I think Trump made a deal with the devil.  He promised he would never tell the truth if the devil would let him be president.  Never, ever, for any reason whatsoever tell the truth.

That’s why he had to let 180,000 die.  Because a deal is a deal.

“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on February 7.

And Bob Woodward couldn’t tell people that Trump was lying because he had a deal, too, with a book publisher.

So, if you want to know what’s the deal, that’s the deal.  Everybody’s got a deal.

Some deals are deadly, some deals are money, some deal are blessed unions, and some deals involved back scratching.  Everybody’s got a deal.  And no matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.

We got together a bunch of retired people and went in together and bought 1,000 Biden/Harris yard signs.  We set up a deal where people could come pick them up off our front porches — one sign for free but more than one for $3 each (our cost) in a bucket next to the signs safely with no physical contact.  Since we all have RING doorbells that pretty much keeps Republican ruffians off our porches.

We also are spread out all over this giant county so we offered to deliver them to people who aren’t getting out at all.

There are very few Trump signs around our county so we figured this would be a good thing.  We figured we’d give away about 800 of them and save the rest to use at the polls on early voting and election day.

Oh holy damn cow!  I am running a full time taxi service.  I volunteered to be the person who people text if they need a delivery.  I never figured on this being a full time job.  So, if I am a bit distracted for the week or whenever we have signs, please know I will get back here as soon as I can.

Meanwhile, this made me laugh out loud.  Thanks, Larry.

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Awww, man, this is just awful.

Trump ran his campaign the way the ran his businesses … into the ground.

Oh good Lord, they spent money to make Trump feel good about himself.  They spent millions of dollars in Washington, D.C., where there is zero chance that Trump will win over any voters.

They spent $1110,000 on magnet lined cell phone holders so people who are talking to Trump can’t record it.

They got really fancypants campaign offices in Virginia and stuff I do not even want to know about.

Trump’s campaign is broke.  Kinda fits since he broke America.

There was a Trump Parade in New Braunfels, Texas.  I spent many happy days of my childhood in New Braunfels tubing the Comal River and taking my own children back to build memories of their own.

New Braunfels has officially become the nastiest place in Texas.

They had a Trump parade that they call The Trump Train. That’s a thing in Texas, these parades. But this one was way beyond simply a thing.

The lead truck in the parade pulled a Black Lives Matter flag off the back bumper through town.

Why this is outrageously offensive is because in June of 1998, three white men in Jasper, Texas, tied the feet of James Byrd, Jr., to the underbelly of their pickup truck and drug him 3 miles on an asphalt road just because he was black.  After 3 miles, they hit a culvert and Byrd’s body was brutally dismembered.  They dumped the body parts in front of a black church. They were members of the a white supremacist organization.

Somebody in New Braunfels didn’t want black folks to forget. You know, like James Byrd, Jr. is something you could forget.

I believe in free speech and dragging that flag was free speech. But, with free speech comes much responsibility.

This is Trump’s America. These are the people who want to rule.  And do not tell me that this was just one person. People stood on the side of the road and cheered. There were at least 100 other cars in the parade and not one of them stopped this or dropped out.

It is not enough to just vote. We have to sweep the board. We have to overwhelm them, shame them, and make it uncomfortable for them to do crap like this.

I will never fully understand what it is to be black in America, but, dammit, I will stand.

Thanks to Martha for the heads up.

I wanna be realistic here and let you know that HD28 is a pretty safe Republican District, so it was no shocked that when there was a special election in that district earlier this year, a Republican won a resounding victory.  The only shocking thing was the Republican man who won it.

He lives in the same county as I do. At least that’s what I thought.

Gary Gates has done everything he can do in one lifetime to be controversial. He’s been accused of child abuse and certainly was not repenting of emotional abuse of foster children in his care.  He’s a developer who has made millions from building and maintaining low end housing (read slum landlord).

Gates has run for office before.  Seven times he’s run for most everything from school board to state senate, and he spends a boatload of his own money every time he does.

He’s some political consultant dream job.  He seems to have a different one every time he runs and they are dandy at spending money.  He’s very fond of putting out expansive endorsement list that include dead people, unregistered to vote people, tenants in some of his properties, people who walked by his booth at the county fair, and names of the voices in his head.  He’s just a damn mess, and that’s what Republicans say about him.

Well, something new has come up.  Come to find out, Gates doesn’t even live in Texas.  Maybe just the voices in his head live here, I dunno.

Get a load of this.  Gate Hisownself has an Oh Help Me, Jesus website called the Colorado Citizen’s Coalition.

No, seriously, go look around.

Do not miss this, of course.

But here’s the real interesting.  Here is a man serving at a state representative in the Texas House.  But, he spends at least half his time in Colorado.  And I know that because Gary Gates tells me that.

Click here for the big one.

“Gary lives about half his time in Crested Butte, Colorado.”

Now I am certain that to qualify for government loans to build “affordable” housing, you probably don’t have to live at least half your life in the state you’re asking for a permit.  I know a good Christian man like Gary would not lie about that and that … uh, the terrorists wrote that in Gary’s website.  Yeah. yeah. terrorists.  That’s it.

I am certain the the voices in Gary’s head live in Colorado and he really lives here.  I suspect in January when the legislature meets we’ll figure out if it’s the other way around.

Social media is still laughing about the Trump boat parade turned mass shipwreck Saturday on Lake Travis.  The memes are making the rounds and some of my favorites are Poseidon For Biden, Klan overboard!, Lake Travesty, and Make America Sink Again.  The real irony of the day, though, were the metaphors for Trump’s America…it was the perfect Libertarian event; poorly organized, and poorly managed.  No one knows how many boats participated, how many where swamped, and how many people went into the water.  The clearest metaphor, though, was how people acted – the wealthy, in flag festooned boats as long as 60 feet sped through the water with no regard for the every day folks in smaller boats in the parade.  The resulting wakes are what caused heavy swell that engulfed those smaller boats, sinking at least 4, and swamping an untold number.

The wealthier people did what they wanted, without regard to their effect on others.  Those others lost, but no one knows how many because, Freedumb.   Just like today’s economy under Trump.

One of the best videos of the day, though, was by comedian Brent Terhune, who plays a MAGhat of the first order.  Here he tearfully describes the loss of his beloved boat, the SS MAGAritaville.