Y’all, the past few day have been one hell of a year.

I am exhausted.

I have Trump fatigue.  He is unhinged, and not even a United State General can fix that.

I’ll post some toons and any breaking news, but I need a few days and a couple of baseball games to get my feet back under myself.  My happiness is on backorder.

For those helping with The Virtual Race Across Texas to help raise money for the Democratic ballot by mail program in Texas, I have good news.  We Won!

Good Afternoon Mr. Maxey,

Thank you for your participation in TSHA’s Virtual Race Across Texas. We appreciate your tremendous efforts in sharing the game with your friends on Facebook and promoting Texas history along the way. Additionally, we wanted to thank you for your membership with TSHA.

We are also happy to announce that you were the Top Scorer and Top Recruiter for the first week of the game! As such, you have won the San Antonio Prize Package and the YETI Cooler Prize package.

Additionally, you were selected as a Top 8 Texas Expert for week one and will be awarded a Virtual Race Across Texas T-Shirt.

Please note that you may only be selected as a Weekly Top Scorer, Top Recruiter, and Top 8 Texas Expert once during the race period. You are still eligible to win the Grand Prize and a Top 10 Player Prize, so be sure to keep playing!

So, thank you, thank you, thank you, but don’t quit, guys!  This very cool stuff will be auctioned off and I figure we’ll raise at least $1,500 for it, maybe $2,000.  The grand prize will be another $1,500 or more, so keep answering those questions!

Thank you again for your help, guys.  Glen and I both really appreciate it.

Breaking from Australia – In newly released documents from Australia, the New South Wales police board recommended against a bid by a Trump partnership to build a casino in Sydney due to his mafia connections.  The documents, made public today, quoted the police board as saying a casino owned and run by the Trump partnership would “be dangerous”.

One more drip in a thousand drips becoming a tsunami.

A graphic published by the Southern Poverty Law Center is telling – it documents when Confederate monuments were built around the country.  Interestingly, there are two spikes in the placement of monuments; the Jim Crow era and the civil rights era.  Confederate named schools were especially popular during the time of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.  One can draw only one conclusion here – these monuments were erected to “honor our heritage”, they were erected in a fleeting attempt to hang on to a by gone era where whites held dominion over African Americans.  Have a look (click the little one to get the big one):

Yes, he actually said it.  In a combative appearance before the press in Cheeto Tower, Trump blew a head gasket and said some REALLY inflammatory and false things.  He got so heated up that I thought his combover was going to self combust.  A few gems:

“You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side — you can call them the left, you just called them the left — that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.”

“I think there’s blame on both sides. I don’t have any doubt about it and you don’t have any doubt it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say it.”

“George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? …Are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? OK, good. Are we going to take down his statue, because he was a major slave owner. Now we’re going to take down his statue. So you know what? It’s fine. You’re changing history, you’re changing culture, and you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally — but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”

Best quote of the day, though?  From Chuck Todd.  Quoting Trump, he said, “The press has been unfair to White Nationalists and neo-Nazis.  We’ll let that sink in while we go to commercial break.”

Jesus, what a day.  Again.

Guys, I was working on deadline for a paying job when Trump gave his press conference.

I missed it.

Was it as crazy as I am hearing?

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