I have to admit, when I try to follow right wing logic my head hurts. The notorious MTG recently came on and tried to give all of us a lesson in global economics. I’m not following. Then again, I don’t have a degree in Economics. My degree was in Political Science with a minor in History. I did take some Economics classes, I took the certification exam in all of the Social Studies and made a 100 on the Economics portion of the test. I’ve taught high school Economics for a few years in my career. I like to think that I’m smarter than the average bear, but what in the heck do I know?

Greene: This comes down to consumers like a single mom who can't afford to buy cereal because the price of grain has gone up so much with this war in Ukraine.. and this is why we have to do everything we can to impeach Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/hnC0kr7xZD

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 11, 2023

So, let me get this straight, we are supporting the war in Ukraine and that somehow is raising the price of grain world wide. Let’s take this slowly and think through this like we were in elementary school. Russia attacked Ukraine. Ukraine is a sovereign nation, so they resisted this attack. They fought back. Are we good so far? Does anyone want to contest this before we move on? In the process of attacking Ukraine they managed to destroy a lot of the supply of grain in Ukraine. This is something countries do when they fight dirty. It makes it more likely that the attacked country will surrender if they are running low on supplies. Am I good so far?

So, essentially what MTG is arguing is that we shouldn’t support Ukraine. We should allow Russia to win. Maybe she could explain how this would help us with the cost of grain. She needs to game this out. She needs to explain this to us like we are five years old. I’m not that educated. I just have a masters degree, so I’m just spitballing here, but I assume she wants to support Russia. She knows most people don’t want to support Russia. She would be right on that account. So, if she came out and said that she wants to support Russia she would be roasted by everyone in the media. So, instead we are going to tell people that if we support Russia then cereal will be cheaper. Maybe that’s true. Maybe those supply chains would be rebuilt faster if Ukraine just surrendered. I’m guessing that’s not the case, but I reiterate that I’m not an expert on global economics.

What I do know is constitutional law. I know Congress controls the purse. I know they are the ones that decide how much money to give to Ukraine to help them against Russia. I’m struggling to see the connection between this and impeaching Joe Biden. Even if you were to say that Biden was solely responsible for the policy, you cannot impeach because you disagree on policy. You are free to make an argument against funding Ukraine. Again, I think most Americans support Ukraine in this conflict. So, instead we are going to say Biden should be impeached for um, well, er, ah, yeah, well you see, geez I’ll get back to you on that.

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Clarence Thomas lives like a damn rock star, and all he had to do to get it is sell out his damn country. Easy peasy.

Just now exposed, it appears that Thomas has become a jet setter because of his owners.

At least 38 destination vacations, including a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas; 26 private jet flights, plus an additional eight by helicopter; a dozen VIP passes to professional and college sporting events, typically perched in the skybox; two stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica; and one standing invitation to an uber-exclusive golf club overlooking the Atlantic coast.

Here’s the part you’re going love. In discussing this with legal ethics experts, one of them says, “In my career I don’t remember ever seeing this degree of largesse given to anybody,” said Jeremy Fogel, a former federal judge who served for years on the judicial committee that reviews judges’ financial disclosures. “I think it’s unprecedented.”

Largesse?  That’s the operative word here? Holy damn crap.

I wanna be honest with you, the ProPublica is long, long, long but it’s not wordy. It’s packed with descriptions of these gifts and fascinating stories of a world I didn’t know existed among billionaires.  You probably need to read it to understand just how sleazy this guy truly is.

Okay, there’s some things I just don’t understand.

My county fathers, and I do mean fathers because there is not one single female on the county’s governing body of 5 males, have decided that we need a place to seat 10,000 people in case some semi-popular band comes to town. Okay, let’s pretend we do.

So, in the heat, hurricanes, and flooding of southeast Texas they decide to build it out of glass.  On a damn rice field. Seriously. This used to be riceland.

Okay, once you get your breath back, look at what these Einsteins named it. Epicenter. Look it up.

The center part of something unpleasant.

“Taxpayers Happy Town” wouldn’t fit on the sign?

Okay, okay. I’ve got another one.

There’s a company that just got fined $1,000,000 by the Department of Justice in criminal and civil penalties for a manufactured bypass of measuring emissions standards of diesel trucks.

According to court documents, [this company] from its 2010 incorporation to April 2020 – manufactured and sold parts intended to be installed on motor vehicles, particularly diesel trucks, to enable “deleting” the trucks by removing or disabling the trucks’ emissions control systems. Various products, referred to as “delete devices” or “defeat devices,” are used in the process of “deleting” a vehicle.

And the name of the company? Sinister Mfg. Company, Inc.

No, I am not kidding.

Do they own a dictionary because I am damn sure the Department of Justice does.

Wouldn’t it have been smarter to put out a “Welcome DOJ” doormat?

I think some people are just begging for trouble.

Okay, so at Trump’s hearing the judge warned him strongly against witness tampering.

The magistrate judge handling former President Trump’s arraignment on charges related to trying to overturn the 2020 election warned him Thursday against bribing or influencing witnesses.

That was unusual because it doesn’t take a damn genius to have watched Law and Order a time or three and know you can’t go around threatening witnesses against you.

So what did Trump do? Do I even have to tell you?

I dunno, y’all, that just rubbed me all over the wrong way. Whoop-de-damn-do, Trump. Everybody knows you were talking to Mark Meadows or one of the six unnamed people in your indictment who might flip to save their own butts, but I really really triple really hope that Jack Smith thinks you’re talking to him. If so, this is gonna last about as long as a knife fight in a phone booth, and we’ll be able to bury you on all your golf courses.

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