We are having a special election in Texas for a State House seat vacated by a Republican who thought he might have problems winning again.  He was part of Texodus – Republican incumbents dropping like flies.

The special election is Tuesday, November 5th.  In Texas, a special election is a free for all – everybody runs and it’s winner take all. If nobody wins with 50% plus one, there will be a run-off between the top two vote getters.

Republicans are running six candidates. Six. In political science terms that’s officially referred to as a crap shoot. The sole Democratic candidate is Eliz Markowitz.  Yeah, yeah, it’s hard to believe that Democrats got our act together and fielded only one candidate so that the Democratic vote isn’t split six ways to hell and back.

I know Eliz personally and I am asking you to toss a few dollars her way.  She’s smart as the dickens and has all the right bright ideas. She’s hardworking and willing to do her part.  She’ll make you proud.

This is a flippable district and will give the winner a leg-up on the 2020 election.  Texas redistricting happens every ten years and 2020 is the year.  So, we have a real chance in this seat but she needs money now to get the vote out.  Send her some damn money.

Then email her with your best wishes and to let her know that you’re not some weirdo in Montana stalking her.  Eliz@Eliz4TX.com

Non-Trumpists know that Trump is a complete disaster, morally bankrupt, narcissistic, and a tyrant.  Sycophants ignore all that and worst of all, support his trade and economic policies which are a disaster for businesses large and small, especially farmers.  His trade war with the world, especially China, is destroying US markets at a scale virtually never seen in modern US history.  Farmers are feeling much of the pain inflicted on US business with their revenue from exports to China dropping by more than half, from $19.5 billion to $9.2 billion in 2018.  Farm bankruptcies have increased 13% since 2018 alone.  The US lobster industry has been virtually destroyed with Canada taking almost all of US Chinese export market share, generating a boom to its lobster fisherman.  US exports are down 84% since Trump imposed the tariffs.

Trump’s idiotic trade was is doing irreparable damage to US export markets all while he sycophants in red MAGA hats scream about scary dark skinned people and cheer on tax cuts for billionaires while being unable to pay their electric bill.  The brainwashing is complete, but it seems that farmers are waking up to a cold grey dawn of reality.

Cecil Roberts, the president of United Mine Workers of America, said that the coal industry is not “back,” despite President Trump’s claims, CNN reports.

Said Roberts: “Coal’s not back. Nobody saved the coal industry.”

He added that coal-fired plants are closing all over the country, calling it a “harsh reality.”

Yeah, also gone are stream locomotives, horse drawn carriages, telegraph machines, and iron lungs to treat polio.  Nobody saved them either.

Okay, I’m gonna take you to West Virginia today to see Christian in Action.  Honey, the devil is loose and on the prowl at the New Life Apostolic Church in Oak Hill, West Virginia.

I need to let you know that this happened on May 11th, but news is slow getting out of West Virginia because … well, probably because they operate under the 1955 regulatory information act or something.

So, here’s the deal.  A long-simmering intellectual disagreement ensued between the wife of the pastor and the wife of the youth pastor. Apparently the trigger was something about a tee-shirt that the youth minister’s wife was wearing.

Now, not that I want you to take sides in this argument, but this is minister Earl Toney and his wife Melinda. Melinda is the Annie Oakley of fundamentalist religion. I just want you to know her if you see her. So you can duck.

So, while this tee-shirt argument was going on and the husbands were trying to get the wife to call down, Melinda just had all she could take and went out to the car to get her pistol. I think what she had in mind was for the Youth Minister’s wife, Lori Haywood, to get to see Jesus first.

Earl decided to go see if he could go pray with his wife in the parking lot and get the damn gun away from her. So right there in front of God and Sweet Jesus, a physical altercation began between Earl and Melinda. There was an “accidental” gun shot.

The bullet didn’t hit anyone because the parking lot was empty. So, three of the Christians went home that day and Melinda was toted off to the jailhouse for reckless endangerment.

Thanks to Craig for the heads up.

Remember when the rumor was floated that Robert Mueller was going to be swept up in a sex scandal?  Remember when it went nowhere?  Remember when rumors floated about Pete Buttigieg that also died on the vine?  Meet Jacob Wohl, a young smartass from California, cut from the same cloth as James O’Keefe, another young smartass who’s become known for botched stings and false reporting on Democratic politicians.

If it’s even possible, Wohl is worse than O’Keefe (or at least more criminal).  He has partnered with a shadowy 53 year old political operative named Jack Burkman whose checkered past goes all the way back to the Clinton impeachment.  He claims that Don McGahn, Trump’s former WH counsel who spent 30 hours with Mueller, introduced Burkman to Wohl.  McGahn told the Washington Post he’s never met him OR Wohl.  Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s on staff advisor liar, warned the Post to watch out for Burkman.

Like all dirty tricksters, truth doesn’t matter to Wohl and Burkman, so they have been cooking up all kinds of fake scandals to attack Trump enemies, but they’ve all been botched, including doing a “press conference” on the fake Mueller scandal with Burkman’s fly unzipped.  LOL.

And it gets better – Wohl, who started his career as a securities salesman, has been trailed by financial scandals and investigations the last several years.  On Wednesday, he was arraigned on felony securities fraud for selling a fake real estate fund.  The charges stem from an investigation of the fund from 2016 leading to the charge this week.

The lesson keeps repeating itself.  Dirty tricksters like Wohl and O’Keefe base their entire existence on lies for political gain.  Those lies often land them in scandal at minimum, and sometimes criminal charges.  Amazing that many on the side that claims morals and family values have devolved into supporting lies and criminality in their tribe.  Worse, there are some who are neck deep in it.  It’s a head shaker.