Okay, just when you think that Louie Gohmert is the world champion goofy politician, along comes Missouri and blow us out of the water.

Please meet Steve West, who won the Republican primary for the state house in Missouri.  Steve has a bit of problem with some people.

Missouri Republican who won a primary for state representative on Tuesday has a history of making anti-Semitic and racially insensitive comments, reported the Kansas City Star.

In 2017,  West told a radio show that “looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler was right about what was taking place in Germany. And who was behind it.”

Kinda make you wonder who he beat in the primary.  A guy with a boil on his nose and an I Love Jane Fonda bumper sticker?

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Okay, so you already know about about Republican Chris Collins being arrested for insider trading with stocks called Innate Immunotherapeutics.

My favorite part was when a CNN legal analyst called it “dumbest insider trading crime” he’d ever seen. I mean, that’s saying something considering that his competition for that title is Martha Stewart.

Now here comes the fun blow back.

Mullins

Oklahoma Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin, has had the bad news fairy visit his bank account. Mullen’s financial report in January of 2017 said he had between $100,000 and $250,00 in Innate stock, no doubt recommended by his fellow congressman. But, bless his heart. Yesterday, he filed his financial report and, oops, that stock is now worth $1,000 to $15,000.

And it’s not like Mullins didn’t totally deserve something like this happening.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

UPDATE.  Holy cow, Markwayne is really having a very bad day.

The House Ethics Committee announced Friday that Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) will have to repay $40,000 to his family plumbing business following a roughly five-year investigation.

Damn, I bet he’s glad it’s Friday.

From the very early days of the campaign, His Orangeness has railed against all things not White American Male – all dark skinned people, especially women, ALL women, for that matter, and immigration, both legal and undocumented.  His rhetoric is continuously over the top, hateful, and racist.  He loves to dehumanize migrants with inflammatory terms like “illegals”, “animals”, and “aliens”.  His favorite pejorative, though, is “chain migration”.  The actual term is “family reunification” which has been allowed by the US government for decades where a documented migrant to the US could sponsor their spouse and children to join them in the states.  In some cases, a migrant’s parents are admitted into the country to join the family.  It’s humane, decent, and, I might add, very difficult.  It takes years to unify families through our broken system.

But in Trumpland, “chain migration” has been weaponized and is now used by Trumpists to be bigots in polite society.  Trump has repeated the falsehood (even during the State of the Union) that “chain migration” allows immigrants to bring “unlimited” people to the United States.  The statement, in short, is simply a lie.  It’s not true, and has never been true, but the term is in high repeat in conservative circles.

Trump’s problem, though, is that the very system he rails against just allowed Melania Trump (You remember her, right?  She’s the nude model from Slovenia who is now our First Lady.) to bring in her parents through “chain migration”.  AND, said parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, became US citizens yesterday.  That’s right, folks, the very system that Trump demands that Congress end just allowed his in-laws to become American citizens. Now, the Knavs are probably perfectly nice people who are fortunate to have friends in high places who could grease the skids for them attain US citizenship, which millions of others have been waiting decades for.  That’s not the problem.  The problem is the now-familiar hypocrisy.

This kind of hypocrisy shouldn’t be surprising.  Trump’s entire personal foundation is built on lies, cheating, and hypocrisy.  Rules apply to everyone else, but not Trump.  He’s immune from common decency or common sense.  Worse, the White House refuses to address any of his hypocrisy, including the “chain migration” lie, and the invertebrates in Congress, terrified of losing their power, do nothing to stop it.  That’s why it’s up to us to shine the light on Trump’s lies and fight fire with fire.

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

There are no factories in the US that make televisions any more.  There is one factory, Element Electronics, that assembles mass market televisions from imported Chinese parts, but that will come to a grinding halt in October.  The company simply cannot survive in Trump’s trade war where their made in China parts are now being heavily taxed.  During the campaign he complained that “we don’t make televisions in the US anymore”;  well, now we don’t even assemble them in the US.  Once closed down, it is very difficult for a company to come back on line.

All of this winning is sure doing a lot of damage.

I gotta tell you that the Federal Elections Commission does not jack around.  They are kinda like the IRS in that respect.

But, there’s a job at the FEC that I want.  It’s the job where the person opens the mail and decides it a PAC has a proper name.  It can be a PAC that’s up to no good, but it has to be named properly.

For example:

They were not amused by a PAC named: ZILLIONAIRE EMPRESS DANIELLE HUSSER BERHANE and they even threatened to file felony charges against her for her wanton act of disrespect. She’s a zillionaire, guys, so why should she fret over your silly threats?  Plus, she has a damn website so she’s gotta be legit.

And then there was this one.  I could be wrong about this because it’s the Trump administration and Lord only knows what the rules are now, but I don’t think the Treasurer of the Treasury Department can have a political PAC.  However, since Rosa is the actual Treasure of the united States, I kinda suspect somebody is jacking around.

But we’re not finished yet, because there’s this one.

On second thought, maybe we are finished.

You’ll be happy to know that Heathcliff has a tweeter account.  He’s @ChopkinkyKinky‘s I know you’re shocked to hear that.

And lastly, I think this one was filed by Ted Cruz because he thinks all campaign finance laws are not applicable to him.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen who does have a sense of humor.

I’ve got a new fundraising doohickey thing going on.  It’s some deep data for our local candidates and a good bunch they are.

Click here if this kind of stuff interests you.

(I will fix the donate button to go here when I get a few minutes.)