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.

I want you to meet my neighbor, Thomas Bartram. He’s 21 years old and doesn’t have near enough to do with his time.  He lives with his father in Greatwood, an upper middle class community about 2 miles from my house.

He has harassed at least two of my friends  at vigils and another one in a parking lot because of her bumper sticker. His pickup has a large banner portraying Donald Trump as Rambo, a Ted Cruz sign and bumper stickers for the far-right conspiracy website InfoWars.  I’ve seen the pickup. You can’t miss it.

An armed Trump supporter was detained and released by police Wednesday outside a community space for immigrants in El Paso, Texas, days after a mass shooting that killed 22 people at a Walmart in the border town.

Witnesses said they called police after Thomas Bartram, 21, made threatening comments to people and brandished a knife while sitting in his truck outside of community center Casa Carmelita.

He had a gun, a knife, a bag of white powder, and was wearing latex gloves.

Police detained him and then released him because it was determined that no criminal offense had been committed.

Seriously.

Reached by phone, Bartram said he often went to Trump rallies, but said he tried to be respectful of the high tensions in El Paso following the shootings—though he said he could not rule out the possibility that the massacre had been a “false flag” perpetrated by the government.

Bartram acknowledged he was legally carrying a pistol but denied waving it around, and said the gloves and knife could be explained. “I was eating prickly pears,” he said. The white powder was a protein supplement Bartram said he takes along with other Alex Jones’ branded nutritional supplements.

Witnesses at the community center said that people at the community center are still “terrified” and “frustrated.”  They added that “El Paso police officers were confrontational with the witnesses and eventually told them Bartram hadn’t broken any laws.”

Last anybody heard, he was headed to Portland for a rally there.

Bartram’s brother, Alex Bartram, 27, told NBC News in a phone interview that his brother had gone to El Paso with a group of Trump supporters he had been hanging out with lately.

“He’s not a violent person,” Alex Bartram said.

I ain’t turning my back on him, that’s for sure.

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The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, where Democrat is a naughty word, is going after Trump’s economic policy.

“Economic expansions don’t end on their own,” the paper’s editorial board wrote. “They almost always end due to policy mistakes. Mr. Trump’s willy-nilly trade offensive could be the mistake that turns a slowdown into the Navarro recession.”

So White House economic adviser Peter Navarro shows up on Fox News pretty damn peeved.  He tells Maria Bartiromo that “The Wall Street Journal is a like a Chinese Communist Party newspaper.”

Of course they are because anybody who doesn’t agree with you is a Communist.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.