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.  

You know, people who exploit charity for person gain have a real special place in hell.

I’ve got one for you.

It’s a PAC named American Coalition for Crisis Relief.  It’s a scam.

It runs two separate Super PAC scams – one that supposedly raises money for breast cancer and one that supposedly raises money for veterans.

It doesn’t actually do either of those things.

In the second quarter of 2020 it raised $680,000 – mostly from retired people – and spent $622,000 on “administrative” expenses – 92% of all the money raised.

The PAC DID NOT SPEND A DIME on contributions to candidates or independent expenditures supporting or opposing candidates.

The PAC’s address is in Florida, but the scammers – the folks running this scam for personal profit  – are in Dallas.

So there is no such thing as Crisis Relief Consultants.  That address belongs to an independent insurance broker called Insurament LLC.

That also looks like  a scam – their primary “business” is to charge a fee to “train” people to be insurance adjusters.

Check out the world headquarters of Insurament LLC.

So much easier to rip off old folks with a Super PAC  claiming to help veterans or women with breast cancer than running insurance frauds.

Just ask Yodchai Roseborough:

It’s a slow day over at the Dairy Queen so thanks Alfredo for all the investigative journalism,

Okay, so Marco Rubio wanted to express his sorrow over the death of John Lewis, mentioning how they had worked together.

That’s Elijah Cummings.

Way to go, Skippy.

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

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Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

Okay, below the cartoons I have been updating the giant bustercluck that is the Republican State Convention in Texas. They cannot seem to do what high school kids do every damn day.

It was supposed to start yesterday, then they had to move it to today at noon.  I had a fresh batch of popcorn popped by 9:30 and was ready to watch all afternoon.  Damn.  Now they moved it until tomorrow because they are still untechnical, I dunno, maybe it’s distechnical.

So now they are promising it’ll be tomorrow. Until 5 minutes ago when this breaking news hits the Quorum Report.

So, last week they went to state court and the Texas Supreme Court (which is 100% Republican) and got a big giant nope at both places. So, now they are going to try federal court two days after the convention is supposed to have started.

Now, let me tell you why this even matters.

State conventions are where each Texas state senate district elects electors to vote on the presidency. After the November election these electors meet in Austin and cast their votes for the presidential candidate of their party.  The winner gets the state’s electoral votes.  There is no other method provided by the election code for electors to be elected.

Soooooo … if they don’t have a convention to elect electors and Donald Trump wins, there’s no electors for him so he gets 0 electoral votes from Texas.  Joe Biden wouldn’t get them, but neither would Trump.

So, if Trump were to win, Texas would end up with zero electoral votes because these Republican bozos could not get a computer to work.

This is so typical of the Trump years that it is raging fierce justice.

UPDATE:  4:30 Houston Time

So, apparently, you have a constitutional right to spread a killer virus.

I stand with Mayor Turner.