Okay, it’s around noon Texas time and I just got my Texas Minor League Political Bet placed.  I took Warnock by 4 points. I’ve got $10 cash American money riding on this so you know I’m serious about it.

Wagering cuts off at 3:00.  Wish me luck.

This election, with money from the Juanita Jean PAC, I underwrote a postcard campaign from Pakistani Democratic voters in my county to Pakistani registered voters in Georgia. There’s not enough Pakistani voters in Georgia to sweep the election but there are enough to move the needle.  .

Okay, I have a confession to make. This probably makes me a bad Democrat and a bad progressive, but I need to get it off my chest. I have never voted for Hunter Biden. What’s more, I will never vote for Hunter Biden no matter what he’s running for. It’s a character thing for me. Maybe that makes me a hypocrite. After all, George W. Bush was a recovering alcoholic and alleged drug addict and millions voted for him. Of course, I wasn’t one of those but I have to admit that I saw him differently. He was clearly in recovery and had been for decades. We can’t be too sure about Hunter Biden.

What’s more, I am willing to acknowledge that he has gotten multiple opportunities in life that 99 percent of people in other walks of life would never get. He has made more money and put in more positions of prestige than anyone deserves. Maybe he should have served some jail time for his drug habit. Of course, I have never really been big on dolling out jail sentences for addicts, but I suppose fair minded people can differ on that point. Simply put, he will never get my vote.

The funny thing is that he has never been on a ballot. He has never held any position within any presidential administration in the United States. He is currently a private citizen and is likely to remain that for the rest of his natural life. If he’s committed a crime then he deserves to go to jail. I don’t know that the current president has ever said differently, but maybe he has and I’m just not aware of it. Maybe he has the location of Jimmy Hoffa, the real story behind the JFK assassination, and the location of aliens on his laptop, but I tend to doubt it. Maybe that laptop holds the key to inflation, the price of gas, and the secrets to solving the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Maybe it’s just a damn laptop.

Somehow, Hunter, his drug problem, and his laptop didn’t make it Twitter in the summer of 2020. Apparently, there were tweets about this that were taken down or not published for some nefarious reason. Somehow this “scandal” amounts to an affront to free speech and the kind of cheating that means the 2020 election was stolen. Yet, and I’m just spitballing here, no one that was undecided at the time gave a hoot about his laptop. Maybe no one that was undecided gave a crap about Hunter Biden. Maybe it was because Hunter Biden wasn’t on the ballot, but again I’m just spitballing. Maybe it was because they still haven’t proven a damn thing about why I should care. Maybe it was because we looked at the two candidates and decided that no matter what had happened with Joe Biden’s only surviving son, he couldn’t be worse than the worst president in the history of the nation. Of course, I’m just spitballing here.

Trump called for “termination of the Constitution.” I think Arnold Schwarzenegger should sue.

They are having trouble getting any Republicans to disavow TFG’s statement.

Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) on Sunday declined to denounce former President Trump for  suggesting the termination of the Constitution’s election provisions over unfounded claims of mass electoral fraud in 2020.

Meanwhile in Iran, they abolished the Morality Police and the hijab rule is under review.

Damn, y’all.  Which direction is up?

As a sidenote, I just heard from one of my The Carolinas friends. He says while he’s thrilled that Biden wants to move the opening of the Democratic presidential primary to South Carolina, he just wants to warn us that this will certainly result in North Carolina want to open reunification plans.

Why South Carolina? Biden is president today because he got a last minute strong endorsement from Rep. Jim Clyburn. What a lovely way to say thank you!  And …. What the hell kind of chance do you think Kamala Harris would have of winning Iowa or New Hampshire?  Come on, man.

Texas Congressvarmint Dan Crenshaw is quickly becoming the man most likely to make you cringe in Texas.

He’s currently involved in a Battle Royal with the Federal Elections Commission. While the ultimate victor is yet to be announced, Crenshaw has signed an agreement to pay one of the biggest fines I have ever seen the FEC levy. But, don’t get too excited because he agreed to accept a $42,000 fine for taking $200,000 in illegal campaign contributions.

