Today is the first day to early vote in Texas.

Okay, so here’s the deal — I don’t think Trump likes dogs.

Trump’s proposed 2021 budget released to Congress last week includes plans to eliminate a program that deploys dog teams to detect explosives at crowded travel hubs across the country.

These are federal programs and Trump thinks that by switching them to the state and city to maintain, everything will be okay.  Sure they will, as long as the state and cities can afford to maintain them.  So if you live in Podunk, you’re not worried until you have to fly to New York or Miami.

I suspect the money will be diverted to Trump’s gold vacations or the damn wall.

Personally, I think it all started here.

Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.

And Deb T sent us this one to go with it.

Okay, Ive been trying to think of something worse than being stuck on a cruise ship with Coronavirus.

I decided on:  having a virus of any kind anywhere in the damn world.

There are between 22 – 31 million people with the flu right now in the United States.  I had two different kinds of flu at the same time a couple of years ago and spent two weeks in the hospital because they didn’t know how to cure it.  Yes, I took the flu shot. No, it did not include that kind of flu.

I cannot understand why everybody is running around waving their hands in the air when we already have flu that kill people all winter long.

So, I will vote for the first candidate who promises to fix the damn flu.

More than 1,100 former federal prosecutors serving under both Democratic and Republican administrations have heavily chastised Bob Barr for his obscene behavior in the Roger Stone case.

Chastised is such a nice word. They asked him to resign and get the hell outta Dodge for being, as Thelma calls him, “Chubby Hitler.”

Oddly, they asked lawyers in the current Justice Department to report any future incidents of obstruction of justice to … uh, whoever will listen.

Strikingly, the lawyers called upon current department employees to be on the lookout for future abuses and to be willing to bring oversight to the department.

“Be prepared to report future abuses to the inspector general, the Office of Professional Responsibility, and Congress,” they wrote, and “to refuse to carry out directives that are inconsistent with their oaths of office.”

Oh yeah, that’s the ticket!  Trump will fire you and your brother. Furthermore, he’ll replace you both with a former Ralph Lauren model or Anthony Scaramucci.

File under a Nixonian CREEP and actually creepy, Politio is reporting that Republican operatives did a peeping Tom job on a meeting at the DCCC headquarters Wednesday night, shooting photographs of slides being shown at a strategy meeting in the conference room there.  I’ll refrain from criticizing Dems for being stupid enough to have this meeting without the blinds being drawn, but shame on the GOP knuckle draggers for actually shooting photos through the windows.  Not only did they shoot the photos, but then published a full report which was obtained by Politico.  They then bragged about it.  Sidenote: the NRCC has declined to sign an agreement with the DCCC to not use hacked or stolen data.

The state of our politics today, made worse by the mobster infesting the WH and tearing down every norm established for proper governance of our country.

And to John Cornyn and Ted Cruz…this is on you.