Trump stormed out of negotiations yesterday when Nancy Pelosi refused to cave to his stupid wall.  He’s starting to figure out that the advice he got from the White House Resident Nazi, Stephen Miller, to shut down the government was not any more smart than separating tender-aged children from their parents at the border.

The wall is idiotic and will never happen.  Think about it; even when Trump controlled the WH, House, and Senate he couldn’t get the wall funded.  Even the invertebrates in Congress refused to acquiesce to such folly, so Trump decided to turn to his mafia upbringing to extort what he wants.  First, it was the government shutdown.  Second it was threatening to declare a national emergency to get what he wants.  After Pelosi just sat there staring at him yesterday, Trump stormed out and went straight to twitter, announcing he was shutting down FEMA funding for California wildfire relief funding.  Never mind that he probably can’t do that, the tactic is clear.

Trump is running the US government like a crime family, not the open and free society that we are.  He sees himself as the absolute authority.  If he doesn’t get what he wants, he turns Full Mafia, threatening millions of innocent Americans with cruelty never before seen in a US president.  What he’s saying to Pelosi is, “Nice little state you have there; it would be a shame if something bad happened to it.”  That is the only explanation of Trump’s bizarre behavior that makes sense.  Watching this train wreck reminded me of Sean Connery’s explanation to Kevin Costner about “the Chicago way” in the Untouchables.

https://youtu.be/xFWfOBfTQLg?t=60

Trump’s problem is that he’s so goddam stupid he doesn’t understand that Mafia tactics only work in the dark.  In the light of day it is completely ineffective.  If he thinks that Pelosi will clutch her pearls and suddenly cave in to his threats in fear of his retribution against her constituents, he’s dumber than he looks, and that’s pretty goddam dumb.

Trump’s Mafia tactics will simply not work with the sole exception of seriously damaging millions of Americans and the Constitution that he swore to protect and defend (before the largest inauguration audience in history) on January 20, 2017.  This episode won’t end well for anyone.

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PERHAPS a bit much?  Ahhhhh … not for Ted.

I think he looks like a guy who’s lost at the bus station and left his luggage over at Terrible Terry’s Pizza and Cheap Wine Cafe.

Here ya go …

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, goofiest guy in Texas, spent the opening day of the legislative session with Donald Trump.  He was “helping” Trump with his speech.

In all honesty, it looks more like Trump was helping him.

Patrick was the champion of the bathroom bill during the last legislative session.  (In Texas, we only let the legislature meet for 90 days every 2 years. We kinda regret not making it two days every 90 years.)  The bathroom bill would have regulated the use of certain public facilities for transgender Texans.  Patrick has thrown tirades over the bathroom bills for the past two legislative sessions and was defeated both times.

So you spent a day with Donald Trump and what did you learn?

When you lose, declare victory and strut, that’s what you learn.

Patrick now says he will not introduce the bathroom bill this session.  Wanna know why?“When you win the battle, you don’t have to fight the battle again,” Patrick said, sitting beside Gov. Greg Abbott and recently elected Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton. “I think it’s been settled, and I think we’ve won.”

No, you lost.  I do not care how you spin it, you lost. Defeated. Humiliated. Trounced. Conquered.

And now that Democrats have more votes in the Lege, there’s no way you can win this time.

One day. He spent one day with Trump. I swear, it’s contagious.

Just a couple of minutes ago on Twitter …

As someone who lives on the Texas Gulf Coast, I hardly know what to say. We flood. So you say we better learn to swim? Well, Darlin’, we have all the oil refineries so I hope you enjoy freezing in the dark.

Also, I don’t think Trump, of all the damn people in America, has room to tell anybody to get their act together.

Your thoughts on Trump’s speech?

Please feel us what drinking games you’re playing.

Oh y’all, somebody check Lindsey Graham’s ears. I think Trump is sucking his brain out. Or, at least let’s pinpoint the exact time Lindsey became Trump’s girlfriend so we’ll know what he’s being extorted about.

Democrats have offered Trump some good deals on the wall, better deals than I would ever have offered. Trump won’t budge except for one thing – he doesn’t call it a wall anymore.  He calls it a fence, and will continue to call it a fence until he gets his money. Then it becomes a wall again.

So now, thanks to Lindsey, the wall lovers have a new demand. You know, all demands do is make it look more and more like we are being held hostage by bank robbers. Lindsey Graham says that talks to end the government shutdown will ceased until …

“We’ll have offers on the table when we find somebody that’s not crazy to deal with. We’re not going to put any offers on the table as long as people in charge of these negotiations accuse all of us who want a wall of being a racist.”

But Lindsey, you are.

You cannot stand beside Trump’s wall and say you’re not a racist. You just can’t. That’s ridiculous.

Honey, if you don’t want people to say you are a racist, stop being a racist.

Problem solved.