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Michael Bloomberg has dispatched staff to file for the Democratic 2020 primary in Alabama.  The deadline is Friday, and it looks like he’s going to keep his options open.  If he jumps in, he’ll turn the field on its head.  He’s been quoted as saying Trump must be beaten in 2020, and him making this move says that he’s not happy with the present field on the Dem side.

IF he jumps in, he’ll Hoover up the business community and mainstream Dems.  The party faithful will hate it,  but you have to admit that he (along with maybe Bill Gates) is the only American who can go toe toe financially.  He’s also actually experienced in running government, unlike His Orangeness.

This little development could make 2020 interesting again.

The Huffington Post is on the story.  Yesterday the Texas Court of Appeals denied Jones’s request to dismiss the case brought by Sandy Hook parents in the Texas courts.

Jones has lost every single motion in all the Sandy Hook cases filed in Texas. He’s been through 7 lawyers, including the loud and temperamental California lawyer who was apparently paid to scream all the Texas law he didn’t know.

Little Bubba sent me a copy of the three judge panel’s decision. Lawyers hanging around here will want to read it because it’s devastating to Jones and his lawyers so it’s a delicious read. It’s also very smart and well researched.

The Court of Appeals judge who wrote the decision is Judge Gisela D. Triana, an amazing jurist and a credit to Texas.  Texans take note: she running for the Texas Supreme Court next November.

Well, well, well, the walls are moving in.  Trump and his bambinos were just ordered by a New York judge to pay $2 million for “persistent” violations of charities law.  The money will merrily dance its way into a fund for real charities.

Filed in June 2018, the lawsuit alleged that the President and his three eldest children — Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric — violated federal and state campaign finance laws and abused the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s tax-exempt status. According to the lawsuit, the Trumps allowed the foundation to be used “as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests.”

Honey, Honey, Honey, the whole damn government operates as little more than a checkbook for Trump’s business and political interests.

The story is just breaking so there is more to come.  Enjoy! You’ve earned it.

UPDATE:  Here’s some more background.  Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen says that he would have loved to have been in the room when Trump found out he had to give money to the United Negro College Fund!

Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh decided it would be a great idea to meet privately with some folks who sponsor and ferment hate.

The man on the far right of the picture (and also in real life) is Brian S Brown, founder of the National Organization for Marriage.  The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies another of Brown’s anti-LGBTQ groups as a hate group.  His NOM group rallies across the country fear mongering against marriage equality.

So a photo of Brown with two Supreme Court Justices is troubling, especially since the Court is currently considering three cases related to LGBTQ rights: Bostock v. Clayton County, Altitude Express v. Zarda, and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. NOM filed amicus briefs in those cases, asking the Court to reject LGBTQ equality.

These two judges should recuse themselves on those cases. They won’t.

It’s so much more fun to flaunt it in our faces and shove their hate down our throats.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Would somebody please boo Louisiana Senator John Kennedy if you see him? He spoke at the Trump rally last night.

“In three short years, President Trump has doubled the growth in the greatest economy in all of human history. And do you know what our Democratic friends have done for him? Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach him.”

“I don’t mean any disrespect, but it must suck to be that dumb.”

Now even assuming that extremely rich people making more money is far more important than anything else, by Kennedy’s logic Trump could start shooting people as long as the stock market is okay.

And the only reason that Kennedy knows “it must suck to be that dumb” is because people have said it to him so damn many times.