This morning, Jennifer Rubin wrote the five dumbest reasons Republicans give for supporting Trump.

Do you want to know the hardest part of writing that?  Narrowing it down to five.

It boils down to law and order, pandemic over, great economy, Joe is a socialist, and “life.”  All five of those make me gag. Trump stood on the White House lawn, breaking the law, hollering that he’s law and order.

The pandemic is worse than ever, what economy?, Joe is hardly even a Democrat, and life means only fetuses.

There is no convincing the other side. None. So stop it.  Don’t even try.

There’s an interesting and very nerdy article in Salon this week about political moneyball. If you didn’t see the movie Moneyball, you need to. Baseball is a lot like politics. The theory is that you should put your money not on big races where your $25 won’t really matter but on races that can change the perimeters of the political spectrum.

For three election cycles, I have begged for your money to help flip Fort Bend County, the largest suburban county in Texas. Once we flip Fort Bend, we can flip Texas, I argued. And once we flip Texas, there will never be another Republican in the White House.  Hillary carried Fort Bend in 2016 and in 2018, every Democrat on the ballot won.  With your help, we did it.

So, now we need to head to Dallas.  The Salon Moneyball article argues just that.  If you click right here and look at the candidate list on the top right, those are the ones you need to be betting on.  You can run a Google search on the candidate you like best to find out where to send them $10.  And then watch election night to see if you won your bet.

President Trump posted 89 (!) tweets or retweets between midnight and 8:04 am DC time this morning.

“If the election is about the pandemic, he’s going to lose. If the election is about who is better equipped to handle urban riots, you’ve got to like Trump’s chances.”

Okay, this is a silly thing but it matters to Donald Trump.

Trump’s speech at the White House scored a rating of 14.1 across six different networks: NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.

In contrast, Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s speech at last weeks Democratic National Convention scored a rating of 17.5 across those six networks.

Trump contends all his supporters live streamed it online.  Yep, all those high school graduate and old people are very technologically savvy.

I didn’t watch Trump. I think private parties behind high walls with gates are something kids do when their parents leave town.

He built a wall, okay.

That was a sweaty Fidel Castro at a Covid Convention.

Well, turn down your sound if Momma’s in the room, but damn, Hank tells the truth.

https://twitter.com/Hank4Texas/status/1298300395647885312

Northeast of Houston is the entrance to East Texas, called Montgomery County.

The people there don’t have much to do.  And this is obvious because ….

The statue: Michelangelo’s David

The Resident:  Dianna Whitt, who also calls herself “a concerned citizen.”

The accusations came from area residents who say the artwork is pornographic and exploitive to women, children and animals. The same residents also happen to be associated with a group currently attempting to ban two books from libraries in Montgomery County. Likewise, the residents are calling for more art to be removed from the restaurant, as well as the shopping center.

The group is affiliated with the Republican Leadership Council and finding things you shouldn’t look at appears to be their mission.

They also want the Italian restaurant to take down two pictures – one in the men’s restroom of a little boy peeing on a wall and another of some famous Italian woman painted by some important Italian guy and she has her ta-tas showing.

Good Lord people, they are just winkies and ta-tas.  Everybody’s got one or the other, you know, except for y’all.  Winkies or tatas won’t breathe on you and give you a deadly virus nor will they lock little children in cages or give tax cuts to billionaires.

David.  Seriously. You’re gonna get mad because Davis left his pants at home? You know who he killed? Goliath, that’s who.  If you don’t have to wear a mask, David does not have to wear pants.  That’s what I’m saying and don’t try to stop me.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.