Well, it looks like we’re on track to yet another Republican shut-down of our government. Lovely. When I write my opinion that I think a segment of the Republican party wants to simply destroy our nation, it’s things like this I’m thinking about. And, make no mistake. This is not a bi-partisan problem. This is pure Republican. Worse, it’s a handful of insane, far-wrong (they’re never right) Republicans who care about nothing so much as optics. But when the nation starts staggering under the weight, blame the Republicans. When American credit gets downgraded, yet again, because of yet another Republican shut-down, blame the Republicans. When you go into the voting booth, perhaps pregnant with your rapists baby, blame the Republicans.

Kevin McCarthy was nearly forced to perform obscene acts in public to get the job of Speaker of the House in the first place. Now he’s going to lose it because a small segment of his party doesn’t understand things. That’s just going to make things worse. The House is non-functioning with it’s weak, weak, pathetic, loser of a “leader.” How bad is it going to be with no leader at all?

Here’s one way you can know, and I mean be absolutely certain, that shutting down the government is a stupid and dangerous idea: 45 really, really wants them to do it. He wants it bad. He thinks it’s a great opportunity to try to de-fund his criminal trials. (Sounds like justice to me. Can’t prove your innocence in court? Attack the process. Perfect.)

Can you imagine hating your country so much you would rather destroy it than (Oh! Em! Gee!) compromise? Horror of horrors! But this small band of Republicans are doing exactly that. The entire country gets to suffer while they have their little temper tantrum. But what’s their end game? They’re not going to win. Even if they force concessions in the House, somehow, the Senate is going to kill whatever stupid, far-wrong idea they’re endorsing now. If they can’t get what they want, what are they holding out for? They’re going to hurt Americans across the land just to try to make some, stupid political point.

I’ll tell you this: we all know who’s doing these things, Republicans. When you go into a voting booth, a vote for Republicans is a vote against America. At this point? There can be no question.

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Okay, so… at what point does “gifts from friends” become a criminal act? Let’s say you’re a Supreme Court Justice and your “friends” became your friends right around the time you became a Supreme Court Justice – and just happen to be millionaires and billionaires who likely have business before said court from time to time – and certainly have political goals. As we’ve all experienced, after being sought out and befriended by millionaires and billionaires, you begin to receive from those potential litigants some, uh, let’s call them “gifts.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Let’s say that. They’re “gifts.” Hundreds of thousands of dollars of gifts every year. Very generous friends. Oh, let’s add that, instead of reporting these… um… gifts, like he’s supposed to, he didn’t report them. At all. To anyone. (For clarity, that’s the opposite of what he was supposed to do.) There’s another word I know, ‘bribe.’ Maybe these two, independent points don’t stand together too well in this case. Who knows? But, to me? It doesn’t feel like Clarence Thomas has been receiving “gifts.” They seem more like “bribes” from the likes of Charles Koch, no less, and others, of course.

I’ll tell you this: I want Jack Smith to finish up with the dumbass, already, and turn his attention to the bribe taking Clarence Thomas.

This is only tangentially related, but… We ALL know that when the cons speak, every accusation is a confession. There is NOTHING they accuse the Democrats of doing – and they never have evidence – that the cons don’t get caught actually doing – always with evidence. Ask a con, they’ll tell you that George Soros is the root of all evil and the funder of all evil events, just because he likes doing things like that. They’re only pointing away from Charles Koch, the anti-American, corporate head who just hates, hates, hates paying taxes. (Wouldn’t want to contribute to the well being of the country that gave you so much, now, would we?) Of course they are… When they pretend ‘Soros,’ they mean ‘Koch…’