Putting radical partisans in charge of protecting our Constitution will have results negative to everyone, and here we go – Trump unilaterally ended the Obama administration’s policy of tolerance, the SCOTUS, including Boofer Kavanaugh, just reversed a lower court ruling staying his order.  So now, yet another group of patriotic Americans are again being made pawns in Trump’s political game of chance.  More gleeful cruelty and dickishness, just because they can.

And here’s the place where we’re at.

Trump’s right shoulder has been slimmed down and his face is looking thinner. He’s also gotten a haircut—well, a digital one anyway—and in one of the strangest alterations, Trump’s fingers have been made slightly longer. Seriously.

Trump can Photoshop away pounds of fast food fat and short fingers but you cannot, no matter how hard you try, Photoshop away dumb.  The closest thing we can come to that is when they make him read his speeches word for word and then shuddup.  Sadly, you can do that every day all day, so we’re stuck with dog dump dumb.

What we need is a Brainshop.

Who knew?  We did.  Normal people did.  Many of us felt like we were standing in front of a train hurtling towards a cliff screaming, “STOP! STOP!” while it sped up as it reached the edge.  Well, we’re reaching the edge, and it is virtually 100% Trump induced. When he got his gigantic tax cut rammed through, the business community cheered.  When he started his trade war, the business community was concerned, but his base cheered.  Then he pissed off our closest allies and estranged us from NATO while cozying up to Putin.  He’s now pushing lifting sanctions against Russia.  And worse?  We’re now in our 32nd day of an unprecedented government shutdown, Trump holding a gun to the head of 800,000 workers and the entire US economy.

As this disaster drags on, adults in the room have gone from reluctant questioning to full fledged alarm.  Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan says a long shutdown could wipe out the entire first quarter of economic growth.  Worse, some economists are worrying about a global slowdown, especially since China is also suffering from the trade war (even though their trade surplus with us has exploded since Trump started his idiotic trade war).  The invertebrates in DC, led by Ol’ Scratch McConnell, do nothing but make fundraising calls for re-election.

And the American people are helpless to do anything.  Representatives’ and Senators’ voicemail boxes are full, no one is taking calls, and emails get canned responses.  Trumpists cheer as Rome burns.

And the real problem?  You can’t negotiate with kidnappers.  If the Dems cave to Trump’s demands, this will become his normal negotiating tactic.  He’ll skip congress all together and just shut down the government every time he can’t get what he wants.  The result is that, unfortunately,  this is a game of chicken that the Dems can’t lose.

Little Bubba will be in court in Austin this Thursday afternoon with a new Sandy Hook parent/client suing Alex Jones.

He’ll be in Judge Scott Jenkin’s courtroom at 2:00.  Jones probably won’t have the guts to come but you never know.  He’s nuts.

Little Bubba loves his Juanita Jean fans.  They shower him with cool gifts. He got some homemade moonshine from Barbara, chocolate chip cookies from Sally, a Superman tee-shirt from Jane, and I don’t know what all else.  Mostly, he just likes their smiling faces in court.

I don’t know if the New York Times will be there this time but the Austin media usually shows up.  And sometimes the wacko media shows up to support Jones’ right to be a horrible human being who is trying to get these parents killed.

If you can’t make it, I’ll let y’all know if something weird happens.  You never know.

I suspect you’ve heard that Mike Pence’s wife/mother teaches at a school that does not allow LGBTQ students or staff.

She teaches art there.  Okay, so can you imagine how bad this art department has to be with no LGBTQ teachers?  Holy cow. Plus, I seriously doubt that they have much to teach once they cover Thomas Kinkaid.

Are they allowed to even look at any other art?

Okay, since banning LGBTQ students and staff leaves the school pretty artless, but yet Christians are all about banning stuff, let’s think of some other things they could ban instead.

Fox News

Shaved heads – hey, we fought a war over this and you lost.

Tiki Torches – when they’re not tacky, they are scary.  That’s the only two positions on their switches.

Those cut outs of Santa kneeling over Baby Jesus – do not mix metaphors.

Turnips – no reason other than I just hate them.

Mike Pence’s wife – her husband calls her mother. That’s kinda sick, y’all.

Food Truck Sushi

— Come on, I know you’ve got some.

I have always considered San Antonio my second home. I love the place. You really ought to go there sometime to see the Riverwalk, Mi Tierra Restaurant and Bakery, the Mission tour, the Alamo, the trolley to the Mercado, the view from the front steps of the administration building at St. Mary’s University, the wall.

Trump said …”Everybody knows that walls work. You look at different places they put up a wall, no problem. You look at San Antonio. You look at so many different places. They go from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities, immediately, immediately.”

There used to be a wall around the Alamo, a long, long time ago, but … well, it didn’t work and that’s why it’s important to Remember the Alamo.

And while San Antonio is indeed one of the safest cities in America, it is not on the border.  It is 150 brutal, unforgiving, vicious, varmint filled, hot as hell, desert miles from the border.  And there is no wall.

He’s a dope.