Republican Texas congressman Ron Wright has become the first sitting congressman to die of Covid.

He was 67 years old, and was recovering from lung cancer.

He was anti-Biden on everything – from raising the minimum wage, Paris Accords, Keystone pipeline, you name it. He was strongly anti-choice and was a mainstream Republican.

Due to Covid, he closed his home office and had his staff work from home. He accepted that Joe Biden was president. His district around the Dallas area is strongly Republican and we could have done a lot worse than Ron.

I have to say that the few times I saw him on tv just in passing, he was wearing a mask, so I’m sad to see this happen.

Okay, just when you think QAnon can’t get any weirder, there’s a new theory.

QAnon followers are still stunned that Joe Biden got inaugurated because Q had promised that there was going to be a revolution and Trump would be president.  Q knows all and Q promised.

So, since that didn’t happen they have a new plan.

…that conspiracy theory is that a law enacted in 1871 secretly turned the US into a corporation. It posits that some Americans are therefore not subject to a variety of federal laws.

Supporters of the theory believe that every president who’s been inaugurated since then is illegitimate; they believe that Ulysses S. Grant was the last legitimate president.

So, they are all going back to DeeCee to have themselves a hootenanny on March 4th when somehow someway Trump will become president.  They are kinda unclear about how this will happen but I feel fairly sure that window breaking, loud shouting, and creative costumes will be involved.

And what does Trump do immediately to prepare to return to his seat of power?  He jacks up the rent at the Trump hotel.

While a deluxe-king room would usually cost $476 to $596 around March, the price for March 3 and 4 this year was $1,331 per night, Forbes reported.

Yeah, the only hotel in DeeCee to do that on March 3rd and 4th.

So, the question is, do you think Trump is getting Q to do this just to make more money for Trump?  Ya think the impeachment trial will be wrapping up about then and Trump needs to wreck the senate?

I remember when this happened.  And I am pouncing pleased that she came out on top.

But the story gets better.
She is now on the Local Board of Supervisors that oversees legislation for leisure facilities in her county.
A county which includes Trump’s National Golf Club.

We love to see it.

— Jaime Primak (@JaimePrimak) February 6, 2021

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Written by Nick Carraway.

Majorie Taylor Greene said something puzzling in her defense before the Republican caucus. This is the one where half of the caucus decided to give her a standing ovation in spite of the fact that she never really apologized for the statements made. At least not directly.

She of course admitted that she believed 9/11 actually happened. That’s awfully nice of her. Of course, I wasn’t there, so I didn’t hear every word, but I have yet to hear anything directly addressed death threats on Nancy Pelosi or the myriad of kooky theories she has been broadcasting. What she did say was that “she was allowed to believe those things.”

I’m a reasonably well educated guy and I’ve spent the better part of a day trying to figure exactly what she is trying to say there. Who exactly was supposed to prevent her from believing anything? Whose responsibility was it if it wasn’t her own? As is usual these days, I was hit with an answer when I was perusing my own social media and ran into conservative friends and their posts.

The pattern is inescapable. Someone shares a tweet, Instargram post, or meme written by someone else that they agree with. Everything is fine until you call them on the offensiveness of the post they shared. How could they possibly think such a thing? Except they claim they don’t. They were just sharing what someone else had produced.

I could produce a number of examples, but I think you all have seen enough examples for yourselves. I can only assume that MTG has somehow convinced herself that she hasn’t really said anything outrageous. She’s just shared what others have been saying. It’s the ex-president’s “people are saying” gamut.. Well, who’s saying? Why are you sharing it if you don’t agree with it? Thankfully, at least MTG was left out in the wilderness in terms of committees, but we know we haven’t heard the last from her. Then again, maybe we have. Maybe we will just continue to hear her voice quoting others that she may or may not choose to agree with.”

Nick.

As you probably know, Louie Gohmert got fined $5,000 for sneaking into the House floor without going through screening.

Stop yourself real quick if you were having the notion that Louie was going to stand for something, anything, that might require courage. Nope.

I have to stop right here and tell you a story.  Years ago, a kinda floozie lady in my town got her purse stolen off the front seat of her car while she dashed into the post office.  Our town was so small then all crime got reported with a full description in the newspaper. Her’s, with her name fully spelled out, reported a stolen purse worth $45. Inside the purse was a wallet with $11 in cash, a hairbrush worth $6, some “personal products” with no monetary value listed, and makeup worth $376.  I would have lied.  I would have. Or, I would have just eaten the loss, not wanting people to know that I need the much expensive makeup. To this day, every time I see her, I start adding up her face.

Louie’s “excuse” was that he left the house floor to go to the bathroom and it wasn’t like the Godfather where they hide guns in the bathroom because there’s not tanks on the toilets in the congressional bathroom.

Lemme stop here and say that I think it would be totally proper to screen him to see if he washed his hands, too.

Well, now that Louie has pondered on it, he’s decided to challenge the constitutionality of screenings, so the first thing he did was issue a press release.

“Since I had been complying with the metal detector requirement despite the Constitutional issue, I was surprised to receive a notice today stating that I had not complied with their policy and that I would be fined $5,000.

“I will be appealing the fine and taking whatever action is necessary, especially considering this policy is unconstitutional.

He should have lied and said that’s why he did it in the first place. Louie doesn’t have $5,000. Nobody knows where all Louie’s money goes, but he’s among the poorest people in congress.  He just barely keeps his nose above water.

And here’s a hint to the court hearing his appeal:  Louie was a judge in east Texas for years.  Why is it unconstitutional for him to be scanned but not for all those people who came to the courthouse to be scanned to protect him?

Oh Louie.

Well, here ya go.

That’s okay. We can live with that, just so long the rest of the schools in the country opt out of Utah.  No, seriously. We can take Utah off the map and any references to the state shall henceforth be known as whogivesadamn.

I don’t see a downside to this. I don’t know much about Utah so why teach it at all? Everything I learned about Utah in school has been totally useless in life.  Nobody has ever asked me a question about Utah and I’ve never used it to measure anything or figure my tax deductions. So why even teach it or put it on a map?

I guess if you are driving from Colorado to Nevada, you could put up your car windows, put on your Willie Nelson tape and pretend you’re dancing across Texas.

Unless you’re going to drive from Arizona to Idaho and, oh dear Lord, who is ever going to do that? Just forget I even said that. Nobody does that.