Last night Trump announced that Corona Virus ”affects virtually nobody” except “elderly people.”

200,000 people are dead, not all of them elderly and therefore expendable, and 1,000 more a day are dying.  On the upside, Trump is already elderly so when he dies we can says that nobody died.

And can we please make the good guys at the CDC wear white hats and the political guys wear red hats?  When stuff is put online in the morning and then deleted in the evening, we need to know which side did which.

Maybe we could have something like a designated truth teller. Just one damn person in the Trump administration who tells the truth every damn time.

Senator Mitt Romney says he won't block vote on Trump's SCOTUS nominee https://t.co/cKobY4GJs6

— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) September 22, 2020

I used to think that all these Republicans just followed the vile and immoral Donald Trump because they were afraid of him.  They were scared of being the butt of a mean Tweet.  I used to think they were just cowards.

I had a talk last night with a really intuitive and smart person I know and I have decided I was wrong about that.

They are Trump.  Trump has given them permission to be who they are and then to hide behind their fear of him. They prefer to be seen as cowards than who they really are.

They truly like what they are doing.  They are enjoying themselves.

It is better to be seen as a coward than the rotting carcasses of men they are.

And now I’m going to get another cup of coffee.

Worse ad this year so far …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdBQnpOXVHo&feature=youtu.be

Police in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, got a call about suspicious activity, and upon arriving arriving at the location arrested 24 year old Justin Savoie.

Officers discovered marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the residence, as well as several guns and a homemade silencer inside Savoie’s truck, parked outside.

But the reason that Justin is getting his name in the newspaper wasn’t because of the weed or the guns found inside the house.  No, sireee.

During a strip each at the jail, hold your breath here now, “he was caught concealing a loaded pistol in his buttock.”

They didn’t say where in his buttocks and to be honest I don’t want to think about it too much for fear of shorting out my brain.  It was a .25 caliber pistol that’s 4.3 inches long and had a 2.5 inch barrel.  And oh dear God in heaven above, it was loaded.

The only reason I’m telling you this is that when you get depressed over how crazy and stupid our government is, please take comfort that in the deep south, there’s always going to be a guy who is crazier and dumber.

He was sentenced to 90 days in jail last Friday and a three year suspended sentence.

His greater punishment will be that he’s 24 years old and for the rest of his life he will be known as “Ole 25 Caliber Butthole.”

Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.

Dana Milbank wrote a piece this morning that I’m going to print out and keep for a while to reread.

You might want to, too.  It’s some fine writing.

Okay, I think taking the Senate is the way to go.

This morning, my ears started flapping and my head almost flew away reading Nate Cohn on the Texas Senate race.  He called MJ Hegar‘s race against John Cornyn as “flying under the radar.”  The thought that we could win a Texas Senate race or that anybody was even thinking about it is stunning.

I’m not a giant fan of Hegar’s.  I know she has failed to connect with black women and that’s a major mistake in a Texas general election. But, she’s what we got because the national party boys took her hand and led her to the top of the heap, and I hate when they do that.  To be honest, it wasn’t much of a heap.

Beto fell victim of rock star ego, thinking he could run for president instead of senate.  I will give him kudos for working 28 hours a day this election, helping other candidates and organizing an effective team to work with state representative candidates all over the state.  The Castro Brothers are sitting around waiting over there in the corner for someone to hand them an election.  They are both nice, smart guys, but there’s not even the scent of courage in their suitcases.

So here we are with a candidate for senate who doesn’t fire up anybody except the fellas who don’t live here and want to use Texas as an ATM machine.

And there’s a slim possibility she might win.

The Washington Post this morning talked about how the replacing a justice might give Trump a boost.  I don’t buy it.