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.

You know, I imagine that weirder things have happened at 3:00 a.m., but you’d be hard pressed to come up with many to rival this one.

The Texas Republican Party Convention Extravaganza was not what anyone would call “organized,” or “productive,” or even “geared for adults.”  Whether or not this mess was done on purpose or just another blooper of the Trump era Republican Party is unknown, but, Honey, a small tactical nuclear weapon would have done less damage.

They finally, in the wee hours of the morning, got electors elected, but even now some people claim that the votes were screwed up and people who weren’t delegates voted and some delegates were locked out.  They are being told to shut up because without electors, Trump doesn’t get Texas electoral votes even if he wins.

But the big prize of the night is that former Florida congressman Allen West was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.

Yep, that guy.

He’s a war criminal.

West served in the U.S. Army but was “stripped of his command” in 2003 after he pleaded “guilty to assaulting an Iraqi detainee during interrogation,” according to The Boston Globe. Gen. James Mattis, President Donald Trump’s former secretary of defense, reportedly criticized West as a “commander who has lost his moral balance or has watched too many Hollywood movies.”

He’s called President Obama a racist and claimed that “dozens” of members of the Democratic congressional delegation were “members of the communist Party.”

He once claimed that Trump had chosen Gen. Mathis as his defense secretary to “exterminate Muslims.”

This, my friends, is what is left of the Texas Republican Party under Donald Trump.  This is what is meant by “smoking embers.”

And they want to reconvene to finish “the business” of the Party.  Oh hell, yes.  They can use my backyard, for free.  I’ll even throw in a case of water and some folding lawn chairs. I really want to see this.

Roger Stone was on the Mo’Kelly Show – a popular radio talk show out of Los Angeles – yesterday.

I missed it but everybody else heard it, and in just a minute, you can listen, too.

In the interview, O’Kelly cornered Stone as Stone tried to argue that Trump’s act was one of compassion because Stone had received such an unfair trial.

“There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily, how your number just happened to come up in the lottery, I’m guessing was more than just luck, Roger, right?” O’Kelly asked Stone.

You can hear a couple of second of silence and then Stone clearly saying, “I don’t really feel like arguing with this negro.”

Oops. Then there was a long silence with O’Kelly politely asking Stone to rejoin the conversation

When Stone finally came back on, he denied it all.  He claims he never said negro.  But, he told media covering the incidence that everybody knows he’s not a racist, he didn’t say it, however he said that the word is “far from a slur.”

Okay. See, being a convicted felonious liar gives you all kinds of cover for mistakes like this.  I mean, he a pro at lying. He’s even got a certificate and everything.

You can hear it for yourself here.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.