Okay, I am about 3/4 of the way through one of the most informative yet chilling articles I have read on the Trump administration.

This stuff scares me to death.  I know I try to be funny here because Lord knows we all need it, but this is not funny.  The Department of Energy does some serious stuff and nobody in the Trump administration – especially Rick Perry – is a serious person.

Here’s just a small snippet from the article I decided to stop and share with you.  Rick Perry.

Since Perry was confirmed, his role has been ceremonial and bizarre. He pops up in distant lands and tweets in praise of this or that D.O.E. program while his masters inside the White House create budgets to eliminate those very programs. His sporadic public communications have had in them something of the shell-shocked grandmother trying to preside over a pleasant family Thanksgiving dinner while pretending that her blind-drunk husband isn’t standing naked on the dining-room table waving the carving knife over his head.

But, this is not the worst part.  It’s about #18 on the scary as crap list.

Its a very long read so wait until you can pour a cup of coffee and give yourself at least 30 uninterrupted minutes.  And then another hour to cry.

I don’t think I’m overreacting, but please read it yourself and talk me down if you can.

Y’all, of course, have not forgotten that Texas Congresspuke Blake Farenthold wanted to have a duel with the Republican female senators who voted against the Trumpcare bill.

Well, like crabgrass and Baptists, it’s spreading.

Today, Buddy Carter (R-GA) appeared on MSNBC, where he was asked what he thought about Trump’s attack on Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) after she refused to vote to proceed on Trumpcare. Carter responded by advocating for violence against his female colleague.

“I think it’s perfectly fair, let me tell you somebody needs to go over there to that Senate and snatch a knot in their ass,” said Carter. “Snatch a knot” is slang for physically assaulting someone.

I am from the South.  I have lived all my life in the South, as have my people.  I have never heard the term “snatch a knot in their ass.”  I have heard “snatch her bald”, “put a knot on his head”, “whip his ass”, and pretty often “who the hell is Buddy Carter”, but I have never heard snatch a knot in their ass.

If you ask me, it sounds like something real creepy that happens in S&M sex dungeons, which I am now certain is where Buddy Carter spends his weekends.

Republicans are creepy people, y’all.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is running for president.  He knows he’s smarter than Rick Perry but, hell, most everybody is, so Greg thinks he can get himself elected.

I want you to write this down somewhere:  Greg Abbott is dangerous.

He has this idea that the federal government can’t tell the states what to do because local government is always better than big government.  However, listen up here, he believes that the State of Texas can tell cities and counties what to do because … Greg Abbott is governor.

The problem is that all of Texas’ big cities are run by Democratic mayors.  So, now we have this:

The mayors of Texas’ five largest cities, including Austin Mayor Steve Adler, were left off the list of mayors who will meet with Gov. Greg Abbott over the coming week to discuss city-related issues at the Texas Legislature.

Mayors from Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin and Fort Worth will not be in any of the meetings taking place Wednesday and Thursday at the governor’s mansion. Last week, 18 Texas mayors signed a letter requesting to meet with Abbott to talk about many of Abbott’s proposals they think would “impede the ability of Texas cities to provide vital services.”

These mayors have something else in common – they are all Democrats.

Abbott’s plan is to meet with the mayors in small groups so they can’t gang up on him.  For example, on August 2nd, Abbott is slated to meet with the mayors of Arlington, Frisco, Irving and McKinney.  Yeah, well, they never heard of you either.

You know what I think?  I think Greg Abbott is all hat and no cattle.  All gall and no guts.

If the boy can’t stand up to five Democrats, he’s gonna have a helluva time being president.

And …

On this day in 1948, President Truman ended segregation in the Armed Forces. Just thought I’d mention that.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is becoming a national favorite based purely on his goofiness quotient.  His Facebook page is a sonnet to ignorance and he is plenty proud of that.  Honey, he makes Donald Trump look like a constitutional scholar.

Today, Sid took to Facebook to endorse Kid Rock for senate in Michigan against Debbie Stavenow.

Kid Rock has been arrested for assault on a DJ at a strip club and paid a half million dollar settlement to the man he assault. He was charged with assault on Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and plead guilty. In October 2007, Rock was involved in a brawl at a Waffle House in Atlanta, Georgia and charged with simple battery.  He plead no contest.

In short, he likes to hit people.  And cuss. Oh child, that boy can cuss.  So, it seems kinda weird that a big-butt  Super DeLux Brand Christian like Sid Miller would love Kid Rock.

But then, Rock made up for it all when he and Ted Nugent had a special visit to the White House.

Thelma asked me to tell you that The Rock (her favorite hunka hunka burnin’ love) strongly denies being Kid Rock’s father.

So Sid is starting to make endorsements, huh?  That’s entertainment, y’all.

Well, the Congressman Blake Farenthold story is far from over.

Senator Susan Collins got caught accidentally (?) on a hot microphone about Blake Farenthold wanting to shoot her in a duel.

“Did you see the one who challenged me to a duel?” Collins asks.

“I know,” Reed replies. “Trust me. Do you know why he challenged you to a duel? ‘Cause you could beat the s— out of him.”

“Well, he’s huge,” Collins replies. “And he — I don’t mean to be unkind, but he’s so unattractive it’s unbelievable.”

“Did you see the picture of him in his pajamas next to this Playboy bunny?” she continues, referring to an infamous photo of Farenthold.

And it must have been Susan Collins ope mike night because she and Senator Reed continue, but about the president.

“I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” Collins says. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”

“Yes,” Reed replies. “I think — I think he’s crazy,” apparently referring to the president. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”

“I’m worried,” Collins replies.

“Oof,” Reed continues. “You know, this thing — if we don’t get a budget deal, we’re going to be paralyzed.”

“I know,” Collins replies.

“[Department of Defense] is going to be paralyzed, everybody is going to be paralyzed,” Reed says.

“I don’t think he knows there is a [Budget Control Act] or anything,” Collins says, referring to a 2011 law that defines the budget process.

I’m worried too, Senator.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.