It’s been a busy few days for Republican insanity. They’ve gone into overdrive. Trump showed up at one of his trials long enough to scowl at the judge and be disruptive in court, then step outside and confess to the very crimes of which he stands accused – over and over again! Then, after nearly three full days of trial, he got bored and flitted back home. He said he already knows what the judge is going to do. Yeah, he knows what the judge is going to do – because the judge has already done it. The judge in the case determined the fraud was SO evident, he didn’t need a trial. It’s called Summary Judgement. (What, after all, is a reasonable defense against claiming your 10,000 sq ft apartment is really a 33,000 sq ft apartment?)

I’ll tell you this: I don’t blame the dumbass Don for absconding back to Mar-a-loco. He’s heading to jail, soon, and I wouldn’t want to spend my last days of freedom in court, either…

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Lots of people on the left are making hay about the fact that Alina Habba didn’t check the “Jury trial” box, laughing at her “mistake.” If you listen carefully, you’ll eventually hear that, in New York, these kinds of trials are usually handled without a jury. She might have asked but, likely, would not have gotten a jury anyway, so why ask? Not checking that box just shows she understood how the process works. Had she checked it anyway? The left, I suspect, would be trying to belittle her for checking the box when “everyone knows” that’s not how those trials are generally conducted.

I don’t like these little made up talking points. They’re so, so… Republican! They do it because it’s all they’ve got. If they don’t make stuff up, they don’t have anything to bitch about. But on the left, we don’t have that problem. The right is generating true scandal and stunning stupidity at a fast and furious rate and there’s no sign they plan to stop until they implode completely. The sooner the better, if you ask me…

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Case in point? The ouster of the Speaker of the House – because he (Oh, Heaven forfend!) worked with Democrats for the benefit of the nation. Really? That’s an unforgivable sin? Compromise? Look, the art of politics is compromise. Nobody likes it because nobody gets all they want. You get a little, you give a little. You win some, you lose some. But not the MAGA cons. Not the Freedumb Caucus. “NO! No compromise! You do it OUR way or you don’t do it at all!”
“Um… your way is stupid.”
“OUR way or not at all! We count, you don’t!”
“Well, we’ll wait while you’all figure it out. Um…do you think you can do that?”
“Oh, we’ll show YOU! We’re forming our firing squad right now and the circle is almost complete! You’re gonna look SO stupid!”
“Um… a circular firing squad? Is that a good id–?”
“OUR WAY OR NO WAY! FIRE!”

So McCarthy’s out. The stupid sector has the power to destroy, but not the power, or, let’s be real, even the desire to build. The Dems, I suspect, will stay with their preferred choice for Speaker, Hakeem Jefferies. And why not? That’s who the Dems want. That’s who they’ll vote for so it’s up to the cons and they don’t have the votes. The far-wrong will insist on some MAGA moron. Still sane Republicans will prefer someone, well, sane. Impasse.

On the up side, the House can conduct no business until they have a new Speaker – except naming a new Speaker. (Oh, well, they CAN throw Pelosi out of her adjunct office. Petty tantrums are ALWAYS on tap for cons…) This means they’ve limited their own capacity to inflict the very damage they love so much. Good. The down side is, they’re still babies with a loaded weapon: the debt ceiling battle the Democrats refused to forestall.

So this will be pass-the-popcorn fun for awhile but it’s going to start getting serious in a few weeks and downright dangerous if it goes on for a whole month and with these guys? That’s always very possible.

As of right now, the nominees for the Speaker job are Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, and Donald Trump. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says one must be a member of the House in order to be Speaker. Truthfully? I’m surprised these idiots overlooked the obvious: Jesus. There’s nothing in the Constitution that requires the person even be real, either, so Jesus could take the vote in a walk – if he wasn’t sitting in a courtroom with Trump, ignoring everybody else…

Jordan stands accused of ignoring sexual abuse when he was a wrestling coach at Ohio State University. He denies any knowledge. His wrestlers don’t believe him. Steve Scalise got shot by a gun-toting nutball and STILL thinks every nutball should tote a gun. He seems kind of incapable of learning, explaining his attraction to the Freedumb Caucus. Donnie the Dumbass says he’s too busy campaigning to spend time in court. But he COULD take time to be Speaker, suggesting he HAS the time, he just doesn’t want to be in court. (Hard to blame him.)

The cons made a big point of a new rule when they took over: nobody could be Speaker if they were under indictment for a crime that could put them away for two or more years. Trump is looking at like, 25 to life. But Republicans are NOTHING if not “flexible” about positions on any given subject, at any given time.

They’re supposed to having a closed door meeting this coming Wednesday to iron the whole thing out. They need to do it in private because someone has explained to them that the last Speaker-choosing debacle exposed them for fools, going 15 rounds. They’re going to STAY behind closed doors until they have the 218 votes one of them needs to get the job – or until one of the Freedumb Caucus members decides to make the whole process public for their own whiny reasons…

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I was talking with a like-minded friend the other day. We were joking about how deceived the far-wrong faction of this once-great nation is and he asked me, “How do we know we’re right and they’re not?” Fair question. Here’s what I told him.
“In order for our side to work, we rely upon science, logic, and evidence. In order for their stories to work, they have to reject science, logic, and evidence…”