The Guardian has a story that caught my fancy.

Donald Trump will soon use “his own platform” to return to social media, an adviser said on Sunday, months after the former president was banned from Twitter for inciting the US Capitol riot.

So, he’s coming out with his own Twitter.  I don’t care what he calls it, I’m calling it Bitter.

I can promise you that within hours, every Democrat will be banned and all that will be left are old straight white men who type in ALL CAPS so you can hear them better and pre-pubescent boys still trying to “own the libtards.” It will be a collection of perverts and scalawags who end up talking more porn than politics and be a majestic display of bad spelling.

I wonder where you apply for pre-banning?

I give it six weeks before Trump claims media bias against him by his own company. Old habits are hard to break.

By the way, the story also contains this tidbit.

Miller emphasised the hold Trump retains on his party.

“He’s already had over 20 senators over 50 members of Congress either call or make the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to ask for [his] endorsement,” he said.

Okay, so my math is tad rusty but 20 senators isn’t even half of the Republicans. Trump couldn’t win his own caucus in the senate, but he’s doing even worse in the house with less than a fourth. That’s not a hold, that’s an ankle bite.

Bitter. I’m calling that.

Texas senator John Cornyn is pointing fingers and whining again instead of finding solutions and fixing problems.

Some of the migrants are being brought to Dallas.  They will be temporarily housed in the Dallas Convention Center.

Okay, so they are giving the vaccine outside. The migrants will be inside. Two, it’s a big joint. You can do two things at once there. Three, last time I was in Dallas, they had more than one big ole place with a big parking lot. Four, Dallas has opened up a three additional distribution point this weekend. And five …

— 100 days, 100M COVID vaccine shots guaranteed. 42 days ahead of schedule.

That’s got be eating at Cornyn’s skanky nasty old heart.  Competence is one battlefield he can’t fight on.

Thanks to AlaninAustin for the heads up.

The Daily Beast has done some outstanding reporting on scam political PACs, a favorite topic here at the beauty salon.

The Daily Beast surveyed the top 25 grossing PACs that style themselves as law enforcement and veterans support groups. We found they collectively pulled in more than $85 million over the last four years. For perspective, that’s about $18 million more than the two top-raising House campaigns combined over that same time period.

Let’s take veteran scam PACs as an example.

They found that only 4 out of 34 PACs established in past 4 years claiming to raise money for veteran political causes were legitimate. Only 4. However, veterans PACs founded prior to 2016 are all legitimate.

That means that 88% of veterans PACs created in the last four years are scams that are collectively stealing tens of millions of dollars every year from an unsuspecting public – mainly retired people on fixed incomes.

The people donating to these PACs think they are giving to causes that actually help veterans, or firefighters, or police. Most of them are contacted by phone and that’s why most of them are older people – they are the only ones with landlines.

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), a former consumer protection attorney, has co-sponsored legislation with Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas to help put an end to scam PACs.

Damn, I wish them luck.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

We have another Friday Happy Headlines for your weekend enjoyment.

Tussaud’s Waxworks in Alamo Plaza in San Antonio had to remove their Donald Trump figure because …

… people kept punching it in the face.

Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in Alamo Plaza has packed away a figure of the former reality show star-turned-former president after visitors took out four years’ worth of frustrations on it.

Have a good weekend.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I was outta pocket yesterday when Chip Roy up and blurted something weird, mean, and bigoted in the middle of a damn congressional hearing.

He said that there’s a common saying in Texas about a rope and a tall oak tree.  I’m a fifth generation Texan on my momma’s side and I have never heard that.

Chip Roy is from Maryland. He came to Texas as a adult and was the ghostwriter for George W’s book.  He also worked for John Cornyn, was First Assistant for Ken Paxton, and became Ted Cruz’s chief of staff.  So, I have no damn idea what manner of caca del toro he has heard while in Texas. A piano player in a whorehouse would have been subject to more proper and intelligent conversation.

I wish he’d just shut his mouth instead of repeating horrid crap he has heard in the back rooms he frequents.

Today he has doubled down.  He’s refusing to see the errors of his ways.  He also learned that from the men who never learned that.

The bottom line is that is not an “old saying” in Texas.  That is a new saying, brought to you by the highest levels of the Texas Republican Party.

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