Kayne West has dropped his bid to run for the presidency.

And who announced it?  The breathless folks at Fox News in a Fox News FLASH!

It looks like they filed under “Entertainment News.”  Isn’t all news at Fox entertainment news?

Oklahoma Republican Governor Kevin Stitt (R) announced he has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Stitt, who is a close ally of President Trump’s, stood by the president’s decision to move ahead with his rally in Tulsa several weeks ago despite warnings from public health officials.

Remember the rally where all the seats were empty?

Oh well, still it was worth losing a butt-kissing Governor or two, right? There’s more where that one came from.

And, as science proves again, Trump’s rally was likely (Really? Likely?) a source of an outbreak.

Governor Stitt was encouraging people to go out and eat.  Even Trump said maybe that’s not a great idea.

Texas senior senator John Cornyn has been in Washington for 20 years and latest polling shows him with a name recognition in Texas of 32%.  That’s because John lays low, keeps his hand out for money, and sells out his home state for backroom power.  He’s particularly bad at making speeches and answering questions off the cuff.  That’s why you only see him standing in the back behind Mitch McConnell in press conferences.

Here ya go —

Yeah, he’s dumber than bean dip.  It’s truly a display of kindness that Senator Harris did not reply, “Yo, Sherlock, you spent time thinking up that stunningly stupid question?”

Anyway, Cornyn has a financial backer by the name of James Dannenbaum, of Dannenbaum Engineering.  Dannenbaum Engineering, famous for its Bridge to Nowhere in South Texas, has found itself in a tad bit of trouble.

A dominant Texas engineering company led by a former University of Texas regent has agreed to a $1.6 million fine because top-level staffers facilitated hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegal campaign contributions.

They admitted they did it. The scheme was this – politicians cannot take corporate contributions. So, Dannenbaum had its employees give contributions and then reimbursed them with corporate money.

Dannenbaum, who was tapped to serve as a UT regent under Gov. Rick Perry, has been a major donor to Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, as well as Gov. Greg Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Mayor Sylvester Turner.

At the time all this news broke, Cornyn agreed to reimburse the donations to the US Treasury, as required by law.

However, his leadership PAC, called The Alamo PAC, has not bothered to give the money to the US Treasury.

Do you wanna know why he has not done it?  Because you can’t trust John Cornyn to call the dogs unless they’ve dug up money.

Let me tell you how aware John Cornyn is of Texas.  During the primary run-off, his campaign bought teevee ads attacking the candidate who lost last night.  It probably got that candidate more votes, but he still lost and always was going to lose.  Cornyn just could not resist getting to air a negative ad about a black man.  Seriously. The disclaimer should have said, “I’m John Cornyn and I approved this ad because I hate black people just like Donald Trump does.”

Y’all, help us get rid of this guy.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Harris County (think Houston) elected a total nincompoop as their county Republican Party Chairman.  He’s a flat racist.

The incoming chair, Keith Nielsen, had faced calls to give up the position last month after sharing a Facebook post juxtaposing a Martin Luther King Jr. quote with a banana.

Ya know, Republicans are supposed to be rich.  You’d think this guy could hire someone to come up with something racist that he could post without resorting to such a beat-up, overused, battered trope.

In June, he announced that he was going to resign before taking office in August, but what with racism becoming so popular lately among Republican men, he changed his mind.

He attended a precinct chair meeting and kinda shocked everybody —

“He announced that he would be taking office on Aug. 3,” said Nancy Scott, a precinct chair who was in attendance.

They elected him, they get to keep him. Besides, he wears a cross everywhere he goes so he’s a racist for Jesus and that makes it okay.

Way to go, Harris County.

Just in case you missed it.

A squirrel found in a Colorado town tested positive for bubonic plague, county health officials said.

Jefferson County health officials said in a statement Sunday that a squirrel found in the town of Morrison, which is just west of Denver, tested positive for the bubonic plague on Saturday.

The good news is that we know how to cure this one.  The bad news?  It’s official – Plague!

Planning.  Democrats are pretty damn good at planning.

Republicans are not. They ignore the inevitable and then waste time whining about it when it gets here. Backed into a corner, they can’t make a decision or even take a smidgeon of responsibility when they do. Everybody runs around covering their butts instead of getting anything done.

Republicans make a big damn mess and I’m not even talking about their response to Covid 19.  I’m talking about the political party conventions in Texas.

Democrats opted out of an in-person state convention that was pre-planned for San Antonio.  The state party announced Democrats would have a virtual convention in June and spent a month planning for it, even with the entire party staff working from home.  They hired a television producer to come in and set up the workings on Zoom.  Not much television is being produced right now so it was easy to find one who knew their stuff.

The convention was spectacular and everybody had the best seat in the house.  We had individual senatorial district meetings with a couple hundred people each to elect people to committees (which also met) and national convention delegates.  It went off without a hitch and was pre-planned in detail.

One way you know it was successful is that every past virtual convention in the country has lost money.  Texas Democrats netted $1.5 million.  Instead of 4,000 people attending, hundreds of thousands watched.   They trained and certified 3,400 voter registrars in Texas and trained thousands in every aspect of campaigning.  And all because it was planned like a royal damn wedding.

Now let’s look at the Texas Republican Convention. They wanted to hold it in Houston at the George R Brown. At the time, Houston is a giant Fry Baby of virus. Mayor Turner said nope. They went the court who also said nope. So they smugly took it to the Texas Supreme Court, the most rightwing Republican court in the nation, and even 7 of them said, “are you nuts?” and one abstained and the other is nuttier than squirrel poop. That occurred exactly one week before the convention was to start.

So, all these old straight white men and their Karens run home to see if their Radio Shack Tandy 150 computers can use Zoom.

And then there’s the national convention. Democrats have been planning their’s for two months. Republicans are still trying to find a place to have it. Honey, it has Goat Rodeo written all over it. Trump was even considering putting delegates on cruise ships and docking them near the convention center. He’s gonna wait until the last minute to make a decision and then claim he’s a victim of everybody on the damn planet because he’s not getting his convention.  We will once again hear a spoon being pounded on a high chair tray.

So, there ya go – a great reason to vote for Democrats. They can see trouble a mile off and plan for it.