Guys, on September 9th (keep your fingers crossed) Bubba and I are moving.  It’s only 1.3 miles away but there’s a mountain between here and there.  We are remodeling Bubba’s 1934 brick cottage (that has been his office) into a 2 bedroom home for just us.  Between now and then, we are downsizing from 3,500 square feet to 1,700 square feet.

We were lucky to sell our house right away.  But cleaning out of 35 years and three kids worth of crap is a major undertaking. And trying to oversee the remodeling. And oh my God I’m gonna pull out my hair.

So, or the next three weeks I may only post once a day.  If El Jefe and Primo get busy, too, I’ll try to leave an open thread a couple days a week.

I’m picking tile and packing art work today.

Just be patient, please, while I only wash my hair when I need to put the fire out.

The Washington Post this morning knows the one word that Trump hates, hates, hates.

Trump recently called himself “the least racist person anywhere in the world,” but his history is littered with racist and racially charged comments and actions.

He hates being called a racist simply because there is so much evidence that he is.

Watching him wiggle out of it is a hoot.

“Democrats seem to forget that Trump supporters include blacks, whites, Hispanics and other minority groups who simply love this country,” Mercedes Schlapp, a Trump campaign adviser, said in a text message. “Democrats have shown their absolute disdain for the president and now they have extended their disdain to half of America.”

Well, Honey, if you want to get technical about it, it’s less than half.  And, outside of Ben Carson, Diamond and Silk, and that one guy at all Trump’s rallies, exactly 2% of African American support him.

And even Evangelical are a tad pissed off.  Not because he’s racist, or mean, or dividing America, or worshiping money, or putting children in cages, or robbing social security, or any of those things, but …

They are mad because he used the Lord’s name in vain, which means he broke the last of the ten commandments.

The last major hold on Texas flipping is Tarrant County. Think Fort Worth.  Think Dallas without the culture, pleasing architecture, and JR Ewing.

Every other large Texas county has flipped.  Two years ago, Beto got more votes in Tarrant county than Ted Cruz. So, Republicans in Tarrant County have taken to the mattresses and got their game plan in order to keep Tarrant County red.

And here it is.

“We need Republicans who are calling for the deportation of all illegals, the DACA babies, the anchor babies, & more,” continued the July post that pointed at a recent Tarrant County vote to let sheriff’s deputies continue working as ICE agents. “We must allow AND give cover to those with more extreme views on the right wing of the party.”

The post calls for supporting an “American Nationalist party.”

The Fort Worth Star Telegram covered the story and didn’t get much push-back from “mainstream” Republicans.

“Let’s finish what Trump started and capitalize on the yearning for an American Nationalist party and put these Bolsheviks in their place,” it stated. “We must look to the future and not just offer criticisms, but offer the American people a strong vision of sanity for our increasingly insane country.”

Bolsheviks?  They’re calling us Russians? That’s fun.

I do like how they changed the name to American Nationalists instead of the preferred nomenclature White Nationalists.

Thanks to Randall for the heads up.

From the Houston Chronicle.

So Beto, if you’re listening: Come home. Drop out of the race for president and come back to Texas to run for senator. The chances of winning the race you’re in now are vanishingly small. And Texas needs you.

We just don’t have a strong candidate for Senate in Texas.  Beto powered-up can win Texas.

Well, Texas Senator John Cornyn just belched loudly after finishing his full glass of Trump juice.

John, dear, the “supposedly intelligent people” understand why Trump’s actions that day were over the fence of rational, human, and caring behavior.

If the family had asked Trump to come dance on the graves of that child’s parents, would Trump have merrily done that with photo ops?  Come to think of it, that’s pretty much what he’s doing in that picture, so, yeah, he’d probably do it, just so long he didn’t have to touch the kid in any way at all.

It is the job of a president to behave in an appropriate manner even when everybody around him is not doing so.

But now you have a picture of what John Cornyn thinks is appropriate behavior.  Remember that on election day. And remember that he’s drunk on Trump juice.

Jeffrey Epstein, being held for trial in a jail in Manhattan was found dead in his cell this morning.  Wait – what?  I thought he was on suicide watch.  At minimum, the guys doing the watching suck at their jobs.  At worst this is just plain old stink to high heaven fishy.  Part of Epstein’s record was released just yesterday revealing just how bad this guy was, even containing details of how young girls were recruited for him at Mara Lago.  Yes, THAT Mara Lago.

It’s not unreasonable to believe that this was an, uhm…”assisted suicide” to get rid of him before the sordid details of his and Trump’s relationship spilled out all over the floor during his trial.  Based on Trump’s 40 year reputation for loving young girls, it’s not a stretch to imagine Trump being right in the middle of Epstein’s activities.

Is this just another flare up in the Trumpster Fire that is the current infestation of the White House, or will this one matter?  I’m not holding my breath.