Written by Nick Caraway — 

“I wish I had the presence of mind to write these things down, but I saw Pete Hegseth at CPAC claim to know what most of us average folks talk about when we go to the local diner. Apparently, we don’t talk about equal rights or any mumbo jumbo like that. Apparently, we are talking about three things: standing for the anthem, the tenth amendment, and of course the Bible.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m getting sick and tired of people presume they can speak for me and what I’m talking about when I’m meeting with friends. Maybe I’m not an average guy. Maybe the good folks that come around here are not average folks. That’s probably one of the best dodges for folks like Hegseth. How we define average is a floating standard that changes to meet our rhetorical needs.

My personal favorite was the tenth amendment. I’m calling shenanigans on that one. I’d imagine less than 20 percent of his “average people” couldn’t even quote the second amendment to you much less than tenth. Even if they could look it up on the Google machine it would likely take them an hour to figure out what it meant.

To put forth the idea that anyone is discussing politics with friends is far-fetched but we certainly aren’t discussing false flag issues like that. I don’t know many constitutional scholars and I’m a former Government teacher. I’m not sure how often the anthem or the Bible come up in casual conversation either.

I’ll make a deal with Mr. Hegseth, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Patrick. I won’t speak for you and you don’t speak for me. I certainly don’t know if I’m average or not and I don’t want any jackass in Austin or Washington telling anyone else what I’m willing or not willing to sacrifice. I can make up my own mind on that. One more thing: I’d suggest some new dinner conversation topics before all of your friends bail on you in the diner.”

Nick

We promised people a $15 minimum wage.

A $15 minimum wage comes close to providing a living wage for someone who works 40 hours a week.  They also deserve sick days, health insurance, paid vacation, and a retirement plan, but we’ll get to that later.

Right now, we owe them a $15 an hour minimum wage.

I do not want to hear that we can’t do it because we can. What I hear is that we won’t do it.

That is wrong. We need to be as good as our word. More importantly, we need to be good for America and for Americans.

I am disappointed in my party.  If Mitt Romney has courage to say that about his party, I need to gut up and say it about mine.

One more thing. Friday was kinda a special day for Bubba and me so we went out the eat for the first time in more than a year.  It’s a family owned restaurant with great enchiladas and a big patio.  We went at an off hour so the place was almost empty. We always tip 20% because we’re Democrats and we gotta walk the walk.  Our waitress was attentive and very careful serving us so we tipped a little extra. As we were getting into our car, she opened the door of the restaurant and waved at us saying, “Thank you.”

I’m sure she works on tips – life has gotta be kinda bleak for her.  So, tip a little extra.

Okay, so Hyatt Hotels issued a statement saying that symbols of hate are “abhorrent.”

That’s really nice of them for saying that as they stand in their hotel’s ballroom looking at a giant rune used by the Nazis and CPAC. Ya know, tsk-tsking at Nazi symbols while stuffing money into your pockets really doesn’t count more than about a 2 on the 100 point sincerity scale.

The ceiling of the conference room featured a lighting display in the same shape as the stage, according to Reuters photographs.

Remember how it was March 4th that Trump was to become president, according to all-knowing Q?

Well, that has changed.  Now it’s March 20th. I don’t really understand why except it just is.  One excuse is that Trump is president now and that Biden is just a ruse. Trump is in charge of the military and they are still rounding up the liberals, pedophiles, and pope. I do not know why Trump was president for 4 years, visited the pope, seemed real happy about it, but didn’t arrest him.

But, I guess the pope looks grumpy because Trump could have been rattling the keys to the jailhouse in his pocket. I dunno.

You’d think people would be noisy about being rounded up.  You’d be wrong, I guess.

Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.

Oh, singing in the key of Q.

The GOP talent pool is shallow and it’s shrinking.

Last year, Louie Gohmert fled a lawsuit asking a federal judge to reconfigure a post-Reconstruction law in order to give then-vice president Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

The lawsuit won the trifecta of loser, loser, oh crap I’m a loser again. First it was tossed by a federal district court, then an appeals court stomped on it, and lastly, the Supreme Court declined to even consider it.

Now comes the payback time.  A Washington, DeeCee, lawyer has filed ethics complaints on the three lawyers who filed the complain on Gohmert.

The lawsuit sought to overturn the votes of certified presidential electors by a series of false statements of fact and ludicrous arguments of law. Among other errors of important facts, the complaint asserted that on December 14, 2020, when the electors met in each state, “the State of Arizona (and several others) have appointed two competing slates of electors.”  See Exhibit 1, Complaint ¶ 4.

In fact, no state certified competing slates of electors.

Frivolous and Dangerous.  That’s not only Gohmert’s lawsuit, that’s his head.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.