There are stories that just keep getting better and better every time you add more layers. This has definitely been the case with the so-called Trump Cemeterygate. Thank goodness for the Watergate Hotel. Now, we can attach gate to every single so-called scandal. There are big scandals and stupid ones. This one falls somewhere near the later.

Everything started out innocently enough. It was a simple story about a man lacking empathy. These stories are not unique. We see them all the time when teenagers and young adults take selfies at Auschwitz with a big smile on their face. I had a moment when I was much younger at Pearl Harbor. I was whacked on the back of my head and told that you never ever do that. It was the last time I did.

Only a jackass would take a political photo op in this moment with a stupid thumb’s up sign. Yet, a jackass is what we have. This story wouldn’t be worth mentioning otherwise, but the jackassery doesn’t end there. Apparently, an Arlington Cemetery employee tried to prevent them from going into the restricted area and was pushed aside in the same kind of thuggish way that Trump pushed aside the leader of Montenegro.

Yet, it doesn’t end there. The story coming out of the Trump camp is not that they broke any rules or violated any policies about the restricted area. They did mention the incident but simply said that “an employee had an apparent mental health episode.” Sure. All of these pesky public servants expecting you to follow rules about a solemn space. Surely, they are deranged.

The cherry on top of this douchebag sundae came when vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance told a rally crowd that Kamala Harris could “go to hell” for her negative comments on the situation. Harris would certainly be well within her rights to comment on this, but she hasn’t. So, this leaves one very important question for one of the biggest jackasses of our time. Are you saying that she did say something when she clearly didn’t or are you suggesting she should go to hell for not defending your future boss’s right to flout the rules and act like a jackass?

I am choosing to think these two are the highest performing performance artists of our time. Borat has nothing on these assclowns. If your goal is to see who can be the biggest asshole then we have a tight race between both of the guys on top of the GOP ticket.

Anyone supporting these duchebags are either addled-brained or diving head first into nihilism. It doesn’t help when we get more performance art like this. For those that don’t want to go down the rabbit hole, it is a New York Times editorial saying that Trump should run on character. I don’t pay to get behind the NYT paywall. Please tell me this is a joke.

Maybe it is all a joke. Maybe we are all the butt of a huge extended psychology experiment to see just how long it would take for decent people to lose their ever-loving mind. The layers of stupidity in this story are just staggering. We are being punked. Ashton Kutcher is just around the corner laughing his ass off.

The national poster child against the cancer of gerrymandering is Louie Gohmert. Here in Texas we call him Screwy Louie, as he is famous for babbling streams of offensive insults and nonsense.  One of his most infamous blatherings came after the tragedy at Newtown when he wistfully mused what would have happened had the school principal kept an M4 (a semi-auto rifle) in her office.  He regularly spouts this kind of bullshit.

On Tuesday, Louie Gohmert opened his mouth and again Louie Gohmert came out.  In a hearing of the subcommittee on energy and mineral resources considering a bunch of bills that essentially undo much of the regulation around oil and gas development, Gohmert testified that the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon blowout really didn’t damage anything, that nature “does amazing things” and that on his personal trip to the Louisiana Gulf Coast he never found more than “a drop or two” of oil on the beach.  I would speculate that he never found any oil because you can’t see anything when you have your head up your ass as Gohmert often does.

The gulf blowout in 2010 was the worst offshore oil spill in history.  The well flowed  approximately 5 million barrels of oil and unmeasured billions of cubic feet of natural gas.  Much of that oil was never recovered.  Oh, and 11 men died in the blowout that caused the disaster.  Did some of the oil that came to the surface degrade naturally?  Of course, but it was a tiny amount.  What most people don’t understand is that oil that is spilled from a well in deep water reacts completely differently than oil spilled on the surface like happened during the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.  In deep water, the vast majority of oil never comes to the surface, becoming entrained in the deep water column for God knows how long, killing marine life and polluting the ocean floor.

Of course, you wouldn’t expect Screwy Louie to understand any of that, especially since he’s an expert in only one subject, namely being a jackass on national television.  Screwy Louis Gohmert, National Embarrassment of Texas.

Ol’ Deepfryer Sid has done it again – a rancher was concerned that the label on a new feral hog poison said that eating the meat of a poisoned hog could cause illness or death.  Sid’s solution to that?  Just take that warning off of the label.   Yes, unfortunately you read that right.

What a jackass.