Retired 4-star General and 11th Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Tony Thomas is not near as impressed with Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw as Dan is with himself. Thomas called the ad “embarrassing”

Dan, a former Navy Seal, cut an ad for the Georgia senate race.  You have to see it to believe it.  In the ad, he specifically target AOC and Kamala Harris.

Watched this twice now. I was sure it must be an SNL or Comedy Central skit. Nope, just the base(r) level our political environment slips to with each succeeding day. There is a reason 100M people opted not to vote again this year. Embarrassing. https://t.co/FwmSQA626v

— Tony Thomas (@TonyT2Thomas) December 14, 2020

Crenshaw defended the ad yesterday afternoon, proudly proclaiming the ad raised $100,000 in donations, which, I suppose, is about what it cost to make it.

Dan Crewshaw – the only man I know who can strut sitting down.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Why December 23rd?  Why is Barr waiting until December 23rd to leave or for Trump to kick him out?  It’s a Wednesday, the day before Christmas Eve.  The only thing I can think of is that it is two days after a rare planetary alignment. I just don’t think that either Trump or Barr are that into Astrology.

And a little research said it’s Festivus.  And Ken Paxton’s birthday, so maybe that’s Ken’s reward for the goofy appeal to the Supreme Court.

I’m pretty sure that Barr didn’t write that departing letter.

And what could it be that Trump wants to do that even Barr doesn’t want to be part of.  Creepy stuff.

Well, I spent a little time researching this over on Twitter, and best I can figure out, it’s true.

I do know that Pfizer took no Warp Speed money and that the Trump Administration (and I am being very generous with that term because it was really a Criminal Enterprise not an Administration) refused offers to buy more before it hit the market. And that, my friends, is how you bankrupt a casino.

And thanks once again, Ted, for making Texas look so damn smart.

Thanks to Ron for the heads up.

For the past four years, we have had a First Lady who has displayed her body in a salacious manner meant to sexually arouse people. Republicans were fine with that. They said she was “classy.”  Now they are distressed that our new First Lady has too much education.

The Wall Street Journal wrote that Dr. Biden should not use her academic title. They even called it silly.

“Madame First Lady — Mrs. Biden — Jill — kiddo: a bit of advice on what might seem like a small but I think is not an unimportant matter,” writer Joseph Epstein began. “Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr.’ before your name? ‘Dr. Jill Biden’ sounds and feels a touch fraudulent, not to mention comical.”

Comical? Kiddo?

The Washington Post answered this morning and the Wall Street Journal will walk with a limp for  few months.  The Post pointed out the hypocrisy in this and the lame attempt to diminish a rare accomplishment.

I noticed the same thing in my own world.  My county elected our first two female district court judges in 2018.  Judges are generally taken seriously. Among the bar, even in social situations among friends, “Judge gets to become a prefix before even first names. So, you hear Judge Charlie or Judge Bob when addressing them with other people in the room.  Not so the woman.  The minute they walk out the courtroom door, they become simply Juli and Toni.

I think I’m gonna work on that.

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Thanks to COmtnlady for the heads up.

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“During college, we had a running cartoon called “The Adventures of Implosion Boy.” It was a simple enough cartoon. A little boy wore a costume with a large I and called himself “Implosion Boy.” He told unwitting bystanders that if they didn’t give him what he wanted he would implode at will. Somehow throughout the life of the cartoon (several months as it turned out) no one called him on his bluff.

So, Implosion Boy grew a few sizes in the waistline as he conned people out of sandwiches, pizza, and ice cream. The reaction was always the same. Everyone acted like hostages in a bank heist. They forked over the stuff to avoid seeing something that couldn’t possibly harm them even if he could deliver on his promise. I think everyone sees the parallels here.

I’m happy that we’ve all become engaged about the process. I’m happy that so many people now know about “Safe Harbor” and know exactly when the electoral college officially votes. I’m happy that people know when Congress officially certifies the electors and their votes. I’m certain we’ve also learned quite a bit about the legal process as well. Thank you Donald Trump.

Yet, I can’t get the nagging image of Implosion Boy out of my head. I can’t help but wonder if more than a few Republicans would call his bluff that all of this would be over. It would have been over a long time ago. Maybe we could have gotten some things done in the last four years if someone had just patted him on the head and told him to go ahead and implode.

Sure, maybe you lose his base, but the hard lesson of politics is that there is really nowhere for his base to go. Do they suddenly become Bernie Sanders supporters? Do they suddenly go from being ardent racists to being progressive? They can vote Republican or not vote. Those were always their choices. So, cow towing to them is a lot like giving Implosion Boy a sandwich. Sure, he didn’t implode. Better have another sandwich at the ready for after the inauguration.”