Yesterday, the DOJ ruled that Alabama representative Mo Brooks, whose fiery rhetoric at the Trump rally that incited the attack contributed to the insurrection, is NOT immune from lawsuits for that rhetoric.  Brooks had argued that his rhetoric, which amplified The Big Lie spread by Trump, was part of his duty as a US Representative; the DOJ said no, this was campaign activity and not protected.  US Representative Eric Swalwell has sued Brooks and others accusing them of incitement to stop the Electoral College certification on January 6th.

Boom.

Not surprisingly, Trump has endorsed criminally indicted and federally investigated Ken Paxton for yet another term as Texas AG.  The irony is so thick that you can cut it with a knife.  Paxton belongs in the top law enforcement spot as much as beans belongs in Texas chili.  Uh, uh.  He has so far avoided trial on his original securities fraud charges for over 5 years and is now under federal investigation after his staff blew the whistle on him for everything from bribery to garden variety corruption.  With all of his troubles, it’s not surprising that he’s being primaried for the 2022 election.  What’s surprising is that George P. Bush, hoping he saw a weak target, threw his hat in the ring to do that.  Worse, he also decided it was a really good idea to humiliate himself and embarrass his own family by publicly kissing Trump’s ass to do it to earn the MAGA vote.

Well, that didn’t work.  Yesterday, staying completely in character, Trump endorsed Paxton probably because of his criminal indictments and his embarrassing performance in , rather than P, who’s just an opportunistic lightweight.  And according to a Trump confidante, Trump reveled in P’s ass kissing, saying,

“…George P. has played this exactly right, and he’s definitely more conservative than his dad, and Trump knows that,” said one Trump confidante who discussed the race with him recently. “But I can tell you the president enjoys the prospect of knowing how much it kills Jeb that his son has to bend the knee and kiss the ring. Who’s your daddy? Trump loves that.”

I’ve always thought that P was a lightweight and a cynical partisan taking advantage of Daddy’s last name. But I never thought he was just a dumbass, but a dumbass he most certainly is.  Not only has he humiliated himself, he actually allowed Trump to weaponize his weakness and stupidity to hurt himself, his father, uncle, and grandfather.  Hopefully the electorate will see these facts and send him packing back to Florida or wherever.  He definitely has no business holding any elected office, especially in Texas.

During the entire Bill Clinton investigation, I was totally sure that if Ken Starr walked by me, I would involuntarily stick out my foot and trip that sumbitch.  I had that involuntary accidental event planned down to the inch.

Next, he bounced up as Chancellor of Baylor University in Waco, home of the pious Baptist, where he did diddle squat when female students reported that they were being raped by members of Baylor’s first winning football team in decades. After all, they did just build a $266 million dollar stadium in 2014 and they needed to pay it off.  The Board of Regents asked him to leave when it began to look like they were going to get sued to hell and back.

Starr stood back from the limelight when he was very quietly one of the lawyers who cut the sweetheart deal for Jeffrey Epstein. Starr didn’t get a lot of public attention but I’m sure he got a boatload of money.

Epstein’s advocates included the famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr, best known for his role as the independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation, which eventually led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.

And the last time we heard from him, he was on Donald Trump’s impeachment team.

Doesn’t it seem like hoochy-koochy just follows this guy around?

But it just got worse and you need to warm-up your trippin’ foot.  Judi Hershman just let the cat out of the bag.  Starr is going to hell. Not for screwing around, mind you, but for the greater sin of being a damn hypocrite. I’m sure she’s got a blue dress to prove it.

He’s a punk, y’all.

Most of you are familiar with Dan Crenshaw, the Texas congressvarnint with the eye patch.

I’m gonna be honest with you and tell you that the eyepatch is all this kid has going for him.  He ain’t real bright and he’s not a pleasant person to talk to.  And now, bless his heart, he’s decided to pit himself up against the biggest Fourth of July yearly party in Texas – the Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic.

Dan with Miss Nevada and Miss Tennessee

Dan has decided to have a Summer of 1776 festival every year on the Fourth.

