Okay, so the Saudis are holding an economic conference.  Just about everybody, and I mean everybody, has withdrawn from the conference.

The Saudi conference, known as “Davos in the desert,” is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to transform the oil-dependent economy.

JP Morgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon and the heads of America’s top investment firms — Blackrock (BLK) and Blackstone — are among the leading figures who have decided to stay away. Top executives at Ford (F) and MasterCard (MA) have also pulled out, and Google (GOOGL) said Tuesday that the head of its cloud computing business wouldn’t participate in the event either.

And there’s a much longer list.

But others are going.  First name on the short list?

• US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

Do you wanna know my theory about why he’s going?  Because the United States is a sniveling weak little nation with bozos in charge.  That’s why.

How serious can we be about human rights if we are scared to withdraw from a silly little conference where somebody is liable to come home in pieces?

Mnunchin and his silly wife will go and kiss butt and remind everybody about the great management job he did at Sears.

And that he’s goofy.

So remember when Beto O’Rourke and Willie Nelson drew between 55,000 – 60,000 people to an outdoor venue a couple of weeks ago?  And then, true to his nature, Trump stands up and boasts that he’s going to give Ted a rally in the “the biggest stadium in Texas we can find.”

Trump forgot he was talking about Texas. They must not be very good hunters. Or, they must be little scary cats.

They have booked the rally at NRG Arena in Houston, which holds 8,000 people.  Hell, it’s even smaller than your average high school football stadium.  Honey, we have a high school football stadium in Odessa, Texas, that holds almost 18,000 people and you’ve never even heard of Odessa, Texas.

So, Trump revises and says it’s the largest venue they could find in Houston. I do not even believe that.  The rally is on a Monday night, it’s not even a weekend.  Second, why does it have to be in Houston?  Houston is a heavily Democratic city so they’re gonna have to bus-in people.

One other thing.  Richard Linkletter is directing some anti-Cruz commercials in Texas that are getting national attention.  Please meet Sonny Carl hitting hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYYqEgT9uI

And this one hit today.  Cruz called Beto a “triple meat Whataburger liberal.” It was bizarre from the start because Whataburger is a beloved institution in Texas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAvKZAPhOUU

I can’t wait to see the next one.

Y’all remember Kris Kobach, Trump’s buddy from Kansas who claims that Hillary swiped a couple million votes and then he got appointed by Trump to head up the official presidential committee on voter fraud and found – oh dear lord – no fraud, so he just quietly pulled up his tent and skateboarded back to Kansas?

He’s baaaack!

Parade organizers in a small Kansas town have decided they will not stop Kris Kobach, the Republican candidate for governor, mounting a replica machine gun on a jeep.

Yeah, they won’t let him have a tank, but a fake machine gun is almost the same thing and really damn cool if you’re 6 years old.

Kobach has never been in the military but he loves to play soldier.  Earlier this year, it was discovered that Kobach was on the Board of Directors of a Group called Veterans in Defense of Liberty.  It’s a charity.  This charity charitably donated 6% of it’s money raised to an actual charity.  Six whole percent!

Back to the parade.  In addition to the pretend machine gun …

The jeep is also decorated with US flag designs and has a bobblehead of Trump on its hood.

I’d almost pay money to see that.  It’d be worth it to laugh until snot comes out my nose and I pee my pants a little bit.

I am so lucky.

The bobblehead Trump is like a hood ornament.

Oh, oh, oh, little boys would love that!

Well, my goodness gracious, a United States Senator from Kentucky, David Perdue, was on the campus of Georgia Tech yesterday.  All bets are that he was either lost or drunk.  The scales are tipping toward drunk because he was there campaigning for Brian Kemp, who is running for Governor of Georgia.

Not only is Perdue not from Georgia, he was there to campaign for a man who is trying to disenfranchise black voters.

So, along comes a student to ask Perdue why he was campaigning for a man who was trying too ste ….

That’s as far as the student gets before Perdue grabs the student’s cell phone in a very aggressive manner and says, “We’re not going to do …” and then he mumbles something.  Now ask yourself what would happen if the student had grabbed a senator’s phone in a menacing manner.

There’s no equal justice under the law.  Let’s just quit pretending there is.

And, we can also quit pretending that Republicans aren’t scared of getting caught with this shenanigans.  They are shook to the core.

Headlines from The Hill today.

Sorry, but I passed the witch exam about 30 years ago and am now a fully licensed bitch.  By the way, Bitch stands for: Boys, I’m Taking Charge Here.

The upside to this event is that they targeting all rapists and there’s free axe grinding all day.

Here’s the true upside to this:

The event has earned attention from Trump supporters. Amy Kremer, the co-founder of Women for Trump, brought up the event during an interview on MSNBC on Sunday, calling it a “scary time” for Republicans.

Well, I imagine so. I suspect it’s like us being scared of nuclear annihilation when Trump’s in a bad mood one day.  Same deal, hexes from based on heathens and annihilation based on science.

Thanks to Tony for the heads up.

Someone sent me this very enlightening tweet from yesterday.

The death toll is at 18 at the hurricane site.  I have a friend who lives in Panama City, and this is what she did yesterday.

She is so glad that Donald Trump had a nice day. She’s sure he needed the rest from … you, know all that golfing he did last weekend.

Thank you Alice for the heads up.