Donald Trump Jr has been dragging his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, around to make stump speeches. Three times now she has said that if we don’t do something about immigration “America is going to look like that bar scene in Star Wars.”

First off, that is grotesque Nazi propaganda and literally dehumanizes immigrants.  Anyone who says such a thing should be condemned for saying it.

Second, though — The cantina is awesome! Why wouldn’t you want that?  It looks like a perfectly cool place to go. I’d go. Han Solo is there.

I’d welcome that – along with taco trucks on every corner and a triple meat liberal Whataburger.

By the way, imagine how beat-up you’d have to be to go to a rally with Donald, Jr. and his girlfriend for political guidance.

Career liar and all-round dirtbag James O’Keefe is at it again.  His ironically named company Project Veritas, which has actually nothing to do with Veritas (truth), released another of his highly edited and misleading undercover videos, this time accusing staffers working for Beto O’Rourke using campaign fund to buy…wait for it…diapers and baby food for a legal charity in El Paso to help immigrants stuck there.  In his normal hyperbolic style, O’Keefe ominously narrates the highly edited video to mislead people into believing that something illegal was going on, which, of course, was a lie.  O’Keefe is well known for blatant lying and law-breaking while trying to trap people into compromising situations to make them look bad.  The tactic works only with people who agree with him, and sometimes, like in the case of the community service organization, ACORN, the lies work.  The vast majority of the time, though, his fiction draws laughter and derision.

This video is one of his silliest, where O’Keefe accuses Beto’s staffers of illegally helping charities who help immigrant refugees.  There is certainly nothing wrong with their activities, and certainly not illegal.  Predictably, right wingers went nuts crying foul and demanding an investigation.  Cruz is being all sniffy on Twitter about it, lapped up by his sycophants.  More fun to whip up outrage over a fake issue rather than defend his own record.

This kind of dishonest “reporting” in which O’Keefe engages is a cancer.  Funded by big right wingers allows that cancer to metastasize, widening the gap between truth and manure.  O’Keefe is over his eyeballs in manure, and his work shows it.

So, Karl Rove (shudder) took himself to Twitter to denounce Steve King.

Yeah, I have proof.

That right there makes Karl Rove like the ugly dude who stands next to an even uglier dude to make himself look better, but for genocidal ideologies.

He’s gonna draw the line at Steve King.  Honey, my line is about 120 north of Carl Rove.

Now while you’re thinking about this, please remember that Ted Cruz called Steve King to sympathize with him.  That right there makes Karl Rove a better human being than Ted Cruz.

Nigerian army used Donald Trump’s words as an excuse to murder rock throwing protesters in Senegal.  Dear God.

This is not directly about politics, but in the end really is.  A couple of days ago, it was reported that notorious mobster, James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead in his cell.  OK, he was 89 years old and in poor health; another dirtbag dies in jail.  That happens all the time, but this one is different – he was murdered in his cell.  OK, that happens all the time, too, right?  It’s still different. Bulger, who was wheelchair bound, was viciously beaten to death with a padlock stuffed into a sock to make a sort of medieval mace.  That’s not all, though – his eyes had been gouged out and at least part of his tongue cut out.  Jesus.

Bulger was an infamous member of the Irish Mob in Boston who was famous for his cruelty and cold blooded murder.  He was also an active informant to federal law enforcement during his life of violent crime.  He was finally jailed in 2011 for life when caught after 16 years of hiding in plain sight.  Since being imprisoned for two consecutive life terms he’s been a pain in the ass for prison officials and disciplined multiple times.  Bad guy, right? But here is where it gets weird.  Bulger was suddenly moved this week to the maximum security federal prison called Hazelton in West Virginia.  Within 24 hours, he was beaten to death and mutilated in his cell. The cell was in the general population of the prison.  The prime suspect is a guy named Fotios “Freddy” Geas, a Greek hitman for the Italian mafia in Massachusetts who is serving a life term for murder.

So here’s the point – and it’s not that a really bad guy was brutally murdered by another really bad guy both serving life in a maximum security prison.  They’re both vicious murderers.  The point is that this is no coincidence.  Some official in the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the US Department of Justice authorized this move.  This official moved Bulger to a prison where he was most certainly in deadly danger, and danger became reality in less than 24 hours after the move.  Some employee of the federal government signed Bulger’s death warrant, and THAT is the point.

We are in a time of great uncertainly and instability.  The federal government, led by a morally bankrupt individual, is fragile.  This brutal murder in a federal prison by an inmate supervised by the federal government was sanctioned by an official of the federal government.  Our Constitution commands equal protection under the law.  Those Constitutional rights extend to EVERYONE in our country.  EVERYONE, even vicious criminals in our prisons.  The Department of Justice has a legal obligation to protect everyone under its jurisdiction, especially those in prison.  This murder exposes the rot within the DOJ.  If a federal official authorizes a move that would result in the certain death of one under their care, is the next step disappearing people who politically disagree with the government?  What about those arrested for protesting in Congress or at the Supreme Court?  Bringing the full force of the federal government to take the life of a prisoner demonstrates a shocking corruption that must be removed.  Corruption is corruption no matter where it lay, especially in the federal government.  This corruption must be exposed and eliminated.