Okay, look.  This is the biggest damn news to come down the pipeline in the last four years.  The Senate report on their investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election.

It provided a bipartisan Senate imprimatur for an extraordinary set of facts: The Russian government disrupted an American election to help Mr. Trump become president, Russian intelligence services viewed members of the Trump campaign as easily manipulated, and some of Mr. Trump’s advisers were eager for the help from an American adversary.

For starters, at least *some* the Republicans on this panel knew *some* of the stuff in this report and they still voted to keep Trump in office.  Marco Rubio, you are dead to me.

Second, why now? I think it’s because the Democratic convention is proving that Democrats know how to react, adjust, and be successful.  Republican knew their convention, exactly like the Texas Republican convention, is going to be a last minute mishmash of secret meetings and horrible production.

Being able to react, adjust, and be successful are exactly the traits that Republicans do not have in their toolbox. Democrats have proven that they can.

What better time to roll this sucker out than during the Democratic convention?  The convention is eating all the headlines and social media attention.

You got a theory ?

Can we rescind the Presidential Medal of Freedom?  The newest Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Rush Limbaugh, called Senator Kamala Harris a ho.

It washed over me like the tide and then I let it go for a couple of days.

But dammit, it keeps bubbling up.

He will go down on a list of people who have won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  Until we have a medal for lying, divisive, ego maniac drug using whores … well, they should take his name off.

There, I feel better.

Trump got himself all carried away over there on Twitter today.

Well, out friend Jesse did just that.  He found the Gallup Poll taken at the time.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans give the Obama administration high marks for its handling so far of the continuing spread of swine flu, or H1N1 virus, in the United States. In a Gallup Poll conducted Tuesday night, 66% of Americans say they approve of how the administration is handling the situation, while 16% disapprove and 17% have no opinion.

Trump would chew off his leg for poll numbers like that.

Here ya go.

Holy cow, y’all.  This is going to make the QAnon people pick lint out of their belly buttons all day.  This is a hoax so big that even Senate Republicans are in on it!

Ya think maybe this is why Senate Republicans didn’t want any witnesses at the Trump impeachment?

There was a rumor going around that Trump was going to pardon a big name Republican this week.  Wanna bet it’s Manafort?

Please notice that when the Senate Republicans defend it, they only say no collusion. They only use that word. They don’t say there was no coordination, no back scratching, no treason, no hanky panky – just no collusion.  They will give you nothing but that word.  Cute, huh?

Okay, so Trump held a mini-rally (That’s the new Trumpspeak for “nobody showed up”) in Minnesota and here’s the words that come tumbling out of his mouth …

“We built the greatest economy in the history of the world, and now I have to do it again… You know what that is? That’s right. That’s God testing me.”

So God sent a plague just to test Trump’s ability to glide on Obama’s economy.  You can hear him for yourself right here – it’s the second one.

Trump wonders if the coronavirus might be God's way of punishing him for being a narcissist pic.twitter.com/vuPOiQsKcW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020

(New fangled posting stuff.  I couldn’t take one without the other.)

One other thing.  We have got to get rid of the phrase “avoid it like the plague,” because apparently we can’t do that.

Do you have any special plans for the convention kick-off tonight?

I went to a national convention in 2012 and everybody should do it once in their lives.  It was the most exhausting week of my life.  You start with breakfast at 6:30 in the morning and you don’t get back to the hotel until well after midnight, generally 1:20 am.

Bubba and I have special dinners planned – some fancy, some hot dogs and apple pie.

What ya gonna do?