Oh dear, to add to all his problems of being a discriminated-against-white-male in East Texas where white men own and run everything, Louie is being spied on. By Rob Rosenstein.

Oh yeah, it’s true and we know it’s true because Louie says he’s “been told as much by some other folks.”  You gotta pay attention to “other folks” because, by gawd, they know everything.

“I’ve been told in the past there’s been great concern about who I saw, what I did and that I was being monitored and was even told they know everybody that walks in your office,” Gohmert said Monday in an interview on Fox Business’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

Damn. Louie doesn’t realize that his office doorway and hall are being monitored by security cameras day and night because that’s how security cameras work.

I know some “other folks” who say Louie is nuts.  “Other folks” also say that nobody gives a big bear’s butt what Louie does because everyone knows he’s nuts.

Today, the US Chamber of Commerce, who actively worked to get Donald Trump elected in 2016, turned on him after he did EXACTLY what he said he was going to do – start a trade war.  So many business people, including the Chamber, hated Hillary Clinton so much that they were willing to roll the bones on Trump, and EVERYONE is losing.  His erratic behavior, shooting from the hip, and idiotic neocon economic and defense policy has turned our world on its ear.  When it started hitting Chamber members in the wallet, they woke up.

The business community’s support of Trump was idiotic, and everyone who was paying the slightest bit of attention knew that.  But since most business people watch Trump News Network, they believed his bullshit and have now followed him right over the cliff without a second thought; that is, until they hit the ground.

The result is that the stock market is now in negative territory FOR THE YEAR, manufacturers are fleeing the US for foreign shores (taking the jobs with them), debt to GDP has now exceeded our debt level at the end of WWII, the dollar is being displaced by the Renminbi for global trading, Trump has pissed off all of our trading partners and handed our export markets over to both former allies and competitors, and all this has been done while french kissing Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un to our political and economic disadvantage.

I’m personally staggered by how much damage to our country one lunatic can do.  When we finally rid ourselves of this infestation, (and have cleaned out Congress) we’ll have to develop an entire set of new statutes that will prevent this kind of tragedy from ever happening again.  More on that at a future date.

There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.

UPDATE: The Cato Institute, founded and funded by the Koch Brothers, is now opposing Trump’s trade wars, calling them “incoherent, angry and misguided”.  Cato is well known for its libertarian approach to policy and politics, and the Kochs often use it as a blunt force weapon to attack everything from regulations to climate change.  If you’re not familiar with how global trade works, this is actually a pretty good primer; because of that, it’s a very effective argument against the irrationality of Trump’s trade policies tweets.  This article explains the idiocy and inconsistency of Trump’s America First policy where he and his moronic trade staff have fabricated policy based on the “I win, you lose” myth of trade.  No actual trade expert promotes this zero sum game.  Win-win is the only policy that leads to economic growth and stability.

Since the beginning of this dumpster fire, I’ve been amazed how Trump’s cabinet and advisors have sold their souls for their titles.  Some, like Betsy DeVos, you would expect to be incompetent.  But others, like billionaire Wilbur Ross, are shocking.  Ross is well known in business circles as a smart turn-around guy and shrewd businessman.  As Commerce Secretary, he has backed Trump’s idiocy, defending his trade war even to rejecting a market crash as enough reason to stop it.  These statements can only communicate one of two things about Ross:  Either he is a dumbass and just been lucky in business all these years, or he’s pandering to Trump for some unknown reason (which could be some legal entanglement in one of his “deals”).  I’ll take Door Number Two, Alex.

In a wide ranging interview where a number of subjects lies were covered, Trump issued a veiled threat to those of us who disagree with him.  Calling his opponents “dangerous for our country”, Trump said that those criticizing him and his staff “…better take it easy”.  He said that his base is different than any other president (that’s an understatement), implying that his supporters will resort to violence to defend him.  It was just another ugly moment in an entire era of ugliness.

On a side note, I have not seen Maria Bartiromo since she left CNBC.  I never thought to much of her business reporting, but I must say that her pandering to the worst president in US history was nothing short of vomit inducing.  Jesus, what a disgusting display.

Our local Republican Party right here in Fort Bend County has gone more cracker every year.

You’d think that after Tom DeLay, they couldn’t get any lower. And you’d think wrong.

They have a yearly big fundraiser with a special guest and they pack the house with high dollar donations. This year they are paying perfectly good money to have convicted felon and Trump pardoned Dinesh D’Souza be their featured speaker.

Well, ain’t that nice? Convicted felon. Tickets are $100 each and sponsorships go for $5,000.

D’Souza recently wrote a book comparing Trump to Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, because Lincoln freed the felons, right?

Well, the story got just a tad more entertaining this weekend.  It seems that D’Souza shared some interesting thoughts on Twitter.

A conservative filmmaker pardoned by President Donald Trump has been slammed for retweeting Twitter posts with the hashtags #burntheJews and #bringbackslavery.

Right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who has mocked the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and suggested Rosie O’Donnell should be prosecuted for her campaign donations, was pardoned by Trump in May.

D’Souza says they were “accidental retweets.”  Twice? One and then another one later?  No, accidents happen once. Messaging happens twice.

Now I’m not saying that fits right in with my local GOP.  Nope, I’m not saying that. Oh hell, I admit it. That’s exactly what I’m saying.

Lookie right here at their precinct chairs.  They proudly posted this picture in their newsletter.

Hey, at least D’Souza only offended one or two people.

Y’all, that does it.  I’m putting a sign in my damn front yard that says, “Fort Bend Republicans are egg-sucking dogs.”

Maybe they should serve tomato soup at the dinner because they already have the crackers.

Thanks to Jennifer for the heads up!

Okay, a friend sent me this over the weekend with a note that maybe we should, indeed, make English the national language. It would certainly solve the pesky problems caused by racists with cardboard.

Yeah, well, I kinda do agree that ill eagles should not be given citizenship.

You know, it’s kinda like the scrabble tiles all fell into the middle of the board – most all the letters are there but they don’t spell much.

Thanks to Sharon for the picture.