Someone sent me this very enlightening tweet from yesterday.

The death toll is at 18 at the hurricane site.  I have a friend who lives in Panama City, and this is what she did yesterday.

She is so glad that Donald Trump had a nice day. She’s sure he needed the rest from … you, know all that golfing he did last weekend.

Thank you Alice for the heads up.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen sent us this little diddy that no one else seems to have picked up on.

Pistol Pete Session is in trouble entering early voting with a strong showing by his opponent,  35 year old Colin Allred. Allred was born and raised in Dallas. He is also a former NFL football player who left football to go to law school.  Now he’s running for congress.

The race will be a close one because Allred is very popular, has a strong academic background, and makes outstanding speeches. Y’all keep your fingers crossed for him.

Anyway, back to Pete Sessions. Because he’s for sale, he enters early voting with a couple million on hand.

Alfredo found this oddity.

Now, what this shows is that the Dallas Police Department provided security for a kickoff for Sessions.

As Alfredo asks, “Sessions personally paid the DPD for security?  Hmmm, I wonder which DPD employee got that check?”

It does look odd. You’d think he’d want to avoid the appearance of impropriety. But not Ole Pistol Pete.

You can skip on over there to see what else he spent money for.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

I have one other thing to add to El Jefe’s thoughts on the lack of irony by Republicans.

By the way, I thought Kamala Harris laid the framework for a later perjury charge in a precision fashion while Nasty Kavanaugh didn’t even realize what she was doing.  Some Democrats I know think she’s too brittle to run for president.  I disagree completely, she is sly and I love sly women.

Bret Stephens, a loudmouth Neo-Con who regularly pollutes the opinion pages of the New York Times and right wing media, gave the Dems some very important advice Friday with the ominous warning, “Democrats are Blowing it, Again”.  Stephens, known as a vehement climate denier, Kavanaugh defender, torture supporter, and Trump apologist, believes he has the answer to all of the Dems woes, and that is, don’t be so mean.  Using the odd metaphor of becoming unattractive by piercing your tongue, Stepehens goes through a long litany of offenses the Dems have committed in his view:

1. Hillary said you can’t be civil with someone trying to destroy everything you stand for.
2. House Rep. Jerry Nadler dared to say that he would start an investigation of Kavanaugh and the whitewashed FBI “investigation” should the Dems take control of the House.
3. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris really blew it when the spoke out against the Kavanaugh nomination with “histrionics” and turning the hearings into “audition tapes” for the presidential bids.
4. Chuck Schumer chose to turn the Kavanaugh catastrophe into a campaign issue.
5. The New Yorker really blew it by publishing Deborah Ramirez’s account of Kavanaugh’s sexual assault.  Never mind that the FBI refused to follow up on that account and that of dozens of others who tried to testify to the veracity of her account.
6. Dems denounced Susan Collins, calling her a “gender traitor” in a a NYT op-ed.  Shame on the NYT, his employer.

Now here’s a guy who thought invading Iraq was a great idea, discrimination against Muslims is just dandy, and that Israel should strike against the Palestinians.  I know he has a depth of wisdom about all things Democratic (that’s sarcasm, folks), but perhaps his time would be better spent reviewing the truckloads of bullshit that he’s been peddling for years.  I know the NYT has him as a columnist for “balance”, but Jesus – there’s no one else?

I remember, back in the Old Timey Days (2016) when Dems were latté sipping, limp-wristed pantywaists who couldn’t be trusted with national security.  Now they’re an angry mob wanting to destroy America.  Two weeks ago, Americans, lead by victims of sexual assault stood up and said no to Republicans’ attempt to put a clearly unqualified nominees on the Supreme Court.  They were shocked when that pissed off millions of people.  Their response?  Vote for that nominee anyway, then get all sniffy about being called out for it.

So, to be clear: Republicans say that they should be able to bend or break any rule, ram through votes without investigations or protections for the minority, and should be able to pass any law to suppress those not in power.  Period.  They do that because the Dems are feckless sissies deserving of derision.  However, if said sissies dare stand up and say “Wait a Minute,” or try to stop the Repubs, they are then magically transformed into an “angry mob”.

For the record, here’s what the Kavanaugh protests looked like:

And here’s what an actual angry mob looks like:

Hey, GOP, y’all need to make up your minds.  Oh, and go buy a mirror, hang it on the wall, and look into it.  There you will see your angry mob.

Get this, Melania Trump says that she is the most bullied person in the world.  She later changed it to “one of the most” because she knew she’d get in trouble for saying she was more bullied than her husband.

First of all, I am getting sick of rich white “victims.” Bless your rich white heart, you poor little underprivileged snots.

And second, what kind of irony deficiency does it take to wear a colonial pith helmet in Africa while you’re complaining about being bullied?

Speaking of which, you gotta wonder who is dressing her when she shows up dressed exactly like Belloq, the Nazi collaborator from the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I think her wardrobe for Africa was picked by some really pissed off proud gay man.  And I think he did great.

And yeah, I saw Kayne West with Trump. Next time, I hope they have a translation running at the bottom of the screen so I’d know what the hell he was talking about.