Okay, it’s double humiliating when an aging Boomer has severed all ties to anything that happened after 1980.

Yeah, Newt has raised his goofy damn head.

Okay, I know who Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails are, but I didn’t know that’s who wrote it.  However, I did know that Johnny Cash covered it in one of the last songs he did and it damn near breaks your heart.  It’s one of the achingly saddest songs ever sang by Cash.

Newt Gingrich’s lack of knowledge about the world outside the Gingrich family hair, continues to entertain.

He don’t  know crap and continues to.

Do you want to know what really scares me?

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney said she would do “whatever it takes” to make sure former President Donald Trump is not the GOP presidential nominee during the 2024 elections.

Do you know who her father is?  He shoots people in the damn face and then makes them apologize for it. Like, you know, I’m so sorry my face got in the way of your great shot. Hell, according to my Uncle Frankie, her daddy got the Saudis to crash airplanes into tall buildings so Halliburton could make a gatrillion dollars off a war that wasn’t even in Saudi. He stole a man’s heart and the damn thing is still beating. He left office in 2009 and hasn’t been seen in daylight since then. Havana syndrome? That’s his old heart in a garbage can somewhere beating, beating, beating.

Look, I do not like Liz Cheney but I do not taunt her. Oh no. I think she is as pure evil as her daddy and if not, she’s at least got his phone number.

When Liz Cheney says she’ll do whatever it takes, that means she has backup plans that would make Stephen King shake.

By Gawd, when all this is over and the prison keys have been counted, I’m starting to think that Mark Meadows may win the dumb throw down.

And I’m betting you  buck twenty five cash American money that it was his phone trotting down rioters on the House floor.

On the other hand, I read somewhere that TFG said the main reason he wanted to get the election overturned and stay in office was so he could still have all his secret rich friends. Secret? That’s pretty damn dumb.

(BTW, sorry I’ve been out of the box for a while.  We just went through a week of heat wave with dangerous ozone levels all week. We’re coming out the other side tomorrow.)

Go ahead. Share, steal, whatever.

Said TFG to Hannity on national(ist) TV:

“If you’re the President of the United States you can declassify just by saying ‘it’s declassified’ even by thinking about it because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to whoever you’re sending it and there doesn’t have to be a process.”

Do you see what he did there? Everywhere else (except on nationalist TV) the buzz is that in this moment TFG admitted to sending government documents to Mar-a-Lago, which were not-so-coincidently discovered right there in Mar-a-Lago by an FBI search last month.

Nowadays the question has become is Mar-a-Lago the only place he has government documents?

We would need another FBI search of, say, Bedminster, to find out. But to do that, they would need probable cause which is what they laid out in their Mar-a-Lago affidavit. Strong evidence of a crime, not just probable cause.

I’ll make a probable cause case. It’s thin, but he undeniably said on video “…because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to whoever you’re sending it”.

“…or to whoever you’re sending it.” What did he mean by that? Did he realize when he said “Mar-a-Lago” that he had spilled the beans and tried to cover himself essentially by saying “or anywhere else”? That was an awkward addition marked by an odd pronunciation of “whoever”.

Or did he keep informing on himself and that there could be government documents  anywhere under his control?

As I said, thin.

Ask most biologists what scares them most it is the viruses and diseases we once thought were eradicated. Admittedly, my knowledge of immunology is limited to how my wife dumbs it down for me, but you see this every once in awhile. Someone somewhere will come down with the plague. Someone else will come down with measles. We get the occasional bout with whooping cough and polio as well.

When diseases are eradicated people and experts naturally let their guard down. They let strategic supplies of key medicines and vaccines go away. After all, we don’t need them anymore. So, we focus our energies on the newest threats and the diseases that claim millions. After all, cancer, HIV, and diabetes claim a whole lot more than whooping cough.

Unfortunately, when you find someone that has developed one of those conditions we thought was a distant memory we find ourselves flabbergasted. We don’t know what to do. The same happens when we find arguments we thought were long since settled. Someone comes out and defends the indefensible. If you are anything like me, you have that moment where you are frozen in time. Are they really saying what I think they are saying right now?

Congressional candidate John Gibbs is the latest to do this. In all fairness, he did this in college in the early 2000s, but he very clearly argued that the 19th amendment should be overturned. For those that don’t remember their U.S. History, that gave women the right to vote. That happened over 100 years ago. This is settled law and settled as an issue. At least we thought it was.

Gibbs is an originalist in the stupidest way possible. He wants everything returned to the factory settings which means he would become three-fifths a person and ineligible to run for office. At least, that is where he was in the early 2000s. Maybe he has wised up since then. Gibbs is hardly the point. Unless you live in Michigan, he really isn’t your concern.

What is our problem is that this phenomenon is growing. You can hardly live anywhere where there isn’t some idiot arguing for things that were long since settled decades ago. We have people like Gibbs arguing against women’s rights. We have people arguing against interracial marriage. We have people arguing against other civil rights. Hell, our very own senator (John Cornyn) argued that we should overturn Brown vs. Board of Education.

Much like the biologists, defeating idiocy long since defeated can prove dangerous. The arguments we had in our quiver have been replaced by newer arguments for newer issues. Then, there is the question of how much energy you want to invest in such tomfoolery. Fighting a half-wit over a zombie issue is a lot harder than you think. It’s like fighting a one armed man. What do you gain when you win?