Okay, this is a fun story sent to us by Kary, my Texan friend who retired to Spain and is spending all day every day emailing or on the phone getting Americans Abroad registered and voting while overlooking the ocean sitting on the gorgeous patio of his hillside villa with his gorgeous husband Jimmy.  Yeah, I’ve got friends like that.

Kary is kinda excited because there’s a drag queen who just won a primary election against an anti-gay Democrat in Delaware.

Delaware progressive Democrat Eric Morrison has soundly defeated incumbent State Rep. Earl Jaques (D) in the state’s primary election, garnering 61% of the vote.

Morrison is also a drag queen who performs under the name “Anita Mann.” Jacques, the incumbent, was a staunch opponent of LGBTQ rights.

Anita Mann – I love that.

Here’s Eric and some of his supporters on election night.

Here’s Anita Mann and she is fabulous.

It restored my faith in humanity for an afternoon!

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Have you noticed that Trump’s hissy fits, name-calling, and general egotistical behavior are rubbing off on Bill Barr?

I swear you could stick a pin in Barr and he’d fly around the room backwards for two or three days making exhaust noises and smelling up the air with haughty in three zip codes.

The latest?  The lawyers in his own justice department are pre-schoolers when they disagree with him.  Well yeah, you know, turning guns on peaceful protestors in the front of the White House might put your legal acumen in question, Barr.

“Name one successful organization or institution where the lowest level employees’ decisions are deemed sacrosanct, there aren’t. There aren’t any letting the most junior members set the agenda. It might be a good philosophy for a Montessori preschool, but it is no way to run a federal agency.”

Yeah, tell us how to run a federal agency, Bill, because we have never seen one run well under Trump. They have all been infested with cronyism and corruption at the top so if we don’t believe you, Master Barr, pull Stephen Miller out of your butt and mosey on down the road. You can leave your floppy shoes behind, because I feel sure that they will fit the next court jester, too.

And get this —

“You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” Barr said as a round of applause came from the crowd.

Oh, it’s going to be worse than that, Bill.  We’re going demand that people wear face masks in public.  As we approach 200,000 dead from doing it your way, Bill, I’m wondering about life, liberty, and happiness?  Is the life part unimportant?

Besides, conservatives do not get to lecture liberals about civil liberties. Don’t I have a civil liberty right to protest in front of the White House, Bill, without being hit, shoved, threatened, gassed and come damn close to having something sprayed on me that makes my skin feel like it’s on fire?  But there you were, waddling across the street with your boyfriend, watching civil liberties on the business end of  nightstick.

You’re an egg sucking dog, Bill Barr.

And your calmness in the face of women having forced hysterectomies with God only knows how many complications and deaths, is truly impressive.  We’re the United States, Bill, and we’re supposed to protect everybody’s civil liberties.  We may have had the right to send the immigrants back to Mexico but we absolutely do not have the right to rip their children from them and put them in cages, and then perform mystery unnecessary surgeries on them.

What the hell is wrong with your soul, Bill Barr?

I have more to say but I’ve run out of words and my fingers are tired.  I can assure you that I’m not finished.

A note to the secret service.  If Bill Barr refuses to leave the White House after the election, I have access to a front loader.  I just wanted you guys to know that, and that I’d be willing to drive it.

In a very Trumpian show of Trump’s Trumpiness, Trump held a ceremony at the White House this week hailing himself as Great Peacemaker in his quest for the “deal of the century” claiming to achieve Middle East peace.  This whole charade is really just being held to whip up outrage in his base when he again doesn’t get the “Noble” Peace Prize he wants so badly, but knows he’ll never receive.  The whole thing is really just an arms deal, not a peace deal.  To sign with Israel, the UAE is receiving fighter jets and drones.  Bahrain is getting new missile defense systems.  Israel, already the recipient of billions in war toys, has a new shopping list that includes Osprey tilt rotor helicopters, and other war machines.

The real problem with this “peace” accord?  It leaves out the Palestinians.  Israel is not at war with the EAE or Bahrain.  They’re at war with the Palestinians, and have been for over 70 years.  Not one concession was made in these “accords” that help the Palestinians.  Like all other things Trump, this deal is 100% showmanship, 0% substance.  Trump is using US tax money AND kicking off a new arms race with his new “peace” accords.  This “peace” is just pouring gasoline on the fire.

Y’all, the Scientific American magazine has made their first ever political endorsement.

The endorsement is fact based and relatively calm but devastating.

“His administration has been even worse for science than we feared,” Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Laura Helmuth told HuffPost in an email. “We couldn’t include all of our objections to his record in two print pages.”

I dunno, I guess I’d have to agree with him being even worse than I expected. I said he was going to get us all killed. I just didn’t know that he was also going to cook us and eat us.

Thanks to Epp for the heads up.

The GOP Senate candidate in Delaware doesn’t just believe in QAnon, Lauren Witzke also believes the earth is flat and that Trump should be president for life.

With her victory still just hours old, the newest Republican Senate nominee publicly thanked a white nationalist leader who marched in the “Unite the Right” rally and has questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

She also claims that she used to be a “low level drug runner” for the Mexican cartels, She claims that Trump’s win inspired her get off drugs and become a Republican “political operative.”  Think about it, though, Mexican drug runner and Republican political operative aren’t that far apart and require the same skill set. I mean, in both you force people to take things that will actually kill them but they thank you for doing it.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Democrats in the Oregon State Senate could not reach a quorum to vote on a climate change bill because 11 Republican state senators walked out of the senate and some even left the state.  The Republicans could stop the debate and the vote, but they could not stop climate change.

Fred Girod was one of those senators. He refused to come back to the senate for a full month.  So the cap and trade bill never got a discussion or a vote.

Fred Girod’s house burned down.

Girod, a 69-year-old state senator, made an impromptu trip Sunday into his sprawling district that includes many of the most hard-hit areas decimated by wildfires that have now burned more than 1 million acres across the state and killed at least 10 people.

‘It hurts,’ Girod said, hands in his dark denim jeans.”

Well, damn, it’s the first time Girod’s hands have been in his own pockets.

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.