The problem is that he’s not paying back the illegal contributions at a rate you’d expect from a man who fully admitted he took the contributions knowing they were illegal, and – hold on to your panties – think he might can be president one day.

The money came from 125 individuals, two PACs, four corporations, and three limited liability companies, the FEC said. The prohibited corporate contributions included gifts from law firms, real estate entities, and a wealth management company, according to FEC notices.

The campaign appears to have drawn the stiff fine after failing to return the contributions in a timely manner. In fact, more than a year and a half after the FEC first flagged the violations, Crenshaw still hadn’t released all the money. And the money he did turn over had claw marks on it.

The FEC sent the first of four notices in October 2020, and in December of that year the campaign promised it would either return or re-designate the unlawful contributions. But the vast majority of the refunds and re-designations—more than $207,000 worth—were returned “between 115 and 612 days late,” well outside the 60-day grace period, according to the report. As of this May, the campaign still hadn’t returned $3,216.50.

Dan, if my light bill is 612 days late, I’d be sitting in the dark melting.

Good Lord, Dan, it’s been two years, a couple of galas, a book tour, and a mini campaign ad with you jumping out of airplanes. Pay your fine and admit you’re for sale or at least for rent.

In a Truth Social post this week, TFG signaled to the public that reality has set in at Mar a Lago.  Not only is there now a special prosecutor hot on his trail, his announcement a few weeks ago that he’s running for president again went over like a fart in church.  These facts emphasize that not only is his ability to take back the White House is in serious jeopardy, his chances of even being nominated are greatly diminished.  Only his rabid supporters are still behind him, and Republicans in Congress are desperately trying to help him get elected to extract pardons for themselves for their participation in the insurrection before and after January 6th.  All of this is as obvious as pink ballet slippers on a bull rider.

At this point, TFG’s only chance of avoiding criminal prosecution for any number of crimes is to actually be the occupant of the Oval Office.  Since the chance of him winning in 2024 are very slim to nada, reality has set in; this is why he’s gone full Daniel Ortega, calling for “…the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” repeating his lies about non-existent massive fraud in 2020.  Knowing that he can’t win in 2024, he’s doubled down on negating the lawful outcome of Biden’s win and calling for  “installing” himself as president by suspending the Constitution and all federal election law.  Left with little else, he’s Fat Elvis, playing his hits from 2020 for his decrepit fan base trying to stay relevant and keeping the spotlight on himself.  He’s even taken an assist from Elon Musk who is leading the field for first prize in Worst Investment of 2022 after his purchase, and subsequent trashing, of Twitter.  Musk has threatened the release of the “Twitter Files” which reveal supposed “free speech suppression” by former management by refusing to allow conspiracy theories about “Hunter’s laptop” during the 2020 election on the platform.  Hard to tell what Musk is trying to do besides setting a world record for destroying $44 billion of wealth in the shortest amount of time.

TFGland is in full frenzy about now with every resident frantically trying to stay out of jail.  Like all other radical movements, this one will soon collapse.  The sooner the better.

We have some pretty crappy scandals in this country.  Hunter Biden has a laptop – a laptop he’d rather not share with the world. Oh my.  Hillary Clinton had – shocker! – email. Can you even imagine a grown woman with email? Donald Trump wanted to grab women by the papaya. Honey, you could smell perversion on that man in the next zip code. Admit it, when you saw that guy, you put your fruit under lock and key.

Nobody understands financial crimes and scandals because we’ve never had enough money to criminalize it. Shoplifting and hot checks is about all that’s left.  Louie Gohmert has probably come close to that, but he’s not in office anymore and that takes all the fun out of it.

Hell, you can have dinner with a damn Nazi and it appears to be the fault of southern hospitality and good manners.

Nah … America needs a fun scandal – a scandal we can understand and enjoy.

Like South Africa.

They say it appears to be about $500,000 but that he could have stolen up to $3 million.  And put it in his sofa like a damnfool.

Now, that right there is a scandal we can all enjoy.