After Cheeto Jesus’ inauguration, he announced with great fanfare two councils of CEOs all designed to Make America Great Again, whatever that means.  The two councils, the Manufacturing Council and the Strategy & Policy Forum, were supposedly organized to help shape policy to increase business and generate jobs for American workers.  In reality, though, they were simply figurehead in nature, designed to reward CEOs for supporting Trump.  In fact, to my knowledge the councils never actually met outside of the initial photo ops, and were just used to raise the profiles of its members.

All that puffery came crashing down the last few days after Trump’s catastrophic response to the violence in Charlottesville, defending neo-Nazis and racist white supremacists and attacking the media for simply asking questions.  In the face of this disaster, CEOs began bailing from the Manufacturing Council. Today, the Strategy & Policy Forum met in a conference call, and in the face of a crowd of CEOs ready to resign, they disbanded.  Later, through Twitler, Trump also disbanded the Manufacturing Council.  I guess he decided that the defections were simply too glaring to gloss over.

This development is not insignificant.  Think about it – Trump rode to the WH on the backs of bigots and the ignorant; but worse, he also rode on the shoulders of business executives who were so self interested in stuffing their wallets even more full that they allowed themselves to be used to elect a depraved carnival barker.  These very same executives are now fleeing like rats off a sinking ship.

I want to say something.  As someone who is eligible for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution …

… please tell the Daughters of the Confederacy that they can kiss my butt.

Bitches, don’t talk to me about patriotism.

So then I see that Jeff Sessions wants to know about me and you being in the Resistance.  He wants to intimidate us into following blindly after Trump.

Sessions, come on over here, you little sawed off, quivering, lily livered, pathetic excuse for a man and I will tell you a great deal about what I am doing.

Look.  Here’s the deal:  if we are knocking down confederate monuments, why is Jeff Sessions still standing?  That’s all the man is – a Confederate monument.

(I told y’all I need some rest.  Oh dear Lord, I’m having a fit.)

Y’all, the past few day have been one hell of a year.

I am exhausted.

I have Trump fatigue.  He is unhinged, and not even a United State General can fix that.

I’ll post some toons and any breaking news, but I need a few days and a couple of baseball games to get my feet back under myself.  My happiness is on backorder.

For those helping with The Virtual Race Across Texas to help raise money for the Democratic ballot by mail program in Texas, I have good news.  We Won!

Good Afternoon Mr. Maxey,

Thank you for your participation in TSHA’s Virtual Race Across Texas. We appreciate your tremendous efforts in sharing the game with your friends on Facebook and promoting Texas history along the way. Additionally, we wanted to thank you for your membership with TSHA.

We are also happy to announce that you were the Top Scorer and Top Recruiter for the first week of the game! As such, you have won the San Antonio Prize Package and the YETI Cooler Prize package.

Additionally, you were selected as a Top 8 Texas Expert for week one and will be awarded a Virtual Race Across Texas T-Shirt.

Please note that you may only be selected as a Weekly Top Scorer, Top Recruiter, and Top 8 Texas Expert once during the race period. You are still eligible to win the Grand Prize and a Top 10 Player Prize, so be sure to keep playing!

So, thank you, thank you, thank you, but don’t quit, guys!  This very cool stuff will be auctioned off and I figure we’ll raise at least $1,500 for it, maybe $2,000.  The grand prize will be another $1,500 or more, so keep answering those questions!

Thank you again for your help, guys.  Glen and I both really appreciate it.

Breaking from Australia – In newly released documents from Australia, the New South Wales police board recommended against a bid by a Trump partnership to build a casino in Sydney due to his mafia connections.  The documents, made public today, quoted the police board as saying a casino owned and run by the Trump partnership would “be dangerous”.

One more drip in a thousand drips becoming a tsunami.

A graphic published by the Southern Poverty Law Center is telling – it documents when Confederate monuments were built around the country.  Interestingly, there are two spikes in the placement of monuments; the Jim Crow era and the civil rights era.  Confederate named schools were especially popular during the time of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.  One can draw only one conclusion here – these monuments were erected to “honor our heritage”, they were erected in a fleeting attempt to hang on to a by gone era where whites held dominion over African Americans.  Have a look (click the little one to get the big one):