Houston mayor Sylvester Turner let it be known that he couldn’t stop Republicans from coming to Houston for their convention / viral spreading of epic proportions.

But, they better leave their attitude at home.

“Health inspectors will be on-site for the entire convention to ensure all guidelines are being followed,” Turner’s office tweeted. “If they are not, the inspectors have the authority to shut down the convention.”

Houston is following Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s order that everyone in Texas has to wear a mask once they leave their own front door.  Republicans made this bed. Let them sleep in it.

I think it’s a game they are playing with Houston’s Mayor.  They want Turner, a Democratic African American, to call off the convention so they can politicize him stopping their convention but not Black Lives Matter protests.  He won’t do it. Instead, he’s going to make them follow their own rules.

It might be fun to watch.

You know how Trump and Company didn’t want us to know where the PPP money is going?

Grover Norquist took between 150-300 K because the millions and millions he already has just can’t tide a boy through these tough times when a president too weak to whimper makes us long for the days of Franklin Roosevelt.

Grover Norquist and the Ayn Rand Institute want you to know government is intrusive, taxes are bad and socialism is horrific – and they will after they get their handouts.

They will now resume their regularly scheduled vitriol about liberal overreach & the evils of big government.

But wait, isn’t this kinda like if matter hits anti-matter?  Shouldn’t the Ayn Rand Institute be crumbling into nothingness?  Or is this just a clever plot for Grover to shrink government until he can drown it in the bathtub?

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

You know, money ain’t everything and when J P Morgan talks like this, there’s some people listening.

JPMORGAN: “The consensus view is that a Democrat victory in November will be a negative for equities. However, we see this outcome as neutral to slight positive.”

I bet they choked on that last part.  Or at least the building shook.

The stock market has always done better under Democrats.  And, the fact that a stock market will exist with a Democratic win is certainly a slight improvement over carnage and chaos.

Simon & Schuster is moving the up publication of Mary Trump’s book by two weeks.  I suspect because they think Trump’s not going to last much longer than that.

There is a hint of what is to come on the back cover.  Click here to read it.

I certainly hope this book does not expect me to feel sorry for him.  I hear Stalin had a rough childhood, too.

The Twitter —

And the response —-

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for getting up early this morning to keep us informed about the fun. 

You can change their flag but you cannot change their minds.

Blacks in Mississippi just lost the coveted status as human beings.  But, you know, they have a new flag so that’s an equal trade, I guess.

Gail Welch, an election commissioner in Mississippi, took to Facebook to warn “people” what was coming.

Her first explanation is that this was supposed to be a private comment. On Facebook.

Second comment was that she was just wishing that everybody got out there and registered people like Blacks do. And by everybody she means white people.

And the third comment is that she’s an elected official and she supposes she could have worded it better. Which, if you think about it, would not have taken a lot of effort if you recognized Black people as human beings.

Gail is concerned.

So am I, Gail, so am I.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.