Well, lookie here.  It’s election season and nobody wants to stand with Trump in Pittsburg.

Both House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were unable to make the trip due to scheduling conflicts, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) also decided not to attend.

I have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that Trump is going to do something insane in Pittsburg.  I think the congressional leaders feel it, too.

And so do these guys …

His visit to the city has been met with some backlash. A group of progressive Jewish leaders penned an open letter on Sunday telling the president he is not welcome until he denounces white nationalism.

More than 57,000 people have signed a petition from the group, the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, telling Trump he’s not welcome in the city.

It’ll be interesting.

Yes, indeed, it is Halloween and you do not have a costume as cool as this.

Please allow me to introduce Ruth Vader Ginsburg.

Thanks to Rob for the heads up.

Oh dear Lord, y’all.  Pete Olson is talking again.  This was recorded a week ago at a Meet the Congressman event.

I want you to see how a Democrat confronted Olson and never lost her cool.  I also want you to see how to leave a congressman speechless.

Keep in mind that his Democratic opponent was born in Louisiana, moved to Texas at age 2, was raised in this congressional district until age 18 when he left to attend the University of Texas.  His father was born in India and taught at Rice University.  His mother is a sixth generation Texan and related to Sam Houston.

It’s short.  Be amazed.

Sorry I am AWOL today.  I finished making call lists for some of our local candidates to call on rainy days between now and election day Tuesday.

I know you’ve heard about the voting machines in Texas being screwed up. I really don’t think there’s a grand conspiracy or anything.  Our machines are old and they expect voters to be slow.  We’ve all gotten a little speedier on the computer stuff and some people click next page when the whole page hasn’t downloaded yet. We just need to remind people that the last page is a final check of how you are voting.  If it’s wrong, it’s easy to fix.

Yes, I think Beto still has a chance to win.

I also think we’ll pick up several Texas House seats, which would be amazing.  I do not think we’ll take a majority in the Texas House, but we’ll take enough to slow this damn train down.

I hope to be back on the internet machine tomorrow.

Y’all, really?  I just don’t get it.

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Okay, all of us can list the vulgar and violent things that Trump has said.  He glorifies violence. We can all give specific examples of that.

I think we should ask Trump for one example where “fake news” has encouraged violence.  He claims he doesn’t watch the fake news yet he magically knows everything they say.

Politico has a story about Trump’s “Executive Time.”

President Donald Trump had about three times as much free time planned for last Tuesday as work time, according to his private schedule. The president was slated for more than nine hours of “Executive Time,” a euphemism for the unstructured time Trump spends tweeting, phoning friends and watching television. Official meetings, policy briefings and public appearances — typically the daily work of being president — consumed barely more than three hours of his day.

Spending time watching teevee, playing on the iPhone and jacking around talking to your friends is anything but executive time.

And, is it just me or do his random capitalizations show a deteriorating mind?

It’s exactly as we thought.  The letter bomber today is not only a mouth breathing, drooling Trumpist, he’s crazy as hell AND stupid as a bag of horse manure.  First he mailed letter bombs to people who don’t open their own mail.  Stupid.  Second, he misspelled the same words on multiple labels.  Stupid. Third, he had a van covered in anti-Democratic images and slogans, including death threats to Democratic officials and their families, and Nazi like images of Trump. Stupid. Fourth, he filled his social media accounts with poisonous bile threatening to kill everyone from Hillary to George Soros. Stupid. Fifth, and most important, the letter bombs he manufactured are covered in his DNA and fingerprints. Incredibly stupid. Since he already had a felony record and drove around in a rolling nutjob billboard, he was easily and quickly caught. Let’s be clear here – this guy is not only a terrorist, he’s a 24 karat gold dumbass.  Here’s a good pic of one side of the van.

As if you needed it, this goofball is the perfect example of why Donald Trump is so dangerous.  Trump has no limits, no judgement.  He is so obsessed with self that he uses idiocy like this guy displayed to his advantage.  And while he breeds this kind of terrorism, other more normal people, now called 401(k) Trumpists, look the other way because (at least up until this week), their retirement accounts have been going up. That weakens our democracy.

The reality here is that we got lucky this time because no one was injured and this guy was so incredibly stupid that he made bombs that didn’t work.  But thereare smarter people out there who are just as looney.  They are the ones who scare me.