UPDATE: Fox News has released the audio of the assault.

File in the You Just Can’t Make This Up Department

On the eve of a special election in Montana to fill the congressional seat vacated by newly installed secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke, GOP candidate and wannabe WWF champion Greg Gianforte body slammed a Guardian reporter.  That’s not really news, of course, since many Republicans are known the be knuckledragging, ignorant thugs.  The NEWS here is that there was a Fox News crew present, and they actually corroborated the story resulting in assault charges against Gianforte.

The whole scene occurred at Gianforte’s Bozeman campaign office and Fox was there to interview him for a segment on Bret Baier’s show scheduled for Thursday. While setting up, Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the Guardian, walked in and started asking Gianforte about his view on the GOP bill that strips health insurance from 23 million Americans.  Gianforte refused to answer, and when Jacobs persisted, he grabbed the reporter by the neck and body slammed him, got on top of him and started pummeling him yelling “I’m sick and tired of this!”

Apparently, the incident was so egregious that the local sheriff, who is a Gianforte supporter, had to enforce the law and charged him with assault.  Now, I have no illusions that this criminal won’t still be supported by GOP voters.  Being immune to facts, they’ll vote for Gianforte, anyway, and he’ll likely be sworn in from a jail cell.

Oh my God, Republicans are now body-slamming reporters?

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

I’m moving to Corpus Christi and running for congress, dammit.

Republican congressman Blake Farenthold often gets talked about at the beauty salon.  That’s because he is a gluttonous, gap-toothed, knuckle dragging, ducky pajama wearing, idiot man who is as worthless as a four card flush.

All over the news is a story about Sean Hannity ranting for weeks about the young man killed in Washington, DC being the source of the DNC leaks.  It is fake news, has been proven to be fake news, and the murder victim’s parents and brother have begged Hannity to stop it.  Fox News and Hannity have backed off the story and one particularly insane story about it has been removed from the Fox News website.

Everyone thought this conspiracy theory went the same way as the story that Hillary Clinton ran a child pornography ring in the basement of a Washington, DC pizza joint that doesn’t even have a basement.

But, no, some damn fool told Blake about it.

And Blake says we need to investigate it because “it’s on the internet.”

Out loud.  He said that crap out loud.  Hellfire, there’s even a video of it on CNN.  Click right here and watch it yourownself.  Or here it is right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBB-9XYSGn0

You wanna know what else is circulating on the internet, Blake? That you are a really, really bad human being.  And stoopid. Real damn stoopid.  Dumber than dog dump stoopid.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Oh holy crap.

Ivanka looks like Bride of Satan and Melania bought everything she could find at the Italian Widow Boutique.

The expression on The Pope’s face is priceless.  This picture alone is worth the price of the trip.

Thanks to Ibis for the heads up.

Donald Trump has found a new hero.  Rodrigo Duterte, who is “president” of the Philippines got a phone call from Trump last April that went like this …

“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I wanted to tell you that.”

That would be kinda nice except for the fact that Duterte believes in shoot drug dealers and addicts from the backs of motorcycles, and has made news around the world about it.  He’s even claimed to have personally killed a few himself to show how it’s done.

“Hitler massacred three million Jews [sic], now, there’s three million drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them,” he said in September. Last month, he told a group of jobless Filipinos that they should “kill all the drug addicts.” Police have killed over 7,000 people, devastated poor areas of Manila and other cities, and used the drug war as a pretext to murder government officials and community leaders.

You don’t like your boss at work – report him as a drug addict.  Don’t like what reporters are writing about you – they’re all drug addicts.

Now that’s an idea Trump would love.

Thanks to Greg for the heads up.

UPDATED!  Well, I just learned that he told Duterte military secrets in the same damn conversation.

U.S. President Donald Trump told his Philippine counterpart that Washington has sent two nuclear submarines to waters off the Korean peninsula, the New York Times said, comments likely to raise questions about his handling of sensitive information.

Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Washington had “a lot of firepower over there”, according to the New York Times, which quoted a transcript of an April 29 call between the two.

“We have two submarines — the best in the world. We have two nuclear submarines, not that we want to use them at all,” the newspaper quoted Trump as telling Duterte, based on the transcript.

Don’t tell him anything, y’all.  Just don’t.

Washington Post in non-breaking news (because we expected it).

This makes me so mad that I could jump start my car without any cables.  The cuts go to Medicare, medicare research, the National Science Foundation, the social safety net, and anything that’s gonna cure anything.

The National Cancer Institute would be hit with a $1 billion cut compared to its 2017 budget. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute would see a $575 million cut, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases would see a reduction of $838 million. The administration would cut the overall National Institutes of Health budget from $31.8 billion to $26 billion.

Oh damn, the Canadians are going to build a wall to keep us out.

Look, the rich already don’t pay their fair share of taxes because they hide their money in off-shore accounts.  They don’t need help.

“I’m not really concerned about how many billions billionaires have,” said Glenn Hubbard, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.

Holy crap, y’all, when even Republicans are concerned, there’s a big problem.