to be leaders in the world when it comes to the climate, but we’re not going to be held hostage to some executive order that was ill thought out.

“So my hat’s off to you for taking that stand,” Perry told the president who rescued him from a Round Top retiree’s life. “And for sending a clear message around the world that America is going to continue to lead in the area of energy.”

Oh Lord, ” … And that America is not stepping back but we’re stepping into place and sending some messages that we’re still going to be leaders,” the one person in the world who understood that was Donald Trump.

Front page of the Houston Chronicle this morning: Budget Cuts

This ain’t gonna improve none at all.

Despite a two-year budget of $2.4 billion, the Texas Department of Public Safety, with little notice, has reduced office hours at 11 of the state’s busiest driver’s license offices and plans to lay off more than 100 full-time employees to deal with a $21 million funding crunch.

The statewide police agency’s primary function is to patrol state highways and issue driver’s licenses, but in recent years has spent hundreds of millions on security operations along the 1,200-mile border with Mexico.

That ain’t your job, DPS.  Patrolling the border is Donald Trump’s job.

The last time I renewed my driver’s license, I had to go in person. I had to wait in line for 3 hours. Now it’s going to get worse. Yippee!

Thank you, Republicans.

Newt is back again, y’all.  He’s doing the Twitter thing, too.

May 17, 2017

26 days later on June 12, 2017

Rethinking Made Easy: people only have integrity and honesty if they side with Dear Leader Trump and his groveling toady Newt.

Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.

It’s been all over the news this weekend.  Shakespeare in the Park is presenting a new version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, with the Roman ruler looking almost identical to Trump, complete with idiotic combover and 3 foot long red tie.  As in the original script, his is violently dispatched in the middle of the play.  Cue the outrage in 3-2-1…it came spewing out of every pore of the right wing noise machine, and DJT Jr. even chimed in on The Twitter, asking if taxpayer money was used to fund the production.  The furor was so fervent that sponsors, Delta Airlines and Bank of America caved and pulled funding, afraid to offend Trumpists.

But, THAT, of course, is not the only modern version of Julius Caesar performed in

Guthrie Theater, Dowling Studios

recent years.  In 2012, director Rob Melrose produced a version with an Obama lookalike as the famed Caesar.  It was also performed in New York by the Acting Company.  And yes, that Caesar was also violently dispatched in mid play.
The difference between 2012 and 2017?  The noise machine is now going nuts when in the previous production we heard nothing but crickets.  “Thine hypocrisy will be thy downfall.”

Or something like that.

Thanks to easttxdem for the heads up.