Prepare yourself.

It’s just too damn bad that ignorance ain’t painful.

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Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

There’s a guy by the name of Larry Householder, seriously, who is the Speaker of the House in Ohio and a pretty powerful damn big deal in the state.

He’s a Republican and you can pretty much tell that by looking.

Well, it turns out that ole Larry is a greedy man, which is Section 2(b) of the Republican oath. Hey, lying hypocrite took up all of Section 1.

Early this morning Larry and some of his friends were arrested by federal officers in a $60 million bribery case.

Also arrested, according to the source: Neil Clark from Grant Street Consultants in Columbus; former Ohio Republican Party chair and consultant Matthew Borges; Juan Cespedes, co-founder of The Oxley Group in Columbus; and Jeffrey Longstreth, adviser to Householder.

The Oxley Group is in the business of lobbying, as is Grant Street Consultants.

The Republican Party in Ohio has just been gutted right here before election time. I’m betting that odds are pretty good that Bob Barr didn’t know about this.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up.

Republicans just cannot learn from their mistakes.

The national GOP is damned and determined to repeat the mistakes of Texas.

Their national convention is a month from now and they have plenty of time to plan a virtual convention. Are they gonna do that? Nope.  Are they being warned? Yep.

And that’s not all.

They simply can’t make plans.

Trump has since backed off his demand for a full-blown convention, but the proposal has continued to meet logistical hurdles as the RNC has failed to commit on specifics, such as whether Trump would have his nomination at an indoor arena or an outdoor arena.

You have to make up your mind. As Texas Republicans proved, you cannot wait until the convention has already been on for two days before you make any plans.

One local sheriff is sending about 20 of his officers to help but described the convention as,“It will be a noxious brew of vitriol and emotion.”

Yeah, probably.

The shooting of the son and husband of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas immediately made us all consider that it had to do with Deutsche Bank because of her connection to those cases.

It probably wasn’t that.

A lawyer who had a case in her court seven years ago committed suicide and is the main suspect in the case.

A lawyer whose body was found in New York Monday morning is being investigated as the possible shooter who killed the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas and severely wounded her husband in New Jersey Sunday night, according to multiple media reports,

The lawyer, who had a case before Salas in 2015, apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ABC News said. NBC New York, citing unnamed sources, said the man was an attorney who filed various sorts of civil lawsuits over the years.

I imagine there’s more to come on this story.

Thank you for helping write postcards for my friend Dr. Suleman Lalani.  He would have been an excellent candidate in November to flip a Republican district in my county.  Sadly, he lost by 400 votes, nothing to be ashamed of. It’s hard to win against a woman in my county and sometimes that’s a good thing, just not in this case.

He may run again.  I’m glad of that.

You simply can’t come away from the Fox interview with Trump without realizing that Trump is a taco short of the Del Rio Platter.

But, my personal favorite came toward the end when, I suspect, I had already had just about damn enough.

The Russia hoax, it was all a hoax. The Mueller scam, it was all scam. It was all false. I made a bad decision on – one bad decision. Jeff Sessions, and now I feel good because he lost overwhelmingly in the great state of Alabama.

The country is ablaze with a killer virus, the economy is in the tank, people are losing their homes and waiting in lines for food, schools can’t safely open, hospitals can’t get supplies, secret police are disappearing people into rental cars for no apparent reason, Trump’s cabinet is almost all “acting” because he can’t get them approved, 85 infants in Texas now have Covid, we’ve pissed off all of Europe, we’ve been locked out of Canada, Twitter has become the official state newspaper, and the only mistake he thinks he’s made is the one guy who followed the Constitution.

Y’all, there’s a tropical depression in the Gulf.  At best, it’s probably gonna rain piranha.