His spent at least $144,000 on its “first annual Summer of 1776” fundraiser.  It was held at the Lago Mar Crystal Clear Lagoon in La Marque, Texas, on July 4, with entertainment including a country singer and a drone light show. Proceeds benefited the reelection campaign of the two-term congressman.

The campaign’s disbursements in the second quarter included $84,000 to Lagoon Funatics and Beach 4 Lagoon; $53,000 to Drone Light Show Company; and $7,000 to Tim Montana and the Shrednecks.

His Instagram account shows that the celebration was actually a white boys’ frat kegger.

Dan, I’m not being picky here but you could have done done away with Tim Montana and fed some boys over at the VFW for July 4th.  I guess you didn’t think of that.

The wild world of sports and politics rarely collide, but they did so last week when two assistant coaches in the NFL lost their jobs because they refused to get the vaccine. One of them was former Houston Texans assistant Rick Dennison.

The NFL can’t fire players for refusing to get the vaccine because they have a collective bargaining agreement that bars such action, but you can believe if a player is on the bubble and refused to get the shot, he will likely be out on the street. While the league is not barring players from performing, they are highly incentivizing getting the vaccine.

If a player tests positive without getting the vaccine it could cause his team to forfeit a game. If that happens then no one on either team will get their paycheck. Money is always a great motivator and when you are talking as much as one million dollars in the form of a game check you better believe there will be peer pressure.

However, this is where we get to the point of asking how we even got here in the first place. There are people that are incapable of getting vaccines. They might suffer an allergic reaction or they have some other medical reason why they cannot. While I question it, there are also folks that have a religious objection. I’m not talking about these folks.

Other countries have both sets of folks within their borders and yet have found a way to get more than 70 percent of people 12 and older vaccinated. The U.S. isn’t quite to 50 percent. It is that gap that threatens to keep the virus going through the next several years. It is a merry band of idiots that are either questioning the safety of the vaccine or the efficacy of the vaccine. Then again, I don’t think they are using big words like efficacy.

At the heart of this debate are the rights of the individual and how far they extend. Everyone has the right to be a dumbass up until the exercising of their rights interfere with my safety. We’ve done this for years. Students have to have certain vaccinations by certain dates to be able to attend school. I’m not sure why COVID is so different.

I’m not sure why we have to be so stupid about this. In the past several months, the Texas Education Agency has decided to not fund virtual learning, but students under 12 can’t get vaccinated. Then, you have only 50 percent of those eligible getting vaccinated. If just one of those facts were mitigated somehow we would be okay. Yet, here we are stuck on freedumb. You can’t force me to do a solid for my neighbors and my community.

A party that is supposedly dedicated to life seems to be treating everyone’s life cavalierly. The irony if palpable. We made everyone get the polio vaccine and we eradicated it from the face of the earth. We did the same with small pox. We currently require measles and mumps vaccinations. They’ve even added one for chicken pox. I’m still struggling to understand why this is so difficult.

I betcha do because Dr. Ronny Jackson was pretty damn unforgettable.  He’s the medical doctor who did a press conference announcing that Trump is a fine physical specimen of a viral and terrifically smart man.

The next thing we find out is that Jackson is popping pills and mainlining gin.   Add that with complaints of sexually inappropriate behavior and it appears that the only job he’s completely qualified for is a congressman from Texas.  So, he ran for the 6th congressional district in Texas and won.

Now he’s on Fox with Sean Hannity and Stephen Miller to complete the Cloven Hoof Trio, saying that Joe Biden (corrected due to coffee deficiency) is not all there.

Something's SERIOUSLY wrong with Biden – and it's only going to get WORSE! It's past the point of embarrassment. He's lost. He's confused. He can barely put a coherent sentence together. He MUST have a cognitive exam and release the results! pic.twitter.com/Pk5Pq2V5Um

— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) July 23, 2021

Yeah, he also learned grammar and capitalization from Trump.  And, yeah, they are still bragging that Trump supposedly “aced the cognitive test.” No, that isn’t what that means.

So, greeting from Texas where the crazy gets a birthright.